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He's got to get here soon to assure we get compensation for him winning ROY.

Bro we have been wandering in the desert behind Chris Moses for like 15 years now.

The right move would be the DFA Benintendi as he just isn't a very good player and is a DH only who is a liability when put in the field. You can more roster flexibility with that move. There are plenty of nobodies on this roster who you could get rid of and it wouldn't hurt in the slightest, so it would be pretty hard to make the wrong move here.

I mean who is on the way out? If Sosa isn't in their plans, it was a complete waste not to trade him when he had more value in the offseason.

I definitely have a little empathy for Schriffen because he isn’t malicious or mean, but man does he step in it a LOT. So many unforced errors

Ope.

He also isn’t saving this team unless he can put up 3 quality starts a week, so what’s the point?

If he's that bad with a glove then release him. No shortage of DHs in baseball. Sox fans are enamored with the worst defenders playing 1st, a position that handles the ball quite a bit. They way they do things never makes sense and you are what your record is. They way they are using him, he isn't going to get better. He would probably be another guy who got better once he's not a White Sox.

I highly doubt Sosa is the one on the way out.

No one cares about nostalgia anymore. Its a thing of the past!

Bring him up now. He's got a much better chance hitting Cease than the rest of these clowns.

Yes please. Team becomes immensely more watchable once some of the prospects are up. Particularly the pitchers.

Remember when everybody scoffed at me for raring him higher than others on the prospect rankings? The Chairman of the Board is going to surprise A LOT of people when he gets called up. The guy will be an on base machine.

Gordon is such a hayseed, a likable one now that he's not actively playing, but a hayseed. There was some discussion on sushi or something and Gordon was like "never tried it". Bro, you're rich, how have you never gone to a high end Japanese place, even just a steakhouse that has sushi?

Nostalgia is one hell of a drug

The worst part about the nickname offered by Schriffen was the lead up to it and then Beckham's "Wow!" If he had just busted out the (lame) nickname without the minutes-long diatribe beforehand, it still would have sucked but not as much.

Thing is, Robert wasn’t going to recover value here because he is a player that needs other great hitters around him. I said this last summer. He’s not a Soto, Judge type hitter. But he’s a Schwarber type hitter; when there’s good players around him, he can carry you. When there’s not, he looks like hot garbage.

The White Sox front office...

Wait who are the Cockies

The signature is the best response.

Cool. Let them do it. I am OK with us not having to resort to lowest common denominator stereotypes. We can do better. There is no shame in that.

It could have been so simple, “Mune” can incorporate moon shots if you want, or just leave it at that. It works without needing to come up with south side samurai

I gotta say, the players change but this team consistently destroys all interest every year before Tax Day. That's not easy.

One encouraging note is Acuna’s bat speed is way back up, and that’s not something that needs a large sample size. Didn’t know where else to post this.

He’s not a ranked prospect and therefore not eligible for draft pick compensation.

.750 OBP game. I'm alarmed, why doesn't he hit a dinger every at bat

Thought his changeup looked nasty

Carlson, Fauske, Alcala to me. Big potential imo. McClain, Mogollon, the new guy Boston, LaCombe on a lower scale. Not much interesting in the way of pitching unless some guys come out of no where.

Hagen Smith is doing 3 inning starts initially so he can finish without getting shutdown in Chicago.

Man, the game's not going Kelenic any favors.

He's in extended spring to start

More compelling that he's found that power almost exclusively on pulled balls in the air. If he can get to league avg max EV's, with his contact and bat to ball skills he could absolutely become someone like him. His spring results were a big step up (from bottom 5% to the 30-35th%) but he still needs to add more strength and show it over extended period. I'm incredibly bullish.

On the FutureSox pod they had someone from BA (whose name I forget right now) saying Fauske’s speed is a 60+ tool.

Good lord was that garbage. They just equated everything in the NBA and sports, to the Bulls actions, and called it hypocrisy. Lazy ass work.

In the lineup tonight. May only be VERY VERY soon, not VERY VERY VERY soon.

They are already at risk of losing the fanbase yet again if they get totally buried in April. Teel was the emotional catalyst the second half. Just feels like something is missing with team chemistry.

Still don't see Ant-Man as that huge impact franchise player where service time manipulation is a massive issue.

@tray definitely approves of this post. He was calling for him early.

Lotta exciting players to watch on this team.

No point in murdering AAA pitching after he did it on the big stage of the WBC.

I don’t think Sosa has ever had much value.

It will be a double bonus if they release Benny to do it.

Not sure I understand the Wrigley and Fenway hate. What about them makes them overrated? Season tickets to either obviously lessens the charm as you deal with seating, sight line, etc issues on a regular basis, but I always think of ballpark rankings based on relatively few visits rather than what it would be like to regularly attend games there. Wrigley and Fenway are both really unique experiences and I totally get why they’re bucket list destinations and always near the top of lists.

April 2, 1900 - The White Sox played their first ever game. It would be an exhibition win over the University of Illinois baseball team. The final score was 10-9. That season the American League wasn’t considered a part of Major League Baseball. That would happen the following year. However the Sox would take the pennant on September 12 when they beat the Cleveland Blues 12-4 and 9-1. April 2, 2021 – Now this is how you make a debut! Sox catcher/DH Yermin Mercedes had over two thousand minor league at-bats before finally making the team’s opening day roster. On this night in Anaheim, he had a sensational debut going 5 for 5, with four RBI’s in the 12-8 win. Mercedes had four singles and a double in the game. The last time a rookie had five hits in their first game in the big leagues was in 1933 when Cecil Travis of the Senators did it. Mercedes would go on to have 12 hits in his first four games setting the modern Major League record and be named the American League Player of the Week. April 2, 2023 – As the White Sox were splitting an opening four game series in Houston, the starting pitchers each struck out at least six Astro batters. That was the first time in franchise history that took place. The individual breakdown saw Dylan Cease with 10, Lance Lynn and Lucas Giolito with six each and Mike Clevinger fanned eight. April 2, 2024 – Sox starting pitcher Garrett Crochet wrote his name in the team record book after throwing seven innings allowing one run and striking out eight in beating Atlanta 3-2 on a raw night at Guaranteed Rate Field. This came off his start against Detroit on opening day where he allowed a single run in six innings striking out eight. It was his first two Major League starts and the 16 total strikeouts were the most ever for a Sox pitcher in the first two starts of his career. He also joined Jack McDowell (1991) and Juan Pizarro (1963) as throwing at least six innings with one or fewer runs and at least six strikeouts in their first two starts of the season.

Jerry should be so ashamed of his two franchises

Any other front office in the league would have been fired into the sun by now for all of these atrocious decisions compounding one after another