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Paging Graveman and Miguel Ascensio...

Minnesota 28 games remaining, Cleveland 27 and White Sox just 25...

The Twins have the Yankees in their heads to much that you almost feel sad for the AL Central. CLE has the look and feel of a team like the 2012 White Sox down the stretch drive. Plus those two starters down.

CLE +5 MIN +2 CHW +1

Clase was completely discombobulated.

And Marcus Semien's prolonged slump to begin this season is now a relic. Consider this: Semien's first 42 games: 181/.236/.241, 0 HR, 10 RBI, 14 runs scored, 36 wRC+ Semien's next 91 games: .270/.331/.495, 21 HR, 57 RBI, 67 runs scored, 134 wRC+

Just picked up Michael Jordan's second card 1986 Fleer #8/11 for $1200. Sticker cards.

Like a good Gleyber, Torres is there/here. Yankees' crew just eviscerating Baldelli for pulling rookie pitcher simply because he had to face the line-up the third time through. Eye test. Not knee jerk. Kid was really pitching excellently, got yanked and now they're in danger of losing yet another game to the Yankees.

Most exciting player in MLB today? Aaron Judge Mookie Betts Byron Buxton Bryce Harper Manny Machado Jazz Chisholm Rafael Devers Juan Soto Max Scherzer Jacob deGrom Trea Turner Shohei Ohtani Fernando Acuna, Jr. Luis Robert Julio Rodriguez Wander Franco O'Neil Cruz

Absolutely not going to jinx Oneil Cruz and start him on his own thread. Kelenic's already been thoroughly ruined.

Going for around $65000 each if they graded out at PSA 9 (mint) there would be a pretty dramatic falloff at 7.5 and below i'll just pretend my Nolan Ryan rookie sold in the late early/early 90's wasn't mint...that would have been in the $75-90K range today, oops

the one I bought was $800 but much closer to good/very good grade than excellent also, just bid in an auction for 1954 Topps Hank Aaron 7.5 grade, near mint, gave up at $27000, winning bid was a bit over $28000 also bought an autographed Ohtani and Ichiro cards from back in Japan, like the Orix Blue Jay, that one about $500

Where's Lance Lynn? No way in hell he's behind Giolito at this point...arguably I would take him 3rd over Kopech unless he can prove down the stretch drive he's 100%.

Just sign Conforto, Nimmo, etc. No way they're going to trade TA7 at this stage.

How many "prospects" have FutureSox writers fallen in love with? What percentage have actually succeeded with the White Sox....maybe 5-10% at the very most. I'd say 5-7% is much closer to the reality than anything like what the Guardians are pulling off so far. Trevor Stephan a 3rd round pick of the Yankees. Emmanuel Clase - Wikipedia Padres picked him originally, gave him up in a terrible trade, as did the Texas Rangers as well. Sam Hentges a fourth round pick out of ARK. Enyel De Los Santos - Wikipedia PItched for two MLB teams previously. Eli Morgan an 8th round pick out of Gonzaga. Konnor Pilkington a 96 OPS+ 2022 Cleveland Guardians Statistics | Baseball-Reference.com Top four pitches on the team are all young/er relievers ranging from 349 (Clase and Jhoan Duran arguably the two best young relievers in the game, along with Omar's Coming on the Orioles)...then the other three names I mentioned are all 124-138. In fact, only disappointment is a veteran in Shaw who's terribly underperforming and on his very last legs as an MLB pitcher in all likelihood. Just those 5-6 guys alone right there is enough to break the balance or stalemate between daily line-ups and starting rotations pitching on fumes in the case of CLE.

Ask the sliding Brewers. 3 GB. Otoh Manaea and Clevinger will be available at a discount on the FA pitching market.

They have to be tied or leading go into the final 9 games. Minnesota now faces their long-time nemesis in the New York Yankees with Judge on an almost unreal tear.

White Sox hope to ride momentum from strong week (mlb.com) “Yeah, it’s been fantastic. Everyone playing for the team, playing for each other,” said White Sox starting pitcher Lucas Giolito, who suffered the loss Sunday. “If one guy doesn’t get the job done, the next guy steps up and we have full confidence he’ll get the job done. So, just having that mentality coming together as a team. If we keep that up, we’ll put ourselves in a good position.” “We play the way we played this week, watch out,” said White Sox acting manager Miguel Cairo, whose team fell to 6-7 vs. Minnesota this year. “We’re going to have a pretty good chance, and the guys are excited about going out there. But it was a good game today. We battled back. We gave it our best and fell short."

Miami Marlins: Looking Back at the Alex Vesia Trade (marlinmaniac.com) Here's a great example, Rick Hahn. The Dodgers just go out and scour the world. We don't have a prayer of replacing Crochet and Bummer. Heck, even KW was great at digging these guys up from the dead, the likes of Jenks, Sergio Santos, Marte, Thornton, Crain, etc.

Obviously, the Guardians don't. Whereas young Sox players other than Vaughn have hardly managed to hit their way out of a paper bag. Particularly Sosa.

MLB Playoff Odds | FanGraphs Baseball Guardians still the slight favorite over the Twins due to those last against the Royals in the final week. Whereas the White Sox have a quite difficult final nine.