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10 minutes ago, TheBooneLoganEra said:
In any other organization yes. I would have no doubt it'd be coming soon.
Gene Lamont was 11 - 20 in 1995 with a career .551 winning percentage when he was fired. There is no logic, consistency, competency, desire, or pride here. Just pure failure.
Unless I’m just misremembering, that would be the last White Sox manager to be legit fired in season. Almost 30 years ago.
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10 minutes ago, joejoesox said:
Grifol's time is short. 8th shutout in 22 games
2003 Tigers vs 2024 White Sox
3-19 vs 3-19
43-112 (-69 RD) vs 45-123 (-78 RD)
6 Shut Outs vs 8 Shut Outs
You can’t allow this to go on, even if the roster is ass. Something needs to be done to try and shake this up. It was funny for a while but now it’s really starting to look like this team won’t win 40 games. JR is a bad owner, but I don’t think even he can allow this to continue for too much longer.
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8 minutes ago, tjp1684 said:
Dejong. He’s hitting .256 with 3 HRs and 4 2Bs. Sadly, people aren’t getting on when he’s notching XBHs. He isn’t lighting the world on fire, but he was a .226 hitter last year with 14 HR.
He’s probably over 40% on his K rate after tonight, he’s not good.
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1 minute ago, caulfield12 said:
FIVE came from the Braves...one of the very best organizations in baseball.
That hasn't seemed to help very much.
Yes, 5 players the Braves would have most likely just straight up let go if the Sox hadn’t swooped in to claim their garbage.
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What a terrible singles only offense
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Just now, fathom said:
Wow, I have watched the last few minutes. Is Stone always this full of crap now?
Yes, pretty much
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Just now, TitoMB345 said:
home boy crushed that one, goodness.
No s%*#, I thought that was just a pop up to RF
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This 12th ranked bullpen gettin it done baby
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2 minutes ago, TitoMB345 said:
Oooooh this makes way more sense lmfao also why it's triggering my dog.
lol don’t feel bad, my wife actually pointed it out to me too. I was like why the f*** do they keep playing that noise.
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1 minute ago, chitownsportsfan said:
Bro literally my first day of offseason BP frosh year of DIII the coach was like "you're never gonna hit for any power with that load".
You watch a lot of other teams and they have guys selling out with huge leg kicks and loads and here our guys are looking to slap a grounder into the hole opposite way.
There’s no way that was the actual story, it’s basic swing instruction and if it took a coach seeing him swing a golf club to be like wow maybe you should load in your swing like that, eh never mind that checks out for our development prowess.
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Just now, TitoMB345 said:
Do the Twins have the most troll PA announcer/sound effecter ever?
It’s for the dogs
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I’m somewhat stunned that Mendick was instructed “hey why don’t you load up like that with your baseball swing” to get more power. This is like basic hitting instruction and they just made it seem like it was some shocking revelation.
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3 minutes ago, fathom said:
Sadly sounds like there’s no shot
You don’t need to be an insider to see that there is no way Grifol isn’t fired, and soon, if this keeps up. You can’t let this run all season.
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This roster just flat out sucks. Aside from the underperformers that have been here, every single Getz signing or trade is fucking terrible.
Even if they had to cut payroll, there’s no way this was the best that could be done. It’s ridiculous.
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4 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:
vaughn once again just awful.
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Geez even Carlos Santana is going to get back on track facing these guys
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The Twins are a bad team, that’a how far away the Sox are from just being a bad team. This is going to be the most brutal season I have ever witnessed.
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4 minutes ago, fathom said:
Did Lopez win a contest to bat leadoff? I don’t get it at all.
I mean honestly, it’s not like there’s a better option anyways
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lol series set up “Sox bullpen has been 12th best in MLB”. Yikes, that’s our best thing going for us??
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1 minute ago, chitownsportsfan said:
It's wild how a 650 OPS is like a 90 wRC+ now and for a utility guy is probably above league average .
Well in a perfect world he wouldn't get to see much playing time and you can mask his inefficiencies. In the 2024 White Sox world hes probably going to start 100+ games and bat 5th and its going to be a disaster.
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Just now, chitownsportsfan said:
Utility player that won't produce negative WAR if a starter goes down for a couple months. Before the ACL, that looked to be about what he was. It's no secret but Chicago hasn't been able to produce 1 WAR utility guys for decades. Other teams seem to do a bang up job but we either bring up black holes or we sign overpaid vets that can't even putup 1 WAR in any role.
Yeah I was just looking at it again, and I think I would agree with that. In today's game, if he can play 2B, SS, and 3B and be a decent baserunner with a little pop he is probably useful as a depth guy.
He would really need to be in that .650 and up OPS range though.
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Just now, chitownsportsfan said:
It's hard to prove but I think his true talent before the injury had jumped to around a 2 WAR player. I could totally be wrong and he's just a middling utility guy but we'll see. He's still young enough to where he could have a nice few years.
My counter point to this is he had a .352 BABIP in his 97 AB's in 2022. So not exactly a lot to put stock into him being an actual good player. Also, what about last season when he was equally as bad as he had been in his chances prior?
I just want to know what would be considered a developmental success. Just making it to the show? That can't be it.
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47 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:
I love Danny. A rare Sox development success story. If some clown ass in the outfield didn't take his ACL out he might have been a decent 2 WAR starter for us and not had to have grinded out rehab and then roster fringes the last two years.
It looks like he has discovered that launch angle is important. Maybe he can open the eyes of some of our other guys.
Im not looking to start any arguments here, genuinely just asking, but what makes Danny Mendick a development success story? Hes a 30 year old middle infielder with 0.4 career WAR. He owns a career slash line of .242 / .298 / .652.
He sucks. What is the criteria for being a successful development?
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47 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:
I don't see a realistic scenario where we can get enough talent to the majors in 4 years to help Luis Robert be on a playoff team unless we trade Luis Robert to a playoff team soon and clean up.
This is the sad reality.
Unless they spend big money on actual quality free agents and we hit on a lot of these prospects that are getting close, there is no scenario where this team is in a competitive window while Luis Robert is still under contract.
Even if the unlikely happens and this team is competitive again in 2026, Luis Robert will almost surely be a big part of that reason and he will then be knocking on the FA door of a massive contract that we certainly wont be paying.
My ideal scenario is he comes back healthy this season, finishes strong, and then is traded in the off-season for the best package you can get. Worst case, by the deadline next season.
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Kopech is getting traded by the deadline and it feels like a certainty he’s a lights out reliever or a competent starter for whoever gets him.