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Vaughn and Palacios combining for - 3 bWAR certainly didn't help and getting them off the team was addition by subtraction. They had a nice little streak after the break where they score 10+ runs in 4/7 games but since then they have pretty much looked like the same team they were before the break offensively. I agree with you, it's definitely a positive but I don't know how anyone can look at this lineup and say with a straight face our everyday lineup is good (Doesn't mean they wont be good eventually). We'll be lucky if any of these guys finish with more than 2 bWAR and that's just where you get starter worthy value. If your entire lineup produces at substitute levels, you don't have a good lineup.

Average: 30th OBP: 29th Slugging: 29th OPS: 29th Reminder, there are only 30 teams in the league. So no, the lineup isn't good Greg.

The hope I have here is that they just have him working on things opposed to results, which to me is perfectly fine for someone you are trying to develop. You're right, in the grand scheme of things Schultz going 15-3 with a 2.50 ERA in the minors means absolutely nothing. If he can develop what he is going to need to be successful at the major league level, that is the most important thing of all. I really won't care if he has an ERA of 10.00 in Charlotte if he comes up to Chicago and is a competent rotation piece with great potential. I hope its like Colson, where he looked dead in the water in the minor leagues but once they get him onto the MLB roster we see vastly different results.

That was an absolutely ridiculous trade for the situation the Sox were in.

Yelich is still somewhere between a 2.5 - 3.5 bWAR player Once this season comes to a close, the White Sox will most likely finish the last 3 seasons with exactly 1 offensive player having more than 2 bWAR and that was Robert in 2023! Tauchman has exactly 2 right now, so he MAY hold it, but either way this is absolutely pathetic.

This farm system lacks anything resembling star power, outside of maybe Braden Montgomery. Its no surprise to see them around the middle. They have some nice looking players, but no one that's going to be a game changer. It also didn't help that Schultz, Montgomery, and Smith all have/had the arrow pointing down so far this season.

If he finishes the year hitting .220 with a .650 OPS I just don't understand how you can pick up that option and make a $20M gamble he will revert back to what he was 2 years ago which seems like ages ago at this point.

lol I know you meant Benny's but I definitely did not read it like that.

Did anyone ever say that? All I remember Getz saying was "we anticipate having him here" which to me doesn't mean for sure anything

He heaps praise on everything, even when everything’s going horribly. It’s one of the reasons he’s so annoying.

Can’t wait for the Sox to score 2 meaningless runs late and lose 8-2 so Schriffen can tell us this team is different than last year.

Even if its a troll, it has jinxed the team pretty much every time one of these get posted.

This is like the third moronic thread this year started after the team played well for a stretch and the Sox almost immediately went into a tailspin after each one.

They did an excellent job with it. Once his music hit, and he came out on the crutches with Heyman I thought it was just a tease but man they delivered. As far as Brock goes, I haven't looked into that since it initially came up but I thought he basically didn't do anything and nothing ever happened physically involving him, only allegations that never ended up happening anyways.

These lineups are such ass. I don't get the thought process. Tauchman Quero Robert Montgomery Sosa Benintendi Mead Baldwin Taylor Its not that hard.

A lot of things had to go right. If you would have said Teel, Quero, Montgomery and to an extent Meidroth would all get called up and be pretty good I wouldn’t have believed it. What we got from Houser and most of Smiths first half, wouldn’t have believed it either. So I think I wouldn’t have changed what I thought, I just didn’t see how they would be better and it looks like the answer was a bunch of things I would have never believed possible anyways.

I said that. There were some others as well.

Yeah I was just sweating my ass off, I wasn’t use to it because going to games in Houston the roof is always closed so it’s never an issue.

Its not bad for being old as s%*#, I went to game out there last season I believe. It was around this time and we were in the RF bleachers and holy hell the sun is just beating down on you if you're there during a day game.

Its hard for people to accept others have opinions different from theirs, a sports message board is a breeding ground for head butting. Were all here for the same reason, the White Sox are our favorite baseball team. Just because you like this player and I think he's trash doesn't change that, even if a heated discussion takes place.

That's ridiculous, everyone here is a White Sox fan and wants them to be good. It's hard to see that happening anytime soon when history tells us they wont be signing major free agents and the expectation is that all our our prospects work out which funny enough is the dagger that killed the last rebuild we just went through not even a decade ago yet. I want this team to be good, I don't enjoy watching this garbage, but im gonna call a spade a spade.

I never saw the comments but I did see the tweet that said "Were anticipating him being here" which to me is very ambiguous and not definite we are going to pick up this option. Was that said elsewhere? Same with "Were open to adding to this team". That doesn't mean s%*# to me. How about, we WILL add to this team? You can't say that though, because then you have no way to defend yourself when you don't follow through.

Despite what those clowns said here about him, the Orioles had more than enough ammo to add Corbin Burnes and Dylan Cease and I am sure having a guy who ended up finishing 4th in NL Cy Young may have changed their fortunes in 2024. And, even letting Burnes walk if they still fell flat this year then they had Cease as a trade chip to recoup some value. I know people like to say the quality of the board has gone down, but I don't think it has. This community has always mirrored what the team on the field is doing, and it always will because that's what drives the discussion here. One of my favorite parts of the great Oriole invasion of 2024 was all of us coming together to try to get those dipshits out of here.

Seems to be about the same pace I got as well. Hopefully luck is on our side.

To be fair, the bullpen was absolutely atrocious last year so that was pretty deserved.