this is worth a post of its own.

I know some of you don’t believe this guy, but I’ve got to link it. The plausibility factor is far too high to ignore.

our Latin stud 16 year old SS Juan Silverio is actually 20.5 years old, not 16.

Whoops.

Anderson Gomes was caught with PED’s after being in the Futures Game and Paulo Orlando’s hyped up speed is a myth. Both are Wilder’s “sign-and-collect” prospects.

Kenny’s relationship with Wilder is one of the big reasons that our farm system is shit…

BureauEmployee171 wrote:

Duane Schaffer is a very, very intelligent baseball mind. He was very, very responsible for a LOT of good times/players in ChiSox history – from Frank Thomas, Alex Fernandez, Jack McDowell, to Mark Buehrle, etc. He took a lot of hits behind the scenes from Wilder who eventually got the pull from a “good friend” to give him leverage over Schaffer.

About as bad as it gets, if in fact it is fact.

Cheat suggested this could involve money, document falsification, or PEDs. In fact, its got all three. I can’t wait for MLB to come down on the Sox organization for this. I would imagine stripping them of draft picks would be one possibility.

In any other organization I would think a scandal of this magnitude would result in the GM’s job being in question. I’m sure it’s not here.

But if BE171 is employed by the Sox, he should absolutely get canned for posting the details of the scandal. In his time posting on soxtalk the guy has repeatedly said the KW is an idiot, has divulged info that conceivably diminished the trade value of Sox prospects (Poreda) and has now leaked details of what is an ongoing criminal investigation that surely has legal ramifications for the organization. How does this guy have a job?It all shows incredibly poor judgment.

Link is removed on Front Office page, but his info page is still up.

http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/cws/team/exe_bios/wilder_david.html

Since Ken Williams took over as White Sox general manager following the 2000 season, his management style has remained consistent.

Ultimately, the success of the franchise and its depiction as an organization falls upon his shoulders, but Williams has never been one to micro-manage. He trusts in the people employed below him in the chain of command.

Following the termination of employment of David Wilder, the team’s senior director of player personnel, and two scouts prior to Friday’s Interleague opener in San Francisco, it would be easy for that trust shown by Williams to be destroyed. If nothing else, Williams’ belief system had to be challenged. Wilder and two scouts were dismissed for club policy and standards infractions in Latin American recruiting.

But Williams explained before the start of his team’s six-game homestand Tuesday how he hopes to follow the same business approach he always has used.

“I won’t say that it hasn’t taken me back a little bit,” said Williams of the dismissal of Wilder, his employee since November, 2003. “Yet, I’m a firm believer in a couple of things in our management style here.

“That’s to have an all-inclusive management style, meaning even some of the younger guys in the front office I bring into meetings and discuss various things. If you hire a farm director or scouting director, let them go out and do their jobs.

“This same sort of opportunity was afforded to me when I was a farm director, so it’s an easy thing for me to do. If you hire quality people, you don’t have to stand over their shoulder. We do have quality people in the organization.

“I’ll have to restructure some things a little bit, and I’ll probably have to use [director of player development Alan] Regier more on scouting, and to pick up the slack,” Williams added. “The answer to the question is I’ll continue to manage the one way I know how, but at the same time, I can’t deny [Wilder’s dismissal]. It is what it is.” ...

I know for a fact that BE’s initial story was vetted by the admins over at Soxtalk before his first post. Maybe Heads/Cross Cyed can chime in here… And while he could be using his built up internet cred to create a fantastical story, that fantastical story seems to pass the smell test. Plus I’ve just been assured that the Soxtalk team has done their homework once again as this story unfolds. I can’t say with 100% certainty that everything he’s written is true, but I’m as sure about it as one can be about info that initially appears on the internet.

if only I could come up with some high-round overdrafts out of California to support his story…

http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=64794&st=0&#entry1643573

As of today at 12:00 CT – (only about 9 people in the ENTIRE organization know this – but I’ll priviledge you all with the info. – and I don’t know when/if it will be made public since the front office is in utter turmoil):

Farm Director Alan Regier has been fired. He was Dave Wilder’s right-hand-man through all of this and PERSONALLY appointed by Kenny Williams & Wilder. This is GREAT NEWS!!! Outside of Wilder – Regier was the single most despised person by our entire staff. He was the one who made the “decisions” on who went where & when. Wilder was Regier’s “pimp” in that he hired Regier and told him where to put his players. The funny thing is – a Farm Director makes about 100K/season (not peanuts, but not extravagent either) and Regier was driving around in a 150+ K Porsche and wearing a 15 K watch with 500+ dollar shoes & belts. You don’t make that kind of money as a Farm Director.

Getting Wilder & Regier out – best news in a long time for the Sox system. Buddy Bell will now be taking over (if you remember, I told you all this was starting to churn out last fall when we were all brought in) and this should start a much better cycle of White Sox baseball from the inside out. It will take a couple years to get this all turned around with player development but this is much, much better news than anything I’ve personally heard and seen since arriving on the job.

Been trying to tell you guys what a big deal this has been since I first started the reports last fall when I said these guys you’re reading about are NOT PROSPECTS by ANY MEANS* I hope this is further proof that I have been 100% honest. I’m breaking this story to you before ANYONE has heard it – including many guys in the organization themselves.

Our staff, with Buddy, will get it turned around now & with full vigor.