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Up to 96. Who would have known actively trying to improve your team at the deadline...could be helpful. Miranda Gordon Contreras Celestino Larnach Kiriloff much better than sickly Sox next wave of Vaughn and Oh Sheets.

Axelrod?

Twins 5-0. Berrios blasted. Reminder could have traded Giolito but case of completely wrong timing for Sox.

Capable of hitting it with the ladies.

Mancini with three homers already for Houston. What new? So much for Menechino getting fired. One run is enough.

https://mobile.twitter.com/netflix/status/1549871936938749954?lang=bn

Did he end up tangled in the netting again?

Cue the 5 inning pitcher discussion point....can't cover 4 with the current Sox bullpen. At least not easily.

SS then 2b then 3rd. Berrios just gave up a homer to Contreras 1-0 Twins. Minnesota had 39000 on a Thursday due to Blue Jays fans coming down from Canada.

Speaking of underachieving, Tim Beckham 1-1 in Gordon Beckham's draft class is getting key at-bats for Minny now...no guarantees in baseball. Also played for Charlotte.

If they score zero tonight does Menechino go? How much longer can they afford to wait?

Dave Otto could shut out the Sox tonight. Let alone Glenn. Dave still connected to the Cubs?

Same ol same ol. No sense of urgency with first place at stake. Twins still have three with Toronto and two with LAD this week.

Hahn has severe performance anxiety now. Or just totally neutered. The Guardians are ahead of the Sox with more rookies than they used in Chicago in 2012 trying to hold off Detroit...13 or so. This was through June...6 more the last two months appeared. https://factoryofsadness.co/2022/05/31/ranking-and-grading-all-of-the-cleveland-guardians-rookies-in-2022-so-far/

Guardians doomed already. AA starter with just two AAA starts crushed by Mancini. 6-1 HOU

The Gray Man could very easily have been a Michael Bay movie. Big over the top action, budget, will eventually bankrupt Netflix at this rate. (Only their Kdramas (Netflix Asia) are successful from a P-L standpoint. So many get pirated and are viewed in China with no profits coming back.) But enjoyed Gosling, Thornton, Evans and de Armas..definitely no relation to de Aza in any way, lol.

Harrison is enough for third…but that requires Leury on the field…or at third resting Moncada as well.

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?