WestEddy

Considering system rankings, MLB Pipeline had the White Sox ranked 6th, preseason. Fangraphs had us 8th, BA 4th. Bleacher Report had the Sox 3rd. Keith Law had us 12th.

It's weird how we look at billionaires who have made their fortunes on OPM, but suddenly they have "learned their lesson", and will never find a way to make money flow again. Ishbia doesn't want to take over in 2030, or whenever, and relive the 2024 season. Rich businessmen have ways of developing new revenue streams.

But for this season, Sosa and Vargas need to get ABs. It doesn't matter if their bat doesn't play at 1B. Nobody's bat plays at 1B, but you have to have a guy stand by 1B when you're on defense, so one of them should be there. I wouldn't necessarily declare that Sosa isn't in our future. If he can hit 20+ HR, he's playable. 30+ would be nice, maybe he'll beef up and get there.

Baldwin does a bit better against RHP than LHP. I could see Venable wanting to win a ballgame. But Venable has also talked recently about Brooks keeping his head in the game. Or maybe BB's ribcage was tightening up. Or he was in the bathroom.

Birmingham. They're winning like the Brewers.

There's more playoff spots now. The last NL spot is held by a team 6 games over .500. Under.

Sure...maybe somebody will sew a gorilla into his chest. He has about 10 years for it to take. LOL.

Sure. Mena isn't a whole lot more than he could have been. He wasn't killing this year at AAA, and he hasn't pitched since the middle of June. Maybe he would be getting shuttled back and forth with Cannon and Gomez, right now.

You mean the magazine owned by the guy who believes the gold standard is coming back has an opinion?!?!? I need to call my 401k administrator!!!

Sure, I'll buy this. They ended up cleaning house halfway through that season, and we're not tapping into Arizona's cache based on Barfield's word any more, so maybe they've moved on. The Bummer trade was quantity for a guy who sucked (at the time). Mena - Fletcher - looked promising. It wasn't. I hope somebody starts a thread about lottery tickets that didn't win. I will so rule in that thread!!

What scouts did you interview for this comment? LOL.

Before Meidroth got injured, he was their "starting" shortstop.

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Colson offers good defense at 3B & SS, and Meidroth offers good defense at 2B & SS. What's stupid about moving them around like all other teams do with their own players?

Soroka was a good bullpen arm, Nicky Lopez provided good clubhouse presence to a team plagued with insane bad PR in that department. Bummer sucked, everyone acquired was cheap. None of this makes sense outside of the "Getz suckz" echo chamber.

Why are you asking me instead of GreenSox? It's his accusation: All the big brains here are saying it will take 5+ years for Getz to build a winner, if he ever does. Why don't y'all fight with each other's hot takes instead of my very intelligent and happiness-inducing comments?

Apparently, the As won the Bummer trade...

What's the difference? If he builds a team that can win a bunch next year, isn't that good? I would be surprised if Robert isn't traded.

Amaya DFAed.

You're being condescending, and you're misrepresenting what I said, out of context. I'm not calling you names. Just stop.

They've been playing .407 ball since 5/1. That's roughly 65-66 wins over 162.

Lo siento that nuance in a conversation hurts you. I hope you brought extra epi pens. It's also weird that the Sox doing something well makes you so angry. Chill, dude.

I didn't "state" that. You could just reread the actual text you just quoted to see that. Then you could read the bit of insanity I answered with my 2nd comment for it to "make sense". You're just trolling at this point.