Chicago White Sox

Regarding the first point, he could trade from the farm to improve the major league roster and/or add depth. I get this is still a bottom five farm system, but it still has plenty of talent to tap into if winning next year is truly a priority. IMO, there is zero excuse going into the season with our OF depth. A single injury or Colas struggled and we are pretty much fucked. And I get the point on payroll constraints, but let’s pretend a lot of financial wounds aren’t self inflicted by Rick himself. $180M should be enough to build a more complete roster with far less question marks. As for changing from Rick to Getz, I can’t really say how impactful the change would be and it’s not the move I would make at GM to solve our problems. But I do think it’s possible that Getz represents an improvement. To me, Rick is a very poor talent evaluator and hasn’t installed the analytic resources into the org to make up for that shortcoming. A lot of the latter may be an ownership driven problem, but it’s becoming very clear that Hahn is incapable of being a successful GM in a Jerry led organization. At some point, you give the guy who is highly intelligent and a former baseball player a chance. Maybe it’s all the same outcome due to KW, but Rick can’t keep blaming his shortcomings on Jerry forever.

I could see a switch to Chris Getz if the team performs poorly.

And IMO, Hahn should be relieved of his duties if the team doesn’t make the playoffs. La Russa is long gone and Rick is the guy entering the season with a $180M payroll relying on multiple rookies and with little depth. Tony’s impact may have been massive, but that doesn’t excuse Hahn from not improving the roster.

There is a nice positional core developing outside of catcher: 1B: Vaughn 2B: Sosa/Popeye SS: Montgomery 3B: Ramos LF: Benintendi CF: Robert RF: Colas DH: Jimenez Need some of the young pitchers to come through as well, but at least there is some reasons for optimism in the long-run.

Remember when Rick said he was going go make trades to help augment the roster and then proceeded to only make a minor one? Oh those were the days when I thought we were serious about winning instead of banking on perfect health & luck. What a fucking s%*# show.

Then we won’t be making the playoffs anytime soon.

The dream scenario is the Texans getting so desperate for Young due to the Colts seriously pursuing that they give up the 1.12 to move up a spot. Seems very unlikely, but you never know given how shitty the state of NFL QBs are at the moment. But damn, would allow us to grab one of the top WRs in the class which would be fucking awesome.

Honestly, the stadium is basically perfect. About the only thing you could do to enhance the experience is rip out a few sections of the 500 level and install some high top tables. At least for me, I like experiencing a Sox game looking at my friends rather than the field and there aren’t a lot of options to do that right now at the Rate.

It’s not silly when the competitive window is quickly running out of time.

I got to be honest, this franchise sucks a fat you know what. I’m literally embarrassed to be a fan at this point. I uprooted my entire family so I could go to Sox games on the regular and I come home to a roster whose only addition is a non-power hitting LF and a stadium whose only upgrade is a baby bar with some high-top tables that can’t even see the field. For f***’s sack we are a joke.

Isn’t this more of Jerry’s fault? How would you have funded the extra $4M in payroll in 2023?

I’d be fine with him in a reserve role (definitely worried that Grifol would play him everyday), but I can’t see us cutting Leury until mid-season at the earlier. Hahn is going to try to save face on that deal IMO.

“Hits lefty” is a pretty loose interpretation of those words. He technically takes at-bats from the left side would be a more fair way of saying it. And the one amazing season you’re referring to was partially driven by flukey batted ball luck. He’s legit one of the worst hitters in baseball. I understand the defense is amazing, but going with a glove-only guy at 2B (even with the rule changes) seems nuts to me. Personally, I’d rather just go with Lenyn Sosa even if you have to accept some struggles for the first months.

It might eventually come to that…lol

Whoops…Davis Martin

Alright everybody, what are the odds that Wade Davis is our 5th starter come Opening Day? 50%? 75%? 90%? I can’t believe there is a real chance now that Jason fucking Bilous is going to be our defacto #6 starter.

Adding Nicky Lopez would be the cherry on top of a s%*# sundae of an off-season.

Good god is this a disaster. So to summarize, this off-season we have lost the following: 3.9 fWAR 1B 2.4 fWAR SP 1.6 fWAR CL 1.4 fWAR UT And assuming Clevinger is ultimately released, the only external addition of any significance is a non-power hitting LF. I won’t blame Hahn for the Hendriks situation or this latest nightmare, but it does highlight how much Hahn sucks at being a major league GM. Literally if anything else goes wrong from this point forward we are completely fucked because there isn’t a semblance of depth anywear except 1B/DH. When you stop augmenting the roster and instead bank on 100% health & luck you reap what you fucking sow. Can’t wait for the day this organization is finally free of the incompetence that is Rick Hahn.

The problem is with the Liam news we basically need Crochet in the bullpen this year.

Hey James, I purchased the handbook yesterday, but didn’t receive a code? Are they supposed to email it to me?

Fascinating trade. Got to love Kim Ng’s inner White Sock coming out with her building a lineup of 2B and then using them wherever they have holes. Jazz in CF, Segura at 3B, & Wendle at SS with the worst of the group in Arraez sticking at 2B. Obviously the big difference here is they’re using 2B types vs. 1B/DH types, so much better chance of working, but still an interesting experiment.

Did Bartolo have major knee issues? That’s the problem with Lynn being out of shape…puts a lot more stress on his knees.

I‘m not one who normally cares if a pitcher is fat, but given the knee issues, it’s unfortunate Lance doesn’t take better care of his body. The TOR stuff is still there if he can just stay on the mound.

I don’t think their 2023 list is out yet. Montgomery was #40 on their mid-season list.

This is why I’ve been so frustrated this off-season. I think any diehard Sox fan realizes Tony (& Menechino) fucked this team over immensely and that we should see unprecedented improvement from some of our core guys. That being said, this has been a team with holes & lacking depth for many years and Hahn continues to ignore obvious areas for enhancement. Even with organic improvement and better health, we are still likely behind the AL’s best teams. When the rebuild started, I honestly thought we’d see some of that old school KW killer instinct from Rick to push us over the top, but he’s been incredibly passive overall. Part of that is due to his failures building a sustainable farm system, but he could have easily add some depth this offseason without tapping into his two or three top 100 prospects. Just frustrating to see our competitive window coming to an end without the organization pushing hard for a championship.