Chimpton

I know losing back to back walk off games to the Cubs hurts but some of the negativity on here is a bit OTT. The team are 5 games over and 4 games in the lead in the central. All season they have shown fight against the top teams, yes they have often just fallen short against these top teams, but even in these last 2 games they were right in there until the end which is a massive improvement on the last few seasons. Only a few days ago they were sweeping the Tigers and everything was good. Yes there are concerns over the strength of the pitching and whether they will run out of gas but I think the positives of this season far outweigh any negatives and if they qualify for post season they will have far outperformed any but the wildest expectations.

Wikipedia says "In 2025, Mendick was hired as a coach for the Florida Complex League Rays, the rookie-level affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays.[24] In 2026, Mendick was hired as the manager of the Charleston RiverDogs, the Class A affiliate of the Rays" So presumably he does still exist!

According to North Korean state media, former leader Kim Jong-il played golf just once in 1994 at the Pyongyang Golf Course and shot a miraculous 38 under par (34 strokes on a 72-par course), so Trump has a long way to go yet!

Who would ever have thought that if you put out an entertaining team that are winning that it would cause good attendances!

Being English I am also a big fan of cricket which also has challenges like abs, and some players are just bad at making the challenges, one captain got 10 in a row wrong.

Nice to see Schulz have a good start, hopefully it will do a lot for his confidence going forwards.

This time last season if you had said this you would have been called mad, Colson had been sent from AAA for special training! It just shows that sometimes patience is needed with young players. Similarly Vargas has finally begun to look an MLB player, when after arriving at the Sox he looked awful. Hopefully Quero is beginning to sort it out again after a slow start to the season.

Agreed, if they try to rush him back it could lead to a worse hamstring injury or another injury.

Buyers to achieve what? To just qualify for the post season and then lose in the first series like the last time? Because this team isn't going to go all the way to the World Series as much as we would all love that. If this rebuild is genuine they shouldn't try to run this season just because the AL Central is so weak and potentially harm the longer term development of the team.

McGuire being awful was to be expected but Quero has taken a massive step back so far this season. With Quero there is at least hope he can return to at least last seasons's level but McGuire is just filling a space until Teel return, hopefully not rushed causing recurrent injuries, as this season is a bust no matter when Teel returns.

But change doesn't always imply progress!

When will this process evolve into a winning team?

Is that 75 each?

And there's the problem.

And it has been 20 years since the Sox last won a post season series, although admittedly that was the World Series!

Sadly it is also 20 years since they last won a post season series.

At the moment I can only give a D because any hope is on the young position players progressing again in 2026 and that is something that the White Sox haven't done well recently. There is certainly more room for optimism than at the end of 2024, but without strong free agent signings this off season then relying totally on all the young players to progress and none to plateau or have a worse season in 2026 is asking a lot.

Is he in charge now?

Well they tried that with Vaughan and Sheets so why not Sosa as well!

But equally after a pretty good offensive effort in games this season the bullpen has also lost games. Since the all star break the offense has been generally ok, and probably better than the pitching.

They still scored 5 or more in 3 of the losses, and managed 3 or more in all of them, these defeats have been mainly down to the pitching.

Improving by 19 wins is 'quite a bit' but only if that is repeated again next season when some of the young players will have to adjust to the league adjusting to them. Although 41 wins was an embarrasssingly low starting point, many on here were predicting another season as bad or marginally better. They were never going to go from a 41 win team to a .500 team in one season or even 2, to be honest they have improved more than I thought Getz was capable of achieving, although some of that will be just from not having Grifol as manager!

I thought he had/has a problem with back spasms. That would affect everything from his batting to his fielding, Hopefully the issue is resolved now, but back issues have a nasty habit of recurring.

Things are certainly more positive since the all star break than last year, but if they get a half decent offer for Tauchman they should take it as they are still in rebuild mode and he is probably at peak worth at the moment. Keeping Benintendi will be more a question of no one else wanting him. I agree about keeping Sosa at least until next year to see if he can improve some more, I know he has weaknesses but give him a chance to improve.

Teams would still look at his injury record and slump in 2024 and first half this season and probably offer less than Getz wants.