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This season is somehow capable of making Oppenheimer look positive and perky/peppy.

Hopeless...

We had 2005, 2008 and 2021 beating the Twins. That's basically three years in two decades. Sigh.

Seems so long since Sheets and Leury starred against Houston.

Burger only has three sac flies in his entire career. Crazy. Book is hard and in/up on Burger apparently.

Got away with what amounted as a bunt instead of DP. Problem is bullpen can't hold any lead. Especially on the road.

Should have been pulled but got away with it, one more out to go.

Bummer of course will put out the fire. Only OAK and KC pens give up more free passes.

101 mph over the heart of the plate for next year's closer... Cease the only pitcher on the trade block this week to have a decent start. Middleton has become more thorns than roses recently.

Send that to the same marketing team that made the PPT presentations for Harper and Machado...they haven't been busy. Benintendi signing was one of the quietest this entire offseason.

Remillard in RF has to be one of the most insane roster examples...ofc he made an important error playing there.

If we keep eliminating negative fWAR contributors...either will make progress eventually, or simply have a roster of just a handful of 5-7 players remaining.

Well I would consider two front office guys at or near the GM level to be slightly more important...but the White Sox also had issues with Wally Backman as well. A lot of people around the game thought he was going to be an excellent manager. Then there's Daryl Boston and the Brian Ball allegations, which I'm pretty sure that lawsuit didn't go anywhere. Think of Wes Helms as more of a Braves' guy...that's where his roots lie, at least, like McEwing and the Cardinals.

Well....how many years consecutively has someone said how easy it was to find a 2B (compared to SS)? Well the White Sox somehow produced four All Stars at the much harder position...but none at second. Unfortunately only one of those players really helped the White Sox in Anderson.

Not the Mets? Let's not forget how much they're spending AND they had to fire two front office execs in a row for various Improprieties. And they lost to the Padres in the playoffs last year. And they have pretty much diametrically opposed media markets.

Except that would mean a team finishing #13-17 every season. We're not even approximating that standard...

On H-F's Dillon Head 3 days ago (Edited) In reply to wegotbrownagain Yep, they signed him for $2.8M, below the $3.17M "Suggested Retail Value" for 25th pick. That leaves $370,000 to spread around for lower picks. I'd have given up Clemson/college for $2.8M too. Of course, back then $2.8M had the purchasing power of almost $27M

Sheets as well. They were the one who pioneered the use of that pitch recognition machine...iPitch or iDrive or something very similar sounding. Connor McKnight on postgame came across like he was describing Dave Kingman-Pete Incaviglia/Burger in the postgame..."but he generates so much power and excitement when he hits the ball." WHEN being the key part of that sentence.

That's not Balta lol? There was another one who seemingly took the opposite er contrasting view...who had a lot of high school and college baseball experience...name having something to do with Ray Durham or Hawk's "love to watch Ray run" saying.

And Jake Peavy...

To be fair, most don't want Toussaint to be a starter in 2024 after his latest outing and Middleton and Kelly have lost significant (especially in Middleton's case) value compared to let's say 4-6 weeks ago. Reynaldo Lopez has actually been better than those two (whose value they also cratered compared to this past offseason)....seems they have also decided to make Bummer a 4-6 out guy with Banks struggling and Crochet possibly out the remainder of the season. (Who would take Bummer's contract besides the Sox if he was on the waiver wire? Also, pretty difficult to imagine any other organization getting this little out of Crochet and Kopech, for example.)

Giants suck lol. Except every other year when they work miracles with unknown rag tag groups of players.

So much for him starting next year, in all likelihood. Second shoulder soreness recurrence already this summer.

Mental makeup is so important...for every Konerko, there's 100 Gordon Beckham's and CQ's who never realize their potential. Many others never experience success or have that initial positive tear of weeks or months that mysteriously disappears when scouts later suggest adjustments that don't take or failure snowballs.

You know you're getting older when Tawny Kitaen has already passed away and you remember watching Chuck Finley pitch for the Quad City Angels in your teenage years lol.