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According to the broadcast, except for Robert, every hitter is redhot. Every pitcher is nails, and they are somehow on a 49 win pace. This organization totally sucks.

Damn Tray, what happened since, uh, Thursday?

I think Cease had a better chance to increase his value if they waited. Robert was at best going to maintain value.

Ran the D Backs into the ground. Helped Dombrowski get fired in Boston, and the Angels are the Angels. Maybe just maybe he isn’t the baseball genius JR thinks he is.

Does anyone really care if Vaughn can hit at AAA? He is gone after this season so why would anyone want to have to watch him suck again?

As stated earlier. Zero reason Elko not on roster. The options are not valid

It's incredible how stupid they are

Don't think we really expected Elko to be this team's first baseman in 2025 and, aside from a hot month in AAA, he hasn't really done anything to earn that position. He hasn't sustained it in AAA after being sent back. Brooks has pretty much the same hitting stats at Charlotte, is he our first baseman? Heck, Ryan Galanie might be a better option for first base than Elko is. What's the rush on him? They gave him a shot and he was...just ok, bordering on bad. Let's see if he can sustain something in AAA after the cup of coffee. He can hit home runs for sure, always valuable, but can he do anything else? Was his absurdly low BABIP 'bad luck' or indicative of something flawed in his game? If Colson is any good, there's probably no chance Vargas stays at 3rd anyway. Good things are happening if Vargas is genuinely forced off third base by one of the young guys. wouldn't surprise me if Vargas is a better third baseman than Colson is and Colson ends up at 1b, but you have to at least try him on the left side of the infield. And kudos to Vargas for taking up the new position and playing great defense there. Rojas is pretty bad, but you have to think he was signed to be Vinny Capra and not to take over the role that Colson Montgomery squandered with his poor play. I just think the argument of 'Rojas or Elko' is a moot point, who really cares, Elko will get another shot and is under control for a long time; he forced to issue to earn the call-up, now he should do it again.

Also a terrible reason to not do what's right.

The Elko thing is a mystery. I get it if they told him they were going to bring him up only for a few weeks. So now they messed with a player giving a small sample size. What kind of message does that send to minor league players? People will come up with all sorts of reasons but this organization still proves they are clueless in handling things. They only fix is new ownership and one that will gut the organization as much as possible but not bring in people who have the potential to be worse. Like........uh no Getz promotions and tell Tony to go take a nap. Hasn't Tony been an advisor before in other organizations and they not improved? Fans now believe in small sample sizes to pronounce failure but also have the meaningless stats on potential players who still don't have it together after a few years. Was Elko a savior? No, but I wonder how many other players lose a chance with 30 at bats? There's even all star players who went through slumps. Clueless. I don't know how a fan can have any faith in the organization at all. They are like the other losing teams that will be constantly rebuilding by getting rid of good players because they wont win with those players. Shouldn't this have worked with the Pirates or Marlins by now?

As long as his checks don't bounce he'll be fine.

I would eat crow on the entire Getz tenure if it purged Jay Cuda and his shitty paint graphics from the internet.

Let's face it, as much as we THINK we are better than last yr, we in fact are only marginally better. Like 1 or 2 wins better

We’ve had quite a few winnable games with damn good pitching but the offense is just pathetic.

Don't know but you can say stuff over and over if you have no IQ then no matter how many times they say what they say

I really enjoy how bad Baltimore is. I’ve wanted them to fail so badly after their douchey fans invaded the board and they haven’t disappointed. They have no pitching and all their prospects are struggling, pretty much the exact opposite all their fans predicted. Love to see it.

Pkesac is fine but you would think by game 6 he would know the CF last name.

Sure because he plays for the White Sox. What Mayo did is a b**** move because he does not play for the White Sox.

There is a better chance you and I are getting at bats for the Sox than Tauchman come August

Sox deserve a new stadium every five years or move to Peoria.

Getting called up by the Royals. Did the Sox whiff taking Hagen Smith over him? He has torn up the minor leagues. We all know the Sox are desperate for bats.

Part of the Sun-Times story: One week after being demoted to the minors, first basemen Andrew Vaughn and Tim Elko have not yet dominated at the Triple-A level. Vaughn has notched one home run and five RBI, but he’s 4-for-20 and owns a .200/.273/.350 slash line in five games with the Knights. Venable said there’s no timeline for Vaughn in the minors, but he sees the former third overall draft pick in the long-term picture for the Sox. Elko, who had been called up and made his MLB debut May 10, is 4-for-21 with one home run since re-joining Charlotte last week. He hit .161/.188/.452 with three home runs during his short time with the Sox.

Good thread. To me, Cagz or Wetherholt or Braden or (high schooler) Griffin was the pick for us. It seemed unimagined to take another lefty pitcher with an awkward delivery. The org seems to do well with those guys, and Hagan fits the mold, so let’s wait and see with him. But Jac was clearly not a Vaughn clone, and seemingly the best player available to us. I hope he kills it with the Royals. I think our Smith is gonna be good too, despite his walks, but those two positions players (sans Braden who we got) seem like they will be quite good. I like wetherholt particularly, seems like his injury concerns are a paper tiger.

This is an awful take. Dude had a LONG injury history going back to the year they signed him. He also was coming off a a huge break out year. Even if you take a bit less then, was it worth betting on his health if we knew this team was going to be awful? Well, ask yourself what he is worth now.

Imagine being a Sox fan! Everytime I think this rag tag collection of scrubs and not quite yet ready for primetime squad is turning a corner they manage to just go in a circle. What a bad weekend for any sort of rebuild.

Seriously, that lame argument of “they’d never get value” is such a stupid line of thinking that has now turned out to making him worth nothing.

If he KNEW this was a long rebuild, it's a gigantic mistake, knowing the injury history he had even pre23, plus a career year. If he held on because of "value" he hit on a 19.

Houston is too imo. I'd still prefer a shortstop.

TLR was an advisor and worked in the front offices of the Red Sox, Diamondbacks and Angels if I remember correctly.

Unfortunately Vargas back on third where he belongs will justify bringing Albino back.

I don’t trust any hitters from Wake Forest. Houston will stay at shortstop but I just don’t think he’ll impactful offensively. They did this in 2023 already. Take a prep hitter unless someone falls.

Circle July 4th through the 6th on your calendar...that is when this putrid Sox team will likely get swept by the Rockies.

I'd be fine with a Quero/Teel swap right now. Yeah, you'd like to let Quero work through adversity, but I don't think he's learning anything right now looking like this.

No offense. Just bad ABs.

The problem is he is still there.

Tends to happen if you have bad players in the lineup

Yet more runners left on base.

Leave it to the Sox to breath life into the Os

Road trip went from team being disappointed with losing 2 of 3 to being embarrassed by Baltimore and back to an MLB laughingstock. This one will end up an 8-2 loss and my attitude of ambivalence toward this organization.

Just a terrible team

No doubt, it was JR’s worst move in a list of many many during his pathetic ownership.

If you thought the Sox were irrelevant now, go ahead and move them to the south suburbs. Absolutely brutal idea, and that's coming from someone who grew up 5 miles from the venue.

We were on a pretty good upswing before he got here. Once he got here it was good for the first half of the first season, but even then it was fraying.

If the Sox went college pitcher at 1-10 I was hoping it would be this guy but there is absolutely no way he gets to them. Dude is a stud.

The Ishbias wouldn't have gotten involved with the White Sox if it meant waiting until 2035 for the pre planning stages of a new stadium. The fanbase can't survive that long waiting with the fifth or sixth oldest stadium, either.

This has been said about every player that has left here. All of them remained bad.

The return of Tony was the beginning of the end

you first

Such a great trend, we need homeless players because we don't trust the pitching dev at AAA.

He's dead to me. Liked him once and then soured as his teams flailed and he kept up the corporate speak about "competitive offers" and blah blah blah. If you don't like the budget you have, just resign, don't try and make excuses in the press. He must be angling for another job in baseball if he's doing this interview. Doubt he got paid, the exposure is the pay.