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Here you come, absolving Slick Rick Hahn of any blame again.

Back to back champs!

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Just seems like they ran out of gas.

Barons win!

8-6 in the bottom of the 8th

Rough couple series. 100+ losses seems inevitable now. Hopefully they can bounce back.

A few more names being posted from Japan and South Korea https://www.sportsmockery.com/chicago-white-sox/significant-positive-development-is-taking-shape-for-white-sox/

Schweitzer gave up most of the runs and he was close to untouchable in AA.

Teel SUPER late swings

Nice to see Teel bounce back after last night

Teel looks awful right now

Seems more personal with people than results driven.

I wouldn't want to jump ship to that disaster over in Baltimore right now. I doubt they bottom out as hard as the Sox did, but that team is in trouble.

PHEW

This seems pretty big

Kurt Warner posted two absolutely outstanding breakdown videos on Youtube. Highly recommend watching them. Link

There was a Reddit post about how the crazy bad misses happened after Caleb took a big hit on the arm in the 4th. Guy was wondering if he had a big bruise on the arm and that led to some of the bigger accuracy issues. It's not like CW was pinpoint accurate all game until then, so I dunno, but if you've ever tried to throw a ball with a hurt arm you know how tough it is to not have it stiffen up and hurt bad enough to change your mechanics.

I don't think so, but it was hard to tell. Probably a bad challenge from that perspective, but not because of the ball punch.

Not denying that ChatGPT is wrong a lot, but that reads like you can't rip the ball out of their hands. It was a clean punch and the runner wasn't contacted. I think he was also trying to get up and run when the ball was punched out.

Tory Taylor out kicks his coverage and it drives me nuts. You almost never see defenders near the kick returner when he punts. They're always at least 10 yards away and set up an easy return. He was a terrible 4th round pick.

Maybe? That wasn't the explanation I heard from the official though. Maybe he just did a terrible job of explaining it.

I think there are concerns with Smith and Schultz and I don't want to minimize those. Smith's control backed up because they changed his delivery due to injury issues. He needs to work through that, or find another, better delivery. Schultz is dealing with injuries, plus they apparently told him to stop using his cutter in AAA and he's been bad there. Hopefully some time in the fall helps them and they get back on track next season. The idea of looking at MLB's top 100 isn't to be THE definitive source. It's meant to be a standardized point of reference for a decade+ of drafting and development, and to show that the Sox were able to get multiple recent draftees into the top 100 to replace Teel, Montgomery and Quero after they came up.