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It's like when Abreu was pressing, but multiply by a thousand.

Vaughn (not a pitcher, but damn, look at this) Stiever Brent Honeywell - Yes, he had an injury, but still, look at this glowing report Daniel Lynch IV Nothing about Drew Thorpe says "immune from busting," because no baseball player is immune from busting.

With his current career trajectory, he'll almost certainly make the majors. But also, no. All you have to do is look at the recent White Sox rosters to see that no prospect - even "safe" ones - is immune from busting.

Fixed it for you

Thorpe's floor is "not a major leaguer." That's everyone's floor.

Vaunted prospect with back injuries, powerful lefty, strikes out looking. Looks like Yoan Moncada is back baby.

Get rid of DeJong and give us Mendick you cowards.

Imagine making your major league debut knowing that you have to give up 0 runs.

COME ON AND PHAM NO ONE'S IN THE STANDS

It was top heavy, but it was also 10 guys in the top-100 Times were wild.

I'm not the one throwing out "darkening the soul," but here we go: If you want Andrew Vaughn to hit a home run, that's going to negatively affect a pitcher's possible career. Maybe it extends an inning to the point where they narrowly miss out on an All-Star game, and thus financial bonuses. If you want Crochet to strike out a rookie making his major league debut, maybe that rookie gets stuck in his head and gets sent back down. If you root for the Sox to win the division, you're hoping for the other four AL Central teams to do poorly, putting the careers of their front offices and coaching staffs at risk.

ReyLo wasn't good enough to start for us and Chavez (1.08 ERA) wasn't good enough to make the team. Some orgs are just better than others.

You literally cannot cheer for a sports team without hoping something bad happens to someone.

I need him to cool off just a little bit

Carlos Perez just hauled ass on a double.

If he makes us all eat crow, it'll be wild.

I found a summary of the meeting

To add to the new thread: MiLB.tv is awesome and I encourage those looking for more exciting-but-still-White-Sox-related baseball to watch the occasional Barons game.

God damn

We've been told that Chris Getz is revamping the org top-to-bottom, so I decided to check it out. Remember, Jerry said that only Chris could do this without taking a year, hence his hiring. Current staff directory 2023 staff directory Current MLB coaching staff 2023 coaching staff Current MiLB coaching staff 2023 MiLB coaching staff My takeaway: Most of the baseball operations staff remains — besides obvious names like KW Jr. and Haber. Big names brought in were Barfield, Wong, Bannister, Watson, and I guess Sizemore. Outside of Nicky Delmonico, the Barons staff has had the most turnover.

Here's the thing: Gio was the former top pitching prospect, Cease was a top pitching, and Robert was a $25M international signing. They all have extreme talent that would have been an indictment if he failed to develop it. But for some reason you give Getz credit for them, but exonerate him from Clarkin, Rutherford, Moncada, Eloy, Madrigal, etc. If he gets those gold stars on his resume, he gets the blights.

Chris Getz doesn't understand you can't have multiple sub-.200 hitters in the lineup.

Dropping the ball on a core of Gio-Cease-Rodon-Lopez-Kopech-Dunning-Hendriks and TA-Abreu-Moncada-Eloy-Robert-Vaughn-Madrigal-Burger-Grandal is hilarious In one way or another, every one of those players has seen success — caveating that for Vaughn and Madrigal you have to count decent rookie debuts, Kopech with flashes — but because the team is allergic to developing players and singing free agents, a core that other orgs would have won with just withered

Cause many of us remember when the team was ranked first — built off of external trades and a few high draft picks — but they couldn't develop any supplemental pieces to support that talent and that talent never really put it all together, with players unable to stay healthy or keeping their same strengths and weaknesses that they had in the minor leagues. And now the guy in charge of developing the minor league system back then is in charge of the whole operation.

But who could have expected both?