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We keep saying Moncada and Vaughn back will give you only one hole in the lineup but it's still seemingly 3-4 weak spots per game. Sheets Pollock Leury McGuire Harrison Burger Engel Mendick.

Look at Minoso's numbers his rookie year and compare them. Well, the only way we would ever know if the BBWAA was going to "tolerate" two African American players winning ROY in both leagues in the same year less than five seasons after Jackie Robinson debuted...would be to switch their teams around. It's always going to hypothetical/speculation. Hard to find smoking guns, this isn't the 1960 presidential election in Chicago.

The Indians have Bieber, Plesac and Civale back again after missing long stretches of 2021...so that aspect will be better. Bieber is not as good as 2-3 years ago, but McKenzie and Quantrill have both pitched well. They also have four former NL West players who were all considered expendable in their starting lineup...to go along with Lindor-linked imports Gimenez/Rosario and April Rookie of Month Kwan, who pretty much has to regress eventually.

I meant offseason additions/improvements.

There just wasn't that one headline addition to increase excitement...Conforto turned out to be a false flag operation/distraction. Then Rodon, fixation with utility guys and the never ending Kimbrel situation, which still hasn't improved the ball club to this date in time. Finally, can add over reliance on Sheets repeating.

Don't forget Trayce Thompson, lol. Luis Gonzalez.

Not second half 2021 and this year's version though.

They were not one of the consensus picks for Top 5 postseasons. Cubs, Giants, Tigers, Mariners, Rangers, Blue Jays and Dodgers were all up there.

Well, the Red Sox fans also are already booing Trevor Story...who has a much better OPS than many Sox hitters. And Wacha has been one of the top 10 pickups of the offseason. Overall, though, their current legacy is colored by the Sale injury and losing both Betts and now likely Bogaerts as well to FA. Team in transition coming off a year they arguably overperformed in retrospect. And pretty clearly the second toughest division in baseball.

Yes. You could go back on MLB Game day Audio and replay it. They 1) historically hate the Yankees and 2) have been combating their own ugly team history of racism allegations connected to the franchise over past decades.

I remember hearing the exact same argument every single season we lost to the Twins in the 00's...then the Tigers, Indians, Royals, Indians again. Teams like the Rays count on the big boys overlooking them season after season...except the White Sox should NEVER be considered as a Cinderella team when their resources and competitive advantage are so abundant compared to the rest of the division.

White Sox vs. Indians/Guardians 2013 2-17 2014 9-10 2015 10-9 2016 8-11 2017 6-13 2018 5-14 2019 11-8 2020 2-8 2021 10-9 2023 0-3 2013-2019 51-82 2020-22 12-20 63-102 over the last decade

Is that like a mojito?

How can you sat that with your member name being what it is? Did Ron influence you to leave Team Abreu?

These early season games, except for OD and the Hendriks bobbleheads...they're 60-75% season ticket holders, so that this tells me is that Chicago and Detroit have almost exactly the same number of season ticket holders, it's simply that their revenues are going to be 25-30% higher because of the prices the Sox charge for everything have gone through the roof...whereas the Tigers are more reasonable to get fans back in the ballpark.

This is the kind of attitude that has us constantly struggling just to eliminate the mid-tier divisional opponents, let alone the Royals or Tigers. The way we played the first stretch against the Central, one would think that your post was pretty much the extent of their scouting report. Sano hasn't even been a factor this year. Those who play fantasy baseball at least know who Kepler, Arraez, Larnach and especially Polanco are...they have probably also heard of Sonny Gray, and Joe Ryan has been one of the Top Ten AL pitchers so far.

Weren't the White Sox over .500 when they started that series?

Well that should be really easy since you predicted the White Sox would win 109 games this year, so we're (according to you) due for a 95-40 stretch after playing just a handful of games over .500 over the last 105 or so. The White Sox SHOULD be able to make up a game or two at home versus CLE while the Twins are hosting Houston, but the next 21 games after that we will oscillate back and forth within that 3-5 games behind range. It won't be until the second or third week of June that we take over first place for good this season.

I can just imagine if this was an unofficially official Ron ban bet or Greg775 house bet that we'd have to go to a special mediator/arbitrator to adjudicate the meaning/intent. Maybe the poster would care to clarify? It certainly would be bold to end it as of the last day of May....kind of like Jerksticks predicting 109 White Sox victories this season, which would make the tail end of 1983 for the Winnin' Ugly Sox look like a bit of a slump.

Well, that just makes Sousa's and Banks' positions on the team that much safer...and elevates Sousa to the 7th and 8th, especially after Sunday's win.

So if he said "over the next month," for example, would that be the same stretch? If he said "the next month" after May 15th (as opposed to one week in), would he THEN be referring to June instead of including May?

He's like the Buddy Bell for this generation of Sox front office guys...and he came from one of the very best systems historically in Atlanta. It's almost inexplicable.

Buxton has a mild hip strain, Larnach's also on the injured list and Paddack has elbow inflammation which is usually the kiss of death. Meanwhile, Twins have now won 9 consecutive home games. Btw, Cleveland has only had 8 home games so far this season. Detroit with 13, White Sox with 13, Minnesota with 14 and KC with 15. Will balance out in the next couple of weeks. https://www.espn.com/mlb/attendance Also, it's almost inexplicable to me how Detroit (considering the even worse weather) and Arizona are outdrawing the Sox 16% of the way RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR CHAMPIONSHIP WINDOW. This was not how Brooks Boyer and Hahn drew things up in 2016/17.

We aren't starting an Alek Thomas thread, are we? Looks like Kelenic might have staved off a demotion to AAA for now. Seems JP Crawford might be ouchy, so Dylan Moore is currently needed "more" at SS. Pretty sure the husband isn't getting much action this week...

Ooops, I just posted it again in PHT because it's an issue that affects the entire organization, but you guys can merge/collapse it....although I'm guessing only about 25-30% of posters come to the minor league threads on a regular basis.