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McCarthy is actually outproducing him…which was/is a huge jump in production from McCarthy’s paltry 2023 production. And very cheaply at that. Fletcher is the diametrically opposed result from end of 2023 babip wonder/miracle.

“Fresh off completing a four-game sweep of the Houston Astros to start the season, the Yankees have acquired right-handed pitcher Jake Cousins in a trade with the Chicago White Sox. New York will be sending cash for the 29-year-old reliever.” Success because JR got cold hard cash in his pockets??? For +0.1 fWAR of production? That’s worth at least $1 million on the open market, basically…

Until there’s one about actually winning a trade clearly, one would imagine. https://www.mlb.com/player/jake-cousins-664776 Did we win the Jake Cousins trade??? Not according to those numbers with the NY Yankees this season. He even hung a save on us while we now have perhaps the worst pen in modern baseball history.

Because KW got his way over Hahn trading Tim Anderson instead. So yet another waste of resources accomplished.

Here is the problem. At best, guys like Baldwin, Sosa, Ja.Gonzalez and even Montgomery (due to defense) all look like 1-1.5 fWAR type players. None of them are going to win any BEST tool accolades like an Oneil Cruz or Elly de la Cruz or Julio Take Me on a Sea Cruz even. We know what is Sheets and Vaughn AT BEST. It’s not good enough, simply. It’s average, at best, yet again. So you MIGHT have Montgomery. 50/50 at best if the back issues settle. Relying on Quero offensively AND defensively? That’s a ton to expect out of a rookie. Then just nobody in the outfield that could be a star. Fletcher, DeLoach, Julks, that high obp kid from SD 2-3 years out from now maybe a 5-10% shot at best. You simply have to base your lineup on 3-4 guys who can OPS 800 or even push up to 900+ to survive if you can’t buy talent. We don’t even have one 800+ (did it for at least a season) guy once we dump Robert. At least Burger provides some respect/fear from opponents and occupies one of those 3-4 key spots that carries the offense potentially. Benentendi and Vaughn are your best hitters, with Wolkow/Quero/Montgomery the most reliably predictable future center of the offense. But never in a million years would I start to count on THAT happening. Thats’s more barren than the most dangerous desert zone in Westworld (in fact, would prefer Musk’s ex over any of our current AA/AAA options), guys like Payton, Ortega, WHOEVER. Somehow we’ve turned borderline top 100 guys in Colas and Santos into DFA candidates as well. Inexplicable. Totally. Completely.

SD you can see attendant risks. Still something like 8 with $100+ million contracts. Exceedingly challenging to fill out roster spots #15-25 if you keep gutting your farm system to support big league roster (hey KW). Leads to more inconsistencies and experimentation with roster mix. Musgrove Darvish Bogaerts Tatis have dragged down roster last two months with injury family issues etc. Bogaerts has underproduced 1 1/2 seasons almost.

Nowhere but up from #30 in that area…

https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/player/_/id/23220/jake-burger Yeah 2025 was kind of shaded different color on my screen…making it even worse

Three more arbitration years of control through age 32 season.

We almost signed him and/or Vladdy Jr. in their teens if you want to believe rumors lol. Definitely not handing over $655 million now. We can’t even afford $65.5 million supposedly.

22000+ last night Best weather of season for this one. 79 degrees. A lot less tonight.

“Best interests of baseball” clause. White Sox more or less handing Royals and Twins their WC spots right now. That won’t go over well in AL East and West owners’ boxes.

Look out below George Kirby fantasy owners. Also, if Andrew Vaughn starts out 0-1 or 0-2, every single member of the active roster will be at a 700 ops or below.

Alex Call line for 60+ at bats with the Nats is insane. Yes, regression is coming, but he’s pulling a Dominic Fletcher run from late last year out of his ass.

Burger inching right up to league average. 22/42 out of 3B with over 200 at bats. 23rd homer tonight, .253, 781 ops Jake “Adkins” Eder, 2-8, 6.06, 1.62 whip, 10.47 era at AAA, another case like Vargas of chasing past prospect ratings as “buy low” when it might already be too late to reverse prevailing trends?

Carson Fulmer actually starting a game for the Halos tonight. 0-2, 3.74 ERA Jose Urena has been quite useful for the Rangers this season, sub 4 ERA, 3.74 to be precise.

Consider: Both the Royals and Twins are 12-1 against the White Sox. In other games, the Royals are .500, and the Twins are three games above. Thus, the teams immediately behind them in the AL wild-card race — the Red Sox and AL West runner-up — are at a disadvantage. The Mariners are 6-1 against the White Sox. The Red Sox are 2-2 and the Astros 1-2, each with one series remaining. The AL Central-leading Guardians, oddly enough, are only 5-5 against a team that has endured losing streaks of 14 and 21 games. The White Sox currently are on pace to finish 39-123. To avoid breaking the 1962 Mets’ record of 120 losses, they will need to go 15-28 the rest of the way. That’s a winning percentage of .349, well above their current .242 mark. Oh, but at least the White Sox will get the No. 1 overall pick for their troubles, right? Nope. They will select no higher than 10th because of an anti-tanking measure in the collective bargaining agreement preventing teams that are not revenue-sharing recipients from receiving lottery picks in back-to-back years. theathletic/nytimes.com

All ex Indians/Guardians now to Sox?

“Anyone who follows new White Sox pitching czar Brian Bannister on Twitter already knows that the changes Fedde made reminded Bannister and pitching coach Ethan Katz of former pupil Logan Webb, who took a star turn for the Giants last season and finished as the runner-up in the NL Cy Young vote. Bannister outlined on Twitter that Fedde and Webb work out at that same Arizona facility during the offseason and that once upon a time, Webb added some of the same pitches Fedde recently did, doing so under Bannister and Katz’s watch when they were Giants employees. It provides a level of familiarity — with the work, if not with the pitcher himself — that gives the White Sox confidence Fedde’s success will not be limited to the other side of the planet.” reiterating Bannister and Katz should get equal or more credit than Getz https://allchgo.com/how-new-white-sox-pitcher-erick-fedde-went-from-south-korea-to-the-south-side/

Sox have zero scouts to cover Korea and Japan…

Jake McCarthy 2.7 fWAR https://blogs.fangraphs.com/jake-mccarthy-fights-the-babip-monster/ Tatis 2.4 fWAR (out since June 21st) Fletcher. Not so gooda in Paciorek voice.

Cangelosi? Grebeck? McKay Christensen?

Or reunion with Machine Gun Joe Kelly…

Sheets has a HUGE history of subpar DH performance unless 100% platooned and never allowed into RF. He is what he is…but Vaughn is now the best hitter. Tallest midget award.

1-3 = 40-120 I know the comebacks the comebacks the heart the indomitable spirit, better postgame interviews that daresay inspire.