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Walker McKinven team MVP if this holds up with Houser...although the Mariners don't have much of an offense outside of Raleigh and J-Rod.

He's well beyond Camp Cora. Not sure what else they can do...it seems to have at least sorta worked for Colson.

Robert has reached Eloy, Anderson, Grandal (last two years) levels of bad here... Actually, they were probably still better in terms of BA at least. Exit Velocity 55.4 mph

If Meidroth could add 20-25, even 30 steals per season...that would be HUGE for him to make up for some of his power deficit as a hitter.

Elko is 4/24 on the season, but still has a higher OPS than Palacios Vaughn Robert and Rojas, lol. Ofc, his days are numbered anyway with Tauchman and Benintendi coming back soon. Hopefully Palacios is also sent down, or they DFA Capra, as it's not like anyone in baseball will claim him anyway.

.660 ops Is that good enough for Sosa, accounting for not being a great runner, being a below average fielder and then fundamentals/baseball IQ issues from time to time? Really think you need to be in that 675-725 OPS range to not be a 0-1.0 fWAR type of contributor with his overall profile. There's just not ONE skill on the baseball field that he really excels at, or one tool that can carry him on the defensive and base paths side of things.

Houser's throwing a lot harder than I expected, 94-97...

Was just looking at Iguchi's first three years in the big leagues at 30-32. 780 ops, 774, 747 and then fell off a cliff to .598. The problem is for you to make the All-Star team with the White Sox...you're likely to be the ONLY representative on the team, so you have to be the absolute best player, like Jose Abreu early in his Sox career. That's going to be harder to do for Meidroth without many counting numbers like HR's, RBI's and SB's. And SS is almost impossible to make the All-Star team for either league with all the intense competition. Tim Anderson obviously pulled that off as well, but he had decent power, SB's and "swagger" going in his favor, as well as being perceived to be the leader of the team. Meidroth is the type of player you have to watch every day for a full season to truly appreciate his contributions.

It was also a bit of a weird move to push Rojas up to 2nd when he's statistically the worst hitter on the team, but it sort of worked (so far).

Vaughn FINALLY hitting 7th, but no idea why in God's name Palacios with his career 660ish OPS is considered a heart of the order hitter.

That Smith pick over Caglianone isn't aging well so far...the ONE thing this team MOST needs right now is a feared power threat/run producer in the middle of the line-up. Looking at that 2019 draft where we drafted Vaughn just one spot after Bobby Witt, Jr., hurts even more. Why the White Sox took him here: Keith Law called Vaughn the best pure bat in this draft, and it would have been hard to imagine Chicago passing on adding that kind of hitter with the No. 3 overall pick. As a major conference college star, Vaughn should move quickly through the minors and bring his smooth right-handed swing to the South Side sooner than later. The history of shorter first basemen as high draft picks isn't great, but Vaughn has a chance to change that here. -- Mullen Then Riley Green, CJ Abrams and Nick Lodolo in a run, yikes. The next total miss was Hunter Bishop SFG #10.

Chicago Sun-Times publishes made-up books and fake experts in AI debacle https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/670510/chicago-sun-times-ai-generated-reading-list The outlet said online that the articles were not approved or created by the newsroom.

They also had a lot to do with ironing Gio Lopez and Cease out....at the big league level. Well, we can argue the Braves did more until Reynaldo got hurt. Dylan spent a decent amount of time in the Sox minors as well. Kopech was the biggest disappointment, obviously. Dunning did well enough to return Lynn...one of the better veteran starters in baseball at the time with TEX.

https://www.mlb.com/milb/news/jac-caglianone-promoted-to-triple-a-by-royals Caglianone promoted to AAA...lots of the same arguments here you will see about why Braden will need to also go through AA and AAA, and not just skip ahead quickly to the majors.

Saturday’s Sky-Fever WNBA regular season game averaged 2.7 million viewers on ABC, marking the largest WNBA regular season audience since Memorial Day 2000 and the league’s second-largest audience of any kind over that span — trailing only last year’s WNBA All-Star Game (3.44M). Compared to Fever-Liberty on ABC the opening Saturday of last season — Clark’s third career game — viewership increased more than 50 percent from 1.71 million. To put the number in perspective, it is just shy of the 2.8 million ABC averaged for its NBA Saturday Primetime package during the regular season and surpasses every Major League Baseball game so far this season — including an unusually strong Mets-Yankees game Sunday night that averaged 2.54 million on ESPN. https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2025/05/fever-sky-viewership-milestone-wnba-regular-season-clark-reese/

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=houser000adr 5.03 era at Round Rock, Rangers’ AAA affiliate

https://www.mlb.com/news/white-sox-honor-pope-leo-xiv-with-graphic-installation-at-rate-field

But they play for the Red Sox and Yankees....lol.

https://www.mlb.com/news/jacob-wilson-aj-smith-shawver-lead-first-2025-mlb-rookie-of-the-year-poll Fourth in AL race behind Wilson K.Campbell and Dominguez.

Juan Soto is “glum” around the Mets’ clubhouse and he wanted to return to the Yankees last offseason before signing a historic 15-year, $765 million contract with the Mets, Yanks’ broadcaster Michael Kay claimed on his radio show on Monday. Soto has faced intense scrutiny after his less-than-stellar return to The Bronx over the weekend, which has included knocks on how hard he runs after hits to his apparent happiness in Queens. Kay prefaced his comments on his show – “The Michael Kay Show” – by saying that he had spoken to people involved with the Yankees and the Mets, and he had arrived at 8 a.m. before Saturday’s game, and “really talked for hours with people.” “People that I talked to on the Mets side, and they can deny it publicly, because, of course, that’s what they have to do, he is very, very glum around the clubhouse,” Kay said, according to Awful Announcing. “He does not have a hop in his step. He does not smile much. I’m not gonna say he is unhappy. Because how can you be unhappy with a $765 million contract? But money is not a guarantee that you are gonna be comfortable somewhere.” nypost.com

Same exact record as last year at this time, 14-34. Then 15-34 in 2024, followed by that first stretch of consecutive losses...14. So 15-38 is STILL going to be quite hard to beat. Rockies, on the other hand, are well on their way (and don't get the 1-2-3 draft pick either this season).

Signing Gibson and Morton was just never bound to work. Sanchez has been a disaster. Sugano's been a pleasant surprise. O'Neill just constantly is hurt...he's just a really big dude and totally into bodybuilding, if you followed the Red Sox Netflix special. Quite a streaky hitter, too. As soon as Gray-Rod and Bradish became unavailable, their rotation started to collapse, but that doesn't explain what has happened to Adley Rutschman. Henderson's coming around, and Holliday has been much better than 2024, but all those other guys like Cowser Kjerstad Westburg Mayo have been hurt or disappointing overall. Then you have an elite MLB closer who went down to TJS and still is figuring things out in his 2nd recovery year.

Baldwin's best position was arguably 2B coming into the season...as the White Sox/Venable barely trusted him to start regularly at SS. In fact, they kept Amaya on the team largely to prevent that from happening.

$12,935,389 career earnings with Brewers/Mets/Rangers Not bad at all for a journeyman/swing guy...not even a LHP. The Vomitting Ace should fit in well with this team, lol. The Vomiting Ace Adrian Houser is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers. He made his MLB debut in 2015 and has become a key member of the

Also, to top off all the "good new," Profar's brother is hitting .083 for the ACL team. Every single brother/relative that we pick blows up, whether it's Vladdy's cousin, Uribe's son, Tatis' or Yoenis Cespedes' brother or cousin, Ozzie's family, KW's son, lol. We're excelling at lighting money on fire, at least. The only Sox history-connected guy we ever succeeded with was Carlos Martinez's son...and the majority of his success was with the Cardinals in the big leagues. OFC, the other big "miss" was Alek Thomas, whose father Allen was a trainer/athletic conditioning guy and we refused to take his kid...or maybe he was already on the "outs" with the organization. Guessing the next one will be Jose Contreras' son.