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Fine, he should honestly never play any OF position...period. See his defensive numbers for mostly LF play. He's worse than Pollock and arguably worse than Vaughn/Sheets. He's strictly a DH at this point in his career. He made me pine for Jurickson Profar in LF. https://www.fangraphs.com/players/tommy-pham/2967/stats?position=OF

Pham should NEVER play CF.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/caitlin-clark-sign-28-million-212155232.html $28 million, 8 year deal with Nike about to be signed...blows the Ice Cube 3 on 3 baller league $5 million offer out of the water. Joins Ionescu, Stewart and Ellena Delle Donne as the only WNBA players (obviously, all four are white, in a majority African-American sports league) to get own signature/exclusive shoe deals.

https://sports.yahoo.com/brewers-starting-pitching-depth-takes-172957262.html Brewers still trucking along even with DL Hall (shocker, I know) out now...amazing how resilient (and deep) that front office and overall organization has been, now without the leadership of David Stearns going into its second year.

How did you make that cool to the 8th power thingie? Harold's been noticeably quiet, except in the 2024 draft thread...I guess it's easier to "dream on" pretty much any amateur players (especially on the offensive side) before they get permanently screwed up by this organization.

Paul Sullivan, April 12th.....Sox record at 2-10 https://sports.yahoo.com/column-deja-vu-again-manager-110000063.html Reinsdorf seemingly has a soft spot for Grifol, who readily has accepted having former manager Tony La Russa around as an adviser, bowing to the owner’s wishes. When Grifol was asked in September about the possibility of turning the team around quickly, he said he expected Reinsdorf to make the effort in the offseason to try to win immediately. Then he issued a caveat. “Nobody wants to hear the talk anymore,” Grifol said. “Everybody just wants to see us win. I’m not going to sit here and promise anything because nobody wants to hear it. “They’ve heard it for a long, long time. It’s about us winning baseball games. Until April, a couple weeks into April, a couple of weeks into the season, that’s when everybody should have an opinion and make a decision whether they like what we put on the field or not.” Here we are, a couple of weeks into April, and yes, everyone seemingly has an opinion about if they like what the Sox have put on the field. Most of those opinions, however, are unprintable. Even for rebuilds, the talent level is sparse. Making matters worse, fans have grown increasingly tired of Grifol’s platitudes, such as the remark he made in Cleveland on Tuesday that “the ball hasn’t bounced our way.” He seems to think Sox fans are going to buy into this line of thinking when anyone can see the team was not constructed to win in 2024. Perhaps Grifol has spent too much time listening to new team broadcaster John Schriffen, who said last week that every team needs a Bryan Shaw, a 36-year-old reliever currently sporting a 9.00 ERA. Sox fans beg to differ.

The use of AI isn't limited to strategy. It's also revolutionizing how teams manage player health and performance. For example, wearable technology equipped with AI capabilities allows teams to monitor players' physical condition in real-time. This tech provides insights into a player's fatigue levels, stress, and risk of injury, enabling coaches to make informed decisions about rest days and training intensity. Consider the Los Angeles Dodgers, they are a team leveraging AI for injury prevention. They use motion capture technology combined with AI analysis to study players' movements, identifying potential injury risks before they become problematic. This proactive approach to player health not only enhances performance but also extends careers. Scouting and recruitment have been transformed by AI as well. The ability to analyze vast amounts of data on players, from their in-game performance to their physical attributes, has made the scouting process more precise and efficient. AI algorithms can identify patterns and potential in players that might be overlooked by the human eye, giving teams a competitive edge in finding the next big star. For example, the Chicago Cubs, known for their innovative approaches, have been using AI to revolutionize their scouting process. By analyzing data from college and minor league games, they can identify promising players earlier and more accurately than ever before. https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilsahota/2024/02/23/swing-into-the-future-ai-is-changing-baseball-and-leaving-fans-stunned/?sh=1ef8cbd0b46e

https://www.si.com/fannation/mlb/fastball/news/what-has-happened-to-the-chicago-white-sox-and-how-did-they-get-so-bad Entering play on Monday, the Chicago White Sox are a Major League-worst 3-18, but just a few years ago, they looked like they were ready to take the league by storm. What's happened? Furthermore, when teams rebuild, we ask them to not only play with prospects, we ask them to spend. The White Sox did, spending money on free agents Yasmani Grandal (an All-Star) and Dallas Keuchel (a Cy Young winner). They went and spent big on Liam Hendriks, an All-Star closer, before the 2021 season. They brought in Lance Lynn in a trade with the Rangers before the 2021 season, and then extended him. They added Joe Kelly before the 2022 season. They brought in Andrew Benintendi before 2023. They did everything that fans and pundits ask a team to do when they appear ready to win. In addition to developing prospects and spending in free agency, we ask teams to take care of their own. They did that too, inking Jimenez, Luis Robert Jr. and Anderson to long-term deals at young ages. These deals all looked like wins for the organization at the time. The question is what happened to this team full of potential that made two playoff appearances? Well, let's just start here: Lynn was dreadful in the 2023 season, going 6-9 with a 6.47 ERA before being traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers. He's now with the Cardinals. Keuchel was let go in the 2022 season and is currently in Triple-A. Kelly had an ERA over six in the 2022 season and had ERA near five in the 2023 season before also being dealt to the Dodgers. Lopez and Giolito were traded also during the 2023 season while Abreu was allowed to walk in free agency after 2022. Moncada, Robert Jr. and Jimenez are all still in the organization but all of them have spent considerable times on the injured list over the last three years. Anderson's numbers plummeted in 2023 and his team option was declined, so he signed with the Marlins this past offseason. Cease was traded to the San Diego Padres. There was also the stink of the Tony La Russa managerial tender, questions about in-fighting in the clubhouse, and GM Rick Hahn was fired. The White Sox are once again in a rebuild. They did everything right the first time, will things work out better this time around?

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Sorry...can't credit Pedro. Nicky Lopez. But you can't sever their lifelong Royals' Connection. (Should have included Nicky's name in the thread title in order to avoid confusion lol.) Definitely sounds like a Pedro-ism.

https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/white-sox-pick-up-fourth-straight-loss-in-series-opener “Today we got our ass kicked. You go home and you reflect and tomorrow is a new day. You can only learn from today and then tomorrow you start the day and that’s it. This day is over,” Grifol said. “If you start mentally crushing yourself on what’s going on or what’s happened or our record or what I’m hitting, it’s going to get even worse. “You have to start fresh every single day. How else are you going to do it? You can reflect, but you reflect to learn. You don’t reflect to live in that negativity space where it will just continue to crush you if you can’t flush it.” “We can’t deny what’s happening. Our record sucks,” Grifol said. “But what are you going to do about it? We have to come tomorrow and get ready to play. You have to forget about today. Learn and move on.” “You've got to just keep attacking. You can't get these back. They're in the past. You've got to just keep moving on,” said White Sox second baseman Nicky Lopez, who had two of the team’s eight hits. “Take it one day at a time. Try to regroup. “This game has a way to beat you down and get slapped in the face, but it's a game of adjustments too. You've got to just keep coming every single day with a positive attitude and hopefully at the end you're where you want to be. But it's easier said than done. A lot of people sometimes struggle with it, the mindset thing."

https://www.mlb.com/news/dylan-cease-holds-rockies-to-1-hit-in-7-innings

Disasters resent being connected to Moncada. Personal or natural.

Broom guy with the hat?

Probably holds Boyer and him responsible for kicking him out of Sox Ambassador's role due to negativity/honesty.