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For sure. The amateur scouts on here would rather be right. But they will all be wrong. He went 6 games this year before an extra base hit. Now several have to study each hit to determine if it was legit. You take away every players hits that weren crushed, MLB scores would look like soccer.

For as much as he is hated, McCann has actually played pretty well so far.

Brett Gardner’s face pisses me off

Fathom can be positive. He's not that negative. Anderson with the bomb. Man, most of our rebuild guys are doing fine. Hope they are on fire during June, July when it gets hot out.

I love how slow the game threads move when there is nothing to complain about.

Is it time to send Palka down? There are a couple outfielders in Tilson and Cordell who are hitting pretty well.

Can't wait if so, don't forget Cease too and these bullpen pieces The Madrigal hate on here is so comical Gold Glove caliber defender who'll consistently hit .300-ish with speed and no Ks Can't wait for Madrigal to join Moncada, Anderson, Jimenez, and Robert

Its pretty clear you are a troll looking at your posts, your shtick is to pretend to be an old timer. Not very original

He has been an average player the last couple years and was 4th on the 2018 white sox in fWAR. A 2 WAR player is an average starter and Yolmer has been that the last couple years. This statement does not excuse his play this year at all, his play this year has been ridiculously bad. It's not just a slow start - guys get off to a slow start with the bat sometimes even if they're doing everything right, but his defensive mental miscues make this something far worse. Either mentally or physically or both, he's not there at all right now. This is particularly disappointing, because if he was just doing the same thing as last year, there would already be teams calling about him. All he had to do was be a fundamentally sound, average infielder who can play several positions. The Yankees could use another of those right now. But of course, somehow, lack of preparation or poor coaching or poor focus - always has to screw over our franchise.

Yolmer's best trait is being a clown with a Gatorade bucket.

He would provide as much value to the future at 2B as Yolmer.

I'm all in with the rebuild, but what is so enamoring about Yomer Sanchez that Renteria insists on putting him in the starting lineup every day? Sanchez is a utility player--nothing more, nothing less. His best assets are being the team jester and pouring Gatorade on teammates. Nick Madrigal can't be called up soon enough. Despite his great start offensively this season, Leury Garcia is someone else I'm tired of seeing. He been butchering balls in the outfield and making stupid base-running mistakes for 3 years. It does appear, at least, that the Sox's love affair with Dylan Covey is finally (thankfully) coming to an end. Covey is in the minors where he belongs.

...and series decider , Timmy grand slam ! Not a great game but a win is a win

I thought for sure a great game is any game where Timmy hits a grand slam for you.

I agree,I think there’s a real solid chance one of either the O’s or Royals go underslot with one the HS talents recognizing their timeline to be competititive again. Sox should have their pick between Vaughn or Adley which is perfect

If those guys turn it around, I’m crediting you for your not-so-optimistic outlook. 😉 They needed a little kick in the ass to get going.

He doesn't count.....Let's forget he was ever here.

Honestly, that might be why they didn't sign Machado. If they actually keep Moncada and Robert, should they be as good as we hope, that is fine.

I really miss Hawk

I am still very confident that a player with a hit tool and baseball IQ like his will overproduce compared to expectations. I just don’t know that he figures that out by his first two years, but his other tools are carrying tools that can have him arrive before his offensive power arrives.

I wanted the Sox to pick Madrigal and almost immediately I've just felt that we're going to end up being disappointed in the pick. Seems like some of the scouting industry has started to sour on him a little bit too. Plenty of time for him to grow of course once we change our expectations away from immediate surge to MLB.

Blasphemous comment on Kevan Smith‘s and Omar Narvaez‘ #1 fansite. Home plate ump having a terrible game.

No

Nope, hes done.

He does. It's just sometimes lost in his rapid fire posts of vitriol. Lol.

Meh, he'll stay if the Sox want him to stay. The coming years are going to be rough for FAs

Awesome at bat by Eloy again. Love how he's laying off those sliders he struggled with the first week.

Let Cordell have a shot

Best half so far for the rebuild? I’d say yes.

We should be fair to Yolmer...he's not used to being on base so forgot what to do

I have never seen anything like that in my life. Wtf, Yolmer?

Wow this is like watching the Indians in Major league.. in the begining.

For those that weren't aware.

Most teams fire their hitting coach when the offense craters.

He even looked slow on the pop up he caught. His lateral movement is horrible this year.

Vaughn if he's there. If not, one of the next tier of college bats. Bishop/Stott/Bleday.

He won't be a better-than-prime Ichiro described in scenario a?

I never said he was the answer but I’d rather see him play over Yolmer. I haven’t spun anything.

If your expectation is for him to hit .340, you are a bit insane and unrealistic.

I'll be happy with a HBP or catcher's interference.

On the bright side Robert and Madrigal went a combined 7/8 at the top of the Dash lineup today.Robert's OPS is over 1.500

Talented? yes. Able to generate results? Nobody knew. That was the big mystery. Starting him in AA would have been way too risky and stupid. If he would have started off slow, all the reactionary-and-blame types on here would have crucified the FO for starting him in AA. So glad they made the right call 100% with regard to Robert. Looks like it might pay huge dividends.

Yolmer Sanchez owns a .653 career OPS. He is making $4.625 million this year and is literally a non-tender candidate next offseason but I expect him to be traded for peanuts before the deadline. The Sox will not miss him. A guy like Jose Rondon makes Yolmer a complete waste of $4 million dollars because he is younger and has more cheap salary arbitration years left. I truly do not understand the love for Yolmer. Is it because his best tool/skill is dumping Gatorade on his own head?!?

Heblows outhit by Davis. Sad.

Who made you the thought police?

You don't need to start a thread every time a thought pops into your head.

He's one of those guys where his antics are ok when he is playing well, but it gets old when he's shitting the bed

Hopefully. It’s pretty much clockwork that by mid to late April he creates a new thread complaining about Abreu and then Abreu goes on a tear almost immediately after.

We are 11 games into a 162 game season. My sincere advice to boarders who are (understandably) extraordinarily frustrated is to not get wedded to a doom and gloom board persona wherein you are rationalizing your position that everything sucks for the remainder of this season. They might break out versus the Yanks this weekend. They might next week. Let's all just relax and let it happn. Certainly, at some point, they're going to go through a stretch where they play much much better baseball than this. There's no pressure on this team from a record standpoint - so who cares how many wins and losses we have? Silver linings are in a bunch of places - Gio's first start Rodon's first AND second start Moncada/Eloy/Anderson's great starts Even identifying things like "Palka is a sure fire NON major leaguer" is way better than him dabbling with 20 home runs and a 0.8 WAR to have him hang around. Same goes for a player like Yolmer. The sooner we move on from placeholders, the better place we will be in medium term. I'm gonna give it 30 games. I suggest everyone think about doing the same.

Exactly. The White Sox have been irrelevant for 10+ years now. They embarked on a rebuild that the fans bought into, because their old ways of doing business was piss poor and led to crappy records and uninspiring on-field performances. They set themselves up perfectly for this 2019 offseason to connect on a generational talent to expedite this rebuild, and got bogged down by $50 million. Pathetic. The dagger in all of this is that they probably were being ridiculously presumptuous in believing guys like Bogaerts or Arenado would be there the next winter.... NOPE! I've already heard Hahn mention, "When the time comes, we will eventually start looking to trade some of our prospect depth to acquire outside talent". Welp, so much for prospect depth and development. Due to their shortcomings, the White Sox will go back to their old ways of doing business. Not good! White Sox fans deserve better. JR is out of touch with the reality of modern baseball an KW and Hahn are bad at their jobs. For every good move they make, and there has been a few, they probably have made 2-3 bad moves. Not a good ratio if you ask me.