Balta1701

He somehow dragged Oscar Colas as a rookie into his domestic violence case. Now that’s class. The type of leadership Chris Getz needs.

And the same reality is that the people who are now telling how they modernized this stuff were the people telling us how Hahn modernized their drafting and analytics process years ago. They didn't cover how badly they messed it up at all, even as we could watch things going wrong, the people who told us that the White Sox were messing things up were outside of the organization. And now the same people who told us how Hahn had improved things and a select group of fanboys are getting totally incensed that we don't see the greatness in the work they are doing.

And you’re told there are no Americans at the airport, so you believe it.

We literally just had a series of articles about how Hahn wanted to operate with more of an analytical mindset during the last rebuild, so they contracted with an outside company for their data processing methods and system, had no specific plans for how to use the data they bought and no buy in from the rest of the staff, wound up with an analytics department that no one listened to, and then backslid with a manager who thought analytics were ruining the game. This s%*# was going down in 2018, 2019, 2021, and as much respect for his baseball reporting as I have, James Fegan wasn’t reporting on the madhouse and the so called insiders were praising Hahn’s new approach’s Nothing about the behind the scenes turmoil. Nothing about how useless their analytics efforts became. Nothing about the insane level of personality conflicts even when we could watch the results on the field and players called the team out when they left: We had to wait until the 2024 implosion to hear those stories from the national press. More than 5 wasted years later. This is access journalism, it’s calling it the Gulf of America to keep access because leadership will get mad if you don’t always say they’re doing great. So why on Earth should I believe the same people telling me the exact same thing until there are undeniable results on the field supporting those statements? They’ve already established that they won’t report bad enough news in order to keep the boss happy. There are a hundred different ways that a fancy new tool could become behind the times or a waste of money or not used effectively and we know that won’t be reported because it wasn’t last time.

At the same time, he's also far more negative about the White Sox's system than most.

We never got the "system overhaul" message that we're getting now although guys like Getz were brought in. But there's one particular insider who insisted specifically that the drafting strategy was much improved, and we've seen how garbage that turned out to be. I'll leave you to do the search yourself.

It's worth noting how our "insiders" repeatedly told us in 2018 and 2019 how dramatically they had changed the way they scouted things with the draft from the way Williams was doing things and this was surely to bring improved success. There is a reason why people are having this response, you can only tell us things are getting fixed so many times before we don't believe it.

There was zero protection for him in 2023 when he was a good mistake hitter though.

Where did you see this specified?

And it’s exactly what Hahn would have leaked it to accomplish.

The thing is that Rick Hahn would actually have wanted that leaked because people would bring that up for years to prove they were real players for a free agent, after the Machado fiasco. And look what happens, it’s repeated forever based solely on an anonymous leak, which totally didn’t come from Rick Hahn.

No you didn’t. You posted a video of Wheeler saying they were looking at houses in a number of places and the money was “close”. AJ Pierzybski said that he took less money. Wheeler said the money was close. At no point does he say yes the White Sox bid more, nor does he say it was significantly different. He is much more careful in his language than you are, which you won’t pay attention to because he doesn’t confirm Hahn’s story. This could literally have been the Phillies with an offer that was more after taxes and that interview is accurate.

There were people who told us not to be so down on the team in 2024 too.

Oh there's no ambiguity. Who are the sources that told the athletic this? If there's no ambiguity then clearly you know that and can obviously tell me it, to clear that up. It's not listed in the article, so to me there seems to be ambiguity. Who are the sources who said that? Better not be Rick Hahn.

But we don’t know what the tax implications were, we know the White Sox are willing to look at things like option years and say “we offered more money” - AND regardless, would the White Sox have extended him for $40 million a year on a second deal before he hit free agency?