James Fegan

When we talked to Minnesota, he almost kind of self-corrected saying, I know I'm on the record saying it's about more than 2026.

And that's still true in terms of they're not trying to just push all the resources in for this year and trade a bunch of prospects necessarily.

But

It's something that he felt it was necessary to go out there and state like, hey, I'm seeing what we're all seeing here.

Yes, this is a team that's in it, and we're going to try to support that within a reasonable degree, which I think is going to involve adding at the deadline.

It's just not necessarily like...

future it doesn't exist and we're gonna put caleb bonhamer on the market or something like that uh so i i think that's been state claimant but the same like wow the white sox have held up even with some injuries not having kyle teal all year and not having uh munitaka murakami the same thing can't apply to the guardians as well like jose ramirez hasn't been like the only reason they've been good this season he actually had pretty of a slow start and they're still going to be pretty good at preventing runs and doing a lot of like little things that

keeps them contending for a division year in year out so i'm not necessarily thinking like now that he's out they're going to collapse in some way maybe they they do but i i think it's not a given just like the way it wasn't a given for murakami going down so i i think it's i think they're in it as much as anybody and they have this clear advantage over the rest of the division field where their offense like minnesota is like the only team that's within like

0.7 runs per game i want to say the white sox are like 4.75 and like minnesota's close and then no everyone else is like in the low fours like they're clearly the best offensive league but i think the flip side is you probably say the cleveland has the the best run prevention operation uh in the division division not the league i shouldn't say so i i think i wouldn't know if i'd go all the way like it's theirs for the taking or it's theirs to lose but i think they are one of the two legit contenders for the division and

That's a spot pretty much any team would take going into the year is that you have this even chance to go to the division.

And really, looking at the larger AL field, it's underperformed at large.

You always wanted to win your division.

It's always the easiest way to make the playoffs.

But not like a huge groundswell of teams that are like, oh, man, they're definitely going to overtake the White Sox.

I think they have a good shot there as well.

So I think the idea of playoff contention is at this point the expectation for them.

That's pretty clearly laid out.

I don't have to, but I wouldn't say that everybody's locked in in some way that is... I think it's a smaller... You listed off five or six people.

I think the number of guys, this is the clear solution at this position.

This is our...