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This is a one and done. I just had to sign up to let the White Sox fans know the Farquhar is in our prayers. Though it's been a while, we experienced a similar event with J R Richard when he suffered a stroke on the field. He recovered and we pray that Farquhar does as well.

Hi from the UK. I've been a quite few years on this earth and a month ago I couldn't have told you a single rule about baseball, I'm a footie fan (soccer) , hate cricket and rugby . My new TV contract gives me access to a MLB game most nights and through a friend who is a Yankee's fan I decided to have a go at watching these ball games , the bug bit almost straight away , I love it , I've watched every night even got a phone app for latest scores. I'm a White Sox fan , why : In the 80's Channel 4 over here ran NFL games which I watched and supported the Bears , Chicago has always signified USA for me , I looked at the baseball teams and it had to be the Sox although I've been unable to follow them over the years. So here I am learning the game everyday and so are the team by the looks of their start to the season ? . It can only get better Baz

Guaranteed Rate logo should be the disagree button lol.

It’s just baseball. The FO has not personally wronged any of us. It’s a business and I think they are doing the right thing to make that business a bunch of money in the coming years. If you don’t think our FO is full of competitive MFers, you crazy. I still think Avi will heat up with the weather and we know Abreu will. It’ll get more fun this year. I promise.

Every day needs to be dog day

Is mentioning Tatis in 85% of threads going to be your new Royals like obsession?

But fuck all those extra base hits, walks, stolen bases, and awesome defense, dude will be out of baseball if he doesn’t get that K rate under 30%.

Very cool to see the Seattle Mariners also hanging up a Danny Farquhar jersey

Call me crazy, but I’ll happily take Fulmer and his warts over MiGo any day of the week.

I think that's the best thing you've said in this entire thread. Seriously. Anderson is better this year...still makes boneheaded mistakes but better. However...he's still very young. Let's drop the "how people should react to loss" and move on. Unless you're in their shoes...you don't have a clue.

I understand anyone that doesn't trust the process. For years, many of us on Soxtalk didn't trust their amateur drafting process, international signing process, or the entire process for how the team was constructed year to year. I'd say all of those concerns were justified. No one within this organization is famiiar with a rebuild. And while I don't fault the White Sox (it was absolutely the right move) or doubt the overall talent received from the respectives trades, they don't deserve a free pass. Trust shouldn't be established, but earned. I personally have faith in the process and hope it succeeds, but honestly I don't fear failure. If by some disasterous turn of events the rebuild is prolonged because of ineffectiveness or injuries to our top prospects, then so be it. It shouldn't be a surprise that the same people who were upset about the idea of a rebuild are now upset it's not happening at an accelerated pace. Like all this nonsense I've read about Giolito, how he has "lost his confidence" and needs time in AAA to regeoup himself. Why? If he's going to fail, let him fail with 200 innings and an entire year of major league coaching. Do NOT be afraid of it because somehow it may discredit the entire rebuild. Not everyone in our minor league system is going to succeed, either. At this point in his development, it's not even worth sending him down. He's not blocking anyone or jeopardizing anything but our place at the bottom of the ALC. Honestly, I'd love if it we would receive another Top 5 pick in 2019. If you can look back at the 2018 season and say overall, most (because you can't expect 100% success rate) of the players we're expecting to contribute to future teams have progressed forward, then everything is going as planned. Our record overall shouldn't mean shit

Honestly people who are saying this team is bad what can be done to fix this mess don't understand this team was meant to be bad and it will only get worse. Rebuilds don't happen in a year and no we shouldn't be going after Manchado next year. If you don't trust the process and the rebuild that's fine but dear god give it more then a year before trying to pull the plug.

I am honored to have been the one to Christen it! Beautiful win today. Out of everything positive that happened, I would say the MOST encouraging was Fulmer. He was steady, had command, had decent stuff. Let's.hope he can continue. Moncada was good too.

With Avi out, I hope Ricky puts Yolmer in the 2 hole tomorrow. He has more than earned it.

Yea i thought Beck wasn't on the 40 either. I think they wanted someone to replace Hector as the new longman since he's moving into the rotation for a bit but Chris Beck is lighter Fluid

Hawkins, Keon Barnum and Beck were our top 3 picks in the 2012 draft. Hopefully this year is better.

Haha had to like that one Alex.

Got high fives in the dugout and has has jacket on. Gotta imagine he's done.

Beef with some quality frames tonight.

It's too early to call Collins a bust but Zavala's bat has been consistent everywhere he has played. I Hope the Sox try their best to make his defense passable because he looks to have an MLB bat.

When the Sox are getting smoked again and Moncada is 0-3 with 3 strikeouts again just remember how he's looked tonight. That's what we're (hopefully) getting when he figures it all out.

Tonight is the definition of Regression to the Mean.

The 22 year old with the .860 OPS is a BUST!

MonGODa

111.9 mph exit velocity on the Moncada HR.

I really like Mike Leake!

Yea that is very classy by the Mariners org.

I like how Seattle put up a Danny jersey in their dugout...classy

Awesome Sox today, much needed for all of us. Leake is the perfect pitcher for Yoan's swing

Moncada is back out at 2B for the Top of 2nd

Cut Anderson.

Now that is the kind of swing I want to see from Avi. Took a tough inside pitch and dumped it into right field. That's 3 hits in 5 at bats for him now. Nice to see

holy shit was that intelligent baseball out of the sox?

Out-homering Tatis, Jr., for the entire season from 2 at-bats... The minors will be a lot more fun to follow when we get Hansen and Robert back as well. Everything still quiet on the LuBob front?

https://twitter.com/slprospects/status/988563592080510977

How did we go from historically bad play to oops just a rebuild?? We have a no name mgr. who has no clue.

And good news we cannot be relegated!

Sweet. Welcome aboard. Glad you didn't become a Yankees fan. As noted that would be like a US fan adopting man u.

Why would people expect to have their opinions NOT generate replies on a public message board?

I like this idea with Trayce. He's not the future, but he appears to be a much more serviceable player than whatever Engel is.

So IMO there should be 3 actions possible for ratings: 1) Agree 2) Disagree 3) LOL we don't need a "confused" button or a "like" button. Just agree, disagree, and LOL. Having an agree and disagree button will cut down on a lot of unnecessary "yes I agree" or "I disagree" posts. Also, changing the default icons (which are awful imo) should be a priority as well. More Sox/Baseball related icons would be nice. Could just have like a baseball be the "agree" icon, a bat be the "disagree" icon and Hawk laughing could be the LOL icon. The default icons just feel middle school to me. I would also move the "quote" button to the bottom right by the ratings button. Most forums have them next to each other so you can rate and quote/respond without excess mouse movement. I'd also move the "drag files" area and "insert other media" up to the main editor as well. It's just wasting space imo having its own toolbar.

He has been solid, but it is a stretch to say he has been "one of the better starters in baseball so far." His ERA is sparkling but based on unsustainable peripherals.

Engel, Tilson, Cordell, none of them ever could have been substituted for Trayce in the Frazier deal. Trayce is probably better than all three, and has more upside than all 3, although he is far from surefire. But they need to let him play and get some ABs.

Fair. Just hope the return rate gets a lot higher. While I like him, it's tough to hang your hat on Yolmer Sanchez as the best your organization has to show for your player development staff. Especially over a multi-year sample. But I do agree--I see some evidence of fundamental knowledge with Yolmer. Just wonder if it was there before he came to us or as a result of being with our guys. A lot of this has to do with our drafting style--drafting tools and athletes over baseball players/fundamentals. Problem is, these guys breeze through their bench press drills, but struggle with the basics--the basic understanding of the game. I absolutely believe they have the skills to succeed and they are too good not to compete at this level eventually--but man, just looking at our track record of developing players to make a seamless transition to the big leagues is kind of shaky. Our MLB roster is looking more and more like a collection of our best organazational options, rather than guys who are ready to compete at this level. You can see why Rick Hahn and the front office made the decision to pull the plug on the direction of the White Sox...they probably saw this coming a few years ago and though...YIKES......Minus the guys we got in firesale trades, this year's team is mostly the product of decisions made in 2015-2016. Not good!

Tilson currently has a .497 OPS in AAA. He missed what, about 15 months completely away from competitive games? He's not the answer and needs at least 300-400 PA in AAA to get his feet under him. I'd just start Trayce 5 nights out of 6 and give Engel the other one for now. Leury is the odd man out at the moment although maybe he can get some IF reps. Trayce is quite a bit better than Engel. Adam Engel has never proven he's even a AAAA player frankly. I think his true talent is below replacement. He's shown nothing that proves otherwise.

That spellunk is unacceptable. Anywho, the White Sox have a poor walk rate from their starting pitchers because 3 of them are extremely young. Saturday's opponent, Dallas Keuchel, remains a good example. When he came up at age 24, he averaged 4 BB/9. 3 years later when he won the Cy Young, his walk rate was 2BB/9. People learn stuff sometimes.

QUOTE (WBWSF @ Apr 18, 2018 -> 08:53 AM) Forbes Magazine said that the White Sox will have $260 in yearly revenue in 2018. The Sun Times said the White Sox team payroll (which is 28th in MLB) for 2018 will be $60 million dollars. JR and his investors are laughing all the way to the bank with this dismal team. Talk to me in 2021 when we're selling 32,000 tickets per game and the payroll's up past $175 million.

I got an invite to configure my Model 3 a couple of days ago! Although I already knew I would be deferring to the short-range battery, it was still really exciting to get that email and be able to go in and configure my car if I so chose. 6-8 more months, hopefully.