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https://www.si.com/fannation/mlb/fastball/news/what-has-happened-to-the-chicago-white-sox-and-how-did-they-get-so-bad Entering play on Monday, the Chicago White Sox are a Major League-worst 3-18, but just a few years ago, they looked like they were ready to take the league by storm. What's happened? Furthermore, when teams rebuild, we ask them to not only play with prospects, we ask them to spend. The White Sox did, spending money on free agents Yasmani Grandal (an All-Star) and Dallas Keuchel (a Cy Young winner). They went and spent big on Liam Hendriks, an All-Star closer, before the 2021 season. They brought in Lance Lynn in a trade with the Rangers before the 2021 season, and then extended him. They added Joe Kelly before the 2022 season. They brought in Andrew Benintendi before 2023. They did everything that fans and pundits ask a team to do when they appear ready to win. In addition to developing prospects and spending in free agency, we ask teams to take care of their own. They did that too, inking Jimenez, Luis Robert Jr. and Anderson to long-term deals at young ages. These deals all looked like wins for the organization at the time. The question is what happened to this team full of potential that made two playoff appearances? Well, let's just start here: Lynn was dreadful in the 2023 season, going 6-9 with a 6.47 ERA before being traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers. He's now with the Cardinals. Keuchel was let go in the 2022 season and is currently in Triple-A. Kelly had an ERA over six in the 2022 season and had ERA near five in the 2023 season before also being dealt to the Dodgers. Lopez and Giolito were traded also during the 2023 season while Abreu was allowed to walk in free agency after 2022. Moncada, Robert Jr. and Jimenez are all still in the organization but all of them have spent considerable times on the injured list over the last three years. Anderson's numbers plummeted in 2023 and his team option was declined, so he signed with the Marlins this past offseason. Cease was traded to the San Diego Padres. There was also the stink of the Tony La Russa managerial tender, questions about in-fighting in the clubhouse, and GM Rick Hahn was fired. The White Sox are once again in a rebuild. They did everything right the first time, will things work out better this time around?

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Sorry...can't credit Pedro. Nicky Lopez. But you can't sever their lifelong Royals' Connection. (Should have included Nicky's name in the thread title in order to avoid confusion lol.) Definitely sounds like a Pedro-ism.

https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/white-sox-pick-up-fourth-straight-loss-in-series-opener “Today we got our ass kicked. You go home and you reflect and tomorrow is a new day. You can only learn from today and then tomorrow you start the day and that’s it. This day is over,” Grifol said. “If you start mentally crushing yourself on what’s going on or what’s happened or our record or what I’m hitting, it’s going to get even worse. “You have to start fresh every single day. How else are you going to do it? You can reflect, but you reflect to learn. You don’t reflect to live in that negativity space where it will just continue to crush you if you can’t flush it.” “We can’t deny what’s happening. Our record sucks,” Grifol said. “But what are you going to do about it? We have to come tomorrow and get ready to play. You have to forget about today. Learn and move on.” “You've got to just keep attacking. You can't get these back. They're in the past. You've got to just keep moving on,” said White Sox second baseman Nicky Lopez, who had two of the team’s eight hits. “Take it one day at a time. Try to regroup. “This game has a way to beat you down and get slapped in the face, but it's a game of adjustments too. You've got to just keep coming every single day with a positive attitude and hopefully at the end you're where you want to be. But it's easier said than done. A lot of people sometimes struggle with it, the mindset thing."

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Disasters resent being connected to Moncada. Personal or natural.

Broom guy with the hat?

Probably holds Boyer and him responsible for kicking him out of Sox Ambassador's role due to negativity/honesty.

Almost guaranteed victories and lots of runs scored? A bit like the Globetrotters and Washington Generals back in the day, although WASH definitely had a lot more talent comparatively.

Jonathan Cannon CWS|RHP 3.2 IP, 6 ER, 5 K, BB -30.2% Win Probability Added (WPA) This will override your current vote Kepler and Paddack getting all the Player of the Game votes so far...

FIVE came from the Braves...one of the very best organizations in baseball. That hasn't seemed to help very much.

Three run Mendick bomb? Feels fated...

MLB Attendance Cleveland 22nd Twins 24th Tigers 25th (this was/is a bit of a shocker after a promising off season) White Sox 26th KC 27th (see Tigers) 8/32 batting tonight=mired in mediocrity, still no XB hits

Starting to question if ANYONE would win if the Sox played at Colorado and the White Sox were able to use humidor-infused baseballs...

He's breaking under the relentless pressure of Jay Cuda stats...?

Is he going to have one of those unhinged Lee Elia/Mora tirades at some point? He's getting increasingly testy in post-game interviews...

Sosa Popeye Romy Remillard maybe Colson Jacob Gonzalez

White Sox -78 Rockies -56 Marlins -41 A's -35 Astros -28

Penurious Rays only came up with $700-750 million, lol...

Where were Barfield and his asst?

Players, or animals expected to fill the bleachers while baying at the moon?

Sheriff Paddack ERA all the way down to 5.95. All sports agents should send the White Sox a partial commission for stat padding.

Five measly singles.

Not shocked in the least. The obvious problem will be how much rope they give Nastrini and Cannon...they can't afford to completely destroy their confidence long-term.

At least the Twins can rest Correa and Buxton...