Baron

The problem with the whole Harper thing is it's probably going to be February. That's going to be a nasty wait.

I just enjoy suffering.

Ofcourse he is. I just find it amusing the complaining from certain people starts when a player probably goes to another team.

So let me get this straight...it's not cool to jump to conclusions about this guy who's been tied in with the Baltimore stuff because of something wrong 4 years ago. But no issues posting incarceratedbob reports or the thread from the other poster which hasn't materialized yet? Just as long as it's in the White Sox's favor it's all good....

I'm willing to bet the money is probably really close too.

Yeah. He's only been saying he wanted to play for NY for years....no smoke at all.

Wrong actually. He's been tied into Manny's saga for years now.

I've already begun. Long weekend upcoming. Drinking has started.

Did you really think he was going to go anywhere besides NY? Come on.

Like I was saying yesterday...

Check the tweet I posted in the Manny thread...this makes sense now

Yes we all understand how it works. But that's why there's individual stats defensively and offensively.

His DRS numbers were actually decent. It's just the other defensive categories where that wasn't the case.

Yeah well that would have been nice. Unfortunately he played like the Moncada we were all afraid that might turn up when we traded for him. -.3 in offensive WAR and -1.5 in Defensive War.

Oh goodness. We're not at panic yet. But there wasn't a whole lot of good last year. I wouldn't call a huge amount of injuries and poor play "part of the plan". I liked where Lopez and Tim Anderson where last year. That's about it.

I think without a major step forward from the players Rick Hahn brought in the past few years this year we're going to be in "uh oh" territory. Kopech being out for a year certainly doesn't help and who knows how his play will be when he returns. But let's see what happens.

It needs a kick because so far the rebuild isn't going as planned.

In an ideal world Jose would just stay at DH because defensively Yonder is superior. Nelson Cruz would have been interesting on that 1 year deal. In 26 innings in the outfield he was actually +1 in DRS which is curious. I'm sure that wouldn't have remained there but interesting to mention.

It's a wait and see approach. If they turn the corner great. If not they should be gone after next year. I never have to "hope" someone gets fired. If they are bad enough the results show it and the rest is moot.

I'm sure it did. However, how far will that go if there's a huge organizational problem developing talent? I didn't say it was. But they should be worried about how everything's gone now. Right now it looks like they are trending in the front direction.

I think they need to stay the course for one more year and see where it leads us. It's a good indication of how well our coaching staff/player development goes. If not (I don't think this will happen) I think the entire front office needs to be swept out along with probably the coaching staff.

Don't you think that says something's extremely wrong with the player development? I won't stay it's a desperation move just yet to "save" the rebuild. But so far the onfield play from the top players that we've traded for has been promising.

Next playoff team...maybe. I have no idea if half the players that Rick Hahn has traded for/drafted for this rebuild will be assets or hindrances going forward. So far the on field play plus the injuries hasn't given me a warm and fuzzy feeling about our chances in 2020. At this point it seems to me we're all hoping that Eloy takes off right out of the gate and frankly he needs to.