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Story talks with Skubal about how the Tigers rebuilt in a short time while the Sox window of contention fell apart. “How do I say this the right way?” Skubal told me before the game. “I don’t really believe in the term ‘rebuild,’ to be honest. Our rebuild was supposed to be five years, and it started in 2017 or whatever. That means we were supposed to have already won by now, and we haven’t. So I don’t believe in the word.” “It’s tough for fans. When you’re a diehard fan and your team is kind of openly saying we don’t want to win, that’s not what you want to hear. I play baseball, but I’m a fan of other teams — the (Phoenix) Suns and the Arizona Cardinals — and when a team comes out and openly says we’re rebuilding, you don’t want to hear that. “As a Suns fan, we’ve been through tough times, but now we have an owner that wants to win as badly as the fans do. That’s all you can ask for as a fan.” “Mat Ishbia has been great for the community,” said Skubal, who grew up in Arizona. “Obviously the Suns’ season was disappointing, but it’s good to know they have a plan in place, and that’s all you ask for.” Reinsdorf had a plan, too. It worked until he decided to ignore his general manager, Rick Hahn, and hired his friend, Tony La Russa, as manager over A.J. Hinch, who eventually went to the Tigers.

For the majority of the time yes but the S.F. Giants and Dolphins built their own parks using owners money for most of the construction of it.

Well...............OK then. 🙄

You have six pitchers who have undergone TJS just this year, two more are possible. The "top" pitching prospects have struggled this year (as others have specifically pointed out). There may not be pitching to deal as you surmise.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/02/chicago-white-sox-detroit-tigers-tarik-skubal/

Since when do the Sox have ANY scouts that seem to know what they are doing. Hell they have some of the smallest number of them in MLB.

No...that's Steve Wilson. Complete and utter clusterf#$% tonight. Total embarrassment. And to think just a few years ago the Tigers were pretty bad, then they hired the guy the Sox front office wanted but JR overruled them. 🤡

I can't see anyway JR allows that to happen, if anything he's going to order the payroll cut even more next season due to the probable lock out disrupting the 2027 year.

“Regardless of all that, when we’re talking about a tough budget year and the fact that we still had a billion dollars worth of transit to figure out, I think tax breaks and property tax certainty and money for stadium development is not high on the list for the people of Illinois,” State Rep Kam Buckner said. https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears-stadium/2025/06/01/bears-stadium-bill-springfield

TLR was an advisor and worked in the front offices of the Red Sox, Diamondbacks and Angels if I remember correctly.

As long as his checks don't bounce he'll be fine.

I'm just producing numbers that counter at least somewhat what others have been saying about 'real progress.' In my opinion there really hasn't been progress save for some marginal inconsequential areas. Regarding your first sentence. As I've said for literally years JR wants to win BUT he wants to win HIS WAY which simply does NOT work. His ego and arrogance doesn't allow him to understand that or change that especially when, again in my opinion, he continues to make money and continues to feel that players are overpaid and what is needed to "save" baseball is a salary cap. In short no real major changes in the overall philosophy or the organization will take place until new ownership arrives. Until then you deal with the situation as best as you can.

By the numbers: Sox have scored a total of four runs in the three Houser starts. White Sox are 3-15 in games decided by one-run. White Sox have scored three runs or less in 38 of the 59 games played (64.4%) White Sox have now lost 13 games this year where an opponent scored three runs or less. "Supposedly" this team is better than last year. Maybe in some very slight peripheral areas but overall they still are disgustingly putrid.

And he still has the respect from JR who values his opinions.

You may be correct, which says a lot about the organization in the first place doesn't it? They signed/drafted/developed all of these guys.

Their offense has a league-worst .205 batting average with runners in scoring position. 🤡 That won't win you many games will it?

Part of the Sun-Times story: One week after being demoted to the minors, first basemen Andrew Vaughn and Tim Elko have not yet dominated at the Triple-A level. Vaughn has notched one home run and five RBI, but he’s 4-for-20 and owns a .200/.273/.350 slash line in five games with the Knights. Venable said there’s no timeline for Vaughn in the minors, but he sees the former third overall draft pick in the long-term picture for the Sox. Elko, who had been called up and made his MLB debut May 10, is 4-for-21 with one home run since re-joining Charlotte last week. He hit .161/.188/.452 with three home runs during his short time with the Sox.

I think as soon as he gets to a different organization be it by the trade deadline this year or next year after the Sox decline his option, he'll be better. Mentally he has got to be in a bad place after the injuries and the dysfunction in this organization. And he needs to go somewhere, where he will be held accountable for things like training and conditioning since part of his issue appears to be of his own making.

Another game with a ton of scoring chances, another game with three runs or less. Offense is as bad as last year's. 2-11 RISP today.

Except he already has stuck his hand out...remember his visit to Springfield?

Speaking of Anderson he was recently DFA'd by the Angels.

That's certainly possible. I think both sides realize although they won't admit it publicly, that their chances of getting sizable funds from either the state and/or the City of Chicago are pretty slim. They'll have to contribute a LOT of their own money to even get discussions off the ground in a real sense and even that may not work given the financial situation overall for the state and city. I know some of this was out of their control but both the Bears and Sox picked a pretty bad time to try to extort money from entities.

Today was already the 12th game this season the Sox held an opponent to three runs or less...and lost the game. That's wasting some pretty good pitching because of a putrid offense.

if this is in fact true, then who know how much "authority" Getz has don't we?

I understand by the way that TLR has been making the rounds of the minor league affiliates. He was just at Winston-Salem according to their TV broadcasters.