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Too bad Reese is gone, think he would have matched nicely against Hancock.

I don't want a high schooler at 1-1. I'm kicking 90 and don't have time for a 5-year plan.

I remember when the author was basically banned from baseball for cheating in the international market with the Braves. The Sox aren't trading Murakami.

I mean as long as your throwing players like Kelenic, Peters, and Benny out there your not a serious team. None of those 3 have any business being on a MLB team. At some point this organization has to get serious about the OF situation.

This team has improved but nights like tonight show you how far they still are away from contending.

UCLA-Oregon on Big 10 Network at 9.

Looking at the recent 2/3 losses to the Angels and then a 9 game home stand ending with 3 with KC and 3 with the Cubs.... 7 or 8 more losses on this homestand could take the Sox out of competing in a division where teams are all hovering around .500. If the Sox get 7 or 8 back, they will have trouble sniffing .500 again. Cubs win a lot at home, Sox lose a lot and depress and demoralize our fans. This looks like a potentially decisive stretch of games for the Sox to remain in contention. Several fastballs center cut by Sox pitchers tonight. A lot of major league hitters are going to tee off on those. Anyway, fvk..

Wouldn’t be shocked if they extend him and eventually move to 1B if Murakami leaves

Pal your anti antonacci stuff is hilarious.

All the lefties in the bullpen and we don't have one ready to go? Pathetic managing

They're hitting pitcher's pitches at this point, not sure what you can do.

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

Good Bye-do

Getz probably wishing he didnt DFA Bido

it never fails as soon as some idiot makes the "this is a .500 club!" thread we return to 100 loss style.

Sox have like 4, maybe 5 actual starter caliber players in their lineup

I've seen a lot of chatter about Roch's batting splits (which, I should emphasize, are uniformly small sample size and hard to take seriously). Roch in 3 games against SEC: .273/.357/.636, .994 OPS Roch in 14 games against RPI top 50: .382/.485/.782, 1.267 OPS Roch in 24 games against RPI Q1 + Q2: .337/.492/.696, 1.188 OPS Roch in 12 games on Fridays (i.e., against opposing ace): .255/.413/.489, .902 OPS Roch in 8 games on Fridays against RPI top 100 opponents: .364/.488/.697, 1.185 OPS So to me, not obvious that he shrivels up and dies against good opponents or is particularly feasting on bad opponents. Some additional commentary that his numbers year over year are very similar. I'll note that these splits were very different last season... 3 games against SEC: .077/.077/.077, .154 OPS 23 games against RPI top 50: .273/.383/.455, .838 OPS 29 games against RPI Q1 + Q2: .293/.390/.517, .907 OPS 15 games on Fridays: .276/.405/.517, .923 OPS 8 games on Fridays against RPI top 100: .167/.257/.367, .624 OPS While I wouldn't advise taking any of it too seriously, it is descriptively true that under the hood his 2026 production has shifted more towards hitting well against good competition.

One thing I like about Getz management style this season is that, with only one notable exception (Acuna), he has been quick to DFA or demote a player who under-performs at the plate or blows a game from the mound. The replacements are sometimes not much better, but I really like the air of accountability. Given that, Kelenic is probably on a short leash. Hit or get in the he11 out of here.

I agree with almost everything here. @caulfield12 that's when you know you're REALLY on the wrong side of things.

We are really allowing historically bad baseball to distort a view. Pretty much any team in baseball but for a select few historically bad years have 11-7 stretches every year. The Sox are not going to sneak into the playoffs. Their pitching is not good, not deep, and will regress. They still have the 3rd lowest playoff percentage in baseball.

Osawful Bado.

searches “DGA”

I never thought Colson was a bad shortstop. I always thought he could stay there. People who thought otherwise didn't watch. Bonemer might legit be 1B or LF though.

Cholowsky is the best college shortstop in like 20 years. These guys usually go pro out of high school. There are some recent college guys who look pretty good though. Kurtz and Wetherholt both very good and Roch is a plus defender at shortstop. Cholowsky's numbers are basically the same as last year. K rate up a tad, walk rate down a tad. Power is similar, chase rate is better, exit velo similar etc. And teams don't really pitch to him that often. I'm actually more impressed with his junior year than sophomore year.

I will go to my grave with if Andrew Vaughn doesn't skip the minors and go to LF immediately, he ends up a completely different player.

My guess is that Roch was a higher rated prospect than Witt at the time. I think people are sleeping on, or have gotten prospect fatigue from Roch.

Bye bye Bido

1) The Sox aren't trading Murakami this year. That would be a PR disaster, destroying any good will the signing created in the Japanese market, and among Asian players. 2) Trading Murakami next TDL is not the same thing as trading him this TDL. 3) This team is on the verge of being competitive. Why should they trade Murakami? 4) A QO draft pick isn't "nothing". The extra pick they received from Seattle in the Santos trade turned into Blake Larson, and they had extra money they used to sign Bonemer and Antonacci.

Roch has gotten a lot of prospect fatigue over the last week or so. Roch has a higher floor than Emerson and I think fits the timeline of the Sox better. Offensively, Sox are in an awesome position position player wise.

Thank god.

https://www.mlb.com/prospects/stats/affiliates?teamId=145&date=05/07/2026 https://www.mlb.com/milb/scores/all/all/whitesox?affiliateId=mlbcom-milb AA rained out and still raining here this morning. Davitt and Oppor are listed. Though early, our minor league pitching has either gotten hurt or performed poorly with only a few exceptions. Anyone heard more on Bergolla? Approaching a month since his collision.

All I need right here lmao.

It would be better to get honest answers from management, but hey, to each his own

Braden 3-5 with 2 doubles, BB and only 1 K. Very good.

The team is 2 games back of first place. What you are prematurely asking for is worse than Jerry and the White Flag trade of 1997. There is literally no reason to trade Murakami until after this season at the earliest.

Dude, they can trade him after the season, or before next season’s trade deadline if they get the vibe that he is going to be out of their price range. Why do you seem to think there is a deadline to trade him that is coming soon?

Oh man. I didn't realize it was a Coppolella piece.

Montgomery with 3-4 and a walk. Gabe Davis throwing strikes.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears-stadium/2026/05/07/mayor-brandon-johnson-springfield-trip-bears-stadium-arlington-heights-city-revenues

I'm not saying they're that alike other than the fact they're both college hitters who destroyed college pitching. The fact that their hitting mechanics look kind of similar just gives me some PTSD. Roch is a much better athlete relative to other SS than Vaughn is at 1B. So I doubt we see Roch hit the physical wall that ended up dooming Vaughn. Roch is 100% the safer pick with the highest floor. You don't see a lot of 65 FV prospects coming out of college. I don't really think the Sox should overthink it. We tend to get prospect fatigue with guys who are locked in as the #1 pick early like Roch and Caleb Williams. But they got that hype because they are special.

The critical difference is that Vaughn is a 1B/DH and Roch has a 3 WAR floor basically as a competent big league SS. Tork and Vaughn never really worked out. You have to HIT HIT HIT to be a valuable regular as a 1B/DH. Especially as a RHB. To me this is just a no brainer. You take the guy that has a guaranteed floor as a solid regular. We don't need a HR, we need a solid base hit here.

His name.

Still sad to look at that 2019 draft… 1.) Adley Rutschman 2.) Bobby Witt Jr. 3.) Andrew Vaughn

They’d have to make a 40-man move to add someone now. I do think, when Teel comes back, he should go to Charlotte.

They’d rather get Leasure back on track in the minors. I’m sure they just see Bido as a guy they can use his arm up in junk time and cut him loose whenever they want for a fresh arm.

He won't be here long.

Four factoids today: May 7, 1989 - Groundbreaking ceremonies were held for the start of construction on the new Comiskey Park across the street from the original stadium which was built in 1910. Dignitaries from the state, city and White Sox franchise were on hand for the occasion. May 7, 1991 - Sammy Sosa became the first Sox player with a ‘walk off’ home run at new Comiskey Park when he beat Milwaukee with a blast in the 12th inning. The final score was 2-1. Sosa hit his game winner off Brewers relief pitcher Mark Lee leading off the frame. May 7, 1999 – Sox outfielder Carlos Lee homered in his first at bat in the Major Leagues. Lee connected off the A’s knuckleballer Tom Candiotti. It came in the second inning at home in the Sox 7-1 win. He became the first White Sox player to ever accomplish this feat. The home run was to center field. May 7, 2023 – The White Sox set the franchise record for the most runs ever scored in the second inning when they had 11 runners cross the plate in a 17-4 win over the Reds in Cincinnati. The Sox sent 14 batters to the plate in the inning highlighted by a two-run home run by Hanser Alberto and a three-run shot off the bat of Gavin Sheets. In the inning the Sox went 5 for 6 with runners in scoring position. Backed by that kind of support Michael Kopech pitched six innings and got the easy win.

The "setback" while running sounds like the hamstring may have been re-injured to some degree. Anyway, whatever happened there seems to have created another uncertain timeline. As a fan, I wish someone from the White Sox medical or training staff would address this rather than Venable.