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By the time Sosa gets to play regularly his hot streak mentality from Charlotte will have gone poof...

Surprised Rick Hahn hasn't put out a hit on him from feeling so affronted... why can't he just need more positive?

Who was it that was arguing that Lynn wasn't currently yet another bad contract to have on the books?

Bullpen is going to be completely destroyed by late May. That's where Cueto covered a lot of innings that will show up now on the wrong end of the bullpen.

Steak and potatoes diet doesn't work well in your mid 30's.

You can't throw 88.2 mph cutters to Buxton. That just speeds up his bat. Lynn managed to push his ERA up above 10.13.

Well, that was FAST. The dreaded give back the lead in a matter of seconds game.

Alex Call still out OPSing Benintendi...lol.

Sweet Lou Collier for Triton Btw, Rays already up 3-0 on the Red Sox, Boston would be six back (already) with a loss.

They probably should have projected that when they drafted him... look at his Missouri State days and still looks quite similar. Has actually lost weight since then. Remember they have been running that 2B conversion up the flag pole for at least two years.

Polanco Kirillof Kepler Gallo Correa/Buxton both banged up recently and day to day...

Broadway?

The White Sox would have 5-6 more World Series titles, a newer, actually “cool” downtown-facing stadium and I would have instead ended up starring with Aubrey Plaza in Safety Not Guaranteed 2.

What does emptying out the farm system even mean? With TA7 on the way out... Montgomery simply HAS to stick around and be something close to a star. Trading someone like Colson for fool's gold will only make the next inevitable rebuild last longer by a year old two. Fwiw, the Royals only had a four year window but they almost won two World Series titles before succumbing to injuries and a lack of quality pitching depth. They shouldn't have paid Alex Gordon, Hosmer/Moustakas/Cain all left and Yordano Ventura died tragically. That was all she wrote.

Wow...burn. Even if it's not more than a month... it's the critical time in the season when you can certainly lose a division. Just like 2022. Does it really increase the odds they go crazy taking on salary at the deadline? Likely not... as poor attendance/fan support will inevitably get thrown out as a reason. They did manage to draw roughly 2 million fans in one of the worst, most disheartening seasons in team history and then followed that up with an inconceivably worse offseason in terms of generating fan interest, highlighted by the Clevinger debacle.

Ron?

What's your solution other than standing pat and doing nothing like Hahn will choose... other than some Titanic deck chair rearrangements with the bullpen??? Would love to hear anything creative or requiring the slightest amount of critical thinking that Hahn hasn't demonstrated at all since the Kimbrel acquisition at TDL 2021.

That's kind of the point. They're losing so many players from the roster over the next 18-20 months with what minor league replacements? As of today, Moncada Grandal Kelly Lynn Giolito Benintendi Jimenez Hendriks would or might need money going back the other way to offload them from the roster with no return other than partial financial savings (or the unlikelihood of assuming full contract obligations like KW with Alex Rios.) GRandal needs to prove he's healthy and offensively productive for at least these next two months at a miniumum. It's a given he can't do much to stop an opponent's running game... which is becoming increasingly important. Count how many steals Christian Vasquez with the Twins surrenders this season vs. Sox catchers.

Umm....last year's attendance was based on the relative success of the 2021 team and playoff victory...well one memorable game. There's always lag by a full year in terms of the boost in the guaranteed attendance derived from season ticket sales vs. walk up increases in a successful/winning season like 2021. Your 2.5 million vs. 1.45 to 1.6 million of conventional attendance wisdom??? We shall see. I don't think any Sox fan should bet more than $100 on besting 2 million anytime soon...

I predicted 15-18 looking at that Bataan Death March of an early schedule…and that was before losing three starting position players, two relievers basically imploded and Joe Kelly managed to get hurt running in from the bullpen. Other than 1984, we don’t have many Sox franchise examples of poor starts turning out well in the end. (Well, at least until Jerry Dybzynski and Tito Landrum struck.)

Right... SS who hit very well in ST but not perceived as anything more than AAA roster filler. Got a lot more PT than Yoghurt. Already around 30.

Back soreness. 1 for his last 14 or something like that…

Elvis Andrus is currently fourth in MLB total games played, lol. We need a combination of durability/athleticism AND youth…which is exactly what the Guardians are attempting to do across the field. Pretty sure Jose Ramirez and Josh Bell are their two oldest players. Everyone else in their baseball primes and most are significantly younger…Amed Rosario (FA/walk year) would be the third oldest. Fwiw, Zunino is just a one year plug and play type since he’s just holding that spot warm for Bo Naylor…soon to be yet another rookie on that roster to go with all the 1st through 3rd year guys out in that bullpen.

Alberto is the main one at fault for throwing the ball too quickly and not running the baserunner almost all the way back to second base. Every Little League coach would come to the exact same conclusion. Just like Sheets needs to be kept as far away from the playing field (other than hitting) as possible.

There’s nothing worse than being halfway in…halfway out. That’s precisely where the Sox spent 2013-2016, even with Sale Q Eaton Abreu Shark Frazier Robertson Dunn Melky, etc. Same exact place we are heading for in 2023. Third place, with a #11-15 draft pick but not a Top Ten in sight unless the wheels totally come off. We are basically the MLB version of the Bulls right now. No Bulls fan in their right mind would bet on them getting out of the first round even if they miraculously made it out of the play-in tournament.