The White Sox

[Just Regular]

Larussa's team is scuffling this year but did recently get their Lance Lynn back and may have Eloy soon.    Neither the Twins nor Guardians are in the world beating business.

In the offseason, Josh Harrison was a popular better than Rougned Odor pick for an infield Adult in the Room; our guy up 83-74 at OPS+ entering the series, while Outs Above Average thinks Harrison has been five runs BETTER with the glove.

This White Sox-Mariners-Twins roadtrip interesting to me as the class of AL team future Orioles will need to leapfrog to access the league's Top Six.

The White Sox kind of went Stars and Scrubs to start year with 2B Harrison and OF Garcia positions Odor-Mancini-Santander might theoretically help.

Yesterday two weak regulars exited in-game and they have promoted an infielder from AA for the weekend.

[OriolesMagic83]

The Twins and White Sox have a better record than the O's, but you have to wonder what their record would look like if they played in the AL East.  This is a nice stretch for the O's to prove that they belong with the "good" teams.  Twins especially have given the O's fits over the years.

[JR Oriole]

33 minutes ago, OriolesMagic83 said:

The Twins and White Sox have a better record than the O's, but you have to wonder what their record would look like if they played in the AL East.  This is a nice stretch for the O's to prove that they belong with the "good" teams.  Twins especially have given the O's fits over the years.

Maybe the Twins success against us balances out their 39-111 record against the Yankees since 2002.  

[Can_of_corn]

2 hours ago, Just Regular said:

Larussa's team is scuffling this year but did recently get their Lance Lynn back and may have Eloy soon.    Neither the Twins nor Guardians are in the world beating business.

In the offseason, Josh Harrison was a popular better than Rougned Odor pick for an infield Adult in the Room; our guy up 83-74 at OPS+ entering the series, while Outs Above Average thinks Harrison has been five runs BETTER with the glove.

This White Sox-Mariners-Twins roadtrip interesting to me as the class of AL team future Orioles will need to leapfrog to access the league's Top Six.

The White Sox kind of went Stars and Scrubs to start year with 2B Harrison and OF Garcia positions Odor-Mancini-Santander might theoretically help.

Yesterday two weak regulars exited in-game and they have promoted an infielder from AA for the weekend.

A vocal segment of the fanbase would like the Hall of Fame person removed from his position.

Considering who owns the team, I don't think that is going to happen.

I do think they are underachieving.

[sportsfan8703]

The starting pitching matchups aren’t pretty, but then again they never are for us. .500 ball the last two months has been fun. 

[jabba72]

30 minutes ago, sportsfan8703 said:

The starting pitching matchups aren’t pretty, but then again they never are for us. .500 ball the last two months has been fun. 

Kremer starts for us tonight. He's practically an ace on our staff so im excited to see how he does. 

[ArtVanDelay]

2 hours ago, JR Oriole said:

Maybe the Twins success against us balances out their 39-111 record against the Yankees since 2002.  

Wow, that’s amazing considering the Twins have been pretty good most of those years. 

[Morgan423]

4 hours ago, JR Oriole said:

Maybe the Twins success against us balances out their 39-111 record against the Yankees since 2002.  

That barely feels statistically better than forfeiting every game

[Frobby]

12 minutes ago, Morgan423 said:

That barely feels statistically better than forfeiting every game

Since 2009, their playoff record against the Yankees is literally equal to forfeiting every game (0-10).   They did manage to go 2-6 against the Yankees in the course of losing in the 2003-04 playoffs.  

[Frobby]

Speaking of one team dominating another, the White Sox went 7-0 against us last year and outscored us 45-16 in those games.   Revenge time!

[waroriole]

5 hours ago, JR Oriole said:

Maybe the Twins success against us balances out their 39-111 record against the Yankees since 2002.  

Their futility against the Yankees is insane. And some good teams too. 12 seasons above .500 since 2002, and they win 26% of their games against the Yankees. 

[Just Regular]

Once Oakland moves Sean Murphy (irrelevant to us), the last down to the studs roster will have been picked clean.

Looking around to wonder who might be next, the owner did make the '22 Larussa team a special one.    I was surprised looking through the numbers to discover the '22 White Sox $193mm was $60mm more than they had ever gone before.    The team flopped, they have a near MLB-worst Farm.     It feels too soon for the Jose Abreu, Tim Anderson, Luis Robert White Sox to be "over" especially considering the year Cease just had, but curious to see how things go for them from here.

Giolito and Grandal on walk years, and ignoring options (that may end up team friendly if Player stays strong) so are Lynn and Hendriks.

Trade prices for buying Wins this winter might be a little bit of a seller's market.

[LookinUp]

I think they run it back one more year. LaRussa is determined as the reason they stunk last year. This year, with a new manager and the same talent, they go for it. 

If not, definitely worth exploring their assets.

[Frobby]

I think injuries were a huge factor for the White Sox last year.  Anderson, Moancada, Robert and Jimenez all missed significant time.  Also, their defense was really awful, possibly because of the injuries.