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• Dugout Metrics Podcast 10 — A six-pack of young pitchers

Malachi Hayes breaks down the pluses and minuses of the coming White Sox pitching talent with Brett Ballantini — plus deep dives into Garrett Crochet and Michael Kopech Yes, it’s been many months for our most, er, “exclusive” Sox Populi podcast. But Dugout Metrics is back, with a couple of pitching-themed programs ahead. First, it’s a deeper dive into the six players who are arguably (unquestiona...2024
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• Phillies 8, White Sox 2: When is rock bottom?

Eloy Jiménez rounds the bases after his first inning home run to make it a 2-0 early lead. Hanging his head seems appropriate given what was to come. | Eric Hartline-USA TODAY Sports I thought we already hit it, but it just keeps getting worse The White Sox have gotten swept by the Philadelphia Phillies, losing this one 8-2. We had about a half-inning of hope before we realized we are in ...2024
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• White Sox fall again (yawn), drop first game 4-2 to Royals

The new kid did all that he could do. | Quinn Harris/Getty Images At least we can weep and moan about a bad call this time, even if it’s very doubtful it made any difference Hey, the Sox led most of the game this time! That must count for something, right? Well, er, uh, no. Unless you mean counting for a sixth straight loss and a 2-15 record. On the bright side, Jonathan Cannon made his m...2024
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• The 2024 White Sox could be historically bad

Jamie Sabau-USA TODAY Sports This isn’t a diss to the Sox — it’s just reality. A year ago at this time, many were saying that the 2023 Oakland Athletics could be historically awful. It should be noted that after 16 games, the 2023 A’s were one game better than the 2024 White Sox. Oakland was 3-13 and the Sox are currently 2-14. The A’s then went on a horrific run that left them at 10-45, w...2024
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• South Side Sox Player of the Week (April 4-11): Gavin Sheets

Mitch Ransdell/South Side Sox Somebody had to be Gavin Sheets is our latest Player of the Week. Unfortunately, when talking about any honors for a now 2-14 team, a player of the week is going to be granted not just with plaudits, but irony or jokes. So, of course, the first reaction is that Gavin Sheets was our Player of the Weeks because someone had to be. And, after all, he’s a one-dime...2024
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• Royals 2, White Sox 0: This team might not be any good

Pedro Grifol: The scapegoat, or the real problem? | Jason Miller/Getty Images I’m struggling to find anything witty to say these days The White Sox had a team meeting this afternoon, however, Pedro Grifol didn’t feel the need to elaborate on what was said. I’m sure it’s exactly what the team needed to get pumped up, though, right? Wrong! What?? A loss after the big team meeting? I’m st...2024
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• White Sox series preview: Injuries have made a bad team worse

Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images Can the Royals pull off another sweep? Fans knew it was going to be a long year on the South Side this year. It’s not good if management is already refuting reports they are considering firing the manager in the second week of the season. But early injuries have decimated an already-thin roster. The White Sox are without their top three hitters - third ba...2024
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• White Sox shut out for fifth time in 14 games, 5-0

Bears safety Jonathan Owens throwing out the first pitch was the highlight of the day for Chicago fans. | Jamie Sabau/Getty Images While the Reds manage to get to Garrett Crochet If you like to watch Major League Baseball players slouch back to the dugout dragging their bats, then this was the game for you. Starters Garrett Crochet and Nick Lodolo each whiffed 10, something not previously...2024
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• MLB Roundup: Week 1

Ronel Blanco completed the first no-hitter of the season! | Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports Diving into the best and worst performances of the first week of the season The first week of the MLB season was full of action, including a no-hitter, a walk-off grand slam and various hot and cold starts from a variety of teams. We’re here to give you the top performances and moments of the week, ...2024
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• Glasnow is NOW - April 10, 2024
Tyler Glasnow, SP (LAD) Glasnow was absolutely dominant on Tuesday, shutting the Twins down for seven innings, allowing only three hits and no walks while striking out 14. He is now 3-0 on the season with a 2.25 ERA and 29 strikeouts in 24 innings. Glasnow's spin rate was up as he generated 21 swings and misses. Essentially half of opposing swings failed to make contact. That's ridiculous. Meanwhi...2024
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• White Sox 7, Guardians 5: Moncada falls, Kopech rises

Michael Kopech brought the heat in victory! | Dustin Bradford/Getty Images South Siders overcome Cleveland, and themselves, to earn their second win of the season The White Sox offense went from drought to deluge early in this one, as nine batters came to the plate in the first, scoring five runs on five hits and a walk. White Sox are up 5-0 in a game?! Did the rapture really happen and...2024
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• AL Week 3 Strategy-April6, 2024
American League In The Field The Athletics have optioned OF Esteury Ruiz to Triple-A. This is huge news for those who drafted Ruiz to be a big part of their stolen base plan. He hit .254 with 5 HR and 67 SB last year in 132 GP but struggled in spring (.236 AVG with 31% K). The Athletics have said that they want him to lead off and play every day which is why he is at Triple-A. Something smells...2024
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• White Sox series preview: Welcome, old friends!

Photo by Plumb Images/Leicester City FC via Getty Images The White Sox have become a stop for former Royals. The White Sox lost 101 games last year, an embarrassing culmination of the rebuild movement they embarked on several years go. The disappointing season cost general manager Rick Hahn his job, but rather than clean house, the White Sox promoted farm director Chris Getz to run the tea...2024
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• Let’s beat that dead horse for 3-3-3 once again!

Because some might be offended by an image of an actual beating of a dead horse, here instead is an appealing view of Dead Horse Point Park in Utah. | discovermoab.com The 2024 White Sox are the perfect team to innovate with its pitching rotation Yes, yes, I know. I’ve promoted the 3-3-3 pitching rotation before, as recently as the trading deadline last year after the White Sox sent off m...2024
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• Orioles 9, White Sox 0: Nothing to see here

White Sox baseball is bad. Joan Jett is not. | Jess Rapfogel/Getty Images I love rock ’n roll but despise South Side baseball The most exciting thing about this game is that Joan Jett was in the house! The “I Love Rock ’n Roll” superstar is a big-time Baltimore Orioles fan. If she isn’t seriously the most adorable baseball fan. Don’t mind me why I fangirl. Joan Jett is a real one, ...2023
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• South Side Sox Player of the Week (September 26-October 5): Lance Lynn
Mitch Ransdell/South Side Sox October dawns, and the dust of the pennant race has settled. What happens now? Where am I? On the South Side, this week feels a little like waking up during the second act of a Hangover movie: Tony La Russa is missing, empty bottles of Malört litter the clubhouse floor, and Ken Williams has a face tattoo. Rest assured, there’s one thing that hasn’t changed. B...2022
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"Michael Kopech finished out the ninth without any damage."

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"Kyle Hendricks will start the series opener against Michael Kopech for the Sox."

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"Michael Kopech was in clear pain throwing his warmup pitches before the bottom […] Tony La Russa makes a terrible decision with Michael Kopech - Southside Showdown - Southside Showdown - Chicago White Sox News, Rumors, and Fan Community"

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"The White Sox have reinstated right-hander Michael Kopech from the 10-day injured list, and also called up left-hander Jace Fry from Triple-A Charlotte."

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"White Sox righty Michael Kopech has opted out of the 2020 season, per a club announcement."

2019
"As a refresher of Sale’s move from the White Sox to the Red Sox in December 2016, Chicago landed arguably baseball’s best prospect (Yoan Moncada), another blue-chip pitching prospect (Michael Kopech) and two other solid minor leaguers (outfielder Luis Alexander Basabe and hard-throwing righty Victor Diaz)."

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"For a moment on Saturday, White Sox right-hander Michael Kopech didn't picture himself at Surprise Stadium."

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"Crawford also cracks the top five, sandwiched between Dodgers first baseman Cody Bellinger and White Sox righty Michael Kopech, who…"

2016
"Fox Sports' Ken Rosenthal reported the White Sox acquired Yoan Moncada, Michael Kopech and two other prospects from the Red Sox."

2015
"Red Sox minor leaguer Michael Kopech has been suspended 50 games after testing positive for the stimulant Oxilofrine, the league announced yesterday."

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• The most colorful hobby box I've ever opened, part 1

All right, welcome to my 2024 Heritage box break. This is the first hobby box I have purchased since 2011 when I bought a box of Allen & Ginter for the third year in a row. After that I went into box-breaking rehab and have done quite well, except for falling off the wagon ... right now.I don't buy hobby boxes these days for a lot of reasons, but one of the big ones occurring to me now is I ...2024
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• Glasnow is NOW - April 10, 2024
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• Royals 2, White Sox 1: How bad can it get?

Time to bring out the bags. | Matt Marton-USA TODAY Sports Now Luis Robert Jr. is injured. Is this rock-bottom? Another humiliating loss is in the books for the White Sox. The game remained 1-1 until the eighth inning when the Royals moved ahead. What happened next? Pain. But we’ll get to that later. The Royals struck first when Salvador Pérez doubled to center to send Vinnie Pasquantin...2024
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• Dumpst ... I mean ... roster diving

The fate of the White Sox largely centers on the success of the players surrounding Luis Robert Jr. in the lineup. | Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Let’s take an early-season look at [gestures wildly] THIS Staring down the barrel of this upcoming season, you might find yourself asking some very real and sincere questions about the makeup of your 2024 Chicago White Sox. Like, why were there o...2024
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• Chicago White Sox Food Preview 2024

The brand new Campfire Milkshake was a wonderful treat! | Dante Jones/South Side Sox I had the opportunity to try some of the newest offerings at Guaranteed Rate Field! The Chicago White Sox invited the South Side Sox crew to Guaranteed Rate Field’s newly-redesigned Vizzy View Bar for a sampling of the team’s newest in stadium food offerings and a preview of some of the promotional giveaw...2024
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• White Sox 7, Guardians 5: Moncada falls, Kopech rises
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• South Side Sox Player of the Week (March 28-April 3): Garrett Crochet

Mitch Ransdell/South Side Sox The lone shining star in a puddle of mud As hard as it is to watch the White Sox in 2024, there’s been one bright spot, every five games. The unexpected ascendance of Garrett Crochet — on NO PLANET did anyone think he’d be the best starter in baseball through two turns — has been the solitary triumph for a moribund White Sox team. Crochet is tied for tops in ...2024
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• Sharing Sox Podcast 125 — First look at the regular season

Before quickly looking away Sure, this White Sox season will be mostly gloom and doom, but SSS duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast correspondent, Will, begin and end this session of Sharing Sox on high notes. Early on, they rave about the brilliant performance so far of Garrett Crochet, and, as a grand finale, wander into the one great new addition to the Sox this year, an addition ...2024
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• THE WHITE SOX HAVE WON A GAME

A White Sox winner?! | @CheesySox A 3-2 squeaker puts me officially at the top of the coverage standings for South Side Sox Friends, are you sitting down? You are? OK — good. The White Sox have won a game! Against a very talented Braves team. In April! Garrett Crochet was tough as nails throughout the game, and if you don’t believe me, just peek at the Pitching Ninja account. The fir...2024
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• Mariners sail by White Sox, 8-2

Another awful spring game for Chicago | itch.io But, hey, forget the third inning and it was a tie This probably wasn’t the way Nick Nastrini planned his final audition to go for a spot in the White Sox starting rotation. However, both the radio team and listeners polled think he’ll get the job anyway because, well, the alternative is pretty much handing a mitt and a rosin bag to a random ...2024
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• Royals 2, White Sox 0: This team might not be any good
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• White Sox shut out for fifth time in 14 games, 5-0
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• White Sox 7, Guardians 5: Moncada falls, Kopech rises
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• South Side Sox Player of the Week (March 3-11): Eloy Jiménez

Mitch Ransdell/South Side Sox A rundown of our lifetime MVPs, at 86 and counting Given a second consecutive Player of the Week accolade plus the unlikelihood he’ll win a third straight (Eloy has not played since March 13, gulp), we’ll go a different direction with the essay this week. Perhaps for the first time, let’s break down the running total of MVPs, which we have been naming now alo...2024
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• Gamethread: White Sox at Cubs

It’s Kopech Day! | Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Keep that Cubbie stink away After a two-game split sweep yesterday (try to say that five times fast), the White Sox look to keep the streak alive against the Cubs. Also, somewhat newly married Michael Kopech will get his first spring training start. Though his marriage was not as secretive as Shohei Ohtani’s. Ideally, appear to be h...2024
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• Chris Sale to Red Sox: Latest Trade Details, Comments and Reaction
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• Source: Red Sox get Sale; Moncada to CWS
The Red Sox have acquired All-Star ace left-hander Chris Sale from the White Sox for infielder Yoan Moncada, right-hander Michael Kopech and two other prospects, according to a report by MLB Network insider Ken Rosenthal....2016
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• Source: Red Sox acquire Sale for Moncada, 3 others
The Red Sox have agreed to acquire All-Star left-hander Chris Sale from the White Sox for infielder Yoan Moncada, right-hander Michael Kopech and two other prospects, a source told MLB.com's Jon Paul Morosi....2016
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• Cubs 7, Cardinals 2: Hey, Jed! Don’t trade Cody Bellinger!
Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The Cubs center fielder homered again and drove in three runs. The Cubs did what they had to do this weekend, take three of four from the Cardinals, in order to stay close to playoff contention. And they did so Sunday in their third straight win over St. Louis, 7-2, largely on the back of center fielder Cody Bellinger. Bellinger smacked a two-run homer an...2023
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• Michael Kopech Opts Out Of 2020 Season
White Sox righty Michael Kopech has opted out of the 2020 season, per a club announcement. He was working his way back from Tommy John surgery. In other news from White Sox camp, infielder Yoan Moncada and righty Jose Ruiz have each been placed on the 10-day injured list. Further details are not known at…...2020
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• Boston prospect Kopech hits 105 mph on radar gun
When discussing why he was willing to trade Anderson Espinoza, one of the best pitching prospects in baseball, Red Sox president Dave Dombrowski cited the emergence of Michael Kopech, another right-handed pitching prospect, as one reason. Kopech showed why in a dominant outing on Wednesday night, during which he hit 105 mph with a second-inning fastball....2016
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• Boston prospect Kopech hits 105 mph on radar gun
When discussing why he was willing to trade Anderson Espinoza, Red Sox president Dave Dombrowski cited the emergence of another pitching prospect -- Michael Kopech -- as one reason. Kopech showed why in a ‪start Wednesday night, when hit 105 mph with his fastball....2016
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• White Sox Option Michael Kopech
The White Sox have optioned right-hander Michael Kopech to Triple-A Charlotte, the team announced. Whenever the season gets underway, he’ll open on the minor league side of things. That’s long seemed like a formality. The 23-year-old Kopech is one of baseball’s premier pitching prospects but underwent Tommy John surgery late in 2018, shortly after making…...2020
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• Too much of a good thing

Yesterday while shopping for furniture I knew that this would be my chance to finally get to Target to see if the 2024 cards were there.I had checked for cards once before last week during a quick spin through Walmart. The area where the cards were was being replaced by Easter baskets and decorations for sale. The new card station was vacant except for some fantasy something or other.So I do...2024
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• Rays Thank McClanahan For Being A Four Inning Friend
The Cleveland Starting Pitcher Factory (housed in a former The Old Spaghetti Factory) made its mark by producing low-priced alternatives that reduced meatball consumption. You might remember the host, Giuseppe, from the Dominican Republic, always mentioned his father loved "The Godfather." Well, there's another low-priced starter conveyor belt spitting out alternatives with nasty stuff, The Tampa ...2021
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• South Side Sox Player of the Week (April 4-11): Gavin Sheets
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• Singer sharp, bullpen barely holds on to win 2-1 over White Sox

Photo by Reed Hoffmann/Getty Images The Will Smith Closer Experience must end now. The Royals got another terrific outing by a starter, a late run on clutch hit, and the bullpen was barely able to hold on to preserve a 2-1 win over the White Sox Friday evening. The Royals improve to 4-4, the first time they have been at .500 since April 20, 2022. The Royals got things going in the opening ...2024
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• Rox: 7, Sox: BAD

Starter-not-starter Michael Kopech had himself another miserable spring outing. | Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Maybe the org is secretly doing us a favor not letting us watch? In a game that none of us could see or hear, probably for the better, the White Sox put on another indefatigable display of atrocious baseball. Unfortunately, I don’t foresee much of anything changing when the calendar...2024
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• Gamethread: Mariners at White Sox

The only person who matters at all in White Sox World | Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Yes, they are still playing the games As the world whirls around the White Sox (49-77), fans were first elated yesterday by the news that KennyRick will no longer be destroying their favorite team. Then, said fans quickly deflated when Lord Jerry’s typist procla...2023
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• Bird App Recap: A bad baseball brew

And we’ll do it our way! Lose, that is ... Happy Friday, Friends! The Brew Crew is in town, to take on the Pale Hose on the South Side! pic.twitter.com/FKVXPa629l— Ryiin (@rfoto) August 11, 2023 This bit is probably very tired for most readers, but I don’t care, it still amuses me. And if we can’t be entertained while watching bad baseball, what are we even doing here? Another of Pedro’s in...2023
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• South Side Sox Player of the Week (July 28-August 3): Jesse Scholtens

Mitch Ransdell/South Side Sox The late-blooming rookie helps the White Sox limp (crawl?) through the dog days of summer with a pair of solid starts Jesse Scholtens’ South Side debut last April didn’t generate much of a buzz, but his recent pitching starts certainly have. After the trade deadline left the White Sox rotation as hollow as Rick Hahn’s head, Scholtens got his chance to shine ...2023
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. White Sox series preview
Photo by John Adams/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The first two games of this year’s Crosstown Classic are Tuesday and Wednesday. Hey, both these teams were supposed to contend this year, the White Sox more so than the Cubs, or so it was said when this season began. It hasn’t worked out that way for the Sox, no siree, not at all, and the Cubs lurk around the edges of contention. For mor...2023
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• South Side Soxivus 2023: Miracles
Eloy Jiménez regaining his health and flexing his power stroke would be a Soxivus Miracle. | Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images When each staffer asks for one miracle in 2023, the wish list gets wild, quick We started this Soxivus season with the Calling of Managers, then moving on to Grievances and Feats of Strength. Most recently, we’ve taken a look at the Worst and Best Games of 2022. And we...2022
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• Soxivus 2022: The Airing of Grievances
These two, man. | Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images With the dust settled on a devastatingly mismanaged White Sox season, a dozen South Side Sox writers come together to wail and moan over all the misdeeds I gotta lot of problems with you people, and now you’re gonna hear about it!— Jerry Stiller as Frank Costanza from Seinfeld’s “The Strike.” While ...2022
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• Davidson, bats awaken in Giolito's strong start
There is plenty of buzz surrounding the White Sox right now, with top pitching prospect Michael Kopech set to make his Major League debut on Tuesday. But on Monday, Chicago's offense stole the show and ambushed one of the Twins' own top prospects in his first big league outing....2018
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• Have the Chicago Cubs lost their mind?
The Chicago Cubs disappointing first half along with a farm system barren of pitching talent brought about a shocking trade Thursday with the crosstown rival White Sox. for José Quintana is now a Cub. It just took their top two minor league prospects to get the job done. Just a few months ago, both Theo Epstein and Sox GM Rick Hahn laughed at the thought of the teams trading with each other. Even ...2017
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