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Quite a bit going on for the AZL White Sox last night, and our Sean was there for the game. His game report includes video of Madrigal's return and surprise stretch-signee Bryce Bush's pro debut. Ian Clarkin also made his second rehab start.

Oh wow now there's a trustworthy source.

I disagree. Haven't you known people who get passed over for promotions at work even though they are more deserving? I don't care how dedicated you are it wears on you and performance and concentration can suffer. This is in the normal world. Compound that by needed the laser focused concentration baseball takes and it can effect performance. They are human and workplace issues will effect performance.

Last night. I realized it as I sat there watching Abreu take terrible swing after terrible swing in one of the final innings, clearly deep in the worst 37-game slump of his career with no clear end in sight. ...as I tried to root for Palka, Tilson, and a host of other filler guys do anything resembling exciting. ...as I realized two of the best guys on the field wearing a Sox uni last night were probably Yolmer Sanchez and Leury Garcia, two guys who might not make it onto the roster of half of the MLB clubs. As I realized the most exciting thing that happened outside of that Tim Anderson double was an outfield assist that prevented the Cardinals from actually plating 15 or 16 runs in regulation instead of 14. ...as I watched the White Sox fall to 31 games below .500 in early July for the first time since? Ever? I am totally onboard with this rebuild, but last night was really really rough, especially in person. There must have been 2/3rds Cardinals fans in the ballpark. BTW I never really mind Cards games as usually the vibe is congenial and their fans are typically pretty well behaved in our ballpark.

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Horrible tank effort tonight. Fire the front office or us fans will storm castle Reinsdorf!

Shields pitching like he wants off this team.

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Gleybar Torres and Ozzie Albies say hello.

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I'm just commenting on the absurd and delusional hyperbole going on in this thread. Yoan Moncada is nowhere near the level of Mike Trout. Trout is gonna go down as one of the best players ever. Moncada isn't even close to being the best young second basemen in the game.

The Royals should come in with a lot of confidence figuring the are finally playing a team that they can compete with. May be a tougher series than expected.

Do you actively look for these things, or do they just stick out to you?

Then they wouldn't have to fake injuries to tank.

Thank you trades that involve minor league players take years to declare a winner or loser. But that is the mind set around here. We are a little too high on our prospects while the vast majority of them arent close yet and could falter at higher levels.

So they are betting the future of the franchise on two guys with 3 ACL surgeries between them. I mean are you serious?

First of all he's repped by Boras so no extension. Two, we are at least two years away Rodon has 3.5 years of control. It might make sense to move him now if he continues to show he's healthy assuming we get a huge package for him.

In Soviet Russia, DNC hacks you!!! I'll show myself the door...

Also, while plate discipline CAN be a product of patience and approach, it can also simply be an inability to recognize pitches quickly enough, which no amounting of coaching can fix.

I really don’t see how a hitting coach can prevent a player from swinging at pitches that aren’t strikes. Plate discipline has to fall on the player, not the hitting coach.

Yeah I remember when Gordan Beckham had the potential to be the next Jeff Kent and Joe Borchard had the potential to be the next Dave Kingman....

What’s cool is that no greater collection of talent will probably ever be traded than the Sale trade. Top pitcher in the league, friendliest contract ever. I can’t imagine a scenario where more value exists in a tradeable asset. So Moncada, Kopech, Basabe & Díaz is the most a team will ever get for anybody I guess

I think what I'd say is you're right that boredom can do that but also it's something that is speculated to be the cause of bad play much more often than it really is the cause of bad play.

Last season he was, and at the beginning of the season he was. Then the staff told him to swing more after he returned from his injury and I don't get it. His huge asset was his knowledge of the strike zone, and they are neutering that because he's swinging at 1st pitches and shit like that. He's more dangerous as he sees more pitches and gets deeper into the count. Umps notwithstanding. Honestly I think his regression has a lot to do with him being more of a free swinger and he's not comfortable with it. It could also explain the pulling off everything because he's got into the habit of trying to destroy pitches early in the count.

This pisses me off, especially since getting Nwaba was why they sold the 2nd round pick. For context. 1) They wanted Blakeney with the 2nd rounder 2) They wanted Nwaba 3) Didn't have enough roster space for Nwaba and a 2nd rounder, felt like Blakeney might slip out of the draft. 4) Sell the pick, keep Nwaba, sign Blakeney to a two way deal. But if they just let Nwaba walk for nothing, that's inexcusable because then they really should have just held onto Bell and not signed Felicio.

But then if he smiled or was laughing with teammates, you'd be saying that he wasn't taking it seriously enough. Who cares about this topic if he's playing well? The only reason you're bringing it up is because his OPS is borderline .700 and he's making errors. Drop it

Hahn sure said it. And I have yet to see anyone say differently.

Abreu and Soria.

Should have called up Gomez earlier - his only value is as a flipper as well. Rondon hasn't really pitched any worse than a lot of these guys; but once he can't be flipped, no reason to keep him around I guess.

The Yankees did ship Kahnle to the minors, so I guess they were right

The point is Rondon didn’t do anything to prove he was worth keeping or trading. I didn’t go back to look at any post on Rondon, but it’s hard to imagine anyone thought he was worth a damn.

What a joke. Hey Fegan and Merkin! Get your articles out now how Gomez has been a pleasant surprise out of our bullpen this year. He could’ve proven to all of us a month ago if he could still pitch in the majors. Instead we’ve had to endure Rondon’s suckage for the last month. This is the one thing i’ll agree on that Hahn has not handled well.

GMAFB. Kwitcher b****in. Very few, if any of us are happy or even okay with the fact that KW and Hahn got the opportunity to right the ship. We're not on the board, so we can't make the decisions. Why waste time complaining about things that are history and that we can't control? All we can do as fans is hope that the powers that be make the correct decisions from here forward.

Well I was hoping to hit on at least one of those sort of reclimination guys. Everyone so far failed.

If someone will give something of value for Abreu, jump at it. That's Rick Hahn level dumb at this point.

We can't expect that because Hahn was quite literally the one who couldn't value Tatis and traded him away.

I am struggling to see what these have to do with off of the field focus problems, or even what #2 is.

Why does Moncada need Abreu around? Real Housewives of Atlanta They are young guys with massive talent; they'll pull it together soon enough or at least they should.

Another question that is being answered now is why the Red Sox we’re willing to let go of the #1 prospect in baseball instead of Benitendi.

So he should have been dealt to someone in the league who knew he sucked?