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I just don't see how the org can let this continue to happen. I don't think firing Menechino does jack squat, personally. But its a start. Tony is the one that really needs to go. It starts at the top and going back to last season, we now have a full season sample of this team being around .500 in the worst division in baseball. NOT GOOD.

This is like asking degenerate gambler to take a year off.

Yeah, Sox really need both of the 2 next because they'll be lucky not to get swept in the Bronx.

How are 70% odds in your favor? Robert has ~30% chance to get a hit, therefore scoring Harrison. IMO, I think Benintendi screws up that throw more than 30% of the time. Therefore, math would tell you sending the runner is the right play. Of course, one of those %s is easier to point to (batting average) as opposed to Benintendi throwing out runners at home on somewhat routine plays, but we've already seen him both the that play once in a previous game this season on a very similar play. I guess I just support aggressive baserunning when your team is struggling to score runs. The fact that is was the 8th inning and we only had 4 more bullets just exacerbates that. I will leave it at that. Like I said, I get it from both perspectives. Sucks it didn't work out. I wouldn't have been fileting Super had he not sent him.

I mean I think its safe to say Hahn would can TLR if he had approval to do so. But even the Chairman can't be watching this club and be impressed with how they look. They're frankly lucky to be .500, and look uninterested. A change in the clubhouse is sorely needed.

The crazy thing to me is the Sox largely built the big central lead last year without Robert, and Eloy who at the time who all considered to be a big time bat, with big time contributions from scrubs like Yermin, Goodwin and Hamilton that can't even crack the big leagues this season.

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The results have been a .500 club for the past 125 or so ballgame. Get your head out of your ass, man.

If anything, his performance this year makes cutting Keuchel a little bit easier in a month or two as we have a solid arm to fill in for Kopech rest if the rest of the rotation isn't fully healthily.

Sure. I will take the longer sample size. Castellanos was not and is not the solution to what ails this team.

Yeah, I disagree. I think there is a better than 30% chance Benintendi fucks up the throw, which is all it needs to be to be a better decision than letting Robert bat. It didn't work out, but with 4 outs left in the game and the offensive sputtering all season, I think you gotta send him there. I appreciate and understand the other side of the argument however.

I agree its not terrible, but we don't need more right handed hitting DHs attempting to play the OF. We have enough.

Id rather a guy get thrown out at home with 4 outs left in the game and a noodle arm in LF than be left at 3B and the same people would be saying "why didn't he send him!?!?! Beni has a noodle arm!!"

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Cairo is a TLR yes man. He would need to go too. McEwing would be the guy. Hopefully with Jershele taking over as bench coach. But its all fantasyland.

First time I heard Jason makes some backhanded shots at TLR yesterday. Not directly media, but he sees the insanity even if he tries to head it.

Sox haven't made the Giolito roster move yet right?

Castellanos is just more of what this team already has. He was and is a bad fit. Not using the benefit of hindsight, I don't mind acquiring 1 year of Pollock over 4 years $100M of a guy that really just exacerbates our issues in Nick C. Of course if you told me beforehand Pollock would forget to hit, that'd be different.

Sure, but he wasn't a FA and that deal was done super early in the offseason. Also guessing Rays really liked Misner, so its not like the Sox just had the ability to go get him for nothing. To be clear, I am not defending the moves at 2B at all. Awful. This team had literally just 2 offensive holes they badly needed filled by lefty bats, 1 self created, and they filled neither. Doesn't make any sense.

Right. He's not really for the Sox either. I've said it before and I will say it again, Harrison would be a fine bench player. The process used to make him and Leury nearly everday players is and was awful. Unfortunately, there just weren't are good fits for 2B on the FA market after Semien. Who, by the way, has also been dreadful while getting paid a shit ton of $.

You'd have to ask the Dodgers FO who offered him a contract.

All he has guided this team to is underperforming, a clear lack of preparation and often bringing focus to the team for all the wrong reasons. Not to mention he is just a wholly unlikeable character. The TLR signing has been a flop of epic proportions. Every game he makes boneheaded decisions. Even small ones that many fans wouldn't notice. Its almost like he knows what the right choice is, but he does the opposite just for funsies.

I generally am not an anti-Hahn guy. I think he did a pretty good job rebuilding this core and if healthy, the team is pretty stacked. You can't have 26 all stars. All teams sign role players. Even the Dodgers wanted Harrison! Buuuuuutt both of the last 2 offseason were PUTRID. I think you have to do full scale changes to the FO and coaching staff is this team doesn't make a drastic turnaround AND a run in the playoffs. Then again, this is the White Sox.

Can I get a response on this @Green Line? Or you stumped?

What exactly has Tony done to help this team? Please explain.