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Just the first half...they usually play the 2nd half champions at the end, at least that used to be the way it worked. Can't remember if the Southern League also had it broken down into 2 divisions or not.

Lopez Vaughn Sosa all flirting with the 600 OPS mark now. Fedde ERA settles in at 3.27.

Cue Scott Merkin article about all the positive changes in Oscar's game during his purgatory "time for self-reflection."

We tried to do this with Madrigal every time and the numbers at the end never did arrive as projected...

Grifol really needs to be strategic about the bullpen because he's probably going to have to cover 4 full innings based on Fedde's current pitch count. Line up your four best relievers that can pitch tonight. 67 right now. Maybe you get two more, but that first couple of innings was really taxing. So relievers to cover 3 innings works a lot better obviously.

Not going to be able to pull off that Houdini Act every inning.

Get the bullpen up...just in case. Could be a really elevated two inning pitch count.

Keuchel was the very last remaining of the so-called "upper tier" FA pitchers and hadn't pitched all that great with the Braves in an abbreviated season if I remember correctly...

Who came up with those 3 adjectives? Hopefully Merkin/Getz and not anyone associated with MLB.

No way that's happening. Merrill was a Top 15 MiLB SS prospect who is one of the youngest players in baseball basically holding his own at a totally new position which is one of the three toughest to play in the sport. They basically ran Pham out of town and will have no interest in him or Clevinger again.

Even that’s too exciting. More like monsoon rains for months.

https://www.milb.com/player/leodalis-de-vries-815888 17 year old at that level is very aggressive 666 OPS not a surprise at all.

Hopefully Adam Mazur (#5 prospect) isn’t auditioning for a trade tonight. They need a LH SP badly, but I’m not sure who they could offer in a trade for Crochet. Any one of Salas, Snelling, Lesko and De Vries would be shockingly foolish. And personally I’d rather they not part with Jay Beshears, who’s looking like a breakout power prospect. Perhaps a package that includes 2 or 3 of Graham Pauley, Ryan Bergert, Randy Vasquez (SP, Soto trade) and one of the young catchers Valenzuela or Gonzalez gets it done? 1 Reply Simm 7 hours ago I don’t think that will get it done. gaslampball.com

https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/chicago-sports-network-to-launch-in-october-2024 Chicago Sports Network to launch as new home for White Sox, Blackhawks & Bulls June 3rd, 2024 CHICAGO -- The Chicago Sports Network, CHSN, will launch in October across multiple platforms with plans to deliver the Chicago Blackhawks, Bulls and White Sox games to the widest audience possible. CHSN will deliver more than 300 live Blackhawks, Bulls and Sox games annually, along with first-class pre-and-post game coverage, and 24/7 multisport programming. CHSN will broadcast from highly visible production studios located in both Chicago’s United Center and Guaranteed Rate Field. About the most generic-sounding name humanly possible.

See KW. See Hahn. See KW Jr. See Grifol. See Haber.

See 2003/2007

And whatever happens to Crochet that's NOT a trade...and hopefully doesn't result in a season-ending injury from pushing him too hard/too far.

Burger .228/591 Anderson .193/437

Was Schiffren acting all cocky again with the early lead?

If they're doomed to continue this losing streak...this is a pretty spectacular way to prolong it.

Spoke too soon...you're forgetting the gas can that the majority of the Sox bullpen is.

Well, so much for the secure lead. No idea what they see/saw in Anderson.

Going to have to monitor Flexen a bit more carefully after that delay...

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mccarja02.shtml McCarthy, the door not chosen by Getz, at least with a positive bWAR and OPS...

Make sure to keep Moises Alou away from that...