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According to their public quotes, Manny Machado, who was signing elsewhere to get a reasonable market rate, was not the worst case scenario for White Sox players. The fact that he signed somewhere at least relieves what was redundant but understandable:
"What do you think?" [Yonder] Alonso said with a smile when he was asked if he was ready to finish with this series of questions. […]
"F-yeah," says Tim Anderson. "S-, maybe you can all stop asking me now. I do not care about the situation of (Bryce) Harper and Machado. I know where we are going. We have a big group of guys here.
"We are going to be on the south side, whatever. Nobody decides what happens in this locker room. I think we have a good group of guys here. We will do something special. The White Sox are going in the right direction. A decision will not dictate our season. "
In addition to quarreling with the idea of "right direction" – they will have to show their work at the end of March – I started to like the idea that Anderson's booty has its own star, if nothing else.
Then I saw this tank by Twitter:
Even if he was not accompanied by "OMG ILS ONT MANNY MACHADO", this "5.4" hurts me. When the ZiPS projections of the White Sox are released, I guess you will not get to the 5.4 WAR version from the top. two White Sox, whether it's hitters or pitchers. I also think that one of those hitters will not be on the opening day program.
That's what the White Sox are missing: a well-balanced star projection is part of expectations, not a superior result.
There is really no way to recover thisat least without invoking sour grapes. If Machado proves to be a failure, it is still not good for the recruitment of White Sox, which undermined the last reconstruction. If Machado is great, but it ends up going in the direction of most 10 year contracts … I do not care.
I have never suffered a 10 year commitment to Machado because many things can change in 10 years. This may be difficult to understand because, for the White Sox, nothing happened to them during the latest 10 years. The Sox had the most dominant pitcher their franchise had ever seen, yet they failed to make the playoffs even once. In addition, without Machado, the White Sox may well be far from their payroll from the day of the opening ten years ago:
- 2009 $ 96.1 million
- 2019 $ 84.1 million (planned)
And all the while, Kenny Williams and Rick Hahn remain the two leading decision makers under Jerry Reinsdorf.
I wanted the Sox to sign Machado for the same reason that the Lerners wanted Jayson Werth for the Washington Nationals in 2011. Werth signed for seven years and $ 126 million, the first major signing as an independent agent of the Nationals era and a contract considered as another. Scott Boras miracle. Although he was a little overpaid overall and has been a handicap in the last two seasons, he helped them out of the NL East winery and to play in the playoffs on a regular basis. which allowed the Nats to give Max Scherzer, Stephen, nine-digit contracts. Strasbourg and Ryan Zimmerman.
I doubt the Lerners regretted the inefficiency, because the Nats after Werth did not resemble the Nats before him. I thought Machado could do the same for the Sox. Bring him to complete some pre-referee stars, and maybe we never see a $ 120 million payroll as ambitious.
But considering how the Sox stopped on Machado, and reports like this …
… I do not expect that they ever outbid in the league for a star player of his age. This recalled an excerpt from the Cigar Aficionado profile of Reinsdorf in 1995:
Throughout the fall and winter, he always dreamed of creating a winner of the World Series in a business climate that seemed logical to him.
If the White Sox are to search for the best free agents without ever increasing the turnover of the market, they will have to start by obtaining good results. If they first have to succeed, they will have to convert to less free signatures – you know, which broke the first rebuilding attempt. It does not reassure me when Hahn says "the money will be spent" because he will spend it. The truth is that the successful reconstruction teams have reached the summit with new owners and new wickets.
The White Sox are trying to change. They added to their R & D department, they added scouts, they incorporate technology and those who can interpret it at the minor leagues levels. Alas, until they succeed, it's about firmware updates for internal components that can never be reduced to relevance. This is the Blackberry Major League Baseball, which always brings a product to the market every year, but all titles published generally recognize that they are still alive and nothing more.
The White Sox had the opportunity to force the player to count on an exciting new ride, but they finally let the Padres make Machado's decision with ease. We now hope that guys like Anderson, Yoan Moncada, Reynaldo Lopez and Eloy Jimenez can force everyone to reconsider. Good things are still eminently possible, but it's hard to know that it could have been much easier.
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