It Appears Chicago White Sox GM Chris Getz Traded For Luisangel Acuña Under The Impression He Was a Switch Hitter (He Is Not a Switch Hitter)

I'm not the biggest baseball fan in the world. I haven't claimed to be a baseball ball-knower since I was about 12-years old. But this can't be a good thing. From what I know about the Chicago White Sox in recent years (that they've stunk at baseball), this all seems perfectly/sadly on brand for that franchise. For the love of god White Sox Dave. Shoot your man a text and let him know – Luisangel Acuña is NOT a switch hitter. 

Please. Do it now. He's probably on his way to an interview right now to gush over your namesake's brand new non-switch hitting prospect for his switch hitting abilities. 

As Sam Phalen states in his tweet, four different times is not an accident. Somebody sold this man a bill of goods that simply isn't true. Or he mistakenly watched some Luisangel Acuña highlights with his computer screen in... mirror mode or something. 

If Luisangel winds up being as good as his brother, his lack of switch hitting won't matter in the least. But if trading Luis Robert for a young up-and-coming switch hitter who can't switch hit isn't an indictment on your GM's competence, I don't know what is. And what's probably the biggest indictment on the current state of the Chicago White Sox isn't the fact that Chris Getz fucked up. It's that he's got nobody in his circle close enough to stop him from doing it three more times.

If a good GM in a competent organization makes that mistake in an interview, his right hand man corrects him immediately, he never makes the mistake again, and the world chalks it up as a misspeak. But not Chris Getz. Not the Chicago White Sox. The good folks in the White Sox organization seem to be perfectly content to let their GM utter the same embarrassing mistake into a microphone time and time and time and time again.

Or maybe Chris Getz knows something we don't. Maybe Luisangel Acuña is about to step up to the left side of the plate this season and take a Paul Skenes fastball over the right field fence. Maybe Chris Getz will have the last laugh. But considering he's employed by the Chicago White Sox, I highly doubt it.