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This is the "Yoan Moncada one more night in eastern Indiana" plan. Not really but you know that mofo was always advocating for it. Probably asked Manfred to schedule the Braves.

And they’re also less of a threat if they beat up on the Guardians, etc

The flight to MIN is currently scheduled for tomorrow afternoon, so that's an extra sleep at home, no rush in the morning, and wheels down before 5pm leaving plenty of time to get your stuff to the hotel and find somewhere nice for dinner.

Hays as a Padre: 26 plate appearances, .250/.308/.375 (.683 ops). 1 extra base hit, this home run from two weeks ago. Grichuk over roughly the same time period: 40 plate appearances, .375/.375/.725 (1.100 ops). 10 extra base hits, 2 home runs. Don't think we're missing out on Hays. Imagine if we kept and played Hays and Gonzalez, this team would not be in first place.

Yes, one of the factors that hasn't been discussed enough is that it's not just about the size of the lead, it's the number of teams chasing you. For a long time it was three, which is a lot and virtually guarantees that somebody from the field is going to make a run. I'm hopeful that our sweep began the process of knocking the Tigers out; that's one down. I'd like to knock Minnesota out next. Then it's a one-on-one battle against Cleveland where we control our own destiny.

He sure has a smooth swing.

Tigers lost, helps our playoff chances fractionally. All adds up.

Dude, be real. If the white sox won 6 titles in the 90s there would absolutely be people and corporations who had those seats and would refuse to sell. You are a season ticket holder who endured the prior 3 seasons of 300 plus losses and questioning another fanbases commitment lmao

Bonemer doesn't have a true RF arm like Braden...but probably beats him out in sprint speed. The problem is you can lose a ton of balls in center with slower first 2-3 steps. And then there's instincts/routes. Bonemer looks a lot more compact athletically. For every Mike Trout, there's 8-10 long loping stride guys who just eat up ground in center making recoveries/adjustments.

I'm a White Sox season ticket holder. I've been one for many years. The White Sox are the cheapest sports team to go see in Chicago. You're not going to go broke going to a White Sox game. The Bulls, Cubs, Bears and Blackhawks are much more expensive than the White Sox. If the prices at a White Sox game were as expensive as the Bulls I would stop going. I'm in a season ticket parking package at the Rate which comes out to $18 a game. I'm told the Cubs parking lot on Grace street is $65.00. The White Sox have numerous discount deals for their fans. The Tuesday night $5 food night is a tremendous deal and a success. You can't buy anything for $5 at a Bulls game. The Bulls are a goldmine.The NBA is so popular that its isn't very hard to sell 20,000 tickets a game in a metro of 9 million people. The Bulls are making more money now than what they did during the Jordan years. They don't have to put out a good product anymore to sell tickets.

Win tonight. Win the series. All is good!

Seems like it, but there's no rush here being so close relatively with an off day. I wonder if the players decide when to leave in a situation like this or if it's management. Maybe a bit of both?

Don't most teams travel immediately after the game ?

Theres also not a single guy on the team that I’m comfortable with saying that yeah they’ll be solid at that position for the next 2-3 years. Some of them will be, some won’t. They need time to sort that all out Vargas is closest, I guess? But even he’s still a bit unknown, and at what position?

Statcast has him 88th percentile defender and FGs has him 9.6 RAA. His defense is the least of my worries. He's going to have like a 2.5 fWAR season at age 24. He's fine. He's in a slump. It happens. Look at Cal fucking Raleigh.

I really hope he changes his approach soon. Currently, if he isn't hitting HR at a high clip, he's kind of worthless as a player. His dWAR is now 0.1 in 2026. Intangibly, his high K rate hurts us in SF and PO situations. His walk rate isn't nearly high enough to compensate for the K rate. I'm really worried he's going to be exploited out of the league in a not-dissimilar-to-Daniel Palka kind of way (shudder)

I think if we had sat there and said, ok add Mason Miller, Tarik Skubal, Adley Ruschman and Casey Mize, spent essentially our top 15 prospects of non-26 drafted guys to do it, I still am not sure I would have put us in that top level of teams, and at that cost, we give up a lot of reinforcements for 27-30. I get feeling it isn't worth it.

I think trading away Tatis, Semien and Bassitt for basically nothing broke Sox fan brains because the prospects traded at the deadline seldom amount to anything. I'd be shocked if Mason Adams becomes anything more than a decent long reliever. It should absolutely tell you something that the Sox are desperate for starting pitching and they still decided to trade him. All of their acquisitions were acquired with the future (draft pick - Gonzalez has been terrible since the trade) and next year (Brazoban, Castillo, Doyle) in mind as well. They didn't think going all in this year was wise given what they needed and what they had in the minors to go get it. I think that's the right call. This isn't saying you shouldn't be able to criticize what they've done either. I get grabbing Doyle and Brazoban. If they can get a decent platoon partner for Peters from Doyle that's a huge win. Just from defense alone you're looking at 2+ WAR from CF with those two, even if Peters's offense regresses. Brazoban hopefully returns from injury able to not give up a run every outing. Castillo I sure hope they can help him figure something out, and that's not a move I would've made, but I guess I see the rationale. Boston Smith is also likely a backup catcher at best, if he even sticks there, so I doubt they gave up much of anything.

Precisely. I don’t think the approach reflected arrogance but caution and a pragmatic acceptance that this fun, way-ahead-of-schedule team is far from a legitimate World Series contender.

The easiest thing to do would be to put Bonemer in RF, Montgomery in CF, and Peters in LF. But they’re not doing that for a reason. Whats the reason? IDK. All I can come up with is that they see something there.

Ron Kittle hit 40 something in one season, and 50 the next before his call up in 82.

When you look at how Montgomery, Antonacci, Murakami, and (prior to the last week or so) Peter’s have been preforming, it only further justifies not going nuts at deadline imo. if those guys were all still clicking and they were losing games 11-10 I’d get it.

It might be, but I have to wonder if it's partly just a way to make him (and maybe themselves) feel like they are keeping him in a premium position. I'm not that optimistic that even if he has a natural knack for the outfield, that he'd actually do a good job for a CF even if he might do decently in the corners. At least on the timeline that we hope his bat pushes to MLB. My own projection (which counts for nothing!) is that he's probably going to land in the corner OF until I get further info. So if he looks like not-a-disaster in CF, we're on track.

I do think looking at us versus the other contenders, it is reasonable to think that GetzCo looked at us vs the others and thought of how hard it would be to bridge the gap to be World Series level versus just backing into the playoffs and to decide that it wasn't worth what he would give up in the next few years to get there. I would agree with that sentiment.

Putting him in CF instead of a corner spot would suggest that he’s shown them he can potentially handle the transition, and have a decent chance stick there. The last thing you want to do is to jerk around your (until further notice) top prospect from position to position.