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B+ The White Sox got markedly better without sacrificing the future; that's a win in our book. It has been an unexpectedly stellar season on the South Side, one that has pushed the Pale Hose into contention well ahead of schedule. But GM Chris Getz and Co. didn't get over their skis and do anything reckless. No, this was a reasonably aggressive deadline performance. Taking on Castillo's contract makes sense, given the club's relatively small payroll. He's not what he once was but remains a competent back-end starter with experience to impart. Brazobán and Doyle provide some depth. Nothing Earth-shattering here, but this is a nice series of moves for the Sox as they attempt to finish off what would be a shocking division title. yahoo.com/sports

Days off are sooooooooooooooooooooo looooooooooooooooooooooooong

Really wish they were holding him off until Cleveland 🤬

LETS KICK THE DOG DAYS OF AUGUST OFF RIGHT IN THE PANTS! GO SOX!!!!

Feels like we have been off a week. Time to play ball.

Massive financial risk? GTFO. You're adding 26 million or so over two years. There isn't a chance his vesting option hits and in the world where he pitches 180+ innings it probably would be a tradeable deal. For all we know the salary floor will be implemented and we need to add another 50 million for 2027.

According to Spotrac it's $78,250,000 for just 6 guys though but they're not counting Brozaban, Doyle and Bart. Hays has an $8 mutual option so likely minus that . So it's likely with who's here at the end of the season and a lot of guys pre Arb , might be looking at close to $100M. The 6 players are Castillo Murakami Benintendi Hicks Hays Kay

Castillo won’t pitch against Cleveland. He’s pitching in the third game of the Boston series.

Yeah we say that every year and then they make the playoffs every year. I'll only not be worried about them when we finish the season in first or in a WC spot.

Just fantastic. Feel like Cleveland got Griffin because our struggles with lefties

Might see Bart today also but he's much better against RHP so reverse splits this year.

Doyle seems to have the physical talent to be a good-to-great player and has played at a reasonably high level before. But you have got to squint way too hard at the numbers to find a data-based case for why he's actually been playing well or was clearly about to start playing well. If he does well for the Sox, I'm 100% chalking it up to coaching and not that the breakout was clearly inevitable.

I have no idea why this is even a discussion, like I get people have to find something to still nitpick when the team is good, but come on. Both Quero and Romo suck really, really bad. Quero is only better because he's still really young and maybe has potential, so the Sox want Quero to play every day and work on stuff in a lower pressure environment to see if he can still be anything. Romo is gone once Teel comes back, and is likely barely going to play because Bart isn't good either but he's light years better than the 4th worst catching tandem in the history of baseball.

4-3 to start this massive 13 game stretch against the AL's best. 6 to go. Win this series in Fenway and sweep Cleveland. Yeah, I'm greedy, but it's time for this team to start flexing some muscle and start rolling into the playoffs. I want BLOOD!

I would assume that is his point.

Agreed. But if Ray Ray is going to call people out on cherry picking time periods, then he shouldn’t be doing the same.

It is a valid answer to subtracting and excusing all of the bad periods to make him look as good as possible.

Cle doesn't scare me at all. -16 RD, middling offense at best. They will probably win around 84 games. We just need to win 86.

To be fair, it's not that hard to make him look bad. I actually chose the date because he matched Quero over that same time frame so it seemed more relatable. Lazy stats work from me in this one where I told the story before I validated the data.

I want to see him become Prime Jon Dowd

I wasn’t asking you because I was trying to defend Doyle. I was asking because it seemed obvious you chose September 1 because it made Doyle look as bad as possible, which I think you are willing to admit with your “bully” comment.

When you're an organization that isn't a big spender, the only way to sustain success is to win shares of value in the majority of your moves. Every time you release a Derek Hill and then trade for a Brenton Doyle with 2 prospects a month later, you've lost value and set yourself back. These moves add up fast too. And you're correct, although had I known we were going to throw Ant in left I wouldn't have said the worst since Ant is like a life raft for the group, lifting them all up. I still don't believe in Peters at all, but sometimes things go your way and that's awesome!

I'm a bully, but if you start at August 1st he moves all the way up to 177 of 184 outfielders with 50+ PA's. Moving up!!

If you had 1.6 bWAR for Derek Hill on your bingo card go ahead and collect. Again, having good players on the fringe of the roster is good, not bad. You and I agreed we probably had the worst outfield on paper in MLB back in spring, how did that work out for everybody? Just let'em cook for now.

Gigantor, anyone remember ? Was early Japanese anime on WGN show Rocket To Adventure hosted by Ray Rayner wearing an astronaut suit. If I had remembered this earlier I would've called Murakami Gigantor !