notin

They’re both on the Injured List. Except for Hill…

Spend his $18mill on pitching? So another Giolito?

Yoshida has a .847 OPS since April 16. He’s showing us he can hit. Why are oeople trying to offload him?

I prefer a GM who tries and makes bad moves to one who just can’t pull any triggers ever. Breslow just been snakebit. He trades a 35yo pitcher who hasn’t been himself since he was 30, and the guy morphs in Sandy Koufax. He signs an innings eater who absolutely shows up and never misses a start, and the guy tears a ligament. He trades for two relievers who have done solid work for several years, and both flop, especially Garcia, who in every appearance gets hammered like a sorority girl on Jell-O shot night. But at least he doesn’t drag home a steaming pile of Eric Hosmer and try to tell me how lucky we are to have it…

Like the Cubs…

Was Sale a good pitcher? His last 5 years with Boston, he was 17-18 with a 4.16ERA and turned 35 this year.

Sox should, but he also might not last until their claim. Hopefully they do the smart thing here.

This one season might not be representative. Do some math from 2020-2023 first and see if you draw the same conclusion.

It’s pretty much the best the Sox can get in a Story trade. Best move is, if Mayer is ready, move Story to 2b. And move in Grissom when he gets hurt.

Trade Story (3 yes $80mill) for Kris Bryant (4 yrs $108mill) and you get your RHH power bat. Figure out later where he plsys

I don’t think so, either, but I think he’s simply their best option. Especially since the Sox blatantly refuse to listen to me and repeatedly passed on Paul DeJong, which you just know was done out of spite.

That’s why the Sox need to hold on to Mayer.

Fielding percentage is a useless stat. The Sox could put Stephen Hawking at shortstop, and as long as he fielded all those grounders that he could get to (re: grounders hit right at him) his fielding percentage would stay at 1.000. Of course all ones he couldn’t get to - most of the, safe bet - would just be scored as hits…

The starters in those five games - Criswell (2), Bello (2), and Pivetta. Criswell with two seems surprising until you remember he’s the “starter” with the fewest IP on the team, and is probably the only one not running in fumes.

“Burnes and Fried”, for the record, would be a great name for a satirical cooking show starring a comedy duo. I’m thinking the type of show where the “chefs” try to make macaroni and cheese, but wind up in the burn unit with molten cheddar in their hair.

Hopefully the Sox do a better job addressing pitching needs this off-season. Or at least don’t just throw up their arms and quit the second something goes awry. They will add Giolito next season, but will he be ready in April? His TJ was in March, and TJ often takes over a year for pitchers. Pivetta could leave. If he does the Sox need two SP at a minimum. Hopefully they haven’t already penned in Priester as one of them. (IMHO Priester should start in Worcester as SP6.) I have my doubts they’ll go all in and sign Burnes and Fried for these roles. They might try and make another move on Garret Crochet, but unless they include someone like Anthony or Mayer, they likely get outbid. Wilyer Abreu won’t get it done here. Free agency has some less appealing names like Flaherty, Flexen and Manaea. That’s more the ballpark I’m expecting here. The Sox might trade from their surpluses at the MLB level. There are not enough outfield roles for Duran, Rafaela, Abreu, and Anthony. Middle infield is even more crowded with Story, Hamilton, Grissom, and Mayer. They could move someone to third and shift Devers to first, but then Casas is displaced, unless they move him to DH. Of course, Yoshida is a tough trade and moving him back to the OF just exacerbates that already overcrowded place. I suppose Casas could be traded, but I’m not expecting that.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/fiskca01.shtml 1984

Wow, that Luis Garcia has been just what Dr. Kevorkian ordered. (Look it up.)

No. “Old Timey” just means we write our posts directly on to the monitor with a quill pen loaded with the ink of a freshly-milked squid.

I admit to being lost and confused right now.

This is tanking at its most extreme. 16 losses in their final 32 games would clinch the worst record in MLB. And that number gets smaller with every Colorado win…

So it was offered and rejected, and the theory was Bogaerts would have accepted it if it was offered earlier?

Defending Henry? Because Sale didn’t pitch for four years? After some team - possibly Atlanta - offered to take Sale’s whole deal and give nothing back, and Bloom was ripped for passing. Yet two injuries later, and Sale was a definite keeper? Because I don’t pretend to know all the negotiations and try to pass off theories and suspicions as facts? I don’t defend Henry. I also don’t judge and condemn on hindsight. I guess I’m just not the same level of insider as others…

Here it is, only August 25th. Roughly 20% of the baseball season left. And the White Sox, with 32 games left on their schedule, find themselves 33 games out of FOURTH place. Yes, the 2024 Chicago White Sox have clinched LAST PLACE before September. How the f*** does a team clinch last place by this date?!? This is a record for ineptitude…

It hasn’t worked out, but Story did show terrific D. Something Kike made us realize the imports of at SS…