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Too early to make any definitive declarations. He's certainly faring better than Mr. Kelenic.

4-11 the last 15. Addison Reed finally wavered down the stretch run.

https://www.mlb.com/news/carlos-rodon-sets-giants-record-for-strikeouts-in-1st-4-games

12,363 announced attendance. So we have a pretty darned good idea of the season ticket base right now.

Would be really nice to have two wins before the Angeks. come to town. Also would prevent the Royals from winning 4 series in?a row dating back to last year. Thankfully no Hernandez or whoever that guy who gave us fits over and over again last year, at least in this series.

1.2 to 0.5 fWAR...well they most definitely haven't replaced Lynn.

You're forgetting they wanted to rest Grandal more as he gets older...still a logjam.

Burger back in the move him to 2B when Moncada returns conversation again after today...

What was the owner's name in that movie...Rachel Phelps or something like that? Ages since watching, but one of the best. Plug we have the Johnny Cueto/Eddie Junkball Harris comp already going.

You left out the last couple of weeks of the 2008 season...that was just a battle for survival after Quentin went down. Oh, and Alexei grand salamis.

Not when we only have a 3 run lead...

Well that was desperately needed. Now can we please manage to close out one of statistically worst offenses in the game?

What's that? Doesn't Ruiz already get credit for a blown one?

It was Allen Thomas this past offseason, and isn't Herm still emiritus or something like that?

Leury Garcia from what he started out as, lol. Well you have Narvaez and McCann. Bummer, I guess. Avi Garcia? Alejandro de Aza? Joking. But in all seriousness, that recent moment when they were lauding the farm system for all those first rounders making an impact...Fulmer Collins Burdi Rodon and Madrigal all gone now, poof! Crochet injured. Vaughn out of position.

Yeah the fractured left foot was 2005. Torn biceps pretty rare in baseball, like Eloy's injury last year. Wasn't it from catching a throw that brought him into contact with a base runner?

Yeah, pretty sure Achilles or some type of lower leg issue that wiped out most of his season.

That's probably not the best analogy with Covid and cruise lines the last 2-3 years...

Because Jimenez's career fWAR is less than Rodon's 2021. Second point is pitchers are always injured in peak velocity modern day baseball. Position players were always perceived to be more valuable due to playing nearly everyday and getting hurt less frequently.

Well, arguably Top 5-10 in the game...but on the way. The last time we clearly had THE best pitcher in baseball was Jose Contreras for a stretch of 2005-06. At this point, only another injury is going to derail this narrative about Hahn's offseason decision-making. Getting rid of players in their 20s for veterans in their 30s doesn't usually work unless you are the Braves or Giants.

Feels like the good ol 2001 White Sox with David Wells, Frank Thomas out and Jose Canseco. Fought back from 14-29 all the way to .500ish by mid summer and ended up at 83-79.

Afraid of him re-aggravating it in the colder weather, arguably.

Rodon already worth 1.2 fWAR, trailing only Gausman in the majors. That’s the equivalent of roughly $10 million in expected FA production dollars out of $18-22 million already. VV, Harrison, Pollock and Leury (-0.6) combined are a lovely -1.0… On the plus side, McGuire somehow leads the entire offense at 0.3.

Hard not to go with the Blue Jays…especially when the Sox can’t ever keep their core guys healthy. Performance/production matters a lot more than these dreams of potential and what could have been. Somewhere, there’s a Rangers’ fan shouting to the heavens about letting #2/3 hitter Leury Garcia get away to the White Sox for Alex Rios nearly a decade ago now. Well, at least a couple that are bemused.

By that argument, 75% of the White Sox players have already had similar 0 for 10/11/12 stretches or whatever it was during in the first three weeks…0.4 fWAR definitely wouldn’t have been his value had he remained with the Sox. Same thing with Luis Gonzalez. In retrospect, it’s just so weird that we spent so much time worrying about Micker Adolfo’s fate when that isn’t even a Top 20 issue for the team right now. Oh, for those days back.