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https://www.mlb.com/news/top-trade-candidates-and-fits-2024 Lists 3 best fits for all Batten down the hatches. Prepare for an Orioles Brewers and Dodgers fanbase invasion lol. No Robert. Wait for offseason or deadline next year I guess. Has to play his way off roster.

Schultz is almost a powerful finesse guy. Not a dominating FB tonight. Another single. Hogan almost a disaster in RF barely kept footing but caught ball. 1 out 55 pitches. Hasn't gone past 4 innings yet/still. Second K. Gonzalez with terrible range to his left...was trying to spin to first before he had the ball. Ruled a single. Tried smoke screen steal of second to draw the throw...Gonzo threw him out to Quero to get runner from third by a mile. Oops Michael Turner bat catcher Quero DH, announcer was wrong. Likely done around 60ish pitches. Schultz from this ONE game looked more like a 2/3 guy IMO. At least compared to Crochet.

2.25ish is fine. But he's going to get run on a ton with how long that delivery is...and fieldIng seems to be an issue with how he's falling off to the side so far. Great play from RF Schnell in foul territory...excellent range. 10 consecutive outs. Baldwin reaches out and pokes a single through 2B. Great bat control. 16/20 SB. Btw Elko has been on fire...7 hits so far in series. He singles on a soft liner to CF. 1st 2nd one out. Quero deep to RCF fence. 2 outs. Baldwin to 3rd for Veras. Veras in big slump except for two homers...soft grounder to second. ends threat.

Walk on 4 pitches to lead off second inning. Only 4th walk, but in 16 2/3 in AA. Schultz more like Andrew Miller than Big Unit. Stolen base...time to plate for Schultz is going to be a huge issue IMO. Out of the inning. Seymour through 3...no base runners from Barons. Sox have an Australian or NZ third baseman in Matthews. Yay for Intl scouting? Another bad throw from Baldwin. Sailed way high but runner not fast enough to get there. Schultz struggles to field comebacker but leaks through to Baldwin. At least Baldwin has athleticism to be a super utility guy ... comes in and makes running throw. Schultz hits a batter with two out on the heel. Burke can of corn to LCF.

Last Sox prep first rounders for Sox were Stumm or Honel 21 years ago before Schultz 2022. Birmingham looking for 9th consecutive playoff season. Wild pitch on sweeper to inside. Baldwin almost threw a ball past first base in the dirt, would have been 3-0. Weak arm for mlb SS. Don't love his mechanics/long arm delivery from short. Needs to be faster. Birmingham collapsing on offense this final week except for Veras homers. Only one win. Burke's swing is way too long. Blown away. No hits for Birmingham through 2.

Schultz working on adding a two seamer to go with 4 seamer. CH SL. Sweeping Slider second best pitch...some would argue best. Montgomery can also clinch with a win tonight. 96 on gun. Lead off double to lcf gap. Runner slow as heck not to get to 3rd with that weird cutout in the fence there. Baldwin at SS. Gonzalez 2B. First throw from SS 75-80% effort. CF let a sinking liner awkwardly fall in front of him. Too indecisive. Nearly bounced away for an error. 1-0 Biscuits Another single grounded through 3B SS gap. 1st and 2nd Ely out to visit Schultz.

Birmingham holding just a 1/2 game lead over Tennessee with two to go…TN at home, facing sub .500 MS. Schultz on the road makes tonight pretty close to a must win for advancing to the Sept playoffs.

Birmingham holding just a 1/2 game lead over Tennessee with two to go…TN at home, facing sub .500 MS. Schultz on the road makes tonight pretty close to a must win for advancing to the Sept playoffs.

Who would have ever thought that Korey Lee would be the best shot at putting up “average” fWAR numbers of projected 2025-26 Sox starters? 3B Montgomery…50/50 1B Vaughn….25% (definitely won’t commit to Alonso here at his age for 5-6 years) C K. Lee….50/50 LF Benintendi…5% CF Colas/Fletcher RF Colas/Fletcher DH Please not Sheets! SS Ja. Gonzalez 15% 2B Baldwin/Sosa 10%

That was supposed to be Leasure, Berroa and Iriarte. Easier said than done in reality.

Looked like they would be competitive but offense has collapsed this past week. And at least we didn’t sign a certain Cubs’ ex SS to one of the worst deals in the game, along with Kris Bryant.

Lee 34/54 in FG catcher’s rankings…that will rise with today’s stats. Basically league average is fine. Maldonado #54. Sosa just broke an 0/17 run…

Most predictable WestEddy like of all-time…holding you responsible. Btw, MLB Gameday had that last out as run/s scored before it was corrected, thought the jinx was on.

The only certainty is the bullpen will screw this up for Thorpe. Or the defense.

You’d be quite happy to get 2/3 pretty decent starts with non elite rookie pitchers. Can live with that…aa long as he’s not overwhelmed. Same with Cannon or Nastrini.

Where are Uribe and Crede when you need them? Cant believe I thought as retirement nears that I would actually be watching more WNBA than White Sox games. The really funny part is GamePass works a lot better for video than MLB right now…even though that league has perpetually bled red ink until now.

Oops…just assumed the out. Oh well.

Ofc benched Robert for Riley Greene today, lol. Then Robert cant be scored. Incredible.

Whipping boy with Moncada out and Grandal gone and Eloy injured.

Did Angel Reese create the game thread here?

Do the White Sox even have the ability to cut a one off $50 million check? Meanwhile, three AL Central teams would make the playoffs as of today’s standings. Four hitters in the lineup with over a 700 ops…DeJong not even benched.

With 9 teams separated by just a few games in the NL Wild Card race, think the incentive to separate oneself would have some definite value, but the majority of modern fanbases seem content to follow the KW theorem of "fixing things at the trade deadline" instead of spending money from the get-go. Red Sox have fallen into this zone of contention, much like the Cubs. On the periphery of being a really good club, but with numerous bad moments that can sink them. Neither ownership really willing to spend to win at all costs anyway, whether it's the Ricketts family or John Henry and his other various sporting concerns (EPL, etc.)

This goes back to the first groin injury Robert had a couple of seasons ago...or was it 3? At any rate, he was only playing at about 75-80%, at best, and very hesitant about going anywhere near the wall. Probably the same situation where they managed to bring him back 2-3 weeks too early and he never was 100% comfortable from a physical standpoint until the following season. Obviously, this particular season's injury wasn't QUITE as serious as that one, which was a complete tear.

https://www.nbcsportschicago.com/nba/chicago-bulls/bulls-news/is-michael-jordans-1987-88-dpoy-justified-new-report-claims-bulls-legends-stats-were-falsified/571002/ Former Sox scorekeeper Bob Rosenberg accused of padding Jordan’s defensive stats in 1980’s DPOY campaign….NOT shocking. Harrelson always brought up that guy in the booth.

Scoring one or two runs per game but having almost every single outing blown by the pen or just losing badly isn't quite as interesting. If you're going all out to be bad, be historically bad while you're at it.