per the NYP

https://nypost.com/2020/10/31/tomoyuki-sugano-japans-top-pitcher-could-be-headed-to-mlb/amp/?__twitter_impression=truep

I really hope so. Perfect time to do it. Unfortunately for Jerry the “window” doesn’t pause for the pandemic. 

"Even in what is supposed to be a tight-fisted market, most clubs want to add starting pitching and a few such as the Blue Jays, Giants and White Sox are expected to be a little bolder financially than others."

Let us all hope this is true.  With all of the names hitting free agency the Sox could fill out their roster nicely with some quality, even if on short term deals.

Edited October 31, 20205 yr by SouthWallace

What is that statement based on?

After the backlash the team is getting, from the fans and media alike, from this managerial hiring, they better be more than "just a little" bolder financially. They better be very bold. While also being smart with their signings.

Edited October 31, 20205 yr by ScooterMcGee

16 minutes ago, ScooterMcGee said:

After the backlash the team is getting, from the fans and media alike, from this managerial hiring, they better be more than "just a little" bolder financially. They better be very bold. While also being smart with their signings.

Go all in, sign the best of who is out there, win a ring, LaRussa retires and we never have to think about this debacle again.  That might salvage this moment.?

6 minutes ago, SouthWallace said:

Go all in, sign the best of who is out there, win a ring, LaRussa retires and we never have to think about this debacle again.  That might salvage this moment.?

Exactly

Jerry put his balls on the table hiring TLR. I am okay with it if he backs it up. I think TLR can manage and will grow to become a solid leader here. Jerry's reputation is on the line and he will need to build a champion quickly. I think Jerry will want to prove people wrong and go all out to finish this rebuild. TLR is also a big voice, so I'm sure he is gonna let Jerry have it if Jerry isn't spending. 

It’s really begun to hit me just how slow life is going to be again without baseball and with a very likely stagnant winter.

Think we’re going to be in a tar pit here for quite a while.

Depressing.

52 minutes ago, SonofaRoache said:

Jerry put his balls on the table hiring TLR. I am okay with it if he backs it up. I think TLR can manage and will grow to become a solid leader here. Jerry's reputation is on the line and he will need to build a champion quickly. I think Jerry will want to prove people wrong and go all out to finish this rebuild. TLR is also a big voice, so I'm sure he is gonna let Jerry have it if Jerry isn't spending. 

Yep!  I think this is how it will play out.

2 hours ago, SonofaRoache said:

Jerry put his balls on the table hiring TLR. I am okay with it if he backs it up. I think TLR can manage and will grow to become a solid leader here. Jerry's reputation is on the line and he will need to build a champion quickly. I think Jerry will want to prove people wrong and go all out to finish this rebuild. TLR is also a big voice, so I'm sure he is gonna let Jerry have it if Jerry isn't spending. 

I wish I had your optimism bro. 

Edited October 31, 20205 yr by Jack Parkman

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Sox expected to be a "little bolder financially" than most

Shocking

2 hours ago, SonofaRoache said:

Jerry put his balls on the table hiring TLR. I am okay with it if he backs it up. I think TLR can manage and will grow to become a solid leader here. Jerry's reputation is on the line and he will need to build a champion quickly. I think Jerry will want to prove people wrong and go all out to finish this rebuild. TLR is also a big voice, so I'm sure he is gonna let Jerry have it if Jerry isn't spending. 

In my experience the older one gets, the less they're concerned about their reputation. By the time a person gets into their late eighties, the concern is rapidly approaching zero. Whatever motivation is left is primarily personal. Generally speaking of course.

4 hours ago, SouthWallace said:

Go all in, sign the best of who is out there, win a ring, LaRussa retires and we never have to think about this debacle again.  That might salvage this moment.?

Sounds like a plan to me.

But who knows what the real reason was to bring this out-of-touch fossil back.

 

 

 

 

Edited October 31, 20205 yr by GradMc

1 hour ago, Vulture said:

In my experience the older one gets, the less they're concerned about their reputation. By the time a person gets into their late eighties, the concern is rapidly approaching zero. Whatever motivation is left is primarily personal. Generally speaking of course.

This doesn't apply to Jerry. He wants one last bang. 

5 hours ago, SonofaRoache said:

Jerry put his balls on the table hiring TLR. I am okay with it if he backs it up. I think TLR can manage and will grow to become a solid leader here. Jerry's reputation is on the line and he will need to build a champion quickly. I think Jerry will want to prove people wrong and go all out to finish this rebuild. TLR is also a big voice, so I'm sure he is gonna let Jerry have it if Jerry isn't spending. 

At his age, probably on the floor...

7 hours ago, SonofaRoache said:

This doesn't apply to Jerry. He wants one last bang. 

He may want one last bang but I doubt it has anything to do with concern for his reputation or proving someone wrong

Well, doesn't that sound familiar. Maybe we can sign a couple of Bauer's friends and sign him to a sweet, friendly discount multi-year deal.

If I'm a big FA in 2020, honestly I probably stay away from this team.

Is Jerry really going to open the checkbook even more because Hahn "agreed" to make La Russa the manager? We all have to hope. 

Hahn should offer to bring in Gar Forman for an upper management roll. That may earn an extra 5m in payroll courtesy of Mr. Reinsdorf.

Edited November 1, 20205 yr by Yearnin' for Yermin

2 hours ago, RagahRagah said:

Well, doesn't that sound familiar. Maybe we can sign a couple of Bauer's friends and sign him to a sweet, friendly discount multi-year deal.

If I'm a big FA in 2020, honestly I probably stay away from this team.

I don’t follow.

1 hour ago, Yearnin' for Yermin said:

Is Jerry really going to open the checkbook even more because Hahn "agreed" to make La Russa the manager? We all have to hope. 

Hahn should offer to bring in Gar Forman for an upper management roll. That may earn an extra 5m in payroll courtesy of Mr. Reinsdorf.

I know you’re joking, but I don’t think Jerry was close with Gar, that was Michael Reinsdorf.

20 hours ago, SonofaRoache said:

Jerry put his balls on the table hiring TLR. I am okay with it if he backs it up. I think TLR can manage and will grow to become a solid leader here. Jerry's reputation is on the line and he will need to build a champion quickly. I think Jerry will want to prove people wrong and go all out to finish this rebuild. TLR is also a big voice, so I'm sure he is gonna let Jerry have it if Jerry isn't spending. 

Jerry's reputation is on the line ? I'd have to know what that reputation is before I could declare it's on the line. If I had to venture a guess as to his established reputation, I'd say he is a very smart man, loves baseball and is loyal but loves being smart with money more. The Sox losing more than they win is an already established pattern in his ownership. I doubt a few more years of that pattern will sully his reputation in the rest of his time left .

Edited November 1, 20205 yr by CaliSoxFanViaSWside

21 hours ago, Leonard Zelig said:

What is that statement based on?

Not a whole helluva lot is the answer you are looking for.

Bold is signing Bauer AND Stroman AND Springer.  Or replacing one of those with an elite trade.  
 

That’s how you piss all over the AL