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Somehow, 3/4 AL Central teams won matchups against tougher competition on paper.

Pretty pathetic when a LHR and back up outfielder are the best you can put up for 3/4 in a decade. Rodon didn't realize his potential, except for 2021 when the Sox were so desperate to fill out the rotation they had to bring him back on that $3 million deal that resuscitated his career.

We didn't lose any money with Jake Diekman or Jose Ruiz?

Drury and Urshela both would have been solid 2B/3B/utility infielder additions... Sox ran out of money and/or trade capital.

Oh, right, I guess Tom Hamilton...

There are numerous examples. Moving Viciedo Beckham and Josh Fields all over the place to meet current big league club needs. Giving up on Narvaez due to defensive concerns. Giving up on Semien way too quickly... pigeon holing as a utility guy with limited upside because of lingering questions about his defense. Giving up on Borchard without even giving him a full half season of playing time...because "competing" Brian Anderson, same reason. He wasn't forced toake any adjustments and got nlby with sheer athletic talent on defense but lots of bad mechanical flaws as a hitter. Drafting the likes of Sale Crochet Burdi Ring and Poreda to jump into pennant races or contribute more or less immediately without much time in the minors. Same with philosophy behind drafting McCulloch and Broadway in the first round... to join big league team as back end starters as quickly as possible.

Hard to do when he wasn't allowed to play yesterday...he and Burger have been carrying the offense for most of May.

Brooks, is that you?

It's almost like TA7 has come to represent this team. Certainly the most polarizing story this month with TLR gone for good. Hot dog/showoff/uppity (to use 1950's dog whistle terms). Modern day Jackie Robinson, Field of Dreams Walkoff, Dairy Queen (mainstream/Heartland) advertisers embracing him and MLB video game covers even. Arguably one of the two franchise position players, along with Luis Robert, coming into 2023. "Well, he's too talented to be almost consistently making all these key defensive miscues and hitting so poorly for both power and with RISP. He'll come around at some point." HAWK: "Just look at the back of his baseball card." TIGERS' announcing crew, a week ago: "Tim Anderson just isn't a very good shortstop." LOGIC: "Something doesn't compute for 2022-23 after he was one of the five best (average) hitters in baseball from 2018-2021. Not to mention, almost nobody in the clubhouse even seemed excited he was named to the All-Star team. That's a very telling sign. And Jose Abreu couldn't get out of town fast enough."

AL East W/L +52 RS/RA +212 AL Central -39 -170 AL West +29/-35 (OAK) +120/-199 (OAK) NL East +3 -51 NL Central -17 -18 NL West +7 +6

Last year, he even slammed his hand down on a metal filing cabinet in the front office...almost a fit of rage approximating KW's infamous flipped over post-game buffet table incident. They're better off promoting the return of Hendriks, Trout and Ohtani. In fact, he will likely tease that they will make a run at Shohei at the trade deadline or in Free Agency since he has pretty much nothing but Luis Robert and Middleton/Santos to hang his hat on. Burger, too, I suppose. The irony there is Burger went out of his way to get at-bats in independent ball because of the Covid situation...at that point, the White Sox had pretty much written him off as a sunk cost. Burger made it all the way back DESPITE the organization rather than because of them, almost.

https://www.mlb.com/news/liam-hendriks-returns-to-white-sox-after-cancer-battle Just imagine the buzz around this if the White Sox were in 1st place or at least hovering around .500. Now it's almost an afterthought...when will he be able to pitch well enough that they can dump his contract on someone else? Imagine how the Hendriks Family feels right now. This White Sox team was not the one that Hahn originally sold them on signing with...but they're kind of stuck with Chicago until he can pitch well enough (not for winning a championship, but just personal stats) to free himself due to the complicated contract that he signed.

Bevington? Surely not Manuel, he was decent for most of his tenure.

Buy low, sell high. The White Sox selling off Vaughn at 50% of his trade value would be just par for the course. And go along with getting nothing for Rodon, TA7's trade value dramatically decreased, the Madrigal trade for Kimbrel leading to Pollock leading to Benintendi (getting worse with each corresponding move), Zack Collins, Carson Fulmer, Zach Burdi, etc. Any type of rebuild, Vaughn has more value to the White Sox than another organization until he starts getting more and more expensive in arbitration. In a way, Hahn dodged yet another bullet by Vaughn struggling enough that a team-friendly extension was never in the cards, so they saved ONE long-term commitment to their core of young players at least. Sheets is basically just a streaky platoon guy and a poor defender regardless of where you stick him other than DH, so you can keep him around but he's not going to be one of the core pieces of the next competitive White Sox team.

With that contract and the odds of him having his previous velocity and command/control are practically the same as the Celtics winning four in a row elimination games, five including the 76ers series...I'm not expecting for him to be dealt until the offseason or possibly next trade deadline. Also, if the Padres continue to play so poorly even after Machado returns, they're going to have to deal Josh Hader at the deadline to restock for 2024.

One now...out ahead of Benintendi Tim Anderson Madrigal.

Well, look at the Dodgers' injured list of just pitching alone...it's insane how many have gone down and they're still one of the 3-5 best teams in baseball despite Peralta Thompson and Heyward making up 2/3rd's of their starting OF on any given night.

Well, technically, one of the Top 30 prospects in baseball stands behind TA7, Colson Montgomery. He pretty much has to stick at SS, with Burger at 3B.

Cease and Rodon were obviously good enough the last two years but never synchronized.

Thirty years from now worth at least double $3+ million like Karl Malone's Dream Team Team jersey.

Cincinnati has Greene and a really nice looking young lineup after the insertion of McClain at SS.

3-1 would have left the Sox just 4 games back. Now they're back to being a boat with a stalled engine in the water floating towards Niagara Falls. The next thing they will do is go out of their way to prove Hendriks isn't ready to pitch...let alone close.

Fell asleep to miss Anderson's defensive misplay after the comeback and immediately wentto box score. Why, especially after yesterday, was Kelly in to close the game when Graveman has been getting most of the opportunities after Reynaldo blew his shot at the job? Baffling. Just not particularly surprising.

They have to choose either Zavala or Perez and then go out and sign an Austin Hedges type just to hold the pitching staff together next year.

Cease Anderson Eloy Benintendi and Hendriks have lost about $250-300 million in value/surplus value in the last 6 months.