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Nice. Was also Jason Benetti’s shining moment with us. “Thanks Cubs!”

I question whether Pham is being treated unfairly due to his ethnicity/skin color. Surely, the media has better things to write about rather than target a part-time player for some off the field stuff. Certainly, other (white) players have done similar or even more unforgivable things than what Pham is being called out for.

I found it interesting just how similar he is to Luke Keaschall. They're like the same player except on opposite sides of the plate (and field). I honestly think Sam just needs to DH and he can spot start in the OF or 2B to give regulars a breather. His offensive value and base running are good enough that he should still be around a league average DH without hurting you too badly on defense.

Which is where Fuller came from. Long term I just do not like their hitting philosophy.

I'm not going to lie, the parallels to the Orioles recent stretch up and down does scare me.

I would argue this was much more than a 7 game stretch when it comes to guys like Colson and Mune. That is severely underplaying the disaster that was their second half. Nothing about the playoffs was misrepresentative of what we saw a lot of in the rest of this season.

Yet his month in Chicago was bad enough to get a full write up and mention in a season ending article.

Probably too much to give up for this lower payroll team.

What about... two... Montgomerys?

Probably the Angels.

Setting strikeout records is a whole different level, and it wasn’t just the playoffs. But you already knew this.

I'm a big fan of dismissing a 162 game sample in favor of just looking the last 3 games of a 5 game set, too. It's what all the cool kids are doing these days. Smoking is out, contrarianism is in.

A King, Burke, Detmers trio is pretty solid. Could Billy Carlson, Kay, and Schultz get Detmers?

The season to me trended like 2021. As the year progressed the team continually back tracked. The last two games of the playoffs were awful but the writing was on the wall in August in September that things were not going as planned. How nothing was done with Colson Montgomery to address the fact he was about set the all time record was concerning.

Reid Detmers for one of Montgomery's. Who says no?

I just can’t imagine how much Detmers will cost now. Angels played that perfectly. Bonemer plus for him would be the cost.

I would prioritize signing Michael King and rekindle trade talks for Reid Detmers.

I also forgot to mention Mune falling apart like Colson. It wasn’t just the playoffs.

The players failed for sure. They scored enough to win game 4 and the pitching failed. If they struck out 75 times and moved on because someone hit a 3 run homer on Saturday, it wouldn't matter as much how the outs were made. I wouldn't make any sweeping decisions based on the the playoffs though.

No, but setting records for strikeout futility in the biggest games of your season doesn’t prove to me that anything is truly fixed. Colson absolutely falling apart and Braden not doing much are other factors.

Would you make wholesale changes due to a 7 game sample in May, June or July?

Proof is in the pudding — absolutely no one likes Schriffen.

Left-handed power was a huge reason for the White Sox success. They led the AL in walks, hit 211 homers and led in runs scored and fangraphs WAR. I don't know how they replace the left-handed power if they get rid of Montgomery and/or Murakami. Sam shouldn't be in LF full time but Meidroth is ones of the best 2B in the sport and moving him to shortstop would be a mistake. I'm not expecting major changes to the offense.

Also, Ant is basically a younger Brendan Donovan. Less power, more steals

The irony of the Pham situation is everyone in the media loved it when he yelled at Schriffen, but they act like he’s the worst person ever if he gets mad at anyone else.