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Happy KPop Demon Hunters Sing-a-Long Weekend White Sox now averaging 17,983 fans per game, last year also ended up 27th with 17,909. It's going to be really close in terms of overall attendance because of the four game Yankees series next weekend. Minnesota 2 KC 3 (on edge of the WC race) NYY 4 TB 3 (dead series) Baltimore 3 (dead series) San Diego 3 (???) two combined doubleheaders this year

Only Vaughn and Amaya were worse in the early season...

What young player could you possibly even award with an extension as of today? And Sox won't be close to that payroll number again until Ishbia cash injection five years or more from now. Not with the Sox local tv contract cut from $70 million to the $15-20 million level. Plus $150-200 million in debt to pay off first.

Win probability went down 39.1% with Colson foul out DP. Two critical runners wiped out at home in this one.

Plus Boston/NYY media. See Derek Jeter.

Well, they haven't even had a new deal for over $10 million since Fedde... $3.5/$72 million is still 5% of payroll.

Does JR have the money on hand to cut a $30+ million check? You know they're basically stuck with him until trade deadline 2027. Keuchel was the only big money guy they did that with, not even Grandal.

106.1 ev Buxton would have robbed it in the good 'ol days. Back to 225/801

He reminds me of young/er Narvaez so much in terms of his numbers...hopefully power will come.

Have to get at least one run back there...

How many games since HR #10? Feels like a month...homers in bunches coming again, hopefully. 107.7 ev

Of course...

Outman hitting in front of Royce Lewis?

Not even sure who else deserves to be recalled...

Venable still at least "cliched likeable" compared to Grifol...

Heading straight for Mendoza/Maldonado Line.

Finally got Outman to the AL Central... 342 .935 Bring back the great Keaschall debate

That toe injury killed his season...could never get it back offensively, if he still had it after 2024 Seattle.

Months ago, Teel/Quero was billed as their niche advantage over other teams, having two strong catchers coming up together... And Sosa's essentially their best young player, unless you're still buying into Colson Montgomery as an everyday SS. But let's say you traded Sosa and Quero for the 2024 version of Wilyer Abreu...a 3 fWAR RF, does that really make the team better? Maybe? Maybe not?

At one point his fWAR was +1.7 with MIL in just about a month when he's way under 0.0 career-wise with the Sox...

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/breaking-news/article/orioles-rookie-samuel-basallo-reportedly-agrees-to-8-year-67-million-extension-with-team-days-after-mlb-debut-132901274.html Samuel Basallo getting 8 years, $67 million extension from Baltimore. Wow.

I blame this on Chris Getz and Rick Hahn as well. Going to Sox games is apparently too dangerous...at least according to some news reporting. Have been hearing this since the late 1970s as a fan. "Chicago will be the next city that his administration targets for a federal crackdown on crime and suggested a longer and more intense campaign in the nation’s capital. “We’ll straighten that one out, probably next, that will be our next one after this,” Trump said from the Oval Office. “I think Chicago will be our next and then we’ll help with New York.” cnn.com

But he was on EVERY single Top 100 list but one entering the season...or at least after the first half. And to rank Bonemer so far ahead...just crazy. Meanwhile, Wolkow has had at best mixed results. Most would argue disappointing overall.

And Marlins won two AS in 1997/2003 (first decade as a franchise)...and just forty years in existence, while it took the White Sox 88 years (a lifetime as a fan) to match the same accomplishment. They did get 1959 in the middle. Yay?

El Paso 67-55 San Antonio 57-60 Ft. Wayne 57-63 (de Vries, Top 5 guy) pythagorean 50-66 Lake Elsinore 52-65 -7 games overall By far the worst minor league system in baseball, 29th or 30th by every rating system....maybe it was closer to .500 and above three weeks ago when a slew of top prospects were traded, but the correlation level between minor league winning percentage and success of producing ready-made major league prospects isn't a slam dunk. It's just an obvious thing for fans to look at first. You could also for example look at total runs scored and allowed....but 75-80% of that production will never end up represented on a major league roster. But 11 of their already in SD have been traded away this season already...just like a number of Top 30 in the Sox system graduated to the big league team. Charlotte 57-65 Birmingham 70-46 Winston Salem 47-68 Kannapolis 53-64 -16 games under .500 From the #3/4 system at start of the year to #15-18 right now...all that indicates is Birmingham is a much stronger team today than April 1st or May 1st or even June 1st. Just like WestEddy argues about the White Sox record being poisoned largely by journeymen/veterans leading to a 7-23 start.