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Fair enough. But Baldwin does lead the Southern League in batting, and OBP. He's third in OPS. And he has a very nice 19/25 bb/K ratio. There's nothing to indicate he's going to struggle as he goes up a level. Compare that to Elko and Veras whose bb/K ratios are 5/45 and 4/45 respectively.

Benni Vaughn and Eloy are a real murderer's row. I would clean house just to get rid of the smell.

Sean Burke got tattooed in ACL. 5 runs in 2/3 of an inning. Wolkow 2-2 with a walk.

"But what’s strange about this is how personal it seems to have gotten, especially with Schriffen’s “radio losers.” Criticism certainly can be tough to hear, and there’s undoubtedly a lot of frustration around the White Sox in general right now, but “radio losers” is quite the line to utter on a broadcast. And that then got quite the response from Riordan in particular. We’ll see where this goes from here." This is the kind of thing that Benetti might certainly THINK, but he would never utter it out loud. (Of course, in the pecking order of things, guys like Getz/Boyer/Hahn/JR/Stone would similarly look down on Jason in their own way as "lesser than them".) At any rate, this attitude comes across as incredibly arrogant...like Schiffren is so superior to the Chris Rongey's and Connor McKnight's and anyone who "has to do radio as a job because they're not skilled enough for t.v. work, lack personal/aesthetic appeal or past professional playing careers (at least that's my idea of what's behind his comment)." Losing your cool/composure and striking out at perceived enemies isn't going to make things any better for the White Sox or "rally the fans around the Southside Stand Up flag." The broadcast ratings their year must be the lowest in team history....like the late 00's/early 2010's Astros with 0.0 local shares.

If one is to believe JR, they don't even have cash on hand to write a one-off check to Benintendi. I would tend to agree that clearing him off the team and moving on from Hahn would be cleansing in a way, but we can't even jettison a manager because the owner doesn't want to pay 2-3 managers in the low millions (at best) simultaneously. He's certainly not going to reward an under performing player for giving him an easy out.

Is there even room in the Birmingham rotation for him? Sox have probably 10 starting pitching prospects who are looking really good.

The money is eaten; it's gone and is not coming back. They have to do something. Because this is ridiculous. They need to eat Pedro's contract as well - he's also ridiculous. it's an insult to the players for him to manage.

This score deserves it

Here's the thing... Schiffren's not going to get along very well with Stone if he tries to get too close to the players and guys around the clubhouse. Especially with all his "rah, rah" supportive bro stuff and attitude. It's not shocking the first guy to call him out on it would be Pham. (Clevinger would probably be the second.) If you get too close to the players, it gets harder and hard to be objective and criticize them. Problem #2 is eventually you'll start to see the ownership/front office as the problem with the team, and that's eventually going to come across during broadcasts. I guess he believes creating a "Sox against the world/fans/social media" mentality is doing a favor to the team, but it's really not in the best long-term interests of the organization to cut off one's nose to spite one's face. Just not good business...when media attention is 80-85% focused on the Cubs already and the new stadium has become something of a joke when you have the worst team in baseball on the field representing your city and making it more or less a national embarrassment.

Does he even do that anymore?

This team isn't worth watching or getting pissed about. Can we stop that "stand up south side?"

This is a non-starter. JR isn't willing to eat the rest of his contract with 3.7 years still left to go. I can't remember the last time a veteran with a guaranteed contract voluntarily went down to "work on things." Abreu's probably the closest recent example, but they're actually a competitive team with someone to replace him in Houston. We have DeLoach, Fletcher and Colas, who they refuse to give another opportunity to. The MLBPA would also be fighting you on this one as well.

And when he refuses the assignment?

No, the complex doesn’t need any money. .

Along with $50 million...?

Send Benitendi to Arizona. If he still can’t figure anything out there, the Sox are still better off. Vaughn can go with him.

Garrett Whitlock probably out for season. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/05/garrett-whitlock-diagnosed-with-ligament-tear-in-elbow.html

According to conventional wisdom and there is some evidence that has been published JR signed Belle to pay the other owners back for settling the labor issue in 94-95 and not on terms he wanted.

All good!

Oh! lol - my bad.

Two separate players => Robert + Benintendi

Wait - what?

He (Baldwin) is going to have to prove every stop along the way that he's more than a utility player... Way too early IMO to push Gonzalez up to AA. Zero harm in letting him get 100% comfortable in High A, letting him get that feeling he's something close to dominant at that level before challenging him again. Going to be shocked if he can post anything higher than a 650-675 OPS for the remainder of the season, but the White Sox love their aggressive promotions.

That was done primarily to send a message to the rest of the league why signing free agents like that is such a bad idea, lol...it worked out with the Sox, but the Orioles were set back for two decades with guys like Belle and Chris Davis.

Belle is the exception that proves the rule.