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I'm not totally sold on Bannister. I don't think he's bad, I just don't know that he actually is better than what half the other organizations may already have. I can't tell if what happened in the minors was more just the large addition of pitching prospects we acquired vs him doing specifically better than any other pitching coordinator or status quo. The downside is just shock at how bad the bullpen was, and, I'm assuming, making decisions on who to cut bait with in apr/may that ended up being solid relievers vs. our trash.

I would say it's not that odd to wall off analytics from some departments like scouting. Astros did that to prevent the analytics from getting biased. Of course, it had a purpose so that's different than the sox.

Obviously overdue, but funny that despite the rationale for hiring Getz is getting a head start - we’ve been moving much slower in removing and replacing underperforming parts of the org than an outside hire would have. More like set us 2 years behind than 1, as our owner put it (apologies for elder abuse)

I thing kopech is a good example of how little trust the white sox had with their players to influence changes on the field. The players are also invested in their careers, and are probably aware of the much better resources that exist outside the org. Many of their best player development transformations happened by coincidence or thru outside influence. That said, I was horribly wrong on vargas (I keep violating my own rule of downgrading any player the white sox acquire by the simple logic that the white sox acquiring them means they were worse than I thought). But the logic was there was very little strong position player prospect movement at the deadline. A lot of the 'fleecing' was around pitching prospects, which I'd had enough of. Of course...then there was the non-idiot teams who took the 'lesser' orioles prospect. that said...i've always hated kopech since 2020. Him deciding to try after 4 years...doesn't make me like him more.

Why would they have any info on this. NBB is such a try hard anyway

I think it would be the same interesting.

wasn't there a guy that bought the islanders but was a total fraud who didn't have the money? I wonder if Dave Stewart is trying to pull that off.

I don’t know, I’m starting to think even his death will be the start of some horrid murder mystery saga of events

The reality is putting a team in nashville is a long-term play that makes more sense to start a new brand there. Nashville is small but growing, but it takes a long, long time for new markets to really be reliable. Look at atlanta, it was still pathetic in the 2000s, now nobody talks about it that way it was. but it was a city of transplants, they carried their allegiances. Maybe, since some of Nashville's growth is from Chicago, taking an existing brand would help, but reality is it would be diminished even from the lesser-than-the-cubs level it is in a major market. Now, if I was a video game owner, I'd love to move to nashville and get the cheap goods the small market teams get to compete.

yeah makes sense.

Owners are extremely deferential. They would never try to overrule another owners desire to screw over a fanbase for profit lest it be used against them.

I mean, I don't even think I'll be able to.

At this point it would not be hard for me to switch allegiances to the cubs if the sox left. They have just done everything possible to ruin baseball, to the point that the only game I'd like to go to next year in that stadium is a harlem globetrotters game basically. The only redeeming thing JR could do at this point is to have a public funeral so I could piss on his casket.

Don't worry, they'll keep them in chicago for 2 years, then claim the city can't support the team, THEN get rubber stamped to move them to nashville.

Just need to be clear though, was reading this article about Jerry Reinsdorf making plans to sell a billion dollar franchise elder abuse or is it ok?

I don't know I read this and it just seems like Jerry running his 1980s playbook to extort the city of chicago. "Oooh give me what I want or I'll sell to the guy trying to get a franchise in Nashville!"

Looking forward to AJ Ellis asking to see our scouting reports and seeing "don't chase the tough stuff" "this guys a meatball bopper"

Amari Cooper I guess is only going to Bills for 825k against the cap, I think Adams is going to be much higher.

I need to save this post: ”there is nothing you will learn about the nfl in week 1”. Really impressed by Waldron too. With the exception of the start of a game, he has made huge adjustments to suit the team, and the players have clearly grown in the system too. Bad defenses the last few weeks but that can be helpful to get timing right and confidence up. Scared to play Minnesota tho, won’t be surprised if Caleb had a really big clunker there, and it’s fine if he does. The north is so good though I’m not sure playoffs is gonna be possible.

I think what sucks is because we get a manager search every few years we still hold out hope that we'll find some guy that can perform some bottom-up transformation. But I kinda think even if we had hired AJ Hinch, he's not that good of a manager without executing for a smart front office (see his first years).

this is one of those things about the suburbs. There's extreme winners and losers. For anyone on north and west or farther south sides, 35th and shields is a little painful but not bad. Move them to Tinley /Orland Park and it's painful east and south, and there's no "take a train after work and uber home" left. For football, I never minded the idea of them going to arlington heights. But for baseball, inconvenience is death for me attending a weeknight game.

I'm fascinated by how the best run orgs do so well at hiring. The Royals, with new owner, get put in the same situation as our clown show, let Grifol go and hire Quatraro. He works with their young players and helps turn them around. The sox hire Tony LaRussa, a retired, old out of touch manager who was completely wrong for the team. The astros hire Dusty, a retired older manager who was the perfect steady hand for that team. The Mets hired Buck Showalter, a kick in the butt who had mellowed out and got them an exciting year after underperforming for a few. We will sit here and look for a profile we like. But for these roles like GM, like manager, the interviews and reputation and set-up they have matters a lot. Whomever they hire, we have to assume he sucks, because Jerry Reinsdorf believed he would be good. That's called updating our priors, I think.

I think it may have been hard to make a last minute change in london with 200+ people getting shelter, etc. I understand them going later considering they'd be away from families for 2 weeks instead of just the weekend like the bears. It's a tough situation but I think they deserve some grace here, hard to make last minute adjustments with a huge operation like this.

More realistic is you'd take 3-4 pitching prospects over one can't miss one. And no, i'd take the can't miss one.

I'd counter that this board was pretty much in agreement that the sox should not take high schoolers because they couldn't develop them because of Courtney Hawkins, and it was mostly just ignorant of the fact that the sox weren't drafting high schoolers so the one that failed stuck out. They finally stopped that crap and their drafting has gotten much better. Yoan Moncada was only an oft injured but definite MLB starter, and Kopech was just a ok then dominant closer, so the white sox should never again trade for top prospects? It's a dumb idea. I would be more open to "don't trade your everyday 3B for a 25 year old pitching prospect coming of TJS" more than Moncada.