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Tough balancing act not to end up like Rodon 2021 down the stetch...pitching primarily on fumes.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/column-nothing-obvious-chicago-white-004300718.html It seems obvious Ramos will stick around even when Danny Mendick returns off the 10-day injured list. “It’s not obvious,” Grifol countered. OK. Never mind. “He’s got to continue to play,” Grifol said. “This is not a four out of seven (series). This is a long haul. He’s doing really well right now. We’re taking it day by day with him. We’re not going to be quick to evaluate — ‘He’s staying the whole year’ or ‘He’s going down.’ “That’s not how this process is going to work. Right now he’s doing everything he’s capable of doing to show he belongs here. He’s putting good at-bats together and playing good defense, but at the same time he’s extremely young. This is his first taste of the big leagues.”

Was on briefly before getting cut...

performance bonuses: $100,000 for each game started from 11 to 25 GS $100,000 for each 5 innings pitched from 55 to 125 IP

Pham and DeJong too...

Garfien doing a Schiffren impersonation now...thanks to Ozzie rubbing him. Good stuff.

Not sure even Leury could have messed up that first pop-up. Schiffren should be doing Shakespeare lol. He's had way too many energy drinks.

Acting like playing cards in StL during a rain delay was Heyward WS Speech lol. Stone's basically like, well it's a long season filled with many twists and turns.

Vaughn over .200.

DeJong in the top half of SS's for right now. 14/32

Narvaez was fine as a hitter with the Sox. So was McCann.

Twins on the verge of going 17-2 their last 19…granted, 7 were against the Sox. Royals occupying WC by 2.5 games as well.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/29888/enemencio-pacheco Former White Sox

Of course all those AL Central teams would love to take Crochet off the Sox hands...at a 50% discount to boot. Everyone in baseball knows the White Sox are scared to death of taking a risk. They're never going to be out there with a pitcher like Brandon Woodruff, betting on their own player. It's always going to be Jeremy Haber's little calculator spitting out an adverse number. The White Sox can look across the landscape of baseball and watch Rodon, Lopez, Sale, Cease...yet still smile about not making an attempt to keep Gio, not keeping Anderson, not keeping Abreu. Look at us! We avoided another John Danks! They keep attempting to win the fiscal responsibility championship. Yay. Except they still are getting out-executed by the Guardians, Twins, Royals and even Tigers.

And what are the White Sox going to do if Schultz gets hurt? Push back the rebuild until 2027? 28?

Then explain Cole Ragans after two TJ surgeries…you have to get what you can out of high-risk players when there’s a window of opportunity, just like there is in the AL Central right now for the Royals. Look where KC was a year ago, even worse than the White Sox record-wise. And the same arguments against extending him are going to limit his ultimate trade return…teams that can afford to take on risk over the long term can just wait until Getz blinks. Just seems so demoralizing to keep trading away success stories with zero promise of anything in return.

Obviously there's a conpromise number between $50-75 million. JR wouldn't sign off on it anyway. And the reasons JR will authorize that much money to B-Tier Benintendi while ignoring his 2019-2021 trendline is why they're in this situation on the first place. At any rate, the White Sox are now officially the feeder team for MLB. They have Robert (maybe), Montgomery (maybe) and who else to sell fans in terms of hope for the future?

Then you're never going to have an ace in that starting rotation. "Doing okay" like Nvidia was just a decent return? Besides, Reinsdorf will never buy or extend anyone on the pitching side now. Schultz seemingly is the only one with that upside...if his health holds up.

8 out of 14 if they hold on...

Lee .290/836

Bump.

Crochet ERA back down under 5.

Would need to finish 53-71 to avoid 100 losses...doesn't feel all that likely, but then who knows what Moncada and Robert will contribute. If anything.

Didn't exist when Konerko was actually playing.

4th save for Kopech...