5/24 Brewers @ SOX 7:10PM ET

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Well, we'll always have Paris, er, I mean the Rays' sweep.

From the movie CASABLANCA.

[Duran Is The Man]

What is everyone's take on the interference call in bottom 9 of Orioles/White Sox ? I hold Benintendi accountable for popping up with 2 on in the 9th. He is having a poor year, at -22.0 WAR already.

 

******** call by the chump. benny didn't get in his way.

[Duran Is The Man]

Trading the best everyday player on the team is not a good idea. This is directed at those who think trading Duran is a good idea.

Not counting Houck, he'd be the last player on the SOX I would trade.

 

exactly. Duran and Devers are the only players on this team worth keeping. the rest are just whatever.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

The 6 earned runs were the most given up by a SOX starter so far this season. Considering the pitching history of this club prior to this year, that's pretty impressive.

[Oscars]

The Sox absolutely stink at Fenway.

Surely the only team that is over .500 with a losing home record

[vegasbob]

Trading the best everyday player on the team is not a good idea. This is directed at those who think trading Duran is a good idea.

Not counting Houck, he'd be the last player on the SOX I would trade.

No comment

Edited May 25, 2024 by vegasbob

[vegasbob]

Trading the best everyday player on the team is not a good idea. This is directed at those who think trading Duran is a good idea.

Not counting Houck, he'd be the last player on the SOX I would trade.

 

Fully Agree. He can be a sparkplug

[vegasbob]

O'Neill wins a Golden Sombrero. With his approach at the plate I see more sombreros in his future.

 

Basically, O'Neill is a POS fraudulently posing as a hitter. Before telling me how his April was, tell me his stats for May

[a700hitter]

You mean that he isn’t the real deal?

[Maxbialystock]

The 6 earned runs were the most given up by a SOX starter so far this season. Considering the pitching history of this club prior to this year, that's pretty impressive.

 

Exactly. This rotation of kind of, sort of nobodies has been incredibly good.

 

Crawford does not have magic stuff, so he needs to hit the corners and mix things up. I am a huge Wong fan, but once again I wonder if McGuire might have been better last night.

[Maxbialystock]

Basically, O'Neill is a POS fraudulently posing as a hitter. Before telling me how his April was, tell me his stats for May

 

This is his 7th season of MLB, the first 6 with the Cardinals. 3 years ago, age 25, he had his one full season, 141 games, with 34 dingers, an OPS of .912, and 168 K's. His career OPS is .784.

[Maxbialystock]

After 4 straight wins, especially 3 @ the Trop (where manta rays hang out), last night was very disappointing.

 

I honestly had high hopes, but the fans didn't--attendance seems fixed at 31K, 12th best in MLB. 5 years ago, the last season before covid, the Sox averaged 36K, 7th best attendance. But for several seasons before 2019, the Sox attendance was 9th best.

 

And 10 years before that--2009--when the Sox were getting max attendance, 38K, they were still just 8th best in MLB.

 

If average attendance is a key indicator of the annual income of a MLB franchise--and if for most of his "reign" as owner of the Sox John Henry has been paying top dollar for talent--then it's just possible the Sox haven't been all that profitable over the years.

 

Moreover, JH and his brain trust have spent large on some players who didn't deliver.

 

2024 is a perfect example of that. This year's payroll is $182M, but $16M is going to closer Jansen, $17M to Braves starter Chris Sale, $22.5M to Story who's out for the season because he risked life and limb diving for a grounder, $18M for Giolito who is out for the season because he unwisely threw pitches in spring training, $18.6M for Yoshida whose thumb hurts and who can't hit anyway, and $7M for Turner who plays for the Jays.

 

That adds up to $99M, which leaves $83M, of which Devers is paid $29M, so the rest of the team--the entire pitching staff (rotation and relievers) except Jansen, the entire outfield, both catchers, all of the infielders except Devers, and the DH--are being paid $54M. The bottom 5 payrolls in MLB are $64M (A's), $83M (Pirates), $98M (Rays), $99M (Marlins), and $99M (Orioles).

 

Looked at that way--and disregarding what other teams are paying their players who are on the IL or otherwise not contributing--the 2024 Sox needed to spend $360M, way more than the top dollar Mets payroll of $307M, to have any hope of competing this season.

 

No wonder JH is fed up.

[vegasbob]

Simple question--- why don't the Sox have a better record at Fenway over the past 2 plus this season to date ? And then turn into a plus wins team on the road.

 

I don't think it has anything to do with crowd size enthusiasm . It shouldn't be that they have become a bit of a LH hitting team. Maybe they just don't like home cooking.

[moonslav59]

Had to watch the game, this morning, due to work needing to get done.

 

Crawford looked human. Duran was about the only highlight.

 

Get 'em, today!

 

[Old Red]

Had to watch the game, this morning, due to work needing to get done.

 

Crawford looked human. Duran was about the only highlight.

 

Get 'em, today!

 

 

Crawford is human.🙈🤭🤫