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I would rather see Burke on his normal rest schedule and he pitches Wednesday. Sean Newcomb has excellent career stats for playoff pitching with Atlanta. I think using him as an opener + would calm Sandlin down and ease him into the game. Newcomb in 6 playoff games is 1-0 1.08 era

they were giving Hunter Brown at least a month's worth of starts in late August and early Sept with five full days of rest until more recently... https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/gamelog/_/id/4717803/hunter-brown of course the ESPN report says they could go back to Brown on just two days' rest on Sunday out of the pen as necessary...which would definitely knock him out of G1 consideration

Sure but that was more like Brandon McCarthy at the end of 2005 catching fire and being more consistently dominant "For the Rangers, left-hander MacKenzie Gore is expected to get the ball in a do-or-die start against Twins right-hander Dean Kremer. Houston will start right-hander Peter Lambert on short rest, according to MLB.com's Brian McTaggart. Astros manager Joe Espada also reportedly said every Houston pitcher except Saturday's starter, right-hander Hayden Wesneski, will be available on Sunday." So Houston will go with Brown Wesneski and then Lambert all on three days in the playoffs or insert rookie Pecko in there somewhere as well those options all seem as bad as the White Sox lol

So much for grade 1.

Sandlin pitched well against a good offense that was very hot. Look at what KC did to Cleveland this weekend. Personally, I'd throw fedde but I also understand using fedde as a jack of all trade guy in your pen.

They don’t really have a lot of choices at the moment. If you were a Blue Jays fan you would have pissed your pants about how they relied on Yesavage last season. Sometimes a guy comes out of nowhere and carries a team

according to this, it would be Sandlin then Burke then Martin God knows whether Kay Hudson or Hagen/Schultz are openers bulk guys or back of the bullpen at this point at least the Astros are also not going to be able to pitch Hunter Brown until G2/3 as well they still were looking at crazy options like McCullers Imai Burrowes and Verlander coming into the weekend but guess it's Lambert as of now meaning rookie Pecko could be the best G1 option at the moment Chicago Sun-TimesWhite Sox prioritizing rest, division race as they set fi...The White Sox passed on an opportunity to line up staff ace Sean Burke for Game 1 of a potential wild card series, hoping a rested rotation will aid pursuit of AL Central title instead.

Also don't discount that Will has apprenticed under the greatest post season manager of all time in Bruce Bochy. He knows a thing or two.

Guards have never been able to translate their in season success to any kind of real post season success. Like I said, I think we get to the ALCS.

do you really think they're going to trust a rookie pitcher to carry the load in the biggest game of the season? by relative importance to the organization, Hagen or Schultz could benefit even more as fellow rookies no matter what they choose, it's going to be second guessed Sandlin either does pretty well or gets totally bombed out of the stadium the early going then you're talking on the road against a highly seasoned playoff team

Boy, I hope new ownership isn't worse

Personally I think it’s nuts to play Colson if the goal is to win playoff games. The infield can survive with Meidroth at short and Ant at second plus on offense they both add punch. Colson is dead weight. Whatever they do with him or he does with himself during the off season is his next chapter. Right now he’s a liability that doesn’t belong.

we ignore the MUCH bigger picture and that is Schultz and Smith. This team has a pitching staff put together by duct tape.

If Colson runs into one in the playoffs it could a game winner or series winner.

Yeah. You play him and whatever happens, happens. Then you get to work in the offseason on adjusting his approach some more.

It was an entire ESPN article about him going to Driveline.

Meant bottom of the eight.

Hersey 1 Wheeling 0 Wheeling forfeited the game because they could not man a team due to injuries.

a lot of players do this on their own as well we like to create strawmen I think the Sox are now up to date with tech where a player can work on hitting.

It would be a bad and demoralizing idea to do that to a young player who also helped get you there. You have 8 other guys out there, plus he's not a liability on the field. Of course he looks more lost since he has little MLB experience. We've gotten into this habit thinking young players are a finished product.

Wasn't there a youtube video around before this season started about Quero and where he went in the offseason to work on his swing? Don't send Colson there imo.

I am not sitting Colson down in the playoffs.

Does Colson sit in the playoffs or do you bat him 9th and hope he runs into one? He looks more lost than Mune did when he was in his funk.

game 1: Newcomb opener, Sandlin bulk game 2: Burke pop a cork in the locker room, quick celebration, get on the plane and get ready for Saturday against Cleveland .

Are they really pitching Burke on three days rest? Feels like he should start game #2 on regular rest and give us the best chance to win that game. He’d then be on regular rest for games #2 & #5 of the ALDS (if we can somehow make it there). With no other reliable SPs, I’d try to optimize his chance for success. Martin shitting the bed yesterday is super concerning. Is his calf still hurting him or does he just not have the stones to pitch in high pressure situations? Regardless, it’s going to be very hard to rely on him this post season. Given the lack of other options, he’s probably still part of the mix for game #3. Honestly, I may start Sandlin game #1. As insane as that sounds, he’s our hottest SP at the moment. Hagen should get two innings in relief and Taylor should get one to close things out. Not sure who throws the other couple of innings that will likely be needed. Ideally Kay would piggyback with him but that may not be possible if he starts today. I just can’t bring myself to start Fedde game #1 of a playoff series. He needs to pitch at some point, but I’d rather roll the dice on Sandlin in game #1. Also, the failure of the Castillo trade looms large here. It’s absolutely crazy that we have one reliable SP going into the playoffs. There is no one to blame but ourselves for that. I won’t dwell on it any further, but is super frustrating nonetheless.