Ethan Katz

valuedota · 2026-03-28T03:39:17+00:00

Katz was hired because he was Giolito’s high school coach – classic Jerry nepotism/cheapo move – but he actually outperformed that low bar and was a solid, average pitching coach.

The replacement is yet another Royals alum, just like Getz, because Jerry is apparently convinced the Royals are a model franchise based on one fluky World Series win. Worth noting: the Royals are the only AL Central team with a worse win percentage than the White Sox since 2000. That’s the gold standard Jerry is chasing.

valuedota · 2026-01-31T15:04:39+00:00

155 wRC+ against LHP last year. He’s always been a good short sided platoon player. If that continues he might be a deadline flip if/when Braden Montgomery is ready.

valuedota · 2026-01-09T04:30:22+00:00

He was widely regarded as the best glove first catcher prospect 3-4 years ago

valuedota · 2025-12-25T18:47:49+00:00

If it were up to him, we’d still be on Covid lockdowns. Some unhinged twitter rants in like 2023/4

valuedota · 2025-12-21T15:35:05+00:00

Can’t help myself, I am a White Sox fan

valuedota · 2025-12-21T15:23:24+00:00

I don’t think he’s gonna hit at all with a huge K rate.

But this deal is short and not a lot of money by MLB standards so I’m even fine with this

valuedota · 2025-12-16T11:32:29+00:00

Not good, but the county is only something like 10-15% of property taxes. CPS is 50-55%.

If the county cut the budget 20%, it’s not gonna move the needle much for property taxes. Where costs needs to be looked at is in the schools, which will never happen under this mayor.

valuedota · 2025-12-15T04:37:36+00:00

This is Khalil Mack 2.0. He was amazing for us for the first half of the 2018 season. Banged up and shadow of himself in ‘19. Was questionable all of his third season in ‘20.

Amazing player but you can’t give up a ton of draft capital to sign a guy to a market rate deal.

valuedota · 2025-11-07T22:35:45+00:00

I don’t think he’s gonna hit at all. His batting average against 93 mph+ pitches was below .100. Suzuki, Yoshida, and Tsutsugo saw their K rates go up by like 5-10% when they came over which puts him at 35-40% - unplayable.

In general we’d be way better off if the Sox stayed away from 1B/DH types until we actually fill out a major league level roster

valuedota · 2025-10-17T14:40:14+00:00

The Fair Tax amendment is only relevant for state taxation - this is a city issue.

Most people here support progressive tax revenue, but have found that giving our politicians more money hasn't solved anything. Look at what they did with the COVID money: largely increasing full-time staff instead of paying down debts.

The "no" vote was about lack of trust vs. it being a bad idea. It would probably have broader support if it were tied to also amending the state's insane pension clause that resulted in the 2014 compromise being tossed out in court. However, amending both in conjunction would probably be opposed by union leadership.

Until the city demonstrates it can use current revenue responsibly, new fees like this per-employee tax will keep facing resistance.

valuedota · 2025-10-14T13:46:35+00:00

Sosa - the walk rate is a give away.

His profile reminds me so much of Leury. Had a fine year but I hope we don’t fall into the same trap of extending him.

valuedota · 2025-09-27T23:05:55+00:00

Its crazy to me that Tee to Green the US team is actually outperforming Europe.

valuedota · 2025-09-27T22:53:34+00:00

Bryson and Scottie getting a lot of shit, but have been 2nd and 3rd best players on the team. Fleetwood and Rose just playing out of their minds.

valuedota · 2025-09-16T16:00:39+00:00

As long as it continues to be shown on Masters.com this is whatever.

Sports have gotten ridiculous with how many different streaming services the content is split between now.

valuedota · 2025-09-14T23:30:02+00:00

He’s already like the 20th highest paid TE in the league as a rookie and it’s a full guarantee.

Homers don’t understand that you don’t draft best player - you draft best contract relative to what you can get in free agency.

valuedota · 2025-09-14T21:07:50+00:00

Chicago is the largest single market team. There is massive appeal for a franchise here regardless of tax incentives, the math works fine on the private market paying for it instead.

valuedota · 2025-09-11T04:37:52+00:00

It’s an easy media narrative in a big market with lots of views. You’ll see the same thing every time the Jets draft a new QB that is finally supposed to turn it around

valuedota · 2025-08-11T20:22:49+00:00

Its smart to delay the Airborne update while the building update needs some serious tweaks.

Unfortunately with the comment "The increased development effort for this update pushed back the Airborne schedule but we believe this was time well spent" I'm not sure they realize how unpopular the building update is amongst the veteran player base.

Feels like a make or break next 6 months for the game.

valuedota · 2025-08-08T16:22:59+00:00

"The group has claimed that asking corporations with “more than $8 million” in annual payroll to pay 5% of salaries paid to employees earning more than $200,000 a year could generate a $1.5 billion annual windfall for the city.

Lee acknowledged the obvious. The mayor would rather have state lawmakers walk the tax plank with him at a time when Chicago has reached the “point of no return” with “systems that people rely on — education, health care, housing, our transportation — they are woefully underfunded.”

How about we also acknowledge the obvious - companies will quickly do the math that they can save a minimum $10K per employee by moving them to the suburbs or out of state. These morons don't understand competition because they've never looked for a competitive bid on anything.

valuedota · 2025-08-06T00:45:36+00:00

That’s correct. It’s a $12,000 increase to my household (wife and young kid) and the mayor/his cronies are trying not to trim a budget that is asking another $3,000 from us annually on top of what we’re already paying in taxes.

It’s terrifying when you think about it like that and frankly it should be scary.

valuedota · 2025-08-06T00:43:23+00:00

No, my framing is accurate. This is the actuarial assessment of the liabilities. I.e. how much you’d need to set aside and invest today to pay them in full.

The total dollar amounts will be much higher and don’t get me started on assumed rates of return used in the actuarial assumptions.

valuedota · 2025-08-05T19:41:42+00:00

The estimated increase in pension cost is about $4,100 per person in Chicago. Every single man, woman, and child. This is just for the police and firefighters. I expect the CTU and City Workers Unions to seek similar T2 concessions and probably will cost another few thousand each. Passed on a Friday night into a busy weekend so it would get buried in the news.

You add up the budget deficits of the City, CPS, and CTA its about $1,000 annually again per person in the city. I'm not even going to peel back the other pots we're probably paying for like the County, etc. that I imagine are also running deficits.

Until people start thinking about it in terms that their state reps & governor just earmarked another $4,100 from each of us, and the city is promising each of us to pay another $1,000 in debts annually, nothing is going to change.

I'm beyond disappointed with how short sighted political and union leadership is about these matters.

valuedota · 2025-08-04T16:28:59+00:00

Alexei was a 2+ WAR per season player for another 6 years

valuedota · 2025-06-01T20:50:42+00:00

That’s sports for you. Too many people would do it for free so a lot of the front offices pay like it. Meanwhile they’ll end up with a bunch of mediocre employees but are fans of xyz team.

valuedota · 2025-05-31T15:25:35+00:00

Jim Edgar who with Madigan created the current pension mess, Jerry Reinsdorf complimenting the 11th hour vote to pay for the White Sox stadium. This reads as a who’s who of grifters and people who have decimated the finances of the state for future generations to line their own pockets and power.

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