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And after we win 65 games, greg will still be mystified.

Name the names. Also you don't have $70 million to spend this year. More like 1/3 to 1/2 of it even if there were the real people to do this with.

Yes.

Outline a realistic plan which wins us more than 62 games next year.

Yeah must of the team just sucked. They sucked more than they should have, but they mostly tried. It is easy to look lazy when you have no talent.

Can't be Chris Getz.

Essentially it would be a Co-Manager. They would typically get to perform some amount of the duties typically allotted to the actual manager. Those things would probably be figured out between the two manager types and the GM.

Javier Soto.

Another one of those Sox Dev success stories.

That Getz player development magic at work.

If you want civility, start acting civil.

Coming into the season, 26th/24th in FWAR felt about right. But if the guy is untouchable, shouldn't they have multiple guys exceeding expectations? Like they had any awful pitching staff, so I didn't expect top 5, but outside of Crochet, no one else had a wow season.

I am starting to wonder the same thing. Crochet was a big win, but pretty much no one on the staff exceeded expectations.

Sox fans are happy they didn't shoot themselves in the foot. Again. Confidence is the wrong word, this stage is more of a fearful relief.

But par for the course.

For the first time since before Tony, the White Sox made a personnel move that I didn't immediately hate because it was very obviously stupid. Baby steps.

Well, they didn't take the easy way out, so that's good.

Yet they could probably hit for more power.

I haven't seen any quotes, but he was WAY over league average for sac bunting and giving IBBs

With the pay story, this makes sense.

Wouldn't Venable hit the definition of "passed over" by his own team?

Others who have jobs in baseball can comment, but entry level jobs in baseball are TONS of work, horrible hours and somewhere between low and no pay.

Much as his history has been, Tony ruins everything. https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news/local/tony-larussa-speaks-on-recent-report-of-white-sox-for-sale

Yes. Yes he will.

It would take a 40 game improvement for the Sox to be mediocre.