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I legitimately think they fell in love with his catch last year and were like "we must have this man."

The White Sox as constructed aren't a major league team.

Idk man, Chris Getz might end up with the worst winning percentage in history at the guaranteed rate we're going. Getz's strategy for rebuilding is to keep playing older players in favor of guys under 30 that have control.

I can't see an argument for carrying Slater, Tauchman, Jankowski and Taylor over DeLoach, Fletcher and Colas.

Chris Getz decided to sign a bunch of vets that didn't raise the bar and got injured and to remedy the latter issue he signed more bad vets. Absolutely genius at work. Truly, its like watching Michaelangelo on speed.

Not sure if anyone is surprised, but the Athletic ranked the Sox rotation last

Cause the org taking the high ground on character rings hollower than a Chris Getz promise.

I understand how this was incredibly stupid but, once again, this argument gets thrown out the window when you consider the fact that Getz has twice signed Clevinger despite the injuries and off field issues.

They aren't the paragons of character and passion the Sox look for, like Mike Clevinger

For real, Hahn loved him some prospects that lost their shine. They basically never worked out (except like, Eaton and McCann) but if Getz is making an uber-development staff, he should be going after these guys instead of building a a retirement home.

Will Venable got a herculean task ahead of him.

Coby White chants in Denver. Best part with his current hot streak is that he's getting to the line a lot. I remember when that was the precursor to Jimmy going from 8th-9th man defensive specialist to All-Star.

And Sheets.

Crunching the numbers, his GPA from the board is a 66.5%, so squarely a D. Considering that's double their winning percentage from last year, I think he's being judged fairly.

Again, touche and I'm now gonna move the goalpost (and I acknowledge that): Dombrowski also won a World Series 6 years earlier. He did have one of the biggest disaster trades of all time as Expos GM(Randy Johnson), but he was someone with bona fides. Now, to give Getz a point back: Dombrowski also had an owner that was basically the opposite of Jerry when it came to spending.

Touche, I missed his hiring year. If Getz signs a future Hall of Famer next year like Dombrowski, my grade for him will go up.

I'm being generous and giving him a D for these exact same reasons. He doesn't get a honeymoon period cause he was part of the same regime that was an abject failure. His first big swing, the Cease trade, looks like a complete bust right now (unless you really buy into Twitter videos from Samuel Zavala's trainer). He basically duplicated the Sale or Quintana deal - so we're supposed to believe that a guy that was in the org for the last go around can land the plane this time? He's not the first GM in baseball history to walk into a bad situation, but the only GM to match his futility was one in charge of an expansion franchise in the 60s and this is after he talked a big game (that big ol' defense quote), so he failed by his own standards.

What will always remain funny to me is that Burger and Sheets went outside of the org in 2020 (left off the taxi squad, I believe Burger was eventually added) and then made it to the bigs in 2021. Sox should have tried outsourcing player development.

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Teams that get bounced in the play-in get put in the lotto, so hypothetically they could be the 7th seed and be in the lotto.

A 17 assist quadruple double. They came close against the Rockets. They've gotta feel good going into a play-in, which, goodbye lotto, but good experience for Matas/Giddey/Coby if it comes to pass.

Absolutely bonkers performance. Dude is getting the bag.

I know TJS is more common, but the Sox HAVE to be abnormally high this spring, right? Like, it's not even the flamethrowers.

After briefly peeking the headline I was trying to figure out how a spat over a fish was the straw that broke the camel's back.