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anyone ever tell ya you're quite impolite? i think you should chill out.

imagine spending 3 hours being annoyed and then spending another 3 hours talking about how those 3 hours annoyed you

How many aged center fielders named "Taylor" do we need on our team? My vote is for zero. There are like 10 bad outfielders on this team that are probably better than both Palacios and Taylor (and Taylor) and still probably shouldn't be in the major leagues. I say we give Julks and his 1.000 OPS another shot before we go sign my dad off the waiver wire. Let's get Tauchman up here. Pass on Slater, frankly. None of these guys should be on the team next season, so maybe this isn't even worth discussing, but we notably have a plethora of really bad outfielders in the minors who might still be better than AARP cardholder Chris Taylor. Time to start imagining the Zavala/Summerhill/Montgomery outfield, Sox fans.

this game could've been so much better. you knew with this weather and wind conditions, Wrigley was going to be a bandbox and it was going to be a high scoring game. both teams should've scored 10+. Vargas was incredible, probably the best game of his career, right? hitting the ball consistently in what seems to be a repeatable manner, but his defense in particular has impressed me. he's not 'passable' at third base, he's actually good. Vargas, Meidroth and Sosa have all played some stellar defense and all three guys I thought were 1b/dh risks. all three look like every day players at worst, you could envision Meidroth replicating a lot of Tim's production at SS with less power but better obp and better defense (we'll see). on the other end, you have Robert and Vaughn combined 0 for 8. Vaughn at least progressively crawls down the order and has more days off than he used to, but it seemed like Robert was turning a corner and then fell flat. I think Robert will be fine because it appears he's 'adding' new wrinkles to his game (walks/stolen bases) and is as good defensively as ever, but Vaughn is just...I think at this point irredeemable. There are like 4 other guys you'd rather give at bats to who combined make less than he does. I think Robert takes it personally that PCA is the hot new center fielder in town and is outperforming him in every category...he tried really hard to throw him out at home when there wasn't a chance, a stark contrast to him holding the ball last season as some nobody tagged up to win the game. I think LuBob is playing like he cares and is still contributing despite his ice cold bat. I think the biggest loser of this game though (besides all of us) is Venable. Questionable calls on positioning in that big inning, but one starts to get the impression that he'll just throw in the towel when the odds aren't very good. Castro and Gomez, who are these guys? In a lost season like this one, this series vs the Cubs is an important one and you should be managing it like you're trying to pull a miracle out of your hat. 6-2 is not an insurmountable lead particularly in these conditions. And this Sox team actually hits the ball a little bit, but the conversion rate of hits to runs has to be even worse than last year.

seems to me this "idea" of yours is one you just made up in order to levy a passive aggressive personal attack.

wtf. just throw it to first base at this point lol

going on tv and saying "this was the best era of white sox baseball in history and it's someone else's fault we weren't better" strikes me as annoying and opportunistic and thinly-veiled. employment is good, he's just not very good at it and there aren't so many jobs. he can try his luck at 'consultant' or something, give the baseball job to somebody competent/not annoying.

angling for a new job, are we?

Came to this thread wondering about Summerhill...is he a reach at 10? Looks to me like a viable option in center field. Whitney Young product too.

i'm taking chris "ooh ooh ooh" flexen over bryse wilson any day of the week.

glad you can read the little font on your screen i just looked at his glove. prick comment, frankly. why is everyone on this forum constantly in a bad mood

ok i didn't see that coming

everybody knew that was going to happen. called for a fastball right down the middle, why?

"several players busted before, and so every future player will also be a bust" would be kind of a silly way to abstract on the historical evidence though. i don't understand the negativity in this thread. what's the point in being pessimistic about baseball, I don't get it. if it's not enjoyable, you don't have to follow the team. there are plenty of other hobbies. there are definitely some good players to look forward to though. and if they don't turn out to be good, so what, life goes on.

his only contribution to the team was just further embarrassment for us: wearing another team's gear.

ez win

that was awesome, rojas. gotta rule that a hit though, that's a double.

lol why are they doing a charles comiskey bobblehead giveaway?

i assumed the course was set for the #1 pick and we don't even appear to be doing that right.

Thank you Heads for helping to build a really wonderful website and community of thoughtful Sox fans. 20+ years is a long time to be contributing to the same site and you helped make it a meaningful place beyond the White Sox or baseball. We lost a friend. I'm really sorry to all of you guys who lost a longtime friend. What a horrible tragedy.

too cute about "using the whole roster". the defensive substitutions were not helpful at all. every single one backfired.

Arroyo + Collier + ??? = 👍

Pujols and Miggy are other good examples...you still gotta sign guys like that if you have the opportunity. I thought there was a good chance the Judge contract would flop but he somehow got even better. This team would look completely different if Harper signed here. Someone to play right field when we were actually good and someone to play 1st now. Maybe they don't draft Vaughn and take Abrams. Not worth fixating on, but you wish the Sox were in better position to go after, like, Kyle Tucker in free agency. By the way, you heard it here first: the Sox will sign Steven Kwan in 2027 to a "record-setting" 5 year, $90 million contract. The Sox will reward the LHH gold glove left fielder with the largest contract in team history and he will go on to produce exactly 0 WAR over the life of the deal.

I think you're far more likely to get Xander Bogaerts than Bryce Harper. You still have to go for it, but the ROI for any free agent is pretty bad when you have pre-arb guys putting up 5 WAR.

He "chases" a lot but he doesn't really strike out either. Right around league average at 23%. Meanwhile we've watched him tee up a bunch of pitches outside the zone for rbi's. he's shown some pretty good contact skills this season compared to last even if the numbers don't really show it. I guess that's the usefulness of 'xwoba' but I don't really know how they come up with that. my question is where is his power? I don't think you worry too much about his bb/chase rates but instead hope he profiles sort of like Javy Baez and homers more than he walks. .260/.300/.450 with 20 home runs feels like something you could see out of Sosa. I think the interesting thing about WAR is how much more "highly" rated Sosa is compared to Baldwin. Both have looked pretty good to my eye but Brooks gets dinged because he plays every position, just not at a particularly high level. You still probably prefer Baldwin's defensive skillset to Sosa's. defensive WAR seems pretty arbitrary.