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I think I need to start a business buying directly from the New Era factories here and shipping individually to the US...still doubtful that's going to avoid the de minimus charges/customs fees, though. Every major shopping mall inChina now has MLB and New ERA outlets with hats and logo shoes being the two most popular items...75-80% worn by girls/young women who don't know the Red from the White Sox, just the logos and color schemes.

HaysDH 2 0 0 0 0 1 .373 1.154 LuxLF 2 1 2 0 0 0 .348 .898 Marte, N3B 2 0 1 1 0 0 .370 1.104

A bit similar to Gordon Beckham story...

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White Sox ahead of 6 teams (see you Balt) and tied with another for RS/RA differential. Unfortunately this year just bad enough to lose a lot of pretty close/competitive games due to bullpen RISP and general lack of Xb pop. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2025/04/28/mlb-power-rankings-rockies-worst-record/83317549007/ MLB power rankings: Historically bad Rockies finally unseat the worst team ever

By that measure, the Marlins are a model franchise due to 1997 and 2003.

Elko’s Baseball Cube player ratings Power 88 (-3 compared to last season) RBIs 83 (-3) Durability 75 (+4) XBH 74 (-6) Hitting 71 (+3) Runs 70 (-8) Speed 33 (-3) Contact 22 (+1) Average 64.50 (-4.50) Even average MLB first base defense would be a significant step up from Vaughn. Much bigger target for infielders, us the reach advantage on arrant throws.

The worst team in baseball gave up on him...so he ended up with the second worst team. There have been hundreds and hundreds of previous Greg Joneses who didn't make it due to their hit tools not developing, unfortunately.

Brooks Baldwin has been on a nice little run recently but he's still hardly into plus fWAR territory due to his issues on the defensive side of the ball. He does have good speed...but it's unclear yet if he's going to be more than?a super utility player.

Too old. Won't be on our next playoff team lol. Same excuses for trading Burger...who certainly hasn't caught fire for the Rangers this year, at least not yet. But Andrew Vaughn is much more expensive and most certainly won't be on the next Sox playoff team and offers much less power...which is Elko's only real plus tool as another relatively one dimensional 1B. What's the worst thing that could happen at this point? Vaughn magically morphing into Torkelson with a change of scenery trade?

The Royals are last in home runs but .500ish due to pitching and Witt Jr. Is that more interesting? Maybe not...based on KC attendance numbers compared to let's say the Tony Pena-led "Nosotros Creemos" teams of Beltran Dye Sweeney that put up runs in buckets.

Deflection from what? Blaming Reinsdorf instead for the majority of this current predicament instead of Getz? There's more than enough of that, too. It's simply that a modern GM has to be a lot more accountable than an owner so set in his ways and incapable of change or evolving will ever be. The ivory towers are impenetrable and well insulated from criticism from down below.

https://www.mlb.com/stats/ops?page=2 Arguably 15 of these players could have been or were White Sox at one point or another. The problem is we'll bring up a Ben Rice or Austin Hays or whoever and it will always be he wouldn't be willing to sign with an AL Central team or JR won't authorize new contracts over $5 or we don't have the trade capital to pull it off...there can always be some sort of excuse or defense. That was Hahn...that was KW. If we're now relegated to puff pieces on Colson's athleticism for SS when he's hitting around .170 or whatever...it's a bit worrisome since this rebuild seems largely based on the young prospects becoming stars rather than big-time FA spending. Give him some time. Can't waste even a single year. But time keeps ticking away. Minus major major changes it's going to be four years of 100+ loss teams...and a product we can't even give away for free in the face of the Cubs having one of the most entertaining teams in baseball. Even the burst of Ishbia excitement has been been dampened.

Or Phil Maton? That's a lot of fWAR for a reliever though.

Sanders pretty much the second biggest story of the weekend, after Shedeur Sanders...you know, some people do flip around and watch other games or no hitters...if it's in another area of the site when a game's going on, nobody would notice it. Fathom, for example brought up Lakers/TWolves and I appreciated the opportunity to watch Anthony Edwards' dominate. And that was a totally different sport...but somehow the world kept spinning, or is it rotating, on its axis?