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Well Ron, I know the Cubs are soaking up all your attention, but the game was actually held in KC... 2023 MLB Attendance - Major League Baseball - ESPN White Sox are currently 24th, just ahead of Detroit...KC is 28th.

10,395...going for under 10K on WED.

Is that actually a positive anymore?

Of course, the Cubs were in the process of turning a 6-4 deficit into a 10-6 lead at almost exactly the same time... Hopefully the Giants will take Bellinger off their hands at least, although odds of that long-term contract working out are 50/50 at best.

Team Blown Saves Save Opportunities Rockies 27 52 White Sox 27 50 Rangers 26 52 Twins 26 57 54% failure rate...once upon a time, elite closers use to be at 90% or at least 85%. Obviously the team blown saves encompasses a lot of other crappy relievers...although we did have the most expensive bullpen in baseball until the trade deadline at least. Of course, Hendriks being out hasn't helped matters.

You looked at the score closing all game long and just had a feeling that the bullpen wasn't going to be up to the task (yet again).

Well, losing on a balk is highly creative/imaginative at least... Getz/Grifol is now, what, 4-10?

Yet another massive issue for Getz next year. If the bullpen/defense continues to give up leads, it's going to eat away like a cancer. They're certainly not going to keep Hendriks with all the uncertainty surrounding his health...so you're left with the same suspects like Bummer and Crochet again, while his health lasts.

Let's see if Santos can extricate himself with a Houdini act here...

I lived in Kansas City from 1997 through 2007 (minus one year in Colombia), so I can fairly confidently say the one I always went to west of State Line one in Mission and it was definitely called Oklahoma Joe's by everyone. At that point, KC Masterpiece was still a thing (they closed their Country Club Plaza restaurant during this period, founder Dr. Rich Davis was on our non-profit BoD) and so were Gates and Arthur Bryant's.

Marlins rallying to another victory over the Dodgers (well, hopefully) in the bottom of the 8th in MIA. 6-3 lead now. Bryan de la Cruz and former Sox trade target Jazz Chisholm back-to-back bombs. Burger was on base with a HBP. 838 OPS

Miami Marlins: Jake Burger’s perseverance paying off | Miami Herald “Hey, just tone it back a little bit,” he told himself. “Don’t trying to take huge hacks every single time you step into the box. Just slow it down.” “That’s something they don’t really prepare you for,” Burger said later on. “You know you’re coming in and you know what you need to do, but it’s tough chasing results. It’s just kind of staying within yourself.” So far, Burger has managed to do that. Entering Monday’s series opener against the Houston Astros, Burger is hitting .317 (13 for 41) with an .879 on-base-plus-slugging mark, four doubles, one home run, six RBI and four runs scored. His RBI single in the ninth inning Sunday capped Miami’s wild, 8-7 walk-off win over the New York Yankees in which the Marlins scored five runs in the final frame. He has safely reached base in 10 of his first 11 games with the Marlins and has four multi-hit games. And Burger isn’t sacrificing power to bump up his batting average. Of Burgers 33 balls play through his first 11 games with Miami, 12 have an exit velocity of at least 100 mph — he’s one of only 18 players to have that many since Aug. 2. “I feel like I’m settling in,” Burger said. Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/mlb/miami-marlins/article278218297.html#storylink=cpy “It’s always fun just to kind of take that step away and just see how happy he (nine month old son Brooks) is,” Burger said. “It doesn’t matter if you’re on an 0-for-30 streak or 30-for-30 streak. He’s still gonna love me the same. That’s just kind of the perspective I try and give myself every single night.” “Multiple times I’ve thought about quitting and being done with it,” Burger said. “There was a breaking point where I actually told my parents that I was thinking about it too. They both just said don’t live with regrets and that I’m gonna regret it if you quit. I’ve stuck to it and ultimately turned out the right decision for me.” Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/mlb/miami-marlins/article278218297.html#storylink=cpy

103.7 EV 20 degree launch angle (wow!) 836 ops as of this moment

So is Trump, lol. What a combo. In all seriousness, Sanders has been coaching in the Dallas area for quite some time...so it's not like he just jumped straight into the Colorado job. He also possessed all the ties from that massive recruiting hotbed, as well as the national name recognition (all those promotional ads like the one with Nick Saban for Aflac). Let's see if he can sustain the momentum against a NEB program that keeps finding new and more creative ways to lose every year. So how did he get lured away from the blue blood program? “About a week before the announcement that he was coming to Colorado, they called me and said, 'We're making a switch, we want you to come with us,'” Dylan Edwards shared (on his flip from ND to Coach Prime).

DeGrom. Bogaerts. Story from the year before. Baez. Judge. It has been a minefield. Our biggest FA moves like Dunn, Grandal and now Benintendi the next level down all busts.

Didn’t he also have a hernia?

Even with that frame and extension... no Spider Tack and hitters becoming so used to 95-103 stuff routinely out of bullpens has made his fastball easier to pick on when not located well. And of course the MPH differential between the FB and CH has naturally narrowed as well over the last two years. The more specific info about his change lacking the break and action/spin rate is obviously important as well. Would have to look at Baseball Savant and his BAA all of his pitches this season.

The Logo and Hip Hop lol? Playing for the White Sox has been “amazing,” according to Nishida. It was the team he wanted coming from Oregon but not necessarily for baseball reasons. “I know the White Sox logo. That’s the thing for me,” said Nishida, who has five stolen bases, eight walks and six strikeouts over 14 Minor League games. “I like the cap. I know the hat. I have a couple of White Sox hats. So, that was good.”

And Urias is obviously off the market. That makes Nola and Snell the only two reputation-wise close to aces or TOR guys available.

The biggest defense is Eder became the #5 prospect because the system was bottom of the barrel at the time of the trade. Other organizations he wouldn't even be Top Ten with a future reliever profile tag more likely than not attached. Ofc Merkin was much closer to Hahn pwrsonally so it's coming off as sour grapes that KW dumped him and Hahn didn't have the power or persuasiveness to prevent it.

Oklahoma Joes's, to be more precise.

So much for Julio Urias this season and his impending FA...he gone. https://sports.yahoo.com/dodgers-pitcher-julio-urias-arrested-charged-with-felony-domestic-violence-180650634.html

Elvis Andrus is actually 3rd, lol. Grandal, Sosa, Sheets, Anderson and Colas (-1.0) all firmly in negative territory. Seby was actually at 0.0. 10 Yasmani Grandal CHW 110 379 8 31 32 0 9.0% 22.2% .109 .289 .236 .311 .345 .291 .274 82 -5.2 -13.5 0.0 -0.1 11 Carlos Pérez CHW 18 30 0 3 2 0 3.3% 30.0% .103 .350 .241 .267 .345 .265 .224 64 -0.3 -1.6 -0.1 -0.1 12 Adam Haseley CHW 28 39 0 6 2 1 7.7% 20.5% .056 .286 .222 .282 .278 .253 .289 55 0.0 -2.1 -0.8 -0.2 13 Romy Gonzalez CHW 44 97 3 11 14 7 2.1% 37.1% .183 .273 .194 .208 .376 .244 .281 49 3.1 -2.8 -2.2 -0.2 14 Trayce Thompson CHW 17 42 1 4 2 1 7.1% 47.6% .103 .333 .179 .238 .282 .232 41 -0.2 -3.1 -0.9 -0.3 15 Hanser Alberto CHW 30 90 3 11 16 0 4.4% 14.4% .171 .224 .220 .261 .390 .279 .270 73 -0.7 -3.6 -2.2 -0.3 16 Clint Frazier CHW 33 76 0 10 3 4 13.2% 30.3% .045 .302 .197 .303 .242 .256 .258 58 -0.2 -4.1 -2.0 -0.4 17 Lenyn Sosa CHW 37 122 5 8 12 0 0.8% 23.0% .153 .200 .186 .193 .339 .225 .296 36 -0.1 -9.5 0.7 -0.5 18 Gavin Sheets CHW 94 268 9 20 31 0 8.6% 19.0% .140 .228 .211 .280 .351 .274 .277 70 0.2 -9.5 -4.9 -0.5 19 Tim Anderson CHW 103 446 1 46 24 12 5.2% 23.1% .057 .316 .242 .285 .299 .260 .286 60 -1.7 -23.1 2.6 -0.5 20 Oscar Colás CHW 70 245 4 29 18 4 4.9% 26.9% .088 .281 .215 .255 .303 .244 .265 49 1.0 -14.1 -4.6 -1.0

Half century at this pace...

So that pick would then be outside the Top Ten in 2025 (and not 2024), as we can all pretty easily assume they're going to be bottom 6 in the majors again next season. Which is crazy with where the Padres' payroll is going to be next year compared to the White Sox. Might be close to 2.5X larger than the Sox budget.