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Not overall but their out of division road matchups are pretty brutal @ Washington (Primetime) @ Baltimore @ Cincinnati @ Philadelphia ("Prime"time-ish, get it.) @ San Francisco (Primetime) They get Dallas, New Orleans, New York Giants, Pittsburgh and Cleveland at home. Would have been nice to have some of those tougher matchups be at home.

7 to 9 wins seems right, I would probably lean towards the higher end of that as of today. I think they'll beat Vegas, New Orleans, New York and Cleveland. Toss up for Dallas, Washington, and Pittsburgh. I don't think they'll beat Baltimore, Cincinnati, Philadelphia and San Francisco. Assume they go 3-3 in the division.

BB% is at 6.5% currently, and surprisingly K% is only 27.7 which just by eye test I would have thought was higher since I feel like I see him K a lot. He will naturally start walking more if he keeps up with this power potential as more people start opting to not pitch to him in certain scenarios.

I would love to see more internal options used for next season in regards to the bullpen.

If that means some dumb team will trade a prospect for him, sign me up.

I have zero faith in this team, and won’t for probably several more years. Congrats on 49 wins bud, I’m sure it must feel great to flex that one 😂

While both teams are probably really happy, the White Sox got 4 players, three of which are contributing to the ML roster and the other is flying up the prospect rankings. Whenever you can trade 1 player you have no intentions to keep for 4 players who will be here for several years it’s a massive win.

They did, saw it last Saturday when they played

They would need to go 15-12 the rest of the way to avoid 100 losses. Bet your house Greg, they’re losing 100+.

Im willing to bet he had some ridiculous ask that he refused to budge from, which should have been the Dylan Cease move not the Luis Robert of today move. If they were willing to send money, but then altered it or took it off the table, that just gives more credibility to the fact they would rather save money than get something done I think.

Well, there's no way they are ever moving Benintendi. He cant hit, he can't field. He will be DFA'd before midseason in 2027 if I had to put money on it. Unless of course, some team just really needs that veteran leadership he can provide and has to have him 😉 Robert, as Tony has pointed out, has been the exact same player for 2 seasons now. Not a very good one. And certainly not worth $20M. No one is going to trade for him in the offseason, and like I said, Ill believe it when I see it in regards to them picking up this option.

You would hope if they pick up this option they would include cash in any deal, which makes no sense not to since you would be paying it if you kept him anyways. It would be interesting to know if that was on the table in previous discussions.

Well, the guy responsible for holding people accountable in regards to that was terrible at his job.

As they should, pick your guy and give him 100% of the starters workload and upgrade your roster where its weak (outfield).

I would be more stunned if the thought process was "Our payroll is low, f*** it its just $20M". Does that sound at all like something the owner of the White Sox is signing off on?

I don’t even know what you’re rambling about here unless you’re talking about something someone else said when replying to me.

Wasn't a big reason being floated around as to why they didn't offer the QO was due to..... his health..

If they could opt out of Benintendi that would have been done a while ago. Im sure they figured they could try to trade Robert again over the winter with a strong finish to the season. He is now hurt, again, and likely to not play again all year. I could definitely see them declining the option now due to this, or else they are risking paying him $20M for essentially nothing. Its called cutting your losses, and sometimes you just need to do it.

See SS2K post above, this is a 25 man roster with experienced baseball people throughout the staff. That's their job.

It's insane to me that a team coming off a 121 loss season is trading teenage pitching prospects for 30+ year old middle relievers. Wtf..

Because first base generally sees the least amount of balls hit to them and rarely has to make difficult throws.

Knowing what I know now that they would in fact not trade Mike Tauchman regardless of how well he performed, I would have rather seen the likes of DeLoach, Fletcher, Julks, etc. out in RF all year since that has more value to the long term goals of the franchise. I don't think there is anything more overrated in sports than a "veteran presence". These are professionals, not high school kids needing a mentor.

Im not doubting his athletic prowess, but that still doesn't mean he's a long term SS at the MLB level. He should be there until proven he can't though.

Not that I disagree with you, but how someone is going to age is probably taken into consideration when making statements like that. A 6'4 230 LB dude with back issues probably isn't destined to stay at SS long term.

lmao yeah I read that too and got a good chuckle out of it