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Teel has to be one of the hitting Big 3 with Braden and Bonemer. Colson has already eliminated himself in all likelihood. Was just starting to consider his NIL numbers for Indiana hoops or football. Quero Meidroth Baldwin Vargas Sosa all seem to be heading towards complementary and not star status. We'll just have to wait and see if Quero and Meidroth can pick up their XB numbers. Shane Smith has basically been swapped out for Colson...if we want to spin things the most positively. And Wolkow/Zavala both currently have a LONG ways to go....same with Ramos. Colas is almost completely a lost cause...to go along with Fletcher/Julks/DeLoach, who were all pretty much long shots in the first place. Fwiw Grandal was very solid for two years and then almost completely collapsed...that can't happen with both catchers, can it? As we have said for months now...looks like it will come down to Birmingham's pitchers, and Oppor, maybe T.McDougal makes it as a reliever.

Fortunately they also already had R.Anthony and K.Campbell (2B as well) who could play the OF at the very top of their prospect list, along with Marcelo Mayer at SS...

Dodgers plan to be in the mix for Chicago Cubs outfielder Kyle Tucker, who will become one of the premiere bats on the open market, reports Bob Nightengale of USA Today.

https://www.milb.com/news/gcs-66868822 Homers are seriously suppressed in Birmingham and Mississippi....old Birm stadium was a mausoleum for offense.

Grandal is with Worcester/Red Sox organization AAA Eloy Jimenez .250 2/25 .679 OPS with Rays' AAA team in Durham, NC Tim Anderson's barely above .200 BA with an OPS around .500 with the LA Angels Yoan Moncada's the only one doing well, but he's barely had 50 at-bats with those same Angels Craig Kimbrel sadly returning to where he started with the Braves' AA/AAA teams at age 37, HoF credentials pretty much long gone Liam Hendriks has pitched 9 innings for the Boston Red Sox so far to decent success Lucas Giolito 1-1 with a 4.96 ERA with Boston, having finally returned from TJS recovery/rehab

Whenever I see him now...hard to get his Mr. Robot character out of my head, or Pizza Hut, lol.

Yeah, totally forgot Bernie Mac and Wendt...lots of Chicago comedians, naturally.

Angels on pace for 65-97. Pirates for 54-108. YIKES...things are getting REALLY ugly in Pittsburgh and Colorado these days. Angels' fans are already quite used to this, with Rendon and Trout...and losing Ohtani for nothing in return. In Dave Roberts' view, the Rockies' failures fall more on ownership than on his former mentor.

Watch the Mavs trade Flagg (plus) to the Lakers to get Doncic back, lol...that was the somewhat crazy idea of my Taiwanese by way of MD/Delaware co-worker.

https://www.ranker.com/list/celebrity-white-sox-fans/pedro-cerrano I remember Michael Clarke Duncan was a huge White Sox fan back in the day. John Cusack was really a Cubs' fan, but everyone got confused after Eight Men Out there for awhile...and he was known to frequent a number of bars on the Southside as well back in the 80's and 90's.

Because they already had Sale, Q, then Rodon, Anderson, Avi Garcia/Eaton, Jose Abreu...some from the previous teardown after 2012/13, so they never really bottomed out "successfully enough" and got those 3-4 consecutive high draft picks like the Royals and Astros did. If it comes out at some point in the future that JR dilly-dallied so much that the Ishbias gave up and cashed out...well, he's going to be about as popular in Chicago as the Pohlad's in Minnesota are currently. But divide that level of popularity again by a factor of 2-3X. We're talking the current level of Congressional approval, but lower than that. (It would be ONE thing if the Bulls weren't also stuck in purgatory, but TWO FRANCHISES in the same big market, c'mon!!!?

Keaschall The last player the White Sox made cry over a trade was Fernando Tatis, Jr. “I was so happy,’’ said Tatis, now 6-foot-3, 210 pounds. “I had so many friends. I couldn’t wait to play for the White Sox." He instead found himself sobbing, in utter disbelief. The White Sox called him on June 4, 2016, and told him he was traded. He was going to San Diego. The White Sox, refusing to give up any of their top prospects in the organization, traded an unknown commodity for veteran pitcher James Shields, hoping to make a playoff run. “I couldn’t believe it,’’ Tatis tells USA TODAY Sports. “I was heartbroken. I was so surprised. I’m like, 'What’s going on here? How is this happening?" Tatis, with his dyed-blond dreads, breaks into a huge grin, spreads out his palms, and laughs. It’s not a vicious laugh. Or malicious. More of a snicker, mixed in with a cackle, and just a tinge of reprisal. Really, the more he thinks of it, the White Sox shouldn’t solely blamed. If they were willing to move him in a salary dump for Shields, it means any other team in baseball could have acquire him for little in return. “It doesn’t matter now, does it?’’ Tatis says. “I’m past that. It’s a business. I understand how it works." “Things happen for a reason.This is where I’m supposed to be.’’ https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/story/news/2019/04/16/padres-phenom-fernando-tatis-jr-has-baseball-awestruck-havent-seen-a-talent-like-tha/44307955/ https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/story/news/2019/04/16/padres-phenom-fernando-tatis-jr-has-baseball-awestruck-havent-seen-a-talent-like-tha/44307955/

The Process with Sam Hinkie and the 76ers is about the closest you can get...

Be careful, Vargas is now one of the 3-5 most "valuable" players to the White Sox by fWAR. Headed for let's say a 1-1.5 fWAR, which is a dramatic improvement from 2024, I suppose.

You need to get a job in the press office with Leavitt.

So Dan Hayes heard something, reported it, then "unheard it," basically...of course, he COULDN'T possibly want to protect his relationship with the Twins for causing a player to be upset (with his organization) since he's suddenly the subject of quite public trade rumors. Of course, the reality is ANY player would want to be desired or desirable to other teams...if nobody wanted to trade for you, that's probably a BAD thing, right?

I really hope you're joking...being facetious.

He meant well...and he was exaggerating in a way to pay a huge compliment to the kid, but I'm not sure that expecting him to go all the way through the entire system in one calendar year to join a historically bad major league team really is doing him any favors. Not to mention the fact that almost every scout has him targeted for RF at the major league level. In theory, he would play RF in the AFL and any offseason/winter ball in order to prepare. I still think he's going to hit a wall with the better pitching and bigger ballparks in the Southern League, but we shall see.

At least two...so i just counted them as ONE gate (not split DH's), since they only announced one attendance figure for two games. I guess if we "added" two more games into the figure, the AVERAGE will still be less in 2025 but overall attendance actually higher still.

.167 .565 Canario as of right now...looks like the average Sox position prospect, 550-650 OPS numbers

BUMP I don't think ANYONE would have predicted this... Pretty decent set of promotions this year, especially considering the cash/budget crunch and difficulty attracting sponsors.

The answer to that lies with the 1962 Mets, I guess...it was an expansion team, after all, but they actually drew quite well, comparatively. I guess that fascination/morbid curiosity with how much worse can things really get is why White Sox attendance is actually up by 2% through 1/4th of the home dates (worst weather of the year behind them), rather than falling an additional 15% like most of us expected/predicted. There's also this whole "underdog" thing going on with guys like Elko, Shane Smith, Vasil, Booser, Palacios, Amaya, Maton, they're players that almost everyone can identify with, having been knocked down or knocked back so many times in life, they're hard NOT to root for in many ways. (Well, maybe very few of us have 95-98 MPH fastballs, I topped out at around 76-78 mph on our gun in Augusta, lol, or about what Amaya threw in relief the other day, actually, I think he was mostly in the 60's.) It's also the same reason there's so much national attention now for the Rockies....firing hitting coaches, then firing Bud Black, they've done everything but fire the GM and owner, lol. Then their owner Monfort has gone after the Dodgers instead of the real culprit, their OWN poor spending, starting with guys like Kris Bryant as well as the Arenado contract, then dumping it for pennies on the dollar.

Greg Jones...who jumped from THE worst team in modern baseball history...to maybe the second or third worst team in baseball history, lol. Encouraging... In fact, jumped to quickly he didn't have time to get his new Sox gear before he was sent packing again, not unlike Gage Workman.

Well, at least our carried debt levels are a lot better than the Twins and Royals!!! Is Canario now the only player in baseball, lol? Is there anyone in Pittsburgh who would prefer Fletcher Colas DeLoach or Julks in trade for him? I mean, we already took their "junk" in Josh Palacios, right?