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Ron proofing the new streak.

Sometimes I think you are just too optimistic for your own good. A real Ted Lasso.

Yall need to start spelling "Vahn" correctly. I don't want any Andrew Vaughn bad juju in this thread.

Looks like it’s a tough stretch for teams playing the Sox instead.

Was there today. It was Comiskey at its best. Great atmosphere

He's actually really good at getting production out of his pinch hit decisions.

The gauntlet is over and we went 6-5. You definitely take that.

Thinking that Roch Cholowsky is maxed out is fucking insane considering what the Sox have done with some hitters of late.

Sox went 13-12 in June with a +25 run differential despite no Murakami, only four legit SPs, and having to face the Phillies, Braves, Dodgers, Yankees, & Guardians.

So they won 22-1, and then 2-1. Tomorrow they have to win 222-1. Good luck.

f*** Reinsdorf

The recent CBAs have arguably been terrible for the White Sox. By the league's internal metrics, the Sox are basically the poorest and worst off team that is classified as too rich and well-off to get any help from the revenue sharing and competitive balance systems. If the Sox do well financially, they will have to share a bit with the poorer teams. If they do poorly, they are on their own. And they get the big-market penalties with regard to draft lottery, compensatory picks, international spending, etc.

Feels like people have been in a rush to move on from Meidroth basically since he debuted, and I really don't understand why.

The gauntlet AIN'T s%*#

First time the Braves lost the opening two games of a series all year.

Keith Law hated Nick Madrigal. Was the biggest detractor of his profile in the entire industry.

How many more times does @ron883 have to be vindicated? First with the prediction of Sam Antonacci's (The Chairman of the Board's) greatness. Now the Braden Montgomery call up. I'm sure there's more I can't think of. Unprecedented record of predictions happening. @Bob Sacamano @Chick Mercedes @35thstreetswarm @Baron you also got it right in the poll. @Jake you voted 3 minutes ago and therefore are disqualified.

Way to Ron proof it again @WestEddy

We have no excuse not to buy a top-end SP in free agency this offseason. As such, I’d rather keep Bonemer and go with a cheaper SP at the deadline. I truly believe we should not be doing “all-in” trades in year 1 of our competitive window.

......Why would they try? Perez is literally the worst everyday player in the league right now. He's at -1.5 fWAR already, with the next worse player is a full point better. Absolutely no reason to give a declining 51 wRC+ player any ABs at DH or 1B on this team, and whatever good his framing does is erased by...everything else. Getting him for free would be an overpay.

Final: Sea 3 - Cle 1

That you like half the team is the surprise !

tray being anti fun was definitely on my bingo card.

Nice comedic timing from Colson

Until he found another restaurant.

88 win pace in the middle of June

Steve Stone on The Score with a couple things he's heard from the clubhouse: Teel expecting to be playing rehab games within 7-10 days Mune feels good, could be on the shorter end of the 4-6 weeks

Tex 4 - Cle 2: Final

We’re in town for this one! Our summer trip this year was NYC/Philly/DC and we’re finishing up tonight/tomorrow in Baltimore. My son is undefeated in his Sox game career (4-0) and we’re looking to push it to 5-0 tonight! Sitting in left field, hoping to snag a bomb off the bat of Miguel.

Ron was right about someone getting beaned but it was KC beaning their own guy in the nuts

Your first place Chicago White Sox are 42-38. They have surpassed 2024's win total just before the halfway point of 2026 After going 4-22 vs. KC over the previous two seasons, they are now 6-2 with a chance to clinch the season series with another win this weekend. Sandlin was very solid in his return, the only blip was the control lapse after a long wait in the dugout. The pitch mix tweaks he made in the minors seem effective, with more targeted curveball usage and more cutters after the first time through. Hopefully the offense keeps up for the rest of the series and they build some confidence to take on the road. The fact that they tagged multiple pitchers in multiple innings and not just one guy having an off day is a good sign. The outburst also rocketed them up to the T-2 best run differential in the AL. Elsewhere, DET and MIN both had blowout wins and CLE lost 3-1. Records since May 25: CWS: 16-12 DET: 14-14 MIN: 12-17 KC: 12-18 CLE: 10-17 (!!!) Would be good timing for a hot streak with the potential for Mune's return to lengthen it.

Let's sweep these fucks! I fucking hate the royals and their fans. Went to a Sox game at Kauffman in 2023 with my husband and step daughter and got heckled the whole damn time by some frat boy douches saying we should be cubs fans since we are the right color and other bullshit like that. Then when the game was over, some 50 year old frat boy douche got right in my face and screamed White Sox suck and spit all over me. And this was a Wednesday day game in the rain haha. Not like anyone should have been that wasted. Unfortunately I was exhausted because we were driving back from our vacation so I didn't say much back. I did manage a shouldn't you be cardinals fans to the young douches and are the royals good? to the old douche. But what the f***? Does having mahomes just make that whole city insufferable or something?

First up we'll do Sam Antonacci, who god bless him, is looking like at worst a super utility guy, most times a rare, valuable plus bat that can play 2B and corner OF. He started his college career with Heartland Community College a D2 school, promptly racked up a POTY, transferred to Coastal Carolina, slashed a fun 367/.523/.504 and was drafted in the 5th round by the Sox in the 2024 MLB Draft. Preseason, he wasn't that highly regarded on most Sox lists, but was noted as a high floor guy by Fangraphs in their writeup, which had him 11th: Our friends at Future Sox had him 9th in the org, with a similar profile while noting his excellent stat cast data from the minors:* Ok, enough about the past: Sam comes in with .8 fWAR in 208 PA. ZIPS figured he'd be a decent bat out of spring, projected for a 99 wRC+, but so far he's exceeded that modest projection with a 119 wRC+ and perhaps has been a bit unlucky with a xwOBA of .370. ZIPS has reacted and rest of schedule they think's he's good for a 107 wRC+. Sam is the def of a "spray hitter" with a pull percent of only 33.3%, middle 40.1%, and oppo 26.5%. He does a great job avoiding popouts, at only 4.3%.** Sam destroys fastballs, he's 5.6 runs above average already. That's his bread and butter and if you can hit fastballs, you can hit anybody. Eye test wise we see this, he's a very wristy hitter and that allows him to really see the ball "deep" compared to guys that are full go big lower body load, eg Colson Montgomery. But this analysis is mostly stat focused so we'll get back to that: FG has him down for -3.8 runs in the field, which sounds bad, but is fairly benign for a rookie convert. For example Vaughn was -28 his convert year and Sam isn't going to approach that. Let's look at his statcast profile: 78th percentile spring speed is excellent: FG has him for -.1 runs below average on the bases, which makes sense given he's been picked off a bunch and done other stupid stuff. He's fast, but he needs to be a bit smarter to fully unlock the value. His rolling xwOBA has been closer to league average or slightly better the last two weeks, but 50 games into his career, he's an elite bat to ball guy -- really no two ways about it. Things can change, but usually when a guy passes the eye test and metrics test like this for even a couple months when the regression happens they will figure it out and Sam has an athletic profile that belies his relative unassuming appearance. The arm grade surprised me but makes sense and that will play at 2B. Who could you comp Sam to? I see some Ray Durham with less pop (for now). Ray had a long and productive career, I'm sure Sam and us fans would love 2/3 of that 34 career bWAR for Ray. Or if you want a white guy we'll go with rich man's Craig Grabeck. ______________________________________________________________________ *Good job guys **I'm going to make up a new stat here, it's gonna be called "BIF", which is barrels to infield flies / popups. So far Sam has 11 barrels and 8 popouts so by my math that's a BIF of 1.375. For comparison, Mune has a BIF of 1.92, Vargas has a BIF of 1, Colson has a BIF of .49, Quero has a BIF of ∞ despite only two barrels he has not popped out. Is it a useful stat? Maybe? Someone smart could run some regressions. It certainly is a good ratio for how tolerable a hitter's ABs are from a watchability standpoint Gonna try and do one of these every off day for next couple months. NORTHERN SOUL, THE INTENTIONS - DON'T FORGET THAT I LOVE YOU

When he was called up last year, my husband noticed that he looks like Nathan from South Park (which makes Vasil Mimsy I guess) so I'll be sad for weird comedy reasons when they eventually get rid of him. But yeah, he strikes out too much and it seems like he might be bad at tagging people out

Wikelman Gonzalez has been moved up to Winston Salem to continue his rehab

Making it about himself? His teammates bought him the stupid wand. They absolutely love the dude and what he’s doing. Absolutely bizarre that Sox fans are trying to make this into something that it’s not…

Colson Montgomery 1st season : 20th HR in 247th AB Colson Montgomery 2nd season : 20th HR in 254th AB He's the only player in history to hit 20 HR within his 1st 275 AB's in each of his 1st 2 seasons.

There are only two remaining teams in MLB without a loss streak of 4+ this season: the Braves and your first place White Sox. And ATL is on a L3 with Misiorowski up next, so the Sox are well positioned to be the last team standing Such a difference from the last couple seasons

Your first place Chicago White Sox are 38-32! First series win vs. LAD since 2014. First series loss for LA since May 8-10 vs. ATL. The White Sox are the only team with a series W vs. both LAD and ATL this season, and they did it without Mune or Teel. 24 home wins is tied for the MLB lead (Rays). They have won 8 straight home series. I liked Venable's creativity with the staff today given the off day tomorrow.

I hope they like bunting in Philadelphia

They should keep Montgomery 2 and Gonzalez. Vote Acuna off the island

For the Presidents of the Antonacci fan club @ron883 @Look at Ray Ray Run

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Why are you like this?

My point is pretty simple. Under Hahn, we routinely had zero depth in the upper minors. As such, when core players went down with injuries, we had no one to fill and even provide replacement level production. Getting negative value out of a position while trying to compete is a big fucking problem. This offseason, Getz went out and added depth where could. Tristan Peters was added to serve as insurance in the OF while Tanner Murray was added to serve IF as insurance. Both were viewed as AAAA types and came dirt cheap, but offered some floor and the ability to cover a variety of spots. Sure enough, one of our main CF options in Brooks Baldwin went down in camp and was ruled out for the season. This opened up a slot on the Opening Day roster for Peters and he’s run away with it. As has been discussed in numerous threads, his offense is going to regress some, but when his defense is this good he’s still a positive value player. For comparison, Evan Carter & Jacob Young have provided similar defensive value and have wOBAs of .286 & .299, which has resulted in fWARs of 0.9 and 1.3 in CF respectively. If we assume just the midpoint of that for Peters, he’s a 2.5 win player even as a strict platoon guy. One last thing, but your claim “that his speed & defense wasn’t a secret” is simply not true. He never once had the reputation of eventually being a 98th percentile range OF and top 5 to 10 defensive CF in the majors. If he did, he would not have gone for cash considerations and only started a 1/4 of his minor league games in CF. And this isn’t a guy who “couldn’t hit”. He was literally known as tweener OF with a plus hit tool and good eye, but questionable power. He had multiple seasons with above league average offensive production, including his final season in AAA. Your description is filled with revisionist thoughts and doesn’t actually align to reality.

Please use this one! #fuckron Let’s fucking go!!!