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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.

Only .700+ hitter now. Still not even an average 1B though.

Jake Woodford, 6 3 0 0 0 2 vs. Padres without Machado

Not even Top 10-15 in talent/potential…

Well that happens about once in a lifetime escaping that situation unscathed against Soto and Judge.

How did Fletcher collect a throwing error there? Well this situation looks quite familiar.

There goes this game, lol. Always after a botched play or decision. Call it momentum or whatever word its like precision clockwork with Sox.

Note to scouting dept: Verdugo can throw unlike Sox LFers going back to Pods Pierre and Pollock AB Eloy

Trying to be too aggressive and force things to happen. Ofc Benintendi starts tearing things up one month to late to dream of moving. Probably needed another month of this hitting to find some takers among big market teams.