FloydBannister1983

How did Bevington work out?

I see your point. It worked out so well the last time the Sox tried it.

So would everyone on this board. You could make a better case for a comparison of Renteria to “Look at Ray Ray Run” than to Girardi, Hinch, and Francona. The latter are serious baseball people. Renteria is a clown.

Wow - Renteria is now Girardi, Hinch, and Francona all rolled into one. How did the Sox get so lucky?

Of course Moncada and Giolito and Jimenez can just as easily regress.

Like he’s pissed with Paxson and fired him after his second or third failed rebuild with the Bulls?

This is a silly assumption.

Stop. These clowns trading prospects for major league players will never end well. Sign Strasburg and that’s it. Don’t make any more signings. Don’t trade your prospects. It will only end poorly.

No they have a better chance of winning the 1983 World Series than that happening but it’s the smartest move they can make.

The thing for this team to do at this point is to go all in on Strasburg. Give him $40 million a year if you have to. He’s the one guy out there that would actually sell jerseys and sell tickets. If he gets hurt or goes downhill your fans can’t blame you for lack of trying. (I wouldn’t trust this bunch to trade prospects for established pitchers and I wouldn’t go after Kenny specials like the above three.)

Carlton Fisk. Greg Luzinski. Floyd Bannister. Tom Seaver.

I don’t disagree but it makes the comparison with Cubs, Astros , and Royals rebuilds apples and oranges.

Please stop this comparison. Cubs, Astros, and Royals all had new front offices. They went through multiple field managers. They didn’t let the people who drove the car into the ditch drive the tow truck as well.

Citation needed.

Er, there was this guy named Tony LaRussa that started his managing career here and managed here for 8 seasons before they had the great idea to make that drunken buffoon Harrelson the GM of the team. Among his better ideas were firing a Hall of Fame manager and attempting to turn a Hall of Fame catcher into a left fielder. (I thought Thibs and Skiles got more out of their teams than they had any business getting.)

The Bulls have actually hired some good coaches that they somehow ran out of town ... Phil Jackson, Scott Skiles, Tom Thibodeau. The White Sox ran a Hall of Fame manager out of town. The rest of their managers have been pretty shabby.

How many have the Yankees won since the turn of the century?

He has the highest xFIP over the last two years. Second from highest last year, highest this year.

If a mechanic has caused my car engine to seize I wouldn’t take the car back to the same mechanic. I’d find one of his competitors.

Exactly. Since we’re moving people to positions they haven’t played all year (thus leading to their success) let’s consider Frank Thomas a shortstop and Robin Ventura a second baseman.

That was a different expansion team in Washington in 1961 and moved to Texas in 1972. Not the same franchise.

Washington? The current Washington team was an expansion team, the Montreal Expos in 1969, that moved to Washington in 2005. This Washington team has not been in existence since 1901, as you correctly point out the team that was around in 1901 have become the Minnesota Twins and they have won multiple World Series in the late 80s and early 90s.

The Cubs also changed ownership.

Yes. This is, after all, the organization that just sent their announcer out to attack the fans. They haven’t a clue how to relate to fans.

This. The offer was a poison pill. They knew he would never sign that contact. They weren’t outsmarted. Poison pill all the way.