South Side Hit Men

Feeling better about Colas’ Charlotte stint after reading this about Frazier: Colas also should be a much better fielder than he showed in April, hope he is working on that as well. Would like to see Colas called up and stay successfully once he is ready to succeed playing 6 games a week up here.

I’ve only followed four of five games this season. Grateful I can now listen to every game the next few weeks, don’t care if there is a drop off in performance for the rotation slot.

First White Sox Sweep of the Season! Seven White Sox Hitters with hits. Quality Start for Lynn, second White Sox save for Joe Kelly Three more shutout innings from the bullpen. The Bullpen scoreless streak now at 20 Innings! A Perfect Day for the Three Peat!!! Marv Albert on hot mike saying the inevitable. Clev

Backwards K and a White Sox Winner and Sweep!!!

"You did good Pop. You did real good."

Bummer on fire today!

White Sox up 4-2, Bottom 7th, 2 on, 2 out. EDIT: White Sox up 5-2, same situation.

Tim Loves This Place!

Anderson at SS, Romy to 2B. Alberto to IL.

Romy for MVP!!!

Alberto goes down, in a lot of pain. Dislocated shoulder making a safe sign per DJ. Can't make this up.

Robert has got game.

Sox go 173-0 for Farmeo every season in Heaven! Saint Rita never loses either.

Brother Rice 2 Chicago White Sox 0

Kudos to guest services!

If Hahn builds it, they will come.

The White Sox need to visualize it before it can happen.

Babe Ruth 6-2 215 pounds 182.6 bWAR.

Hoping to hear this by early next week. #FreeOscarColas.

Jerry provides the budget. Hahn has had more than enough money the past three seasons to execute a solid plan and acquire legitimate starters at 2B and RF. He has failed at his task. Jerry opened up his coin purse larger than expected to support his BFF manager the past two seasons. The purse is now closed. Expect payroll to drop further the next two seasons, perhaps under $100M with Hahn rebuild 2.0, unless there is a miraculous on field turn around and Sox are solid playoff contenders the next two years to avoid a substantial sell off. The money has been spent, poorly.

This is most logical. Eloy needs to play only one OF position to avoid adding injury risk and to minimize the communication bullshit with Robert (Robert is responsible at times by being a Dick / cutting off balls in straight away RF). The problem with Sheets in LF is Sheets/Benintendi are both LHB. Sheets should never start vs. LHP. Ever. RF LH Power was the logical place for FA dollars, of course Hahn went LF Podsednik power, though without the speed (46 SB every 162 Games) and at this stage 25 points below Podsednik’s career OPS (.719). Hahn truly out Hahned himself with this move, only the Kimbrel fiasco (trade, QO, Pollock) reached this level since extending than firing Ricky Renteria within 63 games after the Sox to date best season record and playoff performance (1-0 lead, spoiled by worthless Keuchel, than Hahn bullpen plan game with no SP beyond Cease they would not use).

Just trying to put together a logical scenario for playing time. Think it makes sense to keep starting players to one outfield position to avoid issues with communication or possible injuries (Sheets/Eloy RF only, can’t platoon Sheets with Benintendi). What will likely happen IMO is Sheets and Eloy will split RF close 5/5, Burger getting 7 DH (Eloy 3-4) and Burger with 1-2 3B starts. 10th DH rotate for regulars to rest. It would be asinine to play Burger outside of 3B (he should work on trying to cover 1B either for trade value or here value) as some have suggested (OF,2B) or move long time starters (the time for transitioning would have been October-March). Nobody knows how long Burger will remain this hot, would definitely listen to trade offers for him if not contending in June/July. Don’t see the Sox as buyers unless they are over .500 at the ASB and are drawing well in June/July, and even then it will likely be bullshit Hahn buying like 2020 (Garbage - Dyson) or 2021-22 (trade youth for likely bad old guys). The catcher / pitcher pairings are far more important than trying to get Grandal’s better bat in the lineup, and if keep others through the playoffs to ensure pitchers are at their peak (rotation would be Giolito/SZ, Cease /SZ, Lynn/YG, Kopech/YG). Could see Sheets possibly platooning with Vaughn in a playoff scenario as well. Kopech had his great start with Zavala on Friday. Grandal really only matches up well with Lynn because he doesn’t have to worry about trying to catch/frame breaking balls. Don’t really know or care about Clevinger’s pairing, as he’s not a playoff starter baring injury or just a collapse by one of the likely four.

Will set aside a Colas return, which makes more sense long term for his development and the roster, for another day . Ten Game Rotation (facing on average 3 LHS, 7 RHS): Rotation: 1. Giolito (SZ); 2. Kopech (YG); 3. Cease (SZ); 4. Lynn (YG); 5. Clevinger (YG) Player Position Allocations: Player Age Bats: Games Position (Games and Career Platoon OPS splits) (5) Hanser Alberto 30 R: 5 2B (2 R .591, 3 L .799) (9) Tim Anderson 30 R: 9 SS (6 R .715, 3 L .866) (6) Elvis Andrus 34 R: 5 2B (5 R .684); 1 SS (1 R .684) (9) Andrew Benintendi 28 L: 9 LF (7 R .800, 2 L .712) (8) Jake Burger 27 R: 7 DH (5 R .801 2 L .994) 1 3B (1 L .994) (6) Yasmani Grandal 34 S: 6 Catcher (Clevinger, Kopech, Lynn) (8) Eloy Jimenez 26 R: 7 RF (4 R .842. 3 L .772); 1 DH (1 L .772) (9) Yoan Moncada 28 S: 9 3B (7 R .779, 2 L .712) (9) Luis Robert Junior 25 R: 9 CF (6 R .761, 3 L 1.034) (7) Gavin Sheets 27 L: 3 RF; 2 1B; 2 DH (All vs. R .788) (8) Andrew Vaughn 25 R: 8 1B (5 R .705, 3 L .816) (4) Seby Zavala 29 R: 4 Catcher (Cease, Giolito) (2) Billy Hamilton 32 R: 1 CF (1 R .625) 1 LF (1 L .598) Playoff Lineups: vs. RH Starter LF Andrew Benintendi (L) .800 CF Luis Robert Junior (R) .761 3B Yoan Moncada (S) .779 RF Eloy Jimenez (R) .842 DH Jake Burger (R) .801 C Yasmani Grandal (S) .782 1B Andrew Vaughn (R) .705 SS Tim Anderson (R) .715 2B Elvis Andrus (R) .684 (C Zavala .633 - AV #6, TA #7, EA #8) Backups: (R1) Catcher, DH 1B (R2) Sheets; 2B (R3) Alberto; SS Andrus; 3B Burger; All OF/PR (R4) Hamilton vs. LH Starter SS Tim Anderson (R) .866 CF Luis Robert Junior (R) 1.034 3B Yoan Moncada (S) .712 RF Eloy Jimenez (R) .772 DH Jake Burger (R) .994 C Yasmani Grandal (S) .797 1B Andrew Vaughn (R) .816 LF Andrew Benintendi (L) .712 2B Elvis Andrus (R) .721 (C Zavala .598 - AV #6, AB #7, HA #8) Backups: (R1) Catcher, DH 1B (R2) Sheets; 2B (R3) Alberto; SS Andrus; 3B Burger; All OF/PR (R4) Hamilton Catcher Data (Games OPS / ERA): Giolito: Zavala (24 .672 / 3.76) over Grandal (30 .731 / 4.45) Kopech: Grandal (28 .744 / 4.14) over Zavala (21 .725 / 4.88) Cease: Zavala (25 .546 / 2.06) over Grandal (40 .728 / 4.48) Lynn: Grandal (29 .635 / 3.09) over Zavala (20 .754 / 5.20) Clevinger: Grandal (8 .791 / 3.99) over Zavala (3 .742 / 7.00)