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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.

According to Chat GPT that was a good challenge. Ball does not count as part of the receiver's body, even after his knee touches the ground.

Yes, Schultz and Smith regressed this year. They’re still consensus top 100 for now. Well see what they can do next year - the Sox had plenty of guys fall off the top 100 list from 13-23 and basically none of them turned it around, so I’ll be interested to see if the Sox can have more than just Colson turn it around. Also, I’d bet that not every one of the drafted guys on the MLB list from 13-23 were consensus.

If he never played for the Red Sox how are the White Sox not developing him? I get not wanting to trade every good player in a cycle of futility, but the White Sox still have to develop him. Even if you take him out we still have more prospects in the top 100 right now than we have had at any point since 2013, and that’s after graduating Colson Montgomery.

Sox currently have four guys they drafted in the MLB top 100, with Braden Montgomery as the fifth - he never played for the Red Sox so I'll count him. From 2013 - 2023 the Sox had 11 total players they drafted in the top 100, never having more than two per year. Of course all these guys can wash out, but this is homegrown depth we haven't had since the late 90s.

Winning is way better than losing

This ump is just brutal.

Smith just struggling

Nice comeback to grab another run. Team is really playing well right now.

I like sweeping the Twins. Let's do it more often.

Can Benintendi put some effort in? Sheesh

454 on the Montgomery HR

Well, one of those runs was unearned for the Twins pitcher