MiddleCoastBias

Just tear it all down and start over. Wait, thought we were talking about the team and front office.

Playing Immaculate Grid and thinking "how can I shoehorn some bum in that also played for the Sox?" (Spoiler: Steve Cishek made an appearance in today's grid)

Let's focus on the real issue - Lance Lynn sucks s%*#.

He looks so promising, it'll be fun to watch

Lance Lynn kicks rocks.

Yoan has always struck me as a motivation guy, really depends on how much he cares. All the talent in the world doesn't matter if you don't care to show up. World Baseball Classic, he's playing for his county, around his peers, and tearing the cover off of the ball. Motivated. Gets to Chicago, we get a little carry-over good feelings from the WBC and starts hot. And then it settles in that he's playing for a dead-end team with nothing to play for. Unmotivated, no hustle. He seems like the quintessential change-of-scenery type of guy. Get him on a team that is competing day in and day out with other guys that want to be there, and I bet he's a stud. Play out his days on lame duck White Sox team and what you see is what you get.

Why do people think he's a tradeable asset? Who would want to take him on? He's pitched worse than Keuchel did when he got DFA'd, and yet some people still think we can trade him. I don't get it.

I think Hanser sticks around. He seems to be Grifol's "guy", seems every manager gets a utility guy they stick with through all of the odds. Hanser should be the one to go, but I don't think it's that cut and dry in this situation.

Baltimore does have a lot of intriguing guys coming up but my guess is that they'll want to hold on to them until at least next year to let everyone coalesce and mature to see what they have. Their team is looking to be competitive in the coming years and can stand to wait a year before selling younger guys to get the final piece veteran to put them into contention. I'd look to the Rockies (worse management than ours), Mariners (closer than the Orioles and could look for a vet, maybe move Emerson Hancock?), or Blue Jays as potential partners.

But then the backlash will be fresher at the end of the season and fans will be even louder at SoxFest! Oh, wait.

This is also the same team that welcomed Eloy back by throwing him into RF instead of DHing. Disappointed but not surprised.

Love seeing him in there but Liam just doesn't have a slider tonight. A totally non-competitive pitch for him, hitters can just spit on it every time and not be worried unfortunately.

Players and agents have to know this, right? Like if they had comparable offers from the Rays and White Sox with the same path to playing time, they would have to know which org has a track record of giving new life to a career.

"The beatings will continue until morale improves."

I forgot Eloy was even on the team, jeez. This argument is moot anyway because another injury to someone will free up a spot and solve the logjam before it becomes a real concern.

It's indicative of how this season has gone that no one wanted to start a game thread until 15 minutes after the game was officially supposed to start.

I think this is a great case study to see if the Rays really do have magic pixie dust to scrap nobodies into a great bullpen. We know he sucked with us this year, kind of interested to see if the Rays can get something positive out of him. Not an empirical study, just more fodder for our online arguments.

*keeping this thread on Sox apparel and not white collar crime for a moment* Yep, the $50 hat I was looking at was the "limited edition" 1917 hat. I want it, but that's stupid steep for just ... a hat. And on that topic of collector mindset, I know they're catering to younger folks with their branding new releases as "latest drop" and all, but maybe start releasing normal hats that someone over the age of 22 wouldn't be embarrassed to wear. I'm torn between "grow the game and the fanbase!" and "these are all dumb, give me something an adult can wear."

While we're on the topic of Sox gear, anyone notice how expensive baseball merchandise is getting? (blah blah inflation, I get it) I buy a lot of 47 Brand hats for all sorts of teams but I particularly look for any of their new hats with old Sox logos. They have a non-fitted hat for $50! And other regular hats are $40. Feels like a few years ago they were only $25. /old man rant of a 30-something

It'll be awesome if Middleton can come out of nowhere and turn into a 'guy' for the bullpen. I like what I see!

Thanks, I hate it. (Adam Dunn for 2! Wonder which NL team that was against)

The difference is that the Mariners sent Kellenic down to work on things and get it right outside of it pressure to perform on the big league team. He then had a .922 OPS in AAA vs. his .534 OPS on the Mariners. I get Colas seemed upset last year that he wasn't promoted fast enough because he thought he was ready. Now he's had a chance to see that "hey, maybe there are some things I can work on" and a stint in Charlotte will give him perspective and time to work on it.

I cancelled the day Machado signed with SD. I've been streaming online in the years since. Foolish me bought it again this year expecting big things.

I think the front office is holding out hope that it's "just a difficult schedule through April" and "we'll get better when we're healthy in May". DVS points out that we faced the toughest schedule in April and will face the easiest in May. Maybe the April teams' winning % are so high because they've played us and the May teams' winning % are low because they haven't played us yet ? https://twitter.com/CST_soxvan/status/1650948295634612231?s=20 Continue your rate through a weak May schedule and we might actually see some shakeups, but not until then.

Well they see our hitters striking out on uncompetitive sliders every night and they think "hey why can't I do that?"