caulfield12

If only he could go back to his Red Sox days of getting 3 hits in 10 at bats.

If anything, you think they would “sacrifice” Cannon first as the undeniably lesser prospect. Or just keep running Soroka out there…whose numbers are pretty much the equivalent of Lance Lynn’s last season.

They're still the second WC team....Milwaukee's also going to have a heckuva time holding together through the 2nd half (without significant additions). OFC, can say the same about Imanaga results not being sustainable. Cubs also have a major bullpen/closing issue brewing.

Connections to Dayton Moore through Royals/Braves to Grifol through Royals, as well as Gene Watson and their contracts guy who came aboard with Sox Connections to Hostetler (Braves, by extension through Moore) to Hahn through Univ of Michigan ties to Sox through his playing career, and also to Gordon Beckham, who seemingly has a pretty good chance of being the next radio or tv guy for the team Connections to Branch Rickey through Jerry Reinsdorf's fantasy/dream world

Luis Reyes The White Sox’s highest-paid pitcher of the 2023 signing class got off to a miserable start, but he righted the ship after a midseason shift to the bullpen. Role G IP H BB K ERA OPS Starter 9 15.1 27 19 21 14.09 1.339 Reliever 7 22.1 11 11 28 2.42 .427 Reyes was regularly throwing three to four innings an appearance by the end of the season, so it’s not like the White Sox spent $700,000 of international money to attempt to fast-track a reliever (we think). The question is whether he showed enough to jump to stateside pitching next season. https://www.southsidesox.com/2023/1/16/23557972/international-signing-period-opens-with-seven-new-white-sox-players Seems the biggest news from this entire article (Reyes was ranked 41st in his intl class) was that they signed Juan Uribe, Jr., hoping to get an "in" on the Dominican players who will be training at his father's newly-opened training academy down there in the DR.

It's ALL about the draft, because trade returns are going to be pretty negligible. Kopech and Pham will get you a B/C prospect (traded individually)...play around and package them together to see if that helps. Not seeing these massive Fedde returns coming, but who knows...

All depends on whether he can stick at SS...seems a lot of scouts aren't sold on either Montgomery or Gonzalez, although the latter is favored by most in every area head-to-head with the exception of arm strength. We'll stick with Wetherholt here, as his bat may be the best in this class. It's a well-rounded offensive profile with an explosive swing that's direct to the baseball and power that plays to both sides of the park. There's injury concern here, as he's been plagued by hamstring issues in the past calendar year, but there's more risk with an arm and the Angels may opt for the safer option. It'll feel like a steal, too. https://www.mlb.com/news/jj-wetherholt-guide But hitting wasn’t always his calling card With numbers like the ones Wetherholt has put up in college, you’d think he’s been a natural hitter all of his life. But that wasn’t the case. Instead, Wetherholt relied on secondary skills, mostly his fielding, to become a college-level player. “I was always a pretty decent hitter growing up. I was never crazy,” Wetherholt said, via the Weirton Daily Times. “Defense was like my thing. I was really good on defense and I was really fast. I was kind of a contact hitter and I’d steal and play pretty good defense.” Wetherholt’s high school coach, Jason Thompson, concurred. “He had some of the fastest hands on the baseball field,” Thompson said, per the Daily Times. “I’ve seen only one ball, which took a ridiculously bad bounce, ever get by him. He was the kid you prayed every ball would be hit to. He’d make every play.”

Current RS/RA -109 White Sox -82 Marlins -74 Rockies -59 A's Of course, hurts just a little bit more with Bassitt going against you. THAT trade.

Relationship to Red Sox's Bello?

Dodgers usually don't make mistakes in assessing starting pitching. At least Leasure has been a pleasant surprise.

At this point, every single Cuban associated with the White Sox has been cursed.

Helping to increase trade value of Bichette and Guerrero at least.

13.03 ERA If the goal is to totally destroy his confidence...well, just keep running him out there until his ERA reaches 20.

https://www.mlb.com/news/garrett-crochet-s-scoreless-streak-continues-in-white-sox-win?partnerId=it-20240522-9211956-mlb-1-A&utm_id=it-20240522-9211956-mlb-1-A&lctg=4007428904 Nice comments on Crochet and especially Julks (end of article). Korey Lee also starting to get more attention.

N.Vera Y.Cousin Yogurt Sanchez Y.Cespedes Colas

https://sports.yahoo.com/oneil-cruz-breaks-records-with-multiple-hits-over-120-mph-while-lifting-pirates-past-giants-in-extra-innings-025936264.html O'Neil Cruz had the three hardest hit balls of the night (115 mph+)...2 out of 3 were the hardest hit baseballs of the season. Giancarlo Stanton's 119.9 mph homer is the fifth-hardest home run in the Majors since Statcast began tracking in 2015. Stanton has three of the top five. Judge has one, too.

Bummer lost a game to the Cubs in extras. Still just a 3.18 ERA on the season, though.

https://www.movetoaustin.org/blog/companies-expanding-moving-to-austin-tx/

Yoan...

Stock is moving up with positive momentum after miracle comeback against NYY on Monday...

An ill wind comes arising Across the cities of the plain There's no swimming in the heavy water No singing in the acid rain Schiffren alert (red alert) Schiffren alert (red alert)

Looks like this is going to be the death knell of the Blue Jays' rebuild... btw, who had this on their bingo card? CLEVE 32-17 KC 31-19

That's just got to be the most "small sample size driven/homer-ish" bit of team cheerleading in recent memory. Robert was almost the entire + fWAR last year on offense...and, when healthy, one of the best defenders in baseball. Certainly the only lock as a Gold Glove candidate.

Grandal/Moncada/TA could have had fun at the gentleman's establishments at least. Can just see them hanging out with the truckers.

Went to mostly cutters and change-ups against Guerrero. Would have to think that's his last inning.