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Mazara on IL (possibly Covid). Yermin hasn't been getting consistent at-bats wherever he is, and you can't bench EE five games into a season after you gave him that much money just to hit. Yermin has the type of game where he almost has to play 75-80% of the time, and that would be fine on the 2016-2019 Chicago White Sox teams.

Keuchel is by definition one of those "reliable" innings-eating middle of rotation vets. Something along the lines of Maeda/Rich Hill/Jake Odorizzi....not a huge contract, but much more of an investment than Gio Gonzalez.

That's how Timmy needed to play that groundball early in the first game that pulled Abreu well off the bag...

This is derived from the "you lose 85-90% of your body heat from your throat, so somehow conserving that seems like it MIGHT potentially have health benefits" school of thinking.

Whatever happened to that slider Rodon threw at NC State? I recall a time when it was even cool to follow his college starts, along with Trea Turner at-bats. Guess it went the same way as Francisco Liriano's...just way too much torque on the elbow to get away throwing that for more than 3-5 seasons in top form.

Positional-strength wise, that was one of our top spots. Repeatable, there was certainly doubt there. But it was pretty obvious they needed at least one more veteran starting pitcher (certainly more reliable than Gio Gonzalez, something along the lines of Maeda/Odorizzi would have been perfect to really solidify things along with Dallas.)

Have to lay off those high fastballs out of the zone, Luis.

Indians' announcers already predicting a McCann trade, lol...Rick Hahn Is Not A God (RHINAG) At least James McCann came out this season acting like it's a real battle for playing time with Yasmani. 78 MPH breaking ball. Trade value, trade value!

Rodon throwing a fit in the dugout already. "At least he did that right-handed?" Indians' announcers. Sign of maturity? Cell call from Boras predicting his FA market will be extremely limited at this rate. Actually, Rodon's one of those guys who has the potential to be an Andrew Miller out of the bullpen, but just not sure his control will ever be tolerable enough in late inning/high leverage sitations.

I'm surprised they even allow Cooper near the team with his likely list of co-morbidities. He's one of those guys who knows it's probably not all that safe but still says, "F--k it, you gotta die someday, it might as well be on a baseball field."

Dr. Pepper for now. Took 6 weeks to get delivered to China. Although I might have to break out the Coronas if this continues much longer.

Well, at least Santana's on my fantasy team, lol. This season is really falling apart quickly...need to right the ship on the road somehow, or have the season delayed/postponed 7-10 days to retrench and have a White Sox version of the J-Hey World Series speech.

GREAT route there, Delmonico. Looks like a carbon copy of Jimenez. This Indians' line-up is pretty darned average after the top 4 hitters, but Jose Ramirez has decided to come out on fire this year and Reyes/Santana are going to be really tough on lefities IMO.

It's the old Chris Sale trick. He's holding 96-98 MPH back for the 5th and 6th innings. If they're not going to make the playoffs this year, have to hope for changes with Renteria, Cooper and possibly even Hahn just to shake things up. We have SO many holes up and down this roster, it's pretty hard to accept that we haven't developed even ONE quality outfielder (other than Robert) with all those prospects in the system.

It will be the classic Albert Belle "second half" empty numbers. We have so many left with DET and KC, we'll be alive in this forever...but KC is showing some surprising offense in the early going, not sure how well our pitching staff is going to stack up to go more than 6-4 against the Royals if these depressing trends continue.

Unsurprisingly, our DH's were the worst in MLB with a 641 OPS last year. Has a team ever started a clean-up hitter the following season after releasing the same player at the previous mid-season? That has to be a first in history.

Hope that Delmonico/Collins can do something productive hitting in the heart of the line-up. We knew that EE was going to be streaky, and historically he almost always starts off slow. A split here feels like a huge swing. Either a sigh of relief or panic starting to set in with the early pitching so shaky.

They need to bring back the “He Hate Me” jersey from out of retirement.

https://www.fangraphs.com/standings/playoff-odds Marlins currently projected at 25-35, 0.1% chance to win WS. White Sox in 7th AL position, projected at 31-29.

No player can afford to sit out essentially 3 1/2 seasons...well, I guess there was that former #1 pick (Bush?) who went to prison and Josh Hamilton.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/07/braves-designate-mike-foltynewicz-for-assignment.html Doubt he makes it to the White Sox, but this would be a logical move...not prohibitively expensive, and upside for 2021 if he can heal whatever's wrong with his elbow/shoulder or possibly undergo surgery and rehab in Chicago.

Guess they don’t want to pay for rehab/post-surgery or he really did something to injure himself that flew in the face of what training staff or team doctor was advising him to do? There has to be a LOT more to it than that.

Three impact infielders, if you count Eduardo Escobar as well...

Could only find this... “Players who are not designated as high risk and who opt out for the health reasons of others, such as family members, will not automatically receive their pay and service time, although clubs have mechanisms available to award them both if they choose. Coaches, trainers and other non-player personnel may also opt out of participating this season. Whether they receive their pay will be determined on a club-by-club basis.”

Sign Terrence Gore. Instant runner on 3rd. You can do that with expanded rosters. Or trade a Tier C prospect for Billy Hamilton.