WhiteSox2023

More like the broken down nag that is about to be sent to the glue factory.

Getz’s offseason was garbage and he managed to make an awful team even worse. He also gave away two pitching prospects and an infield prospect for essentially nothing (Fletcher and cash).

On pace for a 43-119 record.

How many near shutouts is this s%*# team going to avoid?

Swisher is a great example. Always a really good hitter with the A’s. Completely tanks with the Sox for a season and goes on to the Yankees and Indians and continues to hit well before he finishes his career. Is it just chance? Bad luck?

That same poster has been hyping all of the great trade value that Getz has acquired since the offseason so he has to stick with it at this point. The fact is, even with the returns from potential Robert, Crochet, Fedde, Kopech, Wilson, and Pham trades, this team will still be far away from competing. You have to assume around half of the prospects they acquire in these trades will be busts anyways and we are also banking on Getz to target the right young players (Mena for Fletcher anyone?).

But Lopez is our starting 2B, so he IS a part of the problem due to his .586 OPS whether the can play the field or not. Awful like a starting 1B with a .567 OPS or a DH with a .669 OPS that can never stay healthy. They are all liabilities, either in the batter’s box, on the field, or both.

He sure stuck to his guns.

I just can’t believe the Sox continue on with the dumpster diving each and every offseason that has proven to almost never work at any sustainable rate of success. They end up hitting on a maybe a couple guys but waste $20 to $30 million in the process. It’s insanity.

“Kevin Pillar went 3-for-4 with a two-run homer Tuesday in leading the Angels to a 4-3 win over the Yankees. The White Sox releasing Pillar after a 4-for-25 start, only to watch him hit .431/.459/.759 with five homers in his first 17 games for the Angels, is undeniably the funniest thing to happen in 2024.”

Exactly. He is such a clown.

But the wet newspaper he slowly swings cancels out most of his defensive value. He’s a mediocre bench player on any other MLB team. But of course he’s a starter on the terribly managed Sox earning $4.3 million.

He’s at .243 with a .586 OPS. That’s awful. He goes on these little hot streaks for a few games and then goes back to forgetting how to hit. I really wouldn’t take back your negative comments about Lopez anytime soon.

It looks like he walks the world as a starter. Perhaps they should make this move sooner rather than later.

Now on pace for a 43-119 record.

He got away from this hellhole and immediately started tearing it up.

The names change (both GM and players) but the offseason strategy never does.

I guess. The timing on bringing Clevinger in was questionable. He still needed to get ramped up to pitch and the Sox had already been on pace for a historically bad season. Getz did hit on Fedde and Pham, while DeJong and Tim Hill look like meh signings. Getz is about 2 for 10, batting .200.

In an already lost season, pitching poorly, and with this new injury (the last two being hindsight I realize), Clevinger appears to be a waste of money just like most of Getz’s other offseason acquisitions. Brebbia — $7 million Maldonado — $4.5 million Nicky Lopez — $4.3 million Mike Clevinger — $3 million Mike Soroka — $3 million Chris Flexen — $1.75 million $23.55 million wasted on complete and utter crap. All players that are DFA candidates.

It’s pretty funny how all this scrambling for players by Getz hasn’t really moved the needle on their record, although it sure has made him look like a half-assed GM with zero plan.

Peralta it is. Not sure why they wouldn’t just dump Remillard. He has been successfully DFA and outrighted to Charlotte twice this year already.

I wouldn’t be surprised but with Ramos back they should just DFA Remillard for the third time this year, lol. Only the Sox want him.

I thought he would pitch better than he has, although he did miss all of spring training. Not as well as last year but better than he has this year. I was hoping to see him pitch well so we would finally have the unquestionable answer on why no one traded for him last year, since no one could blame his contract this year.

I just mean hindsight due to his poor performance and this new injury.

This is hindsight I admit, but was it really worth $3 million to sign this guy and piss a bunch of Sox fans off?