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From the Sun-Times today, they also talk about Schultz and Braden Montgomery: https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2025/06/30/white-sox-prospects-noah-schultz-braden-montgomery-futures-game-colson-montgomery How close is Colson? Could shortstop Colson Montgomery, a step away from the majors at Triple-A, be the next prospect to make his way to the South Side? It’s been a roller-coaster season for the 2021 first-rounder, who started miserably, prompting the Sox to send him to Arizona to work with hitting director Ryan Fuller. He returned with a successful stretch, then slumped again before his current hot streak: 11 hits, including four homers, in his last 22 at-bats. That’s a 1.749 OPS over his last five games. Looking at his numbers can give you whiplash, but might this latest rebound be enough to make the Sox consider a promotion to the big leagues? “One of the things you start to look to is the consistency and being able to pull himself out of a funk, which he really didn’t show us last year. He’s done that a couple times this year now, which is super encouraging,” Janish said. “You do want to strike while the iron’s hot with a guy like that. … Giving them the opportunity to go up when they’re playing well is definitely preferred. “He’s in a really good place and doing what he needs to do and putting himself in a conversation, for sure.” Who knows if that means another noteworthy major league debut is imminent? But it’s a sign that a huge rebuilding milestone could be getting closer.

They have nothing to announce because there is no news. Unless Ishbia is willing to throw in a ton of money, since JR obviously won't, they'll continue to play at the Rate. The city and state isn't going to pay for a new stadium for them regardless of the location.

The last thing the White Sox need is to have an infielder try to play out of position. Hasn't the last few years of this lunacy taught us anything? Let the people you mentioned actually learn and become very good at the position they have been playing most of their lives. In two years time after another 100 loss season in 26 and the labor impasse derailing at least some of the 27 season, the Sox need to go out and actually gets some outfielders to go along with hopefully, Braden Montgomery.

Third game this year the Sox trailed in the 7th inning or later and won.

Absolutely, it would be insanity for JR to do so which was my point. He's not doing it and frankly even if Robert put together a mediocre season (which for him would be an improvement) there's no way he'd allow it, not with the labor situation and the possibility (probability?) that he's going to order Getz to cut payroll again next year.

Does it even matter? They'll lose 100 games again next year anyway and JR with the labor impasse coming up isn't going to be spending money this off season. There is absolutely no way JR will approve picking up his 20 million dollar offer for next year. None, nada, nyet.

He, Eloy and Moncada can now be known as the "Bust Brothers..." He'll play out the string and the Sox won't pick up his option this off season. As Hawk would say, "He GONE!"

Can't see that happening under any circumstances if you are trying to hint at a connection. Just having a winning season with 82 wins would be a miracle right now.

You somehow "forgot" (LOL) to include the other part of my comment about how good teams take advantage of the luck that goes there way and the Sox were a good team in 2005.

Third game this year the Sox have won by a score of 1-0. By the way the Sox have played 83 games so far, in 50 of them they have scored three runs or less. That's 60% of all games...that's bad but for the Sox that's actually an improvement, for most of the season they've been around 65-68%

Wise words in this post.

Fair point but I'm basing my assumption on JR telling Getz to unload Roberts and Beni at some point, and keep cutting the payroll because of the upcoming labor uncertainty.

Sorrow for Schultz The Sox’ top prospect, lefty pitcher Noah Schultz, fared poorly in his latest start for Triple-A Charlotte, surrendering five runs, five hits and four walks in just two innings Friday.

There is no "if" about it. 2026 is going to be another 100+ loss campaign. Accept that reality now and it will make things easier for you moving forward.

“He’s kind of a sneaky athlete ... covers some ground more than I think I gave him credit for just looking at him and his overall profile,” Venable said. “That was part of the attractiveness of acquiring him, his defensive versatility and his ability to go to the outfield.” A sneaky athlete he might be, but Noda’s misplay loomed large as the Sox dropped to 26-56. Coming into the game, the Sox ranked as one of the worst defensive teams in baseball, with minus-15 outs above average. https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2025/06/27/white-sox-ryan-noda-defense-right-field-giants-mike-tauchman-will-venable-noah-schultz

No offense yet again. 16th time this year the Sox held an opponent to three runs or less and lost. Wasting some decent to good pitching.

Billy told me if he could have one pitch back in his career that would be it. He said Fitz Gerald was a first ball, fast ball hitter so Sherm Lollar suggested throwing the off speed pitch to him.

Marte reveals what was said: https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2025/06/27/ketel-marte-diamondbacks-chicago-white-sox-rate-field-torey-lovullo-banned-fan-danny-beisbol

We shouldn't be surprised this is standard operating procedure.

Two very different items, one heartbreak, one just flat out bizarre: June 27, 1958 - He came so close to perfection. Sox left hander Billy Pierce fired four one-hitters in his brilliant career, but he never came closer than on this night to baseball immortality. With two out in the ninth inning, Pierce lost a perfect game as the Senators Ed Fitz Gerald, a pinch hitter, doubled down the first base line on the first pitch thrown. The hit was fair by a foot off a low outside breaking ball just past Ray Boone. The crowd at Comiskey Park stared in disbelief. The Sox won 3-0 but Pierce never came closer to pitching the ultimate masterpiece. On the night the Senators only hit six balls out of the infield. Pierce struck out nine and only went to a three-ball count on two hitters. The game took 1:46 to play and was Billy’s third straight shutout. He was looking to become the first left-handed pitcher to throw a perfect game in the modern era. Another historical oddity… Fitz Gerald’s grandfather was an important businessman in Milwaukee, including the shipping industry. Years later a ship would be named after him. The name of the ship? The Edmund Fitz Gerald. (Cue the song from Gordon Lightfoot!) June 27, 1967 - It was one of the most bizarre individual plays in White Sox history. The Sox were at Baltimore and in the last of the fourth inning of a scoreless game the O’s Frank Robinson slid hard into second baseman Al Weis trying to break up a potential double play on a ball hit by Brooks Robinson. Robinson’s head slammed into Weis’s knee briefly knocking him out. The next day he woke up with double vision and missed a month. Weis meanwhile had his knee torn up and his season ended because of the contact. While both players were lying on the ground Sox right fielder Ken Berry noticed that time had never been called and Frank wasn’t on the base! He ran in, picked up the baseball and tagged him with it. Second base umpire Nestor Chylak called Robinson out. Officially it went into the books as a force out; third to second to first to right field. The Sox behind Joe Horlen would win the game 5-0.

It's Bruce Levine remember, take anything he says with a large bag of salt. With the almost certain lockout coming shortly after the end of the 2026 season and the impact it could have on the 2027 year, I don't expect JR to do anything this upcoming off season. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he ordered Getz to cut payroll yet again.

It's a mixed bag... pitching has been better than expected, hitting and fielding still awful: “I have to remind myself that although that’s really frustrating and we need to get better there, to finish close games, so much of where we are right now is in things that are underneath, per se, in just the foundation of the organization,” Getz said. That’s not easy to stomach for fans trying to remind themselves why they’re still paying attention to a team that entered Thursday with the worst batting average in the league (.220), lowest OPS (.638), fewest hits (583) third-fewest runs (263) and third-fewest home runs (64). https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2025/06/26/white-sox-season-halfway-smith-meidroth-vargas

They did have some luck, you play 200 games a year (pre-season, regular season and post-season) and the ball is going to bounce your way at times, fluke things are going to happen, it is inevitable. They took advantage of the times those things happened (like A.J.'s dropped third strike) and that is the mark of a good team.

Chapter 1 (Chapter 2 drops July 3):

There may be some truth to what you think. Guys can get confused which makes things worse. Sometimes it is better to just say, "see the ball, hit the ball" and the hell with everything else.