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The ONLY thing he can really tout at this point is Crochet, Smith, Schultz and the possibility of Taylor's greatness emerging to form a monster/once a decade pitching foundation. That will last until Crochet is inevitably traded and someone else in the rotation gets hurt. Cannon and Martin's "success" won't satisfy anyone. Certainly not the marketing department. Thorpe is iffy at best...and Vargas to tout???? Yikes. Yikes. Yikes. Meanwhile Dylan Cease was part of a key shutout of the Giants in a "must win" game down the stretch run against Brandon Webb.

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb-team-helmets-to-feature-ads-during-postseason-through-2027-122445732.html White Sox zeroing in on worst record ever....story #2, using Reinsdorf's statement verbatim so far but not sure how long than can/will last as the record gets closer and closer.

Burger nearing Triple Crown numbers...😀

Okay hardly paid attention to anything but CHA starting pitching and Montgomery's struggles.

Declan Cronin was definitely one. Cubs' lefty Horn? Justin Anderson, Joe Barlow, Jake Cousins, Chad Kuhl and Jake Woodford; 98% sure 3 of those guys caught on with other teams. Duke Ellis and Romy. Erick Hernandez will probably be an All Star.

Most disappointing list of AFL position prospects since.... the very beginning itself of the AFL?

Unfortunately the best leader of all those vets was arguably Pillar...just not for the White Sox.

https://www.baseball-almanac.com/managers/manager_losses_top_100.shtml Look at all the Hall of Famers on that list. Bochy Mauch Baker Piniella Showalter Francona....at least 4 if not 5 more that aren't in yet.

And because Lee was just as bad as 2025 Maldonado and Vargas offensively last year.

https://www.thebaseballcube.com/content/player/216308/ .889 career ops in MiLB is broken

Benintendi and Robert 661 and 660 ops...all u need to know. Pham and DeBong the only two over 700 while Sox this year. Beckham career 667 Getz a hefty 616

The difference is over Fedde, yes? Hard to call that wasted, based on his 2024 Sox fWAR and bWAR. Wasted asset, of course, it certainly looks that way right now.

Beane was also a top draft pick who was once considered the best prep player in the country. Getz always a complementary type of player who didn't stand out in any way.

Needs an injection of confidence.

Even Gordon Beckham was at .667 ops for his career.

Or the Fukushima cleanup/containment ongoing nearly a decade later. Chernobyl still the closer parallel though. Soviet bureaucrats replaced by the usual front office favorites.

Obviously the 2022-23 Vargas....you simply don't become a Top 70ish prospect without some scouting positives on your side. Past tense. See Oscar Colas as well.

Except Moreno is the one who okayed the Rendon worst contract in baseball. Drury is right there with a sub 500 ops. Adell never developed...and lots of pitching setbacks as well other than Tyler Anderson. Minasian has to try to trade Trout when he has only been healthy for roughly 1 1/2 of the past 4 seasons.

Last year we supposedly got rid of all the team "cancers" except for Moncada and Robert...Jimenez now out as well. So what's the excuse this time? Getz is going to deservedly face more arrows headed his way as he runs out of excuses and justifications for the lack of positional talent.

The two arguments there are the injury issue with the Twins' kid and the undermanned Sox scouting department overvaluing Vargas based on past versus current year reports on his offense and defense. Or one can argue that Getz simply wouldn't trade with divisional rival without an overpay of a Top 3/current Top 50 MiLB prospect guy in their system. That clearly went awry...and the bloom is off the Brooks Lee rose a bit, but still 100x a better prospect at this moment in time than Vargas, who looks more like DAngelo Jimenez for the time being.

Why? Why? Why?

Asking for those three guys was always going to be a no go. Twins excel at finding bargain veteran pitching.

https://sports.yahoo.com/los-angeles-angels-2024-offseason-preview-as-the-rebuild-continues-what-should-the-angels-do-about-mike-trout-023547882.html Even the Angels already have three young and now proven position players to build around...Sox will be at zero with Robert trade.

https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/mariners/how-mariners-andres-munoz-and-clevelands-emmanuel-clase-became-baseball-brothers/ Well, at least half Central-related, with Clase. One of the reasons that Preller might get fired (if he misses out on the Wild Card) is these two relievers are better than Suarez (certainly in recent days), but Clase is pretty much unarguably the best closer in baseball today.

Have a feeling the White Sox losing three in a row to San Diego (or knocking them out of the WC race, conversely) is going to be a huge story with how hot the Mets are right now (went from being no-hit to a late innings 6 run rally in the 8th/9th) and how close those four WC teams are likely to be in another week... There's pretty much no avoiding it. The rest of their games aren't going to have any bearing on the post season from here on out. There's just going to be NO AVOIDING the national media crush over this issue, or issuing some kind of public statement.