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Bob floating the idea of AJ likely means there have been internal discussions, if not in person meetings. AJ's history with and connection to the org make him no different than the long line of lazy hires from the pool of familiar former Sox IMO.

I see a lot of mediocre performance in that lineup. They'd be lucky to reach .500 any given year.

Should have been doing that all along. If the flip signings aren’t even flippable, then what the hell are they even doing here?

Well, we’re waiting. Get to it Getz.

I’m too lazy to look up every name, but I’m pretty sure all of those names worked on coaching staffs at the MLB level before being hired. AJ hasn’t. Look at the orgs those guys work for as well. Outside of Kotsay and Shoemaker (post Kim Ng) those orgs set those guys up to success. That’s not happening here. AJ might make a great manager, but the deck is stacked against him succeeding here. AJP isn’t going to magically fix things.

Spot on. 2021 might be the last “competitive” White Sox team we see for the next decade. They may not lose 120 every year, but we are in for years of bad ugly baseball. The multiple failed attempts at building competitive teams in the 2010s have nothing on the likely failures coming in the later half of the 2020s. It really is that dire IMO.

There is no path to success with JR at the helm. The restraints placed on the inept people he hires eventually lead to where we are. It is the inevitable end to every backwards thought but into action. It is inescapable.

We already are.

Maybe if this team were a young talent laden up and comer AJ would make sense. I still don’t like that he’s never coached professionally before. Being better than Pedro is a very low bar, and hardly and indicator of future success.

I do believe both of those guys were coaches on MLB staffs before being hired. Both of those orgs also aren’t toxic cesspools insistent on doing everything wrong and expecting it to work.

Ego? Sox fans still adore him, and it’s not like any other org is knocking on the door offering high profile jobs to the woefully unqualified.

It’s hardly different. AJ has zero professional coaching experience. If they wanted different they would hire someone who actually has done the job before who isn’t a washed up drunk. AJ would be another in the long line of un/under qualified hires by this org.

I get not wanting to help a division rival, but it hardly matters when you’re gonna lose 120 games and have nothing to even build with yet. We are YEARS away from having to worry about competing against guys they traded away.

Feels way too similar to Bob floating TLR to me.

Bob floating this gives me TLR flashbacks. JR just can’t get out of his own way.

Won't compromise wins for development either, yet here we are at 80 losses before August.

He's in over his head and is an embarrassment, but not for the reasons you've stated. He can't make teams meet his demands. Embarrassing here would be selling Robert and Crochet for pennies on the dollar. The Pham's of the world will be gone soon enough, once buyers pivot to lesser needs.

If the White Sox want to win, they only need to change absolutely everything about how they operate. No biggie.

What a bizarre story this has turned into.

Clase probably drops out of the M's top 10 after this year had he stayed in the org, so who knows how Toronto views him. He was very expendable and I'm honestly surprised he's all it took to acquire Garcia.

Meh. Doesn't move the needle much IMO. But that's what you're going to get when you hug protects to death.

Yimi was one of the best available pen arms. I'm ecstatic!

Getting hurt while on the active roster accrued a hell of a lot of service time.

It would need to be 2-3 weeks.

Between Locklear and Vosler, they have two young but unproven 1B on the roster already. They need actual upgrades, not a guy that's already proven to be a bust.