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Forcing Ventura to stick around as long term manager when his heart was clearly elsewhere one of many front office misreads. It took some pressure away from JR KW Dunn Ozzie Buehrle situations...he was the last guy standing to take a lot of hits for an organization clearly in transition. Should have left after 2012.

Beckham was obviously later...but physically limited at SS. Anderson never had the work ethic/dedication to improve offensively...just relied on his natural gifts in CF but that was a different era. And for every one of those defenders...there was a Josh Fields or Dayan Viciedo mixed in that just never found a defensive home.

Walker just got sent down.

https://www.mlb.com/news/blake-snell-lands-on-15-day-injured-list Never sign those late FA guys. Look at Chapman Martinez Bellinger all slow going out of the gate. Montgomery relying on lesser pure stuff the major exception.

Feels like that was 50% Pods and Iguchi and AJ the first half of that season...Crede Rowand and Uribe were already pretty gifted defensively.

Almost the reverse of the Semien situation where a 6th rounder was projected by numerous scouts to be tapped out projection or potential-wise/utility or fringe AAAA...until he found someone in another organization who really believed in him as a player and invested so much personal time in his development. Tatis, they simply got outscouted on what possible range of outcomes they had on their hands from the Padres having 3x the amount of Latin American coverage...and investing time in stalking the back fields.

Sounds like what we said about Micker Adolfo for going on three seasons...

Strip away the BR ranking and they're somewhere in the middle. The Gonzalez and Quero and Thorpe runs are getting a lot of attention...but there's still a dearth of premium talent outside of Montgomery and Schultz. And the jury is far from being out on Colson as a major league SS and Corey Seager Lite (touch short fielding-wise) or a potentially lighter hitting but high OBP corner infielder. The problem is that he almost has to be a star/stud for any type of rebuild to work unless JR is willing to radically alter spending habits in FA.

And Bradshaw fell into their laps the very next season. Wasn't that a coin flip back then with the Bears?

And he even posed for Playgirl. (Yet another reason Jason Benetti was fired...he was never in that "cool/popular" group in school.)

4-D chess played to perfection just like Hahn... I just feel embarrassed to be born within 25 days of him in November, 1969. Giving Gen X a bad name.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/orioles-put-outfielder-austin-hays-002210898.html Peyton Burdick cut again by O's

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/james-mccann-colton-cowser-hit-043038405.html Kimbrel doing better than expected

Modern day White Flag.

23 Milwaukee Brewers 0.700 26 $57,477,062 $45,950,562 $1,750,000 $1,538,944 - $106,716,568 24 Baltimore Orioles 0.667 26 $78,415,221 $14,542,000 $8,666,668 $863,678 - $102,487,567 25 Cincinnati Reds 0.571 26 $73,257,313 $19,745,000 $9,250,000 $67,626 - $102,319,939 26 Cleveland Guardians 0.727 26 $65,076,624 $19,937,170 $10,500,000 $5,027,904 - $100,541,698 27 Tampa Bay Rays 0.522 26 $67,924,450 $27,614,267 $11,825,000 $77,061 - $100,070,323 28 Miami Marlins 0.261 26 $74,294,621 $17,447,500 $8,253,978 $248,787 - $97,997,886 29 Pittsburgh Pirates 0.500 26 $72,974,381 $10,120,000 - $190,213 - $83,284,594 30 Oakland Athletics 0.364 26 $41,359,116 $19,180,000 $2,000,000 $127,836 - $62,666,95 Other than Marlins and A's...all of these teams are competing

https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-twins-beat-chicago-white-sox/600361143/ “Results have not been there, but we’ve been working really hard,” Jiménez said. “So, I know this is not going to be like that forever.” “For me, it’s come to the field every day, get your work done, and go out in the field and do your job,” Wilson said. “I see things pretty black and white, and tonight, I didn’t do my job.” “We’ve got to win games, man. Bottom line. We took a 5-2 lead, we had a full bullpen,” Grifol said. “We were in a good spot. Just didn’t close it out.” “Wilson’s thrown the ball great,” Grifol said of the right-hander, who had held opponents to 2-for-29 entering the ninth. “I was really comfortable with him coming in, starting at [Byron] Buxton right there. “If it would have been the top of the order, it might have been a little bit of a different story. But that pocket where he came in, it’s a pocket that we targeted prior to the game.” https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/white-sox-walk-off-loss-to-twins

https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/drew-thorpe-white-sox-no-3-prospect-hot-start-in-double-a?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage https://sports.yahoo.com/fantasy-baseball-farm-report-heston-kjerstad-gets-the-call-135318477.html More Thorpe coverage

Would still be better than endless concessions promotions, Sox Math videos and the Nationwide jingle. What next...spending more time hyping future opponents?

Anna Sawai is better at sacrifice than anyone on the White Sox...

Hopefully lifetime ban for betting on tonight's game...ofc, the 2 RBI single was meant to throw everyone off the trail who was scrutinizing bets on the game.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHW/1948-schedule-scores.shtml 1948 White Sox were 4-19 at this point, on their way to a 51-101-2 record. One KEY difference, Ted Lyons, the manager, is in the HoF. Pedro Grifol will only enter as a ticket-buying customer.

Or Andrew Benintendi at the major league level...

Just woke up the Twins for 2024. How many times have we written that after a game against the Sox going back to, say, 2001?

https://www.mlb.com/player/steven-wilson-621051 Wilson had/has had ONE save in his entire big league career, fwiw. 1/6 in save situations after tonight.

https://www.mlb.com/news/slowest-starts-by-teams-that-made-playoffs