Look at Ray Ray Run

Shane Smith pitching well enough to get himself traded. The white sox way.

Well if this doesn't fit in nicely to the thread: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/by-meidroth-i-care-not-a-man-can-swing-but-once/ I'm beginning to worry the Sox believe this is a market gap... it's not.

Yes, it's time in seat that's the problem.... not record-setting ineptitude.

I actually like this at 100/120-1.

It's why I always am a bit confused when people ask to name players the PD director should have been more successful with....

Crazy how much he reminds me of Pedroia

Garrett going to be upset about that walk for a while.

Baldwin lol

It's means discussions have stopped for now.

Glad you admitted to lying about both statements. What the end of the Hahn regime and whatever you want to call this Getz thing have taught me is there's always someone out there that'll support the unsupportable.

Alex Call

I never said it was unique. Just as I never said a GM shouldn't seek outside council. Your only defense now is to misrepresent. I said: You gave the Sox credit for transitioning Crochet to being a starter. I said his entire overhaul (strength building, new path to home, new arm slot, very unique drive-push) was done outside of the White Sox. You pushed back. That was wrong. I also said Brian Bannister shouldn't be picking which players he wants to "best maximize" because that's not his skill. Getz job is to know what skill best fits Bannister. Bannister can have say but not be the final decision maker.

Ah yes, and it's everyone else who is wrong and not seeing the truth.

Weren't you crediting the White Sox for Crochets development into a starter? I mentioned it seemed unlikely given that it was off-season changes which are typically externally-driven. This quote tells you that Garrett's next step was done outside the Sox purview.

It's in innate part of the player and by far the most challenging thing to change. Sox have been working with Robert for 5 years on this, and his solution appears to be just taking more pitchers by default, for example: Robert is actually swinging at fewer pitches in the zone vs his career. Is he swinging at fewer out of the zone too? Yup, so he's just squating on more pitches. Which I'd argue is bad because he's also making contact on fewer pitches in the zone which is more important than making contact with a few more pitches out of the zone where the contact is weaker. This overall approach, so far, has hurt Robert significantly. He's getting killed by the fastball up and in because he's late because he's worried about being patient. Robert changing his pitch selection has effectively slowed his reaction time imo.