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I am so not interested in salary dumps, especially not if it lowers the return on a good player. Benintendi needs to play well to get himself out of here.

If you can't get players you think will contribute to a winning major league team then you might as well hold onto him. It doesn't matter what they trade him for if none of the players received have an impact.

In the last month Vaughn has an .893 OPS. We need to stick with him and see if he's finally turned the corner. Abreu can be a coach or sign a one day contract and retire a White Sox. Adding him to the roster would be complete malpractice.

I’ll never forgive you.

For Crochet or Robert, sure. For other guys he's probably a second piece.

I'd be ok with getting guys like Samuel Zavala back as the second/third piece, then. Build up that next wave of position players. They could also use some of their lesser pieces (like DeJong) to try to get players they project for 2-3 WAR from teams that have some of those types blocked. The Fletcher and DeLoach trades are decent examples, just pick better players please.

I was way better friends with the teams I've been on when we were winning than when we were getting our asses kicked every night.

Same way I feel - Sox were top heavy with multiple top 50s, then nothing really behind them. Pitching depth is VERY encouraging now. Offense still a little bare, but we'll see as guys continue to grow. It's all about development.

Kopech is hard to watch

Hawk gonna sue

It's such a horrible allocation of resources, though. They would have been better off just not spending that money on relievers and the Melky Cabreras of the world.

Something as simple as "I've talked to him" or "I'll talk to him" would help make it look like he's not a complete detached boob without exposing Crochet to anything. Better yet would him being actually aware of what happened and able to defend his player + deflect any blame off Crochet and hold umpires accountable for kicking someone out during a damn rain delay, but that's way too much to expect from Grifol.

Maybe, oh I don't know, go talk to your pitcher about it and find out? Make sure you're on the same page and understand him? Is there something else driving his anger (besides just sucking ass as a team)?

A tall fire-balling White Sox lefty with anger issues? Never had one of those before...

I don’t mind Nastrini taking his lumps and seeing if we have anything with him. What makes it worse is this team can’t score any damn runs, so every run pitchers give up is magnified.

MAN DICK

2 run single by Julks but Eloy hurt

If Vaughn could run it's 2-0. Terrible at-bat by DeJong too.

Cease getting crushed against the Braves. 5 runs so far in 2 2/3rds innings.

That's what bad teams do

I'll never get tired of winning against that dickhead Naylor

Crochet is flat out nasty man. Such a boneheaded move to throw him in the bullpen.

It's weird to see people dumping on anyone trying to squeeze any last bit of enjoyment or hope out of this miserable season. Just let people be optimistic about that small bit of hope left in the bottom of Pandora's box. Sheesh.

Thorpe (starter) has a 1.01 ERA in AA and was MiLB Pitcher of the Year last year. Iriarte (starter) has a 1.46 ERA in AA. Samuel Zavala (CF/RF) is struggling in A+ but is still only 19.

I don't want to get anyone too excited, but I think this team might just be putrid, and not worst of all time.