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Kopech is getting traded by the deadline and it feels like a certainty he’s a lights out reliever or a competent starter for whoever gets him.

Unless I’m just misremembering, that would be the last White Sox manager to be legit fired in season. Almost 30 years ago.

You can’t allow this to go on, even if the roster is ass. Something needs to be done to try and shake this up. It was funny for a while but now it’s really starting to look like this team won’t win 40 games. JR is a bad owner, but I don’t think even he can allow this to continue for too much longer.

He’s probably over 40% on his K rate after tonight, he’s not good.

Yes, 5 players the Braves would have most likely just straight up let go if the Sox hadn’t swooped in to claim their garbage.

What a terrible singles only offense

Yes, pretty much

No s%*#, I thought that was just a pop up to RF

This 12th ranked bullpen gettin it done baby

lol don’t feel bad, my wife actually pointed it out to me too. I was like why the f*** do they keep playing that noise.

There’s no way that was the actual story, it’s basic swing instruction and if it took a coach seeing him swing a golf club to be like wow maybe you should load in your swing like that, eh never mind that checks out for our development prowess.

It’s for the dogs

I’m somewhat stunned that Mendick was instructed “hey why don’t you load up like that with your baseball swing” to get more power. This is like basic hitting instruction and they just made it seem like it was some shocking revelation.

You don’t need to be an insider to see that there is no way Grifol isn’t fired, and soon, if this keeps up. You can’t let this run all season.

This roster just flat out sucks. Aside from the underperformers that have been here, every single Getz signing or trade is fucking terrible. Even if they had to cut payroll, there’s no way this was the best that could be done. It’s ridiculous.

Geez even Carlos Santana is going to get back on track facing these guys

The Twins are a bad team, that’a how far away the Sox are from just being a bad team. This is going to be the most brutal season I have ever witnessed.

I mean honestly, it’s not like there’s a better option anyways

lol series set up “Sox bullpen has been 12th best in MLB”. Yikes, that’s our best thing going for us??

Well in a perfect world he wouldn't get to see much playing time and you can mask his inefficiencies. In the 2024 White Sox world hes probably going to start 100+ games and bat 5th and its going to be a disaster.

Yeah I was just looking at it again, and I think I would agree with that. In today's game, if he can play 2B, SS, and 3B and be a decent baserunner with a little pop he is probably useful as a depth guy. He would really need to be in that .650 and up OPS range though.

My counter point to this is he had a .352 BABIP in his 97 AB's in 2022. So not exactly a lot to put stock into him being an actual good player. Also, what about last season when he was equally as bad as he had been in his chances prior? I just want to know what would be considered a developmental success. Just making it to the show? That can't be it.

Im not looking to start any arguments here, genuinely just asking, but what makes Danny Mendick a development success story? Hes a 30 year old middle infielder with 0.4 career WAR. He owns a career slash line of .242 / .298 / .652. He sucks. What is the criteria for being a successful development?

This is the sad reality. Unless they spend big money on actual quality free agents and we hit on a lot of these prospects that are getting close, there is no scenario where this team is in a competitive window while Luis Robert is still under contract. Even if the unlikely happens and this team is competitive again in 2026, Luis Robert will almost surely be a big part of that reason and he will then be knocking on the FA door of a massive contract that we certainly wont be paying. My ideal scenario is he comes back healthy this season, finishes strong, and then is traded in the off-season for the best package you can get. Worst case, by the deadline next season.