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Brooks Baldwin has been on a nice little run recently but he's still hardly into plus fWAR territory due to his issues on the defensive side of the ball. He does have good speed...but it's unclear yet if he's going to be more than?a super utility player.

Too old. Won't be on our next playoff team lol. Same excuses for trading Burger...who certainly hasn't caught fire for the Rangers this year, at least not yet. But Andrew Vaughn is much more expensive and most certainly won't be on the next Sox playoff team and offers much less power...which is Elko's only real plus tool as another relatively one dimensional 1B. What's the worst thing that could happen at this point? Vaughn magically morphing into Torkelson with a change of scenery trade?

The Royals are last in home runs but .500ish due to pitching and Witt Jr. Is that more interesting? Maybe not...based on KC attendance numbers compared to let's say the Tony Pena-led "Nosotros Creemos" teams of Beltran Dye Sweeney that put up runs in buckets.

Deflection from what? Blaming Reinsdorf instead for the majority of this current predicament instead of Getz? There's more than enough of that, too. It's simply that a modern GM has to be a lot more accountable than an owner so set in his ways and incapable of change or evolving will ever be. The ivory towers are impenetrable and well insulated from criticism from down below.

https://www.mlb.com/stats/ops?page=2 Arguably 15 of these players could have been or were White Sox at one point or another. The problem is we'll bring up a Ben Rice or Austin Hays or whoever and it will always be he wouldn't be willing to sign with an AL Central team or JR won't authorize new contracts over $5 or we don't have the trade capital to pull it off...there can always be some sort of excuse or defense. That was Hahn...that was KW. If we're now relegated to puff pieces on Colson's athleticism for SS when he's hitting around .170 or whatever...it's a bit worrisome since this rebuild seems largely based on the young prospects becoming stars rather than big-time FA spending. Give him some time. Can't waste even a single year. But time keeps ticking away. Minus major major changes it's going to be four years of 100+ loss teams...and a product we can't even give away for free in the face of the Cubs having one of the most entertaining teams in baseball. Even the burst of Ishbia excitement has been been dampened.

Or Phil Maton? That's a lot of fWAR for a reliever though.

Sanders pretty much the second biggest story of the weekend, after Shedeur Sanders...you know, some people do flip around and watch other games or no hitters...if it's in another area of the site when a game's going on, nobody would notice it. Fathom, for example brought up Lakers/TWolves and I appreciated the opportunity to watch Anthony Edwards' dominate. And that was a totally different sport...but somehow the world kept spinning, or is it rotating, on its axis?

Until Vaughn came up...that is.

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- As a fellow Bledsoe Agency client training at their facility near Nashville, A's All-Star Brent Rooker had an early look at the tools that made Colson Montgomery a well-regarded hitting prospect. "The size and athleticism is what stands out," Rooker said, recalling his first impression. "He's a really big kid. He moves well. Strong, loose, whippy, quick twitch. He's got all the physical things you're looking for in a prospect." https://soxmachine.com/2025/04/hitting-director-ryan-fuller-on-colson-montgomery-and-other-white-sox-hitting-prospects

One of the key benefits of a young, talented core of position players like Baltimore’s is that the organization has very little money tied up in the payroll. The majority of the Orioles’ position players are pre-arbitration, meaning they don’t come with major financial commitments. That should provide the organization the flexibility to add higher-salary veterans without exceeding its financial limits. Yet the Orioles have simply chosen not to do that. Even with a new billionaire owner in David Rubenstein, the Orioles have chosen — not once, but twice — to avoid spending at the top of the free-agent pitching market, and now the team is dealing with the consequences. But what’s more, the inability to get their rotation right has a snowball effect. Starting pitching might be the most expensive commodity in baseball, especially when it comes to a midseason acquisition. Come July, there’s going to be steep competition for the top arms on the trade market, a list likely led by Miami’s Sandy Alcantara. And after playing it cool the past two winters, the Orioles will likely have to pay well above market value if they want to acquire a solid starter this summer. https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/can-the-baltimore-orioles-figure-out-their-starting-rotation-before-its-too-late-210337492.html

There's simply no reason to believe that Henderson, Kjerstad, O'Neill, Westburg and Cowser are suddenly below average OPS+ hitters, and that Rutschman will remain at 102. Actually, Mullins Urias and O'Hearn have been their three best hitters...all experienced vets. The problems are 75-80% related to the current starting rotation of Povich, Kremer, Brandon Young and especially Charlie Morton (his shelf life has clearly expired)...and current being without Grayson Rodriguez (that was more predictable, based on career history), Zach Eflin, Kyle Gibson, Tr.Rogers, Kyle Bradish and Wells. Sugano has been about as expected, a back-end 4-5 guy (which is realistically what many expected of Imanaga last season in Chicago).

No, Greg, it only means Venable thought that negating the LHH hitters (6 of the first 7) with White Sox LH relievers was the wisest way not to get blown out early. Burke Cannon Martin pitched exactly as many innings as they would have had they actually started those games.

So much for your theory...he and Robert/Vaughn are seemingly tethered together. 0/6 2 K's but 2 runs scored (yay?) Teel is just doing "okay" for now. Jones, GCF 5 0 0 0 2 2 .145 .512 Montgomery, CSS 6 2 0 0 1 2 .149 .478 Elko1B 5 3 2 4 1 1 .354 1.164 NarváezC 5 0 1 1 1 1 .167 .703 TeelDH 5 2 1 0 1 2 .236 .739 DeLoachRF 0 0 0 0 0 0 .152 .587 Lipcius2B 5 1 1 1 1 1 .260 .787 Gray3B 5 2 2 2 1 1 .254 .851 Fletcher, DoRF-P 6 1 2 3 0 1 .288 .910 JulksLF 4 2 2 1 2 1 .362 1.051

At least he had the creative idea for LH openers and was in a good position to win all three games on the road against a better team...Vaughn killed them today. Just plug in a league average 1B and see what happens. We'll be lucky to get Drury lol.

https://www.statmuse.com/mlb/ask/team-average-with-runners-in-scoring-position AL West with 3 of Top 6 team homer totals. Angels way more than the Rangers, who have struggled offensively. White Sox last in OPS SLG 28th in obp. Think they're 27th in homers. Royals last with just 13 taters, but still winning games recently.

As long as he's 100% healthy, you have to wait/hope for a hot streak in May/June/July when there's more consistent weather every day that the majority of Cubans (seemingly) have enjoyed playing in more than Chicago Aprils (see Jose Abreu notoriously slow starts). Even if Benintendi plays well...it's still going to be a payroll dump, with millions of dollars if not $10-15 million going in the other direction.

Or the SF Giants...

Well pretty much anything to avoid Amaya hitting would have worked.

Palacios was hurt so he moved Baldwin to RF and inserted Amaya for better defense. Could have left Baldwin at short and put spare outfielder in RF...Taylor? Or Workman in RF?

Take twenty mins to shower for work and the entire game falls apart lol. Elko Elko Elko Elko Elko

JR writing a $4+ million check.

Leasure is not the droid we were looking for...

Palacios was hurt on basepaths apparently.

Bizarro universe...this game.

Shane Smith vs. the Brewers will be the highlight of Milwaukee @ Sox Tuesday through Thurs.