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Lynch getting squeezed a bit there.

Nope.

Yeah, when Getz says part of the Birmingham Project is to get all of the guys to buy into the White Sox philosophy, one hopes it’s not “groundball through the hole on a 3-1 count.”

Ellis is there. So is Mena. Full list in Fegan’s article.

Love this. Kath is a surprise, but given the progress he has made recently, this will be a nice standard to measure himself for the off-season. Nice to see Veras, Gladney, and Mieses included. I suspect this means Charlie Romero is in fact a thing, but I suppose Andy Barkett will be there too.

Yep, much needed thread. Everyone in this org should go except Getz, Katz, and maybe Southpaw. I’d get rid of him too, but knowing Jerry he’d bring back Ribbie, Rhubarb, and Don Cooper dressed as Waldo the White Sox Wolf.

Add KW to the list. Also, before you start firing the analysts, shouldn’t the Sox hire some?

Popeye HR.

Interesting that Vaughn is the one who sits. I hope his face isn’t messed up from last night. Poor roster construction means that at least one of Vaughn, Pollock, Eloy, and Abreu has to sit against righties when Robert is actually healthy. They need to address this in the offseason. My first choice is to get rid of Pollock. That is also my second choice. I can see arguments to get rid of Abreu or Vaughn or Eloy. I kinda favor either letting Abreu go or trading Vaughn. Sox have too many 1b types.

I am also very interested in Eloy's future with the team, but there's a whole thread about that. http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?/topic/113066-eloy-is-dead-again/&page=6 I come to the future sox board to get away from all the disappointment with the mlb team.

Maybe we should merge all these threads into a massive "fire everyone" thread. Hahn, Menechino, and TLR should all go. None of that's gonna happen unless KW goes. KW is not going anywhere unless JR goes. Mellody Hobson/George Lucas buying controlling interest in the team is now my New Hope (pun intended). They don't have to become Steve Cohen-like spenders. Just bringing the F.O. up to 2010 level in analytics would make a huge difference.

Interesting debate amongst Popeye, and Sosa. Popeye and Sosa are incredibly similar players -- Both went from never walking to reasonable approaches in AA (seriously, is Charlie Romero a thing?), both are better at 2b but can play ss, both have slightly above average tools but those play up cuz they're smart players. Popeye has more useable speed, Sosa has more raw power. They need to hold on to the right guy here. You'll recall the Sox had Saladino, Yolmer, and Semien all coming up together and... they chose poorly.

Severino gave up 5 runs in a third of an inning. The fact that he's still on the 40 man tells you all you need to know about the Sox pitching depth.

He's not sexy, but Tommy Sommer has been decent.

Hopefully he settles in and gets ready for his next shot at the majors.

You wish Vaughn had 4.9 speed.

Wow. That graph confirms so much. The trend in every sport is to hire as many extra coaches and analysts as humanly possible. Sox hand out some iPads and let players fend for themselves.

spoke too soon. Just gave up a 3 run bomb to Dom Smith. Bilous is out of the game.

2 doubles for Kath. I am low man on Bilous because he continues to walk the known universe. 3 already tonight, somehow no ER.

Great he’ll be completely healthy for the meaningless games in September and a pleasant offseason with the fam. I am happy for him.

For my part, I have followed Callis since the beginning at BA. I have a lot of respect for him. Mayo… eh. I have never thought much of him. On their podcast, Callis clearly wanted to rank Colas. Mayo did not. Mayo likes speedy slap hitters who steal bases, which is not a thing that currently wins baseball games, no matter how often Manfred changes the rules to make it a thing.

Some of this is leaguewide. Manfred keeps messing with things — sticky stuff, changing the ball, humidors etc. with next to no Spring to adjust, Sox right field heavy approach does not work with deadened ball.

I would sign Andrus. He’s not good, but Sosa is not ready and needs ABs in AAA. Keep Romy, sign Andrus, pinch hit when necessary. Cut Harrison and Andrus at end of year.

This seems about right to me. One interesting question on philosophies -- would you rather have a couple of impact talents or a lot of depth. The Cubs, for instance, have had no break outs this year, but they have depth throughout. The Sox have a decided lack of depth, especially on the mound, but Montgomery, Colas, Ramos, and Sosa all profile ahead of Pete Crow-Armstrong and Brennan Davis offensively at this point. Clearly, the rankings factor in depth at a fairly high level, but winning in the majors requires the farm to produce impact players. I think the Cardinals are a great example of a deep farm system that produces a lot of big league contributors.

Ball is way outside