Everything posted by caulfield12
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Boyer: 2025 Ticket Prices down 10% on average, Schriffen and Stone expected back
Almost had Wheeler’s wife if they’d promoted more Magnificent Mile shopping opportunities.
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Boyer: 2025 Ticket Prices down 10% on average, Schriffen and Stone expected back
UCL injury…forearm tightness reported.
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West Coast White Sox: The Seattle Mariners and their 2024 season.
Well, except hip/trendy location, stadium, Ichirolls and the storied connection to Japanese culture through Nintendo and a plethora of Japanese players, mostly relievers.
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MLB Pipeline comments...
Raw high school athletes usually do take 4-5 years. The rule of thumb for top flight collegians 3-4 years. White Sox cut those numbers in half, usually that works to their detriment.
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2024 MLB News not AL Central related
Well, that works effectively for stock picking. See the book Latticework about value investing philosophical and humanities-interconnected foundations, by Robert Hagstrom. Focuses largely on Buffet, BRK and Oakmark Funds.
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MLB Pipeline comments...
The Guardians do exactly the same thing if you look at their Top 30 typically. With that huge pitching overemphasis as well. Just not getting many hitters though, but lots of smooth fielding punch and judy types after pulling Gimenez from the Mets. Sox are very high on new draftee SS Bonemer, let’s wait and see if he has true game or not.
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2024 MLB News not AL Central related
Yet another former Padres’ SS, along with CJ Abrams and pretty much their entire big league roster starting out at SS as their original position. Machado Kim Merrill Cronenworth Arraez (2B too), Tatis Profar Solano De Vries certainly fits the pattern.
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MLB considering 6IP minimum for starters
Greg would absolutely love this, maybe push it to 7. Anti Rays Rule.
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Sox planning more playing time for Vargas/Fletcher
Feeder system for the Cards. Fedde not exactly leading them to the WC so far, though.
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MLB Pipeline comments...
Not counting on it. Baldwin really looks like 2B or LF/3B type, Chris Taylor Lite.
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MLB Pipeline comments...
The problem is the rest of the AL Central is 3-6…except KC down at 25. And Cags higher than Smith. Wetherholt super highly regarded as well for StL.
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August 14 Game Thread, White Sox vs Yankees
Or our old friend Jimmy Cordero…heck even Miguel Cleto would dominate with a certain someone from Rutherford Frazier Robertson deal all these years ago now. Would even take former MIL first rounder who almost never won a game as a starter but had decent raw stuff. Not Medeiros, the other one.
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August 14 Game Thread, White Sox vs Yankees
But look how much was spent. Most expensive pens in MLB history when Hendriks and Kimbrel together…Bummer Kelly Graveman etc.
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August 14 Game Thread, White Sox vs Yankees
Time to look at Iriarte but they will slow walk it to next May…
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Jake Burger trade
See Carlos Lee aka El Caballo and especially vs. Cubs
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Boyer: 2025 Ticket Prices down 10% on average, Schriffen and Stone expected back
https://sports.yahoo.com/chicago-white-sox-season-ticket-013200539.html Too little too late.
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2025 Old Sock Drawer
Ofc Tim Hill has an ERA about half his putrid Sox numbers… 2.87 with the typically competitive Yankees. Fedde lost again, gave up 4 runs in 6 for StL.
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Robert
Because they completely fucked up the Crochet situation to the point where he or his agent felt no choice was left but to leak to the media…do we really believe anyone would consciously choose to be stuck on the worst team in MLB history if they felt negotiations hadn’t reached an impasse??
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Robert
How do you know they’ve done a single thing? We are all making assumptions now until how the situation reached this point is clarified. Schiffren is too consumed by his own personal grudges and media wars to not be totally oblivious at this point. At least Benetti had the best interests of the organization and players at heart. And I wouldn't be shocked at all if Frank Thomas or Guillen said something before an actual member of the paid organization.
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2025 Old Sock Drawer
Burger at .783, has reached base three times tonight. 46th in MLB, or the 1 1/2 ranked offensive player on average across thirty teams, so likely would be the second best hitter on any random team in baseball..
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Robert
Nowhere did i write THAT. Twisting words again. I said he would have slowly noticed something was obviously quite wrong by his body language and run it up the chain. Remember Montoyo had no memorable interaction with Robert. Abreu and Grandal are long gone. Moncada might as well be on Mars at this point. Robert and Vargas both seem completely lost/isolated. That much is pretty clear. This is almost Zach Greinke land. Hahn Grifol and Getz all don’t seem like they are very hands on types like a Joe Maddon or Ron Washington and have their fingers on the pulse of the org. The hitting coaches have never come close to reaching Bannister/Katz levels of credibility. Clearly the guy was struggling and everyone just left him alone. Benetti at least has a high enough EQ to notice that and bring it to the attention of the sports psychologist or someone like Mike Gellinger. Heck, I worked in minor league baseball and spent one month with Jose Guillen driving him around everywhere and looking after him after a quite serious knife drawing incident incident in Bradenton…because I spoke Spanish. My friend had to similarly babysit Sean Kemp with the Sonics, just basically keep him out of trouble. At any rate, I would still give Benetti a better shot at fixing Robert than Hahn or Getz.
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Robert
https://www.thescore.com/news/3053978 Embarrassing for the organization. Sigh. We can’t even find ONE 700 hitter, let alone 805 career with GG caliber defense. Where were the hitting coaches and Grifol all season long? Jason Benetti would have brought this situation to someone on the coaching staff even. Or Darrin Jackson. And just consider all the rostered OPS numbers lower than Robert’s in the mid 600s.
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2025 Old Sock Drawer
This gets a mention due to Kim Ng and Burger/Anderson by extension, haha. “According to a report from ESPN's Alden González, the Marlins made a sweeping series of firings on Monday across their front office and scouting department. At least seven front office executives and 10 scouts were let go in the process. "Bendix was widely expected to eventually make more of his own hirings, but people throughout the industry were stunned by the breadth of changes made with seven weeks still remaining in the regular season," González said. All of the employees confirmed to be fired were hired under previous Marlins regimes, namely former top executives Derek Jeter and Kim Ng. https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/marlins-make-stunning-changes-firing-multiple-front-office-execs-and-scouts/f2502adcd94781e834fe02a8#:~:text=According to a report from,let go in the process. Among those let go were assistant general manager Oz Ocampo, widely known for his international scouting success with the Houston Astros, and international scouting director Roman Ocumarez. González also reported that manager Skip Schumaker, who won the NL Manager of the Year award in 2023, is "widely expected" to become a free agent at the end of this season. That likely means a sweeping overhaul of the coaching staff is coming as well. The Marlins have been through constant turmoil over the past two decades. Bendix has sold himself as the exec who can finally bring sustainability to an erratic franchise. Only time will tell if moves like these were necessary to bring that sustainability to fruition.”
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Jake Burger trade
https://www.milb.com/player/canaan-smith-njigba-675986 25 is a one year improvement at least, lol. Forget about Fletcher and DeLoach, might as well try someone new for now. Gives the White Sox Flag Football team some street cred.
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2025 Old Sock Drawer
3 2 3 3 1 1 0 .235 .727 Paul DeJong with his 20th homer and running away with the OPS lead over former Sox teammates. Even the small font can’t shrink his dongs. Swinging the balance of the AL WC race today, along with Witt and Ragans.