Balta1701

I was genuinely worried starting the year that they'd do a dead cat bounce, win 67 games, and that would earn Pedro and Getz contract extensions. Welp.

38-124 is the real target. That is the worst winning percentage in 125 years.

Sheets and Lopez will both be in the 2025 opening day lineup.

Leadership.

What happened he was a hero last night?

He shouldn’t be on any short lists because he’s massively inexperienced at coaching. Right now there are literally hundreds of better candidates. With time that may change, but I wouldn’t want him organizing a full spring training plan when he’s been a part of 1 spring training since 2017.

I've got him at #10 on the MLB.com list in 2018 pre-injury, but he was passed by Forrest Whitley at number 9 that year. The top prospect in baseball was also a RHP, sorta. #12 that year was Brent Honeywell, a RHP, and number 13 was Walker Buehler. I'm sure some list had him as the top ranked RHP, but both of those years there was a cluster, he was just in it.

Naw, they were set up for 90 losses in 2017. Melky and Frazier were on their last legs, Quintana took a huge step backwards, and they had zero help coming with an already high payroll for them. Follow that up with Sale getting a contract extension then getting hurt and that’s that, the next time the White Sox win 85 games is the next time they have a successful draft.

Honestly, I hope so because that indicates self awareness. He might be the best manager in baseball someday, but he just took 6 years away from baseball to raise his kids. He hasn’t even been an assistant coach, a bench coach, a base coach, or a skills coach, until literally starting this year. Him thinking he’s ready for a big league manager job would be like Getz thinking he’s ready for a GM job, it would be kind of overconfident mistake that shatters a billion dollar business.

Great, it clearly has not worked for this player whatsoever. Put him at Charlotte and let him actually look like a ball player at least for a month. Right now he looks like he’d fit on the White Sox.

The headline totally sounds like a threat.

What struck me about Domestic Violence Enthusiast Chris Getz’s strategery this offseason was how Reisdorfy it was. What type of player, by name, did Reinsdorf say he wanted? David Eckstein, short white guys who play with TWTW. What did gets spend the offseason collecting? Guys who have obviously terrible stats but TWTW. Lopez, Maldonado, Fletcher, DeJong. It’s the list of names I would have written about them going for if I was joking about them caring about TWTW more than stats. What has Getz talked the least about, getting on base, the importance of not judging someone just because their ex girlfriend published pictures of her bruises, or the importance of leadership? Aside from the Royals obsession, it really was like JR got the exact type of player he wanted.

If the White Sox didn’t do the 2017 tear down, I am nearly 100% confident that they would have 0 playoff appearances since 2008.

On the 2017 MLb.com list, Benintendi was ahead of Moncada correct. Alex Reyes, Glasnow, and Giolito were ahead of Kopech.

“Everything” with Kopech? I think a much smarter organization sending him to AAA in 2021 and then stretching his arm out to start would have been the biggest change possible in his career and that set of ludicrous decisions isn’t on him.

Moncada was the number 1 overall prospect though when acquired. Those guys are Trout, Ohtani, Harper, Rutchsman. Those guys aren’t supposed to wash out after about 10 career WAR.

Additional praise for the GM.

With him not having that much control remaining, taking anything for him isn’t a bad move. There’s a substantial risk the White Sox would nontender him even after a good second half. Kopech for Vargas makes sense, you get something for him that has multiple years of control that the Dodgers don’t need. Frankly that’s basically the deal the Dodgers got.

lolno.

Sizemore was SO FAR DOWN THE LINE that this still works as a springboard for him. He was literally on a $15 an hour internship with the D-Backs last season that he had to talk himself into, if he parleys this into a minor league manager position for a couple years or a base coach slot for some other team, that's a pretty solid move forward. You could literally think of him actually managing again in 5 or 10 years and no one would remember this, all he'd have to say in an interview was give it as an example of how a GM and manager should not work.

I'm going to submit that a guy with a 15 DRS in 225 innings in RF will NOT scale up to a 75 DRS if he plays 1125 innings in RF, when no player in baseball has a DRS more than 20 this year.

I recall people scoffing at me last year when I said that if Getz was smart at all he would turn this job down. Now a year later he’s the personal laughingstock of the league. An Ohio congressman who covered up sexual abuse of wrestlers is scoring points by dunking on his team online. He’s the guy being quoted in the Onion. He will have a couple years of employment if Reinsdorf is alive, but if either Reinsdorf passes or he gets tired of 100 loss seasons Getz will never work in an MLB front office again. His reputation is in the Reinsdorf and this is the end of his management career.

6-14 for the worst winning percentage since the existence of the American League.

The young guys will be on the bench so that Sheets and Lopez can play.

The upside for the White Sox is that they have almost no money on the books next year, and most of the arbitration guys and options they have are guys that will be cut loose. I could easily see them being at $50 million in 2025 committed payroll on November 15. If they want to run their payroll at $75 million, they're going to do another season like last year of finding "leadership" and "domestic abusers" because there's not many ways to spend only $25 million while fielding a decent roster. If they're willing to push back to a $100 million payroll there's room to think about adding someone significant. They might find a Fedde type, but I kinda doubt they would look to spend >$10 million a year for multiple years on a pitcher as they. have a lot of young arms and at least a few will be coming up next year. As a mostly DH, Santander seems like the kind of guy the White Sox would sign to decent money, although I might not think it wise. Maybe a Teoscar Hernandez as well. There's not a lot on the FA market though, so who knows how this will go.