WhiteSox2023

So I watched some baseball like this on the old CHSN OTA channel 62.2 which is now Stadium instead, which Jerry owns a part of. But it was two other teams playing, not the Savanah Bananas. Does anyone happen to know what “league” I was watching? It seemed like they were doing similar gimmicks as the Bananas, just not to the same extent.

It’s the kind of reply people resort to when they can’t answer the question.

Exactly, but I’m going to guess that Jerry is going to let Ishbia foot the bill for that spending in the future. 🤣

Yeah, but just think — maybe if Booser eventually pitches well, he can be flipped for a nice young prospect like Fajardo! Oops…

Agreed. The other guy on their team who should normally be in the top 10 has tanked offensively as well.

Not to Getz. Dude loves trading for 30+ year old relievers.

Wilson was DFA’ed once already. Iriarte and Zavala are more than likely career minor leaguers. We are stuck with hoping Thorpe can be a starter in the rotation at some point with his 90 MPH fastball. The Cease trade was an unmitigated disaster and hasn’t done for this team what Getz thought it was going to do. If Getz had to put his hand on a bible and actually had the gall to say otherwise, lightning would probably strike him on the spot.

Exactly. I was going to post this earlier… why did the Sox even draft him in the first place if they thought his mechanics could potentially lead to an injury? Okay, perhaps they thought they could fix his poor mechanics? But if that is the case, why did they just figure it out now instead of working on it right after he was drafted? Apparently, the Sox wizards of evaluation only pick and choose when to see things. Smells like 🐂 💩 to me.

They won’t, but if Wilson was truly worth anything he would have been traded at the deadline. He wasn’t traded because his walk rate is no gouda, which ultimately defeats the purpose of Getz acquiring him in the Cease trade because the entire point of acquiring him as the last piece was to flip him for additional prospect(s).

Don’t forget DeLoach and Robertson. Getz is the master of acquiring a bunch of outfielders and then never giving them enough playing time to see if they are legitimate major leaguers because he signed too many worthless vets and refuses to cut them. Why would Robertson not be playing right now? Cut Taylor and Rojas and give Tauchman plenty of rest…

I think the post(s) he was referencing were nuked, and rightfully so. They veered off course from the thread topic. Thorpe really needs to turn into a legitimate rotation starter, not necessarily an ace, just a #3 or #4. Otherwise, that Cease trade was a complete bust. Iriarte and Zavala ain’t it.

They also aren’t just your average white collar employees. They sign contracts with clauses regarding engaging in activities that most employers don’t enforce with their employees. Activities that could impact their ability to play baseball. And they apply to the offseason as well. https://www.thebestbaseballblog.com/mlb-player-contracts-forbid-just-about-everything.html

The pitching definitely went to 💩.

Of course, just look at Sox positional prospects over the years. 🤣 Of course, Vaughn for example never put up numbers like PCA. None of them really have until Colson so far.

He was also awful to start the season before April, with 4 good months in between. At 23, he’s only going to get better.

He is only 23 and has an .809 OPS, 27 HR, and 30 SB with a quarter of the season left to play. He’s been worth 6 bWAR. I don’t think he’s the 7th best player in baseball right now but he sure looks to be on a star trajectory.

You just gave the Sox credit for preventing injuries to Schultz and Smith. My question is, why couldn’t they identify potential injury situations for numerous other pitchers in their organization? Are you saying that all of their pitchers that eventually had to have TJ surgery injured their arms only during the offseason? Here’s a specific example — the Sox were sure that Drew Thorpe would just need a bone spur taken care of and he would be ready for Spring Training. Next, he needs TJ surgery, so what happened there?

Why didn’t they catch this for the other ridiculous number of their other pitchers that ended up requiring TJ surgery this year? I’m not so sure they caught anything, and if surgery isn’t already inevitable for them. Afterall, their track record looks pretty bad regarding pitcher injuries.

Well, Colson is skewing the results a bit. His minor league performance kept declining and now he looks like he could be a very good major league player.

Imagine how high the Sox lack of confidence in their ability to draft position players must be if they would seemingly rather take raw arms that are much more injury-prone pretty much at all times throughout their career than position players?

It could also be that the Sox have no confidence in drafting a bat with such a high pick after so many previous failures, while they have actually had some success with selecting the type of pitcher you mentioned. Having to draft a SS because the SS you took two years earlier already looked like a bust almost immediately is pretty damn sad.

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Maybe Bernstein will be kind enough to give his old friend Shane Riordan a job? That bum has been milking unemployment for 4 months now.

They take their fishing much more seriously in Minnesota. Probably why they were willing to excuse Bernstein’s fish-fueled rage.

Luis Robert is coming back!