WestEddy

I think some people envision me having a notebook filled with me practicing signing "Eddy Vargas" in it, and I think besides saying he could be a 3 WAR 3B (not crazy given the pace he was on for 2 months), I've also said he may not be on the next competitive team. He's a place holder until he taps into that top 40 potential with the bat.

Only off by not reading the comment. 34 games was about 1/3 of the games already been played.

Or he was, and it takes a while for a change to feel natural in game situations.

I thought he could be Joe Crede-like. If he put up 15-20 bWAR at 3B, or LF, that would have been phenomenal for the #22 pick. It's just his rookie season, and the league doesn't seem to have adjusted to him, much, yet.

It was a podcast. Him and Jon Daniels talking about the GM job, how they got theirs, and the duties involved, how the position has morphed just over their time in the game. I found it interesting. Hahn was in baseball about 23 years and has a ton of knowledge.

You mean.... Fred? Yeah, Rick telling JR to fire him was probably the biggest takeaway. Interesting insight on how Cashman and Dombrowski are just straightforward dudes, instead of wasting his time just info-gathering.

That is Sosa.

Cute

The weird part is that Mead has reverse splits, where he's hitting RHPs way better than LHPs. Woo is a righty.

So, by somebody's definition, both Scholtens and Noda are extremely valuable players.

I think if you picked up 6 random pitchers and 5 of them worked out, that would be a good hit ratio.

Interesting interview, with Hahn and Jon Daniels, talking about the job of GM, Hahn tells some vague, PC stories about trades he made or didn't make, deadline philosophies, etc. The South Side Blueprint With … - Rosters to Rings Podcast - Apple Podcasts

I only watched a couple episodes of the Red Sox doc on Netflix, but I think there's a running subplot with the wife of one of the players living in a hotel with the kids. It's gotta suck dumping everything on the wife to keep the family going, and all.

Is that Pete Ward? That was ***just*** before my time. We had a media guide or something that bounced around the house about the '59 team. I was born in 63, so I was fully sentient around 71. Weird how, with baseball cards, there's a whole aura around guys you just missed. I'd be looking at my Don Buford card and wondering why nobody told me about his time on the White Sox.

Counsel said Soroka's going on the IL. God, that sucks. 2024 was such a horrible year, and I'm really rooting for guys like Soroka.

Dude hasn't had 100 PAs, yet. He's a weird case. Sox rushed him his first year, and he responded, then got injured, so the prospect analysts had no idea what he really was. And neither do we, really. His BA and OBP are dropping steadily, but he's not really "slumping" and logging 0-fers over days and days. He does seem to be able to field, so you can cross that off your list.

I really wish good things for Houser the rest of the way (except in the Sox series). He seems like him and his wife have had a rough year with the newborn and the flux of changing teams, and all. Some Twitter peeps are LTFAO, and I'm just SMH. I hope he pulls it together and draws a good contract this winter.

Conversely, if they play at that .420 rate the rest of the way from today, on (42-70), they'd go 21-29 the rest of the way, or finish at 63-99. Their difficulty of schedule has dropped from 3rd hardest to 12th hardest, rest of the way.

AL Central Division (morning of 8/1 - actual) Tm W L W-L% GB RS RA pythW-L% DET 64 46 .582 -- 532 451 .575 CLE 54 54 .500 9.0 424 453 .470 KCR 54 55 .495 9.5 393 411 .480 MIN 51 57 .472 12.0 451 484 .468 CHW 40 69 .367 23.5 416 480 .435

Just the first two I found.

Sounds like somebody not employed by the White Sox is really mad the White Sox are hanging on to Robert. The more Nightengale goes off, the better I feel about not trading Robert.

11 out of how many times they took a lead into the 7th inning.