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Early returns, but you have to love seeing Fauske and Carlson being successful in Kanny.

Definitely promoting the director of player development of that team!

I'm a little unclear on what Will was supposed to do today. His starter went 3.2 innings. Hicks is a converted starter who looked utterly dominant in his first inning of work. Pretty clear we weren't going to let him pitch to Gunnar, who is instead faced by Murphy who is IMO the more trustworthy of the two lefties left in the pen. Gunnar is a hall of fame talent and hit a screamer that snuck out of the stadium. s%*# happens, should have hit more earlier today.

He didn’t call you back?

The dreaded “Show more”

Venable is stoic in the dugout like Grifol was and just as clueless. Asleep at the wheel.

The kid in stranger things.

IMO there is no skill involved in catching foul tips, it's completely random

Too many stifs in the lineup

That’s some bad bullpen usage.

Newcomb was a great addition

He’s DHing.

It looks like this: Rogers,2-0 1.38era Smith,0-2 19.29era

Was interesting to hear what Bannister had to say about it. In his quest to get better he may have accidentally made himself worse.

Aliens man. Look we can spend all day back and forth on if what the Sox are doing NOW is going to work or not, but where the franchise is TODAY is obvious. The fan base is gone. It's a dead horse. We are literally 30 of 30 when it comes to revenue, which is the quickest measure of where the fan base is. And on top of it, we aren't even particularly close. This is a disaster of a franchise at this point in time.

Seriously with the way he hit in the 2nd half he couldve had a breakout year .I was expecting something like this because he had been out a while. I was really lookong forward to seeinh him get over 500 AB's and seeing his defensive development. I thought he could be much more than a utility player capable of 25+ HRs. Sox really miss his and Teel's LH bats.

Man this would have been a great draft with the two extra comp picks. Really sucks the NFL screwed the Bears over some BS definition of control.

Don't think they start the clock on Antonacci, who probably needs a few more OF reps anyway. Dru Baker is off to a hot start in Charlotte and had a solid spring. RHH keeps the same lineup balance. 26 and can play CF. Murray also played some OF with Tampa, so maybe he gets a look there.

Eh. Their WP% in the 9th of this game peaked at 33.4. Their WP% in MIL, in the game where they saved him for leverage, peaked at 15.6 in the 9th. The only way to treat this as a "zero chance of winning" game is by working backwards from the fact that they didn't...in which case, both usages were a waste because they lost both games. In an absolute statistical sense, tonight's game wound up more winnable in the end, and that's before even getting to the impact of Hays' bad hammy on the first run against. So is it worth something to have Fedde leaving the game today with a 43% chance of winning in the 7th, compared to leaving with a 22% chance of winning in the 5th of his first start? If Taylor doesn't get his 3 outs then someone else would have had to. Does Fedde get them third time through, or does a different reliever if you hook him before that? If not, then are the Sox facing worse odds in the 9th than being one swing away? Does it take more than 3 arms to finish the game? Does BAL get to save their best arms? Does that impact pen availability/performance for the rest of the series? With Taylor opening for Burke, he left with a 88% chance of winning in the 7th, compared to a leaving with a 16% chance of winning after the 4th of his first start. In the latter scenario, you can theoretically save Taylor for a more winnable game* but what if the former scenario actually makes the game more winnable to begin with? *In reality, they couldn't actually save him, because he (and the team) needed innings, so he got "wasted" on a <10% win probability game anyway... Saving him for leverage on a below average team will mean some number of non-leverage "work" innings that are guaranteed to be less meaningful than any outing as an opener by default. Neither route is perfectly waste free, they just have different uncertainties. Saving Taylor could just as easily mean you traded a one hit away home 9th today for him pitching in a decided game on Wednesday or Thursday if there's no leverage spot before then to get him off the bench. Despite Taylor's absolutely elite stuff, the performance of the bullpen and the "starters" behind him have both been better with him opening in this handful of games. Obviously, a larger sample size would be needed to control for the effects of home vs. road, opponent variance, and players/teams just settling in to the season. But if the pattern continues, and Taylor opening gets an extra ~4 innings from the starters in a series combined with better bullpen performance courtesy of reduced workload + better pockets, could that have a larger cumulative effect on winning than the marginal difference between an early 0 and a late one in an individual game? Especially when you can't project how many games will have late leverage value to cash in on at all? I just think it's possible on a situational basis, and I think it's interesting that they're trying it. It's certainly led to more winnable and more watchable games in a VERY small sample size this week. I expect Taylor will still get leverage spots when the matchups for a series suggest that's better. Last year vs. TOR, he opened the opener and closed the finale. It doesn't have to be a pure either/or unless you're determined to only use Taylor in games where his inning individually is most likely to decide the game in a vacuum. In that case, I agree that he absolutely should appear almost exclusively in save situations. My thought process is based around maximizing Taylor the player and the staff overall both being higher priorities than maximizing potential leverage opportunities specifically.

https://www.mlb.com/milb/scores/all/all/whitesox?affiliateId=mlbcom-milb https://www.mlb.com/prospects/stats/affiliates?teamId=145&date=04/07/2026 W-S with a day game. Currently leading 3-1. Everyone else under the lights.

After he gets fired in a decade and people blame him for everything.

Again I ask those who are in the camp of 'defending' him, at what point does everyone admit his promotion was a failure and should never have been done? Even given JR's limitations, should a team be this bad for this long? I mean how long should we have to wait for progress? Four years? Six? I'm just looking for a benchmark.

The White Sox are hitting 209 as a team. Why would they be expected to hit 267 with RISP? Last year they hit 232 for the year.

What an awful trade that Hicks trade was. We have better pitchers in AAA (and on the Guardians). He's had 1 good year: 7 years ago. Naive, naive.

He actually was pretty good in his first inning, problem is the manager and GM has decided to put their 2nd best reliever in a opener role so now we don't have much else to throw out there.

Same old story, too many AAA players.

Rick Hahn, of course

And all because of one individual.

If this staff is giving up an average of 3 runs/game, the bats just have to be able to win one of them. Especially at home. Get a timely hit or two.

You realize your entertainment isn't more important than player development, right?

It's like they got Quero trying to take more aggressive cuts in order to get into his power, but the end result has been that he's losing his pitch recognition without any of the "hitting the ball harder" that is supposed to be part of the tradeoff. This is a player who hit 12 HR in 72 games in a pretty low-offense AA league in 2024 so it's not like he's incapable of being something other than a singles hitter when things are going well. Being so young there's reason to think that a demotion wouldn't have to be a permanent thing, especially given how short his time in Charlotte was.

Will has sucked in just about every facet of the game, sorry if that's an unpopular take but it is what it is

No reason to bring Hicks back out. Had a great seventh. Will pressed his luck

we are going to see a lot of this

Imagine if Taylor was available instead of using him as an opener. He would have started the 8th

On one hand, Acuna hit a pitch well up and out of the zone there. On the other hand, it probably would have been a strike to some other guys on the team

To defend Quero, the most ineffective challenger in MLB per Statcast, there was no pitch in the Alonso at bat that he could have won a challenge on.

11 outs, 99 pitches, and no runs surrendered. Baseball.

Vargas makes that play

Sosa did a very Sosa thing getting that 2nd run in.

I just hope Smith doesn't get rocked again.

This is so much bullshit to hear this the morning after Austin Hays gets hurt and he’ll probably be out 6 weeks or so. This pisses me off because now the Sox will have an awful outfield just like all the Sox Buzzkill Army predicted. What angers me is Getz/ Venable had solved it: Hays in left, Acura in center, and Peters / Pereira in right and then plug in Baldwin who was going to hit around 20 home runs this year; that was going to be a very solid outfield to get the Sox to 75 wins or so. But now . . . ? When does Pereira get back? Beni in left? Is Hays gonna be like Tauchman last year, pretty much limping around all year, repulling that hamstring every other month? Probably. I just said yesterday there was no reason to bring Antonacci up because there was nowhere for him to play. Well, it’s time for him to learn left field. Maybe, just maybe if he can learn it in a week?? and Periera can get quickly back and stay healthy, maybe the outfield will still be solid, but that depends on Peters and Pereira not going in the crapper with their bats. I try so hard to stay optimistic, but it’s tough being a White Sox fan.

Baldwin is now done for the season. It's really incredible how the Sox don't have one legit outfielder on the club and have had issues with this for the past several years.

Wouldn’t make any sense not to wait another week or so to play the service time game with Antonacci. Meanwhile, Kelenic has been striking out at an insane rate.

I have to imagine when Ishbia takes over he's going to clean house with people like Boyer.

ESPNUCLA 10-4 USC (Apr 5, 2026) Box Score - ESPNBox score for the UCLA Bruins vs. USC Trojans College Baseball game from April 5, 2026 on ESPN. Includes all pitching and batting stats.Cholowsky 3/5 and Gasparino bombs https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/how-will-gasparino-reshaped-his-career-mlb-draft-profile-at-ucla/ Gotta get Will on board scaring away teams and trying to get that $5 million #41 pick to stay together with fellow Bruin Roch. Odds of that actually working are infinitesimal.

Agreed. The Sox have made tons of mistakes but I don’t think passing on Vientos is one of them. He has a similar profile to Vargas and Sosa. They already don’t have enough room for Sosa as it is so I’m not sure where Vientos would’ve fit on this team anyway.

Wait who are the Cockies