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Now he can have McGuire and Sosa in the same lineup!

Excellent first Sosa conversation lol @flavum @fathom @BigHurt3515

you are not actually conversing with me.

Sosa 9 pitch walk? Menechino needs to get his hands on him. We can’t be having any of that around here.

Are you really gonna pretend like we’re not all starved for a little excitement during this mostly miserable season?

WHY CAN'T WE JUST BE NORMAL

Abreu is also 7 or 8 years older than most of the core of this team. And yet, he somehow still plays through pain. I'm not sure if that's just the greatness of Jose or an indictment against the rest of core.

Amazing how Abreu just keeps sucking it up and playing thru pain. That guy is built so much different, and probably more to do with heart than physically. For a team full of grapes, it's so noticeable. Build that man a statue the moment he hangs them up.

Just the steakhouses...

For me it is fun how this has played out. Probably unfairly, but I sort of separate out the Cuban pipeline from the rest of our INTL process. They pay a premium (esp in Robert, Abreu case) and are getting older, more established prospects. But in 2017 Paddys tenure outside abreu had shown zilch, especially in the position player side. Our top signings in 2015 were awful in DSL ball, let alone when they finally made it stateside. Adolfo was more of an idea than a player (I believe this was his breakout year in 2017). Players rarely made it past A ball. Yolmer was the last guy we had make it up and I think he was signed in that no mans land after wilder? So it was significant when Sosa showed up in AZL as a 16/17 year old and was not striking out 40% of the time, and getting contact with his decent average. He finally seemed like a guy who may make it to the show. After that, he moved up like clockwork, rarely wowing but always surviving some very difficult jumps and extremely young for his levels. But as he was going through that, we started actually getting really shiny objects that stole his thunder. Ramos came in with some actual power. Baileys first year in DSL, Mieses return to A ball, Yolbert's AA year, Misael Gonzalez. And we kinda missed Sosa last year really starting to put up some solid A+ numbers. And then out of nowhere this year happens. So it's funny to me Sosa way back in 2017 finally being something to latch onto as the first guy that may actually have some MLB run, and here he is, actually that. He beat Adolfo to the show. He beat Yolbert. He beat Ramos. And once again he did it by just showing incredible resilience, durability, resilience and maturity to handle big challenges. Hopefully that translates to the big leagues.

Looks like Sosa is on track to spend most of 2025-26 on the injured list.

In commenting about the Rob Mackowiak trade, Hahn says, "`Everyone thought we got him as an insurance policy for Joe Crede at third base, but you know what? This guy can really play some center field.'' (Sun-Times, Feb. 15, 2006)

And they haven't pulled a hamstring yet tonight.

Someone tell Leury to stretch the same way Eloy and Robert do

oh, and a happy pride night to those at the game and those that subject themselves to the game thread

Oh thanks Tony you jerk

Halesey definitely cannot play today. Sheets must play today since he just flew in. Sosa cannot play today since he just flew in. Robert cannot play today since he's got tired legs. Abreu can play today despite tired legs. Moncada cannot play this week tired legs. I'm starting to think that Tony is projecting his own old ailments upon these players. He wakes up with sore legs? Then Robert must be very sore. Vaughn played on astroturf? Well that's a lot of work for a 77 year old. Day off! Rest up!

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Seriously……call up a prospect and sit him on the bench…..just amazing…fire TLR….

Willie Calhoun is a positionless baseball player and you wanted Hahn to acquire him despite the Sox having 12 of those guys? Man, between this and Kelenic, I think the game is passing you by Harold!

They aren't a really good team right now. They are missing nearly half the lineup. What matter is if they are a really good team in August and September.

My problem is he used the word "ouchies"

This team sucks right now

This season has been brutal to watch, but I take a tiny bit of semblance over the people who argue managers don’t matter being wrong. This team is tied for the division lead with any competent manager despite all the injuries. It’s almost incomprehensible how bad Tony has been this year.

yeah, i suppose they could have announced a la russa extension that half inning

Fire McEwing before the next inning

TLR was quoted today as saying "Hahn can bring up all the top prospects he wants but I still make the lineup so they will just sit on the bench because Tony don't play rookies"

Lol

Both, but probably more of Jose's greatness. Moncada and Robert wince and limp around every time they swing a bat. I think a lot of that is theater/habit, especially with Robert. But Jose would probably have to be missing a leg before he would agree to sit. It's amazing how many guys have hurt themselves, to the point of having to go on the IL, by running to 1st. Jose takes a baseball to the face, a bat to the knee, and still plays.

Thats precisely why you put him into a game of baseball today. That's the thing he's used to!

Reinsdorf put him on a Spirit flight and now the kid got here late to get the start. SMH

LOL La Russa go fuck yourself.

I'd say Danny is way more at fault than Adam, that's the OF's ball all day.

Please for the love of God do this!

Tatis and Soto were up at 20 years old, you don't do that because of player development. They were going to be MLB baseball players.

It is necessary to show we are a really good team. Cleveland is on a 17-4 run right now. The bar is World Series for this team, not bum ass 85 wins and winning a bad division.

I do. Neither are very good and if we can't beat them nothing matters anyway.

So people can just enjoy themselves a bit. 20-21-year-old Eloy Jimenez in AA (71 games): .326/.375/.557, 13 home runs 21-year-old Luis Robert in AA (56 games): .314/.362/.518, 8 home runs 22-year-old Lenyn Sosa in AA (62 games): .331/.384/.549, 14 home runs Yes, I dropped Sosa's 2021 season to show he made some sort of change because he went from intriguing SS prospect with some projection to Eloy/Robert.

It's what you'd expect with a 31 game on-base streak, but seeing Colson with an OPS over 1.000 (after tonight's game) & a ~.450 OBP over the last 30 days is just ridiculous. That is some grade A savagery.

The list of former White Sox that would be great to have right now that we just didn't pursue. 1) Escobar ($10M) vs. Harrison ($4M) To balance it further, throw in Leury ($5.5M) and swap him with Mendick full time. 2) Quintana ($2M) vs. Velazquez ($3M) 3) Tepara ($7M) vs. Kelly ($8M/year) 4) Rodon ($22M) vs. Cueto ($4.2M) Left column is $41M, right is $21.7M (obviously the big difference is Rodon vs. Cueto), but you have to imagine we're in a much happier place with the left column.

Sometimes fate steps in to persuade the powers that be to make what I'm sure the Sox management perceives as a move born out of desperation. I'm cheering for fate.

you think the people drafting him wanted to send him straight to big leagues as a reliever and never let him develop his third pitch or endurance in the imors? Or was the white sox bullpen and pitching collapsing in 2020 and the sox took a gamble they had a hard time unwinding once he was a good reliever? https://theathletic.com/1871512/2020/06/15/how-white-sox-draft-pick-garrett-crochet-matured-into-a-most-valuable-weapon/ First-year White Sox scouting director Mike Shirley made the call to take Crochet at No. 11 with the naked intent that he will be a future rotation cog, but that gamble is regarded as a bold leap of faith that divided scouts. “He put his cojones on the table,” Vitello said of Shirley. “I think he’s going to be rewarded for it.” ... Anderson thinks Crochet’s frame could still support another 10 pounds acquired through a major league strength program and has been sending his pupil big-league baseballs so that he can get used to the feel of them on his fingers. But he doesn’t think the White Sox should rush Crochet up to the majors to live off his fastball-slider combination. But yeah sure it was always the plan.

That was the trouble with the hire in the first place. Most managers don't leave on their own accord; they are fired. But JR would never be able to pull the trigger for all the reasons you stated. We are truly stuck with this guy. Another dumb managerial hire by the White Sox.

TLR's public statement was that Robert had leg soreness or something like that, specifying that was why he didn't stretch his last hit into a double. I'm thinking he was pulled because of a lack of hustle, and Tony gave him a public excuse.

Get ready for your head to explode.

Hopefully when Tony sees the name Sosa he is reminiscing of the late 90s early 00s and thinks it’s the same guy and puts him in the lineup on a consistent basis if he is indeed getting the call

I'm going to guess it'll be Severino....this is kinda like the opposite of pick to click.....crap to cut?

That's great to hear but you have to admit it is not unusual to question this organizations penchant for dicking around.