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Ozzie? Swisher?

Unfortunately he has the exact same attitude as Angelos in Baltimore. Just not the required vision for transforming the entire area like is currently the trend across numerous ballpark complexes in MLB. Like pairing it with the Star Wars Museum/Theme Park that Melody Hobson envisioned going all the way back to 2016...

Welcome to the Julio Rodriguez Show again, for 2023 this time...

Was high risk from the very beginning...apparently lucking out on Chris Sale for so many years didn't change the draft (and trading) calculus on starting pitching. Well maybe it has...taking pitchers who are already hurt or rehabbing right and left yet another (new) attempted version of Moneyball. Odds are that it has to pay off eventually...at least once.

Don't forget the Burdi pick expecting more "in current draft year" bullpen help...

This summarizes it all pretty succinctly... https://www.southsidesox.com/2023/8/6/23821413/chicago-white-sox-find-themselves-at-crossroads

Any East Coast or Miami Burger Connections? For Burger/s, the best we can do is Imo's Pizza from St. Louis or Ted Drew's Frozen Custards and Concretes.

Hypoallergenic?

Only one thing in common. Expensive post secondary educations. Epstein has two WS runs (multiple retools) and can take credit for a number of the positive/popular innovations from the Commissioner's Office impacting baseball this year.

He did win the 2022 Intl Scout of the Year Award or whatever. https://www.soxon35th.com/marco-paddy-named-2022-international-scout-of-the-year/ And some of those moves looked much better years ago. If you include Tatis Jr. and almost getting Juan Soto (or was it Vladdy Jr.?) it's pretty remarkable for just one decade. No Yogurt Sanchez lol? And Micker Adolfo was prominently featured haha. Finally, can anyone realistically blame Paddy more than Hahn/JR for our having to send away international bonus pool money so many times....? And half the time he's being directed to sign "Sox relatives" like Elijah Tatis, Juan Uribe Jr., Franklyn Reyes and a cousin of Vladimir Guerrero to go along with Yoelkis Cespedes' brother, etc. Oct. 2023 – 1B Jose Abreu (six years, $68 million). May 2017 – OF Luis Robert ($26 million bonus). Jan. 2021 – OF Yoelqui Cespedes ($2.05 million bonus). Feb. 2021 – RHP Norge Vera ($1.5 million bonus) Jan. 2022 – OFs Oscar Colas ($2.7 million bonus) and Erick Hernandez ($1 million bonus).

Grifol can much more easily be fired into the sun after just one season. "Well, he's OUR Russian moon landing craft."

The Yankees right away decided their max was four years. Bottom 10 in OAA and Bottom 10 or worse in slugging. Not a great combo for LF. Slugging Leaders 129-130-131. .352 Benintendi, McNeil, McKinstry 132 Do Smith 133.Jose Abreu 134.K.Hernandez 135. Baez 136. Esteury Ruiz 137. Myles Straw 138. Alex Call 139. Tim Anderson .284 Congrats Rick Hahn...Sox have connections to 4 of the 11 lowest sluggers in baseball playing 81 home games at one of the most homer friendly stadiums in the sport. And some now want to take on the horrific Baez deal lol. Straw and Ruiz at least can run and defend and/or relatively cheap. Addotional congrats for not extending Abreu and moving on from Alex Call I guess?

If you went to Michigan or Northwestern, you've got a good shot at getting the consulting contract.

A bit like the Vatican undertaking the same series of internal measures over the last 10-15 years...policing themselves.

Sell high maybe based on his value with the CarShield 2020 Collegiate League in July/August of that year in O'Fallon, Illinois.

No way you want to put Eder into the pressure cooker of the AFL unless he's 100%... That's just putting him under more scrutiny and inviting more comparisons with Burger. Just sent him to AZ or maybe Winter Ball if he's up for it.

That's probably because Ron looks like Booger Presley from Revenge of the Nerds.

Deciding what to do with Robert and Cease are the primary considerations at this point. Hard to be optimistic when the Twins made one of the worst FA moves in recent memory (Carlos Correa) and they're still likely to end up in first place. Hard to be optimistic when the Guardians have hung in there for most of the season down 2-3 of their best/veteran pitchers (and traded Civale ostensibly for a 2024 piece)...yet they still have one of the top-rated farm systems and almost everything has gone wrong with their bullpen and "clutch hitting" that possibly could compared to 2022. And even the Tigers are on an upward track...heck, Witt Jr. has looked like one of the best young players in baseball in KC, their equivalent of Luis Robert, Jr. (At any rate, hat's the sign of a really strong organization...look at how many first rounders the 49ers have lost, mostly due to the Lance acquisition, and they've still managed to work around all those hits to their potential talent pool. In the same way, the Twins' minor league system has covered for the falloff from Correa, especially on the pitching side.)

You would think the Sox might be better off choosing a pitcher who hadn't just experienced a TJS...since we've already struggled developing pitchers in the most pristine of circumstances. All we have to do is look at the divergent results between Kopech and Cease post surgery. What's the approximate percentage of pitchers who don't make it back to previous form, somewhere between 30-35%??? 40%??? That said, Clevinger has gone through 2 TJS and that used to almost be considered a "death sentence" in terms of the careers of starting pitchers.

Knowing the Sox, they'll probably use it to uproot anyone who is honest enough to question the ruling cabal...in Keynan Middleton whistleblower fashion.

Baghdad Bob in charge of this one?

https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/mlb/miami-marlins/article278218297.html “He's evolving as a player,” said assistant hitting coach Chris Johnson. “He knows his strengths. We call it tunneling, he's trying to work on his tunneling. Really focusing on one side of the plate or the other, or wherever he's attacking that certain day. Maybe we could use Chris Johnson at the big league level since Burger's the only hitter other than Robert to progress the last two seasons? Maybe Hostetler wasn't as bad as claimed? "But come on, this? Where Burger, having started the season in Triple A for the third-straight year, is off to the best start of any hitter on the team? Where every fan conversation centers around making sure he’s in the lineup (and ideally, higher than eighth), and the team is preparing offensive centerpiece Eloy Jiménez to play more right field to accommodate him? Who exactly expected this right now? Two hitless games in the past two days have dropped the 27-year-old Burger all the way to .271/.330/.667; a 166 wRC+, or 66 percent more run creation than the league-average hitter. It’s the best wRC+ of any MLB third baseman with over 100 plate appearances. “To watch what he’s doing on the field, to say that I don’t get emotional and choked up about it is a lie,” said Hostetler, now a special assistant to the general manager focused on pro scouting. “It’s happened multiple times. I’ve been at a game where I’ve had our game on the radio and on my phone I’m listening to it, and he hits a home run and I let out a big yell, and a group of scouts are chuckling at me.” “Sometimes I sit back and I’m like, ‘Whoa, this is really cool.'” Burger said. “I could write a whole book about how cool it is. I think that’s why I feel a little more comfortable because of what I went through and how hard that path was. If I can conquer that, then it makes everything a little easier." https://theathletic.com/4539081/2023/05/23/white-sox-jake-burger-breakout/

https://sports.yahoo.com/reds-call-up-top-prospect-noelvi-marte-as-team-battles-for-playoff-spot-down-the-stretch-165150045.html

Also, five teams within one game for the final 2 NL Wild Card spots…

Every pitcher for the Sox this series has given up at least 1 or 2 runs (or more)… Yikes.