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Balta1701

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  1. “The buck stops over there with the guy who doesn’t do interviews.”
  2. Let’s just stress how painfully inadequate this would be also. If he’s going to lead a losing team, he is going to get tough questions about losing. If he’s going to make lineup choices that are hard to follow, he’s going to get asked tough questions about them. If “go complain to Reinsdorf about my lineups” is the best answer he’s got, he should just resign, because that’s pretty far from accountability or from owning his decisions.
  3. You made a suggestion that Rick Hahn agreed with. This isn’t a compliment.
  4. Because Rick Hahn is terrible at all jobs other than convincing Jerry Reinsdorf that he’s fine. It’s literally that simple, when you have the worst GM in baseball this is how things look.
  5. There is unfortunately no solution to this that will make you happy. The White Sox will not be a good team for several years even if they do everything right. They are a bloody mess. They are a bad, expensive, old team at the big league level and their minor leagues are barren. Making a good speech or yelling motivating quotes will not change this. Fire Hahn, bring in someone better, let them pick their own coaches (I don’t care about Grifol), and fully start from scratch. Rip out all Hahn’s bad contracts, eat the money you have to, bring in as much talent as you can, improve the drafting and scouting and development and maybe by 2027 or 2028 the White Sox have a legitimate team if everything goes well. It’s that bad. And note, you say things have been bad since Ozzie was gone, with the exception of 2012 the other big change is that 2013 was Hahn’s first year. Not a coincidence/
  6. That is definitely something else. Must literally go back to Rodon.
  7. I would happily pay 3x that tax rate.
  8. He made this so vague I had to read it three times to figure out which comments it was referencing.
  9. Bah, the White Sox weren't the best run franchise in the big leagues under Kenny Williams, but they were quite good. They were one of the top 5 teams in wins in the 2000s, won 90 games 2 years in a row, would have gone to the playoffs almost every year except 2007 under the current format, they developed a lot of talent internally, and Kenny actually had big wins in both trades and free agency. It didn't always work, they also had big flops in both of those areas, they had years where they fell apart, and they developed an intolerable rift between management and coaching, but it wasn't bad and it wasn't lightning in a bottle. They were a decently run franchise, and decently run franchises sometimes put everything together.
  10. If you're looking at a team that has Betts, Freeman, and Smith in their lineup and Gonsolin and Kershaw in the rotation, and not thinking "They're quite a bit better than us", you're just wrong. And if you're also not noting that team was missing Urias, Lux, Syndergaard, Hudson, Treinen, Tracy Thompson, Pepiot, and the big ones - Buehler and May for TJS - you're missing a key part of the point. The White Sox are dramatically healthier than the Dodgers, one of the healthiest teams in the league like people demanded for years, and they're still no where near as good.
  11. I’d like to like Giolito. Smart, union guy, but he was clearly cheating with spider tack for years. That power changeup of his was a cheat. That no hitter involved cheating. Even if it was all Katz’s idea, Giolito did it.
  12. I’m sure this will be the guy rushed to the big leagues who will have instant and permanent success. *Automated post, repeats every week.
  13. Unlike last time, the White Sox don’t have guys to offer who are premium players with multiple years of control, unless they can get someone to trade for Robert. Giolito is a fine player but he’s only under control for two months. In this case, the smart move is to go for quantity over quality. If you can get several talented A ball players for a guy like Giolito, that’s better value than one guy who is a year from his debut. Get one guy like that back for Anderson, 2 or 3 for Giolito, one back for Eloy, maybe 2 back for Burger, two back for Graveman, maybe one back for Kelly, and at least you’ve built some minor league depth. In a normal organization, a couple of those guys will turn into quality big leaguers with 5 or so years of development and coaching. Aside from that, move every dollar off the roster possible. If you have to eat some money to undo mistakes like Benintendi, do it. Push the reset button on co tracts as hard as you can, then start using your resources in the offseason to find guys that could be tradeable next year at the deadline. Keep doing the same thing and in 2 or 3 years you’ve got a rebuilt minor league system.
  14. If you don’t like how people are interpreting weird and confusing statements, make them clearer.
  15. Just for reference, the worst white Sox player this year in terms of win probability subtracted is Lance Lynn. Lopez is 6th worst, behind Andrus, Anderson, Alberto, and Colas.
  16. As a person who has been demanding Hahn be tarred and feathered and paraded through the south suburbs since 2016, I am rather content to see others coming into agreement with this.
  17. I firmly and vehemently disagree with the notion that this team is being dramatically held back by managing and that you can somehow see that because one starter had an excellent game against a team with its own offensive issues. 36 year olds who have lost fastball velocity but can still have an occasional good game aren’t being held back by their manager. This is just a plain old bad team. That doesn’t mean Pedro is any good, it just means that they’re a bad baseball team. I don’t care if it’s Bobby Cox, Joe Torre, Joe Maddon, or Kevin Cash. They’d still be bad.
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