Chicago White Sox

Tank Commander Kendall Graveman reporting for duty

If Eloy can’t run down the line, he shouldn’t be playing given his track record. Trying to squeak out one win at the potential expense of a multi-week injury isn’t worth it.

Ryan has been on fire as of late

Checkmate…I have no rebuttal to this point.

While anything is possible with Reinsdorf, for the first time in years I feel like there may be hope for change. Back in 2016 when we were so-called “mired in mediocrity”, we finished with a 78-84 (.481) record and a -29 run differential. We were basically the 19th best team behind the 16th largest payroll. This season ultimately led to the rebuild, which is something no one felt Jerry would ever agree to. Now, as of today, we are sitting on a 41-59 (.410) record and a -75 run differential. We are effectively the 26th/25th best team in baseball behind the 12th largest payroll in baseball. And while 12th may not seem that big, our $185M payroll is only $17M from the 8th largest (in 2016 we were $45M from the 8th largest). Point is Jerry is spending a ton of money and is getting garbage results. Not only that, but it’s having an impact on attendance (worse when almost all teams are up YoY) and ultimately his bottom line. If the mediocre season that was 2016 was able to lead to structural change, then I’d have to imagine the most disastrous season during Jerry’s tenure will lead to something even more drastic. The one thing we know Jerry cares about is never being in the red and Rick has almost single-handily delivered that this year. We are also seeing fan engagement at an all-time low, which poses a threat to future season attendance and TV ratings. Jerry may be super loyal, but sticking with Hahn is literally punting money and we saw there was finally a breaking point with the Bulls when a subpar product threatened Jerry’s golden goose. I just don’t see any way Jerry can ignore all the facts at this point and retain Rick Hahn as GM. Change has to be coming.

No way Rick survives this season. He makes Dave Stewart look like John Schuerholz.

Rick Hahn literally hired this dude to be his manager in a must win season:

One is not like the other ?

Gotta disagree here…I think he will probably be a popular target for many teams.

Pedro & Katz got these guys ready to play!

Let the record show that our entire group of positional players have combined for 1.4 fWAR if you exclude Robert. We rank 26th overall in wRC+. Highlights include: An everyday 1B with a 104 wRC+ An everyday LF with a 103 wRC+ A part time DH/RF with a 76 wRC+ A part time RF with a 35 wRC+ How do you expect to win when you’re forgoing offense at the most critical power positions? And this doesn’t even address the horrors in the middle infield and elsewhere in the lineup. Rick Hahn and the coaching staff should be embarrassed with that his s%*#-show of an offense.

Bump this s%*#.

What a disastrous start. Fire Grifol and pull Lynn ASAP.

He has, but his pure stuff isn’t radically different. I bet he gets traded and suddenly stops giving up so many bombs.

Why is Elvis still on this team?

Stupid prediction from a stupid asshole

Never mind, Timmy chases one out of the zone for strike 3.

A rare Benintendi bomb. If he can hit one, so should Tim.

Lynn needs to deliver tonight. Hopefully five perfect innings and then some goodbye hugs as he’s traded for a haul mid game.

Law updated his Top 60 ranking and Montgomery is now 21st overall.

Franklin got $10k so Lacombe is the only wild card and it’s doubtful he gets anything too crazy if Nishada only got $170k.

Not leveraging the full potential spend is pretty frustrating.

Great stuff @Y2Jimmy0! Hopefully a few of these guys move quickly to Kannapolis.

lol…so very true unfortunately.