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But this is the White Sox - might also make him play OF.

Why curious when it's always cut payroll.

Since they have a habit of working players in different positions maybe they should do that with the mound

Project Birmingham Then there's hopes the other teams in the division will get worse.

It is odd like he was a cancer to the team

Scouting and development. GMs don't really scout unless it is office people. Then they still don get to make the final decision. Then there is also the era of the more brittle player. It's a trend in all sports.

Privately funded? That's unheard of.

Can't read it - paywall The myth is rebuilds work. That's what the consistently bad teams do. The problem with that is they never compliment the team either. That will be Reinsdorf. It's also a sport with the least amount of roster consistency.

He was paying CF in Charlotte. Make no sense to play 1st base. Soon they will have guys in the pen play 1st base.

There there's the development part.

I just see anything positive happening as long as the Sox have the same owner. These handful of prospects just aren't going to help that much since it is only a handful. They will never supplement then with decent free agents. Sure they'll get FA that will be busts. JR is a curse to this organization and you really can't get past that. If there was a baseball hell this would be it. Unfortunately there are a few more teams not much different. They are a curse to baseball. Players and potential execs have this figured out.

TLR has been to some farm games. That's the only thing I can think of when everything seems like WTF.

Edited for accuracy.

I don't know. Jerry has a way of ruining things.

Wasn't he part of that Cease trade?

I think there are no more DFAs for them to check out other than TA.

or a qualified GM says no way ever.......

Maybe they trade Elko for an Eder type. Strange things happen.

I guess we were deluded because they didn't get totally pasted by the Mets.

Bad luck is filtering down to the minors. Slim chance of that happening Must be a short backstop there as well.

LOL just watch they bring back only Vaughn

I keep forgetting to watch them to see if they are that good.

Imagine if the Sox were in the NL West.......or the NL

The Elko thing is a mystery. I get it if they told him they were going to bring him up only for a few weeks. So now they messed with a player giving a small sample size. What kind of message does that send to minor league players? People will come up with all sorts of reasons but this organization still proves they are clueless in handling things. They only fix is new ownership and one that will gut the organization as much as possible but not bring in people who have the potential to be worse. Like........uh no Getz promotions and tell Tony to go take a nap. Hasn't Tony been an advisor before in other organizations and they not improved? Fans now believe in small sample sizes to pronounce failure but also have the meaningless stats on potential players who still don't have it together after a few years. Was Elko a savior? No, but I wonder how many other players lose a chance with 30 at bats? There's even all star players who went through slumps. Clueless. I don't know how a fan can have any faith in the organization at all. They are like the other losing teams that will be constantly rebuilding by getting rid of good players because they wont win with those players. Shouldn't this have worked with the Pirates or Marlins by now?

A false faith without a crystal ball