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2024 White Sox / Sox Management
AndyMacFAIL:
https://twitter.com/whitesox/status/1025121095312187398
Method:
Hating on White Sox management has been a personal struggle for me for the last 26 years.
All the grief one might want to give JR for his failures... this is why he is worthy of loyalty. Proud to be a sox fan for how they have handled this.
https://www.facebook.com/WhiteSox/videos/10157839387973298/
AndyMacFAIL:
roster move for the return of Leury from the DL?
BlackSox:
Fantastic piece, well worth the read. Yes, "7 is better than 6", but there is a lot more to it than that.
https://www.southsidesox.com/2018/8/21/17755596/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-promotions-michael-kopech-chicago-white-sox
Who cares about the extra year of team control the White Sox would likely gain from warehousing Jiménez and Kopech in the minors until late April? Let’s be realistic. It’s really just a negotiating chip. If there’s one thing that everyone agrees that Rick Hahn is good at, it’s signing guys to long-term deals that buy out free agent years.
In other words, when we hear “what about 2025,” it really should be “what about 2027 or 2028.” If you have enough trust in Hahn as a general manager, you should trust that he’ll flex his one indisputable skill and sign these guys (assuming their performance merits it) to deals that buy out free agent year(s). And now we’re talking about past prime years.
Sure, if the White Sox only have control for six years instead of seven, the guaranteed money in such a deal will have to be larger. But we’re probably talking in the range of perhaps $10 million guaranteed per player, $45 million instead of $35 million, and that’s high side. And, sure, the team option year(s) will be for more money, but that’s really one of those “good” problems, as those would have been free agency years regardless.
And $10 million over multiple years, and far in the (baseball) future, is nothing.
BillSharp:
That article is idiotic. Sale & Q have lost a ton of money by signing those long term low salary contracts. No agent worth his salt is going to make that mistake again. Those contracts only make any sense with pitchers as they have a high incidence of injuries - they provide insurance against devastating injury. A young position player would never sign such a contract. Hahn has never signed a position player to such a contract.
The idiot who wrote that article doesn't understand that the issue really isn't about money - it's about team control. If Eloy turns out to be an All-Star caliber player he'll become a free agent, like Moncada at 28, not even close to "past prime years." And then what happens? The author of that piece just assumes the Sox will be able to out bid the Yankees, the Dodgers etc.
What incredible stupidity! We have to accept the fact that the Sox aren't one of the high income teams in the league. Delusional fans think it's just about some billionaire owner forking out extra money so who cares. What brain damaged cognitive folly! The ownership group of the Sox doesn't make money on the team & they don't expect to, they just don't expect to lose money.
Jesus Blackie, I can't believe you fell for such shocking stupidity.
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