caulfield12

.556 OPS in 1994 at BIRM, .202 average. 31 years old. Would have been the perfect year to play Michael Jordan in Chicago, if you had a time machine. Can't copy and paste and get the formatting to hold.

I suppose as long as he's running 100% with no restrictions...and able to competently play CF, at least in A ball, there's no reason not to push/challenge him a bit. Ideally, they would keep all those guys together like McLain and Wolkow, but it might not be possible.

Well, one positive, it's much "easier" to divorce a favorite sports team than a wife. Otoh, it's simultaneously more difficult for those who have lifelong ties to the team/fandom through family tradition/s.

Would be interesting to know if Pogofskys (son/s, father was original owner) still have their shares...or sold out to JR/Ishbia? Said in one of the articles yesterday only 8 other shareholders amounted to roughly 15%. $18,000,000 per shareholder, so if equal, would be $33,750,000 million in theory divided across 8 (at a $1.8 billion valuation) (He/Pogofsky was the one partying with Clevinger and Zach Plesac when they were on the Indians/Guardians during Covid lockdowns in Chicago. Leading to potential charges of tampering that concerned JR...leading to the White Sox somehow in this conspiracy theory wanting to keep Clevinger "in-house" to avoid a case with MLB.)

Yeah, the only realistic choices were Robert and Vaughn...and they didn't want to have a Bobblehead Night for a player already traded away. I guess the same with Benintendi, coming off his second half last season.

Well...the front office obviously doesn't care if they even have a watchable product at this point. So one way to assess the theoretically negative impact is whether fans are still attending despite the previous two seasons.

That's why I will always remain amazed that time where Tiger had the streak of consecutive majors won when he was leading going into the final round and that obscure South Korean golfer knocked him off out of nowhere.

Good news is even at -12 RS/RA they're actually right up there or ahead of 9-10 teams. Big improvement from last year...but this offense needs some help NOW. Maybe Quero, maybe Drury, but they need to do something to support the pitching staff. Not sure if I want to see Corey Julks again, but he's been hitting pretty well in Charlotte, about as well as anyone else. Obviously waiting on Tauchman Benintendi and Rojas as well.

The only question now is whether they leave him down long enough to get named to the first half All-Star team. I would guess 6 weeks total if he keeps this up, 8 weeks early June to High A at the latest.

Certainly the FA spending going into the 1983 season was a pretty dramatic change. But that's over 40 years ago, so...

Has exactly an 800 OPS right now...

Dominguez having a big game tonight. Yankees and Red Sox always have that built-in media advantage to start off with...the only way to win in the face of that is to have overwhelming numbers.

Or Sirotka

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/44630485/mlb-trade-deadline-2025-luis-robert-jr-chicago-white-sox espn headline story right now

Need Drury up ASAP...sadly. Whether Maton or Amaya something has to give.

bottom of the order excels in making relatively quick outs at least

161/498 160/499 Robert and Vargas LOOK identical statistically...but couldn't be any different, except Robert walking more compared to past seasons

They're really high on Wrobleski..

Well Profar was on the Rockies two years ago, struggled so badly...and here we are.

worst bottom 3 in majors coming right up...that's not even counting Palacios

Yeah those last three starts in 2024 probably raised expectations a bit too high compared to his past track record of inconsistency.

Burke too concerned with base runners...just concentrate on getting outs

Normally 95-96 "dead arm" lol

Vasil or Bryse Wilson next Sox starters...nobody deserving at AAA.

Game again...but you're not going to win a slugfest against Oakland with this bullpen.