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I'm gonna hold my woo hoos after this year. Still fully expect this tweet Chicago White Sox August 2nd While rehabbing an oblique injury, RHP Jimmy Lambert tore his UCL aand needed Tommy John surgery, and also tore his ACL and had leg amputated. He is expected to miss 40-50 months.

I do like that the @longo fella downvotes everyone. It's like Reddit in here. And stop handing out trophies all willy nilly, God damn it.

Holy crap! I thought it was Melky

Apparently Delmonico is Spanish for good. Eloy is Spanish for wait til next year.

POTY.

The caulfield stamp of approval spares no one

Okay. Thanks for clarifying. Thought we were just talking about this season. 550 at bats and only a 2.6 war is not that impressive really. Albies has almost an equal amount of at bats and is double that in fwar. The Torres kid from NY has 240 at bats and already has close to 2.0fwar. Some real good young blood at second base these days.

Ricky is such a horrible manager. I never thought I'd want Ozzie back because I despised him, but now I realize how good he was. He'd be perfect for this team. Too bad he burned that bridge to the ground and pissed on the ashes. Ozzie really knew how to handle a pitching staff, and he also knew when to go get his ass tossed. Ozzie wouldn't have had a second thought about holding the Umps accountable. Renteria is chicken shit.

No shit. Criticize the umps Hahn. and take your fine. It is for the good of the team and Moncada.

This may sound ridiculous but you could honestly argue that 15% or so of Moncada's strikeouts were due to horrible calls

You got it.

I do about half the games. Don’t have that one in the vault currently. I’ll play a little Blink here for you coming up here.

My god that's not even close to a strike.

WTF????? C'mon Umps. WTF did Moncada do to deserve this???

I know. I’m seriously asking what you want to hear haha.

I thought drawing walks was like the #1 thing that translated to the majors 🤷‍♂️

Eloy is ready

Eloy Bomb. Again.

I don't know...there's literally nobody in the Mariners systems I'm enamored with. Maybe I'm not savvy to some of them...which is probably the case...but still a bunch of meh.

Of Tilson, Engel and Palka -- Nicky is by far the most likely to turn into a useful asset. He should be given every start in LF the rest of the way, health permitting.

Yeah can everyone please chill out about Abreu? The important metrics on his season aren’t as good as last year, but they’re within the range of his last 4 years for everything from hard hit % to fly ball rate. His BABIP has been suppressed, and assuming regression towards the mean he’d be around an .850 OPS. Smart teams know this stuff. Is his value likely slightly suppressed? Yes. But he has value and he’s a far superior player to Gurriel. 90 games doesn’t change that. Will the market value him properly? We have no idea. Stop acting like the notion of him getting a real return is preposterous.

But then what's the White Sox version of TalkBears?

LOL the pessimism here is absurd. He was almost the exact same hitter as last year for the first 35ish games. Only difference was the lack of power and that’s an anomaly (he had a 2.5% HR/FB rate before getting hurt!). Still a potentially intriguing piece, everyone needs to stop the handwringing. Is he as good as he showed last year? Maybe not. But his approach numbers were identical and he’s actually hitting more fly balls now. You’re gonna be pleasantly surprised when positive regression hits.

Source described Lambert's injury as "not terrible," so that doesn't sound season ending or anything.

A left fielder in Charlotte, that can hit, just read this shaking his head.

TWO RUNS for DSL!

Yuli Gurriel should have been the AL's all star at 1b and Evan Gattis is leading the Astros in HR and RBI. They are not mediocre players. And if they're caring about future performance, there's a nonreasonable chance that his future performance over the next 1-2 months is comparable to the previous month and a half, which means no one, including Cashman, is giving up anything of value for him right now. If they want him, they can claim him on the waiver wire in August.

The last thing you want to do is delay their development. If you're talking about a couple weeks like with Bryant, then who cares. But while you want to pay him less and keep him longer, you also want to compete sooner. You don't know how long he'll need to play in MLB before he's going to play good. Avisail Garcia needed about 300 games before he was ready. If Eloy posts something like an .800 OPS in AAA the rest of the year, we'll feel okay not promoting him yet. But it will also leave us in a situation where half the board wants to delay his call-up next year until the Super 2 deadline or maybe just punt the whole year.

I'd recommend reading his post history, it's literally doom & gloom all the time.

Because those two kids being awesome right out of the gate does NOT mean Moncada hasn't been good so far or won't be a great player with time.

You genuinely enjoy being all doom and gloom, don't you?

Where is Moncada nearly a 3 WAR player at? Fangraphs has him at 1.5 on the season.

Barons announcer just dropped this bomb: the only player in professional baseball with more walks than Zack Collins is Mike Trout 🤯

And what are the repercussions of pissing him off? Pretty much none. Maybe he won't re sign 7 years from now, but if he's as good as we hope, then he probably wouldn't anyway, yet provided 6 years of dominance for the Sox. He cant hold out or stop playing. Unless he hits .500 at AAA, its justified to wait. The Cubs did the same with Bryant, they filed a grievance, it disappeared like a fart in the wind. ( Shawshank) It sucks for the players that's what the rules are, but that's another discussion.

Let's give Cleveland a Hand!

Fan and owner impatience used to be why teams succeeded. But then baseball TV money exploded and owners don't care as long as they have a low payroll and are raking in $$$ while waiting for tank-led rebuilds to bring WS titles someday.

I never said "risking" anywhere in my post. I was in favor of a teardown but I wanted some fresh blood in charge of the rebuild. Some people around here seem to think that it is a foregone conclusion that this rebuild is gonna turn out like the Cubs and Astros did. That could happen, but the odds are heavily stacked against it. The people in charge of this rebuild are a couple tiers below the people in charge on the Northside and down in Houston.

Great post...also I forget who said it but someone mentioned they saw Abbott hit a 430 ft homer in Arizona

Well of course, garbage time baby

By design. Brighter days ahead. Patience.

Gleyber Torres or bust!!!!

In his ~600 ML PAs which equates to about 1 full season, he's put up 2.6 fWAR.