WestEddy

This blip keeps hitting me like Grifol was thrown out arguing that Robert was right to not make the throw. Which would be fun, umpires throwing out a manager yelling that "my guy doesn't have to throw out a runner in the bottom of the 9th, tagging up!!!" And the umpires are like, "Sir, this is a Wendy's".

I know lifetime Sox fans who hated Big Frank. Thought he was selfish, and bought into all the bad clubhouse guy BS.

What's the injury delay for? Maldonado winded?

Lookout Landing? That guy went on to write for Fangraphs. (Jeff Sullivan?) Grant Brisbee from McCovey Chronicles was also great. They had a feature area called Breaking Maddon, or something. The writer would make all the players on one team 5'8"/120 lbs, then play them against another team. The game would inevitably break from the scoring. He'd do screen caps?

Yeah, Brett's tried to supplement that. SBN is not a good partner.

The season's over in 4 months. This is his age 24 season. At Birmingham, he'd be about half a year younger than the average pitcher in AA. He's age appropriate for AA. Also, he was only drafted last year. Fast mover.

Milton Bradley seemed to have regular maladies, was ... maturity challenged, and then fell off the table. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bradlmi01.shtml

He was and I agree with you. I really had no deeper point to argue.

And for the "Riley Gowens is too old for A+ ball..." crowd:

And right on cue, MLBTR has an article tracking reliever to starter stories: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/07/checking-in-on-2024s-reliever-to-rotation-experiments-july-edition.html

This would be a much better feel good story than Clevinger...

Tnet came with a big reaction, so maybe it's the way I wrote it. I love and appreciate the work you guys do, and SoxMachine. Other blogs, like Soxon35th, SSS, aren't really my style, that's all. It is time-consuming just to research the simplest of concepts to write about.

Calm down, dude. I get to have an opinion. I have actually tried writing there. SBN wanted as much video as possible, so writing an article meant carving it up and making videos of it. Tons of work. p.s. I believe the word you want is aspersions. Dispersion means distributing over an area.

It went through the media, once, way back when, that Derek Jeter went to great lengths to keep women...not resentful and talking. Gift baskets, and all. That probably also included some form of birth control.

Everybody does the same things, now, too. Morning after minor league recaps, game threads, game recaps. They try to be too jokey, and it gets tiresome. James Fegan and Jim Margalus do a great job at SoxMachine. FutureSox is great too, when they actually write articles.

https://www.southsidesox.com/2024/7/2/24190537/some-changes-for-our-south-side-sox-writers-fans-first-sports-network-chicago-white-sox They certainly do a lot of work, there. I feel the analysis has become meh since Jim Margalus left SBN. The minor league prospect coverage is good, if they didn't roll out one write-up at a time, starting with the 100th highest prospect in the system. Third time's the charm. Was anybody a fan?

Chris Sale pitched 36.1 innings in 2008, 89.1 in 2009, and 103 in 2010, in addition to the 33.1 he threw in the pros his draft year. I really don't have a point. His college stats aren't in Baseball-Reference. https://fgcuathletics.com/sports/baseball/roster/chris-sale/997

Making the least controversial statement in my SoxTalk posting career, Tim Anderson is not as productive as Nicky Lopez.

They extended Sale and Quintana after Danks, courted Samardzija and Giolito, both of whom were intent to test out free agency. They also worked with Lynn on a short extension. Oh, and Bummer.

You need guys to run and get the ball when the other team hits it.

Dude, it never stops. That's the business of baseball. Even a team that isn't tanking or rebuilding that has a player headed for FA, and they are not in the playoff race will trade off the assets that are out the door. If we're contending, we add. If we're not going to make it, we dump off the jetsam.

I also think we're kind of miscomparing rebuilds, too. Giolito, Dunning, Lopez, Eloy, Yoan, Kopech and Cease are comparable to the guys we're going to get in the Robert, Fedde and Crochet trades. Take away the Giolito, Lynn, Burger, Middleton, Bummer and Graveman trades, we still have 6-10 interesting starting pitching prospects in our system.

I don't believe they had the pitching development in place they do now. This all was me responding to a "We'll trade Drew Thorpe in three years" comment. My reasoning in bringing up the group of starting pitching prospects was to illustrate that I believe we could have a full rotation, and a team moving towards competitiveness by that time, where they wouldn't be considering trading Thorpe.

My main focus was to point out the layers of failure people are suggesting. Yes, the 2016+ Hahn/KW rebuild was abysmal. I know what the goal is, but they made the playoffs twice. There was no previous focus on development of pitching or hitting, there was no focus on spreading out talent in the international arena, no plan for developing the high schoolers they punted on the early rounds to sign in late rounds. That's why the original rebuild "failed". There was nothing behind the main 10 or so guys.