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Basically, the Joe Borchard Treatment...pioneered in early 2000’s.

https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&season=2020&month=0&season1=2020&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&startdate=2020-01-01&enddate=2020-12-31&sort=19,d&page=5_30 Abreu and Grandal being listed as two worst... Luis Robert 19th in fWAR (0.9). Leaders, Yaz and Tatis, Jr., tied at 1.7, 0.3 clear of Betts and 0.5 ahead of Br.Lowe (TB).

The mood with Eloy clowning his way into nets, tarps, side walls, Leury done, Mazara v. Engel in RF, McCann v. Grandal for catching time and McCann twice not catching Lucas G leading to disaster and Abreu vs. Keuchel for "veteran leader" really couldn't disintegrate much more precipitously with Puig. He was well loved in CLE and Cincy by all of his teammates to a man... who give a flying f--k right now, they have something seriously wrong with this organization and it needs to be excised or exorcised or whatever "EX" prefixed word you choose to apply as the cure.

Oops, think of Rick Carlisle being with Celtics as a player, not Mavs’ boss. Nabbing Kristaps Porzingis and Luka Doncic in two consecutive years was absolutely huge for revitalizing that franchise after their all-time great German bomber Nowitzki was no longer serviceable...

Padres have now lost 2 games on the road with the tying runner (Mateo, don’t look around, just run) cut down at home plate to end the game (plays close enough to be under long replay reviews in both cases.) One Chris Taylor with the rifle in LA, the other late last night in ARIZ. Odds of that transpiring in roughly 20 games, pretty much slim and none. https://www.mlb.com/gameday/padres-vs-d-backs/2020/08/15/630116#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=videos,game=630116

Mazara is a lesser version of Eloy Jimenez, essentially. Much better throwing arm, but about 60% of the offensive firepower needed on a corner (typically). Of course, with the Sox, Robert's immense power can compensate to an extent for someone like a Leury Garcia or Adam Eaton or whoever we can name (DeAza, for example) that's not going to hit more than 12-15 dingers. The problem is that he has to at least put up a 775-825 OPS in a platoon to have value at that position because of his defensive limitations, overall.

How many of those teams would have been in the Top 3-5 of that particular conference? Hard to compare MLB and NBA playoff scenarios, amirite? 2006 team definitely qualifies if not for great Twins/Tigers' runs, 2008 made the last week, 2010 and 2012 teams would have made the NBA playoffs if we imposed those standards on MLB. Obviously 2012 was Ventura, but if Ozzie and Buehrle stayed...very easy to extrapolate those numbers out and project. That gives you 2005/2006/2008/2010/2012 (five playoff teams) and 2007, 2009, 2011 (Dunn's debacle season) missing. 5/8=62.5% You're also talking one of the most unlimited budget teams in the NBA, and most valuable franchises historically. Not exactly fair to compare to the Little Sisters of the Poor Chicago White Sox/Bill Veeck, almost relocated to Trop Dome team.

It's finally time for the Little Big League managing approach, hire from the Twins/Piranhas.

Personal favorite was Hostetler on Trout, hadn't seen that particular quote before...

I highly doubt Super Joe McEwing would do much better...but hey, why not? Id take Omar Vizquel back at this point. Justin Jirschele is the one everyone is pointing to internally.

https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/luis-robert-eloy-jimenez-homer-in-loss-to-cardinals Jimenez after G2 loss. “We’re going to fight.”

"That's just the game of baseball, folks." Predictably will be uttered post-game by RR. "Don't know what happened with the pen today, we have a lot of faith in our guys coming through, didn't get 'er done. Need to get on the road and bounce back quickly tomorrow." Oh, and we still haven't even faced their far and away BEST pitcher in Jack Flaherty, Giolito's high school teammate at Harvard Westlake.

2-2. The tide has completely reversed again. WHERE'S OUR VERY OWN NICHOLAS CASTELLANOS????????????????????????????????? Instead we get washed up and overpaid Parrot Guy, Grandal and Mazara Margarine...every ball just slides into open spaces in RF in patented Daniel Palka fashion.

So wonderful have the Sox scouts have been (choked out in distinctive Yoda voice) in identifying veteran players ONE YEAR LATE in their 30's instead of pulling the plug one year EARLY. Almost every single time, we're wrong. It's almost uncanny. And it makes you wonder when the next shoe to drop will be Dallas Keuchel...? Not even going to be happy the Cubs lost to the Brewers, as you can almost already pencil them into the playoffs, and surely that will be the case after going 4-2 or 5-1 against the White Sox. Seems we have to win at least one, right? But you just KNOW David Ross would love nothing more than to run over the White Sox like a runaway locomotive with no brakes. He's certainly taken notice of all the hype on the South Side and in the Chicago and even national media with Luis Robert early this year.

First plate appearance the White Sox have had with a RISP this entire game. Glad I slept through the first 2/3rd's of it. That's brutal. Ticketbuyers would have been issued refunds/rain checks in the Bill Veeck years after a shitty-ass performance for the one just witnessed.

Had Robert off balance and reaching, still poked it out to the warning track... "Wouldn't this be something if the Cardinals came out and swept the doubleheader after being out of action for 17 consecutive days..."??? Cards' announcers NOT wrong, that's a testament to their unity and Schildt's leadership of that team after they finally managed to jettison Matheny.

Rodon as the next Andrew Miller, NOT happening...

Technically, we're only one game behind the Cardinals if we were in the same division, but it feels like we are 5-10 GB at the current moment.

Robert just saved MORE runs there....that's a play maybe 15-20% of big leaguers make, and definitely not nearly as smoothly as he just managed to accomplish it.

Even Yermin, for god's sake...won't go as far as to count SEBY Zavala, but Collins represents yet one of many notable institutional failures, from draft/evaluation to development/progression. Carson Fulmer, Example B. At this rate, Cishek doesn't even make it through the year. Put a fork in him. They might give it a go of hiding him on the IL just to see if he can rediscover his magic touch, but it's unlikely to reverse itself in the middle of this short season.

Hahn has been RIGHT ONCE in the last 2-3 years. On James McCann. And then he signed Grandal and undid 50-75 of the good that McCann represented, such as catching all of Giolito's starts, for one example.

Absolutely zero chance right now at any of the Top 6...that team definitely would be Cleveland, now without Clevinger and Plesac. Logically the Indians would be the team to fall, but it's not going to be to the White Sox this year. And "banishing" those two guys to their training camp will probably end up reuniting the big league roster together in a way that actually works out better than anyone expected.

We're going to be lucky to finish 3rd ahead of the Tigers...it will be a real battle if DET brings up their top 3-4 prospects. And don't trade Trumbull and Boyd but attempt to compete on the fly.

Which teams desperately need McCann and/or Colome right now?

That's where the D-Backs are most assuredly NOT hitting him. At the rate things are currently going, Yonder Alonso's going to outhomer Mazara this season...