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You too. Going to bed anyway JR wouldn't care enough about the White Sox to follow them at 3:52 am on a work night.

No it was Cueto lol. Hahn Spin. Except VV Martin Lambert replaced Keuchel and 1/2 season of Lynn. Plus Kopech of course.

How many playoff appearances would the Sox have had if Francona got the job when Bevington took over in 95 for Lamont or more recently when he took CLE job after Boston? Would LaRussa and 15 rookies really be leading Francona's Sox? Impossible to imagine. Of course, the Guardians would never be dumb enough to hire Tony in the first place.

Only 1 game off White Flag margin from nearly a quarter century ago. How times haven't changed. Well except Jacobs/Progressive selling out season after season after season.

For Davis Martin? Why not? As long as VV doesn't get them. Even Lambert would be better but no longer stretched out for that.

And the Boston/Patriots' Day Massacre last year. Houston must have decided they care about HFA this year again.

You're going to eat $70 million on him and Grandal? You still have Kelly Leury Lynn and Pollock, not to mention Hendrics.

Fire Tony chants again? Lucky it's not a more highly charged night game atmosphere.

Plus CLE gets off day after an emotional series and six in a row at home against KC to end the season.

At least we lead in one category. Most inefficient allocation of Free Agent salaries for fWAR. Cueto might help them avoid bottom three, but that move and Rodon in 2021 were hardly planned. Maybe after thoughts work better than Hahn thinking or more likely over thinking.

At least JR had these last three games to make some decent profits. Will be quite fortunate to get a $165-170 million payroll next year. Fans are not going to stand for running things back out there with LaRussa again. Seems almost sado masochistic.

He is now back to being one of the worst performances in baseball again but lacking 94-98 mph stuff. Change just doesn't work as well off 91-93 as it does mid to high 90s with 12-15 mph differential.

The Indians and Orioles might put them out of their misery pretty quickly. Went from looking like a first place tie was possible until the 8th inning in both CLE and Chicago to this. Not shocking or surprising to most observers, of course.

Exactly the same amount pretty much nobody is excited about spending on AJ Pollock. Or $13 million if he hits his PA incentives correctly.

Yeah that works a lot better with Cease, Kopech or even Cueto pitch-ability.

Baty is clearly a more advanced prospect, though. Colas basically had 2-3 seasons off.

His stats have been on a consistent decline from 2019...but especially this year. So has his fastball velocity, WHIP, inability to be effective with curve balls or sliders, etc. What is your solution?

https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/stats/_/id/32697/lucas-giolito Look at Giolito’s WHIP over the last four seasons. 1.49 entering today. That would be the worst in the majors, behind Lyles, Keller, Marquez, Bumgarner, Freeland, Marco Gonzales, Flexen.

Doubt it. Giolito would be fourth from the bottom in qualified MLB ERA leaders…he’s right around the cutoff for IP. Berrios is by far the worst, Marquez, Keller/KC, Giolito, Manaea, Kyle Freeland.

Rodon 6 2 1 1 2 11 ND https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&season=2022&month=0&season1=2022&ind=0 Tied with Alcantara at 4.7 fWAR. Gausman 4.4. Verlander 4.3.

But Harrison has been at least major league average for two months. And plays above average defense and seems to be a solid leader/clubhouse guy…compared to the likes of Pollock or Grandal or Moncada. Nobody would have counted on two consecutive Moncada game winners. And guys like Engel and Jimenez had their chances as well. You should never surrender two stolen bases and a lead like that when there’s such a high correlation between winning and scoring first (Guardians 48-17 in those situations this year…of course they have a large share of home comebacks as well, particularly against the Twins.)

And that was a bullpen game mostly without Mahle. Tigers have given the Guardians fits this year, fwiw. Sox would be dead in the water without Detroit.

Keith Law had the Guardians system as 8th or 9th entering the season and they picked a kid in the middle of the first round who is only their 7th best prospect now. https://www.mlb.com/prospects/guardians/ They have used 15 rookies this season but only four guys in their Top 15 so far…Nolan Jones, Tyler Freeman, Arias and Xzavion Curry just had his first start this week. #9 Logan Allen is gone, fwiw. Five best prospects yet to debut, including Josh Naylor’s brother at catcher, Bo. https://www.mlb.com/news/guardians-2022-draft-signings-tracker Campbell and Messick look like quintessential Indians’ pitching prospects of yore. Bottom line, they have McKenzie, Quantrill, Clase and Karinchak, with Shane Bieber for at least two more seasons. Amed Rosario is the only major free agent after NEXT season, but the strength of their system is up the middle athletes who could also play in the outfield.

Will be shocked if the Guardians don’t win the division after a rally like that. Started with a wild pitch/passed ball on what should have been the third out of the inning and at least a 4-2 Tigers’ lead to the 9th. Every single ball that inning…I think it was five or six hits with two outs, was a total fluke. I guess Oscar Gonzalez’ was sort of well hit because he yanked it off the wall (uncatchable by Baddoo) but he was way off balance in the box. Then you have Mahle likely out for the Twins now. https://www.mlb.com/guardians/video/guardians-6-run-rally-in-the-8th The next Michael Brantley?

Grandal not exactly the quickest bat for this type of pitcher. Need prime Konerko.