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12/9/2014- Samardzija and Michael Ynoa come to the Sox for Chris Bassitt, Josh Phegley, Rangel Ravero and Marcus Semien to Oakland. During their time with the Sox, Samardzija and Ynoa combine for a 0.4 WAR. During their time with Oakland, those 4 guys combine for a 32.4 WAR. NET LOSS -32 WAR 6/4/16- James Shields comes to the Sox for Tatis Jr and Erik Johnson. During his time with the Sox, Shields had a -0.3 WAR. During their time with San Diego, Tatis Jr and Erik Johnson combine for a 24.2 WAR. NET LOSS 24.5 WAR

personally, I'd love to see Bryan Ramos figure it out at 3B and let Vargas play 1B full time. Small sample size, but Ramos had only 1 error in 21 games at 3B last year.

Have the Sox said anything publicly on what their plans are with him? On this rehab assignment in AAA he's hitting .344, had 32 AB's and is catching (not just DH'ing). Meanwhile Quero has been slumping lately (.219 in the past 14 days, .125 in the past 7) as has Thaiss. (.233 in past 28 days, .174 in past 14 and .188 in past 7)

Serious question, could they send him to AAA?

Last year the team had the rare distinction of drawing the least amount of walks, while giving up the most. Which is most likely to happen again in 2025?

It’s kind of like being the tallest midget but doesn’t Nicky have the highest obp on the team??

Curious to hear everyone's thoughts on this... Guaranteed Rate is currently the 8th oldest stadium in MLB. Fenway, Wrigley, Dodger Stadium, Angel Stadium, Oakland, Kauffman, Rogers Centre and then Guaranteed Rate. Oakland is gone. Royals are talking about a $2 billion new stadium, which would then put Guaranteed Rate as 6th oldest. Back out Fenway and Wrigley due to "nostalgia" and now the park is 4th oldest. When do the Sox starting talking about a new stadium? Guessing they wait and see how the Bears situation plays out?

And that's the follow up question to Hahn that wont get asked, or he certainly wont answer... Middleton says it, Lynn confirms it. Burger makes some side comments about team culture in Miami, Keuchel said stuff a year or so ago... is it fair to say that Middleton wasn't being truthful when 3 other players confirm it?

Coming into tonight, the Sox batters have walked 248 times. The pitchers have walked 401 opponents. That -153 walk ratio is the worst in MLB.

Romy to the 10 day IL per my ESPN App push notification.

for no particular reason, was thinking of him last night in a Baseball forum chat. Somehow he had 10 SB in 1992, which would have nearly made him the team leader in 2022.

Having (3) guys at the top of the order hitting .300+, isnt a bad situation/ 1. Anderson- SS 2. Benintendi- LF 3. Robert- CF 4. Jimenez- DH 5. Vaughn- 1B 6. Moncada- 3B 7. Grandal- C 8. TBD- 2B 9. Colas- RF

Yeah not sure why you use Graveman with a 6 run lead in the 9th. I know this is a must win, but maybe you let Ruiz try and get a few batters???

Twins get Sandy Leon from Cleveland

The Rodon contract has that poison pill in it.. which is he can already opt out for 2023 if he wants. But if he gets hurt at some point between now and the end of the season, he can opt-in and get all $22 million for 2023 and the team is stuck with an injured Rodon and a $22 million invoice.

ok TLR. Now you've got a LHP starting... swap Garcia for Harrison at 2B.

it's a weird rabbit hole to go down, but on Tuesday's game, Lambert comes in, throws all of 2 pitches and then TLR puts Kelly out for the 7th. He could have easily let Lambert pitch the 7th, thus not using Kelly at all and him having to pitch on back to back days. (or swap Kelly with Graveman in this scenario) His constant insistence to not use Lambert or Lopez for more than 1 inning, causes over-usage of the bullpen and "could" have potentially saved Kelly's injury.

AZ Trades: Madison Baumgarner and Cash to the White Sox CWS Trades: (2) A/AA Prospects Then either the Sox trade Cueto now, to a team in need of pitching for a few months, since he'll be a FA and get some prospects back, or they keep Cueto in the rotation now, move Kopech to the pen for the last few months of the season to bolster that, and make the rotation... (1) Cease (2) Giolito (3) Baumgarner (4) Lynn and (5) Cueto. Rotation for 2023 would then be set after Cueto exists and Kopech moves back into the rotation again.

Agreed on allocation. Saddled with the Keuchel salary does handcuff them dramatically. but if you could either a) have Rodon at $22 million with (2) AAA level guys in the pen and Leury as your starting 2b or b) have Velazquez/Lopez/Cueto as the SP but Kelly, Graverman in the pen and Harrison as starting 2B which would you pick? They cost about the same.

If Jerry would spend unlimited cash then sure. But that’s not how he is. There’s no way they have a starting rotation of… Rodon- $22 million Keuchel- $18 million Giolito- $7.5 million Cease- $750k Lynn- $14 million ~$62 million for their starting 5?!?!

Pre injuries, what’s Kopech’s role if they sign Rodon? Another year in the bullpen?

Nothing but best wishes for Carlos but not sure $22 million a year for each of the next 2 years would have been a wise investment for the Sox. Hope Carlos stays healthy but he hasn’t been able to put together a full, healthy year of quality starts since 2016. so yeah it would have been nice to have him on the team and I’m sure if they could have gotten him for $10-12 mil or a 1 year deal they would have, but where the market set his price, this team couldn’t go to.

so I literally bought tickets, last night, for the Sunday 3/27 game at home vs Diamondbacks. Now I see that game is no longer on the Schedule and the tickets magically disappeared from my MLB Ballpark app. The 27th is now a Dodgers home game vs the Sox, Has anyone heard how they are handling tickets purchased to games that dont exist? Refund, exchange??? Thanks,

.316/.303/.310/.317/.335

Mr. Consistency with the batting average over the past 5 seasons. .270/.271/.279/.271/.267