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Because they are ditching other players to keep Coals buried.

Rinse, repeat.

Yet we are going to have Mike Clevinger on this roster

Then cut him or trade him. Quit wasting a roster spot 9n a dude you have no interest in playing

They also still didn't replace those missing hitters.

So your argument for RUNS OF SUCCESS is isolating parts of 3 seasons down to 1 80 AB stretch where Vargas hit .239/.313/.423 for a whopping .736 OPS, with negative defensive ratings, ignoring the other 2/3 of the same continous season where he absolutely crated to .102/.215/.170 and a -1.2 WAR and are telling me that is him playing WELL? That's what you want to call REALITY?

A new shake was totally going to be my bold prediction.

And still no one wanted Clevinger.

No one wanted him 2 seasons ago. No one wanted him last season. No one wanted him this off season. The White Sox are the only team in MLB willing to bring this dude into their locker room since 2022.

To be fair the best indicator of future performance is past performance, but obviously it isn't absolute.

I don't know why these meme has taken off, but it is absurd. No one is going to be mad if a Sox player has a good year. Surprised, sure. Mad? That's just dumb.

Children? I sure don't see it happening "with ease". Some do, but not a ton.

The most successful franchise in Chicago has zero parking. White Sox fans aren't nearly as stupid as you are making them out to be. If Cub fans can find Wrigley Field from all over the world with no team parking, so can Sox fans with a way smaller fan base. Plus there will be more parking in that area than Wrigley because of existing parking in the area.

Who was the last hitter to completely skip the minor leagues, and why is Montgomery that ready?

Yeah, it could be so much worse then what you are seeing now, hahaha

Whatever homeless 38 year old utility player we bring in to replace Robert?

We only need the dudes who think anyone can do 8 minutes

The White Sox will have a new stadium deal this year.

Sure, but the overall talent on the roster is decently worse.

And still haven't been replaced.

Him and Don Cooper not pushing guys to go 100% with every pitch.

This right here is important. While I think we might be a bit better and more stable on the back end, we are going to be giving up a legitimate one and two on the front end. The same game we might have been able to squeak 3-2 last year during a Fedde/Crochet start, turns into a 5-3 loss this year on the front end, while the game we lost 10-2 last year maybe turns into a 5-2 loss this year. While advanced stats see the pitching production at the "same" by balancing out the loss of the most horrible starts with the loss of the best wins, with the complete lack of offense, I don't think it will translate into as many wins as it would if we had an offense that could score runs with other teams in MLB. The only games we were really in last year were those quality starts. And I definitely don't think those guys survive the season in tact anyway. There will definitely be periods of time where we get a lot of bad starts in a row, just like we saw last year as some of these guys through growing pains. Injuries are going to happen for sure, as will some big ups and downs. I am also still not convinced that the bullpen will be substantively better than last year, and with as many innings as they will be covering, there will still be a lot of really bad pitchers throwing a lot of innings. This isn't going to be a lot of 7 innings and hand it to our 2 best pitchers to close (whoever those are this year).

Look, breaking a bone is never great, but it seems preferential to a back injury like this. It just doesn't seem to go away, and only gets worse.

I don't think it is any secret that Lip and I aren't the best of posting buddies, but I feel this is a completely misrepresenting his feelings. Decades of frustration building expectations of failure is different than "glee" over an injury.

I would be surprised TBH. Baseball player "shape" doesn't really dictate mileage types of training. They need to be fast for short sprints, and not over distance. A full out sprint around the bases is 360 feet. A mile is 5280 feet. It's a different type of fitness.