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Your Chicago White Sox are 17-18, and winners of 6 in 7. Shutout wins in 2 of 3. Team ERA since April 3 is 3.29, the best mark in MLB. Since April 20, the offense is 5th in OBP and HRs, 6th in runs per game, and 7th in OPS. Longest tenured Sox Davis Martin with an incredible start, dropping his ERA to 1.64 (4th in MLB.) Offense continues to show out on the west coast, 5 guys turned in multi-hit efforts. They are 0.5 GB for the division, and finish May 4 in possession of the last ALWC spot.

Yes. His name is Davis Martin

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Finishing the game late, but holy moly is Davis Martin a pleasure to watch. What a performance.

Guy is averaging like 3 ip per start, and 6+ walks per 9. How is he ready for anything but maybe a bullpen.

Can't wait to watch this scene in the movie about the Murakami-led White Sox dynasty

11-7 if my math is right? .611

Very quiet from the Panicans, must be past their bedtimes

I'll take the strong 7, nice work Dart Bonus points for doing this in his second straight start vs. the same team

Impressive stuff from Martin, hell of a year so far

You dont call up prospects to cover the fifth OF spot

Are we having fun yet ?

This guy is ready to never face the Sox again this season lmao

Could not ask for a much better first vs. Soriano than 30+ pitches and 2 runs

Two things I learned about Antonacci today: He’s hitting leadoff He looks like the Italian Prime Minister.

I feel like there is too much over reaction to this minor move.

As well they should given the mistakes and missed opportunities. Remember the adage, 'those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.'

The money will be spent.

A decent segment of Soxtalk is still complaining about stuff Eddie Einhorn did during the first Reagan administration.

Yonder Alonso would like a word.

The Sox always Getz their man.

They need to get to .500 before we can declare this.

The reason people don't come isn't because it's Bridgeport. It's because JR doesn't know how to build a team that is supposed to win. A successful team with endless parking lots draws a ton of people 90 miles away. Ever been to Milwaukee?

I'm lost, I think Dick Allen agrees with you, yet you're getting all bent out of shape because you're too dense to interpret his words. "Nope, it's the neighborhood" was sarcasm (the reason people don't go is Jerry/team sucks).

He would get eaten alive due to his walk issues.

West Coast games killing me, gotta be up at 245am lol

Jerry is the owner of the single MLB team left that has never given out a $100+ million dollar contract to a player. $75 million was the highest as we know. I don’t think it’s anti-semitic to say that Jerry is risk-averse and frugal at the very least and more harshly flat-out cheap when it comes to handing out large guaranteed player contracts.

Well who the hell else would be available who is decent and would actually want to play for this franchise? It's has been's, retreads, cast off's and injury prone guys (and you'll like it!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

I was joking. When @southsider2k5 mentioned guys getting figured out I thought we needed the poster child. Great analysis of the differences.

They seem like a LibreOffice or Google Slides operation to me.

I cant imagine anyone who watched Hagen's outing yesterday saying "this is a guy we should call up ASAP!"

He makes Benintendi look young.

Watching Hagen's starts has been pretty concerning for me. There's no such thing as a sure thing when it comes to baseball prospects, but I would have said this about Noah Schultz: this is a guy who is not going to implode. Maybe he ends up unsuccessful, but it would likely be due to just giving up too much hard contact (or injury). That said, I'll admit I was feeling dumb after seeing his first MLB inning! But I think that's still basically right for Noah. Hagen is very different. Of course, he's very talented so he may be successful. But the floor for Hagen would be a major shitshow. Walking everybody while mixing in the occasional blast. Javy Vasquez's worst innings, basically. So from him I want to see more at the AAA level where he doesn't look like the kind of guy who has that kind of downside. Instead, he looks exactly that way every time out, like he's on a knife's edge with his control where it could fall apart at any moment. Even worse, Hagen's velo is lower than expected and he's shown a notable drop in velo within each outing. He was averaging around 91mph in his last inning in his most recent outing. And mind you, it wasn't like the Sox were really pushing his pitch count! I don't know if he's intentionally dialing it back to try to throw strikes, if he's getting tired, or if he's hurt, but I don't really like any of those explanations.

Assumption on my part is Hays is heading back to the IL. FWIW, Grichuk's expected stats in New York were a lot better than his actual stats. That said, he's not all that exciting of a player even when he's got the luck on his side.

ALL IN MOTHER FUCKERS WOOOOOOOOOOOO

I guess technically -0.4 is better than -0.6

It may be by design, but the guy is averaging 19 pitches per inning thrown. So maybe he could be averaging 4 innings instead of 3, in AAA! What are we even arguing here. He's avg 6.45 BB/9 in the minors. When Alek Manoah and Michael Kopech had mental collapses leading to being unplayable as starters they were averaging 6.32 and 6.08 walks per 9. In the last 25 years, there hasn't been a single qualified starter with 6+ BB/9 and that's in the big leagues. Smith's walk rate would project to be worse in the big leagues. I'll say his strike % is better than the walk rate but that's added a ton by chasing as less than 50% of his pitches are in the zone!

Mason Adams officially sent on rehab assignment per the transactions log, suggesting he's far enough along to be throwing in a game setting.

Green space is an interesting suggestion...I LOVE Petco Park for a ton of reasons. One of them is the "look" of a park beyond CF. That said...if you are looking for an urban feel (not saying you are) I wonder how much green space can be created and still max out on what the developers will be looking for (profits). I enjoy thinking about a future ballpark and I enjoy looking at past ballparks and what makes them unique. Good topic of conversation!

Great question! Surrounding the ballpark: A ballpark village like @hogan873 described. Parking that is well distributed between both sides of the river so that drivers can come in from all directions to spread out the traffic. A decent amount of green space. With the total acreage of the 78 and the Amtrak yard being 62+47, there should be enough room to accommodate more than just the 2 stadiums, "ballpark village" retail, and parking garages. A pedestrian bridge somewhere connecting the two sites - not just the sidewalk on Roosevelt. Lower the grade of the Rock Island Metra tracks to open up access from Clark St. Game-day Metra stops for the Rock Island line to the east and the BNSF and SWS lines to the west (though proximity to Union and LaSalle St stations might not make that necessary) New Red Line stop at 15th & Clark

A ballpark village like they have in St. Louis would be awesome. Restaurants, bars, activities, fan shops. Inside, just make it unique and functional. Don't have a huge upper level that will never fill up. A club level with more rows would be nice, maybe 10 instead of 6. A cool section in the outfield like the Miller Landing but with more seats and less SRO. A lower outfield section where balls could exit the stadium, maybe into the river, would be perfect. I haven't been to a lot of stadiums, but something like PNC Park with a ballpark village like St. Louis would be ideal. Sightlines with the city behind the outfield. As far as concessions, the Sox do a pretty good job with food and drinks. Don't sacrifice that for anything else. And make sure there are plenty of options for buying souvenirs and gear.

He seems to have been quiet benched recently. Including the date, he has started 2 games since Apr 29 and he currently has an OPS 14 points above where the infamous Martin Maldonado finished 2024.

Has Jared been DFA'd yet?

And Jerry has already started the same process on the west side near the UC. This is OBVIOUSLY something they want, and something they feel won't work in Bridgeport, for whatever reason. It is also hard to argue with the fact that they have been there for 125 years, and nothing is currently there to any extent around the park. And the whole, "walk five blocks and find this bar" thing isn't what I am talking about. The most successful model is of a sports arena as an anchor tenant in a mall of entertainment. With the White Sox dead last in MLB in revenue, of course they are looking at ways to expand that number appreciably in the future.

To fill in for the injured Luis Robert

Get him @southsider2k5 !

He can motor down the line without pulling a hammy. Chosen.