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Ahh baseball, where two shitty teams gotta act like tough guys

I think it’s more this team sucks and he doesn’t want to be here and doesn’t care.

The Sox rank near the bottom of the league in stats like avg, obp, slugging, ops. They aren’t really improved much from last year in that regard. Now a lot of that has to do with the roster still filled with bad players, so if by improved you mean they’re 28th instead of 30th then sure, they’ve improved.

Sure, its definitely positive what he has done over the stretch. I would just like to see it last the rest of the season before believing hand placement has all of the sudden turned him into a superstar.

Meh, Vargas is hitting .245 with a .767 OPS and that took a massive hot streak to even get to those mediocre numbers. Ill believe it when I see it sustained, but it is better than watching him hit .190 and be totally worthless.

2024: 15-41 2025: 18-38 Nobody is blinded here, this team is just as bad as they were last year so far and just because you enjoy watching Meidroth, Vargas, Quero, and Smith doesn't mean you should trick yourself into thinking this is enjoyable. This is still going to be a long miserable season with a lot of bad baseball. I totally understand how there are some more enjoyable things about it, but we don't need to pretend that this team has taken some massive leap from 2024. They haven't.

20 games under .500 in May, if you’re enjoying it more power to you but this team is garbage. At least there are some young bright spots this time around, I’ll give you that much.

I agree, he’s not a long term play but it’s better than throwing some 34 year old turd out there that’s going to hit .190 and offer nothing at all.

They’re never going to get on a roll, don’t do that to yourself. This is the same old story, they are awful then win a couple games then everyone’s like “hey maybe they’re coming around” and then they do something like today.

I don't know, depending on who they are able to deal away near the deadline this year this team could still get much worse.

Gee imagine that. Everyone who has opened their mouth after leaving here has pretty much said the same thing. This organization sucks top to bottom.

Well let’s see. The Sox failed Luis Robert, in no specific order, by not meaningfully improving the roster. By not doing real searches to improve coaching or front office staff. By being woefully behind the times in advancements in analytics and preparation. By failing to develop anything to support the main roster. You’ve heard the comments from players that have left this organization, they are a total dumpster fire, they’ve absolutely played a part in failing a lot of players that have come through here.

But its a "meatball" take that this organization is the reason players under-perform here.....

They are either going to dump him for an awful return or he's going to get his option declined. Never in a million years would I have guessed this was going to be Luis Roberts fate.

Noah Schultz has been pretty bad this year so far, which I am sure he is referencing. Only been 36 IP so far though.

I definitely agree with this, he's not a high upside guy, but he already here so why don't you fire Polacios into the sun since Slater is back and use Baldwin more in that utility IF role? It's not like we need to be saving him or anything. Its because they for whatever reason signed ML deals to guys like Tauchman, Taylor, and Slater who they are going to stick with and the younger guys are the ones getting sent packing.

There are a lot of roster decisions coming up that are going to be very interesting to see how its handled. I would imagine Teel is going to be up her sooner rather than later, not really much more he needs to do down in AAA.

Oh yeah, that stings, but I can at least appreciate they recognize they will never sign a high end SP so I get taking Hagen Smith instead. Cags would solve a lot of problems for this offense though.

Andrew Vaughn has never been good. He's in his 5th year and has a career bWAR of -0.2, he's just not a good major leaguer. What has happened to Luis Robert sucks, however, he fell right in line with the rest of our heralded players like Moncada, Jimenez, Anderson, etc. At this point, the blame has to go to the organization and the operation were running here unless you just believe all these super talented and high end prospects all just lost their ability to play over the same window.

Because this is a white Sox discussion board and the only thing to discuss is how awful this team is. What’s so hard to understand about that?

Vargas finally hitting over .100 now thinks he’s some tough guy

That’s because he IS awful

There’s just no way these lineup decisions are coming from Venable.

I’m so sick of seeing Vaughn in this lineup. He’s the worst player on this team yet is out there damn near every game.

Inning should have been over but Smith is hanging meatballs over the middle of the plate as well here