Everything posted by caulfield12
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Thorpe update...
Or Todd Marinovich.
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Jake Burger trade
https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/major-league?stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&season=2024&month=0&season1=2024&ind=0&pos=dh Burger, despite the oblique injury and rough start defensively would be worth around the #11 DH in baseball, probably at least 2 fWAR if playing there the full season. So that’s out of 23 players. And roughly 2 fWAR more than Sheets. At least average gets you 2 more games closer to .500 and respectability…lineup protection for Robert, etc. There are some spillover effects, certainly. Less times the team is getting shut out, higher entertainment value for fans who enjoy his effort level compared to a Benintendi type, etc.
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Jake Burger trade
Still think Baseball America and MLB/Pipeline are the two lists that MOST look to first. As I said, it wasn't consensus across the industry by an stretch of the imagination. FG is late to the prospect game, but they have their ardent believers, too.
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West Coast White Sox: The Seattle Mariners and their 2024 season.
Stadium Pitching Staff Jose Rodriguez >>> Luis Robert Trendy upscale market
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Jake Burger trade
Sure, they gave up on him. But they should have realized Moncada was already a sunk cost based on his track record. They still could have given him plenty of time at DH based on his 2023 performance alone...but the weird fascination with Sheets somehow prevailed for what reason looks at fangraphs or the back of Gavin's baseball card? Burger was one of the few players last year producing surplus value for the Sox. The best example this year in Crochet will also likely be traded for a 25-50% discount if they force Benintendi's remaining contract into the deal. Turning assets into Vargas'es. Leaving Las (Lost) Vargas.
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Jake Burger trade
https://www.thebaseballcube.com/content/player/210159/prospects/ Eder peaked as the #5-7 prospect on the Marlins but never a consensus Top 100 MiLB prospect.
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Reinsdorf keeps "failing" the White Sox...
Right...tragic family circumstances. But knuckleballs will always have their place in the sport...exact opposite of max velo. Matt Waldron throws quite a few per game.
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Jake Burger trade
Burger 68 career homers Eloy 94 Yoan Moncada 93 Sox money allocated to each player respectively?
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Reinsdorf keeps "failing" the White Sox...
Wakefield on the Sox? Jenks was throwing sliders/cutters as well with his flatter FB. Contreras was the best pitcher in baseball with just a fork and FB August 2005 until May 2006. Garcia Garland Buehrle McCarthy all contributed mightily. Bullpen lights out despite going through three closers.
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Reinsdorf keeps "failing" the White Sox...
That team was also 26 games over .500 at the ASB in 2006 and would have been a playoff team were the Twins and Tigers not so crazy hot.
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Jake Burger trade
Where is that range of OPS coming from? Hate to see hat you would extrapolate Eder's numbers to in the majors already discounting performance at the big league level now. Joke of a steal by the Marlins...who had to have a pretty strong belief that he had already peaked with them.
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2025 Old Sock Drawer
2 1 1 2 1 0 .249 .782 25 homers for Burger, 30 in sight
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Stone not sure he will be back in 25, season "wearing on him"
Skips some of the West Coast trips, too...
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Boyer: 2025 Ticket Prices down 10% on average, Schriffen and Stone expected back
https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/tickets/season-tickets?utm_source=cws_ticket_news&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Ticket_Plans&utm_term=082024&utm_content=Seasons&partnerId=it-20240820-10819438-cws-1-A&utm_id=it-20240820-10819438-cws-1-A It's Never Too Early To Lock In (2025) Plans!
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8/20 Game Thread: White Sox vs. Giants - 8:45 CT;
That's pretty tough to accomplish, if you deliberately set out to find the very worst players.
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8/20 Game Thread: White Sox vs. Giants - 8:45 CT;
No Texas Instruments, although my uncle worked there for quite some time as an engineer, lol. Well, that's likely the premature death of this game. WELP.
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8/20 Game Thread: White Sox vs. Giants - 8:45 CT;
Vargas 65 wrc+ already at -0.3 fWAR and plummeting. Those numbers would be even uglier if just isolated to the White Sox. Lifetime -0.7 fWAR
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8/20 Game Thread: White Sox vs. Giants - 8:45 CT;
I was too busy averaging all the numbers of the opening line-up on a calculator, lol. Just have GameDay right now. Not even audio. 0.6265555 is the average OPS of the starting line-up tonight, to be exact.
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8/20 Game Thread: White Sox vs. Giants - 8:45 CT;
No challenge???
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8/20 Game Thread: White Sox vs. Giants - 8:45 CT;
Well, everyone finally at or below a .696 OPS.
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Beckham hints Pedro too overbearing
Tua Tagovailoa speaks candidly on difficult experience with former Dolphins coach Brian Flores - Yahoo Sports Exchange pretty much every young player on the Sox with Tua and Grifol with Flores (maybe a bit more passive-aggressive), who took the position that losing was essentially the players' fault and pretty much nothing to do with him.
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Hagen Smith to High A
It's all predicated on Crochet turning into a great trade asset or inexplicably reversing course and the White Sox bending over backwards to accommodate him with an extension offer that's "fairer." We know exactly how likely that has been the last 5-10 years with pitchers on the Sox roster.
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2024 WNBA Thread
https://www.si.com/onsi/womens-fastbreak/news/posts/team-usa-women-s-basketball-olympics-viewership-numbers-released-01j56bhs5cwk Ticha Penicheiro congratulates Caitlin Clark on breaking her WNBA rookie assists record (yahoo.com) https://x.com/wbb_stan/status/1825318988538077489?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1825318988538077489|twgr^12f860f3ce68e644f2295eb1284c7ea73bbf77d3|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwp.clutchpoints.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost-new.php
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White Sox @ Giants: 8:45 Central Time Start
Too positive/optimistic!
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White Sox @ Giants: 8:45 Central Time Start
Such as a long-term Giants' 1B that played there for ages before moving on to the Blue Jays finally...Brandon Belt.