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Even Pollock coming off a 3 fWAR season looks curiously absent. But can’t play since Gausman is right-handed I guess. The turf in Toronto does him no favors healthwise, but my god, this looks the opposite of promising. Playing Vaughn in LF and Sheets in RF on a much speedier surface is beyond idiotic.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/insider/story/_/id/33976619/who-juan-soto-help-most-traded-all-29-other-mlb-teams-find-out Good thing they didn’t have to place the entire Sox minor league system into a potential deal. And that’s #9 in the projection models without accounting for Anderson’s absence. But perhaps this provides those in the rebuilding/retooling camp reasons for optimism. Of course, the offseason was Hahn’s best opportunity to add a 4+ fWAR guy. Fortunately, as well, the Twins are now down 4 starting pitchers, Correa out again and Buxton hasn’t even been able to play in the field more than a handful of games and has been ouchy and also not hitting a lick. 3-4 in this particular stretch looked like it was going to be 4-3 or likely 5-2, so they’re just +10 instead of +12-14, still providing at least a ray of hope before TLR’s roster management can extinguish it.

Need to wait until the division lead is at least 6-7 games to start becoming concerned. And we're first in wild card trailing list. Unfortunately, all those teams have more favorable RS/RA. For example, even Cubs at -9 but -10 in the actual standings. Sox .500 but in the -40s.

If there was ever a time they more desperately needed his bat in the lineup...not sure when that would have been.

Nobody is right yet. And the White Sox gain no advantage on the trade market being 100% forthcoming. As PTAC asserted, a lot of fuzziness between Grade 1-2 tears.

Eckstein out of retirement.

"Cal Mitchell reaches on a fielding error by first baseman Freddie Freeman. Michael Chavis scores." Would have had the blown save still, but two outs with a runner in scoring position to preserve the tie. Sounds quite similar to Sox boxscores the last two seasons. 4.80 ERA

His very jersey number is even connected to a yoga principle/tenet.

In between Bohm and Singer? Or Brady was 6?

Throw both Matt Ruiz and Jose Foster in with Mendick, and you've got yourself a deal.

Going to have to report this to Ron883 for a "cease and desist" order. Seems like a personal attack. Lol. "Psycho." Seriously, anyone who supports this organization right now is the very definition of a Stockholm Syndrome survivor. And I actually do have a good friend who writes to various Sox personnel via their chisox.com e-mail addresses, but it's more for therapeutic purposes, not with the belief anything would possibly change. Finally, no sponsors would care a whit about what someone without season tickets living in another country has to say about the White Sox.

T R U dat!

We will certainly see next January when the Republicans control every branch of the US government but executive, and a weakened likely lame duck one at that. It doesn't matter whether I agree with you or not, the die is already cast. And the gun control votes in terms of cross-sectional American public opinion polling are a lot closer to 50/50 than the abortion rights issue (70/30 against getting rid of Roe v. Wade depending on survey phrasing). The only interesting developments to watch will be if DeSantis can actually wrest the nomination from Trump and if the Dems can field a single viable presidential contender in 2024.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/29/sport/tony-la-russa-gabe-kapler-protest-spt-intl/index.html White Sox make the front page of CNN. Don't think that has happened before in the LaRussa Era. TA7 didn't even make it last week. In fact, can't remember it ever happening.

Might as well be Timothy high on LSD.

The control for next season at a relatively affordable price would be highly attractive to big market postseason contenders. Of course, those are the same type of teams we have to somehow get past. But yeah, it's time to return Vaughn to 1B. The problem is the corner outfielders, then. Most don't want Jimenez back in the field. They can find a Job Pederson, Calhoun or Naquin type to platoon in RF with Engel. Obviously need to sort out 2B and catcher. Just can't imagine an older Pollock in LF next year is the solution...so more wasted resources getting rid of him.

That means Danny Tartabull to the White Sox for sure...

Lynn depending on how he pitches for 6 weeks. But nobody trusts Hahn to find the equivalent pitching replacement via trade or FA.

Here's the thing, they had a mass shooting in the UK and pretty much put a stop to it within a couple of years. It's not a notable problem in the EU or even "violent" countries like Colombia. What I can't wrap my head around is how Canada has so many more guns/hunting rifles than the US, per capita, but not even 1/10th the amount of gun violence. We are not even to June but already 30 mass school shootings. America is the only country where citizens have to be protected from the tyranny of their own government? That doesn't say much for the country and it's leaders. Here in China, and most countries with authoritarian dictatorships, citizens are never allowed guns. At worst, you have mass knifings at elementary schools, but those are much harder to pull off before being stopped.

If every member of Congress sent their son or daughter into military for 12-18 months like in South Korea...that's just the thing though, it's not about universally shared sacrifice, but about scoring political points. If I wear an American flag shirt hat or pin everyday, does that make me more of a patriot than those protesting for better public policies?

Angels are coming back to earth. Blue Jays have been underperforming, they’ll probably take off after this week, though. Then there’s the Red Sox, Guardians and maybe the Mariners. Just think Hahn or TLR are too stubborn to admit the obvious. Basically, we have to copy the Twins’ 2021 path…trading Giolito/Berrios, extending someone (Cease/Kopech), trading Donaldson and Cruz (which would be Abreu if he wants to leave, Graveman OR Hendriks, maybe Bummer, but then you have to hope Crochet is ready or go back into FA for relief help yet again.) Cueto might have some value still. Of course, they could go deeper by trading Lynn, Jimenez or Moncada, but none of those moves really make much sense in terms of maximizing current trade assets or fielding a competitive team for 2023.

Why would he be the right guy to do that after multiple failures? Do we even believe he has the authority to do so over TLR?

It’s really only him and Rowand…and it took both those guys 2-3 years to become regulars. After that, it’s Eduardo Escobar and Semien, but not for the Sox, obviously.

Half the coaching staff are in and out of the clubhouse. Only noticeable for OD, All Star Game, playoffs, etc.

We can’t even do that because the Twins are now down 4 starting pitchers and they haven’t been able to rely recently on the production or health of Correa or Buxton. After the results of this past week, just not thinking that anyone has the ability to run away and hide in this division. Not even the slumping Guardians are totally out of this with their easy June schedule. So it’s the worst of all worlds where we stick with the veterans because we’re still in the division or WC race, even without Anderson. Of course, these next three series could really put us well back below .500 again.