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Man i haven't stopped smiling the past 5 minutes. So happy for Vaughn to play on a real roster, and doubly happy for him fucking up the Cubs

Our boy!

Andrew Fucking Vaughn.

FOR OLD TIMES SAKES!

I'm not middle aged, I'm median aged! At least that's what I'm going to start telling people now.

This ump has already missed 5 calls. Must be a Kirk fan….jk

I thought it was obvious. But my post wasn't serious.

That's the best defensive play Vaughn has ever made lol

ESPN crowning them as the best up the middle defense ever only for that to collapse on itself this series is great.

How did Ortiz not get closer to scoring on that?

Okay, fuggit. Andrew Vaughn - Cub Killer. Now go have a career.

So happy for him man

Vaughn has a chance to do the funniest thing here

Couldn't happen to a better fa.... guy in Treinen... 👍

Projected Arbitration Salaries For 2026 - MLB Trade Rumors White Sox have some work in front of them: White Sox (2) Mike Tauchman (5.143): $3.4MM Steven Wilson (3.166): $1.5MM

It’s weird to be so confident in something objectively false, I mean there is simply no way to spin it. Andrew Vaughn was traded to the Brewers on June 13th, 2025. The Brewers were 38-33. The Cubs were 42-28. On July 13th, the Brewers were 56-40, they went 18-7 during that stretch. Over July, Vaughn slashed 365/426/731. Additionally, on June 13th, the Cubs were 2nd in baseball with a +104 run differential. The Brewers were 12th at +22. On July 13th the Brewers were 4th in baseball at +74, only behind the Tigers, Yankees and…Cubs, who led the league at +116 on July 13 So not only did Andrew Vaughn make a tremendously important impact for the Brewers, the Cubs were a better team than the Brewers in basically the entire 1st half.

laisse tomber les sox fans

Juan Uribe’s little brother just owned them.

Vaughnie getting it done on both sides. Good for him. Let's go Brew Crew!!

Should have been Rea in game 1

So performative for absolutely no reason

Yeah I think it could go either way. I think the reason to tender a contract is to not look like a 'cheap bad guy'. But I don't really care either way. The guy has already made millions of dollars in his career, not trading him at the deadline was the "nice guy" move to make. I doubt he's getting any better. If it's the offseason, his family can plan more accordingly than a midseason trade. I think we have other players to take a look at or there are free agents who would likely be better for the same amount of money or slightly more.

Losing Horton was a huge hit for them. He was easily their best starter in the 2nd half. Boyd was fading due to him not pitching a whole lot of innings in recent years and Imanaga was mid all year. Taillon is probably their best starter right now.

Cubs would have been better off keeping Bellinger

I agree about Wilson. And I think it’s just as likely Tauchman is tendered a contract as he is non-tendered in my eyes.

For all the talk about how Wilson sux, he just posted 123 ERA+ across 55 innings pitched. a UFA RP with such numbers is getting paid at least $5mil. The Sox tend to not go to arbitration, but I can't imagine him being paid much less than this. Maybe like $1.3mil, but it's basically splitting hairs. $1.5mil seems like a totally fair deal to me. But I like the idea of not even reaching arbitration even if they end up paying him a little more. Worth noting, I think the Sox letting Michael A get his plate appearance bonus in a worthless game sends a positive signal to free agents. Rowdy Tellez the previous year got cut right before he could reach his 'bonus'. Tauch is more interesting. He had a tough last two months at the plate and is now injured (.700ish OPS those 2 months, not so bad). $3.5mil seems like a lot for him, but it's not that much money. He's a good guy, his teammates seem to like him, he's a local dude, but I'd personally rather see someone like Dom Fletcher or a proper free agent get time in RF. Somebody needs to keep the spot warm for Braden but it's ultimately his spot and I suspect he joins the MLB team next season. Personally, I'd rather it be somebody controllable and younger than Tauchman. I don't really care to see Tauch in a Sox jersey again, so I hope the two sides can work out a mutually agreeable trade for a semi-useful player. He's worth more than Austin Slater or Robbie Grossman or Matt Thaiss, so maybe you can get a semi-useful player, even just a bullpen arm or a 19-year-old position player. I think they should tender his contract.

Almost had it PCA!

Okay, The Franchise Ortiz has got to do something sometime, right?

Had just told my son Contreras was gonna crush one

That makes no sense

No one else I would have rather wanted up there

Win 97 games then try something you havent done all year. Nice work

What about Vargas?

Tatis, Elly and PCA are the three favorites for all the kids I coach

It also is just totally different than when we grew up, and doesn't really matter if you're 40 years old today, or 70. Today, you could be living in Chicago as a 16 year old but have just as much access to the Padres as you do the White Sox. Doesn't really matter where you live. And as we've seen with other sports, kids are attracted to the stars, not always the team. I think it's less about being "born" into a fandom and more about watching what excites you, and that's certainly not happening on the South Side. Defalco has talked about this on ESPN 1000 before, his 13 year old, who plays baseball...they went to the Sox-Reds series specifically to see Elly, because his son likes watching him. And in 2025, it's just as easy to access Reds highlights as it is to see White Sox highlights, even if you live in Chicago. Different world.

It's like literally 20 blocks, but the access to people is completely different, being on the edge of the financial district and in one of the fastest growing residential areas of the city.

Anecdotal, but I think most kids are watching clips on YouTube or Instagram, I really have a hard time believing most 16 year olds are watching a full game, just don't think the attention span is there. That's what I've heard/seen when it comes to that demo

It's not often I champion some of the bloggers causes, but it would be nice to see literally any of the credentialed White Sox media ask Chris Getz about these firings, especially in the case of Katz, who has had so many successes happen under his watch.

I'm second standard deviation!

Baseball tourism IS a large part of the Cubs fan base. That is NOT happening right now for the White Sox, and neither is the fan looking to make a day out of going to a ball game by having a game day experience of bars, clubs, and whatever else is around the park. For the history Sox fan base, the model is currently "Show up when they look like they might do something big", and that leads to huge drop offs when things aren't good. That's where we are today. This is a failing model, and seeing where we rank among our peers both in attendance and love of stadium in MLB, it's pretty easy to figure out why. This is a franchise that NEEDS to do more with it's game day experience, and what we have done the past 35 years and 35th and Shields isn't it. It's a sterile ballpark with its most prominent feature being "it's not bad". It's a neighborhood with no real easy access to game day entertainment before and after the game, and definitely not a volume of easy options, as is happening intentionally these days in places like Atlanta and Arlington, and historically in baseball entertainment friendly neighborhoods like Wrigley and Fenway. If we want the White Sox to exist in 50 years, we need to realize the historic fan base is currently fleeing Chicago and the Chicago burbs and think about what Sox fans will look like in 2075, not what they looked like in 1975. The trend is greater than just showing up for 3 hours of baseball in a generic building, and the teams that realize that? Those are the franchises doing the best right now.

Sure must have been fun being a fan of the Blue Jays this weekend, huh?

Most guys take a few weeks to a month off then get back slowly into getting ready for spring training. A lot of players have personal trainers that they work with over the off season.

the ricketts family and cohen are the two most evil owners in mlb

They need a top pick so badly. While this looks great in isolation, take the Tigers who have the #2, #8, #33, and #37 guys in this list. Cleveland has 17/58/59. These are the types of teams we are chasing.

Jerry killed a generation or two of Sox fandom, that’s for sure.

Does this improve going forward as a generation of kids grow up with the North side team in the playoffs five times in the last ten full seasons while the Sox have one forgettable postseason appearance in the last ten completely seasons and have lost 100 games more often than they have been above .500? Since 2015 what kid in his right mind would watch this team when they can watch the other team? I don’t think they ever win these people back.

funny how you could probably search any White Sox forum and not find the love for Katz like there is now. I'm not sure why there was a reason to keep him. Nothing really outstanding about him but isn't that like with most coaches. It's about time a manager gets to have his own coaches. That's not White Sox. I guess you have to purge as much as possible from the TLR/Grifol era. I look at this as a good thing.

This entire organization is the epitome of dumbshit baseball from top to bottom.