Chicago White Sox

But, but, but….Rick Hahn! It must be his fault somehow!

All to add a bunch of 30+ year old scrap heap veterans who will not be on this roster in six months. This is simply an incompetent GM panicking over setting the all time loss record and pushing the future even farther out. It’s amazing that I had super low expectations of Getz and he’s still underperformed them.

Holy s%*# it’s getting worse by the minute!?! Getz is in so over his head it’s not even fucking funny. I can’t even begin to comprehend how anyone could be a little fanboy of this clown.

Getz is such a fucking clown. What are we even doing at this point? Playing a few more shitty vets in hopes scrapping together an extra win or two? In all honesty, if Fletcher needs more minor league time then that trade is a fucking bust. And if we’re bringing up a non 40 guy over DeLoach, then it’s already time to question the Santos trade. Absolutely wild that Rick Hahn has been a far superior GM than Chris Getz over the last 12 months.

Poles has nine picks next year. If I were him, I’d 100% look into trading one my 2’s next year along with pick 75 to jump up and get Johnny Newton in the early second if someone is willing to play ball.

It really is insane, but on paper it probably is true.

It’s wild, but he probably has the best WR trio in the NFL plus a really solid TE and a good pass catching RB. As long as the line can keep him upright, he should have a monster rookie season.

What a humble kid…love these picks

What a fucking an amazing draft.

No idea what Poles does here

Wow wow wow

Falcons taking McCarthy!?!

f*** the Falcons aren’t trading this pick

If McCarthy is there at #9, there will be serious trade down opportunities. I still prefer Odunze, but it wouldn’t be a bad outcome.

The Titans pick is in. Anything but Odunze and we are set.

Best case scenario for us is Odunze or McCarthy being there for us.

No doubt, but you have to give them a chance to fail before you go out and purposely block them. Again, I’m not against having a veteran in the mix (we probably should), but if Fedde can return a legit positional prospect at the deadline that can help soon, then you make the trade and sign a vet in FA next offseason if necessary. Given where we’re at, he’s more valuable to a playoff contender than he is to us.

Chris Getz - 2024 Players Acquisition Tracker Pitchers: Erick Fedde: 5.29 xERA | -0.1 fWAR Mike Soroka: 6.96 xERA | -0.3 fWAR Chris Flexen: 6.46 xERA | 0.0 fWAR Jared Shuster: 2.55 xERA | 0.1 fWAR Steven Wilson: 2.43 xERA | 0.2 fWAR John Brebbia: 7.27 xERA | 0.0 fWAR Tim Hill: 5.28 xERA | 0.0 fWAR Bryan Shaw: 7.41 xERA | -0.1 fWAR Dominic Leone: 8.27 xERA | -0.5 fWAR Hitters: Martin Maldonado: -53 wRC+ | -0.7 fWAR Nickly Lopez: 47 wRC+ | -0.1 fWAR Paul DeJong: 145 wRC+ | 0.5 fWAR Braden Shewmake: 13 wRC+ | -0.3 fWAR Dominic Fletcher: 73 wRC+ | -0.1 fWAR Kevin Pillar: 98 wRC+ | 0.1 fWAR Robbie Grossman: 70 wRC+ | -0.1 fWAR So adding it all up, Getz added 16 players to the roster and through 21 games has been able to get -1.4 fWAR from them. Just for fun, these guys are on pace to provide roughly -11 fWAR on a straight line basis. That is beyond Rick Hahn levels bad. Fire Chris Getz and bring in someone who has actually accomplished something beyond just snitching out the past incompetent regime!

For those whose eyes are sensitive to the color blue, I highly recommend not looking at Vaughn’s Statcast page. Continuing to trot him out there day after day and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. Just wild this org couldn’t figure out how to turn a top 5 pick, bat only prospect into even a league average hitter. But alas, he’s been 25% below league average since July of last year and has shown zero signs of ever being a positive value player. Not only would I send his ass to down AAA, but I’m make him dominate in that bandbox before even considering calling him up again. Until then, Sheets get a make or break opportunity at 1B and Eloy gets the DH at-bats. That opens up RF for a DeLoach or Colas platoon with Pham and Fletcher as the primary CF while Robert. No more Gavin Sheets in the OF unless every other viable option is actually injured.

It’s too bad that Getz was forced to use old Hahn scouting reports when he made that trade. Hopefully in a year or two Chris will have replaced all our pro scouts with some of Watson’s old Royal lackeys and will be able to formulate his own opinions on player acquisitions. Until then, everything is Rick Hahn’s fault!

$200M…?

Can someone summarize what this article says? Unable to access it.

Unfortunately they can’t play him at 1B because the team captain with his 75 wRC+ since last July has that position on lockdown.

Unfortunately we’re at the point in the season where Grifol is going the do the desperate dumb s%*# and not just the normal stuff he does. And it’s scary what the repercussions could be.

All fair criticisms…but pure velocity isn’t the problem here.