TaylorStSox

So what does a Special Assistant in Player Development do?

The Sox didn't receive much national scrutiny, and the average fan didn't care that he was falsely accused of domestic violence. The clubhouse was fractured by Grandal and Lynn, not Clevinger.

The tremendous value we got out of Clevinger was a team effort. You're right.

Clevinger was worth $22.5M in WAR for the Sox and was paid $12M. Fantastic value. .

I said "as a White Sox." Between Clevinger and Fedde, Getz has done a fantastic job signing FA pitchers.

Agreed. He was surplus value. Fantastic signing. We'll be lucky if Wilson is as good.

Clevinger was a 3 WAR pitcher for the Sox.

Again, Kat and Bannister must be doing a great job coaching the worst team in history and not even having the worst pitching production in baseball for that year. They're clearly ahead of the curve.

Hate Field is gonna be a good time next year.

So a team that's been historically bad and traded the majority of their pitching staff still managed to be in right in the middle in pitching production? I'd say that's pretty incredible. Katz and Bannister must know what they're doing.

That's not what gaslighting means.

Yet, you still found time to post 33 times a day during the year. Your interest couldn't have been that low.

At least I only do it once every week or so.

There's no difference between 120 losses and 100 losses. Sucking is sucking. The Sox aren't relevant enough to be a "national laughing stock." Nobody cares. We're also going to be really bad next year. It's going to take a long time to dig out of this hole. When the entire team is made up of highly touted prospects and Lance Lynn, and all but 3 fail, you don't have any assets and you can't jumpstart a rebuild. Getz has done a reasonable job taking a handful of players with some value and turning them into one of the better farms in baseball. Hopefully we see some progress from it. You can spend all your time crying about it or hope for the best. Baseball is fun when you're good and funny when you're terrible.

That was all standard GM speak that every single GM in every single sport says. Of course he knew we were going to suck. He's been getting rid of every single asset possible and replacing them with replacement level players, at best. This is a teardown and rebuild situation.