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And look where the Mets are now... Acuna btw

Hard to have current pride in the White Sox after three years of historic losses and the much-ballyhooed rebuild totally imploding...meanwhile, Cubs for most of the season had one of the most exciting teams in baseball. There's a lot of historic pride and historicity...but certainly not with Gen Z and Gen Alpha. Look at the attrition rate for Millenials that made up the majority of the board from let's say 2016 through today. You're asking politicians to feel pride when they feel like the equivalent of abandoned Minnesota Twins' fans.

He would have to OPS 800 for almost the final two months just to get back to 700. Unless you think he can carry 900+ until the end of the year...

Didn't want to pay going market rates for a legit LH in the pen. All those guys like Bummer Hill and Banks were traded away...surely I'm leaving out another five lefties we'very gone through, DFA's or small trades.

The Sox yearly tease was nice while it lasted. August/September baseball is when the real teams show up...at least until the final week of the season like we saw with DET last year.

Can we bury the .500 thread once the streak reaches five losses in a row?? CLE is smelling blood in the water and could pass the Yankees in the WC race over the weekend.

That's just the thing. Milwaukee has the least amount of power for a future playoff team going back all the way to the 2012-2014 Giants. Kind of reminds me of the 2005 White Sox tbh...minus the homers. Chourio and a reivigorated Yelich are/were the stars, Rhys Hoskins a Tier B veteran before injury...but hardly the type of hitters/lineup that light up the fantasy add lists. https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/MIL/2025.shtml Just a bunch of guys collectively OPS+ 100-135. William Contreras into this season was the other top guy...but is dragging a bit this year. Other than Vaughn and Perkins, nobody is playing out of their minds. It's actually the pitching staff that makes the biggest difference by far.

"He has given Milwaukee’s productive, contact-oriented offense a much-appreciated injection of power, becoming a cult hero along the way. On Aug. 26, the first 10,000 Brewer fans at American Family Field will receive a “King Vaughn” giveaway T-shirt. In a month’s time, Vaughn has gone from afterthought to lynchpin. It has been a remarkable turnaround, the quintessential change of scenery story. “Putting guys in environments and situations that can allow them to express themselves, and they can handle it, is the difference.” Murphy explained. “And I think that us, giving Vaughn the chance, everything lining up, [Rhys] Hoskins going down, him getting that chance and being back in the big leagues in a new environment has kind of helped. I don't think it's too much more than that.” And so, from 2021 to 2024 Vaughn was essentially a houseplant, a capable, yet unspectacular big-league hitter. Then, this year, the wheels fell off. A former White Sox minor leaguer questioned Vaughn’s work ethic. Beneath the surface, there were encouraging signs in the batted ball data, but Vaughn’s overall body of work had become too unsavory to ignore. "At this point, though, we can't just rely on the expected numbers," White Sox general manager Chris Getz told reporters the day after demoting Vaughn. "The level of production that we need to see out of him and that position needs to be better. There's some physical adjustments that can be made, and we're going to dive into that." Two weeks later, Vaughn was a Brewer. It was a change in scenery that also brought a change in philosophy. As Getz mentioned, the White Sox were most concerned with Vaughn’s hitting mechanics. The Brewers, however, unspooled a completely different strategy, one focused primarily on Vaughn’s approach at the plate." https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/brewers-andrew-vaughn-went-from-mlbs-least-valuable-player-to-swinging-one-of-hottest-bats-in-nl-171615420.html

He still announces like he's fighting to convince someone of something instead of just telling the story of what's actually happening in front of him. Just listen to John Rooney for a week or two doing Cardinals games and the difference is night and day, or listen to some John Miller Giants broadcasts. You don't see all the favoritism or closeness towards certain players that Schiffren buddies up to like Pham last year or Miguel Vargas swing changes crap when he's under .230. Or rooting for Robert now like he's Scott Boras himself. Sosa as well. Just be more objective about the players as well as the various strengths and weaknesses of the team overall. Don't blow smoke up our asses. We can this year's team is "different" without being hammered over the head with it every single time there is a late but failed comeback. John really needs to do some research on let's say the 2013 Royals to see what it really looks like when a legit team is coming around in the second half of a season. This team is STILL years away without significant free agent spending. Colson Hagen and Schultz all feel quite volatile in their career outcomes. Volatile as hell, I would even argue. Without a single star player, they're not going anywhere, even in the lowly AL Central.

Sounds like Graveman...never worked back to back games w/ the Sox.

https://tankathon.com/mlb Braves Athletics Baltimore and AZ could all be right back in the playoffs with the right Top 3-5 pick.

Beckham and his sister in law would be at least interesting...she probably knows more about baseball from being Scott Fletcher's kid and Jake Cronenworth's wife than Schiffren does.

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Beckham made a comment about Getz (who will be on Friday second inning for All Access Friday) saying to him that the booth should have been more focused on the game in the middle innings yesterday when it seemed like an early blow out (and they were talking about all kinds of nonsense).

Rojas wanted to gift his former team with better playoff positioning...

Teel ph for him

Needed one bounce throw from Taylor.

Shadows now helping pitchers.

who now Eisert? stay with Wilson?

1/17 yikes pretty horrific granted Seattle has an excellent staff

You shouldn't win 1/16 risp don't deserve to

oh it was Sosa covering 1B on the bunt Mead came in

Rojas took money lol?

Feels like a miracle they survived that but Mariners below average in extras due to offense more than pen. Please let Teel hit.

Quero Montgomery Sosa Rojas not having the best of games...