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Or they’re implicitly arguing he wasn’t actually ready but they were “forced” to bring him up early due to organizational depth issues. So they can block him again with another from outside? Idiots.

None of the other four outfielders at Birmingham should be blocking Colas. Cespedes is barely hanging in there at the periphery of the Top 30. Only his name recognition has any impact, but that and the money they likely wasted on/invested in him has nothing to do with Colas, either. Sunk cost. The White Sox will eventually promote him simply so they can argue in the media he’s close enough to the big leagues so they don’t need to tie up long term money with a LH corner outfielder in FA.

It’s not like Hinch has done all that much, but there’s no way he could have been THIS bad. If only they gave Terry Francona a shot, and it has been multiple times they could have given him the job. Same with Leyland. We can’t even identify the talent within the organization, let alone externally.

Still sticking with 109 wins?

It would be more interesting to interview KW to see if he’s aligning with Hahn, TLR or now trying to separate from both. It’s quite obvious Hahn and LaRussa are going after each other in ways both subtle and not so subtle. Would frankly love to see Hahn asked how he would manage a pen and lineup as decimated by injuries and non performance as the Sox active roster the last 4-6 weeks. Other than less Leury and sticking with more of a set lineup, no obvious answers stand out. Two or three weeks ago, Burger and Pollock seemed critical and Harrison was on his way to a DFA. Now he and Sheets have taken on added importance, but the team overall is just kind of floundering along without completely sinking into the depths.

There is one legit superstar in Ramirez, a constantly injured star in Correa who might only be around for one season, three could-be stars in Buxton, Robert and Witt, Jr. and then tons of question marks surrounding the Tigers.

Cease has the highest whiff rate of ANY AL pitcher on a single pitch, his slider.

Another trade they’ll lose. Then we will one again wonder why we have no (competent) starting corner outfielders. The Guardians keeping the Twins from running away will force Hahn into the trade market out of desperation to save his job/roll the dice.

How does making emotional decisions work on Wall Street?

Fifth win in one week in their final at-bat for Guardians. Naylor pulled one barely foul that would have been one of the longest walk off homers in stadium history. Six starters and F.Reyes the result of just three trades, Lindor/Clevinger/Houston for Straw. That Rogers trade for Paddack/Pagan coming home to roost, although Rogers has had some implosions of his own. Also a bit crazy Archer is out-pitching Bieber ERA-wise this year, but so is Cueto. Yankees series this weekend becomes biggest for CLE in five years at home, starting with Gerrit Cole. Twins get the pesky Orioles.

Guardians have had an incredible FOUR ninth inning comebacks against the Twins in the span of one week. If those games all went against them: Minnesota +16 White Sox/Guardians -4 10 GB Instead, it’s 2 GB and 6 GB for the White Sox and still not out of it yet.

The White Sox have been featured on TMZ more often since TLR came onboard than ESPN.

Nobody cares about semantics and phrasing. This is not TMZ. What they do care about is the relationship between the team and player, and bringing him back into the fold more than alienating him further. Social media at best is going to reflect a small part of the story. Probably more of just a cry for help or attention when he is feeling lonely or isolated for whatever reason.

He was hunting hits because the jackass manager said he’d only get playing time if he was producing a hot streak offensively. 12 at bats to determine that he was suddenly scuffling? Zack Collins got hundreds of at-bats. Of course, first round draft picks always get the most rope to hang themselves with.

So he’s only 50-75% pissed? Guess we will see if he’s back in the lineup in the next day or two. If it’s longer than that, probably not the greatest development for both organization and player.

Sure, but 2000 through 2012 still looks a heckuva lot better than 2013-2022.

If you’re getting lower levels minor leaguers, then what is the point in keeping Cease and Kopech since those acquisitions wouldn’t make an impact until the second half of their walk years. They still basically have to be all in again for next season. Sure, you can deal Giolito or Lynn, Hendriks/Graveman, Pollock for salary relief, Cueto and Abreu will bring some value…but they’re pretty much stuck with the core of the assembled roster for 2023 as well. There’s no way you can anything resembling fair value for our struggling core players or Grandal…and you’re still being forced to put your faith in Hahn who has already screwed things up at least twice in the past decade with only two playoff disappointments to show for 3 1/2 years of fanbase patience.

One is already on the Cubs.

This journalist works for The Daily Northwestern? Never heard of him.

If he made those comments about hitting file cabinets because of managerial decisions in NY, Philly or Boston, it would be front page news. With the Sox, it's just par for the course and a nothing burger that barely registers.

Or VV.

Pollock makes El Caballo look like a consistent, non-streaky hitter...

I think I would take that tradeoff if if if they brought in an outside GM and dumped McEwing Boston Menechino and one of Narron/Cairo.

Kopech FB still explosive up in the zone at 93-95.

So it will likely be at least $11 million or possibly $12 million... Love the Angels' graphics. Josh Harrison 9th in NL MVP vote. Caveat, it was only eight years ago. All-Star as recent as five years ago. Then fell off a cliff.