Chicago White Sox

I will fully acknowledge that La Russa is an abomination of a manger and has probably cost us a good 10 games this year. That being said, the bigger threat to the long-term success of this organization is clearly Rick Hahn. Here is a GM who is bad at scouting and doesn’t have the analytical muscle in his front office that the other Ivy League GMs have. What does he bring to the table? Locking up our young talent? Even that well has dried up as of late. Every year it becomes more & more clear just how incapable this guy is at building a serious World Series contender. To have a $190M payroll in the AL Central and not be railroading the division is an absolute joke. I’m still in utter disbelief that this dude failed to address any of our major needs this off-season with impact talent and still spent what he did. Giving Leury 3/$15M should get Hahn blacklisted from baseball. And then to do nothing at the deadline? He actually fucks around thinking he can somehow get Ohtani and instead lets affordable LH bats like Naquin & Gallo go elsewhere. And it’s not like Rick doesn’t get our issues. The dude actually had the nerve to say “ball goes far, team goes far” but does absolutely nothing to address the lack of power. Keep the hitting coach who not only said “fuck the HR” but who has an insane track record of groundball heavy offenses. I don’t give a fuck that Hahn has somehow built a farm system incapable of landing us a rental OF who can hit HRs, but at a very minimum bring in a different hitting coach or change out some players within the organization. There is no excuse for sticking with the same old bullshit and hoping for a different result. At the end of the day, we can change managers and change hitting coaches, but we will have to get super lucky to ever win a Word Series with Hahn as GM. Jerry needs to wake the fuck up and go get a successful small market GM and make him the President of Babeball Ops. That is our only hope for baseball salvation on the south side of Chicago.

Everything is fine…everything is fine

I didn’t watch the game last night, but have read about another 1-2 intentional walk. But what was the deal with Tony moving Grandal from DH to C? When did it happen and were there any potential implications from losing the DH spot?

And you’re missing the point. If we had a competent analytics department, we probably have at least one solid utility type player sitting in AAA. Alternatively, we had Danny Mendick on a pre-arb salary even if Yogurt, Romy, Sosa, & Popeye weren’t quite ready yet.

Any replacement level player would have been better than giving Leury a 3/$15M contract Rick Hahn.

How many heads could you add to the analytics department if you simply didn’t give Leury $5M per year and instead went with a pre-arb option?

It’s Hahn’s job to convince Jerry why a beefed analytics is important.

Just going to place this here:

Brandon Nimmo is probably the only guy who fits the billing unfortunately.

Abreu is our best player and will likely come at a discount. As we saw with Rodon, letting guys coming off ~5 win seasons go who can be retained on short-term deals is usually bad business. I guess my question to you would be what are using the savings from not resigning Jose on?

Fully agree…it’s like they are nine months behind in scouting him. Dude came to camp this year in super shape and the speed is way better than they are advertising.

Eloy won’t get you nearly as much back which is why people like fathom prefer moving Vaughn.

Just waiting for Ramos to finally reach BA’s top 100 list.

Groundball city!!!

I really hate this team’s inflation with groundballs

Very lucky there…make them pay Engel

Ball four base hit

Isn’t the average like 2.3 runs scored when you have the based loaded and no outs? Somehow we only manage one run. Truly pathetic.

Lol…nice work Harrison

Grandal walk and Big Energy slam perhaps?

Neon Yoan looking good as of late

Colas, Ramos, & Popeye are on fire.

I don’t think this is the best list, but Yogurt barely cracking the list is a good sign of the strides the farm has made over the past 12 months.

Carlos Perez made the cut finally