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Extend Pedro!!!

Colson adds a 2 RBI triple. Hopefully he can show some signs of life before he gets dropped from the Top 100.

Yikes. Ice cold.

I'm 100% here for him continuing to succeed. But the Getz stans making this face with Ramos succeeding as Soroka gets lit up, Lopez grounds out, Maldonado struggles to hit .100, Brad Keller exists, and the team fails to reach .300 feels incredibly thin.

His wRC+ in May is 189 and his OPS is 1.148. WTF are you talking about?

Once again saying SUCK IT CLEVELAND!!!

Greg, you've sold too many houses to buy MLB.com.

What a pleasure to see a Sox minor leaguer come up and have some success and the team puts some wins together. All I can say is, MORE please

Maldonado isn't an upgrade defensively and Lee has like an OPS 600 points higher. There's no real reason for him to start more than 1/3 of the games.

Naylor? I hardly know her!

Is this the place for a victory lap or am I required to be miserable ?

Sorry for some of you that it looks like they will actually win more than 20 games.

SUCK IT VAUGHN HATERS!

Ramos must be so pissed. He knows he needs more years in MiLB but here he is rushed to the majors. Pay raise. Plane rides. Big crowds. Ok, maybe not the big crowds.

Moncada had years to cement himself as the 3B. He didn't hit enough the last 4 years to guarantee his spot when he returns from injury in his final year with the team. I have no issue with playing him at 2B, 1B, RF or just dumping him. I don't hate him as much as some people here (I like him more than Eloy, who I think is beyond worthless) but when he gets back on the team, there's no reason you need to give him his spot back.

You shut your mouth ???

lol, are people angry the team won some games in the last week?

It's weird to see people dumping on anyone trying to squeeze any last bit of enjoyment or hope out of this miserable season. Just let people be optimistic about that small bit of hope left in the bottom of Pandora's box. Sheesh.

If Moncada comes back, and Ramos is still playing well, this would be a good problem to have. This would be quite rare for us.

To be honest with you if Fedde, Kopech, Wilson, and Brebbia are all traded and were still trotting out Soroka, Lopez and Maldonado OR cutting bait there and replacing them with young guys that might not quite be ready yet I can definitely see another brutal stretch like that in the second half at some point.

The ditch

I don’t think they are a .460 team right now, if Robert comes back an stays healthy then maybe but Vaughn and Benintendi need to step it up, who would have predicted that AV would have no homers after 6 weeks of the season.

If you are looking for "exciting" you have come to the wrong place. I think people are hoping for basic respectability.

Because Fedde won't be here the next time the team is good, and whoever we get for him might.

Well, people get to announce that prospects suck after a slow first week, and we never pick on that. Ramos was definitely prepared to be a major leaguer.

Well for one, this team will still be rebuilding next season. Erick Fedde is only signed through next season. If he keeps this up, through this season and next season as a front of the rotation type starter. The White Sox, in no way shape or form, are going to resign a 33 year old SP to the contract that his performance will demand. If he keeps this up for this season only and then stinks next season, your value on him will crater and then you get nothing and he still doesn't help this franchise moving forward. The only logical outcome here is to hope he keeps this up over the next two months, and then he is traded for a nice package of prospects that will help this team in the future when they expect to be good again.

Jacob Gonzalez OPS up to .872. He keeps this up the rest of the season and he just might find himself in a top 100 prospect list come this offseason. Btw, Enrique Bradfield sitting at .682 OPS. I mention because he was often used as an example of poor drafting by the Sox last offseason since Bradfield went two picks later..

The year is 2021... "bold prediction - we'll be neck and neck with the Astros in 2024!"

I’m not saying the offense is good but it at least looks semi competent with the recent additions. With Crochet, Fedde, and Flexen settling in at the top of the rotation, this team might actually win some games this month and next.

A .460 clip plays out to a 74.5 win rate over the course of a season, or around 75-87 for a record over a full season. Let's just keep it simple and say I don't buy it.

"Look, I see another victory in the distance"

I hear you, but record has nothing to do with progress this season, IMO. I really don’t care if they lose 90 or 110, as this team has no way to make the playoffs, and no way to get the number 1 pick. I think as hard as it is to divorce ourselves from our record, we have to do it, partially to stay sane. I think success this season will be in making the right decisions about which young players under long term control this team can move forward with that can produce at the major league level. If that means we end up at the end of the year with at least Lee, Ramos, etc being major league talent, we succeed. If we prove that Moncada and Jimenez are too injury prone to move forward with, we succeed. If we prove Sheets is a better option at 1b than Vaughn (and that the latter is a bust), we succeed. This season has to be about separating the wheat from the chaff and moving forward. One would hope that would maybe include eating Benintendi’s contract, but that’s very unlikely to happen.

This wouldn't even have been Ozzie's "We clinched last night and everyone is hung over" line up.

no.

My dad was talking to me about Ramos' english being really good and I told him about the Sox program for LatAm prospects to learn the language (which is actually really, really good thing that the org does and was started by Getz!). He all of a sudden criticized Moncada for...skipping classes? And I had to remind him that Moncada wouldn't have been attending English class at the Dominican or Arizona complexes since he never played there for the Sox.

I'm kind of confused, but who, exactly, is taking a "victory lap"? People are calling this team, "finally watchable". I don't see any "I told you so" or dunking. It just seems like relief that an abnormal team slump seems to have abated. Saying that "maybe this team can play sub-.500 ball going forward" would be an odd victory lap.

Last I checked the timeline on Moncada was 3-6 months. If he comes back at the earliest portion that would line up with early-mid July. In my eyes Ramos has 2 months to stake his claim to third base. Ramos has played second in the past and received solid reviews defensively there, so they could try him out there if they had the urge to do so in a lost season.

It's really nice to not be in historically bad mode. I've even watched games - big improvement. Korey Lee, Benintendi, Pham, Ramos all have been providing enough offense. That said - our run differential hasn't budged that much. Maybe when Robert returns, if vaughn gets talent injections, we can end up in a place where we aren't skin of the teeth. But having stretches of .500 ball isn't really abnormal for bad teams during the course of a season. They just need to prevent another horrific stretch like they had in April.

Looks like Vaughn, Tim Anderson and Javy Baez have all lost it. Rumor has it that Anderson won't be with the Marlins too much longer.

Ramos was one of the few prospects we've had where outside publications raved about their makeup. That he has handled this well despite starting so ice cold in AA would make me believe it was true. He seems to actually want to succeed at baseball, makes him look like derek jeter in this org.

Well guys the 7-6 run was nice, but if greg is jumping on board, start selling like Mortimer in Trading Places.

Lol I pretty much gave up telling people it's too early for.... Basically everything everyone talks about in sports. Predict the Sox record in January, who won a trade of 2 minor leaguers, Sox All Star Rep in April. Most posts now don't really care about small sample sizes. Every one wants instant validation they were right or want players jettisoned right away. Yes people have a right to declare Flexen sucks when he was acquired and for his 1st 3 starts, but you don't DFA guys you acquire who are projects that you acquire specifically because you are a terrible team and trying to find short term tradable upside . You defeat the purpose of the acquisition by DFAing pitching projects. People don't look at the big picture or just don't care. They need to be angry and pound the table that a GM who has barely gotten his feet wet and is just dealing with fringe players now because he has no budget, sucks and all his trades and signings suck . Every hot streak a player might be ok. Every cold streak he should be DFAd. I just have to keep telling myself welcome to the internet and all the toxicity that message boarding and social media brings where people only communicate in short angry bursts.

The Sox have looked better this week, but this week they are 3-2. So, I won't get too excited. But it was good for a change to see the opposition make bonehead plays like Tampa. And the team has to start somewhere and the back-to-wins over Tampa and Cleveland is a good place to get going. And I have never been on the fire Chris Getz bandwagon. Actually, this team is watchable right now. I just don't know if they will stay that way.

We got a 23 year old bullpen prospect for a 34 year old OFer with no future here. Whats not to like about that? The prospect, 3.15 ERA and 12.8 K rate in 103 minor league innings. While he most likely never makes it, its a wonderful return for 71 at bats of Robbie Grossman on a rebuilding team.

Didn't realize I had to add "</sarc>" to something THAT obvious.

Nice to see Steady Fedde bounce back after getting roughed up

He's been good since the day he joined the organization. May have had an injury too minor to sit out with. Maybe just a bad streak. People go back to what they are over the long run. But don't mind me. I've been on The Bryan Ramos Train for 3+ years.

CALL YOUR SONS, CALLL YOUR DAUGHTERS, WE HAVE MADE IT TO DOUBLE DIGIT WINS!!!

Reminds me of one of the Salamanca's 100%