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Braves must not exactly be enamored with the Sox lying down for the Mets... When all is said and done, any game that SD AZ ATL NYM or Cubs would have lost to the White Sox might easily prove to be the decisive swing in the WC standings. White Sox basically gifting 2 out of 3 WC spots to the AL CENTRAL AS well.

That's not even in the Top 25 of the Hahn/Getz Era or "Regime."

But Rick Hahn was once American League Executive of the Year. Yoan Moncada was a Twinkie loving Triple Crown winner waiting to happen, Robert was destined to be Trout Lite and TA7 wasn't a ghost in RCF in the Iowa corn Fields along with Ray Liotta and Moonlight Graham. Even Robin Ventura's 2012 fade to DET (12 or 13 rookie pitchers and solid defense) season stands out as a line of demarcation there.

So that doesn't seem exactly like a guarantee it will never be an issue again.

See the mysterious decline of Erik Johnson.

Pretty soon...after another 2-3 years of this, and there won't be any audience left remaining. The White Sox will be consigned to the dustbin of history, a relic of the past. And the only recent memories for most young fans will be 2023/24/25/26/27...when they managed to set every possible mark for futility while playing in the poorest division in baseball with a non-expansion team.

Guardians of all teams...

We said exactly this about Gio Cease Kopech Reynoldo 5-6 years ago...except none were consistently aces in Chicago, only Gio for two seasons and Cease for one. And then Crochet finally for about 3-4 months. But never in any synchronized way. It was always just completely haphazard...almost random. And we couldn't win anything with Sale Q Abreu Eaton alone either.

Health...Schultz and Crochet, ofc.

Except how much credibility does someone with a career .167 average get? Would like to think players would be open minded. Montgomery Colas Fletcher Sosa Zavala all went backwards or flatlined. Quero was a relative success but now he's pretty beat up. One plus I guess. Baldwin simply returned to mean? Wolkow at least 3-4 years away. Ramos...can we actually get to watch him play for an extended period of time now?

Sure, but once again...after the top two hyped lefties, massive uncertainty. Thorpe is #3 arguably...or Cannon, if you looked at it like a 2026 future rotation. Martin is a pedestrian #4. Bush and Nastrini seem doomed for the back end or bullpen. Eder? Iriarte? Taylor? Keener? You have anything from the three headlining (Crochet included) stars comprising a potential greatest collection of lefties ever assembled to a trade and UCL joint away from an unending decade in the pitching wilderness ... think Glavine Smoltz Avery Maddux Schmidt etc. Of course we had these same dream rotations in 1998-2001 and then 2017-19 and look how they ended...it took quite fortuitous trades to result in 2005.

Tosar lol

At least he had a movie. More than Moncada Jimenez and Robert will have as their legacy. And 1983.

Is that enough innings for PoM?

Idaho threatening to upset #3 Oregon on the road....trailing 17-14 in fourth quarter.

Benintendi closing in on Robert Vaughn and Sheets for the team ops lead...what a sad state of affairs. .220 vs. .218 BA advantage to Benintendi.

Mets Cubs and maybe the Braves engaged in a duel now for that third WC spot.

Berroa was more of a gas can too. Just seeks of desperation to avoid the loss record...but also musical chairs with Charlotte and Birmingham rosters. Where's our Hodge?

Lean Cuisine TM

https://www.mlb.com/standings/wild-card/league Looks like the race is on now...Cubs just won, so four games over and SD lost.

They both have big league pensions. Pretty pretty good I'd say.

Jorge Orta as well

Don't discount future interest in Vegas though.

Generations...you mean.

If they screw up the Robert and Crochet returns ... well, there's basically nothing to be excited about until the 2026 Draft. And young hitters always excite fanbases more exceptions being Gooden Fidrych Valenzuela etc. Maybe the Dark Knight...Harvey.