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6. The best hitter in baseball is … Brent Rooker? Last November, the Royals -- a team that isn’t exactly overflowing with hitters -- waived Rooker, and the A’s picked him up, almost on a whim. The guy who had a total of 10 homers in three seasons for three teams was inserted into the A’s starting lineup, and he has exploded, hitting 10 homers already this year and leading the Majors in both slugging and OPS. He’s coming by it honestly too, with a batting eye that has resulted in a .424 OBP, just one point behind AL leader Matt Chapman. There isn’t a lot going right in Oakland right now, but Rooker, a 28-year-old journeyman, is perhaps the most out-of-nowhere happy story in the sport at this moment. MLB.com

Outlier stats usually come with some regression lights flashing, but Lynn for the most part has earned this disastrous line. His expected ERA off batted-ball data is 5.45, which doesn't play in any format. He's allowing the worst hard-hit rate of his career. Also, his velocity is moving in the wrong direction; his average fastball is 92 mph, down from 92.7 and 93.5 the two previous seasons. When a pitcher struggles, you'll hear common explanations. It's mechanical, they might say. We just need to make a few tweaks. That's a standard refrain. That can be true. Perhaps the White Sox can fix Lynn. Maybe Lynn can fix himself. But when does a bad start become a bad season? And what about Lynn's 2022 season comforted you? Bottom line, the guy has made 29 starts since the beginning of last year, and they add up to a 4.93 ERA and 1.26 WHIP. I'm surprised he's still rostered in almost a quarter of Yahoo leagues. Do what you need to do. Just remember this: So often in life (and in fantasy baseball), being afraid to make a mistake is the mistake. If you see something on the wire that catches your interest, you have my sign-off to cut Lynn. Yahoo fantasy sports

Grandal 18th out of 27 in fWAR at catcher Vaughn 23/41 Andrus 29/35 Anderson 23/33 Burger 12/40 Colas 45/49 Robert 8/40 Benintendi 35/47 Jimenez 24/43 Just Burger and Robert. Sosa would make most of the 2007 offense look good.

Payroll down to #12 from #7. Inertia. Robert is still a well above average defender in CF. How many Sox position players are even at least league average or above at this point, overall? Vaughn has decent counting numbers, but isn't a very good defender so far early into his 1B career.

Three percent still happy with the job Hahn is doing. https://www.sportsmockery.com/chicago-white-sox/is-rick-hahns-job-safe-white-sox-fans-sure-hope-not/

Somewhere between $1.9-2.2 billion...and trending in the wrong direction.

That's more like Pete Alonso. Not sure if he will ever come close to that profile. The number of guys who average 35-40 bombs per season reliably can be counted on less than two hands across all positions.

All the imported relievers... only concerned with pure stuff and not command/control. Owens Fields Wasserman.

Guardians already onto their 8th and 9th starting pitcher. Twins just lost Mahle for the season, but much better minor league depth.

White Sox 8 1/2 GB and fourth place Yankees 9 1/2 GB and fifth place That's definitely winning to JR.

Williams at this stage in his life and marriage isn't going to have the energy to accomplish that...he's already pretty much on the outside looking in and reflecting back. KW more than anyone knows from watching Hahn's experience that the money for the "finishing pieces" is not going to be there once he gets back up into the $170-200 million payroll range. He also knows the ONLY time the White Sox truly succeeded in 2005 requiring hit nearly every of a series of about 8-10 moves right on the nose...as well as the three players he dumped to free up all that payroll space to reallocate it. The Sox over the last decade have been fortunate to see success with roughly 25-30% of their moves. He would have to double or triple that ratio, without Eaton/Sale/Q and the NY Yankees trade to jump start another rebuild. Unless he is willing to trade Robert and/or Cease, Tim Anderson or Giolito would be worth the equivalent of that deal Hahn made with NY that went so poorly in terms of the acquired prospects panning out.

The irony there is that both Dunning and Cease have actually done pretty well since that point in time, but the front office, fans and Renteria had no confidence in either...and then Renteria was 6 months too early having confidence in Carlos Rodon in a key relief role.

Assistant GM's normally should know more about talent evaluation and scouting. That's apparently not a strength of either Haber or Hahn, who are (supposedly) good at negotiating advantageous contracts but not so much with this second/third wave generation of players like Giolito, Cease, Kopech, Vaughn, etc. (Or JR simply refuses to give ANY pitcher more than three years from now based upon the Danks Experience.) KW and Paddy are the best talent judges in the organization now...along with Shirley. Not sure about pro/advance scouting, to be honest.

Didn't exactly work well for Ventura after his 2012 rookie campaign. Everyone got WAY too comfortable in that clubhouse. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1164232-baseballs-top-8-all-time-managers-who-never-played-in-the-majors

Swing from 4 1/2 back had they won on Sunday against Minny to 8 1/2 games back in less than a week. Jinx Thread official. And what did Harrelson always say about the 54 game/first week of June mark? Two weeks away now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/07/23/chris-sale-cut-up-all-of-the-white-sox-throwback-jerseys-because-he-didnt-like-wearing-it/ 1976 No Lamar Johnson/Mike Squires collars or shorts.

Except in the official season standings where they are still one game up on KC.

Backup QB syndrome. Loved? They were just happy for TLR to be gone. It would be the same reaction if Getz replaced Hahn. Except Grifol and the team have even turned out much worse than the expectations of even the most pessimistic fans. Renteria at least had the team united and playing with passion... certainly they mostly played hard and didn't quit on him.

And Sale on the uncomfortable 1983 throwback jerseys lol. Ventura must be enjoying life again away from this tire fire.

Josh D, that you?

He's going to have to have one of those fake casts and tell everyone he broke his hand in frustration from pounding a table or filing cabinet to elicit some sympathy.

Twins' finale will go down as their last best shot to get back into it. Now they're really dead. Four blown opportunities doesn't go unpunished in big leagues.

Have to start letting Graveman Kelly and occasionally Santos and Middleton take those shots. Doesn't matter with Hendriks coming back soon I guess.

Took KC nearly 25% of season for first walk off win. Now just one game back of Sox.

You can see that KC is going to at least keep battling and improving... seem to have good chemistry. Bunch of young players out to prove themselves and take advantage of opportunities.