chitownsportsfan

Perused SOSH this morning for a good half hour. On paper we got a fair deal and perhaps even an overpay according to some pretty tuned in Red Sox fans. This is a baby step towards the next good Sox team. There is much that needs to happen before that, but we have cleared one bar.

f*** no. He needs to make about a gazillion more good moves before we're winning more than 80 games in 2026.

Nice. Good move Chris. Many more are needed.

They've turned it into the HOVG and that utterly sucks.

Eh, I'd say this is true of quite a few pro athletes. Probably at least 1/3. Even when I got into low level college ball you had guys that were on the team because dad wanted it or they felt obligated to play. Yea most of the team loved baseball but even at that level when you're spending 20-30 hours a week on it between practice and games it gets tedious. So a pro athlete can get trapped in that mindset like Kopech where it's become just a job they aren't really enjoying. There is some interesting new sports psych that is going into a "value neutral mindset". It's focused on getting athletes to look a their results over a long enough time period to not hyper focus on each outcome, good or bad. For Michael, who is a known headcase, this would be hugely beneficial. Easier said than done of course.

He makes the Chicago Bears look like the Dodgers. Really King s%*#. Imagine blaming the employees and not the fucking owner. I guess when your paycheck depends on something you'll say anything.

lol here is the reason for the losing culture:

Our offers are a lot more competitive when we are fishing in the dumpster. Go figure.

Manfred:

Jesus christ please don't ever negotiate anything for me.

The dude's lower body is transformed from when he came into the league. Every pitcher is an injury risk but with a surgically repaired elbow and his power and length he's as good as bet as any to give you two really strong years before you really gotta pay him. We're talking like 360 innings, 10 or so fWAR and that all important ace come playoffs.

As I said at the time. He had like a 99th percentile season. I'd love to keep watching him on the South Side but the smart thing to do is sell at absolute peak value. Of which he is at. He has much more value than Cease. Cease is a nice pitcher. Garrett right now is one of the 3-5 best pitchers in MLB.

I wish I could place a prop bet on negative fWAR for this latest dumpster drive.

Who are we hiring for win prevention coach?

We're aiming for 150 losses.

Yup. It's scary. It's like he's using this forum as a sounding board for the worst ideas to come out of this FO.

Exactly. There's good points made on both sides in this thread, but your point stands alone as the most relevant. We're so far away from where we want to be.

There's a lottery? WTF. Did not know that. Well f*** my plan then.

He'll go to LA and put up a 5 WAR season. Book it.

Pros: outside org hire: Cons: almost everything else. Willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. But we've hired patsy managers over and over since Guillen and the one time we went all against that with TLR it was also a disaster. We've shown no ability to hire a manager that is above replacement and that can work with the FO closely.

I think it's up there somewhere in the top left, that red shifted star.

Who?

Sure, except without Manfred ball rules fucking us. Getting 1,1 immediately injects like 10 projected WAR into our system, at min. That's exactly what we need. It's hard for even 'tard clubs to screw that up.

Sign nobody and tank for #1 would be my plan. If you tender vaughn it's simply as trade bait and to fill a roster spot with a 0-1 WAR type that will be a tank commander.