Listen Up, Chris Getz

Over the last three seasons, the White Sox have gone from ninety-three wins to eighty-one to sixty-one. Hence, a much overdo housecleaning of the front office. If he wants to avoid the same fate of Kenny Williams and Rick Hahn, new Sox GM Chirs Getz would do well to look at the rosters of the two teams that are in the World Series. Start with the Rangers’ Adolis Garcia. For years, Sox fans heard about this special Cuban connection the team because players from the island revered Sox great Minnie Minoso so much. Too bad said connection didn’t extend to Garcia or Randy Arozarena, who’s also made a name for himself in recent postseasons. If there’s a silver lining, it’s that the Cardinals signed both Garcia and Arozarena and then let both of them go for next to nothing in return. What really bus me, though, is how much better Arizona and Texas have been at drafting players. Start with the Diamondbacks. They took Corbin Carroll, we took Andrew Vaughn; Kevin Ginkel (in the 22nd round of the 2016 draft), a whole bunch of players including first-round busts Zack Collins and Zack Burdi; Alek Thomas, Steele Walker. If I could have Carroll, Ginkel and Thomas at the cost of Vaughn, I’d do it in a heartbeat. Now, onto the Rangers. They took Josh Jung; we took Vaughn; they took Evan Carter, we went with Jared Kelley. Throw in their signing of ex-Sox infielder Marcus Semien along with their trades for Nathaniel Lowe and Jonah Heim vs. anything Hahn did not involving Chris Sale or Adam Eaton ( and the return on Sale of Yoan Moncada and Michael Kopech is debatable at best), and you can see why us Sox fans have yet another reason to be grumpy. But it is baseball, so I guess I’ll watch.