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Came to this thread wondering about Summerhill...is he a reach at 10? Looks to me like a viable option in center field. Whitney Young product too.

i'm taking chris "ooh ooh ooh" flexen over bryse wilson any day of the week.

glad you can read the little font on your screen i just looked at his glove. prick comment, frankly. why is everyone on this forum constantly in a bad mood

ok i didn't see that coming

everybody knew that was going to happen. called for a fastball right down the middle, why?

"several players busted before, and so every future player will also be a bust" would be kind of a silly way to abstract on the historical evidence though. i don't understand the negativity in this thread. what's the point in being pessimistic about baseball, I don't get it. if it's not enjoyable, you don't have to follow the team. there are plenty of other hobbies. there are definitely some good players to look forward to though. and if they don't turn out to be good, so what, life goes on.

his only contribution to the team was just further embarrassment for us: wearing another team's gear.

ez win

that was awesome, rojas. gotta rule that a hit though, that's a double.

lol why are they doing a charles comiskey bobblehead giveaway?

i assumed the course was set for the #1 pick and we don't even appear to be doing that right.

Thank you Heads for helping to build a really wonderful website and community of thoughtful Sox fans. 20+ years is a long time to be contributing to the same site and you helped make it a meaningful place beyond the White Sox or baseball. We lost a friend. I'm really sorry to all of you guys who lost a longtime friend. What a horrible tragedy.

too cute about "using the whole roster". the defensive substitutions were not helpful at all. every single one backfired.

Arroyo + Collier + ??? = 👍

Pujols and Miggy are other good examples...you still gotta sign guys like that if you have the opportunity. I thought there was a good chance the Judge contract would flop but he somehow got even better. This team would look completely different if Harper signed here. Someone to play right field when we were actually good and someone to play 1st now. Maybe they don't draft Vaughn and take Abrams. Not worth fixating on, but you wish the Sox were in better position to go after, like, Kyle Tucker in free agency. By the way, you heard it here first: the Sox will sign Steven Kwan in 2027 to a "record-setting" 5 year, $90 million contract. The Sox will reward the LHH gold glove left fielder with the largest contract in team history and he will go on to produce exactly 0 WAR over the life of the deal.

I think you're far more likely to get Xander Bogaerts than Bryce Harper. You still have to go for it, but the ROI for any free agent is pretty bad when you have pre-arb guys putting up 5 WAR.

He "chases" a lot but he doesn't really strike out either. Right around league average at 23%. Meanwhile we've watched him tee up a bunch of pitches outside the zone for rbi's. he's shown some pretty good contact skills this season compared to last even if the numbers don't really show it. I guess that's the usefulness of 'xwoba' but I don't really know how they come up with that. my question is where is his power? I don't think you worry too much about his bb/chase rates but instead hope he profiles sort of like Javy Baez and homers more than he walks. .260/.300/.450 with 20 home runs feels like something you could see out of Sosa. I think the interesting thing about WAR is how much more "highly" rated Sosa is compared to Baldwin. Both have looked pretty good to my eye but Brooks gets dinged because he plays every position, just not at a particularly high level. You still probably prefer Baldwin's defensive skillset to Sosa's. defensive WAR seems pretty arbitrary.

I dunno why we just cast him off. he can't throw a strike but his stuff is nasty.

marlins got a guy OPSing .200 at A+, a guy ERA-ing 6 at A+ and a third player who might be interesting as a utilityman. stands to reason that Burger was never highly thought of around the league, though he's a great guy so you hope for his success. Also his daughter was born with Down syndrome right after the season ended, you have to think he has bigger things on his mind than baseball. hope he can turn it back on.

never mind

yikes. you know people think this exclusively because it's on the south side of chicago, right, and the dummies think they'll die or whatever if they walk around on a street with a number in the name. strange to see you write this. it isn't a bad location, it's the perfect location for a ballpark. very easily accessible for the entire region regardless of your mode of transportation (I typically walk). the surrounding neighborhood is a 'safe' one, albeit a little bit boring if you're a drunken baseball fan. I generally dislike the parking lots, but you'd find that the residents of the area prefer it. Not everyone wants their neighborhood to be infested by drunk frat boys the way Lakeview is. who "rates" it as bad? racists? it's a great ballpark to watch a game, I've been to a bunch of them, there isn't a bad seat in the house and the tickets are cheap to boot. way better experience at SoxPark than Wrigley for 1000 reasons. what would be "bad and dumb" is if the city and state supported a move that completely contradicted their previous financial investments in the south and west sides of chicago in order to move a major south side employer to the loop. one might call it hypocritical and anti-democratic; and I imagine taxpayers wouldn't be too happy about about their taxes funding projects that undermine things their tax dollars funded less than a decade previous. one might call it stupid governance. the related site is a fucking boondoggle anyway and will be harder to get to and will waste even more of your tax dollars on an entertainment facility. I can't believe people entertain that terrible idea to begin with (including the unelected bridgeport alderman), turn the site into a park and be done with it.

this is definitely the truth. he was ordained 'team leader' for no reason in particular. there was some promo the team did last season, can't remember the context, but it's about Vaughn being out in the community representing the city on behalf of the team and this that and the other. it seemed expensive and like the marketing department worked hard on it, and so like something they wouldn't do for a guy who was about to be non-tendered. still, I think that was last year and this is this year though. What is his arbitration estimate, $10mil+ right? he was already bad and somehow regressed, you have to think the leash got shorter...look at TA for example, I'm more shocked he was non-tendered than I would be if Vaughn is. I think Elko isn't on the team yet because of Vaughn's entitlement at bats, but I can't imagine it lasts into next season. You'd love to see Elko get a cup of coffee at least in a wasted season.

Manoah went down there and came back posting, like, a 3 ERA. It was a big meme until he came back and killed it. Sad that it's like this with Colson, but I wouldn't read much into it, be optimistic that he has the brainpower to make the appropriate adjustments.

sure glad I turned this one off after this first inning.

What are we down to, 30 fans now? RIP John, it's too bad this is the last Sox team you'll see, should've tried to hold on for like 8 more years, we might have a winner by then.