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Maybe he just sucks at baseball. As minor league director no one was knocking on his door. Some and even he can make all the excuses they want but I'd wager he is just bad at it. He is the Grifol of GMs. He wasn't the only rookie GM this year. Did the Marlins do something equally that stupid other than surrender in April? This team will most likely be bad for eternity. I could not even come close to making that kind of excuse for such a dumbass trade.

I wish I had 2 minutes of my life back after that "read". The "I gotta inject something political" is a big turnoff for me. Typical "yawn" modern urinalism.

All states need a F'off bill. When an owner wants state money to build a stadium - the bill says f-off. I can't believe the worst owner in baseball is that deluded. Shiny and new stadium and s%*# baseball doesn't draw fans.

Maybe Ohtani shouldn't be a leadoff hitter

How much of that Sox money was wasted in DFAs or in the interest of making Birmingham better.

Everyone is into the Rays model but the real challenge comes when paying your 5 war players. Baseball is the least predictable of sports and yet we treat it like it's not.

an overall lack of depth, with little immediate help from the minors on the horizon A lot of teams can run into this. I don't think teams are as willing to give up their best prospects over perceived best prospects. A GM like Getz is easily fleeced.

It's the crapshoot all small market habitual losing teams do by signing with the hopes of moving them at the trade deadline. The reality is teams with good farm systems don't fall for that unless you consider a Vargas as a food prospect.

I wish it was less like summer and more like fall out here. Discounted rate ($115) for seniors 55+. Tempted.

I'm wondering if the trade was worse than the Burger/Eder trade.

That wouldn't be a bad organization to buy. There's plenty of competence where an owner doesn't have to mess with much. Imagine if they got an owner that would spend money. Jerry's team will be in the basement for a long time. Their fans were frustrated but new ownership doesn't always makes things better - see Chicago White Sox.

That's how postseason baseball works. Teams always trying to tweak in the offseason and look great on paper but sometimes the needle doesn't move.

This thread should be called Bad Ideas Continue. Getz makes Birmingham Better

When you are better at sustaining shitty baseball fans don't show up since it is rarely long term. Plenty of owners don't believe in building a fan base. We have one who is very good at destroying them.

Kershaw is the same way. Still you need those horses to get you there. It might have premature to take him out so early. Some guys get better as the game goes on.

Getz would trade all of them to make Birmingham better

I guess we will wait a decade. Unfortunately the rebuild needs to begin with the fan base. Not gonna happen. He will crush anything involved with a winning culture. Somehow all of these changes we believe will create success but doesn't most of these teams do things that are suppose to create success. You definitely need talented people and keep them. I don't think this organization can attract those people. Reinsdorf managed to attract more negative press on a world wide scale than any organization in baseball. Even people in Bangladesh know the organization sucks. Not only does he need to apologize to fans through actions but all of MLB. He seriously needs to sell because that is probably the #1 wish of Sox fans. Imagine if he apologized to fans hiring LaRussa, which I also think is a reason why any potential front office people would avoid this organization.

`Says every bad owner looking at their profits.

Sports have become less professional and more barbaric.

Unless you are a prospect wanting to be in the big leagues before your time being traded to the White Sox will crush any built up morale.

So they listened to ONE guy. No one else had any input?

What I don't get is did anyone in the organization say that wasn't a good idea? If this was recommended plenty of people need to go. Or did they want Getz to fail? Did Getz take any advice? There probably has to be a lot more going on in this organization for such a horrible trade. The only other option I can think of is Tony thought it was a great idea.

This is where analytics overrule gut instinct.

Every time I've seen Kopech pitch there is a lot of luck. The best I've seen is when he doesn't try to throw through a wall. He doesn't really have a lot of control. He just got taken out. He's not starting pitching material either.

Neither will they. The Sox got great attention for being inept.