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Someone like Rosario or Pederson. The problem is nobody foresaw (or could they have anticipated?) the Jimenez injury in the front office...at any rate, the White Sox never budget to have positional insurance that costs THAT much. And Mercedes, Collins and Vaughn might get the job done well enough to get us to August. Not since the 2006 starting rotation have they deliberately overspent somewhere going into a season.

Does anybody know why Heuer wasn’t warming up with Bummer yet...? And whether Hendriks was actually available after 36 pitches the night before?

Arguably, the Twins’ two best (or at least most important) players in Buxton and Berrios have two seasons before hitting free agency. Same with the White Sox with Giolito (3 years) and Anderson (4 years). With the money being spent on extensions now reaching the hundreds of millions, the fate of these players will determine the next four seasons. If the Twins can’t retain either player, then they’re going to be stuck with Josh Donaldson and paying him $29-37 million in his age 37-38 years in 2023 and 2024 (buyout year, $8 million.) They have no choice (especially with Nelson Cruz hitting his age limits) to be “all in” these two seasons. Assuming JR is not going to fork over the extension money for Giolito or TA, we have to hope our own veterans (Abreu, Grandal and Keuchel) can keep producing and we can beat the Twins on the Tier B trade market and especially beat them on the margins with value-oriented moves...which haven’t been a Hahn specialty. The White Sox definitely have the core of young players with the most potential (Robert, Moncada, Vaughn, Kopech, Crochet, Jimenez) but nothing is guaranteed. And the one thing I don’t like about the Lynn move is we might have to turn around and replace him, too. If TLR is still around at season’s end, you like your chances to retain him...but he’s also going to soon join a race against Father Time. At this point, though, it seems like we still are 2-3 players behind the Yankees...and, if you look closely at last season, we struggled mightily with most of the above .500 teams (especially Cleveland) and beat up on the weaklings. It’s the same dilemma the Twins face, with their complete inability to break through in the playoffs. The thing I worry (most) about is that ownership and Hahn/KW are on a totally different page...that we’re more concerned with proving TLR can still manage than beating the Twins. When I think of the Padres, every single move they make is about finishing ahead of the Dodgers. Not sure we have found that same level of laser focus, simply preferring to just “out-talent” them. It’s essentially going to be up to TLR to create that unique identity...as we’ve already come close to blowing as many 7th inning leads as the 2002-04 Twins and 2014-15 Royals on the first weekend of the season.

Basically, Miguel Olivo... Mercedes this weekend is a bit reminiscent of this....you could see Robert or Jimenez doing something similar.

Wow...getting a bit heated in here. Let’s just hope that we don’t mess up Vaughn. I know, I know, if he can’t handle having to learn a new position on the fly and completely bypassing the two most challenging levels of minor league ball he’s not as great as he was cracked up go be.

1.4 seasons...

Would rather have a Dyson vacuum cleaner...

Marshall took the loss in Game 3 last year as well...just had a feeling the magic wasn’t going to continue. The ironic aspect is the changeup was supposed to nullify LHH but Rendon/Walsh touched him up and Heuer should have been called upon. He’s throwing harder than anyone in our pen out of the gate.

The lack of pinch-hitting from a late game strategic genius, so called, is honestly mystifying.

Unavailable due to pitching two nights in a row...warming up, etc.

There’s no way to go get the ball along that curve...the danger is too high you get impatient and turn it into an inside the parker.

Feel sorry for Yermin, he should have been the story of MLB for two days in a row.

Garcia has been absolute garbage so far...

Not to mention you can’t ask anything more out of Giolito and Lynn, but 0-2 likely now in their starts. Then you enter the really uncertain area of the rotation... Of course, Guerra used to be Sox property.

Making Hendriks go 36 pitches yesterday certainly didn’t help matters...

Did Jed Hoyer/Epstein suddenly become Cardinals’ GM?

Should have been Heuer...

Well, that game turned in a flash. And of course those two runners left on by Robert/Vaughn/Garcia killed us.

So much for the invincible bullpen...

Marshall over Heuer?

Go Luis, go! Grab second.

Angels’ announcers are more entertaining than Benetti by far...

Best fastball was 98+, but well under 100-102...

https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/white-sox/ct-chicago-white-sox-garrett-crochet-signed-20200622-2o3aku3u7nggfhi7k3bi2upeyi-story.html We should thank Phil Gulley for recommending Crochet...

Ohtani vs. Crochet should be fun...