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Madrigal, 2/3, .230…we’ll see if he can stay healthy these last two months.

Most argued he was never going to get another shot in the majors again, let alone SF…same with Luis Gonzalez.

How many times have the Sox had a winning record from 1991-2021 while NOT in the Top 1-20 spots for homers? Probably very few times THAT even happened across a stretch of thirty years…even in the last decade when rebuilding.

Astros are scoring something like 47-48% of their runs on homers, fwiw.

Chicago White Sox Problem position: Second base (19th season to date, 28th rest of season) Chicago's inaction at the deadline was troubling, though it may have been more a reflection of how much its system has thinned out than a lack of motivation to improve the roster. There is no position at which the White Sox needed more of an upgrade than second base, where their rest-of-season projection is 1.6 standard deviations below average. Congratulations: This is the single biggest positional hole on a contending team. The White Sox are left to stand pat, leaning on defensive production at the keystone and hoping they can make up the offense elsewhere. Josh Harrisonranks fifth in FanGraphs' defensive rankings. Meanwhile, the White Sox rank 24th with a .611 OPS at the position. And it might get worse. Harrison has a .691 OPS, and he's been a positive offensive contributor in the past. But over the four-year period entering this season, his aggregate OPS was .683. He's been fairly hot for the past few weeks, so maybe he'll be better than what Chicago could have gotten from a trade pickup like Brandon Drury or Whit Merrifield. The projections don't like his chances. At 34, Harrison likely needs an occasional day off, but the fewer the better. That's because Chicago's other option at second is utility player Leury Garcia, who has had a dreadful season. Garcia's OPS is .511, and in the last run of my AXE ratings -- a consensus rating of advanced metrics -- he ranked 1,342nd out of 1,345 players this season. And yet only five White Sox hitters have more plate appearances. It's possible an option could spring up on the DFA front, and if so, the White Sox should pounce. Their bar for upgrading second base, especially on days that Harrison is out of the lineup, is quite low. https://www.espn.com/mlb/insider/story/_/id/34346144/five-contenders-gaping-holes-remaining-mlb-trade-deadline Guardians eviscerated as well

Nick Madrigal’s 510 ops vs. JJ Bleday’s 607 this afternoon.

Sure, they’re all pressing because they don’t totally trust their teammates or manager. That pertains to both offense and defense. Pitchers can’t trust the defense behind them. Pollock can’t trust Vaughn or Eloy or Sheets to his right or left. Moncada Anderson and Abreu can’t trust Abreu this year. Pitchers can’t trust Seby and Grandal. Every little distrust perpetuates itself and the cycle just continues with no end in sight. Same with hitting with the bases loaded. Or the starters not trusting the first reliever following them.

24.5%. Good work. What’s an interesting thread that you have started that anyone can recall?

Please take out Kaplan/Levine and install Chuck Garfien on Mt. Olympus. Make Gordon Beckham roll boulders up the mountain until he learns to 1) hit a fastball, and 2) stop saying “competitive at bats” incessantly like he trademarked the saying..

Let me guess, he knows Portillo’s, Al’s Cheesy Beef and all the foodies? Notstevechisek?

While we’re at it, please tell Heads22 to take over HawkeyeNation.com. Not the same since Jon Miller left, even though he was a douche.

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/south-korea-virtual-influencers-beauty-social-media-intl-hnk-dst/index.html Here’s my tip for Ron. This will blow your mind. Just use a female avatar like this and talk Sox/Cubs lol through livestream…dressed as one of the Sox Pride girls or Korean baseball cheerleader/first pitch thrower. You can even have fake vacations and trips to all thirty parks in the US, well, one in Toronto. Get lucrative endorsements across the board.

Something that Elon Musk will somehow manage to screw up…but might want to control through the next election cycle and possibly into 2028-2036 when Ivanka Trump is named Empress of the Confederated Red States of America, with White House South located at Mar A Lago.

I really hate that Dave Portnoy dude. I hope he flies directly into the sun. Unfortunately I am married, neither rich nor twenty years younger, but Silvana Mojica makes me wish I was retired in Colombia about right now. So I can at least root for her to dump him if all his stock and crypto/gaming advice blows up.

Honestly, Fathom does more one liners. Same with Dick Allen. I could see southsider2k5 combining that with financial guru stuff, definitely Balta for progressive Sox fans lol, CWS…the Nashville/Chicago guy. Ray Ray needs his own talk show to have a bigger audience to argue with, but would need to expose his identity. Bmaggs and Tony maybe. KyLle, no comment. TexSox and PTAC could have their own middle of the road slightly conservative and slightly liberal but “reasonable” show. Greg775 can do Bob Dole impersonations at the Lawrence Applebee’s.

Just found our next pitching coach at least…

Jay Cuda and Leo DiCaprio’s Michigan State physics/astronomy professor match up almost exactly in “Don’t Look Up!” Hector Gomez, lol? The Joc Pederson rumors breaker with the Sox employee relative in his family from the Left Coast? Mark Liptak? Would have to give it to James Fegan at 25,000ish. Harold/Kelenic? Jimmy? Quin? Surprised Ray Ray and Fathom don’t have their own twitter aliases, lol.

It’s Ron883 or Rabbit I think….but not sure how much for sports/Sox and how much for politics, and connection to Shapiro? Brian Bilek and Cuda are similar, 6000ish. Jim Margalus is 9000ish. Jay Cuda @JayCuda I post about #WhiteSox & MLB statistics @Stathead • 32 • Golfer Woodworker • MSU '11 Civil engineering Chicago Joined February 2011 996 Following 6,137 Followers

It’s Ron883 or Rabbit I think….but not sure how much for sports/Sox and how much for politics, and connection to Shapiro?

Poor KD. But there’s a slight difference between leading your team like Soto at age 20-21 to a World Series title versus joining a pre-existing, ready made operation already at the summit in GS. That and the fact that having baseball’s very best player in Trout doesn’t even guarantee playoffs nor even a playoff series victory even once.

It’s a deliberate exaggeration to provoke. But that’s how this organization ended up throwing out McGuire’s fWAR and 45% below average hitting for a Seby patented inevitable regression accompanied by poor defense and game calling. It’s how we disregarded Brian Anderson’s great defense/lousy hitting combination for Mackowiak in 2006. (Well, the fact that Ozzie hated Anderson personally didn’t help him much.) The same front office keeps repeating the same mistakes decades later. Did we also not learn how not to overspend on bullpens from 2000-2008? Not really, The Koch Experience wasn’t enough, because we went Dotel/Linebrink then Robertson then REALLY went insane the last two years. And here we are now. Stuck in the middle with you.

And there you have it. John Danks, Dunn, Grandal, Hendriks…there’s always going to that built-in excuse about adding one more year, like Machado and then the reported Giolito extensions as well. Think back to not paying Maggio and C-Lee after 2004…or not paying Buehrle in 2011. Otherwise, we’re almost always limited to three years, like Keuchel and Lynn. Or at least “almost always,” with few exceptions. The other remarkable one would be Konerko, for obvious, well-covered reasons. You have all the internal extensions, but all those except for Moncada are not threatening to blow the budget sky high. So, if you think quite carefully, you can see why Giolito and Tim Anderson will both be gone eventually. Out of those five bolded names, how many would JR, Hahn and KW undo if they could? Konerko would be the only one to stand…in the same way JR’s only choice for manager could be LaRussa.

Great, math jokes.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kelenja01.shtml Kelenic at 495 ops. Menechino will fix him. Or f#%k him.

Probably because there’s not much to poke fun at yet…and Kelenic/M’s are doing well, also.