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I could care less about the win loss record of a rebuilding team, it's meaningless. I feel a lot better about the state of the team now, than I did this time last year.

Before the pandemic, I think they had the most in MLB, if not one of the larger departments. I remember they made a video about it.

Josh Barfield, Paul Janish and Brian Bannister aren't from KC. The new manager won't be from KC either. Yeah, he made a couple hires from there, a scout and a contract expert but guess what, everyone hires people they've worked with before when they get hiring powers. I get to start a new project, I'm staffing it with people I worked with before. Common practice. And every rebuilding team fills their roster with placeholders and veteran retreads. Why is everyone so stupid all of a sudden? The Sox just went through this not that long ago after 2016. People are mad that the Sox are horrible, but they were terrible last year and were always going to be worse this year, especially after the deadline. Was Getz hired under the right circumstances? No. Did he do anything obvious in his post as head of PD to earn his job? No? But he got the job and there nothing we can do about it. It seems like a lot of people in the fandom are just choosing to be miserable. I'm going to wait and see how he does in the job.

I feel a much, much better about the team today, than I did a year ago.

He’s not the scouting director and wasn’t GM when he was drafted

I’ll bite, what made Getz offseason so horrible?

Platooning Vargas makes no sense. Play him everyday, keep throwing him out there.

I’m a big fan of McDougal. I wonder how closely he’s worked with Bannister. He K’s a lot of guys but walks almost 6 per 9. Maybe an adjustment can be made, at least he could be a crazy arm out of the pen.

You might want to stop being a fan for the next few years

I can’t wait to see this thread next year at this time because the Sox will probably lose 100+ games again. Which I’m more than fine with.

I like McDougal

What’s the point of this? People here have been clamoring for the Sox to make outside hires for years, and now the team has a GM who’s committed to doing that.

I’d say most of them worked out. Sale, Quintana, Danks, Anderson, Robert are the ones that come to mind.

When you have an owner that doesn’t pay for stars, locking up your young stars to team friendly extensions is good business.

That was Hahn’s hire. I’m sure Getz spoke highly of Grifol and pushed for him during that whole process but Hahn had final say. I’m also sure that Getz probably would fired Pedro way sooner if Jerry allowed him to. The key thing is that Getz changed his mind and admitted the hire was a mistake.

Expecting a lot of outside the org hires this offseason. Manager, coaching staff, a new international dude and a hitting coordinator.

I may or may not have had something to do with the Cruise bit at the Olympics last night. Very cool that it came together. The money involved in that was crazy

I wonder if people would feel better about Getz if he was more media savvy.

No reason why Schriffen can’t.

They're so bad and so far away from being competitive, that they should just get the best all period. They're so bad that they can't afford to worry about trading within the division

I think anyone with a working brain knew that this team would be worse than last year’s.

Crochet for Bazzana. Who says no?

Yeah JJ Cooper from BA said that this was the first time in 14 years where no top 100 prospects were traded. So that changes my outlook on how Getz did. I’m not too worried about them not trading Robert or Crochet, there value will be the same at the Winter Meetings

A new mock from MLB Pipeline's Jonathan Mayo. This one also has the Sox taking... Devin Taylor. He is a midwest dude, who plays at a midwest school and has a track record of performing with wood bats. So he checks those White Sox boxes. https://www.mlb.com/news/2025-mlb-mock-draft?t=mlb-draft-coverage Another benefit for the Sox, the high school hitters in this class are lightyears better than the 2024 crop.

https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/10128136-2025-mlb-mock-draft-early-predictions-for-top-1st-round-baseball-prospects.amp.html Bleacher Report has the Sox taking Indiana University OF Devin Taylor at 10.