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With a team that struggles with attracting customers, you want to break up a veteran core that has won some 80-odd games, and tell your customers the product will be **** for several years? What is the obsession with shedding payroll? Why the **** is that important? I want wins. And so do most fans.
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Attendance records: 09 : 3-2. 10 : 2-3. 11: 0-1. 12: 2-1. 14: 2-3. 15: 3-3. 16: 1-0. |
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You lost me there. He's the definition of atrocious
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In a career year, AJ's OPS is .750 with bad pitch calling and worse defense. |
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I'll take the aging core that can be likely counted on for 85 wins and see if I can find 5-10 more wins by bringing in a few key guys that give the team some roster flexibility and help keep the vets fresh. It's a much more desirable plan to me than blowing the team up with absolutely no blueprint and stumbling to a 62-100 season. You'd think someone living in Chicago, watching the Cubs would have some sense as to how horrible that is.
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#9 2015 Obligatory Attendance/Record Tracker 1-2 LAST GAME: May 22 - Sox 3, Twins 2 NEXT GAME: June 8 - Sox vs. Astros |
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The Sox drew 1.8 million fans this season. You up for a contest to see how low the season ticket base can get? Or whether that overall number can get down to 1 million?
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Agreed. This team doesn't sell itself, and the people that do sell it do as bad of a job as any marketing team in baseball. |
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Thompson or Walker would take over CF with De Aza moving to LF, where he's much better, and Dayan in RF. I don't really think they're ready either. I'd be fine with keeping Rios (he is my second favorite player on the team), but I'd prefer to shed more payroll. |
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In addition, missing from all this stunning analysis about the Sox drawing power woes is the fact the economy is in the worst 6 year run since the 1930's.
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Riding shotgun on the Sox bandwagon since before there was an Internet... |
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I'm going to go all crazy here and take the glass half-full approach, but looking just at the players on the roster signed through next season...
Rotation: Sale, Quintana, Danks, Floyd, Santiago/Axelrod? - Not bad at all. Will it light the world on fire? No, but you're basically trading Peavy for Danks and Humber/Liriano for Santiago/Axelrod. Not quite a push but not a dramatic drop off either. Bullpen: Reed, Jones, Veal, Ommogrosso, ??? - Some valuable pieces there, with the 5th starter loser being the long man. Some holes to be sure, but there's talent there. Lineup: C - ??? I could see AJ coming back on a 2 year deal 1B - Konerko, with a healed wrist 2B - Beckham, what you see is what you get offensively, top notch defensively SS - Ramirez, see 2B, but more potent offensively 3B - ?? RF - Rios, can he put two solid seasons together in a row? CF - De Aza, excellent potential and quintessential leadoff man, can he stay healthy? LF - Viciedo, better with a full pro season under his belt DH - Dunn, I'm one that takes the power #s at the expense of batting average and strikeouts, but I know not everyone has that opinion In short though, I think improvements with experience for those in bold above aren't out of the question. Which at least tells me we aren't seeing 100 loss teams on the horizon. The real issue is can the brass fill in the gaps with quality players to move them from a .500-ish team to a 90+ win team? But no, I don't think a complete overhaul is needed, though I seem to be in the minority.
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![]() "I like the way you think, Taylor." For ****s sake aren't you "tear it all down" people the same ones constantly screaming about the Sox rushing prospects? Someone post that huge eye rolling smilie puking up eye rolling smilies it's the only way to express my feelings on this matter and I don't have the link... |
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Also played with a back injury this year that seemingly took months and several false starts to heal. I don't think the Sox should make him the one and only plan, but I don't think giving him a shot to make the team out of spring training should be out of the question either.
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True, but are Sox fans worse off compared to other fan bases? And how does the drop in attendance for the White Sox compare to other teams in the last 6 years?
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Fans didn't get behind this team in a pennant race because they aren't likable. They don't have an identity. They don't have stars. That's partly because the marketing staff is awful and partly because the aging core is stale.
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