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Even then, if you just put up big power numbers and have nothing else to your game (high OBP), like Palka’s 2018 season...you’re also not of much use, either. In many ways, Madrigal is the exact opposite of this entire trend, which is why it’s not surprising some are already hoping to trade him and move Moncada back to second and sign yet another (injury-plagued) free agent in his early 30’s to the biggest contract in team history to play 3B.

Probably just didn’t feel confident swinging the bat...looking to get bailed out by having the bunt on.

Why is Alex Gordon the solution at his age based on one season out of his last four where he actually came close to earning his salary...? Relying on him or Collins or whatever seems pretty desperate.

It makes you appreciate how much better the Sox were when Brian Anderson in the lineup posed similar problems for the organization. Engel and Cordell are just two more in a long line of Torii Hunter Lites.

Meanwhile, the Cubs add a guy like Castellanos and he suddenly looks like Hack Wilson. At any rate, advanced metrics will tell you that Castellanos, Puig and Mazara are what they are...pretty much, and that Ozuna is the only one with real 5ish fWAR upside to his game. Other than a pretty left handed swing, smacking Sox pitching around and his former prospect status/age...Mazara has very little going for him. He’s a name, I guess, and not in his 30’s. (PS Heck, if you at Texas, Profar, Odor and Mazara all failed in becoming studs but at least they’ve been a .500 and above team, overachieving most of the season and now fading with Gallo out. Adding Minor and Lynn were smart moves, too.) (PS 2, Our old friend Hector Noesi has started two games for Miami, sporting an 8.18 after today’s outing.)

Entertaining the cars driving by...and their passengers. Buehrle loved that dude, and was willing to take a salary cut to keep him around.

Based on this season he gets a rather large raise...it has been the concern all along with Yolmer, that they would eventually get expensive for their production level and value to future Sox playoff teams, but Leury at least deserves it this year and is the perfect bench player on a really good or even great team.

We can NL blame this all on Lillian. If someone thinks Mazara is going to turn his career around with this staff...welcome back to 2013-2016 Sox baseball. Then, you have guys that look like Gold Glovers for one season like Yolmer and Engel...but in subsequent years look like they’ve forgotten how to play, but we still have to hear over and over about defense because their offense is so pathetic/putrid.

Hahn has continued to profess the team's intention to be aggressive this winter. Whether that means a big-time free-agent signing or a big-time trade acquisition remains unknown, but there's an expectation of meaningful activity that could go a long way toward getting the White Sox into the winning portion of this effort in 2020. There will surely be skepticism that the good times could come that soon, and there are plenty of question marks in this equation. There's excitement about Kopech's return from Tommy John surgery, but his next start will be just the fifth of his big league career. Robert and Madrigal will be getting their first tastes of the majors. Growing pains for those young players - like the ones Giolito and Moncada went through in their first full major league seasons - would not be unexpected. Meanwhile, despite a good run of late from Reynaldo Lopez, questions exist about his consistency. Despite showing flashes of his star ability, Jimenez is going through those aforementioned growing pains in 2019. Despite All-Star appearances, Jose Abreu and James McCann have gone through second-half slumps, though both players had more success on the just-completed road trip through Philadelphia and Detroit. Despite a recent offensive adjustment that's working well in Triple-A, Zack Collins struggled in his brief big league stint earlier this season and still faces questions about his defense. These are all valid concerns, and it's possible they could conspire to push winning time back another season for the White Sox. https://sports.yahoo.com/white-sox-ready-win-2020-181511660.html

Can’t see Vaughn being up until August...and then you’re right back in the middle of the same service time debate. They will either have to add at the deadline or bring him up if they’re in roughly the same position the Giants were in at the deadline. No more wasted seasons can be tolerated. Fall short of the playoffs, fine, but at least put yourself in the best position to win, which is the same thing a number of other mid market teams (even the Jays, who are well out of any race) are doing.

They need to sign at least three “quality” players to three or more year contracts...something like the Robertson/Cabrera/LaRoche trio and trading for Samardzija offseason, in terms of potential impact of incoming players. (Except not have any of the moves work out well.) It certainly can’t be the equivalent of just Todd Frazier or Jeff Keppinger again.

Why not Dish or DirecTV?

Except a Boras and Lozano are bitter enemies...but still wouldn’t be a shocker, obvious ties to SD.

Two steals, two walks, 2 RBI double and another excellent defensive play... https://www.mlb.com/video/tatis-jr-s-smooth-stop All three plays last night were better https://www.mlb.com/video/tatis-jr-s-great-all-around-game This was just one game...five highlights https://www.mlb.com/video/tatis-jr-on-leadoff-hr-defense

Adolfo today or tonight? DNP? Moved to full season team?

He has a much better natural swing to the opposite field than Moncada. The main disadvantage (to the oppo approach) is any ball pulled to the left side...especially deep SS...gives him a decent opportunity to beat it out. Usually he hits liners to the opposite side and pulls grounders to the left hand side...but I’d guess 65-75% of those balls to the right side are very hard contact...95 mph and above.

I’ll back up because I think you were the one with the comments about Pat Fitzgerald and social media/internet addiction. My students are fixated on their phones and iPads, music, etc. Any way MLB can connect to the next generation, be it AR/VR, RBI Baseball game, YouTube hosted games, movies/multimedia, music connected to baseball, kids don’t have the patience to watch a game for the first time on tv, but they might fall in love with the sport indirectly reading a Stephen King novel about Tom Gordon or, in this case, through movies...because kids are so visual and have (mostly) limited attention spans. Someday soon, every MLB stadium will have plug in & play goggles...waterproof iPads attached to the arm of the chair for tracking everything going on in the game, etc. Connecting more kids to baseball through movies is just the tip of the iceberg. Bill Walton is even doing the game next Friday with Benetti in Anaheim, and lots of people will tune in to find out what hell’s going to happen or what they will talk about. Baseball needs more seemingly wacky things going on like that to differentiate itself.

Thompson, Dahlquist and Stiever...

Just so John Cusack can show up once a decade to pretend he’s a White Sox fan more than a Cubs’ fan...

https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/10-worst-trades-in-baseball-history10.htm Surprised Broglio/Brock was only 4th.

Watch the highlights at MLB.com, three Gold Glove-level defensive plays in one game...one was a double play with Urias. https://www.mlb.com/gameday/rockies-vs-padres/2019/08/08/566330#game_state=final,game_tab=videos,game=566330

Beckham was switched positionally three times. Viciedo three times. Mark Teahen might have been the ugliest, the Buddy Bell Special. Fields was another good one. Semien was moved all around in the minors, 69 games at second, 23 at 3rd and 208 at SS but then they mostly played him at 3B when he first came up to the White Sox.

Our Samardzija and Shields trades cost 13.1 fWAR...and that's just for THIS season.

Burger, too. Collins might be the only LH hitter I've ever seen whose swing doesn't look aesthetically-pleasing.

Amazing he's already been with the White Sox just a little over six years now. Send him and Walker to AFL, stat!