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Still left to go... (5) KC Baltimore Detroit Sac/ATH Seattle (5) Cincy Pitt NYM Milwaukee AZ

Don't be sore that trade didn't exactly work out well for either side...do closers get extra points for paying attention to innings 1-7? In some ways, being young and oblivious might be preferable to Kimbrel's jittery nervousness.

https://www.outkick.com/sports/unrivaled-selling-story-numbers-suggest-sad-ending Something of a right wing perspective, but was flipping through trying to find Pistons/Spurs and ran into Unrivaled on TNT. So got curious and looked this up. Unrivaled is now down to just 93,000 viewers per game in its second season. Caitlin Clark Effect again. The wild thing is that Iowa is sitting on fifty consecutive sellouts (15,400) for women's bb two years AFTER Clark left Iowa City...have also successfully recruited two McDonald's All Americans from CA and just hosted five Top 20 ranked players from the 2027-29 classes for the Michigan game, including Olivia Johnson from (Mt.) Carmel Catholic.

I couldn't even open it on my phone. Yes assuming that it has to do with either the original stadium or some crack about the upper deck in GRF. Or maybe it's just crumbling infrastructure in that area of the city.. although that feels more like an 80s and 90s jab, with most of those high rises having been demolished.

Crumbling Concrete Near White Sox Stadium Could Put Fans In Harm's ... www.cbsnews.com › ... › Local News May 11, 2018 · CHICAGO (CBS) -- A CBS 2 original report of the potential dangers White Sox fans could be facing as they walk to Guaranteed Rate Field. What's wrong with our stadium? : r/whitesox - Reddit www.reddit.com › whitesox › comments May 11, 2024 · If it wasn't literally crumbling apart, they might still be using it today. ... Guaranteed rate field has always been an awful stadium compared to .. Now search crumbling and Wrigley lol...

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/mlb-26-and-under-power-rankings-nos-15-11-are-roman-anthony-and-jj-wetherholt-ready-to-ascend-to-stardom-225147917.html "Aging/ancient Dodgers still 12th at 26 and under players..." "Josue De Paula has intergalactical offensive upside, with an advanced eye and an orchard of juice. If he optimizes his swing plane for lift, watch out. Zyhir Hope is one of the best athletes in the minors, a power-speed dynamo with huge swing-and-miss concerns. He either needs to stick in center or upgrade his hit tool to break onto L.A.’s stacked big-league roster. Still just 21, he has time. Alex Freeland got his doors blown off during a cup of coffee in 2025. That short stint amplified questions about whether he can play short and how much contact he’ll make. Whether any of these prospects ends up playing for the Dodgers is somewhat beside the point. The position-player depth in this system — we’ve yet to mention guys like Eduardo Quintero, Mike Sirota or Charles Davalan — will allow Friedman and Co. to be aggressive in the trade market if the opportunity presents itself. Los Angeles has the horses on the farm to acquire pretty much anybody in baseball — and yes, that includes Tarik Skubal."— J.M. 37 Treinen 36 Freeman, Rojas 35 Muncy 34 Br.Stewart 33 Snell, Betts, Teoscar 32 Glasnow 31 T.Scott, EdDiaz, Call, Ohtani 30 W.Smith, Edman 29 K.Tucker E.Henriquez and River Ryan deserve a mention too...very very young bullpen after the three vets at the back end.

You're not upset with the headline writer's readily-apparent "negativity" dwelling on the past two seasons' worth of results???

Braden being 2/2 didn't automatically put him into the starting lineup on OD? What???? Murakami strikeout run didn't doom his season? Shane Smith not throwing 97-99 means he is not cooked, with Heatherly (who?) taking his spot? C'mon!

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About the best you can say is it's Kauffman without the fountains/astroturf (originally)...or about as disappointing as the 2010 Twins' facility. Maybe better than the Astrodome (hate all domed parks tbh), older stadiums in Cleveland/Pitt/Cincy/Philly that were all replaced by MUCH nicer modernized "palaces," etc. Perhaps older folks would hate the newer Marlins stadium (original version) or Chase Field...but there's just no way it's NOT somewhere in the bottom 3-5 facilities existing today. Rays Stadium? Well that's going to be gone soon, too. If it was sold out every game and just gave you that incredible home field or court advantage...psychologically, the perceived fan experience or perception would be markedly improved. For example, Busch Stadium wasn't all that great, but StL fans always packed it on weekends, so it felt like a fun place to go as a teenager in the 80s.

Maybe they could at least spell Connor correctly on the lineup card...nice to see Acuna not listed as S/LH, though.

"No. You argue that everybody on the Sox is trade fodder." Anyone with three or less years of control...certainly two, qualifies. Do they not? Never wrote about trading Colson Teel Braden Smiths etc. There are a lot of SoxTalk posters that would like time trade Quero or Sosa though. Not sure how that's everyone on the roster, either. (Surprised you didn't bring up Hays here as well...as he should be traded if he has a good first half.) By the way, Em.Rodriguez and Abel looking good for Minnesota today against DET.

See 2005.

By that argument, Murakami will be gone if he's a stud, too...barring something dramatic happening to JR. Ishbia would have to go against his own financial interests to intervene unless he's willing to totally buy into the "NPB connection strategy."

Never giving him an extended run at one spot against both rh and lh starting pitching.

Feel like they've been written off for dead how many times since contraction threats in 2001...??? Their debt has all been traded for minority shares as well.

Who are they LIKELY to trade, other than Jeffers? Larnach or Wallner? Lewis? Fine, we can make it 5-4 Twins. The rebuilding has already happened with their pen. Ryan is also likely to get traded due to his perceived value to every contender, and more reasonable salary. Jeffers for now is still on their roster, and Teel/Quero can't play everyday with the current roster composition.

SoxTalk seems to believe in Baldwin a lot more than 35th and Shields. (At least until proven otherwise.) Can probably say the same about Mead, except in the opposite direction. With Kelenic, just can't let go of that 2018-19 prospect pedigree, Top Ten ranking. See Moncada, Yoan.

Remember, other than M.Perez, the bulk of their starting staff was relatively healthy last year. The injuries were largely to minor league depth pieces like Adams Thorpe Bush Larson Batista, etc. You can argue that Thorpe had at least a 50/50 shot at the rotation, I guess.

Even with nationwide 5% billionaire taxes instituted overnight, you can't balance any budgets without touching capital gains and real estate wealth. Costs are rising for everyone, sure, but disproportionately impacting the Bottom 80% of Americans or Illinois residents. In the end, it's capitalism/profits and Indiana might just get rewarded for being in a better overall situation financial health and investment-wise.

Everyone was underselling his power...but that's only in comparison to Mune. 20-25 homers always felt a bit low. Thirty wouldn't be a surprise...not a huge amount of pressure in that lineup to produce like more than a complementary player. A ton of expectations for Cease/Ponce (lesser extent obviously).

Fine let's do this. LF automatically goes to Minn, Larnach CF Buxton/Jenkins over Acuna...biggest difference between two teams RF Wallner, see LF until proven otherwise Braden=E.Rodriguez 3B Lewis/Vargas slight advantage due to Lewis' actual production but huge health concerns *SS C.Montgomery over Lee/Culpepper 2B L.Keaschall over Meidroth *1B Murakami over Josh Bell C Jeffers/Tait even with Teel/Quero *DH Benintendi/Sosa over Caratini So Sox 3, Twins 6 You can argue 3B and C, it's still 5-4 Twins because of the outfield. You could probably even argue against Keaschall as well, but every scout will take hitting potential/upside here. Ryan Ober SWR T.Bradley Matthews Even without Lopez, how is the Sox current projected starting rotation better? Sox have the bullpen advantage, at least on paper.

Kelenic Vargas Acuna Pereira Mead Sosa and Baldwin all fit this profile to one degree or another. Ofc 29 teams basically bet against Murakami as well, or at least couldn't afford to take the risk of playing him everyday as a contender out of the gate. Mune's still the most exciting player on the team though, at least IMO. He's certainly the biggest story on a daily basis. That and the emerging Cholowsky/Lebron duel.

If he was a Cardinal prospect that came out of virtually nowhere...wasn't highly touted or drafted highly and had that utility label ceiling placed upon him from the very beginning, sure. They had that track record of production for decades. Or the Rays, for example. Masters of squeezing surplus value out of the Baldwin profile. With the White Sox, he's going to have to prove it. He's also going to have to beat out Kelenic/Pereira and also demonstrate at least IMPROVING defense in RF.

These 75-81 win total protection getting thrown around now are based on absolutely everything going right. Beyond almost everything going the opposite direction in 2023-24, that just doesn't happen (on the positive side) more than once a decade or two, at least in Sox history. Injury "luck" alone is something that everyone knows will take a massive toll on mlb and milb pitching staffs. The team currently has a ton of names/depth to throw at the rotation and a much better bullpen than recently, but let's at least finish ahead of the Twins before getting too crazy...