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Charlotte numbers are misleading for both pitchers and catchers. Well, except Colson who's now 3/14 in ACL/rookie ball.

Cabrera has great stuff but typically disappointing results.

Meidroth down to a 608 ops

Smith at 96/97 from the get go and pitched around a terrible ball call that should have been an 0-2 count.

Watching the Red Sox Netflix series...Tyler ONeill has one of his own (Traject) in the basement set at 40 feet. If only we used our budget on things like that...rather than wasting so much on "leadership" veterans who won't bring any return and will simply block younger prospects along the way.

He was playing today in Charlotte.

Yeah...the one thing opposing broadcasters love to share is loads of Bill Veeck lore, and how he never set foot again on the Southside, preferring the Wrigley bleachers.

They will exhaust every option on the 40 man first, but other options are already running low...hence the churning of Greg Jones into the ether.

Gomez, 25, is joining his third organization this season after the Dodgers claimed him off waivers from the New York Yankees last month. He is a combined 1-1 with a 6.28 ERA and a three-out save in nine relief appearances this season. In 15 major league appearances over parts of three seasons, Gomez is 1-1 with a 4.88 ERA.

Fine, I’m going to pull a Balta. No posting until Elko is up. This kind of torture for fans is beyond the pale anyway. The funny thing is this original article writer was talking about finally turning his back on the Cubs at the beginning of the first rebuild…the year after the Cubs won it all. Eight years later and the Sox are much worse off than back then.

Those are not the career big league numbers of a legit DH...except for an awful team. Just next to zero upside. And he doesn't have a position that he plays exceptionally well on the defensive side, either. Just don't get it. 496 .202 17 67 3 .654

Rodon in 2021 and Profar last year (steroids)...hard to think of many under $3 million. The Rays stuck with Aranda through two really disappointing years...but he was already in their system. Really comes down to the draft. Jaren Duran in the 7th round and Campbell in the 4th? Tanner Houck 12th round. That's almost unreal success for the Red Sox outside of the first 2-3 rounds.

Maton Thaiss Amaya Rojas your bench...yikes Thaiss and Rojas are fine...but the other two have to go. Rojas is going to have to play SS more and more....or he just plays 2B when they pull the plug on Sosa.

Batters CWS B HR RBI SB AVG OPS MeidrothSS R 0 2 3 .245 .627 Vargas, M3B R 2 12 1 .225 .653 QueroC S 0 8 0 .291 .736 Robert Jr.CF R 5 16 15 .190 .642 Vaughn1B R 3 14 0 .182 .506 PalaciosDH L 1 4 0 .179 .535 Sosa, L2B R 2 10 0 .246 .594 BaldwinLF S 3 15 2 .250 .667 Taylor, MRF R 1 6 3 .197 .588

In what world is it acceptable to have Maton and Palacios as 4th 5th 6th place DH's????? We're supposed to trust the White Sox to judge position player talent? Why? That whole theory now rests upon Braden Teel and Bonemer.

Irony of ironies is University of Mississippi's very own Jacob Gonzalez, a first round draft pick and pretty sure Elko teammate at least one year, has zero frontline carrying tools too.

Thought he was around 28 on some lists...

Why does the organization continue to put out this totally crap product? To what end? This is going beyond just being MLB "average" 90-108 losses bad. This is horrific team after horrific team by almost any historical standard. And because scoring an average of 2.48 runs per game for 30/37 games and winning just 2 out of 28 games that we'very scored four runs or less just shouldn't be acceptable. Im not going to normalize or rationalize what Getz and JR are doing. It's crazy to any lifelong Sox fan. Even JR never said you could be profitable/successful with constant last place teams...he said second through fourth place.

https://www.mlb.com/news/tim-elko-hot-start-at-triple-a-for-white-sox Elko and Sergio Santos saying all the right things…they must be at least considering it or Merkin wouldn't have written that

Not to mention that team was a whole lot of fun… https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dybzije01.shtml .234 584 ops 61 ops+ 3 homers in 909 career at bats but even he has a better WAR number than Andrew Vaughn… Heck,Ivan Calderon would be a god on this team in 2025 https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/caldeiv01.shtml

https://thesportsdaily.com/news/chicago-white-sox-are-the-new-lovable-losers/ This article was written in the middle of the last rebuild...2017. Nats Astros Rangers all won the WS since then. White Sox have much less of a history of chokes...compared to Cubs in 1969, 2003/Steve Bartman, Brant Brown, etc. The Cubs have their "cute" mascot/cubbie bear hat and unis...opposite of the Sox black and white silver image that KW patterned after or at least likened to the Raiders. Harry Caray, WGN, Budweisers, "bleacher babes," the Curse of the Billy Goat...and Billy Williams Santo Jenkins Banks...identifiable HoF players. For the Sox..Luis Robert will leave town as the most famous, more star crossed than a star. And the 1919 Black Sox scandal...as well as the four way 1967 pennant race, but still not nearly the fame or infamy of the 1962 expansion Mets or 69 Cubs. The White Flag and cancelling the 1994 season doesn't quite rise to the Cubs and Red Sox historic standards anyway. It would require at least five consecutive years of 100+ losses...but we're already 60% of the way there. And JR still has his Bulls' championships and 2005 to cling to. Without 2005...the White Sox legitimately could have replaced the Cubs. But all things considered...the trade off for Sox fans probably wouldn't be worth it because they wouldn't even be able to figure out how to exploit losing, specifically, losing to historic proportions. Or the 2025 Rockies will quickly turn around and break the Sox 41-121 mark.

We'll see if they can win a game against the woeful Marlins this weekend. After Meyer, they're facing Edward Cabrera (6.29 ERA) and Sandy Alcantara (who might be the biggest "get" on the trade market, but he's currently struggling coming back from TJS and sporting an 8.42 ERA)...

Supposedly just a hand cramp, we shall see. "Dylan Cease, pitcher for the San Diego Padres, left his start against the New York Yankees in the seventh inning due to an apparent cramp after a near no-hitter performance."

Robert and Mullins BOTH have 93 career homers. Although there's a BIG difference in their ages, comparatively. Over a 600 game season, Mullins (going off career averages for both) would hit 22 homers and Robert 29. It has taken Cedric an extra 633 at-bats (one full season) to get to those power numbers. So I'll rephrase it to say that Mullins has always been MORE known for speed and strong defense than power. Robert has always been known for both SPEED and POWER. We'll see what Elias does...one rumor under consideration is Coby Mayo and Povich to MN for Joe Ryan. It's going to go until June/July before a decision is made. That gives the Robert market a head start, as everyone in the baseball world knows Getz wants to trade Luis.

Although the 27-year-old is off to a slow start this season (5 HR, 16 RBIs, .642 OPS), he's tied for the MLB lead with 15 stolen bases, ranks among the league leaders in walks and has been solid defensively. “Even with a modest start, the underlying tools remain elite,” an AL executive said. “He offers a rare blend of power, speed, and center-field defense that could reshape a contender’s outfield.” Robert signed a six-year, $50 million extension with the White Sox in January 2020, a deal that is paying him $15 million this season and includes $20 million club options for 2026 and 2027. Robert’s salary is currently the second-highest on Chicago’s roster behind only Andrew Benintendi ($17.1 million this season and next, $15.1 million in 2027), and given the team’s rebuild, it seems logical that they would try to trade him. “He’s off to a slow start, but I still believe clubs will have interest,” an NL executive said. “The White Sox have to trade him at this point.” Did you like this story? Mark Feinsand, a senior national reporter, originally joined MLB.com as a reporter in 2001.