Mike Rankin and James Fox reacted to the news of former executive vice president Kenny Williams and general manager Rick Hahn’s dismissal at the Chicago White Sox. The show touched on all the rumors surrounding what could be next, including speculation of assistant general manager Chris Getz’s candidacy related to the vacated front office role.
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Great podcast. Thanks.
IF JR is really going to put Moore and Getz in charge, what’s stopping him from just announcing it now? Why the delay? I’m hoping it means he’s going to have a legitimate search and they can do better than those 2 names.
Now, having said that, who knows how those guys would do when it’s still JR at the top? IF JR wants to move the team then I have to believe he has to put his best foot forward now.
Just guessing, but the delay could be to create the appearance of a real search, allow the outrage to die down, etc.
Just an observation, but I do think people jumped too quickly to the “Rizzo is using the Sox for leverage” narrative when the more likely explanation was the “Jerry wants to make it appear that other people are willing to work for the Sox and a full search is underway with lots of qualified candidates considered before ultimately picking the in-house guy Jerry is comfortable with” narrative.
That assumes JR even cares about giving the appearance of a search. And he knew – and may have even leaked – the name of Getz. So, if it ends up Getz, everyone at this point will say the die was cast early. So, why bother creating the appearance of a search.
That is what I have been hanging my hope on. That the dramatic timing of all this gave a window to gauge league reaction to the idea of Getz and put feelers out to other people.
Dayton Moore baggage? Holy understatement Batman! The man had 3 number 1 picks, 16 top 10 picks, 25 1st rounders, and 60 overall top 100 picks and out of all of that he has 3 AS appearances to show for it and 2 of them are suspect as Hosmer’s one and one of Moustakas’s AS selections came after WS appearances where Ned Yost was doing the selecting. No man has wasted that much draft capitol ever. I am not a Mike Shirley fan at all but he needs to lock the draft room door if he sees Dayton Moore heading towards it.
Having read your great post, I feel Moore is the perfect fit for the Sox!
I still hope the longer this decision is the more JR is going to do something different and hopefully right.
Yes, to echo Mike and James, I could see where JR doesn’t have it in him to do the search so he gets Tony and Walt to tag team the search process and present him with their selection ala Bill Polian style. Despite the Tony hate I can hear in the background, that’s a reasonable and positive scenario. Or you know, we can go with Chris Getz because JR knows he can bully him.
I’m 100% with you upnorthsox. The records of both Shirley and Moore are dismal to say the least.
A little early to fully evaluate Shirley. His first draft was what? 2020?
Industry seems to like the Shirley drafts (outside of questions about Jacob Gonzalez this year. But even the rest of the draft has fans).
It’s still early, but I would say the early returns from Shirley are far from dismal.
James? The bottom = worst case and if it doesn’t then what does? And if you disagreed that 65 wins was possible then I hate to tell you but we’ll need to go .500 the rest of the way just to get to that pitiful level.
This team has a better chance of losing 100 than going 65 and 97.
Overall though a nice podcast.
Perhaps the White Sox organization might surprise me but I’m very skeptical. With Reinsdorf pulling the strings I’m not confident. Where in the corporate world is an 87 year old man in charge of making upper level staffing decisions?