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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.

Greg, they don't have a CFer for AFTER they trade Robert...unless you want to look at Greg Jones and aren't expecting him to hit more than .150ish. Believe me, you don't want to watch Palacios or Baldwin in CF too often.

Did some math/s... In 81% of their games, or 30/37, they're averaging 2.48 runs per game. 67 runs scored. Good for a 3-27 record. A robust 10% winning percentage. In the other 7 games, they've scored 61 runs on 8/11/10/9/8/8/7 runs scored in those specific games. Unsurprisingly resulting in a 7-0 record. They've scored 5 runs twice, 1-1 in those games. They've scored 4 runs twice, 0-2 in those games They've scored 3 runs eight times, 2-10 in those games. They've scored 2 runs five times, 0-5 record. They've scored 1 run five times, 0-5 record They've been shut out 4 times as well. 0-4 record A scintillating 2-26 when they score 0-4 runs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And yet we clearly need more of Nick Maton, Jacob Amaya, Palacios and Vaughn....and are not even willing to try Elko, Julks, Fletcher or utility guy Tristan Gray

White Sox (0-3) 26th in Runs Scored per game (3.46) Royals (3-0) 27th in Runs Scored per game (3.39)

Judge's numbers are absolutely insane...but definitely among the young generation of players. Ohtani ofc is a unicorn as well, especially if his pitching ramps back up to where he was before 2 TJS.

Of course. Hardly the Cardiac Kids.

I think I would walk him to face Sosa, lol...

Rojas has been white hot coming off rehab. We shall see.

Sigh. Well, at least it's not a DP? There's that.

Vaughn's big opportunity to come through or continue being a goat.

Robert's got to run simply to avoid the DP. Up to .190 now.

Don't think anyone had Miguel Vargas as the best player on the team (well, maybe other than Robert or S.Smith) at this point in the season...

Would be nice to bring an outfielder off the bench with a 728 OPS like Canha. Except that would be one of the leading hitters on the Sox.