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"The Los Angeles Angels did not trade Reid Detmers ahead of the trade deadline because a high asking price stalled negotiations and an apparent tentative deal with the Chicago Cubs fell apart at the last minute..." Or you can simply look at it as the Cubs being more willing to trade from their farm system with Bregman and PCA at their peaks while staring at possibility of losing Suzuki Happ and Imanaga to FA. And the Cubs eventually went after Holmes and Gausman instead. So the bigger question is why the White Sox didn't beat those lower asking prices. "The ball club (Angels) likely would have needed a jaw-dropping offer to consider moving the pitcher before this year's trade deadline."

That some are more resistant to change than others. That baseball scouts and pitchers/catchers also possess an equivalent ability to bounce back with adjustments.

Doyle has the better arm and sprint speed is very very close. Vargas better power for his size, but not by a whole lot unless you're saying Vargas has even more potential to reach for physically next year.

three game series

Poster at Crawfish Boxes on whether it's the worst playoff team in modern history? "Hard to say. They were one of the better AL teams from June onwards. But we can all see the holes in the roster. Left Field is a bit of a black hole. As is CF, even with Spence doing big things this weekend. And RF - too many strikeouts by Cam. A killer with runner on third and less than 2 outs. Correa would be a help, but where would he play? And the bullpen. Okert would certainly help. (Former Sox) Sousa is either good or bad, and way too bad lately. De Los Santos is unplayable. Abreu is not a sure thing. King was great in early season and is 50/50 now. Imai has the stuff, but when bad, he is unplayable. And for leverage situations - those walks. I admire the fight the team has shown all season - that part plays well for Espada. But the roster just isn't good enough. A series win in the playoffs would feel like a major achievement."

they were giving Hunter Brown at least a month's worth of starts in late August and early Sept with five full days of rest until more recently... https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/gamelog/_/id/4717803/hunter-brown of course the ESPN report says they could go back to Brown on just two days' rest on Sunday out of the pen as necessary...which would definitely knock him out of G1 consideration

Sure but that was more like Brandon McCarthy at the end of 2005 catching fire and being more consistently dominant "For the Rangers, left-hander MacKenzie Gore is expected to get the ball in a do-or-die start against Twins right-hander Dean Kremer. Houston will start right-hander Peter Lambert on short rest, according to MLB.com's Brian McTaggart. Astros manager Joe Espada also reportedly said every Houston pitcher except Saturday's starter, right-hander Hayden Wesneski, will be available on Sunday." So Houston will go with Brown Wesneski and then Lambert all on three days in the playoffs or insert rookie Pecko in there somewhere as well those options all seem as bad as the White Sox lol

according to this, it would be Sandlin then Burke then Martin God knows whether Kay Hudson or Hagen/Schultz are openers bulk guys or back of the bullpen at this point at least the Astros are also not going to be able to pitch Hunter Brown until G2/3 as well they still were looking at crazy options like McCullers Imai Burrowes and Verlander coming into the weekend but guess it's Lambert as of now meaning rookie Pecko could be the best G1 option at the moment Chicago Sun-TimesWhite Sox prioritizing rest, division race as they set fi...The White Sox passed on an opportunity to line up staff ace Sean Burke for Game 1 of a potential wild card series, hoping a rested rotation will aid pursuit of AL Central title instead.

do you really think they're going to trust a rookie pitcher to carry the load in the biggest game of the season? by relative importance to the organization, Hagen or Schultz could benefit even more as fellow rookies no matter what they choose, it's going to be second guessed Sandlin either does pretty well or gets totally bombed out of the stadium the early going then you're talking on the road against a highly seasoned playoff team

Newcomb starting G2? 1) Burke 2) Newcomb/Martin (0 for his last 16 appearances...yikes!) 3) Kay/Fedde Lambert starting Sun for Houston

https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/batvspitch/_/id/42823/teamId/18 Altuve Y.Diaz Paredes Pena have done well against him Ofc Alvarez but only 6 at bats overall 672 ops isn't bad at all https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/batvspitch/_/id/4867679/teamId/18 Burke at 756 ops against

Has to be in the pen or an opener...

google.com.hk search for soxtalk provides this list... CaliSoxFanViaSWside TaylorStSox Chisoxfn Tray Pal Oldsox

Notre Dame Georgia Ohio State Miami Texas LSU BYU Iowa Indiana Alabama Florida Boise State Indiana at Iowa pretty much guaranteed not to happen lol https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/50033850/projecting-2026-college-football-playoff-top-12-week-4 ESPN has Bama 8

nope Yankees Red Sox winner goes to Tampa White Sox AL West winner to CLE

Coleslaw? https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/the-rays-have-the-best-record-in-the-al-theyre-about-to-pay-for-it-223338909.html

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/earth-could-start-game-162-055738899.html Pecko on short rest but only 51 pitches Javier was hurt right groin tightness Ronel Blanco Imai unlikely Ullola Burrowes also unlikely Pecko has not pitched in a game on less than four days of rest since his second professional outing in 2023 after facing three hitters in his pro debut in rookie ball.

Does that change the reality...sure, we can hope or wish for good results, no matter what Venable does he is likely to be second and third guessed anyway

Arizona would also win a tiebreaker against the Phillies. (The two teams split their six head-to-head meetings this year, but the D-backs have a superior intra-divisional record, which is the second tiebreaker). Padres up 8-4 looks like AZ and Philly going down until Sunday

Pecko just pitched Maybe Wesneski

this GM ... might be at least average-ish

Don't know what they have for 2027--- if played --- in Kolson and Mune have to be feeling quite a bit better now though about Murakami

on the road never easy at least Hunter Brown pitched yesterday so he would be on short rest or G2 Hicks, Newcomb, Brazoban are good at what???

AZ back up 4-3 on SD

somehow Paredes has 25 homers