Balta1701

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE SHITTING ME

Walking a .177 hitter and creating their chance. ARGH.

Lopez. Why not Lopez. I just assumed he was coming in until Gameday said something else.

After an Offday in the most important series of the year? Why even go to the playoffs. Someone might need the day off in an elimination game.

Lambert? The F***?????

Cleveland will stage one more threat. Have to get through it when it happens.

It’s definitely a wrist injury. It started when Schoop landed on his wrist on like August 11. They played the stupid dumb foolish “don’t put him on the IL” game and brought him back 6 days later. He had 4 good strong games then aggravated the injury on a swing at the end of the 4th game. That was like on August 22 or so. He has I believe 1 hit win since then.

Can you actually bunt one handed?

Sighs. 62 pitches through 5 for Civale. Does everyone realize how big it is for Cleveland if he goes 6 or more with the lead?

Biggest AB of the year?

All right, we need to tie this game here. You cannot get into the 6th and the Chicago bullpen against Cleveland’s bullpen with a deficit.

93 pitches through 5. Not bad all things considered. Please don’t send him out for the 6th with no one warm.

just clear out the entire coaching staff and front office and figure out from there.

Cmon DC no two out rallies.

48 pitches through 4 for Civale. Faced one over the minimum so far.

You can’t let Cleveland get to the 6th with the lead given how their bullpen is going.

Low.

Going to want to get to 3 or 4 runs in the next couple innings since the bullpen is going to have to cover half the game for the Sox.

Here comes pitch 50

Cleveland will still be in first if they are swept.

I appreciate how "throwing anyone who suggests playing Sheets in the OF out the nearest window" is now labeled as impartial.

Personally I think there's a lot of hints that the 2022 payroll is JR's absolute limit right now (See: the trade deadline). Sheets + Leury to someone actually might be do-able, that's probably about that player's value. However, every one of those moves leaves the White Sox needing someone to replace them. Great we removed Kelly - who is replacing him? Another $5 million reliever? Their bullpen has an opening now. We removed Pollock, great, do we need to spend another $4 million on someone who can backup CF (probably yes, that person wouldn't be on the roster)? Great we removed Leury, is Sosa the only backup SS or do they have to spend $4 million on Andrus?

@he gone. - If you're spending $9 million on Cueto, $15 million on Abreu, and $20 million on Conforto, you are right up against the Tax line, possibly over it. You have a payroll boost of nearly $20 million compared to 2022. I think that's more than Conforto gets, but not too far off on the other guys. And I will be skeptical that the White Sox will push into tax territory, even for a year, until I see them do it.

I don't know what the Twins are going to do. They are in a weird spot where they were way more banged up than the White Sox so they could project to being healthier next year, they may or may not lose Correa, but if they lose him they have more money to spend. I do think they will look quite different next year, but as with this year a lot of how they do will come down to Buxton's health. I think the Guardians are going to be notably better next year than this. They played what, 16 rookies for significant time this year? Those are guys who are commonly going to get better with experience. On top of that, they have the #3 system in the league per MLB.com with 5 top 100 prospects, 4 of whom are expected to arrive next year. That organization is currently loaded, and they have so much youth that it's reasonable to think they could add to their payroll. On top of that - Detroit and KC may be 70 win teams rather than 60 win teams (Detroit had an entire 5 man rotation get hurt, that may not happen again), and the schedules are more balanced so the White Sox can't fatten up on as many wins against Detroit. The White Sox will be a talented team, but with their old roster I'm not even sure they will be the most talented team on paper next year. I still think the Sox have to try their best to compete for another year given where their roster is, but even if they make good moves they could easily find themselves stuck in the wild card or worse.