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Leading to the inevitable bullpen loss by which Sox pitcher lol? Tie game late still feels like a loss on the road.

Getting beaten by Michael Taylor these last two games...sigh. Baldelli with smart move getting Gordon and his superior range in at second base... won't show up in the box score.

Hidden by NY Yankees' offense last year. Nothing was expected.

Crochet injury doomed that game and exposed too much of pen ultimately. Cease wasn't yet trustworthy...

HHH MetroDOOM was the truly haunted site for Sox 2001-2010. New stadium has been not nearly so daunting.

Benintendi going sideways like Pollock was pretty much inevitable.

Buxton inevitably injured again... Middleton/Diekman/Sosa survived. But can the O scratch out even one run?

Saving him for the postseason...

Hardly borderline. Inept.

Big Lebowski approach?

Ron already jinxed Middleton with his premature thread praise...

Jax for Minn next.

Suckman again lol...

https://theathletic.com/4402950/2023/04/11/white-sox-frustration-mounts/?source=freedailyemail&campaign=601983 "Normally it’s on the reporter to realize their interview subject has said as much as they have to share about a difficult topic. And those indicators were already present as White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson, sitting at his locker Tuesday rather than standing on the knee he sprained the day before, slid back in his chair and quietly said, “That’s enough.” He’s given this interview before and thought he had taken steps to avoid giving it again. “It’s so frustrating,” Anderson said. “I tried to prevent it. You can’t control it. You can’t control injury. But it definitely sucks because I know that I was doing everything I could. Everybody in the organization knows I was doing everything I could to try to stay healthy, and it just didn’t work out that way.” “It’s frustrating because people came to camp feeling good and as a team too,” said third baseman Yoán Moncada on Tuesday, switching between using a team interpreter and speaking English while discussing his recurring lower back soreness. “Not even a week into the season and we are having all these injuries. That’s the frustrating part. That we are not able to contribute to the team. Sometimes there are things you can’t control."

https://m.startribune.com/edouard-julien-joey-gallo-running-game-in-al-central-minnesota-twins-guardians-white-sox-yankees/600266317/ Gallo to DL Top 100 MiLB prospect/Canadian national team member Edouard Julien to debut

Only five in the starting lineup we probably wouldn’t have predicted three months ago, six if you count Grandal at DH. Definitely not very trusting with Burger defense at third considering how bad Alberto has been… Luis Robert tied with Arraez and Outman for third overall in MLB fWAR. https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&season=2023&month=0&season1=2023&ind=0

CJ Abrams with more pop?

Improvement! Two years ago, 28th through 30th across all respected rating systems. Even saw one #18 for this year, God know who that was…someone that especially loved Montgomery, Schulz and Colas.

Seems TA is really feeling a tad bit defensive here... like he was previously accused of not playing through injuries.

https://www.mlb.com/news/white-sox-battling-injuries-early-in-season “It’s so frustrating,” Anderson said. “You do everything right to try to prevent creating injury and [this was] just something I couldn’t control. I just have to roll with it. “Just a weird situation. I tried to prevent it. You can’t control injury. But it definitely sucks because I know that I was doing everything I could. Everybody in the organization knows I was doing everything I could to try to stay healthy, and it just didn’t work out that way.” ….. “Guys here are going to step up in absence of guys that are not in the lineup and help us win baseball games,” manager Pedro Grifol said. “That’s what depth does. This is where opportunity meets preparation, right? So if you prepared in the offseason, you’ve prepared in Spring Training, here’s your opportunity. Go get it.” “We want our guys in the lineup, and it’s tough,” Burger said. “Last year and this year, you can’t look at last year and say, 'Oh, it’s going to be that way again.' Injuries happen in baseball, and you see every team with guys going on the IL.”

https://ballparkdigest.com/2023/03/29/2023-spring-training-attendance-by-average/ Dodgers with more than double the average of Sox games...not surprisingly coming off last season (granted both ended with different levels of disappointment, relatively). Cubs, Angels, Dodgers, DBacks (home turf, almost) and Giants (Cal proximity) make up the Top 5 Yankees and Red Sox 6th and 7th, Rockies 8th, Phillies coming off WS 9th, Mariners 10th

It won't last more than a month...

https://www.milb.com/video/tatis-jr-s-three-hit-game?t=playerid-665487 https://www.milb.com/video/tatis-jr-shows-off-his-arm?t=playerid-665487 Outfield assist and a 115.4 MPH ball pulled into LF...eight more days until his AAA exile is ended.

Meanwhile the M's are now 4-8...but it's still a big improvement (so far) from last year.

2013-2016 That era at least had the 2000, 2003 and 2005 teams that were VERY entertaining for fans. Plus, you had the culmination of all the drafts and trades producing the #1 farm system in MLB heading into 2000. Ironically, other than Buehrle/Crede/Rowand, most of the 2005 team came from outside moves...but it certainly wasn't that 2000 group of top prospects headlined by Rauch, Wright, Wells and Borchard.