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Kenny Williams CF/3B Kurt Brown for not being Barry Bonds

Yet that's the rotaton for the team with the second lowest ERA in the NL. What is it for fWAR (team wise) after tonight? The White Sox bullpen has been loads of awful and just happens to be the most expensive pen in the history of the sport. It's 3.2 for the White Sox and 6.4-6.6 for SD depending on where the numbers land from another shutout.

Let's summarize it quite simply (outside the horrific hitting with RISP and BA) 24/60 games the Padres have scored 1 or 0 runs. That's second worst in the majors to the A's, 32 times. 2-22 record in those games Team ERA is actually 2nd in the NL...and other than Tim Hill (LHR) and Hader having 3 blown saves, they've been surprisingly resilient. In the end, they're going to sink or swim based on their four stars performing up to their contracts. It's as simple as that. Also 21 sellouts already...about to beat club record within the next homestand or two...and that's with one of the most disappointing teams in baseball so far. Obviously sold so many tickets (and created a waiting list) based on last year's post-season and addition of Xander Bogaerts (currently injured).

https://sports.yahoo.com/the-juan-soto-trade-left-big-shoes-to-fill--enter-6-foot-6-center-fielder-james-wood-225351336.html Washington's James Wood, baseball's next great superstar, 6'6" CFer now in AA ball, 1/5th of Juan Soto trade https://www.mlbdraftleague.com/video/james-wood-s-solo-home-run-x2927?t=milb-top-videos https://www.mlbdraftleague.com/video/james-wood-s-three-hits?t=milb-top-videos https://theathletic.com/4378592/2023/04/04/cactus-league-scouting-padres-ethan-salas/ Keith Law on baseball's next superstar catcher, 16 year old Ethan Salas...now 17 in the California League https://www.milb.com/player/ethan-salas-806956 This is why Preller will always have a job in baseball...and the inability to find players like this will be the end of Hahn.

Fwiw, White Sox have usually played the Red Sox pretty tough for much of the last two decades...minus the worst rebuild years. Of course historically, another matter with NY. Against what other team do the Chicago White Sox have the worst record against? The Chicago White Sox have their worst lifetime winning percentage (minimum 100 games) against the New York Yankees, where the White Sox have a 830-1079 record (43.5% win percentage) over their 1,909 regular season games. https://mcubed.net/mlb/nyy/wsx.shtml White Sox have/had a winning record against the Yankees in the 1970's, 80's and 90's. White Sox have a winning record at home against the Yankees (508-470), but 583-386 at Yankee Stadium, a 60.2% winning percentage. 89-64 Yankees over the White Sox during the Hahn/KW years. https://mcubed.net/mlb/nyy/wsx.shtml

https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-power-rankings-for-week-10 And the Tigers are in midst of basically giving away their spot just ahead of the White Sox, losing again to the Phillies at home 8-3 at this exact moment in time. What will be the peak for the White Sox this season...from here on out? 21st? Anyone willing to go out on a limb and predict 11-15 or 16-20?

https://sports.yahoo.com/why-the-splitter-could-flip-from-baseball-taboo-to-popular-experiment-for-mlb-pitchers-233752828.html

Severino still throwing in mid to high 90's, just doesn't have as much command of it as he needs after all the injuries and non-action. Hard to develop any type of rhythm in that situation.

The Padres' biggest problem right now is they don't have a true ace like Musgrove and Darvish in recent seasons and they've traded away so much, injuries and/or non performance. Weathers has just been so so. Most Padres' fans probably would undo the Soto and even Hader trades. Certainly Clevinger. Another REALLY bad one was Mariners obtain Ty France, Andres Munoz, Luis Torrens, Matt Brash, and Taylor Trammell for Austin Nola, Austin Adams, and Dan Altavilla. Finally, lots of useful spare parts players like Esteury Ruiz, Suwinski, Marcano or Ruben Mateo who would be invaluable scoring runs in close and tight games now. Those trade throw-ins would immensely help to balance the current roster. Yes, lot of names. Preller always includes a boatload in nearly every deal.

All that said, to argue the White Sox are better positioned is pretty crazy. I mean, personally I would take watching Trout and Ohtani over having 1/2 a star in Robert if you’re both missing the playoffs and talking about pure entertainment value.

Seidler is the type of aggressive, win at all costs owner everyone claims to want... a lot like Mike Ilitch Sr., and that's suddenly now a bad thing lol? Financial responsibility and risk aversion are now things to be cheered for? At least their fans still have hope. https://www.fangraphs.com/standings/playoff-odds And while they couldn't play much worse, they're still in 6th position for a postseason spot and the Phils and Pads last year proved all you need to do is get in. And have significantly more talent than typical teams from the AL and NL Central.

https://www.eastvillagetimes.com/former-padres-top-prospects-where-are-they-now/

https://www.soxon35th.com/2022-mlb-draft-all-white-sox-draft-picks/ Four picks in first ten rounds were position players but the majority front-loaded with pitchers.

Well, except for winning three playoff series and Attendance 2018 18th/26,837 2019 14th/29,585 2020 0 2021 3rd/27,061 2022 5th/36,931 2023 5th/39,947 White Sox haven't been in the Top Ten since 2006, a full 17 years now. Once again, the 27th or 28th biggest media market in the majors. That, alone, is a major success for one of the least winning-est franchises in all of MLB since their inception. They also have a Top 5 ballpark, the weather/lifestyle to attract FA's and $20 million invested in the Gallagher Square area that will bounce back to Seidler. https://ballparkdigest.com/2023/05/30/padres-prepping-gallagher-square-renovations-for-2024/

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/barry-zito-former-giants-athletics-161816188.html

Brito is terrible...kiss of death jinx, lol.

That wouldn't have worked out well... either.

23,372 2:29 time of game 5 1/2 GB CLE and DETROIT both 3 1/2 GB

Lange knew it right away. Sped up Burger's bat with offspeed stuff.

Hopefully also prodigious... ?

At least Burger and Romy in the lineup, but not how sure how long before they fall victim to inconsistent playing time. Might be time for another Moncada IL with how poorly he has been hitting the last 2-3 weeks back.

DET Batters AVG HR RBI SB Please check back later for lineup CWS Batters AVG HR RBI SB 1Anderson, TiSS .268 0 10 6 2BurgerDH .266 11 25 1 3Robert Jr.CF .251 13 30 2 4Jiménez, ERF .258 5 21 0 5Vaughn1B .257 7 39 0 6GrandalC .256 4 15 0 7FrazierLF .261 0 1 2 8Gonzalez2B .216 3 12 4 9Andrus3B .199 1 13

https://www.mlb.com/video/fernando-tatis-jr-two-home-runs 840 feet of homers…

Padres 22nd in MLB ops Worst in MLB hitting with RISP Worst in batting average in the NL Second worst in NL OBP SLG OPS HITS

https://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/team/_/view/batting/table/batting/sort/OPS/dir/desc 4/7 worst MLB offenses in the Central…