WestEddy

I'm sorry. Can you tell me which baseball prospect publications we both write for, and are held to these standards? Knock off the BS. Go pick on your mini-me who thinks every player in the Sox organization is "garbage".

I don't think the organization is writing off Jacob Gonzalez just yet.

Any one of Gonzo, Baldwin or Ramos. Even Sosa, at this point.

You are totally writing them off. Prospects have their leagues adjust to them. They slump. Then they adjust, and streak. Then they get promoted, and play against older, more experienced players and slump again. You don't seem to acknowledge this. You just keep jamming that square peg into the round hole of "I hate Chris Getz!!! He sucks!!!"

This is just silly. Most guys in AA are trade pieces. That's not a marker for "how far away" this team is. Your projected 3B, SS, 2B and C are at AA or higher. We have 10 projectable starting pitchers at AA or higher.

Red Sox guy answering a question about White Sox developing pitchers:

I'm sure there will be human rights abuse trials at Nuremburg in the ensuing decades.

Oh. So then nobody will care about this season, historic or otherwise, if they start to win down the road. Thanks.

He's always carried higher baBips. 2024 is actually the outlier. I didn't ignore. I acknowledged his higher babips through the minors. Do you understand that you lose credibility as you continue to misrepresent old exchanges?

You're not even arguing. Yes, the team is bad. They're in a rebuild. Please show me the rebuilds that start out with a 90 win season and then get better. The whining disguised as "arguing" is truly next level.

Sure. And if he could OPS .700-.750 in a rebuild year, that works just fine.

I have a friend from Houston. I congratulated him on their 2022 Championship, and he just moaned about how he would never get over that 111 loss season. He said that's all anybody ever talked about at the victory parade. Seriously, who cares? It's a rebuild. Teams lose during a rebuild. The proper metaphor is gutting your house to rehab it, then screaming every single day that there's no plumbing. And that there will never be any plumbing, because even though you have a new contractor, IT'S STILL THE SAME OWNER!!!!

2023 happened.

You don't seem to be able to focus. Is Michael A. Taylor a catcher, now? Guys who know have said that the draft pick is probably the best piece Getz got back for Santos. Smith-Njigba's numbers are almost identical to DeLoach's. Fletcher has hit "a lick". I don't know what his issue is right now. Maybe the league has adjusted to him. I find it funny that you just rail on and on, and most of the time, you don't even try to make sense. It's year zero of the rebuild. Getz has really made 4 trades. He did well with Cease, jury's out on Santos, and Fletcher looks like Arizona did well. The Bummer trade brought back a good bullpen arm, and a very good pitching prospect. You don't win every single trade, and every single prospect doesn't hit the ground and tear their league apart. They focused on pitching, getting guys, fixing and flipping them. Fedde, Flexen, maybe even Crochet's a win.

Well, the only legitimate "long term" prospect acquired was Zavala. The prospect guys thought he was a steal, so I'll go with them. Prospects don't plug in, then hit .300 with 30 HRS at every level, every year. The league adjusts to them, and the player needs to adjust back. It's weird how you get to dunk on everybody when a player hits a rough patch in the minors. I have no confidence in your ability to look at a stat line and "know" if a prospect is good or "sucks". I don't know what your problem is with Julks. He has 5 years of control left. He's adequate to hold down an OF spot during a rebuild. Julks and Lopez accomplish having people at positions to play baseball games. You seem to overlook that key aspect. Maybe Julks develops more power, and becomes a keeper. Everybody's screaming that they should give prospects a shot. Julks is getting a shot. You wanted a .500 OPS outfielder in a corner spot, and Michael A. Taylor would be our shitty, starting CF right now had we signed him. So you don't get to act superior.

I would honestly be confident penciling Julks into the 2025 OF/DH/1B mix. Fletcher has hit in the majors.

WS2023's big signing would have been Michael A. Taylor, and he's OPSing an even .500 right now. 23 also screamed about grabbing Canaan Smith-Njigba off of waivers, over and over and over. He's produced a slash of .243/.364/.353 for a .717 OPS and 1 HR. DeLoach slashed .281/.370/.369 for a .739 OPS and 2HR. DeLoach is 8 months older than Smith-Njigba. But DeLoach sucks, and WS2023 is great.

The subject was whether it would take 6 years to have a winning season again. You're arguing that because a previous front office couldn't solve RF or 2B, a new front office wouldn't be able to find baseball players to play those positions. Julks was picked off the waiver wire. He has more than a season of stats to look at. He certainly looks like he can play LF or RF for a couple of years. One win was all that was really expected out of DeJong and Lopez. I said 1-1.5 back in ST. They replaced -2 WAR at SS, and 0 WAR at 2B. For what Getz wanted, yes, that's a good thing. I'm not sure how you get to argue that the Sox won't post a winning record for the next 6 years, but I'm the one with low expectations. You believe that an established CF on the market would take less money to be the weak half of a corner OF platoon. No, I don't think a fan could have done a better job.

I believe the Sox are eligible for the draft lottery again for 2026.

Mike Shirley is a much better scouting director than Hostetler. And I like Getz' ability to just churn through players, sign them, throw them out there, DFA if they sink, trade them if they swim. Yeah, the bulk of this team is 2 years away. Julks looks like a starting RF. Pham looks like a starting LF. Even though DeJong and Lopez are tough to watch, they'll each have produced about one win by the end of the season, maybe more.

Seriously, you could probably write 4-5 paragraphs about this as a new topic, pin it for a day, then promote that on Twitter. Viola! You're a content creator. Driving traffic to SoxTalk. That would be better and different from all the trifling BS the bloggers all thrash and regurgitate.

The first part of your post just validates what I'm saying. A 20 game swing is their presence in the lineup affecting the won-loss record. Who ever implied that nobody ever imagined baseball players could get injured? These three, in particular. They specifically got 2 right fielders who could cover CF, and they have a half dozen utility infielders between the majors and AAA.

What was illegal about sliding into home plate?

Right. Just tagging onto your post of how restrictive it used to be compared to now.