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Benintendi last 8 games leading off 15/35 1.016 OPS

Red Sox, who arent a big K team, struck out 38 times against Sox pitching.

Super series win with Robert leading the way along with some great pitching, love beating the hated Red Sox. These guys dug themselves a hole in April and have had some gut wrenching losses in the last 2 weeks but I’ll give them credit, they haven’t quit.

Luis Robert Junior goes Deep Twice!! Bummer getting it done. Middleton now 5 out of 5 shutout innings in the 9th, picks up his second save of the series and season. People love to dunk on Pedro, but after having a couple months to learn his roster, has made good decisions, especially late game substitutions, to keep the Sox winning in June (11-10) playing a much tougher schedule.

Robert is very good but a few guys named Frank Thomas and Dick Allen say hello.

Robert is so damn special

There we go!

In my Sox lifetime which goes back awhile, I am not sure I ever witnessed a player like Robert before, who crushes the ball. as hard as he does. I'm thinking maybe Frank Thomas, but nobody else even close. Btw, Grifol gave Robert a very long and glowing speech in the post game show of how amazing Robert truly is. He didn't just talk about his hitting, which obviously he highlighted, but also stressed how Robert is probably one of the best centerfielders in baseball. Grifol could not emphasize enough, what Robert does in center is not easy, but he makes it look so easy. Heaven forbid, over the next few years if we could ever surround Robert with great on base hitters, both in front and back of him, how much more phenomenal his numbers could be.

Overall, Robert is the most talented player to ever put on a White Sox uniform.

Those two games kind of ended the season for me. I just can't back into it. Watched 4th through end on delay today. Great pitching and Robert. Offense was terrible outside of Robert and Benentendi.

1st home series win against a non divisional opponent. Only took til the end of June

What Robert's doing this season shouldn't be taken for granted because everything around him is such a disaster

He's just ridiculous.

Robert on Fire!

Benintendi is the lead off hitter that I was looking for the whole season. Wasted too many opportunities with TA leading off most of the season.

The reason they are 30th in OBP at .292 is simply because of their horrible plate discipline! 0-Swing % - 30th Walks - 30th Pitches taken per at bat - 30th 3-0 counts seen - 30th 2-0 counts seen - 30th The Sox are a severely flawed roster that has a terrible baseball IQ, when it comes factors to a successful hitting approach to get on base.

If I can read your mind, they would have been better off staying with James McCann when they had him. No?

Its the top of the second and no gamethread, so starting one.

Dick Allen is my all time favorite Sox player, hands down, but in Robert, I think that we are just beginning to see what he will become.

No matter what happens this year, Luis Robert Jr. will be the reason that I keep coming back.

I give tons of credit to Robert Jr. for working hard to improve on his plate discipline. Many of us in here were crushing him not too long ago on his horrible 0-Swing % and poor plate discipline. He has now clearly improved that weakness and is just crushing the baseball. He also looks to be having more fun now and more engaged. which many of us questioned his intensity and desire to win. My hat is off to Robert Jr for making the necessary adjustments and lifting his game to the what many early on thought he could achieve in greatness.

Yep, even with that great ERA they aren't better than a little over .500 in that stretch. For any hope, they need a nice stretch of 8 or 9 wins out of 10 games. Playing .500 ball the rest of the way does nothing after that abysmal start of the season.

Fisher has given up 6 runs, 3 earned in 2 innings. Pitching depth! Mena walked 5 in 4 innings, but he struck out 8. At least one of those walks was unearned after Hackenberg dropped a pop up.

I will gladly take the series win and was so glad that I could listen to the game while working out at the gym. I’ve been impressed with the team on the field when they have played like this and don’t think they miss guys like Hendriks and Moncada when the replacements are playing well right now. Hang a star on the play Bummer made and for getting outs, Middleton for closing it out, the home runs hit today and the hits Benintendi got today.

Fcuk this loser. Bump.

So much for that tweet about being 4-20 in the last game of series or w/e it was so expecting a loss. Stats can be twisted any way you want. Sox were nearly .500 at home could've meant they had a near 50/50 chance of winning. Earl Weaver quote: Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher. Or since that's so old we can change it too tomorrows pitchers !

Hell Robert didn't even know the name of his hitting coach. What does that tell you about how much interaction there is?

1 good week away from being in 1st place or having the 3rd worst record in baseball. I can't imagine that's happened too many other times in MLB history

Big Thanks to @2Deepfor starting the Win Streak, and @reiks12 for keeping the line moving!

It seems like there's no consistent idea but I'd be wary about thinking the Giants or Reds are some organization to model. Reds are hot now and Elly might end up being the best infielder in the game, but it's basically just luck and paying a bunch of 16-year-old Dominicans $10,000 and hopefully one of them turns out. Same thing with the Rangers, I'm getting 2021 Sox vibes from them. We'll see. I still can't get over that quote from Robert along the lines of "I don't know what pitches the pitcher throws, just how hard he throws" and it really shows that everyone on the team is completely lost at the plate unless they're facing a pitcher they've gone up against 1000 times. There are good hitters on this team but are immediately at a disadvantage due to, what I assume, is a 'philosophy' that doesn't prioritize scouting MLB teams and relaying that information to the players. I think the offense improves dramatically if these guys could learn to take a pitch or have some trivial understanding of 'this guy is probably going to throw a slider out of the zone. don't swing at it'.

Saw in a tweet from Merkin a couple days ago that they have a MLB-best 3.29 ERA since 5/13. And these last two games will have lowered it even further.

We be winning today

Iasognna is so bad

Burger's OBP is down to .271. He is going to need to make an adjustment ASAP.

The same guy who acquired Jose Abreu. https://soxmachine.com/2021/01/marco-paddy-indirectly-previews-impending-white-sox-international-class/

Luis on a tear!!!

Chet Lemon could have been but just didn’t have the power, he did hit more homers when we traded him to Detroit, the difference in Comiskey and Tiger Stadium was probably why. Defensively, Jim Landis is still the best with his 5 Gold Gloves. When you add everything up, Robert if he stays healthy could wind up being the best all around centerfielder in Sox history.

It's not only that, we aren't halfway through and akopech is almost at a career high in innings and needs to be monitored. The FO didn't even try the last 2 years.

Dese guise suck dey're all garbage /chicagomeatballfan

I attended the 1964 SOX-CUBS game and it was by far the largest crowd I ever saw at old Comiskey. My girlfriend and I had to sit in an aisle in the upper deck down the right field line, there was nowhere for venders to sell their goodies except in the lower and upper deck walkways that separated the box seats from the grandstand seats. I still contend it was larger than the 55,000 that supposedly showed up on Bat Day in May of 1973, that was a big crowd that day but not as big as 1964 as fans were standing on the warning track from dead center field to the right field foul pole. To say they oversold the ballpark is putting it mildly.

This isn't a new problem. Even the 2005 team was bad at getting on base (22nd) and taking walks (25th). They were mediocre in GB rate (12th lowest). Maybe having an ex-player who had a .269 career OBP and a 4.5% walk rate be in charge of assembling a team isn't the best idea.

When your organizational approach is "just tell me how fast he throws" this is what you get.

I don’t miss seeing him jogging to first, at least Remillard plays like someone who gives a s%*# out there and performs decently. He costs a lot less too. Yoan can stay on the shelf since his trade value is probably shot.

They would be better off developing their own catcher internally at least once a generation of players...

Mediocrity and making excuses.

Fegan wrote today: "They entered Saturday with the lowest on-base percentage in baseball, and relatedly, 15 of their last 16 home runs have been of the solo variety."

Tim should been placed on the IL on Monday, this latest scheme to play him at 2B is ludicrous. He can barely field SS at this stage after playing there his entire career. It's not like they need his bat. Play Remillard, he is better at every aspect of baseball than this injured version of Tim.

Most CEOs of, say hospitals, didn’t work as nurses. Most oil company CEOs didn’t spend time as a roughneck. Hahn is bad at his job because he is a bad manager. If he were managing a Starbucks, it would be a disaster. We all know that Hahn doesn’t know his core business: he can’t evaluate on-field talent, and he doesn’t know analytics. That’s not unusual. What’s unusual is that he has refused to hire the best people he can find who do know those things. Instead, he hires people who, if not his immediate friends, have similar backgrounds. Look at Haber, his chief assistant: top schools, sharp dresser and same skillset (or lack thereof). Where's the analytics department? Hiring people who won’t show them up is a common trait of bad managers and Hahn scored big in that department. Billy Beane and Andrew Friedman weren’t afraid to hire Farhan Zaidi, e.g. Hahn hires Haber. Look who Hahn’s hired as field manager (when he’s been allowed to): not the sharpest knives in the drawer. And, of course, he’s an excuse machine, another trait of bad managers. I could go and on. He just needs to go.

I agree but, it's hard to make out a lineup with this team when the players are constantly going down because of injury or because there's no depth to this roster. The only depth we have is at the DH position which is the worst possible position to have depth. when making out a lineup card.