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Workman was so bad yesterday they had to immediately disable him. Otoh we still get this stubborn insistence on playing Andrew Vaughn... this time against a pitcher they favored over Shane Smith in terms of protecting him from Rule 5 draft selection. Also, why is Miguel Vargas sitting when he's suddenly on a bit of a roll offensively?

Batters CWS B HR RBI SB AVG OPS MeidrothSS R 0 1 1 .269 .656 BenintendiDH L 5 10 0 .227 .728 Robert Jr.CF R 4 9 12 .170 .598 QueroC S 0 5 0 .306 .793 Vaughn1B R 3 12 0 .162 .473 Vargas, M3B R 1 9 1 .219 .610 BaldwinLF S 3 13 2 .241 .671 Sosa, L2B R 2 8 0 .269 .655 Taylor, MRF R 1 5 3 .207 .608

Another power pitching LHP lol? Cornering the market on Mason Miller/Ben Joyce types?

Iowa does hold some inherent advantages that the White Sox don't. Little real financial competition from NBA MLB NHL and no NFL football. Captive audience. Sure Iowa State has been able to create better BB environments for thirty years now, but the Kinnick (an older stadium that has historicity, Ferentz and the Children's Hospital salute all going for it) experience is overall Top 10-15 in all of college FB when Iowa is a competitive team.

Here's an analogy. Guaranteed Rate is like Carver Hawkeye Arena... and CHA still is more interesting looking/weird from the outside. The last 2-3 years the worst men's BB environment in G10 other than maybe PSU or Rutgers. Zero students near the action in favor of boosters. Ice cream the big selling point lol. Antiseptic and totally boring with 5-6000 average out of 15,500 cap. Totally dead. Put Caitlin Clark on the floor and even this year without her playing 15,500 SRO sellouts in nearly every single game. Biggest home court advantage in NCAA women's BB from consecutive national title game appearances. Huge ratings success, etc. The White Sox simply need a superstar or legit (sustainable) winning team. Which JR refuses to provide because it's just too expensive and the opportunity cost isn't worth the financial pain from his short term perspective. (Ofc all those sellouts were only possible due to the falloff from the men's team, maybe a Ben McCollum miracle Sweet 16 season, first in nearly 30 years and putting students near the court will actually reverse that. Conversely, the Cubs sucking next year or losing Tucker to FA might dent their latest run of dominance via a vis the Sox as well. If only the Sox had a compelling competitive product to put on the field.)

They basically had to screw with Machado so much on the last year of the deal (incentives/guarantees essentially another diminished skills clause) that it became a poison pill and that encouraged SD to jump in because things were dragging so much to sign it. The KW was going on and on how it was still the better offer even when Manny had embraced the Seidler/Preller overtures about competing head to head with the LAD...after having played disappointingly for LA and getting to know Tatis in Miami and witnessing firsthand his potential impact. The weather and idea of playing in front of a packed park was icing on the cake.

They had promise in theory, and more fun being around Renteria, but the 2019 team of younger prospects didn't start rounding into form until the second half that year. Nowhere until now did you note it was 2019. You can't retroactively add critical information and then complain about a response. Nevertheless, the White Sox were 23rd in attendance that season. Point still stands...unless it was a fireworks night or giveaway/promotional event that had 30,000+ attendance. Even filling the bottom bowl closing the upper deck still leaves a ghost-like empty feeling when you take in the whole entire stadium...unless you start tarping over entire sections like the Oakland Coliseum or old Cleveland Memorial Stadium.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/team/_/view/fielding 27th-28th White Sox and Rockies fielding percentage 26th (23)/28th in errors

"Pretty self-explanatory," Murphy said. "Just not commanding the zone, not throwing strikes, and just not giving the team a chance to win." "It was more of a message to Tobias than it was anything else," Murphy explained. "I knew we had a full bullpen, but still. This is how we're going to do it, man." It's the second instance in two series of Murphy sending a message through aggressive benchings. He pulled Sal Frelick and Caleb Durbin midgame in St. Louis on Saturday—the former for missing the cutoff man, and the latter for getting picked off first base. Wednesday was different, though. Frelick and Durbin made isolated mistakes, but Myers repeatedly failed to find the strike zone, and the Brewers stood no chance of winning if he remained in the game in that form. "I don't remember who said it---I think it was a quote in Jim Bouton's Ball Four---but someone once said "Baseball is an ass". The Sox have to feel that way after somehow giving up six runs despite Chourio & Yelich going a combined 0-10, with most of those ABs really, really ugly."

Famously never got along with a young Panther-esque Sammy Sosa.

But not as a major leaguer... he will probably move back to RF in AA.

The team is historically bad, coupled with one of the disappointed/frustrated MLB home crowds over the last 2-3 seasons. Largely due to that acquired apathy due to mostly pedestrian players (other than Crochet)...pathetic Campfire Milkshakes and other concession items are the real highlight, along with ease/accessibility of overpriced parking.

fWAR Sh.Smith #36 Davis Martin #70 Cannon #83 out of Top 93 pitchers with 30+ innings Smith #11 in MLB era

Why even pretend to be in the market for the most impressive baseball ... www.reddit.com › whitesox › comments "Because our team is trash. You can't realistically sign a guy like Ohtani out of the blue thinking he'll come in and turn the team around." Whether it's $700 million or $460 million in present day inflation adjusted dollars...

18th in team defense fWAR, 16th drs bottom 3 for fielding percentage after last night https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/major-league?pos=all&stats=fld&type=1&startdate=&enddate=&month=0&sortcol=22&sortdir=default&team=4&qual=80 Only Vargas Thaiss Amaya Sosa grade out positively on def Taylor also + Shocked Robert is in negative territory Baldwin -0.4 and Quero -0.2 slightly negative Benintendi and Vaughn less so

“It's cool,” said Smith of pitching against Milwaukee. “Definitely want to throw well against everybody, but yeah, cool to see some faces. I saw the scout that signed me to the Brewers [Taylor Frederick] this week, so cool to connect with him. On the field once you get in there, you're not really thinking about friendships.” “Maybe not his sharpest night, but our defense put him in a couple tough spots where he had to extend innings there and pitch more than he probably wanted,” White Sox manager Will Venable said. “We just gotta tighten up defensively behind him, but I thought Shane did a good job.” ChiSox.com

It's not your fault, Getzie...

AL Central -23 AL East -6 AL West -42 NL East -23 NL Central +77, Cubs +47 NL West +94 - 77 for Rockies=+17

Revenge from Boras Corp for JR's Ohtani comments? They're not his agency.

10,253 Will never announce under ten.

38-124 pace

Vargas!

Two games ahead of Rockies.

4 errors/mental or physical

Robert .172 12/17 stealing