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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?

That Rick Hahn said they topped.

So far not a person has predicted Robert is held onto.

Given his history I interpret this as expecting him to die this season.

I think there was a lot of skepticism about the rotation last year, especially since we didn't think Crochet could do anything like that. But the bullpen actually had a bunch of additions to it. Tim Hill, Brebbia, Kopech, Steven Wilson from the Cease trade. Tanner Banks wasn't awful. Ok, Bryan Shaw was up there in age, but you could play the exact same game that is being played here to say that there was talent in those guys. Not great, but not the worst in history?

Exactly. Given what we know about him, I'm guessing he struggles for a portion of the year and plays like 100 games or less. I just don't see the White Sox spending $20 million on him next offseason if he puts up 2 WAR.

I have no problem admitting that the Hoosiers aren't a top 3-5 program right now. However, look at the list: Their facilities are strong, everything's in good shape and there are regular updates. They have one of the best home crowds in the country They have a very large NIL budget - according to Yahoo Sports it is thought to be in the top 5 in the country When they are actually good, or even decent, the television numbers are great - 2 years ago when they made a run to the big 10 title game, several of their games were in the top 10 of the year for viewership. There is zero reason for a team like this to be missing the tournament regularly. Zero. That's not a title contender, fine, I'll worry about that another time - there is zero reason for a team with this profile to not be a top 68 team.

I don't know that it's the neighborhood that prevents things, my opinion was it's that it's so far from walkable. You don't go to that area unless you're going to a ballgame, then you park and leave. You can't keep the ballpark as it is and have a connection to the neighborhood without finding a way to replace the parking. A sea of parking doesn't fit a walkable set of businesses.

I can be. They've tried, they tried putting a bar on that site years ago, I went once, but everything other than the ballpark in that sea of concrete seems to shut down, even many of the local businesses.

Half privately funded, half from the state, $1.2 billion a piece. Still a big ask from the state but maybe? At least it would guarantee one Super Bowl.

So Vargas is the starting 3b, Sosa is the starting 2b, Baldwin/Montgomery are the starting SS, Gallo is the DH, and Rojas is the backup for the full IF? Yikes, I guess that does actually work with roster spots.