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Yea well I'd like a 8" pecker.

No out pitch. Almost every tool in his arsenal can be fouled off until the batter sees a better pitch to drive somewhere.

Sox on a pace to hit infinity home runs.

The year he was traded he saw a big drop in his peripherals which he luckily offset with the highest strand rate of his career. If Q was a stock Hahn bought at rock bottom and sold at the top. Hahn has clear weaknesses but trading high is not one of them. It was a heist and most Sox fans knew at the time Q was entering the downside of his career, you could see it in his peripherals that year and just watching him pitch. Lost some of that command on his fastball and he didn't have a huge margin for error.

What outliers? He was remarkably consistent in walk, hit, strikeout rates, etc with the Sox, if anything with slight improvements year to year.

We won the Shields Trade: “James Shields got me to go to a spiked curveball, he threw his curveball a little differently than me, and I wanted to try his out,” Dunning said. “When I tried his, it was a lot more effective and sharp. But I wasn’t throwing it consistently until I went to a spike.” “Yasmani [Grandal] switched up the grip on my changeup. Now it’s a lot more effective. The numbers on it show that it’s getting better. Coaches like Everett Teaford, who has been helping me get carry and ride on my four-seam. Now everything is getting put together, and I feel really good about it.”

it's one thing to lose it's another to lose in the manner they were doing it. that's what I think most of us complainers were b****ing about.

I still laugh at that.

Mazara! Told you to play him

Lol its his 18th career start .

Hahn sold high for a perennial 35hr everyday player and a #3 starter. Couldn't pass that up. Quintana was due to regress with some of his outliers.

Once Mendick dumps a gallon of milk down his pants, we'll start talking

But he did. And so that isn't something you can hand wave away.

Maybe recently, but overall there's always freaking out whenever a loss happens. The shortest game threads are wins. People go nuts over every loss. I'm not picking on any one person just entertained by the whole concept. I truly think most posters here can't just sit and enjoy a game. But I guess that's just passionate fans.

Quintana is the heavy favorite IMO to be the pitching addition this offseason

Gausman must have pitched well against Padres

McCann is a UFA next year. Sox are probably not gonna bring him back. You don't pay Grandal $73 million and then pay a 2nd catcher big money.

Cordero's jersey keeps shrinking by the game....now it's down to Adult Men's Size M.

I like Moncada 2nd a lot more. He is going to work deeper into counts, and give a guy like Anderson a chance to run.

Reading this thread is amazing

Seeing the replay, that was down and in too, and he still managed to hit it 400 feet.

That's the best Nomar's hit a ball this year.

Man Edwin was running HARD 😂

You were saying? 😄

TA7 is going to will this WIN today.

Comerica is a really shitty park, change my mind.

That is pretty much only an out in Detroit and Oakland.

Not a bad start. Wish we would have had runners on base for those dingers though

If my daughter was grade school age, I'd tell Trump I will decide when she goes back to school and otherwise he can just shove it.

Finally, a day game to distract me from work.

Moncada had COVID, showed up 4 days before the season started, and he's played 15 games in the past 15 days. He looks tired and it certainly makes sense. People that were ripping the two off days early just overlooking the grind that this is for a guy who was fatigued.

Everything is obvious in retrospect. Cole Hamels was a washed out veteran pitcher who was TERRIBLE for the Rangers in 2018 and then went to the Cubs and put up a 2.4 WAR in the second half of 2018 for the Cubs. If Shields does that instead of the -2.1. They may have had a chance. Having the White Sox role the dice on the Sale/Quintana/Rodon/Shields/ David Robertson/Nate Jones pitching staff to lead them to the playoffs where anything can happen was not the dumbest move ever made. Throwing in some nobody was meaningless. It didn't work out but the failure led to the rebuild. You take chances in life and shaking your fist at the clouds after the fact really doesn't help.

Is there a division between the American guys and the Latin guys? I'm sensing so.

Huh, weird, I must be missing the quotes where they blow off what he said because he played for the Astros? 🤔

I don't know how you all feel but it might not be bad for us to have the games v cardinals canceled this weekend. It will give guys like Moncada to get healthy and for us to get maybe LOPEZ back without playing games, and maybe Madrigal gets closer to returning.

https://www.soxon35th.com/2020/08/11/fly-the-coop-the-state-of-white-sox-pitching-development/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fly-the-coop-the-state-of-white-sox-pitching-development So, no, I don’t think outside opinions are a bad thing. I doubt every pitcher vibes with their pitching coach on every other team in baseball. That’s just not how this works. I’m sure there are things Cooper does well that have helped guys throughout the system – I mean, players have said as much in the past and to this day. However, at the same time, I’m sure there’s some “traditional” tendencies that not everyone on the team agrees with. At that point, players will seek outside opinions or new data/information than what’s presented. This is not a bad thing in my opinion; rather, it’s a positive development of a willingness and drive to get better on the part of players. We as fans place too much emphasis on what the coaches do for a team. The coaches can’t hold players accountable for their own development, can’t get them to put in work off the field, and certainly can’t throw the pitches for them. They can suggest what they think works and work to find solutions together. But if something isn’t working, it’s up to the players to find new opinions. Check the bottom part, Are Outside Opinions A Good Thing??? Interview/article with Don Cooper. The first paragraph is more about Driveline/Kyle Boddy/Bauer...which I couldn't fit in.

Once again: McCann has to stay in the lineup

Bauer or bust lol

Yeah, someone is going to pay McCann a lot of money to be a starter. There are only so many good catchers to go around.

He had a horrible July, but picked it back up in August in September and put up really good numbers for a catcher. To say he had a poor second hald is technically correct, but doesn’t tell the whole story.

PANTERA HAS RISEN!

Moncada not in lineup- looked gimpy last night, hopefully nothing serious

https://www.mlb.com/padres/video/padres-relay-nabs-taylor-at-home https://www.mlb.com/video/tatis-jr-s-92-8-mph-throw https://www.mlb.com/news/padres-are-must-watch-team-in-mlb By the way, our old friend Yonder Alonso is joining the Padres and reuniting with Manny Machado...

Many of us here were shaking their fists during the fact because of Shields not Tatis. Even more so after the fact many were proven right about Shields and Tatis proved he wasnt some 1 in 10,000 lottery ticket. Hahn was supposedly pitching a rebuild for at least a year already. They hired Paddy to beef up the Latin American scouting and he did a great job getting Tatis. Why hire him just to cut off his legs ? Tatis was never some random choice by the Padres. They knew who they wanted. If Hahn truly was pining for a rebuild he had a funny way of showing it.

Babe Ruth

4k's for Robert yesterday with more swinging strikes than Anderson had for entire months last year. Robert is going to be unstoppable but he's gotta figure some things out to be complete.

Leiter and Rocker are both so filthy