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but the depth/talent of that CLE pen is obvious now too...those guys are seemingly out there nearly every day Herrin Gaddis Sabrowski Smith

Boston offense is just dead in the water without Anthony rolling and Contreras' power, too

https://www.thebaseballcube.com/content/player.asp?ID=240416&view=log_pitching_minor&yr=2025 Royals' broadcast totally attributing his two strong performances against KC to the revenge factor original signing org for $400K out of OU traded for LHR Schrieber to BOS

Okay, if they don't win today and Houston/Texas somehow manage to win...then there shouldn't be any further discussion on this board about playoff odds and possible doomsday scenarios, right? Because that's what will still apply with just three games left to go on the schedule... After all, the odds are 99.4%.

https://www.reddit.com/r/whitesox/comments/1wozrbn/burke_should_start_today_not_sandlin/ Great debate rages Sandlin previous success again KC and: Having your most reliable starter going G2 of a 3 game wild card series is a pretty well-known strategy and it doesn’t affect the following series. Well-known strategy? First time I heard of it. Usually, if teams know they're playing in the WCR, they set their rotation up so that their three best starters play (Boston is doing that now by pitching Tolle, Gray, and Suarez against Cleveland). Only teams that are playing for something important would pitch their best starters the final weekend and worry about the consequences later. We are playing for the division You can walk and chew gum at the same time. To win the division, it helps to win today and Burke gives you a better shot than Sandlin. Burke starting today also gives him an extra day off before the WCR in case Cleveland wins the division Of course protecting the bullpen is yet another major consideration Burke also provides the highest likelihood of going 5-6 innings at least

"David Sandlin (2-2, 6.29 ERA) is slated to start Thursday for ‌the White ⁠Sox. Despite giving up five runs and seven hits over four innings against Detroit on Friday, the rookie right-hander held Kansas City to one run on three hits over six innings on June 26."

my first car...1974 beige, Slant 6 engine, Ofc I as a 16 year destroyed the transmission slamming it from neutral to drive at stop lights and got a reckless driving charge before ending up with the boxy but economical 1984 Honda Accord instead. And Al Bundy moved up in the world to Sofia Vergara lol.

What is the best White Sox game record in 2026 based on the starter? The White Sox have a 83.3% winning percentage (5-1) in 2026 in games started by Sean Newcomb, the best on the team. In those starts, he went 0-0 himself with 6 no decisions and a 0.84 ERA. team record in opener/reliever starts Newcomb 5-1 Hudson as starter 5-4 Taylor 3-1 Eisert 3-1 Murphy 1-2 Hicks 0-2 Hagen Smith 0-1 Leasure 0-1 Gilbert 0-1 Total 17-14

White Sox 99.4% to make the playoffs 34.5% to win the division Orioles @ 0.4% Astros over Rangers still...due to tiebreaker for season series meaning Texas is actually one game behind, so pretty much same odds as White Sox vs. Cleveland soxmachine.com Smith has reverse splits the season, for what it's worth (not much yet, except to say he's not weaker against righties). A lefty, Carter Jensen, led off the inning with a smoked single as evidence. Pasquantino foiled a lefty-lefty matchup against Bryan Hudson to wreck the White Sox's opener plans. Smith is probably the kind of reliever who should be attacking unless it makes no sense to do so. splits vs RHB .070/.355 vs. LHB .200/.549

Animal Farm analogy?

82-77 means they could still finish 82-80 Houston and Texas could win out I guess Texas would lose West on tiebreaker and wild card on tiebreaker as well Baltimore would be out though odds of White Sox losing last four 6.25% odds of that combination of 4 losses and four wins by one of Houston/Texas 1/256 odds of Baltimore (3 games remaining) Texas Houston all winning out, Sox losing five in a row to end season 3/100,000 odds of going crazy if all that actually transpired approximately 1/4

He has always been terrible in multi inning saves. Watched it over and over again in SD.

And Houston is on the way to four in hapless Sacramento…

Astros on ropes bottom of ten in Seattle 5-5 bases loaded off Hader Just one out. Three walks. Old friend Josh Naylor walks off Houston. Lol. Back to a tie with Rangers at -2. Both teams win out and Sox lose out : 82-80. Astros take three seed by virtue of tiebreaker Rangers take 6 seed Or Balt wins out 3-0 and Sox go 0-4, lose by virtue of that tiebreaker of 2-4 versus Baltimore

Not to mention Seattle is best pitcher's park for last three years Colorado, not so much

2000 team had a ton of young pitchers go down to injury in that two year cycle think it was something like 12 major injuries only Buehrle and Garland survived Wells and Fogg with Pitt Baldwin and Parque and Wright all fell apart eventually Snyder etc. Cal Eldred hurt as well

Adams for the season 6 GS 0-2 4.03 ERA 29 ip 31 hits 12 walks 31 k's 6 homers allowed 1.48 whip 3 starts at home 3 on the road lost to SD and AZ ND vs Wash ATL StL Detroit

Mason Adams' final start vs AZ 6 5 4R 0ER 0 8 4.03 season ERA game played at Colorado

Mason Adams' final start vs AZ 6 5 4R 0ER 0 8 4.03 season ERA game played at Colorado

Mariners 3 Astros 4 second and third two outs for Ms

Going into the last week of play in 1967, the Red Sox had only four games to play, the White Sox and Twins had five each, and the Tigers had six. Most thought the White Sox were best situated to win the pennant because in their last five games, the Pale Hose were scheduled to play the last-place Kansas City Athletics twice and the seventh-place Washington Senators three games. Interestingly, at the start of play on Wednesday that final week, there was still the quite possible scenario of a four-way tie for first place — imagine the discussion regarding tiebreakers! According to Jeff Miller, in his book Down to the Wire, in the spring of 1967, some engineers at Honeywell apparently decided to amuse themselves by calculating the odds of a four-way tie for first in either the National League or American League. Their calculations showed that the chances of a four-way tie were ***30,315,229 to 1***. As Miller mused, why the engineers chose to use the company’s time this way remains unknown — baseball had never seen a tie involving more than two teams before 1967. But that Wednesday (September 27) a gloomy cloud fell over the South Side — the White Sox lost a doubleheader to the lowly A’s. Nevertheless, they still had a chance going into the final weekend because at the start of play on Friday all four teams were within a game and a half in the standings. The other three teams had a harder row to hoe — the Twins and Red Sox would play each other twice on the weekend and the Tigers had to play four against the fifth-place Angels. And things got worse for the Tigers because of rain on Friday, requiring them to play back-to-back doubleheaders on the final weekend. The ending is well known, and celebrated in Red Sox Nation.

So we should just pretend those scenarios magically don't exist? Let's go with Fangraphs odds then and just turn on tv's next week instead. Will be there playing or not. This is the White Sox we're talking about, after all. Conditioned to failure over 125 years. It's in the DNA.

Clubhouse spy for KW against Ozzie too

Or ratchet up tension again

three losses in a row following Houston getting swept by Braves