South Side Hit Men

No, but Jerry Narron returned there this season. Beyond McCann, the Sox actually acquired / played decent catchers beyond DH Grandal during his stint here. Seby made significant defensive improvements while Jerry was here, you had McGwire as well who is a solid defensive catcher. Sucked that cheap ass Jerry never replaced Narron after he left. He only expanded staff because of Tony. The White Sox need guys like Jerry Narron to develop the talent they acquire.

Rick Hahn on the Madrigal trade and resume of his replacement. 1:40: "We wanted to find some stability day in and day out for the lineup in that second base position. Cesar provides us with someone who not only, he obviously comes with a gold glove resume and has found a nice power stroke over the course of the season. As a switch hitter, he provides professional at-bats to go with the solid defense and is a nice balancing factor for this lineup. 217 PA, 3 HR, 0.1 fWAR 2:23: "Lastly Craig Kimbrel, Obviously the resume speaks for itself. As I discussed with Craig, a few weeks ago Kenny and I asked each other of all the players expected to be moved, let's assume we could only acquire one, who would it be? He and I had the same answer, and that was the player we acquired today." 23 IP 5.09 ERA 0.0 fWAR

2023 Chicago White Sox TWTS (The Will To Save) through August 16 TWTS Score / Player (Saves / Blown Saves) 4 Kendall Graveman (8/4) - Joined Jose Abreu on the Houston Astros 2 Gregory Santos (4/2) - Second blown save recorded tonight 1 Liam Hendriks (1/0) - Hope he can return at some point with the White Sox 1 Jimmy Lambert (1/0) - Given one opportunity, "nailed it". 1 Brian "Everyday" Shaw (1/0) - Mid season claim, has second best current roster TWTS score. 1 Jesse Scholtens (1/0) - Is now a starter because Rick Hahn is total s%*# and there are no pitchers here. 0 Kenyan "Loose Lips" Middleton (2/2) - Zero, same as his fWAR. Now a pathetic last place Yankee. -1 Tanner Banks (0/1) - As near worthless as your money sitting in the bank. -1 Alex Colome (0/1) - Lasted four games here. -1 Jake Diekman (0/1) - A terrible 2022 Trade Deadline acquisition. -1 Reynaldo Lopez (4/5) - Joined Lucas to join the Los Angeles Angels -1 Lane Ramsey (0/1) - Seems like a nice guy. Hopefully better days are in store. -3 Aaron Bummer (0/3) - Has pitched well, but can't catch a break in many instances. -5 Joe Kelly (1/6) - He is even more pathetic as a human being than he is at TWTS. Dodgers deserve this s%*#.

I saw that too, but he only had 16 pitches over the five outs. They literally have Santos (1.8 fWAR), Bummer (1.1 fWAR) and six "guys" in the bullpen post trade deadline, and honestly not much more than that before the tanking trades. White Sox August 16 bullpen: CL Santos 1.8 SU Bummer 1.1 Guy Ramsey 0.2 Guy Shaw 0.1 Guy Honeywell 0.0 Guy Banks -0.1 Guy Cronin -0.2 Guy Lambert -0.5

Hard to win a game when you have as many batters over .700 OPS as under .600 in the lineup. Dylan Cease has a .875 OPS. While I don't think that is sustainable, I think there is a solid chance he would hit in the .600s, possibly .700, if he was a regular DH.

Ron said he was going tonight in yesterday’s thread, so at least one of us is happy.

That’s really cool. I saw the $29.99 price, and while the season is near over this year may subscribe next year, despite the fact Jerry gets up to one of the $30 dollars. I really enjoyed going to games in 2019. The park was empty, could sit downstairs whenever I wanted, and Ricky was making progress with a lot of the core prospects. Hope we see similar progress in Chicago in 2025, with a new front office and legitimate competitive window in the second half of the decade.

Points 7 and 8 were the only two that materialized, 7 in a bad way. 10 Reasons Why the Sox will win the AL Central in 2023: Pedro - As bad to worse. Juan Castro - Somehow worse. Better Health - About the same. Eloy at DH - Still substandard. Vaughn at 1B - Work in progress. OF Defense - Colas is bad. Angry Tim - LOLz A New Junior - Yes!!! The rotation - Bottom 1/3. The Division - It does suck, but the Sox are by far the worst underperforming team in the AL (Mets and Caulfields in NL).

Hard pass. They only took out whatever trash Hahn was able to handle two weeks ago. They still have dumpsters full left in the FO, clubhouse and throughout Jerry’s organization including Clevinger. “We make junk disappear. All you have to do is point.“

@Autumn Dreamin, do you watch the minor league games regularly, or just for select players? Loved your recaps, now that the ML team is dead for the next few years, will follow the minors more closely. Thanks for your updates!

Big Energy acquired by Texas in a minor league deal. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/08/rangers-sign-josh-harrison.html

This will be Tim's last game until sometime next week, TBD based on any reduction he receives tomorrow.

Thanks for the update. This was my first inclination. Hope he is reinstated ASAP.

Eloy off with a sore groin, sad since he typically plays well against the Cubs.

Interesting poll in terms of the split between when the Sox will receive their biggest prospect haul. All depends on if they will try to move Tim, Cease, and Eloy this offseason, also Yoan if he bounces back next year. Quero had an excellent game yesterday, and the Sox sure could use him and Lee performing well to close out the 2020s.

This thread is longer than the game thread through regulation yesterday.

And bribed Congress millions to pass an exemption to federal minimum wage laws.

RH Javier Assad will take the mound this evening to face the White Sox. He is a converted reliever and was stretched out to 7 innings in a win at Toronto on the 11th. He faced the Sox once in a relief appearance last series, retiring all five batters he faced. Hopefully the Sox learned something from that appearance and film from his recent starts. https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/javier-assad-665871?stats=statcast-r-pitching-mlb https://fantasy.fangraphs.com/starting-pitcher-chart-august-16th/

E minor featuring the official band of the 2005 Chicago White Sox.

Hell hath no fury like a Rick Hahn scorned. https://www.sportsmockery.com/chicago-white-sox/keynan-middletons-mom-said-the-white-sox-kicked-his-kids-out-of-daycare/ "On Wednesday night, it may have hit an all-time low with a few instances of pettiness against Middleton, as they didn’t put his name on the scoreboard when he was pitching and according to his mom on Twitter, they kicked his kids out of daycare."

First question: Which acquired prospect will perform best (Highest total White Sox fWAR will be the metric)? Second question: Which Trade Window will perform best (Same fWAR Criteria) - 2023 Trade Deadline, 2024 Hot Stove/Offseason or 2024 Trade Deadline? For both questions, the poll is about prospect return, not whether the White Sox won/lost trades (individual or cumulative).

Kudos to Pedro for sending Elvis in the 9th, which led to the all important insurance run. Don't stop now boys.

Joe Kelly What? K Graveman Who?

Hope they sweep, for the second week of playoff spoilers of hated teams.

Sleeps with one eye open.