Dick Allen Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 You have a 100 loss team , projected to be awful. You have very few young guys ready. Yet you sign a bunch off crappy players for clubhouse and leadership reasons. What does that say about your manager? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeC Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 41 minutes ago, Dick Allen said: You have a 100 loss team , projected to be awful. You have very few young guys ready. Yet you sign a bunch off crappy players for clubhouse and leadership reasons. What does that say about your manager? That Ricky would have been a better choice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 20 minutes ago, JoeC said: That Ricky would have been a better choice? Wanting a new manager after the 2020 playoffs has become the ultimate monkeys paw. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tnetennba Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 1 hour ago, SoCalChiSox said: At some point this year, I would expect all of the following guys up: Montgomery, Ramos, Quero (perhaps late in the season), Nastrini, Eder, and ofcourse Fletcher will start with thr club. Plus ofcourse whoever comes from the Cease trade. Hopefully after Pedro is canned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tnetennba Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 57 minutes ago, JoeC said: That Ricky would have been a better choice? When Ricky Renteria is their best manager of the past decade... oof. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepy Harold Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 2 minutes ago, Tnetennba said: Hopefully after Pedro is canned. A Memorial Day miracle perhaps 🤞🤞? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chitownsportsfan Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 27 minutes ago, Sleepy Harold said: A Memorial Day miracle perhaps 🤞🤞? Yea you'll love it until Moose Tacos is named player manager. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepy Harold Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 2 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said: Yea you'll love it until Moose Tacos is named player manager. Couldn't be much worse than Pedro. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 2 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said: Yea you'll love it until Moose Tacos is named player manager. We have more candidates for player-manager than actual qualified big league players. 1 1 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaliSoxFanViaSWside Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 Greek Town should be thrilled. More Greeks at the ball park Opa ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaliSoxFanViaSWside Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 22 hours ago, hogan873 said: I’ll say this much about Getz: He has completely flipped the roster. This team looks very different. Good amount of lefties, more than usual anyway. Platoons galore planned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 21 hours ago, South Side Hit Men said: I don’t want anyone rushed, especially Ramos, Montgomery and Quero, but if anyone I listed are clearly ready to be promoted, they should be here and play 4-5 games a week. Too many prospects were brought in the past to watch games, or rushed because Hahn couldn’t do his job. Fletcher needs to play regardless, in part because they need to prove they didn’t screw up the Mena trade, and you may as well play him regularly to see what if anything you do have (at least everyday vs. RHP) the next year or two, and perhaps he will be more than a platoon reserve OF. Lopez is perhaps the next veteran with any value because of position flexibility, but the rest can be tossed like salad if anything younger and better comes along. That includes both veteran catchers, would DFA Maldonado over Stassi unless Stassi has health or durablity issues. If they flop they weren't ready and the Sox suck for rushing them. If they do well they are held back and should have been on the roster last year and the Sox still suck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaliSoxFanViaSWside Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 21 hours ago, caulfield12 said: Sosa and Rodriguez would seem to be the most immediately impacted...feels like they already wrote off those two, along with Lee and Colas. That's the plan. Keep minor leaguers in the minors as long as they can. Pile up some numbers and still have 6 full years. Be 100 % sure they are ready. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 30 minutes ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said: That's the plan. Keep minor leaguers in the minors as long as they can. Pile up some numbers and still have 6 full years. Be 100 % sure they are ready. There's no compelling reason to push Quero up this season. Even if Maldonado and Stassi are inevitably both injured or waived...just use Lee and the equivalent pickup of Zavala freely available on the waiver wire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigHurt3515 Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 Really wanted to see younger guys this year on the roster and now we are stuck watching declining vets 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lip Man 1 Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2024/02/15/royally-connected-addition-of-mike-moustakas-might-be-more-than-minor-deal-to-white-sox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg775 Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 Isn't Hosmer a free agent too? Hilarious if Sox sign him then trade for Salvy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 31 minutes ago, greg775 said: Isn't Hosmer a free agent too? Hilarious if Sox sign him then trade for Salvy. He's too expensive and Royals can't sell attempting to compete with that type of move ... to their fans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaliSoxFanViaSWside Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 11 hours ago, Dick Allen said: You have a 100 loss team , projected to be awful. You have very few young guys ready. Yet you sign a bunch off crappy players for clubhouse and leadership reasons. What does that say about your manager? It says nothing about the manager. Getz is doing what JR limited him to doing. Grifol was paid for. Firing him is like giving away money to JR. All the veteran players are to make the pitchers a comfortable as they can on the mound , decent defense behind them. Nothing is as important as capitalizing on an improved Cease , a good Fedde, Kopech, Soroka and all the other pitchers. Anyone with any value running out of years is going to be flipped when pitching is desired the most. Pedrol just needs to play the stiffs that can play defense. Bannister is way more important than Grifol. 90 95 100 105 loses who cares who the manager is? It's all suck. The kids will play in the 2nd half once they vaquish anyone worth anything. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaliSoxFanViaSWside Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 17 hours ago, Baron said: I mean why not? Then the Sox can say " The Friends and Family plan works !" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capn12 Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 On 2/14/2024 at 10:48 PM, South Side Fireworks Man said: I predict Yoan is going to have a monster season this year. I'm sure he will, nothing on the line this season and no one has any expectations of winning more than 60 games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptatc Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 59 minutes ago, Capn12 said: I'm sure he will, nothing on the line this season and no one has any expectations of winning more than 60 games. Contract year is the motivating factor, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogan873 Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 9 minutes ago, ptatc said: Contract year is the motivating factor, I think. So, if Moncada has a monster year, do the Sox pick up his option? Or look to extend? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 7 minutes ago, hogan873 said: So, if Moncada has a monster year, do the Sox pick up his option? Or look to extend? If Moncada has a monster year, then hopefully he's tradable at the deadline. Get rid of the money and leave that on someone else. No way on Earth you extend him, not with a team controlled 1 year option. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScootsMcGoots Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 6 hours ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said: It says nothing about the manager. Getz is doing what JR limited him to doing. Grifol was paid for. Firing him is like giving away money to JR. All the veteran players are to make the pitchers a comfortable as they can on the mound , decent defense behind them. Nothing is as important as capitalizing on an improved Cease , a good Fedde, Kopech, Soroka and all the other pitchers. Anyone with any value running out of years is going to be flipped when pitching is desired the most. Pedrol just needs to play the stiffs that can play defense. Bannister is way more important than Grifol. 90 95 100 105 loses who cares who the manager is? It's all suck. The kids will play in the 2nd half once they vaquish anyone worth anything. But they've done it with a lot of players. Releasing them before their contract was out. Luery and Kuechel come to mind, I know there are others. However, as others have mentioned in this thread, who cares who the manager is this year. Doesn't matter anyways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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