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Benintendi on pace for a crisp 0.8 fWAR.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/attendance White Sox have surged to 21st in attendance simply by not playing at home. Four AL Central teams lined up within 500 fans per night at #21-24 and then the hapless Royals at #27. Yikes.

Which is why they are best positioned to win 85-88 games and take the divisuon ultimately...that statistic will almost always return to mean.

If you go all the way back to Roberto Hernandez and Thigpen, the Sox have always excelled when they developed their own closers or found them on the cheap outside the organization. Koch Robertson and Hendriks are the three counter examples here. Arguably, the 2020 team was better off with the relatively cheap Colome... but the opportunity cost was Narvaez and that eventually led to overpaying for another aging veteran in Grandal. (Ofc, Zack Collins never developing as a #1 catcher was an equally egregious blunder.)

Not sure this year's team was ever highly rated... but your overall point remains perfectly valid.

Thought things in Cincy Oakland and KC were bad, but this is something else for a once-proud charter franchise of the American League.

uh oh

A's will be just two games behind the Sox after tonight. Royals already doing their best out in the desert to fall to 5-18...

Tigers are improving though... after a really rough start.

Celtics did the same thing back in 80s... more for novelty's sake.

Yoshida 3/3 with a walk. Up to .265 now.

He easily could have spread the Benintendi money around like the Cubs wisely did.

Might as well give Colas another 4-6 weeks because he won't learn a thing in Charlotte.

Best Hahn trade ever?

Jays' fans demaning refunds due to poor quality of White Sox as a legit opponent...

Sosa and Romy have to go to AAA.

Romano questioning MLB that he's really awarded a save here facing this enfeebled opposition..?

Tigers threatening to go two up on the Sox...

Resignation time lol? TA7 as player/manager like Kessinger? TV ratings would go up at least.

Money was spent...but on Grandal Lynn Keuchel Benintendi and the bullpen, obviously Liam loss is hurting everyone. Meanwhile will keep shedding younger players like TA Giolito Cease Kopech etc. Just like Rodon, too... although wouldn't be much better off with him around now.

Scooter McGavin?

That "but we're only X number of games out" will be the constant broadcasting refrain for the next 2-3 weeks or so.

Could use Strider about right now... no hitter alert.

It has never been THIS hopeless though... not even the worst days of Ventura carrying water to protect the front office and JR from criticism.

The local media will have a field day in today's political environment showing that video of Beckham scratching GAY into the infield dirt for Getz.