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Per Twitter, Bassitt is conscious and alert and they think his eye is OK. Got some stitches below the eye and they’re testing for fractures. Sounds like relatively good news at this point.

Kelley is 3 years younger than the avg player in Low A while Dahlquist and Thompson are 2 years younger. Chill

This will be COMPLETELY ignored in every single psychotic, homicidal post in the game thread.

If anything I’d wish the Sox to align their intl and draft strategies better. They were both kinda doing the same thing going after more advanced players for a while, rather than taking moonshots with lots of 16 year olds in latam but going with advanced college players. Going cespedes/colas while going more high school recently makes some sense. But let’s be honest when comparing the Sox. For farm systems, they are at a disadvantage to the smaller market teams getting less draft and intl budget, and worse compmpicks. And then comparing them to yanks/Dodgers, who print money and have like 4 front offices worth of personnel. The Sox can and should do better, but going in waves is going to be likely.

Other than serious injury, there's no chance the Sox don't pick up the option. If the Sox budget doesn't allow for keeping both closers, someone will trade for him.

He's coming back from a major injury. Relax.

That's the whole art of pitching - throw something that *looks* good for a split second and get them to swing at something they can't hit. You don't want every pitch thrown in the strike zone, it's not a videogame.

Pitches that look way outside from a CF camera perspective, look a lot different in the batter's box when he is hitting the outside half with his 98+ fastball.

Hurt it trying to loosen up his groin.

https://www.mlb.com/prospects/stats/affiliates?teamId=145&date=08/17/2021 https://www.milb.com/scores/chicago-white-sox/2021-08-17 McClure pitching for AAA on the same day as Rodon's slot in Sox rotation. Worth following? Probably not this year but Not sure if DSL will play today post storms. This is not meant to be political/religous but having spent time in the Caribbean, if you say prayers, say a prayer for the Haitian people. Lots of poverty to begin with and corregated tin huts don't hold up well in earthquakes and storms. If you have seen the poverty, you realize how good we have it. Bmags, welcome home! Hope vacation was great.

Long drive so missed the game. Game thread with page count in the teens. All I can ask for!

Eloy's English is impressive. he's near fluid in conversation.

Not even close, I remember being at Soxfest one year and I was sitting next to one of his kids. Ozzie said something and the kid leaned over to me and asked what he said? Til this day I have no idea what he said.

Didn't watch the game or see the play. Happy for the Sox blowout, scared for Bassit. I said it once I'll say it again, pitchers need to start wearing helmets. Balls are coming back in excess of 100 mph. We don't need a death on the field to make it happen. Do it to prevent the death or long term head injury.

Congrats to Mike Wright. Gotta be a thrill for he and his family.

The Sox spent the last 5 years aligning their minor leagues to getting star players to the majors by last year. That's what's wrong with the system. In the last year they have shifted back to younger players to build back for down the road. This has been by design.

An Earl Weaver style 3 run homer goes a long way towards a nice game!

I still just wanna hear his eye is okay

If Katz somehow fixes Rodon and Lopez in the same season, he might be the greatest pitching coach in Sox history.

lopez needs to upgrade his chain game, he's earned it.

Lamb sure looks excited Stoney. What a stupid comment. That was his teammate last year.

Yeah - that was the least excited I have been almost ever for a homer.

I hope we get some good news on Bassitt before the end of the game

Yeah really hoping his eye and vision will be ok

All face wounds bleed a lot so hopefully it's just a cut and his eye is unaffected

good lord, Grandal was carrying the whole team after madrigal went down.

White Sox W-L Record - Games Played 2021 Seby Zavala 15-9 .625 Yasmani Grandal 37-26 .587 2020 James McCann 19-12 .613 Yasmani Grandal 24-22 .522

Oakland will trade Bassitt this off season for a haul.

Bassitt didn't really figure it out until age 30. Soxtalk would never have applied that level of patience to any of our young pitchers.

Ace vs Ace (numbers don't lie). Should be must watch.

Eh he couldn't throw his slider for a strike or anywhere near the plate. You can't tip your fastball when the other team knows that's the only pitch you can throw a strike on.

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DJ mentioned adjustments with Liam’s slider worked on in a bullpen yesterday. Hope that is all that was needed to get him back on track. Kudos again to Tony for using Kopech for two innings. Hope he would have done the same if it were still tied (pulling Keuchel after 5 w no “win” opportunity and no “hold” for Kopech). Kopech should be able to handle two inning outings twice a week from here on out. Keuchel battled back after a very shaky first time through the order. Tomorrow will be harder with Bassitt on the mound and heavy bullpen usage with Reynaldo likely limited to 3-4 innings at this point. Cheers!

The funny thing is Collins is terrible defensively but Seby is stout, yet in half as many games Seby has twice as many PB. Collins has a much better CS percentage, Collins does have 4 errors to 1. The WP with each catching is a similar number if you just count pace. If Collins is pure garbage, Seby is as well. One of the things I always hated about LaRussa and I mentioned this before the season is he always falls in love with the weakest players on the roster. It's almost like he is doing this to try to prove he is smarter than everyone.

Wright, right? Right?

Yup, Lopez to Wright tonight.

And all of the best to Bassitt.

Confidence is a weird thing. When someone has it all of a sudden everything seems to work. (This was about Reylo)

Idk how you could come into relieve after that.

Another disaster outing for Kelley. The player dev in the lower level of the minors continues to really disappoint.

This is remarkable considering all of the games missed.

Great win to generate momentum going into tomorrow with our 1.35 ERA ace on the mound.

It's the smart play to trade an out for a run except when Luis Robert is the runner.

I did an interview with Kevin for Future Sox back in 2010...over AIM. He was very gracious with his time and always appreciated him for that.

Rodon. But I would say that I think Vaughn stepping up in the way he has is pretty surprising.

I may be in the minority here, but I'm fine with giving 10-15 games off a season. The Sox are nowhere close to giving guys 30 games off. A few of the extra "games off" this year are due to the increase in doubleheaders for COVID, guys playing one game and skipping the second. Last year was a 60 game sprint, so it made more sense to push things, though Jose and Tim still should have had more than 0-1 scheduled games off, IMO. They sat their core Wednesday to ensure their stars would be available for the hyped corn game today. 2021 Gamedays Off (does not count a game off if a player played one of two doubleheader games) 2 Luis Robert (Plus 60 + day IL stint) 5 Tim Anderson (Plus 10 day IL stint) 6 Jose Abreu 11 Yoan Moncada 2020 Gamedays Off (does not count a game off if a player played one of two doubleheader games) 0 Jose Abreu 1 Tim Anderson (Plus 10 day IL stint) 4 Luis Robert 8 Yoan Moncada