Chicago White Sox

And I wouldn’t surprised in the slightest with this front office, but I’d be shocked if that actually works out well for us.

And this is why Rick Hahn sucks as a GM. Use current year results as the basis for future performance. Guys will get older, guys will get hurt, guys will have bad seasons come out of nowhere. If we enter next year with Martin as our #5 starter and god knows who as our #6 starter then SP will certainly be an issue.

There are multiple issues affecting this team. SP may have not been THE issue, but let’s not pretend we’re loaded with pitching depth. Imagine if Johnny Cueto wasn’t magically available a week before spring training and didn’t pull off a miracle season. We’d be fucking toast weeks ago bro. Stop building rosters that need everything to go right to win. If a $200M payroll isn’t enough address all major needs and to build a high probability winner in this s%*# division then blow things up and start from scratch. No more fucking excuses.

I’m not suggesting something insane, but we need another quality SP. If they don’t want to add that because of bad money, then I hope Jerry is prepared to leave this world without another championship because there won’t be another Johnny Cueto waiting in the wings to save our season when a starter goes down.

And there it is

This is the season right here. Let’s see what AJ is made of.

We need to stop fucking around and finally get serious. We also need to start expecting the older guys to regress some. Can’t bank on Lynn maintaining the status quo or Lucas returning to form. That means adding a legit starter to replace Cueto and using Martin as depth. Pitching wise we shouldn’t need anything but a single SP. Try and make it an impact one unless we want more 2nd place finishes behind a team with a payroll +$100M lower than ours.

You want to go into next year with a rotation of Cease, Lynn, Giolito, Kopech, & Martin? Who is the #6 starter under such an arrangement?

Huge sigh of relief there for Frank

Did we fire Menechino and I missed the news?

Yeah, I’d like to retract that clutch statement…lol

Pollock has sucked this year, but hasn’t he been pretty clutch?

Need a Romy bomb right here in order for Yaz to score

Don’t we lose it after this inning?

Why not challenge?

I think it’s both and don’t forgot the training staff. But Hahn did very little this off-season to improve the roster while also spending a considerable amount of money.

Sheets has put up a 120 wRC+ vs RHP. That’s actually the 4th highest on the team this year. The problem is the three guys ahead of him are Eloy (148), Jose (140), & Vaughn (122). What do those guys all have in common? They all are 1B / DH types who can also hit LHP. But hey, the good news is when you don’t care about corner OF defense like our beloved GM you can stack your lineup with all four of them on any given night against tough righties!

It’s amazing how bad of an off-season Hahn had.

Oh good…AJ Pollock “right on right”

What does that have to do with anything though? They could have not brought back anyone under team control back if they so chose. As for Leury, they had to compete with other teams and for some reason decided to pay an above market rate for his services.

The Sox had control over Giolito through arbitration…once Leury hit free agency they lost control of him.

Leury was a free agent and signed a ridiculous three year contract with us. He should certainly count towards any off-season ratings.

Where is Leury and what’s below an F-?

Do not walk him!

Absolutely brutal watching these 1B in the OF