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I don't know about Vargas, but we know for a fact that Shane Smith is approaching a career high in innings not even halfway through the season, and his previous career high of innings was achieved over a 6 month period and not a 3 month one. Because of this it is tough to pick apart what is conditioning, what is the league figuring him out, or some combination of both. Obviously on the conditioning side of things, the Sox need to get more involved in picking their spots to give him shorter outings, longer breaks etc. It would be nice to let him continue on, but you really have to monitor his stuff his health to make sure that he isn't hurting himself to continue. Injuries increase with fatigue, and we need to make sure we don't let that happen into a more major injury.

I wonder if this is the reason that pitching doesn't seem to come out of the DR at the volume that hitting seems to be. Very interesting either way. Is there a similar US college/High School study?

*I would also have accepted THAT'LL GET GETZ FIRED!

Houser matched up with a reliever or Robert is an interesting thought.

They matched up almost exactly, with a slight advantage to Smith on the K's area.

xERA 3.65 FIP 3.12 xFIP 4.03 All are around a run per game better than his history average, but 1.5 to 2.5 runs per game worse than he is doing now. So yes, both lucky and much improved. It will be interested to see if this is real, or if the league adjusts back.

14 homers? Seems like a lot, no?

Extend Houser? Why? So he can pitch on a couple of more 100 loss team seasons? Trade him for the highest offer and look for the next project.

100% here. See what Mike Rizzo wants for starters.

Look, if the Yankees and White Sox offered you 50 million a year next year, where would you go? I don't blame them.

Nope. The discussion was values over the winter.

Great, so now by your own standards you can never be right.

If it were me, I would probably sit on the cash until the team is a bit more filled in. Whoever you bring in is still going to suffer through years of losing, and I am not sure you want that.

Draft chat https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/mlb-draft-chat-with-carlos-collazo-7-9-25/

I don't, which is why I don't think this team will be good at anytime in the rest of this decade. I do not see nearly enough offensive talent, nor a compelling reason to add to this team in any meaningful way in free agency.

I really hope he is the next dude in the booth, and hopefully really soon.

He started doing that when he would get sick of Hawk and hasn't really stopped since.

Looked like Sosa hit that off of the bounce.

Look, this team is going to be bad for the near to mid future, at the very least. If you don't have the time now to develop young kids, you never will. You also need faith in your dev team to draft guys like this.

Eh, you do have to have SOME talent. We have been churning some TRASH through our system.

Let's be honest, they pretty much need everything, except maybe Catcher.

The last time in my life I put less effort and time into the White Sox was after 1994.

And they also have a history of developing pitching, both from inside and outside of the organization. With hitting, they have nothing.

It feels like this group might be working in their redirection techniques with all of the contradictory rumors floating around. I don't remember there being any talk of Hagen last year, and then poof there he was. Be interesting to see who ISN'T being talked about that would fit their needs best.

And there is the move of the goalposts. I know you want to take your little victory lap here, but if you want to disqualify news reports on this topic, you can't take your lap either because now you also have no proof at what these players relative values were over the winter.