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In his sixth year as a pro ballplayer, Nicky Delmonico made his majorleague debut with the Chicago White Sox tonight, striking out before a sparse crowd. Just maybe not as much as a few others. THE DO BETTER BUNCHChelsea. I know that Chelsea are the reigning champions, and also that they are third favorites to win the Premier League this season. I know that they have one of the games best managers, one of the EPLs very best players, and a recent history of sustained success. I would not be all that surprised if they won the league again this year, and Im not saying that they are bad or boring or anything like that. However, Chelsea have had a very strange offseason, and if they dont make any big changes in the near future, I dont think theyll be a particularly fun team to follow. Its hard to ignore the echoes in this Chelsea team of another Chelsea team of recent vintage. Just two years ago, the Blues were coming off a comfortable title victory, were led by a great manager, and were curiously passive in the summer transfer market, most likely believing that stability and continuity would pull them through and see them to another successful season. What happened instead was one of the most shocking collapses in recent memory as the team got off to a horrendous start to the year and endured almost unceasing torrents of public criticism from a wounded and vindictive Jos Mourinho, which led to the players eventually more or less mutinying against their manager, getting him fired and themselves an embarrassing tenth place finish in the table. The odds that this year ends as disastrously as that one are pretty small, but the risk of disappointment is real. From a personnel standpoint, Chelsea really havent improved their roster this summer, and arguably have even gotten a little worse. Theyve strengthened their defensive line with good young center backs Antonio Rdiger and Andreas Christensen, but theyve failed to beef up the squad anywhere else. In midfield they lost Nemanja Mati and replaced him with Timou Bakayoko. Bakayoko will probably be really good in the same way that NGolo Kant is really good, but his addition is sort of redundant when they already have Kant. Mati was a good combination of hard working, strong, smart, and skilled at passing. Bakayoko is better at the defensive and physical aspects of the game than Mati but his lack of passing ability might limit the attacking prowess of a team that was already fairly uncreative in the middle of the field already. Either Bakayoko starts next to Kant and Chelsea suffer attacking wise, or Cesc Fbregas comes in alongside those two or in place of one and the team suffers due to Fbregass defensive shortcomings. Either way, its not ideal. Its the same story on the forward line. Chelsea did invest heavily up top by bringing in lvaro Morata from Real Madrid, but hes coming in to replace Diego Costa, who has been excellent for Chelsea. Costa is big and strong and fast and tricky with his feet and a tiger in the box and a bull with his back to goal while holding up the ballall traits that made him perfect for the highly demanding role Chelsea manager Antonio Conte instructs his strikers to perform. Meanwhile Morata is certainly good, but since hes never been a regular starter anywhere no one really knows if he can do all the big and little things Conte will request of him. And from a sheer entertainment factor perspective, theres no way Morata will be as diabolicallyendearing as Costa. On both functional and aesthetic grounds, Chelseas attack has almost certainly downgraded. The transfer window is still open, of course, and Chelseas shock loss to Burnley in their season opener might wind up being a blessing in disguise if it allows Conte to convince the moneymen at the club to cough up the dough to bring in the necessary reinforcements. They probably need another central midfielder, at least one more wing back, and could use another forward, too. Chelsea got away with riding their thin squad last year because they didnt have European play to sap the legs of their regular starters. Theyll need more depth this season to cope with all the additional games that will come from Champions League participation, and if they dont make the right moves fast, this season could be something of a replay of 2. Newcastle United. Newcastle, comparatively one of the bigger teams in England and by proxy the world, got relegated from the Premier League two seasons ago in humiliating fashion, and it was very funny. Then they paid out the ass to keep hold of most of their proven EPL quality players and coasted to promotion. Now theyre back in the league where they belong with basically the same team that brought them there, hoping to reestablish themselves as safe midtable denizens. It could probably go either way. If there is a star at Newcastle it is probably their manager, Rafa Bentez. He has proven his ability time and again as a pretty damn good tactical manager who nonetheless often runs the risk of pissing off either his players or his clubs higher up types with his famously prickly personality. And for a good while now, Bentez has not even tried hiding his frustrations with Newcastles leadership. The problem, in the managers mind, is that the club hasnt done enough to improve in the summer.