WestEddy

Most players aren't going to move the needle more than a couple of wins. You don't need to envy my definition. A player adding 2+ wins can be your definition of moving the needle, too. It's perfectly reasonable. A bunch of people said this team would lose more games than last year, so no, I don't agree with you that it would have been hard to not be better. The league didn't take players away from other teams and put them on the White Sox to make it fair. The league didn't gift runs to the Sox so that they could win more games this year. It's easy to criticize every single move a team makes, then when they work, pretend that it would have been hard for those moves to not work.

Tauchman and Houser moved the needle quite a bit.

Oh well. We won another series. Get angry and take it out on the Mariners.

Ken Henderson.

Uh, DeWayne? Chris Singleton was sneaky good for a season or two.

The Sox have 19 games after today against probable playoff teams. (Sea(3), Det(6), Yanks(7), SD(3)) If they go an insane 10-9 in those games, they then have 31 games against other teams that they'd have to play at a 28-3 pace against. (Cle(6), KC(6), Atl(3), Min(7), TB(3), Bal(3), Was(3)) I have argued that it's possible for the Sox to play close to .500 ball the rest of the way, but I don't see them ending up a .500 team for the season.

I thought Monty could be a 2-3 WAR player somewhere on the diamond. Yum yum crow.

Maybe Dombrowski is angry enough to say what he had on the table for Robert.

That's why some guys run baseball teams, and other guys write down what people say and "report" it.

I understand the sentiment of wanting Schultz and Hagen in the bigs but I think we really play down the importance of veteran leadership. We complain about older guys who pad their stats, but there are 8 of 26 guys on this team I would call older vets. 1st and 2nd year guys don't have the credibility to set the example, and routine isn't something that coaches "teach".

I don't want to extend him, but he does have a bit longer history of doing this in Cleveland, and a little with Milwaukee. Curious to see who does better in free agency, Houser or Civale.

Can we start to talk about Aaron Civale?

I'd get Mead and Ramos up. Elko has two whole option years left to work on his swing and miss game.

He did.

Curtis Mead has been assigned to Charlotte. He played yesterday.

I think they really just grade them on the amount of roster churn.

I think I see one more win in this schedule. Maybe all the people who shouted that this team would lose more games than the 2024 team were wrong? Perhaps that is something to consider?

it's a great listen.

I'm sure that nobody cares, but I've been listening to the Beach Boys' Smile while following on Gameday. Awesome.

Maybe Michael Jordan could have been a great OF, and Birmingham just kept him down.