South Side Hit Men

The Mexican League team, of course.

Same as Ozzie. That's not going to cut it. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/guilloz01.shtml

And Burger may finish in the Mexican League with Yermin if he doesn't figure out he needs to lay off unhittable sliders.

What the f*** was Grandal swinging at there?

What they are facing tomorrow, pending the 9th inning: Bullpen usage Last 3 and 5 games through tonight: Tanner Banks 63 109 Aaron Bummer 37 45 Garrett Crochet 0 22 Kendall Graveman 0 18 Joe Kelly 18 35 Reynaldo Lopez 29 29 Keynan Middleton 38 38 Gregory Santos 19 36 Jessee Scholtens 25 39

Change in tune from Hahn's late May press conference. Sounds like there is resignation that this season is over after losing 4 of 6 out west, not to mentioned continued attrition with the roster. Vinnie Duber providing the 411. https://allchgo.com/2023/06/19/white-sox-trade-deadline-decisions-will-depend-on-ability-to-compete-in-playoffs-not-just-for-al-central-crown/ Two Hahn quotes:

Well Hahn said today they will most certainly be selling, not buying, based on this comment. Jerry pleased to be dumping salary the last two months, possibly beyond. Thank you Vinnie Duber for your reporting! https://allchgo.com/2023/06/19/white-sox-trade-deadline-decisions-will-depend-on-ability-to-compete-in-playoffs-not-just-for-al-central-crown/

Those walks always kill you. Would be nice having a lineup where Heim at .791 is the lowest OPS.

That walk seemed intentional. Need to get Lowe here.

And Vaughn adds one for out number 2.

Marz? Nice! I had a few New Glarus Pilsners this weekend. Good, but rather have their discontinued Kid Kolsch.

A Back To Back, And A Belly to Belly!!

Very nice Andrew! OPS Vaughn .757, Eloy .740.

Romy should be the regular 2B once he returns. Andrus can field which helps the pitchers and is OK at this point spelling Romy and Tim 1 game a week.

The one notable change for tonight would have been Scholtens would be the starter tonight, with another reliever up in Seattle. Didn't agree with a lot of the FA/trades moves with Tony's involvement. Think Bochy would have had good suggestions last offseason, definitely this trade deadline, and they perhaps make smarter short term signings like RF Conforto ($36M/2years) and Zach Eflin ($40M / 3 Years) and or Kyle Gibson ($10M/1 year) plus Brandon Drury ($17M / 2 years) instead of Benintendi ($75M / 5 years) plus Clevinger ($12M / 1 Year).

My point was the thought process of the hire. I agree Bochy can't work miracles, but he would be able to evaluate players, have more gravitas in terms of roster decisions, take a good inventory in terms of who has any value and who doesn't. The team would be playing harder and I believe being held accountable would result in smarter baseball. At minimum, it wouldn't be depressing like most of this season beyond their lone good 2 week stretch against terrible teams + the beat up health wise Yankees.

He's out of chances. They can keep cancelling SoxFest, never appear on any non team owned media, but their season ticket base will be down to team sponsors if he continues beyond this 90-100 loss season. There is no future here over the next 3-4 years, will be a bottom 5 team in baseball once again as they have been during Hahn's entire tenure, but with zero carrots left to sell. Even Jerry knows you can't credibly sell another rebuild with this ass clown being a part of it.

Remember Sox Fans, Rick Hahn was not interested in Bruce Bochy last offseason. He was interested in Pedro Grifol. That's all you need to know about Jerry and his mindset.

Texas 44-27 .620 Chicago A. L. 31-42 .425 14 GB Chicago A. L. 31-42 .425 Oakland 19-55 .257 13 1/2 GB This gap will be larger on Thursday, much larger after October 1st.

Funky cold Padilla. This game is over, just waiting to see if they get shut out by a left handed starter.

I don't expect him to work here, just recommend people who should work here, a 2-3 month consiglieri. The problem is, hard to recruit people when their term could literally be a day or decade, depending primarily on when Jerry dies.

If he gets promoted, he will still f*** things up. KW and him need to be gone, let Dombrowski or someone set up a legit FO. I really hope Jerry has no more friends he wants to slot in these spots.

Sox have dropped .404 net in OPS since their 2019 tanking team four years ago today. June 19 Lineup 2019 vs. 2023 OPS: CF L. Garcia .700 vs, LF A. Benintendi .703 (+3) SS T. Anderson .818 vs. 1B A. Vaughn .744 (-74) 1B J. Abreu .814 vs. CF L. Robert Jr. .836 (+22) C J. McCann .893 vs. DH E. Jimenez .745 (-148) LF E. Jimenez .798 vs. C Y. Grandal .724 (-74) 3B Y. Moncada .864 vs, 3B J. Burger .874 (+10) RF R. Cordell .590 vs. RF C. Frazier .570 (-20) 2B Y. Sanchez .640 vs. SS E. Andrus .517 (-123) SP* L. Giolito .000 vs. 2B Z. Remillard 7 ABs Note*: 6/19/19 at Wrigley, No DH.

He looks so sad in this picture. Really hope he can start hitting, but not sure that's going to happen. He hasn't gotten a hit since April 29th, is 0 for 9 with 6 Ks and 1 BB on his current assignment and hasn't played since June 11th because of the DFA / waiver time. Even if he hits .550-.600, he'd really help Robert who is going to break down eventually with 1 day off per month (0 in June, 1 in April, 2 in May which I believe were a tweak of something).

Gonna get worse with guys like Frazier, Sheets and Eloy in RF and Burger playing 3B regularly.