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50/50 in mid August...although White Sox lack of brand name can hurt, WS title was just three years prior.

Spin it all you want...perception is already baked into the pie at this point. Savior/cornerstone of the franchise was pretty close to an accurate assessment two years ago. Similarly, AJ Preller would look at where Ethan Salas is as of today offensively and express major but measured disappointment...and also patience for a much younger prospect.

Probably referring to consecutive overall disappointing seasons from an fWAR/bWAR perspective. By old school Greg775 traditional metrics...so so okay fine with RBIs and still a bit short with homers for a corner INF spot. But then when you consider base running and fielding and OBP...no bueno.

Not from where he was ranked as a prospect just two or even one year ago...basically, the best Sox infield prospect since Beckham and Moncada. Maybe not can't miss...but #14-20 at one point, at his very peak.

Robert really committed to chasing that SB title is a new pursuit.

Inspired by Jake Meyers?

Taylor Thaiss Baldwin Amaya your bench...

There are no quick fixes for that bullpen no matter how often they shuttle the deck chairs. Freeman, Leasure, Vasil, S.Wilson Eisert Gilbert Booser Shuster

Jac Caglianone. After a 1-for-3 night, MLB's No. 19 prospect exited the contest with a .307/.392/.515 slash line in 26 games at Double-A this season. His fifth home run marked his 11th extra-base hit on the year, as the 6-foot-5 lefty has blown his numbers from his brief pro debut last year out of the water, boasting a 70-grade power tool, tied for the best among ranked prospects. Cags homer blasted on top of a building beyond RF... https://www.mlb.com/news/royals-prospect-jac-caglianone-homers-onto-nearby-building?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/royals-prospect-jac-caglianone-launches-home-run-out-of-ballpark-onto-roof-of-adjacent-building-162836018.html On Thursday, the Kansas City Star's Sam McDowell advised the Royals to stick to their timeline and give Caglianone all the development he needs (both offensively and defensively), even if Kansas City's lineup continues to flounder early in the regular season...

Who's next, Justin Anderson? Last year it was Carson Fulmer. Jake Eder back down. Anderson/Moncada. Lots of bad...Ryan Newman one of their other infielders. He just can't hit. TT the right-hander has spent his twenties bouncing between the Braves, Angels, Guardians, and White Sox organizations with well below average results at every stop along the way. His most recent stint in the majors came last season with the White Sox, for whom Toussaint posted an eye-popping 7.43 ERA while walking 15.4% of his opponents. His stint in Chicago last year wound up lasting only 23 innings, but now he’s poised to return to the majors for a second stint in Anaheim. mlbtraderumors.com LAA 4-15 over last 19. Second worst RS/RA in majors.

No just speculating. Feels inevitable though. Dalbec SS extraordinaire didn't last long.

Dalbec back to Boston...surely. Cash considerations.

Or Bregman. But that would have blocked Vargas. 50% LoL. Actually, they have never really provided a suitable answer for who was blocking Bryce Harper, exactly...other than Boras Corp. Nor have they legitimate solved RF 1B 2B SS or 3B (Machado vs. Moncada) since then. Until this year (maybe maybe maybe).

Teel needs to improve in some of the raw aspects of his catching game. In Chicago...he automatically takes catching time from Quero. There's zero rush. If he was hitting 900 or at least 825-850 rather than 750 or whatever, most reasonable fans would have zero issue with Kyle getting promoted as well. He'll also have to get at bats from DH and/or 1B eventually...unless they try to pull another Andrew Vaughn emergency outfield conversion with him too. They also need to decide what to do with Thaiss (best player fWAR on team) or RH Korey Lee first.

That's about the 12th ex player or minor leaguer who has now spilled the beans on no longer open secrets in the organization. A microscope on every hidden corner and dark secret of the organization is kind of refreshing. After all...that's the ONLY thing that will serve to bring about needed reforms/modernizations in the "good 'old boys" way of running (what needs to be a more highly-modernized) an organization like it's STILL the 1980s.

There will certainly be a lot of skeptics waiting to see what impact Ryan Fuller's Camp Colson AZ Version will have...and obviously you have to feel for him even more if he's really not feeling close to 100% physically, but is just trying to prove his toughness. You want to be optimistic for the kid. Definitely. And "articles" coming out like the Osik Chronicles make you even more furious they won't (yet) move on from Andrew Vaughn, when so many since-departed Sox players have been rapidly cast aside as villains, egocentric fools and malingerers.

That's really fast track coming off a mostly lost draft season and pretty significant injury.

But you don't spend on a bullpen when you're actively trying to lose 100 games or more. So was Alonso the best free-agent signing of the offseason? We posed that question to 20 executives, and while Alonso was named by three of them, two players received more votes: • Alex Bregman (8 votes) 3B • Nick Pivetta (4 votes) SP • Pete Alonso (3 votes) 1B • Carson Kelly (1 vote) C • Jorge Polanco (1 vote) 3B/2B • Roki Sasaki (1 vote) SP https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-executives-discuss-best-2025-free-agent-deals

Dodgers giving 40,000 Vin Scully bobbleheads out next week. More than GRate seating capacity.

JR happy...elated dare say...to save $150,000 to reallocate to under the radar Rule 5/"cash considerations" moves.

Or somehow lose in arb based on rather pedestrian RBI and homer numbers at first base. What was the original projection? $7.5-8 million?

Brilliant psychoanalysis...insightful knowledge of the makeup of your own so-called franchise players. Graveman/Kelly Moncada Jimenez Lance Lynn Grandal Tim Anderson Benintendi Robert Keuchel

Benetti and AJ doing Fox Game of the Week Mayo up for Baltimore now

His father (Osik) played ten years in the bigs as a journeyman with the Pirates…so he understands exactly where Elko is coming from compared to a Top 3 overall bonus baby pick that has experienced the glide pathway in the minors. Was in Augusta 1992-93.