23 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

To be fair both Hahn and KW had tons of offers until TLR came along.

Hahn when as a asst. GM was sought by other organizations. His strength was contract negotiations.

On 10/10/2026 at 8:16 PM, Quin said:

As a straight hater of Getz for a long time, dude gets his flowers for this year.

His absolutely hideous flaw is falling in love with bad vets. He needs to learn from that next year, especially with the rotation, dear lord.

He got that from Kenny

19 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

How so? Seems like a really short sample size. He's no Theo. His greatest skill may be that JR listens to him.

The Sox were the surprise of everyone and teams would take a chance on a hot name. Much better chances then after losing 100+ games.

19 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:

To be fair both Hahn and KW had tons of offers until TLR came along.

And when TLR came along, the Sox won the division and no one wanted Hahn and Kenny anymore?
Kenny's time to move was a decade earlier.

I can see teams wanting Hahn perhaps when he was Kenny's assistant. But with no talent evaluation skills and with all of his trading gaffes (and he wasn't at the forefront of analytics either) it's hard to believe he was in high demand during his time as GM.

21 minutes ago, GreenSox said:

And when TLR came along, the Sox won the division and no one wanted Hahn and Kenny anymore?
Kenny's time to move was a decade earlier.

I can see teams wanting Hahn perhaps when he was Kenny's assistant. But with no talent evaluation skills and with all of his trading gaffes (and he wasn't at the forefront of analytics either) it's hard to believe he was in high demand during his time as GM.

He's just going to be a TV guy I'm guessing.

On 10/17/2026 at 5:55 PM, Lip Man 1 said:

I'm guessing you have to go back to Roland Hemond who after he was stupidly let go in favor of Hawk Harrelson he was eventually hired by the Orioles and won another Executive of the Year Award.

Larry Himes went from Sox GM to Cubs GM in the early 90s. Ron Schuler held "special assistant" jobs with several teams after he left the Sox.

3 hours ago, PaleAleSox said:

He's just going to be a TV guy I'm guessing.

I think he had a really good agent and his background (at the time at least) looked good on paper as a "new age" analytics background. Of course he didn't really push analytics, he just had a worthless MBA and a slick lawyer like effect to him.

IIRC the rumors were that we kept him and promoted him when he had interest from other clubs, including the Red Sox. Probably all just hogwash planted by his agent in hindsight. The guy was clearly in way over his head. He was good at contracts, absolutely trash tier at everything else.

15 hours ago, GreenSox said:

And when TLR came along, the Sox won the division and no one wanted Hahn and Kenny anymore?
Kenny's time to move was a decade earlier.

I can see teams wanting Hahn perhaps when he was Kenny's assistant. But with no talent evaluation skills and with all of his trading gaffes (and he wasn't at the forefront of analytics either) it's hard to believe he was in high demand during his time as GM.

The information is all well known and recorded for posterity.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/50213861/playoffs-guardians-alcs-trade-deadline-payoff

On 10/18/2026 at 4:06 PM, Texsox said:

The Sox were the surprise of everyone and teams would take a chance on a hot name. Much better chances then after losing 100+ games.

I doubt it. Fact remains much of the team was built from the the outside, not the inside which he was part of before being GM. One can be lucky. I doubt he would make a top 10 list.

Who in the hell makes these weirdball AI videos? 🤣

https://www.tt.site/t/ZTfM2TLpm/

Meanwhile, BP's Jarrett Seidler is ranking all 30 front offices, and placed the White Sox 19th, but what he considered a surprising showing was based on the strength of their pro acquisition. When it comes to drafting and developing, they're in better shape than they used to be, but still not generating stars.

They are not particularly good at any discrete aspect of player development, although not among the worst either. What the White Sox lack as an organizational is anything resembling core stars. They haven’t developed any, they haven’t sought them in free agency, and they haven’t traded for one. The most recent group of top prospects—Colson Montgomery, Braden Montgomery, Hagen Smith, Noah Schultz—looks like it might produce some good players, but not superstars. Will Roch Cholowsky or Caleb Bonemer break the cycle? Will they finally make a real buy move and be right about it? Until then, I think they’re just a moderately-behind-the-times organization doing some nifty pro scouting work.

soxmachine.com

Same author had Brewers Guardians Rays Dodgers as top four front offices on September 10th