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That's pretty tough to accomplish, if you deliberately set out to find the very worst players.

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.

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

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.

No challenge???

Well, everyone finally at or below a .696 OPS.

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.

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.

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

Too positive/optimistic!

Such as a long-term Giants' 1B that played there for ages before moving on to the Blue Jays finally...Brandon Belt.

Fitzgerald and Heliot Ramos the darlings of the fantasy leagues...don't know much at all about McCray FitzgeraldSS R 14 27 14 .316 .986 Wade Jr.1B L 4 20 1 .274 .773 RamosDH R 18 57 4 .279 .825 ConfortoLF L 13 51 0 .236 .756 Chapman, M3B R 19 61 12 .245 .774 YastrzemskiRF L 9 38 3 .240 .730 Estrada2B R 9 43 1 .216 .602 McCrayCF L 1 2 0 .357 1.114 CasaliC R 0 4 0 .179 .504

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/orioles-vs-mets/2024/08/19/745780/live Note: Every single hitter in NY Mets' line-up at 683 OPS or over. Sox are almost the opposite. Senzel (no reason why) and Julks getting some PT, mental health day for Vargas. Lee at clean-up is a LOOK, of some kind. Sosa, L2B R 4 17 3 .215 .557 Robert Jr.CF R 14 31 17 .209 .682 Vaughn1B R 14 52 2 .242 .701 Lee, KC R 10 28 5 .214 .609 Vargas, M3B R 4 11 1 .183 .602 SenzelDH R 7 18 1 .197 .621 Fletcher, DoRF L 0 10 0 .209 .530 JulksLF R 3 9 5 .225 .645 BaldwinSS S 2 8 2 .205 .580

4 teams for DLS this year? Really good for CLE in his hey-day, but I think he's a little bit like Jimmy Cordero in that he just got abused/overused somewhere along the way and never got his top line stuff back again.

Cali has kind of gone to this approach, like the anti-Balta, over the last year. Kind of interesting switching perspectives and attempting to defend the organization in the face of a complete tidal wave in the opposite direction

Well, the biggest thing to be exacted about is that Fletcher might be a 4th outfielder if he can hit at 675-700ish pace. Quero and Montgomery are injured or non-performing or some combination of both. Wolkow is arguably your 3rd best hitting prospect and still 2 1/2 to 3 years away on what would be considered a "fast/er" pace for a high schooler.

Balta has seemingly given up on being upset and has reached acceptance phase.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/no-1-brothers-ethan-holliday-100738617.html “Ethan, 6-foot-4, 195 pounds, has a chance to be the best of all of them, if you listen to scouts and talent evaluators. He’s got the size, the strength, the competitiveness, the heart and desire to be a perennial All-Star. He’s widely considered the best eligible player in the 2025 amateur draft, and if selected first, the Hollidays would join Peyton and Eli Manning as the only brothers to each be drafted No. 1 overall in American pro sports history. “People look at the size and some of those raw abilities," Matt Holliday says. “He’s got 111-mph exit velocity with the bat, he’s got an incredible strong arm, and just some of the tangible things at a young age that he was further along than Jackson was. “They’re different in a lot of ways, but it’s not fair to Ethan or Jackson to compare. They’re just both talented baseball players who are the biggest fans of each other." If you ask Jackson, who’s 4 inches shorter than his brother, he’ll tell you Ethan will be the best player in the family. If you ask Ethan, no one will ever top his dad Matt, and he’ll be grateful to be mentioned in the same sentence as his brother.”

“Just do your job, just flush it, short-term memory, come back out and do it again. Keep the faith. I was able to stay [on an] even keel and not get too down or too up.” https://www.mlb.com/news/pedro-grifol-reflects-on-start-to-2024-white-sox-season

Yeah, I looked that up and then saw it was 40-120 on some other sites. .2516 would be that winning percentage. So they just need to stay under 41...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/royals/2018/03/08/kansas-city-royals-anti-pornography-seminar-players-spring-training/407295002/ Here we go again. This will go over SO very well with a bunch of young/unmarried baseball players.

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-gm-candidates-five-names-to-know-as-teams-start-making-front-office-changes/ You had the two top Marlins' execs recently let go as well, one specifically in INTL SCOUTING. https://pressboxonline.com/2022/07/07/orioles-assistant-gm-eve-rosenbaum-has-high-hopes-for-women-in-baseball/ Eve Rosenbaum would be interesting, since we spent so much time the last two years discussing Kim NG. Obviously Elias is one of the best to work under as a mentor. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5096538/2023/11/30/future-mlb-managers-coaches-to-watch/ https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/future-mlb-general-managers-eight-candidates-who-could-eventually-become-your-favorite-teams-next-gm/ Interesting names mentioned include Kyle Boddy (Driveline), Sarah Gelles/Astros (Director of Research & Development) and the White Sox' own Sam Mondry-Cohen in ANALYTICS.

He kind of already fits around Hollywood though, doesn't he? It's not like he screwed up the trade deadline as bad(ly) as Crochet did...

We might as well replace Cole Ragans for them...