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The longer Buck hangs around the more likely it’s him.

Very good article that answers a lot of questions. If Grady has been this much of a player’s coach then hopefully he gets a chance to grow into his role as manager with this team. Hiring someone from the outside for a multiyear rebuilding project would be a hard sell.

AJ as manager has always been something that had made a lot of sense. Almost too much sense. I think it’s worth trying to find someone who can manage the ball club for a long time, who will have respect of those around him, and will be forthcoming with the media. There is no perfect science to a managerial hire, as we all know by now. What I see is a very smart man who, upon taking the job, would fight harder than anyone else to build a winner. The organization needs someone that can rise above. In my opinion, if Pedro was a good manager, our record would be better than it is. I say this because if you look around baseball, even the worst organizations are 10-15 games better than us. Being a Chicago White Sock is fighting an uphill battle, and we need a manager that can take on that challenge. That quality might not be found in someone who was a bench coach on a heavily analytical and highly successful team. I hope this happens and works out.

Sox should be the team that extends Crochet. It is so unfortunate that that isn’t allowed to be on the table. It wouldn’t even have to be for an ungodly amount (5 years 120M maybe gets it done). But we’re not allowed to entertain that because we are the White Sox.

I’m almost certain that Heyman means Garrett would need a contract extension.

Pretty sure Chris Illitch has been anti spending money. I forget the specifics, but the Tigers were one of the few teams to vote against a pro-spending rule.

I think Robert will go. I don’t think Getz is going to shoot for the stars on this deal. Similar to the Cease deal. He’ll “settle” for market value and not risk the possibility of injury and poor 2nd half performance. With DiPoto and Dombrowski in the mix, you can get fair value at this deadline. It’s a marriage of Getz wanting to move on from the previous core and those execs selling themselves on a player with a lot of potential.

I think the potential AL ASG starter should be extended and not traded. The only non arbitration contracts on the books are Benintendi and Stassi. This downright refusal to pay players past their rookie contracts is ludicrous. 29 other teams in baseball would behave differently.

Jim Margulus of Sox Machine pieced together Bob Nightengale columns in this week’s podcast and came up with the following conclusions: - Tony was making $4M/year as Sox manager - Pedro is making $1M/year as Sox manager

Getz, taking a deep breath, marches into the Chairman’s office: “I’d like to fire Pedro Grifol.” Jerry replies with a quick no. Getz: “And install Tony La Russa. He’s a hall of famer baseball man and will help us right the ship.” And poof, Tony is back.

From the looks of that article Heyman is saying that Robert is the most likely player to get traded at the deadline. They are going to trade everyone they can. This is ridiculous.

#VoteMaldy

Kap said this was a prediction based off no intel whatsoever.