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He's fine as the 6th or 7th best player on a big market team that can easily afford that contract. While it's not exactly crippling... you keep adding all these guy making $10-18 million per season that aren't even 2-3 fWAR contributors and it's a total disaster with no farm system capable of producing the same value at league minimum like CLE.

Well yeah...implicitly it was the author's suggestion or interpretation of Tim's place. The problem is that article was written in such a vacuum...it was as if he was still one of the best players in baseball and the last twelve months didn't even exist. Or that Tim will only give in depth interviews to national publications about cultural and racial issues but nothing to do with how he's playing that sport that made him famous. The fact he's trying to act like Tatis stole his act with bat flips... when Fernando's the one most honest and true to himself as a player, still having fun by embracing the role of a villain or anti hero. The worst thing is a player not even being entertaining to watch anymore.

What are they even trying to get out of Lopez at this point? Kelly and Graveman and Middleton should be the ones they're showcasing for trades. Need to give Santos more opportunities to see what he can be for 2024. Granted, Lopez was so good last year until they decided to use that high leverage success and turn it in closing... that works about 1/4th or 1/3rd of the time at best.

You're forgetting... two of the biggest superstars in the world and Rendon.

Putting Sheets out in RF was idiotic too. Remillard a bigger threat.

To lead to a sell off?

Derek Jeter Grandal most assuredly is not.

Grandal flipping that ball back towards home plate is ten times worse than Robert not moving when ball went over his head lol.

Katz is like the Korean "white van/truck of death" that invariably shows up in a K drama when a character is about to be killed off.

Well...could we please just send Lopez and Bummer to the Rays so they can be fixed, too?

This feels familiar...

Crazy Ohtani will have more homers against Sox than AL West foes lol.

I would rather eat Japanese lol.

Can just hear Hawk making a frustrated sound in the booth with that walk... Putting Bummer in with runners on always works out so well lol.

Basically, I can't wait until the rebuild is declared officially dead.

Trout 5/9 with homer against Lopez... crazy nine years since last walk off homer.

Acuna Jr. back to being the best player in baseball.

Ward over Moniak in the OF a strange decision. Injured? Ofc a double play ball before Robert could even get in scoring position.

White Sox have no clue how to advance runners and play small ball in order to manufacture runs. Hence all the solo homers when three run homers are needed.

Sheets into RF as a defensive replacement lol.

Fwiw, Ahmed Rosario was the #1 FA to be in. this year's SS class... and that's just an embarrassing situation compared to the last couple of FA classes at that position. Also goes to show the importance of locking in younger players at middle infield positions like the Guardians Braves Reds etc., have done or are doing. CLE won't even blink when they let Rosario go after this year. White Sox produced four All Stars and multiple MVPs at that position if you count Escobar Semien Tatis and nothing almost nothing left to extract value from with all those in house assets.

Sorry, meant Anderson Abreu and Bryant. Andrus was just a reference point for how far Bryant and the Rockies have fallen off.

Hahn and KW are stealth geniuses... responsible for 3 of Top 12 fWAR's in the game. Unfortunately, only Robert for the White Sox.

202nd in fWAR out of 215 players with 200+ plate appearances... Along with Abreu at the bottom, you have Andrus at 188 and Kris Bryant at 196 for comparison. Pretty incredible falls for those three former stars.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/tim-anderson-tired-being-most-120000877.html