South Side Hit Men

Zero sense to move Yoan off of 3B here. Burger doesn’t have the defensive skills to play 3B as a regular starter, nor do they have anyone else to play through Yoan’s contract. That’s the problem right now with Yoan out and Tim hurt and or regressing. The Sox are down to covering four of nine lineup spots with a capable starting player (DH, 1B, LF and CF), and zero capable players (hitting plus avg + defense) to fill the other five. Best to flip Eloy ASAP, get Yoan long term healthy either this or next year, move Burger as a cost controlled player to DH the next year or two if he can make the adjustments to be a capable starter, and try to get someone who can at least cover 3B defensively here (low cost early 40s veteran) to avoid decimating the pitching staff.

I looked it up on the Charlotte Minor League Site, and thanked him for the correction. Unlike you, I admit when I am wrong. You are wrong far more and even more stubborn when you are called out.

German Perfect in Oakland. 99 pitches. Will seek revenge this weekend against Chicago.

Thanks, I looked them up on MLLB, weird. Still not sure he’s ready after 50 career games at AAA.

If Grandal and Perez covered 162 games, you’re looking at 50-60 more runs allowed, 7-10 additional losses and likely IL stints trying to cover a of those extra runners, errors, passed balls, and bad game management.

No, it’s because he can’t hit MLB or AAA pitching. Charlotte OPS: Last 7: .382 Last 15: .371 Last 30: .541 Chicago 2023 OPS: .541

Jerry clutches his pearls.

Giolito may have two more innings in him.

Well he hit more than 8 HRs that one time for the Sox. Don’t think that’s worth $73M.

Sox tie Ozzie’s single season home run record tonight (4 - 1993, 1996 & 1997).

White Sox Catcher Home Run Lead: Zavala 6 - 110 ABs Grandal 6 - 213 ABs

Vaughn is the second best player on this team. He will finish likely finish 2nd or 3rd in OPS at season end. The battle for silver .790 Burger .786 Eloy .771 Vaughn

Andrew Vaughn, driving in the runs. But let’s send him down to work on something or the other.

Zavala ties Grandal with HR #5.

Gavin Sheets should be sent down, if Eloy can’t play RF until they get a real one, just play Frazier and bring up Hamilton. Benintendi didn’t look very good on that play either.

It’s multiple long plane trips, and he’s three years younger than Tony. Nive start, Sox hitters look locked in.

Not sure if it's Pedro or Hahn's decision, perhaps they are trying to maintain a semblance of trade value. Who knows what injuries he may have at this point this season. Tim should have been 7th vs. RH Starters, perhaps also even against LH SPs at minimum the past two weeks and hope he can turn it around. He's at .417 the last 28 days, .155 the last 14 and .000 OPS the last 7. April 10th - IL (.731 OPS) Returned May 2nd May 10th (.647) May 19th (.590) Decent stretch to June 4th (up to .633) 91 point drop to .542 June 6-27

Now need to win five straight for a 5-2 road trip heading into a week at home and the ASB. A loss leads them to a season high 14 games under .500 record. Oakland was able to beat the Yankees last evening, so looks like they still have life in them. Wonder if Rick Hahn will take the 4th of July off in lieu of speaking to the media after a 3-4, 2-5 or worse road trip against two beatable teams.

My read is to consistently have your team in an actual "multi-championship competitive window", you need to make significant investments in your front office, scouting, player development, analytics and managerial / coaching staff. You also need to fully fund your international slot money, have a 40 man roster of quality players who can cover normal year to year injuries every team faces. Jerry has never been interested in any of it. He hires the cheapest inexperienced person, spends the least on all of the front office aspects noted above, and their primary successes in the free agent market have come from bargain deals like McCann, Dye, Cueto and others, and he prefers just about any solid plus player walk once they reach FA, with a few exceptions like Konerko who gave Jerry his ball.

He's been saying for decades to people in the industry that it's best to target finishing in 2nd place and dangle carrots in front of (gullible) fans. He has been operating that way for 42 years and counting. 2005 was the lone year the White Sox advanced in the playoffs, and it took several unexpected career years for it to happen.

The White Sox ERAs in the 1960s were significantly impacted by the large dimensions at Comiskey Park, and also the "modern deadball era" across MLB which ultimately lead to a lowering of the pitching mound, and the adaption by the American League of the Designated Hitter rule.

The one reason it makes sense for the White Sox to draft college players is the fact that they are not good developing players, using the NCAA to do their work instead of improving their internal player development. The problem has been they have focused on relievers and 1B/DHs, the lowest hanging fruit in terms of acquiring depth, when they should have focused on players who are solid all around players, especially up the middle defensively, unless they were a potential MVP talent like Abreu. Hahn Era Rookie of the Year Winners: Hitters High School (5): W. Myers; C. Correa; C. Seager; C. Bellinger; M. Harris II International (6): J. Abreu; R. Acuna Jr.; S. Ohtani*; Y. Alvarez; R. Arozarena; J. Rodriguez College (5): K. Bryant; A. Judge; P. Alonso; K. Lewis; J. India Pitchers High School (3): J. Fernandez; M. Fulmer; D. Williams International (1): S. Ohtani* College (1): J. deGrom

They are in a worse spot headed into the next four years than they were in 2016. Hahn signed Eaton, so gets credit for that, but also flipped anything of value inherited by Kenny. He has Robert as the only blue chip in 2023. The long term future is as bad as it has been than it has been since the depression / Charles Comiskey Death / Bridgeport post segregation panic generation of Sox fandom (1930-1950). If Hahn continues into the 2030s, the current generation will experience an even worse stretch and may ultimately force a move from Chicago post half century of Jerry Reinsdorf.

Ozzie had many years with much better players than Ricky, not sure why Ozzie thinks he is funny dunking on Ricky, but then again this guy praised Castro and had one good year in a decade here, and was among the five worst hitters in MLB history with the number at bats he had. As bad as the players have been this decade, I'm also looking forward to dinosaurs like Ozzie and Boyer and Hahn and Boston and Stone to finally be washed away with new ownership.