Jocko87

You mean a bit?

Trevor Richards reverse splits.

I'm not for sale, but $15m is $15m. Estimated (by me)

Couple of stark examples where they got burned by off the field stuff rather than on. We've heard them mention character and fit quite a few times lately.

Guardians hold on to lose. Minnesota phrasing.

In the wise words of noted philosopher Christopher Rock-A man is only as faithful as his options.

Well, thats what happens when you forget how many outs there are.

This was my guess.

Topa first.

And the main reason for the DH season was that he was already injured when it started. It wasn't a china doll Raya preventative move. Weird how we always try to frame these things as front office failures by default. The defense is down, meh. It's still there but he seems to finally be embracing the common sense that not every ball needs caught. They just don't. My golden retriever hasn't figured this out and never will so I have to throw where he can't hurt himself. Buck is trying to stay upright by wisely leaving a few balls alone. Two plays near the fence come to mind, one in Arizona and one in San Francisco that he very noticeably pulled up to stay away from an unfamiliar fence. They looked awkward because it's completely out of character for him. It's the smart move though.

Forgot why I quoted this in the first place. Morris absolutely has a bit of attitude, swag or whatnot. He was in command, even with his bad stuff.

Went out to watch Morris last Thursday (thirsty Thursday, at that) and came away pretty impressed. It was certainly not his best outing by results, 5.1 ip 6 ER 4 walks and 4 K's, but there were still plenty of good things to see. It didn't look like his best stuff and things got away from him in the 5th where 5 of the runs scored. On a hot muggy night in the upper 90s at game time, he carried 96 into the 6th at almost 100 pitches. Delivery is smooth and easy, he did not look like he labored until the end of the 5th. With two outs in the 5th he froze a guy with a fastball and didn't get the call. It looked like a pretty good call but I didn't get the video in time. He had a pretty significant reaction and from then on he was off his game. He got the next guy to get out of the 5th. The 6th quickly went, placement double, K, bloop single, loud double, infield single, walk and done at 99 pitches. Watching from behind the plate he looked shook by the missed (his opinion) strike three and then couldn't work around a couple weak hits and one loud double. By my count he gave up about 3 hard hit balls. All in all, pretty impressed with some obvious things to work on. The issues I saw are relatively easy to fix, carrying the velo without additional effort in this heat is not. He certainly wasn't efficient with the 99 pitches but it was not his best effort. I like to see how the bad days go. This was a good bad day.

I can't imagine Bally's is spending a lot on the strike zone production assistant. They don't seem to be adjusting it hitter to hitter.

No, this is Ludacris.

I guess I'm not sure which TD you are referring to.

In first to ask if they can afford that statue. Hurrrdurrrdurp.

But if he can be a functional lefty (heh) fielder his bat has a chance to play. Plenty of at bats for a solid bat that can catch, play 1B/DH and lefty field. It may not be with the Twins, but it's a deep lineup to crack. The MLB future might be AAAA with someone else but he does have a chance.

It should be noted that the last White Sox win was against Bailey Ober. I imagine he's aware and prepared.

Gallo being a purchase (cash) they look back on with some regrets, similar to Mahle (barter). It's easy to overspend when you are new at it. Back on topic, the spending habits are being re-calibrated, but only partially by the lack of cash.

Cept that's when they got a Buck Truck, a Correa and Pablo. They threw a Vazquez and a Gallo in the cart just cause. They are farther along in the journey than most think. We have lots of nice things, major league backups for almost all those things and 6 top 100 prospects just in case. Let them cook. They gotta sort some stuff.

Circling back to my theory the White Sox just might not be very good at this thing. Jayson Stark's wrap up piece on the Athletic is very good, and he is very hard on the White Sox on all their deals. It's well worth a read and seeing the White Sox move laid out together-blech! https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5673477/2024/08/01/what-we-learned-from-this-mlb-trade-deadline-and-the-execs-who-drove-the-market/ I also loved his description of the Cubs as not a buyer or seller but a shopper. Basically the player store is only open a few times a year so why wouldn't you browse just in case you see something you like. I think this is probably Falvey as well. The Cubs just happened to see something they liked. I can relate, I remember spending hours in the farm store as a kid, just looking at tools and toys and dreaming about when I could get some money. Then, when I got some money, I made a series of rash spending sprees and accumulated many things. Some of them were even good things. Now that I'm more mature (ahem) I'm at HomeDepot and sometimes see interesting things but mostly I walk the aisle and don't see much I don't already have. I might see something neat that's a bit of a better hammer but its $79 and its not that much better a hammer. We have dinner at home, you know. Come to think of it, I may just have described the Falvine teams growth into their roles. The next step is that when I see a tool I need (absolutely need, like saves a full weekend tool) I figure out which one is the best one, pay the man and buy (or rent) it. If that man tells me the price tripled just because he knows I need the tool, I'll tell him to bugger off. Maybe I'll just hire someone with the tool, there are options. That's the step we want them to take. The have all the basics covered. I don't buy the money problem when so many good tools actually cost less money than what they actually did. They just need to trade both the extra hammers to get their better hammer. If they have to spend from the prospect account do it, but only for a clear upgrade. If they didn't see a clear upgrade, that's an opinion. It does not sound like the White Sox were a functional seller, like 1.5 stars on Ebay, 10k reviews.

Cmon now. You telling me that ball is caught 4 times out of 100?

And 114 pitches isn't crazy. Gave up one hard hit ball.

New friend Keith Richards?