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Looks like an 11-10 game coming.

Rodon and Cueto best moves by default lol... nobody else left in their price range. Well, V. Velasquez and Derek Holland I guess.

I would rather have Hahn's son. He at least got the 2008 playoffs home field advantage coin flip right.

He was a great fantasy pitcher not so long ago and will end up with another opportunity to start with White Sox after Katz and Gio leave.

Jose Ramirez just stole home against Chapman with two strike count on batter, two outs. 3-2 CLE Top 10 in KC. Guardians would be back to .500 finally.

Please pick up the Lynn option next year at $18/20 million or whatever it is Hahn...

They are showing affinity for him giving him the start over Benintendi... which is ill-advised with the reverse splits and the fact Andrew as recently been one of their better hitters.

Both from Georgia or met at UGA and I remember Greg Walker and Scooter were co-coaches with ATL for some reason...hitting/infield.

Can SoxTalk approve that word anymore, or will you be pilloried? Inquiring minds want to know.

Change title to Guardians... by Sunday they should be up 2-3 games on Minnesota.

Don't look at Aaron Hicks' numbers for the Orioles...

Royals offering lots of discounts and package deals to entice frustrated fans https://www.yahoo.com/news/royals-selling-tickets-significantly-reduced-164046501.html

https://theathletic.com/2485969/2021/03/30/a-pitching-powerhouse-inside-how-the-mets-aim-to-revamp-pitching-development-with-their-own-lab/ This article is from spring training 2021, by the way... The entire White Sox rotation is imported from other teams. Sale Dunning and Bassitt are the names that stand out today...as Q was earlier with both the Yankees and Mets in the minors. Needless to say, we're pretty much the opposite of the Guardians and Twins on the pitching front.

The Mets are one of the oldest teams in baseball... the White Sox similarly weighed down by underperforming vets (roughly half the payroll), but the one thing they have in common is almost 100% imported pitching. I think it will be truly fascinating to see how the Mets, Sox, Padres and Mariners in particular will approach the deadline... same with the Reds Marlins Orioles Rangers Guardians/Twins on the other side of it. And if the White Sox are even aware of the existence of internal pitching labs across the sport today? "Top-end pitching is especially expensive, and the Mets have had to shop for nearly all of their starters. Of the nine pitchers who have made at least one start for the team this year, only three were originally drafted or signed by New York. “We haven't really developed that many pitchers, which is actually pretty shocking. I mean, we're certainly capable of doing it,” Cohen said. “We may not have had the right infrastructure in place. Like, we just opened up our pitching lab. Well, guess what? Other teams had pitching labs six, seven, eight years ago. And so, we’re behind.” Cohen knew this coming in, and so did savvy Mets fans. The plan all along was to transition a longstanding punchline of a franchise into a perpetual-motion machine able to add selectively from the free-agent market, akin to the Los Angeles Dodgers. The largess was supposed to buy the team early access to contention. If that doesn’t work, fans shouldn’t be worried because Steve Cohen wasted his money; they should be worried because the process of building a contender from scratch has just barely begun." https://sports.yahoo.com/the-narrative-arc-of-steve-cohens-new-york-mets-is-much-bigger-than-this-year-002948396.html

Kind of like they're one of the few teams in baseball that would never consider moving Yoan Moncada to another position.

Only if his OPS eventually falls below 500.

Imagine trading Verlander Scherzer and Alonso. Gotta get the best possible deal for Giolito... should be working on that right now. Announcers picking on Beckham for not making play in the booth lol.

Crazy the last perfect game was nearly 11 years ago...Felix Hernandez once looked like a surefire HoFer.

Crazy thing is that German was booed off mound last start and was in danger of losing his roration spot.

Trout at 23% and Arozarena 22% battling for All Star starting job. Crazy Rays' player doing so well in face of their home crowds.

Giolito's going to end up as second Sox pitcher under 30 this decade to get a $100+ million FA deal this offseason with another team. Great work, Rick Hahn??

For Jason or Beckham or the combination of both together...or Benetti deferring to Gordo's vast encyclopedia of baseball knowledge?

Giolito was leading AL in ERA for month of June coming into this one... Pitcher of the Month won't hurt his trade value.

Greg775 seconds your post.

Terribly inconsistent run production... a lot like last season.