bobbydanks

or just not embed tweets and make these twitter "journalists" make a point instead of a headline

objectively this team is going to need a lot of subjective decisions before they can even get remotely competitive to think like an objective team you subjectively objective subjective objective

i did some accidental research while looking up why morneau won the mvp in 2006 (when they went on a historical run due to him and the white sox a decent collapse) and something that stuck out because the white sox have used almost a historical number of starting lineups and pitchers and etc. this year in 2006 after the world series they only used 37 different starters including pitchers and the league average was 44 and the second closest was 42 outside of garcia/garland/buehrle/vaqzuez/contreras only two other pitchers started games and they pitched 2 and 1 games respectively, brandon mccarthy and charlie haegar (this is is the most insane stat imo that no one got hurt) and all of them had mid 4 ERAs while the offense was mashing still never gave any rest to any of the starters juan uribe played the least amount of games in 2016 at 132 out of regular starters 4 of our 4 highest played bench players batted between 280 and 330 so is it possible ozzie ran the same group to the ground after the championship and all those extra games and wear and tear of winning the championship? https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHW/2006.shtml I just thought it was an interesting enough distraction to think about from the rest of this season and recent past and also a bit of odd statistical hindsight on what we thought would be a power house. Having five starters start all of your games with extensive innings seems insane in retrospect and having 4 guys off the bench batting high enough to start for most teams but barely getting playing time or traded for a championship caliber team is also worth talking about. I was sure that team was going to win 164 games. If I was off on any statistics feel free to correct me I just was kinda amazed by the topic matter, this was also a year when almost everyone in the ALC had 3-4 mvp candidates but I digress. That was a hard year but a weird one too.

If our ownership had any interest in eating salary maybe we could take an overpaid but not terrible reliever off of someone's hands if they add a mediocre prospect with upside alongside it. There be some added wins to our starters when they do look good instead of the bullpen entirely blowing it every time. Thus creating a few extra wins and trade value for them, maybe go for some groundball relievers struggling in hitters ballparks that are young enough and need our elite defense (lol) or something. So maybe I was harsh with the first post but there are definitely possibilities that we can pick up prospects by eating some salary of a reliever just to up the value of our starters and maybe not make our defense run around and get injured too much? I don't know, trying to positive.

Also can people please stop trying to sell us on Luis Robert like we're some hapless GM of another team in your MVP baseball sim, we already know he's a great player. it's not a job interview, it's an internet discussion board. You're not auditioning for Glengarry Ross 2 ffs.

That seems like a pretty quick contradiction. If you're expert guru GM that thinks more control equals larger return despite the fact that he's sucking and coming off of injury then you should have no issue with waiting on him to produce a bit better on this losing team.

I don't like it because he's probably at the lowest value of his entire career.

yeah not wasting trading capital on a reliever for a .200 team...

they also seem to have a bad habit of sucking

i know a lot of broke ass people and they wouldn't go to a white sox game with a 25 dollar gift card and a ride

why do teams keep drafting catchers that cant catch if they're just going to turn them into first basemen unless their hitting peripherals are through the roof

intelligent writers are smart enough to have a career outside of journalism, little alone being a fucking white sox journalist

tommy pham rules

there are several journeymen out there with 3 ERAs. just because the white sox fucking suck don't put that poison on everyone else

That's what really pisses me off about the bullshit they sold us on this season. I love defense and smallball and all the romanticism around it. Instead we're watching clowns that either are living off of reputation or spending too much time in Bridgeport before the games; There's nothing fun about this team. It was a garbage selling point to begin with but it would be like if they debuted a cool new mascot and it showed up looking like some 4th (guaranteed) rate garbage off of wish or alibaba

I don't like any of these quotes but I'm less likely to hold it against Korey Lee and Crochet who had no idea they'd have to be the team leaders and just want to sound positive.

i also looked at a building in the south loop

i'd have to give to give up on colson montgomery. never have and if you're worried about Quero's power in a conversation about Colson Montgomery...

eh he's just a writer riding a trend for views. replace the sky with loyola a few years ago or whatever it's the same article.

The whole time I wanted to explain to people that he was Quintana with a lesser perceived value and worth holding onto but I didn't want to sound racist just because they're both hispanic. Well...

Schultz has been our best prospect this whole time, Montgomery is a nonstarter. Quero was just underrated and has been our best (edit: positional) prospect since the second he entered the system.

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they could win 20 straight games and probably move from last to 24th in the power rankings

the twins remembered that they would probably be the 3rd or 4th worst team in the league if they weren't playing us oh thanks vaughn great AB

thank god that ball didn't stay fair eloy probably would have gotten hurt running it out