WestEddy

My first choice was Foster Griffin. Royal 1st rounder in 2014, threw 120 quality innings in Japan last year. He just re-upped in Japan.

I'll go nuts and say they're going to resurrect Brady Aiken.

I think Maldonado will come to spring training, and will take all the catchers in the organization out to a steak dinner at some fine Scottsdale steak house. Maldonado will wear his world series ring, and over some prime ribs, he will teach those young catchers the secret of how to win. Michael Soroka will do the same thing with pitchers. These are two great acquisitions that will pay dividends over and over. Pedro Grifol will disguise himself as a waiter so that he can eavesdrop and check his own notes on winning. He will make the proper corrections, and will then know how to win.

I haven't refreshed Twitter in 2 days. Embrace the sublime.

Dudes were throwing Laz Rivera and Zach Remillard at the surging throngs, hoping for anything to hold off the inevitable. Chris Getz was their fate.

Chris Getz will envelop him in his love. They will all be turned into AI win-bots.

Yeah, but now he's teammates with Martin Maldenado, who will teach him how to win, and Chris Getz will lovingly develop him into the next A-Rod. The next P-Jong, if you will. Copyright that.

Andrew Vaughn was rushed by those who tried to hold off the Getz coup. Of course Getz receives credit for Burger. Getz personally coached him back to his form. Taught him how to hit dingers. I did mention Dunning multiple times. Are you actually calling 28th rounder, Laz Rivera a "flameout"? Thank you for the Easter egg to show me you're on my side. LOL. Micker Adolfo is actually in the victory column, because Keith Law described him as a gym curiosity that the White Sox taught how to hit. He just kept getting hurt. Hahn got head-faked into putting him on the 40-man a year or two too early. Fulmer and Colas were rushed before Getz could teach them to be great. He was so close... Hansen and Collins were gambles KW took. Many were calling Zach Collins a horrible pick the day he was taken. Even Chris Getz has his limits to that Chris Getz magic. DJ Gladney just kind of had a breakout season. Personally, I think there was so much chaos in the entire system, we really can't tell if Hostetler was a clown, or KW/JR were throwing darts in the draft war room. I can't believe Hostetler's team was that inept. If they were really taking lesser guys, their 2nd and 3rd rounders should have at least been turning into Tony Graffaninos and such. Utility infielders and bullpen guys. It's really weird how the Sox' 38th round has been more fruitful than their 2nd round, for, like, 50 years.

The Mets were in on Fedde. If Soroka hit free agency, he'd probably be making at least 3x his estimated $3 million he'll get in arbitration. They got two of the games most lauded catchers to teach winning to the entire pitching staff, virtually for free. They picked up a 20-HR, great defensive SS for peanuts. Shane Drohan will become a Shane Drohan name. I mean household. See what I mean? It's happening already! Get back to me at the parade. I'll take your apology in 20's.

Nobody's talking about savages, or how dickless Elias is for a day or so, now. You're welcome.

I think Hahn's done in baseball. Hahn making it back to GM would be the story of the century. He has too much of the stink of not failure, but of resignation to failure. He should have quit and sold cars until his contract ran out. I don't think Grifol makes it through 2024. I think he's being kept around as a mulligan by Getz. I don't know about Getz, but yes, Barfield is going places.

So what you're saying is that everybody who is proving to me beyond a reasonable doubt that all of baseball history has been leading up to the mastery of Chris Getz is wrong?!?!? Every single one of you has validated my own arguments. Nobody has made a move to disprove me.

So while he was still a player, Chris Gets had Kenny Williams installed as GM so that he could hire Getz as Director of Player Development, at which point it was too late to stop him. I don't know why you're not pitching this 5 season series to Netflix. I'm watching The OA right now, and this blows OA out of the water.

Or maybe the organization had a toxic VP making insane decisions and overruling everybody, which made the team fire him. It's almost like none of these stories were thoroughly reported.

He came up, and his great strike zone judgement was highly criticized. So in his 2nd season, he got aggressive, and led the league in strikeouts. He was moved to 3rd base, where he adjusted and put up 5.2 bWAR. Huge disappointment. Again, y'all are grasping at straws. Victor Robles was the #2 prospect in all of baseball, and got cut a month ago, so that proves my point.

What went wrong? Bumping Vaughn and Madrigal too quick? Moving first-basemen to the OF? Training and conditioning sh*tting the bed on multiple players? Sounds like the Director of Player Development is the most important job in the organization, if that's all his responsibility. He was probably "demoted" to GM. I'm not sure what you think the Player Development guy's job is. He doesn't run the entire organization. Everybody is saying he did a poor job, then they start naming things he had little to nothing to do with as evidence. When I point out actual players who graduated to the bigs, they were either too good, or too bad to count. I'm sure if I made an argument about Luis Robert, in about 6 posts, everyone would be screaming that Robert is a huge disappointment and shouldn't even be considered a "good" player.

Disaster? Moncada clocked in right under an average major leaguer in WAR. So he came out of the minors, and he stepped into a major league roll, and almost performed like an average major leaguer. You are right. That is a total failure on the part of minor league development. He should have hit the league, put up 6 WAR, and only got better from there. Dude got COVID, then had lingering bad back injuries. After the TDL this last season, Moncada OPSed .825 from 8/1 on. Sounds like Chris Getz sat him down on 7/31, and explained how to be the great player that he forgot to be since he left Getz's tutelage. You guys are beginning to convince me that Chris Getz was the greatest GM hire in the history of the game. Many will lose their jobs for not grabbing him up sooner.

Great. Hey, can you point out a Minor League Development guy who walked into an organization, flipped a switch and started spitting out All-Stars? Or is it a multi-year process of changing processes, one by one, swapping out vendors, instilling new programs, getting buy-in, and working to get problem dudes moved out? Y'all keep pointing to a 101 loss season, and argue that means every single person in the organization had taken an oath to make everything suck. I'm at least offering arguments.

Oh, so then, he gets to claim Colson Montgomery (who was seen as a reach when drafted), Noah Shultz (who the jury was still out on)? Then Chris Getz looks like a pretty damn good Director of Player Development to me. These Brian Ramos and Wilfred Veras guys? 2 more feathers. Terrell Tatum, Tim Elko, Jacob Burke, Michael Camilletti, Brooks Baldwin and Michael Turner all took big leaps forward this season. All were mid-late round picks. You're starting to convince me that Chris Getz is the greatest Minor League development guy in baseball. I'm even more psyched, now.

Yoan Moncada has had 4 and 5 WAR seasons in the bigs. Eloy can't stay healthy. Player development did their job, and delivered them to the bigs where they displayed some of the immense prospect. The pro coaching and training staffs then proceeded to drop the ball. Y'all are just being argumentative at this point. I could say that the sun rises in the East, and all of your heads would explode, because dude who won't laugh at our Chris Getz put-downs can't possibly be right about a single point. I'm not sure what's so hard to admit about: "Chris Getz graduated the good talent he was given to work with". Everybody has to throw in these meaningless caveats that don't even apply. Beyond that, he was given dudes who were only available because of bad attitudes, or track records, and were turned into replacement players who could sub in for 2 months and hold their own. Were they sure-fire Hall-of-Famers that Getz stuck with a syringe of "suck-at-baseball" juice on the sly? If you really believe that Nicky Delmonico was going to be a 40 HR a year guy, prove it. First rounders being rushed to the bigs, or guys who just can't take 3 steps without pulling every muscle on their skeleton aren't on the Director of Player Development.

I keep wondering how all y'all keep forgetting to post this list of amazing prospect talent the White Sox had, and Chris Getz taught them all how to suck. There are a lot of MLB front office personnel who are with the only organization who would offer them that position. Tell me, when you look for a job, and you're offered a job, do you hold off on accepting that job until you get multiple offers, just to prove that you're a great job prospect? Where do all these insane rules come from? The guy was an Asst GM, then was promoted to GM. I've said this many times in these strings, but I get that y'all are unhappy that Reinsdorf said some BS, then just promoted somebody. Everybody is bending themselves into pretzel shapes to try to portray Chris Getz as the architect of 15+ years of sucking. The actual feathers in Getz's cap I listed (Eloy, Yoan, Gio, Cease, Robert), everybody says don't count because everything good about them happened outside of our organization, and everything bad happened because Chris Getz made them cry, or something.

So we should be happy with a guy who is defining roles, introducing accountability, and throwing some order into an organization built on chaos. If there's no way to objectively PROVE anything, then it's silly for the people here to declare that because of a list of things that had nothing to do with Getz' management of player development, he was poor at his job. Tell you what. If Getz mistakenly trades Colson Montgomery for the 2023 equivalent of James Shields, I'll say he's bad at his job. But it just gets tiresome, where every single comment string everywhere on the internet has to get clobbered with "Getz is inexperienced", and "he sucks because he graduated all of the top prospects to the major leagues".

Obviously, coming from the Astros, and getting Soroka from the Braves, they'll teach the team how to win.

...And there it is.

Dude, a small bunch of guys accusing me of sticking up for Hahn, or saying that Getz was a great pick, or that Getz ruined a bunch of guys he had nothing to do with isn't "overwhelming evidence". Present some overwhelming evidence, and I'll deal with it.