Quin

I'm the opposite. I think they look better on the field and can now dig them.

Once upon a time it was probably 80 mph

Mercy

Darth Pantera

Why can't my man just be healthy. FWIW, in order: Zeke Bonura (233 hits) Frank Thomas (220 hits) Jose Abreu (215 hits) Luis Robert Jr. (200 hits)

They're also injured dudes over 30 trending downwards. They're by definition not in the team's future plans. Them getting injured means they'll have limited-to-no trade value. Fletcher has also found second life in Charlotte, so that's another guy who might come up and need at-bats. You have the over-30s so you can drop them, not so you can keep them and get rid of younger guys.

Slater just had a sub-.600 OPS in 2024, Rojas was .641 in back-to-back years, and Tauchman is 34-years-old and hurt himself running the bases (sound familiar?). If we're including Vargas in the future group due to a hot streak after being one of the worst in baseball for a year+, we might as well include Sosa because he's been on a streak of hitting the ball hard (I wish I could pull the numbers they ran during a game this past week).

In no universe should you drop the cost controlled 25-year-old for 3 injured guys over 30 that are on 1-year deals.

I think it was mostly @chitownsportsfan just wanted to get ahead of making a game thread in case he got busy today.

"Come up with $6 million."

His version was making a play to get called up, which still isn't good. A minor leaguer asking to get out of the org is a whole other level. It'd genuinely be hysterical and pretty much destroy the "Tim Elko is a leader" talking point.

A minor leaguer trying to pull that would be wild. Teams would absolutely start looking at him like a diva.

Am I the only one that wants to see what Vargas' dog looks like?

I'll sign the Sosa-Vargas Compact if Vargas fans acknowledge Sosa's larger sample size of growth.

Elko fans on riot watch

Cuban connection resurgence led by top prospect Venezuelan infielder hitting Slappy white dude at second All that's missing is a masher at first base and suddenly we're checking all of the Sox stereotypes. Summon him.

sir

This team is going from incredibly pitiful to very, very weird.

Sosa just keeps getting them hits.

The Cuban connection runs on the power on the power of jilted friendship.

The injury is "we can't send you to AAA so go work on 'rehab' right now"

And thus Elko-mania ended.

I still need him to hit like .250 tho

would they be interested in one lightly battered Cam Booser?

Alright Getz, this is genuinely funny.