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Don't forget Linebrink and Dotel...other than Koch, the first examples where they really started overspending on the pen instead of going with internal development or finding guys like Marte Thornton Santos and Jenks on the cheap. Along with that, high draft picks wasted on Ring Poreda Burdi etc. No other team was doing that...at least outside the Top 8-10 and below payroll teams.

When you peel away the pieces of onion, you’re essentially left with TA7, Robert, Vaughn, Kopech and Cease. Yes, the payroll has roughly doubled from those 2011-2016 attempts to compete on the fly, but the results for the present aren’t very dissimilar. And arguably, you’d be doing extremely well with how wary GM’s recently have been about trading massive prospect packages to get the equivalent back in 2022 compared to Sale, Eaton and Quintana in 2016-17. Now is the time they really need a vision for exactly what they can realistically do to compete this year until there’s no choice to fold…but also to, at the very least, be able to compete exactly like the Twins are just one year after collapsing altogether.

https://www.royalsreview.com/2022/5/31/23142348/five-years-no-progress-its-time-to-clean-house …but hasn’t yet been put down on paper since there are still (some/fleeting) hopes for 2022. The only differences are the Royals have already been rebuilding for five seasons, and are seven years removed from their World Series win in 2015, the relative payrolls/market sizes and the destructive influence of TLR. But everything else pretty much fits the White Sox situation to a tee. (Of course, Devil’s Advocate here, Witt, Jr. has been one of the most impressive young players in baseball during the month of May.) Please take the time to read it and discuss within the context of the current White Sox dilemma and note many of the commonly-shared issues that overlap between the two organizations. It seems incredible to me that we are talking a retooling/reconstruction/rebranding for a third time with the same front office and now TLR. KC had two WS seasons and their fans are already getting fed up again. The Sox haven’t even managed to win a single playoff series, let alone five in a two year span. And then there’s that 12 year gap between playoff appearances and trading away Tatis Jr. to boot.

https://soxmachine.com/white-sox-news/spare-parts-white-sox-far-from-only-team-frequently-resting-regulars/

https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/white-sox/white-sox-struggles-continue-blue-jays-sweep 23. Balt -37 24. Detroit -47 25. Cincy -53 26. White Sox -55 27. Colorado -56 28. Pittsburgh and KC -77 30. Washington -83

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/yankees-josh-donaldson-still-doesnt-212500704.html

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/yankees-josh-donaldson-still-doesnt-212500704.html

Kimbrel with a 1-2-3 save against Marte/Guillorme/Pete Alonso. Dodgers prevail 2-0.

Ironically, Taylor Rogers has completely had a disaster of a stretch after entering the week with a 0.36 ERA or something 2021 Kimbrel-esque like that.

https://twitter.com/sdutKevinAcee/status/1532472048508887051/photo/2

Don’t count on it.

Probably hurt deboarding the bus or during the ride to Buffalo? Carrying luggage?

But can he get over that mental block now? Seems Lewis is out again with Trammell back. So another opportunity might need his last extended look in SEA.

They never even gave Luis Gonzalez a real look. He goes to SF suddenly an everyday corner OFer. The exact positions we have been struggling just to get just below average but not cataclysmic ally bad D. We brought in Goodwin Hamilton Nick Williams, never a thought to our own guy.

Greinke is not the answer to anything.

When does he ever get blamed when only 15-20% of his moves actually work out in the real world? A really good GM needs to be at 55-60% success.

Let 'em have it, Stone Pony.

2024 club option includes a $15M buyout (deferred over 10 years) Didn’t even realize this until now…always thought it was just three years. Sigh.

https://www.espn.com/nba/insider/story/_/id/34020829/nba-finals-2022-grueling-expensive-risky-reconstruction-golden-state-warriors There’s a lot of inspiration here for the Sox….unfortunately we don’t have a Kerr, the remains of a championship core with five years of recorded brilliance, GM Myers, Curry’s willingness to tolerate losing with a bigger vision in mind, massive fanbase and goodwill earned, etc. But reconstruction might be the best possible term for what is needed…bottoming out over a two year period and rebounding to championship level quickly. Where are our own versions of Jordan Poole, James Wiseman, Kuminga and Wiggins, lol?

He’s ouchy right now.

I couldn’t find any easy Twitter embeds making fun of the Cuban Connection falling apart. Just got a Cubano sandwich food truck.

Answer: SoxTalk moderating team will be the new ownership group.

At least TLR Hahn Hostetler not making any of the key personnel decisions…

Hendriks and Bummer…try to throw Kelly into mix if he ever returns in time.

https://mobile.twitter.com/CubanConnectBR/status/435314366049550338 The Cuban Connection @CubanConnectBR How are you? The answer is “not good.”