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Not in this division. In the East or West in both leagues, sure.

Have to agree to disagree on this one. Leury has to be aware of his teammates ahead of him...something we learn in Little League is not to run right up the back of the guy in front of us. If he's the only base runner then you can praise him for his amazing read...if he gets doubled off first, what a terrible base running play!

Here we go...this feels like a dangerous situation anticipating a very inexperienced pen member likely next in. Hopefully he can pitch out of this.

Harrison qualified for the AL Triple Jump lead yesterday so there's that...and Vaughn figured out one creative way to get him out the lineup. Unfortunately, that inevitably means more Leury instead.

What Leury did was the equivalent of a point guard dribbling all the way down court without looking up and running into a charge in the lane.

A least we're winning the Exit Velocity title?

Arguably even two runs...the way it played out.

If you go halfway there's almost no way to then tag up and get to third if it's caught. You can blame Robert for underestimating how bad Reyes is in RF, I guess?

Not when you have Leury on your team. Against a slightly faster RFer...almost anyone, basically...he's dead to rights and doubled off first quite easily. Imagine that turning into a runner on third and two outs.

Because he started from a dead stop and wasn't expecting to be sent...he wasn't going full speed, sure.

But would have been caught by 75-80% of RFers. Leury would gave easily been doubled up there had it been caught. Great, only two more years of Leury to go, at least until his next ill-advised extension.

Reyes is a pretty terrible OFer...usually gives up almost as much as he scores with the bat.

Two consecutive games. And that send was twice as bad as the terrible one yesterday. And Leury is the one who forced it by being too aggressive...

Never mind. Cloudy….15-20% chance of rain. Upper 50’s.

Supposed to get all the way into the mid to high 70’s by around 3 p.m.

Absolutely nothing made sense yesterday…except deserving to lose both games.

Not really…he would go for the entire waiver period unclaimed and then the Sox would be on the hook for his full salary…BUT There’s no team in baseball that would claim him and have that option year hanging over their head. The only way he possibly gets it is pitching every fifth day for the Sox…especially if VV and Cueto don’t pan out.

No team can actually say it too directly…they have to use vague euphemisms about finding better values on the market, conserving resources, etc. The Twins knew they had an issue clearly and added both Paddack and Archer to shore up their existing rotation which was headlined by a rookie in Ryan.

After three more singles and another Anderson error -- marking the second three-error game of the shortstop’s career -- Keuchel was pulled. It was the fourth time in his career that he was unable to get an out in the second inning, and the first time he allowed 10 runs in one start. “There’s really nothing to say,” Keuchel said. “I watched it back on film, and it wasn’t any better.” mlb.com

Has to be bumped after yesterday’s fiasco. “Harrison, Haseley, Leury batting 1-3. You could go back the past 10 years of MLB games and be hard pressed to find a worse 1-3 in any lineup. They had Grandal, Sheets, Vaughn, and Engel playing. You don’t hit the worst 3 hitters on your roster at the top of the lineup, maximizing their number of at bats. I think this goes beyond dumb/questionable choices…..(and) I refuse to believe that even TLR is dumb enough to put those 3 at the top of a lineup by accident…..As people said last year, if this team goes anywhere, it will be in spite of TLR. He is just a huge drag on this team.” Then not PHing for any of those guys the last 2-3 innings. Inexplicable. Luis Robert, sure, give him an opportunity to clear his head on the bench and watch from a different perspective. But there were still lots of bullets not fired. https://soxmachine.com/white-sox-game-recaps/guardians-2-white-sox-1-lineup-meets-expectations/

Wonder how often a big league team and one of the four minor league affiliates have had 10+ run innings recorded against them on the same day?

And even if you think Rodon wasn't feasible, FOR WHATEVER REASON, what's the argument about not being able to beat SD's #12 and #28 prospects for Sean Manaea? That the only prospect the A's really wanted was Vaughn...and that they weren't willing to accept something like Colton/Burger/Sheets (pick 2 of 3)? Pretty sad indictment of either our farm system or discernment about reasonable player values.

Kopech doesn't have the base/foundation to go all season long every 5th/6th day...so what are you planning to do to make sure he's available for October, assuming we get that far...? Rodon does have that baseline established. If I had to make a bet today, it would be on Rodon being more likely to be available for the post-season than Kopech, unless they come up with a dramatically-revised plan to get quality starts in the first half BUT NOT PITCH KOPECH somehow.

No, but that "allocated" $16 million was used as an excuse for not making any significant pitching moves...other than Velasquez's $3 million. There were 15-20 legit options out there, even after Rodon. We watched as they all disappeared from the board one by one. In the end, Pollock might end up having a solid year (expecting another 3 fWAR is too much with his fragile health at age 34)...but I have a feeling if I'm still alive another twenty years from now that the hiring of TLR and the Kimbrel trade will end up being two of the key factors in the overall retrospective analysis of where things started to go south with the rebuild and contention window. As it stands, Abreu, Keuchel, Grandal and Lynn might all be showing signs of aging right when we need their 2020-21 versions the most.

He must be confused and thinking about himself and not 20 something professional athletes...well, we just KNEW the post-game comments were going to have some doozies. The game has changed so much the last 20-30 years. And not always in positive ways.