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Chris Murphy had a prettier outing than Newcomb.

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The funniest part is that article was written during Monday's 17-9 shellacking of the Cubs at the hands of the Reds. Rolison came into the game in the 3rd with one out, and proceeded to give up: single, single, walk, double, walk, home run. 6 runs. I suppose the heads he's turning are watching balls fly out of the ball park. His spring ERA is 27.00, and his WHIP is 3.50

Jon Berti told him, "forgeddabout it, I'm-a the second baseman!!"

4 baserunners in the first, 1 run. Midseason form.

Apparently, there's a Padres' audio stream, but I don't know where to find it.

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There go his chances at the HOF.

Meidroth had 3 errors at 2B and 9 at SS. Neither were anywhere near the most at either position.

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Barry M. Bloom does a short piece about Braden Montgomery's goal: White Sox' Braden Montgomery confident he'll find Fame - Chicago Sun-Times

James Fox was saying something like that on last week's FutureSox podcast. WST may have dropped the ball by not taking Acuña's prospect seriously, and pretending it was only a salary dump. They'd wanted Acuña for over a year.

I would definitely be spending my weekends selling flowers and prayer beads at the airport for Chris Getz.

Hoo, boy. I'm not sure I'm prepared to start fantasizing about what Acuña could be.

Everybody's working to get up to speed and not get injured. Kelenic's average opponent was a AA pitcher. There's probably a small number of guys on the bubble for whom the coaching staff watches for vigor, elan, focus, etc. Rule 5 guys especially need a decision made by the end of spring training. The only things that really matter is how somebody's new 4-seamer looks. Did your OF lose a ton of bat speed? They watch the replacements so they have an idea who might be coming up during the season, but guys who have 1000 big league PAs aren't going to be judged on 50 ramp up PAs.

No, Pythagorean isn't exact. It's not like the 2025 White Sox were cheated out of 11 wins. Conversely, every run outburst didn't come on the back of a utility infielder pitching. Run differential does have its uses. Labeling a team as "bad" is pretty broad. Why were they "bad"? Every player didn't suck to a man. They put up runs; the bullpen couldn't hold leads. The run differential and Pythagorean starts the discussion that every part of the team wasn't "bad", there were just areas that needed shoring up. With a better bullpen, with better early season subs for injured players, maybe they make up those dozen wins.

While I'm a bit impatient with Colson, Teel and Meidroth not putting up explosive numbers, they all have starting spots on OD. The first 6-8 weeks of the season will tell the tale. It's important for each of these guys (and Acuña, Pereira, Baldwin, Vargas, Quero, Murakami) to not be sitting on a .420 OPS on April 23.

Josh Nelson does a full profile of Grady Emerson over at SoxMachine: 2026 MLB Draft: Firsthand look at the impressive Grady Emerson - Sox Machine

Isn't Pythagorean based on raw run totals? Like, if they tee off in some key games, that doesn't exactly translate to overturning those one-run losses, or even being able to put up offense against pitchers from the pitching side of the roster. That said, I think a big part of the problem was staring us right in the face - the bullpen.

Cub-fan tears evaporated and made the air thicker for their halves of innings.

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