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You don't get sarcasm, do you, @kitekrazy? that was the whole Leury thing.

…but he was consistent and healthy. nobody said anything about the quality of production.

I dunno. Hiring Tony La Russa in 2021 would seem to be a dumber decision.

Pretty sure Jay Cuda is about 30% of the White Sox analytics.

Clearly. But it would be SOOOO White Sox to temporarily gain 30 to 35 wins to negate a high draft pick.

Be careful. He's not gonna take that.

I'm going to love it when the Bananas draw double what the Sox draw.

If all of the stars somehow line up, and the Sox score big on all of their lottery ticket scrap heap additions, it would be SOOOOOO White Sox to finish with the 10th-worst record in the league in 2025 (by the aforementioned combination of “good luck”), then suck again in 2026.

He was consistent.

Then sign Leury. He was consistent and healthy.

...but it wasn't yet considered a knock on him. The upside was basically infinite in a lot of people's eyes, similar to how the baseball world saw Witt at a similar stage in his career.

Just have a "manager by committee" structure. Keep Grady as the bench coach, but each player gets a 1-week rotation as the manager-of-the-week. After all, supreme executive power comes from the mandate of the masses.

I think everyone had big expectations, but nobody had an actual plan.

Luis Robert, as of the end of 2020, had missed 4.

That’s also the prevailing wisdom around Luis Robert, circa 2020.

I agree 100% on Getz. Given the situation, JR staying out of the way to let Getz do his thing is the closest thing to realistic hope that we have.

Obviously nitpicking here, but you can choose either Cease or Quintana, since they were traded for each other. I’d be curious to see what other non-playoff teams have more ex-players on them than we do.

Like @southsider2k5 said, we can spend that $14M on not bundling Benintendi with Crochet to reduce our return

If the choice for 1B is between Vaughn or Sheets, I take the "fire the GM" option.

I’m in. Also of note - the DBacks owner fully and publicly acknowledges that he was responsible for the Montgomery signing, over the objections of the FO. The obvious “throw the player under the bus” thing aside, can you imagine Jerry admitting that hiring TLR was his idea and that it was a mistake? Can you imagine Jerry admitting that hiring Getz was a mistake?

The thing is, I trust that he’ll do well in a different organization, so we’ll look like fools if we let him go. He’ll still continue to struggle if he stays, so we’ll look like fools if we keep him. Lesson being: the Sox will look like fools regardless of the decision they make, because we don’t know how to develop players.

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He’ll trade the two of them for players under guaranteed contracts.

Kopech?

Yeah, and the fact that he's putting in so much work in spite of all of these negative on-field results shows how resilient and grindy he is, which is exactly the leadership we need! </sarc>