How The White Sox Were Ruined By The Braves ‘Strategy’

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Thanks for watching! The Chicago White Sox are now one of baseballs biggest failures, but how did they fall?

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Title: How The White Sox Were Ruined By The Braves ‘Strategy’
By: Purely Baseball

[alexstone]

How come so many of these small baseball channels literally create content that would be expected from huge and popular creators. Its so good and i love this guy

[kylefunderburk]

Teams are replicating the Braves when it comes to contracts, but they're not at all replicating the Braves when it comes to coaching and team management. Look at Travis D'Arnaud and Jesse Chavez, and now Jared Kelenic. Players get better when they join Atlanta. D'Arnoud cited a reunion with one of his formative coaches about a month ago, and Chavez's tendency to struggle everywhere except Atlanta is well documented. Manager Brian Snitker deserves praise as well. A good example was within the first 2 weeks of this season. The Braves got shafted with some obviously bad calls that prevented some early runs. Social media was abuzz, calling for Snitker to show more emotion, stand up for his guys and have it out with the umpire. Instead, Snitker stayed in the dugout. The Braves offense eventually exploded and the team won the game comfortably. That's not to say Snitker never stands up for his guys against bad officiating, but he picks his spots because he trusts his guys to overcome. His leadership as a manager is a big reason why the Braves have had the funniest-looking dugout in baseball over the last few years. In turn, many former Braves who only had a cup of coffee in Atlanta have made their love of the Braves organization well known.

[Harrja]

The common denominator between them and the Bulls is Jerry…

[MeargleSchmeargle]

It's not the fact that the Chisox tried the Braves strategy that caused their downfall, it was absolutely rotten execution. Tony La Russa is no Brian Snitker, Rick Hahn is most certainly no Alex Anthopolous, and most importantly, the Braves aren't saddled with a geriatric owner like Reinsdorf.

A lot of people seem to take issue with the fact that the Braves are owned by Liberty Media since they themselves don't spend much on the Braves, but LM also doesn't really get tangled with team affairs. The ones in the organization with real power are Terry McGuirk and Alex Anthopolous, the baseball people.

Alex in particular is an avid scouter, and knows exactly who he wants and when. Even when nobody else considers the moves he makes, he does his homework and gets the exact guy who will fit right in with the program.

There's also Snitker and the coaching staff he's surrounded with. They're rock stars, and in Snitker's case, the players would do just about anything for him. He keeps the vibes immaculate and is a calm, stabilizing presence where La Russa was simply a lightning rod for controversy.

Atlanta is known for having best in the business scouting, coaching, and a reputation for success. The Chisox don't come close in terms of approach. They may have attempted to emulate Atlanta's secret formula, but they simply don't have the right mindset as long as Reinsdorf is the one holding the reins of power.

[devinmorrison]

Rick Renteria deserved to see out that rebuild. I swear they would only play for him.

[platinumspike]

The similarities between the 2020-2022 White Sox to this years Red Sox organization is chilling to say the least. Signing young players early into their careers, front office not building on a solid core, injuries and inconsistency wracking the team; this could spell another Sox disaster. Hopefully the front office will learn from the mistakes of Chicago (Garrett Cooper and Dom Smith are a good start) and pull themselves out of the free fall they’re in.

[CrashPK]

Couple quick notes: Yermin was not a "star". After he unretired, he got a shot with the Giants and couldn't cut it even as a DH, let alone at catcher.
Also, Vaughnie isn't an OF; he's a 1B. They stuck him in RF because they had no one else out there, and had Jose Abreu still at 1B.

[ethanhybl]

Great video but you also failed to mention the that the Braves had several all star level vets on the roster and almost every year bring in a vet for a year or so to help the team. The Braves clubhouse vibe/chemistry is immaculate. Keeping Jesse Chavez, and Charlie Morton shows out important good guys on the team is. The on the field performance is a plus.

[tristonwebb]

9:21 a Braves team without injured Acuna, and injured and short staffed starting pitching etc. part of the braves success has been the constant depth and ability to get production out of a new or couple young guys each season when needed

[geraldZ]

The only thing I remember from the previous White Sox season was "Down goes Anderson" speaks to how almost nothing can be salvaged from that poor campaign.

At this decadent pace of the White Sox, I wouldn't be surprised if they finish the same or worse than Oakland, and the latter is currently third in its division, something very surprising.

[thatguy]

Somehow failed to mention the biggest culprit in this equation Jerry Reinsdorf

[truthteller]

I actually think if Hahn was allowed to be a full GM with complete operational control, he would’ve done great things.

He did some very good things and had some great ideas.

Unfortunately, numbnuts Kenny Williams was the President of the White Sox at that time and he still had control.

Also, Reinsdorf if notoriously cheap and didn’t allow him to go out and get certain pieces he needed.

The White Sox are a horribly run organization from top to bottom.

Also, Tony La Russa gets a lot of crap, but he was the least of their problems. He was right about Yermin Mercedes, and Mercedes is an idiot.

You don’t show up your opponents, because that team will eventually throw a 95mph baseball at your head.

[siberian]

Part of the problem is their core players like Kopech, Anderson, Moncada, Himenez, and Robert, could never stay healthy. On paper their batting lineup should have been a murders row. Instead, they’re all constantly injured and constantly missing games.

[Madskillsuniversity]

The Bulls and White Sox have been ruined by ONE MAN!

[Dodgers-swuk]

The difference was player development. The White Sox traded for their top farm they didn’t develop them. While the Braves and Dodgers both developed their talent. And because of that the Braves and Dodgers have had top farms for a 10 year stretch. One great batch of prospects isn’t enough to build what the Braves or Astros built, you need at least 2 and most likely 3 really good batches back to back to back

[Extinguisher]

Tony La Russa was an amazing manager, but those days ended before he arrived with the White Sox

[joeshmoe]

Jerry needs to sell sox and bulls. Literally identical teams in different leagues

[jonathanward]

Not only are teams trying to mimmick the Braves strategy, but now everyone is trying to build a year long complex like they did..

[GuyrillaBraun]

Can't devolep players while they're sitting in the trainers room with injury after injury. As someone who has watched the Sox for 30 years, they tend to always have one huge problem when it comes to prospects in the minors. They all play the same position, Sheets, Burger, and Vaughn are all 1B/DH players. They had this problem in the late 90's/early 2000's when every prospect was a corner outfielder, or the mid 2000's when everyone played 2nd or Short.
And they're never able to correctly leverage that depth in trades, and end up trading from thin positions like trading 2nd baseman Nick Madrigal to the Cubs for Kimbrel when we already had signed Hendriks. (I know Madrigal was hurt at the time of the trade, so maybe not the best example.)
I don't think the execution of extending players was bad either, 6yr/$43M for Eloy is not a ton of money.
We were a team that was loaded with talent and had a lot of things going right.
Unfortunately, our owner is Jerry Reinsdorf, who is extremely loyal to relics of the past and feels the need to hire his old friends for prominent positions.
Yermin wasn't a "star player", but he was playing like a star for us, and he had his confidence shattered and was publicly called out and admonished by the person on the team whose job is to look out for his players and back his players. LaRussa was ill-fit to manage a team in the year 2021, and showed often that he didn't understand baseball or the players who played the game any more.
The Sox as a franchise fumbled the bag a few times in this stretch, but it was all being fumbled away daily by the dinosaur owner and the dinosaur manager.
Also somebody should go see if anyone on the Sox training staff has a medical license, because they gotta be doing something wrong with those players.

[Jaguar]

I remember thinking when they fired Renteria that it would be their undoing, I didn't actually think it would happen this badly though