You can tout
your minor-league prospects for only so long until people start wanting to see
them up close. The White Sox months-long
game of “they’re really good/they’re not ready yet” seems to be wearing thin
with the media. Finally.
Last week, a
sportswriter called out Sox GM Rick Hahn after Hahn alluded, yet again, to the
“checklist” of accomplishments that prospects like Eloy Jimenez and Michael
Kopech are being held to. “They know
what’s on the list,” Hahn was quoted in yesterday’s Tribune. “I’m not going to sit here and tell you
things our players can’t do.”
Why not,
Rick? The TV announcers tell us
virtually every miserable broadcast how great Jimenez and other prospects are
doing, and they show film clips as proof.
A fan can watch Adam Engel strike out just so many times before dreaming
about alternatives. You provide faces
and numbers to those dreams, you risk creating a mob. The townspeople are getting restless.
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