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This gets a mention due to Kim Ng and Burger/Anderson by extension, haha. “According to a report from ESPN's Alden González, the Marlins made a sweeping series of firings on Monday across their front office and scouting department. At least seven front office executives and 10 scouts were let go in the process. "Bendix was widely expected to eventually make more of his own hirings, but people throughout the industry were stunned by the breadth of changes made with seven weeks still remaining in the regular season," González said. All of the employees confirmed to be fired were hired under previous Marlins regimes, namely former top executives Derek Jeter and Kim Ng. https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/marlins-make-stunning-changes-firing-multiple-front-office-execs-and-scouts/f2502adcd94781e834fe02a8#:~:text=According to a report from,let go in the process. Among those let go were assistant general manager Oz Ocampo, widely known for his international scouting success with the Houston Astros, and international scouting director Roman Ocumarez. González also reported that manager Skip Schumaker, who won the NL Manager of the Year award in 2023, is "widely expected" to become a free agent at the end of this season. That likely means a sweeping overhaul of the coaching staff is coming as well. The Marlins have been through constant turmoil over the past two decades. Bendix has sold himself as the exec who can finally bring sustainability to an erratic franchise. Only time will tell if moves like these were necessary to bring that sustainability to fruition.”

https://www.milb.com/player/canaan-smith-njigba-675986 25 is a one year improvement at least, lol. Forget about Fletcher and DeLoach, might as well try someone new for now. Gives the White Sox Flag Football team some street cred.

3 2 3 3 1 1 0 .235 .727 Paul DeJong with his 20th homer and running away with the OPS lead over former Sox teammates. Even the small font can’t shrink his dongs. Swinging the balance of the AL WC race today, along with Witt and Ragans.

Obviously not Baseball America. It’s 100% freely accessible to anyone in the world who can point their keys to mlb.com and click on Pipeline updated Top 30s/Top 100.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5698417/2024/08/13/danny-parkins-leaving-chicago-radio-fs1/?source=freedailyemail&campaign=601983&userId=310262

Trading Paul DeJong to the Royals, seemingly a Central rival…because we love KC apparently, but HATE HATE HATE the Twins and Guardians with the fury of 100,000 burning suns. But wait, half the Sox front office and Grifol and Getz originated there, we have an obligation to help them out. Am I right? And to help the LA Dodgers , because JR loved Pee Wee Reese and the Brookyln Dodgers in the 40s and 50s.

Noah Schultz LHP 2025 21 6' 9" / 220 lbs L L 2 Colson Montgomery SS 2024 22 6' 3" / 225 lbs L R 3 Hagen Smith LHP 2025 20 6' 3" / 225 lbs L L 4 Edgar Quero C 2025 21 5' 10" / 210 lbs S R 5 Jairo Iriarte RHP 2024 22 6' 2" / 160 lbs R R 6 Grant Taylor RHP 2027 22 6' 3" / 230 lbs R R 7 George Wolkow OF 2027 18 6' 7" / 239 lbs L R 8 Brooks Baldwin 2B/SS 2024 23 6' 0" / 175 lbs S R 9 Mason Adams RHP 2025 24 6' 0" / 200 lbs R R 10 Ky Bush LHP 2024 24 6' 6" / 250 lbs L L 11 Caleb Bonemer SS/3B 2028 18 6' 1" / 195 lbs R R 12 Jacob Gonzalez SS/2B 2026 22 6' 2" / 200 lbs L R 13 Bryan Ramos 3B 2024 22 6' 2" / 225 lbs R R 14 Jeral Perez 2B 2027 19 6' 0" / 179 lbs R R 15 Alexander Albertus INF 2027 19 6' 1" / 176 lbs R R 16 William Bergolla 2B/SS 2026 19 5' 9" / 165 lbs L R 17 Samuel Zavala OF 2025 20 6' 1" / 175 lbs L L 18 Nick Nastrini RHP 2024 24 6' 3" / 215 lbs R R 19 Blake Larson LHP 2028 18 6' 2" / 180 lbs L L 20 Tyler Schweitzer LHP 2025 23 6' 0" / 185 lbs L L 21 Seth Keener RHP 2026 22 6' 2" / 195 lbs R R 22 Aldrin Batista RHP 2027 21 6' 2" / 185 lbs R R 23 Jake Eder LHP 2025 25 6' 4" / 215 lbs L L 24 Nick McLain OF 2027 21 5' 10" / 190 lbs S L 25 Casey Saucke OF 2027 21 6' 3" / 210 lbs R R 26 Wilfred Veras OF 2025 21 6' 2" / 180 lbs R R 27 Juan Carela RHP 2025 22 6' 3" / 186 lbs R R 28 Peyton Pallette RHP 2026 23 6' 1" / 180 lbs R R 29 Tanner McDougal RHP 2026 21 6' 5" / 185 lbs R R 30 Sean Burke RHP 2025 24 6' 6" / 230 lbs R New mlb.com Pipeline updated. Top 30

The wrist, the wrist. “Pull ze strings Eddie, pull ze strings!!!” Bela Lugosi/Landau to Depp/Ed Wood.

Lipman, lol? Probably something to this, actually, in terms of writing off donations/in kind gifts of equipment to Sox/Bulls, ACE or Jackie Robinson, etc.

Rafael Santana, lol…

And Chisholm the most expensive. And now hurt, yet again. Likely out for most of the remainder of the regular season. Bell successfully dumped hitting worse than Vaughn and much more expensive to replace Christian Walker. Youngish underachieving outfielders, etc. with tons more potential than anyone on Sox roster. Tanner Scott, for example, FA to be.

Trout Ohtani Betts and Matsumoto don’t get them to .500 either. Throw in Soto and Tatis, too.

And Fletcher? A truly youthful 26? Outfielders age out even faster these days. Just look at Benintendi’s defensive decline from an unjustified Gold Glove due to the support of Red Sox Nation.

“The improved performance at the plate could be due to his reduced defensive responsibilities -- he's played third base only three times during that stretch while lining up at first base and DH four times each. Burger is batting .242 on the season with 20 home runs and 50 RBI in 94 contests.” cbsportsline.com Who could have predicted that, let’s say playing Sheets Vaughn and Eloy where they actually belong could possibly have led to better results??? Balta??? And maybe get Benintendi off the field as well, just like Pollock in RF or basically anywhere a ball could come his way??? The obvious problem here is that Sosa, Sheets, Julks, Baldwin and Montgomery can’t all DH simultaneously. (Maybe Baldwin can settle into average at 2B…in theory.)

Then why the hell did we trade for Fletcher at 26??? fWAR tells a completely different story. Still has him as a negative net defender at third, that hasn’t changed. But he did battle an oblique/abdominal injury at the very beginning of the season, that’s critical to add for context. https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/major-league?stats=bat&lg=all&type=8&season=2024&month=0&season1=2024&ind=0&pos=3b&qual=200&pagenum=2&pageitems=30 exactly 21/42 third basemen with 200+ at-bats there average we don’t have a single player on the position player side that even comes close to AVERAGE right now not a solitary one… maybe worry about how we botched the two biggest opportunities to get ONE or even TWO who could actually be well above average, like Luis Robert in 2023 or Yoan Moncada in 2019

Sweeper bigger arc…generally slower, slider short/sharp breaking pitch especially off a 95-103 mph FB. Sweeper more like a slurve.

Vargas over Mr. Twin meaningless too?

Especially the Royals and Twins…deciding factor in WC races, schedule’s disproportionate impact.

https://www.leadersmag.com/issues/2017.2_Apr/Making a Difference/LEADERS-Christine-OReilly-Riordan-Chicago-White-Sox-Charities.html https://pressbox.athletics.com/Publications/MLB Media Guides/2022 Chicago White Sox Media Guide.pdf Got stuck downloading. Husband Greg, live in Downer’s Grove, daughter Hayley, etc.

That’s like tabling all new White Sox stadium discussion until 2029-2030. After every sports championship, an immediate article predicting the following season and even ranking 30-32 teams or even hundreds for NCAA bb and fb. We live in an immediate gratification society. Grifol with his historically horrific managerial record must surely understand that much at least. We won’t wait five years to declare him worst or Bottom 2-3 manager in franchise history, will we?

So who do they actually start building around? Quero and Lee? Benintendi? Vaughn/Sheets? Baldwin?

We don’t even know 100% if Colson Montgomery has a legit value added position, either. Which version of him?

They were the clear TDL winner moving players and bringing in prospects. What the Sox should have looked like but somehow didn’t. We undoubtedly bring the ghost of Avisail Garcia back for RF next year. Marketing.

https://www.mlb.com/news/white-sox-win-bobby-murcer-award-for-second-straight-year#:~:text=CHICAGO -- Before the White,from the Baseball Assistance Team. No word about the supposedly cancelled/“no show” neighborhood baseball clinic…has that been officially cleared up?

He was crushing Moncada’s sprint speeds, even…I mean, how is that even humanly possible?