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Spring training. Scheduled to throw a certain amount of pitches. Beni just dropped a high fly deep into to LF corner.

Eloy bombs away! 2 run HR ties it . 7 -UP

Was just watching Freeman hit against Touki and thinking Touki is just the kind of guy Freeman should crush but he swung through 2 pitches. Starting thinking maybe he'll make one of those 7 out of 10 outs .300 hitters make. Count went to 3-2 then he hit a granny ?

Most of the time guys I talked about being flipped among the position players was Moncada and Eloy. Usually it was the pitchers I thought could be flipped if any of them can stand out.

Bat on ball luck big time for Sox . Muncy couldn't field a short hop back hand play at 3rd base by Deling and Fletcher comes in all the way from 1st. Scored a double and 2 ribbies.

Kopech being Kopech a mix of good and bad. 2.2 inning 3 runs ,3 walks , 3?K, HBP, wildish pitch . Yamamoto for Dodgers didn't look like he had his nasty splitter. Sox were patient putting bat on the ball, running well . 3 infield hits ow with Eloy just getting one.

Then you shouldn't be spreading falsehoods. Baseball Savant lists his sprint speed in the 67th percentile whereas a true slow plodder like Andrew Vaughn is in the 11th percentile.

He's not slow nor plodding.

That's baseball, the hardest hit balls by Robert and Stassi were outs.

DeJong steals on Yamamoto splitter in the dirt. Stassi lines out very hard to LF. 3 outs.

Vaughn Sac fly to CF ties it. Everyone tagged up. No good on Outman in CF . Fletcher in the hole to SS beats it out. RBI. DeJong slow roller beats it. RBI. 3 -1

Moncada walk. Robert line out to deep right. Beni tags goes to 3rd. 1st and 3rd 1 out. Eloy walk. Bags juiced for Vaughn.

Looks like Kopech will only pitch 2 inning unless he finds his control and has a quick 2nd inning. 1 -0 LA . Sox up. Beni single.

With a little ingenuity u can watch the game on a smart TV?

Both teams are broadcasting it.

Ha cross our fingers and hope ! I'm not opposed to organic growth but Jerry does little to nothing to bring in or develop prospects. Crossing fingers and hoping is all we have. And this is spring when I pretend that things will go well up til the trade deadline and then they trade off 8 guys and basically start all over again in 2025 . That's a successful 2024 and it leads to basically they same thing in 2025 where you put enough decent prospects into a system that sucks at developing prospects and hope they learned enough in their previously organizations and have enough talent to overcome everything the White Sox don't do to make them better.

Zero confidence in the front office and coaches ? Most of them are just starting their tenure with the Sox. Yes Getz didn't exactly impress anyone in his previous job except JR. But seriously ,when you examine the organization making " right changes" in the last 5 to 10 years why stop there ? Who's in charge of the White Sox ? Who makes the decisions and controls the purse strings that enable front offices and coaches to do better jobs by building an infrastructure that enhances player development ? That would be the owner.

You already said you don't think JR is going to do what's necessary to push for the playoffs. Then you said " build it organically". I'm not sure what that means in your mind but when has that ever happened under JR ?

You listen to Reinsdorf say the Sox can't compete in the current location but he's been the owner that bought the team in that location and built a new stadium in that location. The Dominican Republic has been producing good players since before Reinsdorf became the owner yet have the Sox ever developed a very good DR player ? They had a chance with Tatis, Jr and Hahn got fleeced before the kid could even play stateside. Tampa Bay has shown Jerry that investing in infrastructure and developing youth can keep a team competitive without a large player payroll in a lousy location. Does JR ever try to do what TB does ? Nope ,not ever, not even a little. He seems diametrically opposed to it in reality. JR or his heirs would not run the team any differently in a new stadium. Grifol , Getz who cares ? Just new flunkies using the same M.O. that JR lays down. They all will slowly sink into Jerry's quicksand operation of the franchise. Even if a new stadium gets built on the 78, JR will have to make concessions and it's highly doubtful some grand dream of developing the surrounding area into a White Sox Wonderland capable of a brand new era of White Sox baseball will ever bear fruit.

I don't understand this quote from you at all. If Fletcher and Horn are both on the 2026 Sox wouldn't that mean they both had somewhat successful 24 and 25 seasons ? Wouldn't it also mean that the Sox could have good players they successfully traded for for another 4 years after 2025 ? How would that translate into any type of failure ?

Solid win. It was the kind of win the Sox will need to replicate as much as possible, low scoring, some steals, timely hitting, pitching and defense.

I know you want to run the front office like an algorithm. Do something the wrong way enough times and it's likely to bite you in the ass trading younger minor league guys for older minor league guys. At least they don't have enough talent to get 36 yr old vets the Sox have to pay $10M for a year. I don't know if what Getz is doing now will work. He's just hoping you get enough young vets and 26 yr old minor leaguers that someone is going to blossom even for a short period to trade them or in the case of the 26y yr old minor leaguers either trade them or see what they have for another year of 2.

I think mo Wizard of Oz gangsta references be dope. Ya feel me ?

I still don't see why some don't get it. Sox are stockpiling as much AAA+ nothing's hoping they they become somethings. Even if they are older and not likely to be on the next Sox contender,LH pitchers who can K hitters are usually in demand . The dearth of talent was so bad the only way to try to build up the system is find as many guys capable of turning a corner approaching prime years who can be traded for higher end talent in the low minors (AA or lower). All this trading is likely to continue but they started with very little to work with.

I have a feeling that no matter what I say you'll spin it. But just compare their numbers and make sure you note that I said "right now he is a better nothing." If you can't look at the stats and see that, I'm not going to spend any time debating it if you see it differently.