Frankensteiner

The clip they played of Ozzie taking out the shortstop on a double play was insane. He straight up shoulder tackled that guy without any pretense of sliding.

You really think Tony sits there and tells Cairo not to show excitement or encourage the guys in the dugout? Not buying that at all.

I don't know, but this seems like a stretch to me. Cairo can bring this same energy whether he's the bench coach or the acting manager.

Yea, but just imagine what Menechino can do with Juan Soto. "We can make him as good as Benintendi"

There is plenty of power in the current lineup. The question is why have these guys all turned into ground ball singles hitters?

Yes, but they've also only given up 32 HR on the road for -2 HR overall differnece. Much better than the -16 HR difference at home. Basically they are not playing to the strengths of their own ballpark and being taken advantage of by other teams.

Yep, we hit 30 HR and our pitching has given up 46 HR, so that's -16 HR difference at home. Hard to win when you're trying to grind out 4 singles to score. Also, when half your team is on a trainer running exemption, maybe time to alter the approach to suit the roster?

I would still rather go with Burger at DH and Vaugh in RF, but it's pretty much pick your poison between Burger and Vaughn being in the field. Anecdotally, Burger's mistakes seem more costly but I have no idea what the advanced metrics say.

Two months into the season, only the Tigers and Pirates have scored less runs than the Sox. That's nuts.

I just want our hitters to respond and score some runs regardless of how many more we give up. Being down 3-0 stinks but there's no reason we can't make this competetive.

Talent level is debateable, the difference in production is not.

So for someone who is more familiar with prospects, can Owen Miller, Josh Naylor, and Andres Gimenez all maintain slugging % over .543? Cleveland has 3 guys in the top 15 OPS rankings, and 4 in the top 25. Only Tim is in that range on the Sox. If these are just hot starts based on small sample size, I don't think Cleveland is going to sustain this kind of run production and is likely a .500 team. But if these are high ceiling prospects hitting their ceiling at the same time, then they might have some staying power as a team.

Yea, was wondering what was up here. After checking, he leads the bullpen in IP (for sure thought it'd be Liam) so probably best not to burn him out. I think having Kelley back will hopefully spread some of that load out. Also, have to give POTW to Matt Foster. 4 games, 0 H, 5K/1BB, 4 Holds.

Sweeping division rivals on the road would probably be the only thing sweeter, but going 6-0 in a week that includes sweeps against Cubs and Red Sox in their "historic" ballparks is hard to beat.

Why is Graveman not available?

How do you go from top 7 OPS team to a bottom 5 OPS team with basically the same roster? I don't think they will finish this low overall, but I'm still shocked they could be this cold for an entire month of the season.

We have 2 hitters in the lineup with an OPS over .700. Meanwhile, every Angels hitter playing today has an OPS over .700. Keuchel or not, that's the difference to me.

I wonder if that says more about their confidence in Rodon, or their lack of confidence in a good matchup for Lynn. Hopefully the former and they saw something they liked in Rodon's bullpen session.

Re: Keuchel, I thought they showed him in the dugout yesterday?

5-9 is 0-for-10, 7k. Just awful watching this. I have tickets for tomorrow and wanted to get a couple more games to end the year but can't imagine paying to watch this team at present.

So nice to see for an afternoon at work!

Exactly 30-30 since the start of that Astros series in Houston. So this has been 2 months of pretty average baseball, longer than just post-ASB. Have to get and stay healthy, and then hope the bullpen settles down for some much needed confidence for this stretch run.

It'd be really interesting to see how our guys go about getting out of their hitting slumps. Reading Fegan's article on Tim, you don't get the sense he's the most analytical guy (or maybe he just doesn't convey that in his interviews).

Thought I'd throw this in here too: https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2021/5/5/22421934/luis-roberts-injury-shouldnt-have-lingering-effects