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Im sure that was part of his consideration when signing with the White Sox. If you believe in yourself and perform to a certain level it is almost a certainty you will be traded to a contender come July.

Its not that I am actively rooting for them to lose, I just don't really care if they win. It would be a different story if the #1 pick was on the line. Its not, so it doesn't really matter if they win 60ish games they'll be picking 10th no matter what. Jerry already proved last year that if things get really bad, he will be forced to make a change. That's what I am most interested in this year outside, of course, getting maximum value for whatever assets we have left.

I watched Major League the other night for the first time in a long time, and they were all creaming their pants because Rick Vaughn threw 96 MPH.

Whats so hard to understand? We have one of the worst managers in baseball leading this team. Anything that can accelerate his removal is whats best for this team now and in the future. We all want the Sox to win and be a good team, but they aren't a good team and they aren't going to be doing a lot of winning. Sometimes the best decision isn't always the most popular.

Im not so sure about that, but there's only one way to find out.

Was it fun though? I personally don’t get any enjoyment watching a bunch of losers who 80% of won’t even be here next year win some meaningless games. There silver lining is they can’t screw up their draft position, but I want this thing to go nuclear to force radical changes. That’s where the real win will come from.

Yeah except at the end of the year Freeman will have 4-5 WAR and Gallo will have maybe 1?

The 22' Reds finished 62-100 so the Sox would need to go 59-78 the rest of the way to be able to match that. I am not seeing it. We don't even have as much talent as that team had.

Yeah, the return we got for Cease is light-years better. Thank god they didn't make that deal.

I don't understand how its this bad. Its almost impossible to be this bad. And its not even like they are just not catching breaks or getting unlucky. They are truly awful everywhere. Even if all you care about is saving money, you simply can't allow this to continue. You have to fire this manager. This team isn't just bad, they are putrid and have taken major steps back everywhere.

Well again, there is no way that they play .500 from here on out so you can go ahead an pen in 100 losses. The question becomes how many more than 100 does that grow. I don't understand how anyone could have thought that this team would be better than last season, they literally downgraded everywhere.

Only 1 person voted that they would be historically bad in the "How many wins" poll. Majority of the board had this pegged as a 100 loss team though.

I would have rather kept Vaughn in LF and resigned Abreu for 3 years at 19 million per season than be stuck with Benintendi for the next 3 years AFTER this one.

I find it hard to believe too, however, there is zero chance these guys play anywhere close to .500 ball the rest of the way so its going to be close.

I see Crochet was terrible again, how was his velocity?

Yeah, that's most likely what it is....

His last two starts have been pretty awful though. Hes also started 3 of our 8 shutouts....

No, no we are not. Its almost like he is wearing out already. Im shocked I tell you. IP this season each start... 6, 7, 5, 4, 3 with less effectiveness each start. I wonder what the issue is....

This organization is so behind the times its insane. Who is scouting for this franchise? Is there even any?

Please don't win, I don't want to make a thread tomorrow. Benintendi batting 5th, again, sigh. Noted contact hitter Gavin Sheets manning the 2 hole. Anyone else notice Crochets ERA is approaching 6 now?? YIKES!

I don't get it. If you don't want to pay the price to sign these high dollar fee agents then invest your money into scouting and development. At least that way you can hopefully produce your own star players and just keep that cycle going. We seemingly like to live in the middle ground of behind the times in scouting/development and only shelling out money for mid tier free agents who wont move the needle. Also, continually hiring unqualified alumni to lead your team/organization.

The ump blew the strike 3 call on Santana then Benintendi is just terrible otherwise this inning would have been over a few mins ago.

How about stop batting Benintendi 5th and 6th. He needs to be 8th or 9th. I would go Mendick Fletcher Jimenez DeJong Sheets Vaughn Maldonado Benintendi Lopez

My advice to anyone here with a young kid they want to put in baseball is to have them learn to play catcher. It is the most important position at this age. Any kid that gets to first you might as well just let them go straight to third. Its impossible to throw them out stealing second because none of the pitchers can hold a runner and they all have slow deliveries. If you can get someone to block the ball and be able to make throws from catcher the third on those steal attempts it literally will eliminate multiple runs per game. My kid unfortunately is just scared of the ball so I can not get him to drop down and block the ball but man we have nailed a handful of runners at third that get too big of a lead and throwing straight from catcher to third to pick them off. If you can get your kid to block the ball and the arm is good, its pure gold for kid pitch little league. I would take someone like that over any other type of player.

It feels like Espada turned them down. Not sure if that was ever verified.