The Athletic: Must Read article on Jerry Reinsdorf/White Sox

[caulfield12]

12 minutes ago, Boopa1219 said:

What value does he bring? He works with the players, like Andrew Vaughn, they’re reported to have worked together a lot. And Andrew Vaughn is ass. What does he do?

Being the best hitter on the team after the Sox almost destroying his career early on is something.

We will find out when he plays for a real team what kind of hitter he actually is.

[Big Hurtin]

16 hours ago, Texsox said:

True. I wonder why any of them stayed long enough to get fired? Isn't it odd that people voluntarily stay? 

 

15 hours ago, Lip Man 1 said:

It's called getting a paycheck and if you get fired there is a reasonable chance that you can qualify for unemployment insurance.  

Quiet quitting isn’t just a working class thing, I guess. 🤷‍♂️

[Dick Allen]

11 hours ago, Harold's Leg Lift said:

He scouted for the amateur draft this spring.  He saw all the players in the mix for the 1st round pick most multiple times and a few of the guys in the mix for the 2nd round picks along with players in the Chicago area.  He also frequently flies to Arizona and Kannapolis to work individually with young hitters specifically George Wolkow.  Calling a guy like Jim Thome useless is one of the most asinine things I've ever read on the board and boy is that saying something.  

I hope Wolkow is a stud. It would be nice if the Sox finally developed a player  that wasn’t supposed to be good when acquired. And I know he is young for his level, but there aren’t too many productive MLB players that had over a 40% k rate in A ball.

[southsider2k5]

40 minutes ago, Dick Allen said:

I hope Wolkow is a stud. It would be nice if the Sox finally developed a player  that wasn’t supposed to be good when acquired. And I know he is young for his level, but there aren’t too many productive MLB players that had over a 40% k rate in A ball.

Especially because he's crapped on Wolkow since we drafted him.

[caulfield12]

This article needs two separate sub articles on Sox PR/Broadcasting/Media Relations Boyer vs. Harrelson Benetti and then the current Stone Schiffren fiasco...and the focus on ticket sales and agents over analytics.

(Will never get Len Kasper on record about his regrets...unfortunately.)

 

Then another on international scouting going back to Kenny Williams/Dave Wilder/skimming/Club Burn through the Cuban Connection and the eventual firing of the intl scouting director who had won Scout of the Year just 2-3 seasons ago.

[Quin]

Since NY Times owns the Athletic, this felt like a good home for this profile 

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Over the course of the 2024 season, the White Sox have explored the full spectrum of losing the way a great actor uses every corner of the stage, the way a jazz saxophonist probes every note in a scale. They have lost nobly, tragically, cleverly, inspiringly and deflatingly. They have lost late at night and early in the afternoon, in soggy rain and on crisp sunny days. I have seen perfectly professional losses that could have gone either way — but of course didn’t — and games that should have been stopped, for cruelty, in the fourth inning. I have seen the White Sox lose in front of huge roaring crowds at Fenway Park and also, back home, in their own nearly empty stadium. (On a sunny Tuesday, just before game time, I once counted 199 people sitting in the vast sea of outfield seats — and when the announcer finally said “Play ball!” the applause sounded like someone had just done a magic trick at a church picnic.) I have seen the White Sox hit their catcher in the groin with the baseball three separate times in a single inning. I have seen the White Sox lose because three fielders ran into each other like clowns. I have watched a bloop single flutter and fall, like the first leaf of autumn, delicately onto the outfield grass, at the most devastating possible moment. I have seen games in which Chicago’s hitters looked like All-Stars but their pitchers looked like impostors, and games where it was vice versa, and games in which they all played great but the ball just bounced the wrong way.

Here's a gift article for those who want to read it. Some choice quotes from the guys in the 108.

[caulfield12]

4 minutes ago, Quin said:

Since NY Times owns the Athletic, this felt like a good home for this profile 

Here's a gift article for those who want to read it. Some choice quotes from the guys in the 108.

balls on the infield scored runners from second Twins in the same inning or game

the blown lead records and ZERO late comebacks when trailing after 6/7/8 are almost unreal entities...like SD in extra innings last year going against their RS/RA

oh for the days of Adam Engel and Moncada tagups against Buxton, definitely the Twins...