WestEddy

I'd guess that most/many baseball players are conservative bro-dudes. When a guy like Giolito is smart, well-rounded and curious, it's news. Too many Aubry Huffs and Trevor Bauers bouncing around.

Grossman still OPSed .756 as a RHH against lefties this year, total. He doesn't seem to be a good lefty hitter anymore.

Well, yeah. That's the whole point. The amateur draft is fine. They just need to develop the guys they draft. International is a mess, and they've taken steps to revamp. I didn't mind the return for Cease, Fedde was a good signing. The Bummer trade - I think my thoughts are known. Fletcher didn't hit the ground running, and the return for Santos seems....okay. The Fedde trade was a f*ck-up. I think they're one prospect light, as James Fox stated. They have to be able to target guys like Vargas in other organizations, and have a plan to fix them. If they can't do that, they might as well just draft and sign pitchers. I'm a fan. Like you said, I can either watch what's going on and wait to see how it turns out, or just whine and b*tch. I choose the former.

The win-loss record doesn't matter. Until it does. Getz is finally making changes to the organization that should have happened 5-10 years ago. I didn't really want the team to set the loss record, but who really cares? It's an organizational rebuild. Either the guys Getz puts in place will affect real change, or the team will get moderately better until JR kicks, then new owners will clean house. I really don't understand the need for everybody you encounter to repeat the things you say in your head.

Noticing that Riley Gowens is an actual pitching prospect isn't "carrying water". I'm not sure who expected 90 wins.

Bummer gave up the same one and a half baserunners an inning with the Braves like he did the previous 2 seasons with the Sox. I guess the Braves' defense could absorb that better than the Sox could. Bummer was a project. I believe his best days are behind him. Maybe the Sox could have gotten 2 prospect arms?

You've also said a few times that Bummer should have been traded for "prospects" - with an "S". How many teams do you think were lining up to clear out their minor league systems for a reliever whose 2023 numbers looked worse than Chad Kuhl's? Bummer could have most likely brought back a good arm. As in one. That's what they got in Gowens. Plus the others. This was Gowens' age-24 year season. I look forward to your 2-3 posts a day, going forward, telling us that this was a failed trade.

Jeral Perez slotted in as our #13 prospect (MLB.com) and OPSed .775 in a league he was a year and a half younger than. I'll wait to see if they can affect any change in Vargas, and how the injured guy looks before I make any judgements.

I still laugh at your posts. I suppose it's fun to evaluate trades when you pretend that parts of them don't exist. Riley Gowens exists. Soroka should be looked at with Flexen and Fedde, acquiring multiple starting pitchers in the hope that any of them could become productive MLB pitchers. Fedde worked out, therefore the entire experiment was a success. Lopez was a utility infielder that nobody in the system could beat out for the starting 2B job. Shuster is a serviceable bullpen arm. Shewmake should be DFAed. It's just funny that you have to post multiple times a day that you think this trade is a failure. I'm not sure what you're doing.

Modernization. Pure panic move.

Nightengale is generally derided as a hack, until he writes a negative sentence about the White Sox, then he becomes Edward R. Murrow.

It's funny that you think Romy Gonzalez would have a .770 OPS with the White Sox.

I actually found one, but I'm not telling anyone.

We're on the same page, Ralph Wiggum.

Love how you guys misrepresent something, then complain that you get called out on it.

Read the string. It was in response to a guy saying the Sox had to start spending this off-season. I replied that the Tigers made some big signings, but that I don't think the Sox are at that point. It's almost like, if I'm saying such outrageous stuff, admins wouldn't have follow me and pretend I'm saying really outrageous things.

Wow! Seven consecutive games. That sounds like a lot.

I told you? LOL. The question at the time was to guess win totals.

I carry water for logic. Seriously, you wrote way too much about the White Sox not replacing a .550 OPS hitter with another .550 OPS hitter from AAA for 7 games. Did you know that The Taliban just outlawed the sound of women's voices in public in Afghanistan? There's something to get pissed about. Not flying another shitty infielder to Chicago to help carry the equipment back into the clubhouse after another loss? Not so much.

And I've seen people who just scream about every single move, and attack anyone that doesn't match their rage because they're miserable - thousands of times across multiple platforms. And when those players we've been waiting on figure it out, they become "their guys", like the complainers scouted, developed and pay them. It's like we're all working off of templates.

Everybody's pissed off at this team right now. I rewatched the last out of yesterday's game, so I could flip off the TeeVee and get my own rage out. It really sucks. People are sniping at anybody taking a "wait and see" attitude, even the FutureSox guys who have a little more insight, I think. Nobody is saying "fans are wrong to be mad". It's the insane misrepresentations and admin stalking that has just gotten bizarre.

Nobody suggested that.

It seems like there was a general purge of scouts around the game this summer. I think the Nationals cleaned house of "highly respected" long-time scouts.

Yeah, right after the Tigers' horrible 2003, they added Ivan Rodriguez, Carlos Guillen, and an injured Magglio Ordonez. They then signed Kenny Rogers for the 2006 season. Pudge and Magglio bought into the FO vision right away. I don't know if Getz has that going for him, right now. The Sox might want to go another season sorting through the top end of their system to see who can actually play the game, first. Maybe if they get a hitting development team in place, they can take a flyer on 3-4 guys who may need fixing, like they did with Fedde, Flexen, Soroka this year.

They've sucked at pro scouting. I think they had Hostetler doing pro scouting this season. Time to upgrade.