Timmy U

Teams split. Kanny and Birmingham each win, W-S and Charlotte both lose. Charlotte had a bullpen game and got crushed. AHT is up from AA and got hit hard. At Birmingham Gowens had another good start. Pallette continued his domination in relief. 2IP, 4K. Gladney continued his torrid start to AA with 2 HR.

Flexen allows his customary 3 base runners per inning and gives up a run. Could have been worse, though.

Oh good, more Chris Flexen.

In fairness to the concept of the majors, it that's why he's hitting under .100, he doesn't desrve a job.

Cuz Sox gonna Sox?

What the hell are the White Sox doing with Ramos?! Get him out of Charlotte so Moncada could get the at bats?

I called it at the time. Fedde trade was a complete and unmitigated disaster. Whoever recommended him should be fired along with Getz. Not like you couldn’t see this when Vargas was a Dodger. You could.

Vargas was slumping with the Dodgers too. Getz traded for the equivalent of Sosa/Colas. What a disaster. I would bring up Ramos and make Vargas earn his next call up next year. Maybe he can make adjustments over the winter. If you can’t hit a 4-seamer, you cannot play in mlb.

Why not? Can’t get enough of the Chuckie Robinson experience?

Cool. He will be reunited with his former teammate, the suddenly rock-solid reliever, Peyton Pallette.

To be fair, Vargas was a bust long before Getz traded for him.

But NY were interested in keeping Benintendi. They just didn’t want to give him 5 years. https://clutchpoints.com/white-sox-andrew-benintendi-opens-up-on-ditching-the-yankees-in-free-agency

The Sox have a decent system with a couple of glaring holes: there’s no aircraft carrier core offensive performers. Quero probably hits 6th in a good mlb lineup. Montgomery is a question mark at this point, but even at his best, he seemed more like Robin Ventura than Frank Thomas. And, the Sox lack depth because their efforts in LatAm have been disastrous. Aside from Gonzalez, Shirley has done a pretty good job finding future mlb contributors in the last several drafts. Hopefully, Wolkow and Bonemer reach their high ceilings. Sox need more guys like them.

Why hasn’t Clevinger been put on the 60 day IL yet?

I wonder who the Dodgers will have to give up so the Cardinals can get him next trade deadline.

They are considering this to increase offense. Instead, why don’t they just impose a 90 mph speed limit? Throw harder than that, you get a ticket..

This is idiotic. Teams have found non-traditional tactics to win games, and the league’s response is to say, “No, there’s only one right way to win a baseball game.” Sports should welcome a diversity of skills and strategies, imho.

Grifol did almost as much damage to the org as he did to his own career.

Leone is the guy of everyone that I understand the least. It’s not like he’s been any good on the rare occasions he’s been healthy. And it’s not like it would matter if he was.

Colas just hit a HR.

Right now Colas is struggling in AAA. DeLoach is actually swinging it better of the two.

Knights score 4 in the 1st. Double for Ramos, triple for Montgomery. Mason Adams gave up a weak single, then with 2 outs inexplicably walked 3 straight guys. It’s 4-1.

https://www.milb.com/scores/all/all/whitesox

Really? I think the headline is "my parole officer," but that's just me.

This is an entire, scrape-the-rotting-edifice-off-the-earth, complete and total tear down. If you listen to the latest BA podcast on AL Central organizations, the Sox are pretty much considered the worst org in baseball with a farm system bereft of positional talent. They basically say the only possible impact bat is Wolkow, but the odds against him are pretty high. If Getz sets up a new international regime and improves instruction, that will help subsequent teams regardless of the owner. To get this org to average is going to take a long time regardless of the ownership structure.