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Now they only have to wipe out Lenyn Sosa and maybe Popeye Rodriguez (if he ever even gets to the big leagues) from the 2B replacement list as well...or start playing one or both of them at SS to replace Tim Anderson if C.Montgomery isn't up to the task (or hurt). As far as 2B goes, Termarr Johnson (Pirates, #4 in first round) and Madrigal are the only two 2B off the top of my head that were HIGH HIGH draft picks at that particular position, and Johnson isn't exactly lighting up the Florida State League yet. White Sox need no help for SS, lol...we already found Semien, Tatis and Anderson...which pretty much outdoes the career fWAR for all White Sox 3B since the inception of the ballclub as a charter AL member if you subtracted Robin Ventura.

Zavala is the perfect example. He's had multiple homer games a couple of times...but playing him too much exposes him for all the baseball world to see. Last year was clearly his high water mark. One thing they have to do in the second half after dumping Grandal is playing Perez 60% of the time and seeing how bad it gets...or if they have to go out into "bargain bin" free agency for a legit veteran defense-first catcher to at least work with Cease and Kopech next season, assuming they aren't traded, too.

Ultimately, the White Sox are better off financially pocketing insurance payments for Hendriks rather than him on the active roster for a dead team walking. Unfortunately, nobody has a recording of someone in the front office actually uttering words to that effect. And coming up next, MLB announcements about how more accountants/bean counters per organization will be embraced, while NASA rocket scientists and theoretical physicists will be pushed out. One thing's for certain, the Hendriks Comeback Story took a lot of the attention away from that 10 game losing streak and 14-29 mark or whatever the low point was this season...for a week or two, there was even talk of getting back into the AL Central Division race and scoreboard watching and being just 2 1/2 or 3 1/2 games back or whatever. Right now, the Sox are staring 6 1/2 game back and climbing towards 9-10 again. Then ALL the talk will shift towards which players are left standing on the roster after July 31st.

Good god, the 3B history is horrific for a franchise with a century plus of play.

You mean Leury and Lucas? Dust in the wind...

Better to have a career like Joe Posnanski, but Fegan's (at least for now) lacks the national name/brand recognition...

No matter what, he will always be a one dimensional player. Compare to the Francos and Corbin Carrolls of the majors, O'Neil Cruz, Elly De la Cruz, Tatis, Acuna, etc. You can pretty much stick those players anywhere on the field and they still have the ability to excel...but, no matter how much you refine Sheets' hitting skills, he's going to be severely limited.

Also, the KC Star, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Detroit Free Press and Cleveland Plain Dealer will always have baseball beat writers until they die off completely as media endeavors...that's the reverse advantage of Chicago market size. Those teams don't get swallowed up by the Cubs. The Royals will always have their unique identity, even if the Chiefs win every other Super Bowl.

KC draws much bigger local ratings... just out of a much smaller pot. Oakland definitely has to be worse... but then, last night even "negative attendance" with Sell the Team got a ton of attention and at least their ultimate landing spot is interesting for two separate markets. Detroit you can argue... but same story with KC, and their rebuild hasn't failed yet until Mize/Skubal/Manning are defined. And challenging to monetize any interest back in Cuba...maybe if they had a Spanish translation of Fegan's work as well?

Colas is going to turn 25 at the end of this season... he needs to start sinking or swimming in the second half at the major league level.

The Mariners/Rodriguez were one of the biggest stories in baseball last year. Acquiring AJ Pollock probably doomed them by association with the Sox lol.

https://sports.yahoo.com/donating-reverse-boycott-ticket-revenue-013521269.html A’s donating $800k in ticket revenues from Sell the Team! to two Oakland charities.

This was already out there 4-6 weeks ago....about baseball ops expecting complete or major cutbacks heading into the offseason.

6.94 ERA....almost back up to 7. Remember back in the day when anything over a 4.5-5.0 ERA was pretty much unacceptable for a starter?

Well, at least Freddie Freeman is on my fantasy league team, lol.

Benetti and Stone get a lot more time off than any other team's broadcasters...fits the overall team image of going at 75% to preserve one's health.

Anderson slipping backwards again. 608 OPS. This game is going to be a massacre unless Lynn can figure out a new strategy for the NL.

Guardians now down 4-0 and Gary Sanchez has 6 homers in 50 at-bats. Benintendi, Anderson and Grandal have about the same power production, combined...in at least 6-7X as many at-bats. 4-1. Josh Bell 6th homer.

Should be Fegan checking with his editors on whether ANY writer history could possibly have sustained interest in the White Sox...and how they would have managed that, exactly. If anything, he was too honest/objective, but not nearly as harsh or critical as he could have been. The White Sox probably were confused and thought he was being paid to be more of a cheerleader/PR spin doctor.

The problem is everyone wants a return like 2019-21 Anderson is on the block...or magically wishing the WBC or Dodgers would magically transform him back into an All-Star as if by magic. But that's definitely NOT the player we're trading...the Field of Dreams walkoff/video game cover dynamic version.

Maybe he'd pitch better with a new first name...more like Joe Ryan does for Minny.

One thing you NEVER hear is how Dolan is affecting their scouting/talent evaluation/international departments...at age 92, not in the way Reindsdorf is pilloried around here. Granted, they've gone through something like 4 full rebuilds in the two decades since those great mid to late 90's team that was selling out all those consecutive games at Jacobs..eventually made it to two more World Series, and their fans are actually starting to get out in big/ger numbers just like in Cincy. The most impressive thing is that they hadn't been more than 7 games under .500 dating all the way back to the 2016 WS team that lost to the Cubs. That's some consistency for such a small market club.

Diamondbacks were probably THE surprise story of the early season, along with the Rangers and Rays. That said, that franchise (along with the Rockies) has never gotten much attention with the Dodgers, Giants and now the Padres gobbling up most of the headlines...and certainly spending the most money. But imagine if Corbin Carroll switched places with Volpe, how much more national attention he'd be getting. It would be Benintendi 5-10X his spotlight with the Red Sox in his first 2-3 years.

Joe Espada was a big name back then...

Is that Dolan related to the Guardians' ownership group? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Dolan