South Side Hit Men

Yes, and have a little patience and make sure you have proper coverage before DFAing guys you can work with on the side like Diekman pitching decent (but not great see FIP) in Tampa. Sox: ERA 7.94 (bad); FIP 5.93 (bad luck) TB: 2.77 (solid); FIP 4.43 (better luck). Same deal with Lance Lynn: ERA: 6.51 (bad) vs. FIP 4.95 (bad luck). Thought Colome was toast, ok with that DFA.

These are the low risk acquisitions (Cueto, Middleton, McCann, Elvis 1.0) that are the one win in Hahn's column over the years. Hope it works out for the Touki and team. Hahn swoops in to pick up the scraps.

Jerry Reinsdorf clearly knew Tony La Russa’s physical agility and mental prowess would give the White Sox an overwhelming advantage, including the ability to pinch run for Grandal and Vaughn.

Katz fixed Lucas and Cease, among others. Cooper fixed himself a huge sandwich.

Tony never challenges the play at home for both safe out and blocking. Likely doesn’t understand the rule. Tony NEVER inserts either Luis Robert Jr. or Tim Anderson after “their promised day off”. But to the Bridgeport crowd and Bob Nightengale, Tony should get a second plaque in Cooperstown.

https://www.mlb.com/glossary/rules/collisions-at-home-plate The catcher is not permitted to block the runner's path to the plate unless he is in possession of the ball, though blocking the path of the runner in a legitimate attempt to receive a throw is not considered a violation. The runner can be ruled safe if the umpire determines the catcher violated this rule. But per a September 2014 memorandum to the rule, the runner may still be called out if he was clearly beaten by the throw. Backstops are not subject to this rule on force plays. The last sentence answers the questions of throws to the plate with the bases loaded.

Baseball is dying because the owners have worked the past few decades to maximize revenue per attendee. Owners have shut down dozens of minor league markets, by and large moved all games to a pay cable/satellite model, rendered the regular season near meaningless for most teams by having a 12 team playoff farce mostly if not all on cable/pay TV, cancelled the 2020 season and tried the same with their latest lockout. Can't even walk up to the ticket window, vendor or concession stand with cash, excluding people who were able to attend in the past. World Series # of Americans, Average # of World Series Viewers & TV Rating 1973 207M Americans 30.7M & 30.7 Oakland 4-3 over New York Mets 1983 230M Americans 23.4M & 23.4 Baltimore 4-1 over Philadelphia 1993 259M Americans 24.7M & 17.3 Toronto 4-2 over Philadelphia 2003 291M Americans 20.1M & 12.8 Florida 4-2 over New York Yankees 2013 319M Americans 15.0M & 8.9 Boston 4-2 over Saint Louis 2022 338M Americans 11.8M & 6.1 Houston 4-2 over Philadelphia

It's a mutual option on Clevinger and he gets a better deal if he is decent and healthy, or Sox pay $4M for him to leave as a sunk cost. So Cease, Kopech, and perhaps Lynn is what 2024 is looking like at this point internally. I can Hahn signing Lynn on a 1 or 2 year. $10M is per year deal if he wants to continue and the Sox aren't doing an under $100M payroll tear down. If they are able to execute what they've said about Crochet, then perhaps he can give you 100-125 innings, but it keeps looking more and more as though bullpen is the most likely scenario. This is why I think they should have claimed Plesac and a few more guys like him, with lower 2024 salaries so if you add 4-5 guys beyond Cease and Kopech and have a decent plus 2B, RF and C somehow, they can say they are trying in 2024.

He was close.

Smart thinking by Pedro to challenge both the block and safe/out call to get the run.

Yes, I reported on this earlier. These same thugs hit more people afterward 10 blocks south of the stadium after police pursuit before being apprehended.

Good challenge by Grifol, and nice overturn on that play!

Thoughts and prayers. These same thugs hit four more people ten blocks south of the stadium.

Hahn burned their bullpen and Monday starter in Seattle instead of making moves 29 other GMs are capable to make. The bullpen is gassed, will be tomorrow as well. Grifol has no good options. https://www.rotowire.com/baseball/bullpen-usage.php?team=CWS

Bill Veeck in his second offseason in second stint as Sox owner turnaround the White Sox from 64-97 to 90-72, a 36 game improvement. Would need an entire new baseball brain trust, but if the Sox keep losing and drawing 16K on perfect Summer days, it may finally come to fruition.

You get Pride Night. Texas meanwhile has pride on the field. 6-4 Rangers.

Jerry will be the lone employee in the FO with AI and charging fans to vote for each managerial decision.

Texas 8-9 better than the best two White Sox hitters.

Would have walked on four pitches. Goes down 1-3.

Fans saw six Frazier innings in CF, something they will be telling their grandchildren 40 years from now.

E-6

Sense of urgency with Frazier terrifying out there. They need to rest Robert more in future games, take him out when they are down 5-6 plus runs. Good for his health and overall production.

DJ Vaughn