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Sucks but glad it happened this way rather than “he made a start on Saturday, was terrible, and now is going to miss time on the MLB IL with a shoulder impingement and accumulate service time after we started his clock and dfa'd someone else”

espn Chicago suggested antonacci drag bunt up the 1b line and then just plow over cole

When he isn’t cheap it’s almost always a bad investment. Guy’s got a divine gift for getting it wrong.

Once again, glad this is everyone's first White Sox game on the year. They've never battled back this year to make it interesting.

The march toward a 5+ game division lead by next Wednesday starts tonight.

You don’t get to tell anyone any of this. Stop being a gatekeeping putz, nobody cares

If Smith comes back to form, he's a big improvement over Fedde any day.

This is still an evolving and improving team filled with salvage prospects and projects. He can be good again. He just has to find what he had. He was trying to improve and it screwed him up. He can be good again .

They usually win despite him being owner. Rocking a solid $100M payroll (according to Spotrac). "Great support from ownership" LOL Hilarious.

Great support from ownership lol. Im pretty sure they had to beg uncle jerry to open his clutches of the coin purse to sign him. Tho now he gets to reap the money from them playing well and possible contention.

Martin vs. that MiLB headhunter Gerrit Cole. Go Sox!

Wow Lip showing up in a game thread. You know they are losing badly.

Best in the business right here.

Teel done after 5 innings, went 2-3 with a HR and single.

I don’t buy that story at all

Guys you can't judge anything after a guy throws a 40 pitch inning. He's totally gassed from here onward today. He looked fine until his defense gave up 2 outs. Was always going to be a tough matchup with so many good lefties anyway so not going to be a lot of margin for error. He's taking it for the team right now.

They had one legit hit that inning

We just need @ron883 or @joejoesox to say they are turning the game off to mount the comeback. Who's gonna take one for the team?

3bb 4K for Schultz. Hagen Smith was there in spirit.

He has like 43 plate appearances and is a rookie

I mean, this is his first rehab start…should probably expect some rust

Wik now official. Mune was playing catch in the outfield pregame in NY

I feel a lot of people are focusing on Bonemer's high strikeout rate and are a little down on him, but he had 18 bombs in 61 games at A+ as a 20 year old. He even took Gerritt Cole deep. The guy is a stud. Gunnar Henderson as a 20 year old in A+ had 9 HRs in 65 games with a 30% strikeout rate. Bonemer at the same age in A+ has 18 HRs in 61 games with a 29% strikeout rate and basically the same BB%. They had basically the same SO% and BB% but Bonemer had way more power. Bonemer has legit 40 HR power as a middle infielder. I'm not trading him unless it's for a big time player.

I'm hoping the Hagen selection has humbled him. Trust your scouts.

Only hits I see is our dudes strokin’

Say in two years Lackey is ready Beni is gone and then you rotate DH between Colson, Teel, Mune to keep them fresh and then hopefully Lackey can play some corner OF or even CF to get his bat in the lineup, with Teel catching 90 or so and Lackey 70. There are worse ideas.

Think it’s good as the stuff he had this past start was horrible

Of all of the people who you can cuck for, imagine picking Jerry Reinsdorf. Like he give two shits about any of us.

Don't know why someone would want to write Shane Smith off. If the shoulder injury isn't serious, wouldn't surprise me at all if he comes back in 2025 form. The time away might even have helped him get out of whatever bad habits he was in. Of course, I won't say that I'll be totally shocked if he melts down upon return either. That's baseball for you.

A legit asshole on and off the mound. We avenge Caleb tonight.

In my opinion this is not the year to trade high end prospects for older short term veterans. This is absolutely a wait and see year for me. If we can get some vets for AAA fodder, then by all means - but I wouldn't be looking at dealing from our top 10 (or so) prospects.

Gerrit Cole is possibly my least favorite active MLB player. The Sox will hit him hard tonight.

Drafting pitching definitely makes sense, but lets not try to model anything after the Angels please lol.

Depends on which version you get. Smith had high’s & low’s last year, but was legit awesome to end the season. If you get that version, he’s a legit #2 starter. The problem is you may not get more than the AAA fodder version of Shane. But if he can back to AAA fairly quickly, there is plenty of time to see what you have in him before the deadline.

First up we'll do Sam Antonacci, who god bless him, is looking like at worst a super utility guy, most times a rare, valuable plus bat that can play 2B and corner OF. He started his college career with Heartland Community College a D2 school, promptly racked up a POTY, transferred to Coastal Carolina, slashed a fun 367/.523/.504 and was drafted in the 5th round by the Sox in the 2024 MLB Draft. Preseason, he wasn't that highly regarded on most Sox lists, but was noted as a high floor guy by Fangraphs in their writeup, which had him 11th: Our friends at Future Sox had him 9th in the org, with a similar profile while noting his excellent stat cast data from the minors:* Ok, enough about the past: Sam comes in with .8 fWAR in 208 PA. ZIPS figured he'd be a decent bat out of spring, projected for a 99 wRC+, but so far he's exceeded that modest projection with a 119 wRC+ and perhaps has been a bit unlucky with a xwOBA of .370. ZIPS has reacted and rest of schedule they think's he's good for a 107 wRC+. Sam is the def of a "spray hitter" with a pull percent of only 33.3%, middle 40.1%, and oppo 26.5%. He does a great job avoiding popouts, at only 4.3%.** Sam destroys fastballs, he's 5.6 runs above average already. That's his bread and butter and if you can hit fastballs, you can hit anybody. Eye test wise we see this, he's a very wristy hitter and that allows him to really see the ball "deep" compared to guys that are full go big lower body load, eg Colson Montgomery. But this analysis is mostly stat focused so we'll get back to that: FG has him down for -3.8 runs in the field, which sounds bad, but is fairly benign for a rookie convert. For example Vaughn was -28 his convert year and Sam isn't going to approach that. Let's look at his statcast profile: 78th percentile spring speed is excellent: FG has him for -.1 runs below average on the bases, which makes sense given he's been picked off a bunch and done other stupid stuff. He's fast, but he needs to be a bit smarter to fully unlock the value. His rolling xwOBA has been closer to league average or slightly better the last two weeks, but 50 games into his career, he's an elite bat to ball guy -- really no two ways about it. Things can change, but usually when a guy passes the eye test and metrics test like this for even a couple months when the regression happens they will figure it out and Sam has an athletic profile that belies his relative unassuming appearance. The arm grade surprised me but makes sense and that will play at 2B. Who could you comp Sam to? I see some Ray Durham with less pop (for now). Ray had a long and productive career, I'm sure Sam and us fans would love 2/3 of that 34 career bWAR for Ray. Or if you want a white guy we'll go with rich man's Craig Grabeck. ______________________________________________________________________ *Good job guys **I'm going to make up a new stat here, it's gonna be called "BIF", which is barrels to infield flies / popups. So far Sam has 11 barrels and 8 popouts so by my math that's a BIF of 1.375. For comparison, Mune has a BIF of 1.92, Vargas has a BIF of 1, Colson has a BIF of .49, Quero has a BIF of ∞ despite only two barrels he has not popped out. Is it a useful stat? Maybe? Someone smart could run some regressions. It certainly is a good ratio for how tolerable a hitter's ABs are from a watchability standpoint Gonna try and do one of these every off day for next couple months. NORTHERN SOUL, THE INTENTIONS - DON'T FORGET THAT I LOVE YOU

It's amazing how this lineup is going to look when Murakami and Teel replace Gonzo and Romo.

He needs to just retire and embrace his twitter troll persona now that the Sox are decent again.

He signed off after being begged to. Remember they had to trade robert and all his contract in order to add more players? Do we not realize jerry is cheap and only cares for the carrot to bring fans in for second places finishes? His words

The reason the payroll is low IS Jerry. Getz had to go to JR and beg him to sign Mune, and that is the only thing currently standing between them and the absolute lowest payroll in MLB.

It would be crazy to trade Bonemer for Sloan in my opinion. They're basically similarly ranked prospects but pitchers have much wider error bars. The hitting prospect has a more reliable outcome, and Bonemer is the man.

Emerson is not a Witt caliber prospect.

I'm fine with Lackey or Roch at this point. Both seem likely to be 4-5 WAR players up the middle and that's all you can ask.

LFG !!!

1 year ago, 6/17/25, Shane was eating innings and had a 2.85 era.

Teel hit a HR in his first rehab at bat with Charlotte. If we can stay healthy, we easily make the playoffs. Antonnaci, Vargas, Murakami, Montogomery C/B, Meidroth and Teel are 7 of the 9 locked in starters now. With Peters and Grichuk contributing well and Benintendi coming up clutch sometimes, we look solid offensively. The obvious issue is pitching. Without Schultz and Smith getting anywhere close to their ceiling, we would need to trade for starting pitching or the postseason is a stretch too far this season.

Gross on many levels. Overpaying for a rental would be the dumbest thing we can do. That's the sort of thing Hahn would do or KW and would end up gutting the upper minors just at a time when we needed reinforcements from the Farm. We'd get a comp pick when he leaves, but that's hardly enough carrot.

That's terrible as I was really counting on spending a lot of my future free time and money hanging around a slag heap in Indiana outside gametime

So I've been to a few games now this year. It's not just the product on the field that has gotten better. I have not been stuck in long lines to get into the stadium, including Saturday where I arrived only 10 min before first pitch I have found that while I'm certain some lines move slowly, I have been able to choose spots better to get food/drink and back to seat within the time between innings We have a fundraiser night for our baseball league where we bring 2500 or so kids, that process of waiting for the on field parade used to be brutal, sometimes even missing the window for the parade and some kids miss it. This year it was a breeze getting in, shorter wait times, perfectly set-up. I'd say from at least 2015-2022 I really, really had frustrating experiences with all of the above. This year it's been a dream. I'm sure there are some games that may have been a problem, but for a 37k game to be ablet o get right in the stadium and then be able to get food and drink and not miss 2 innings? I thought I'd give props there.

JR finally had the sense and courage to show Hahn and KW the door and hire Getz. That is why this team is where it is at now. Great support from ownership (signing Mune), talent evaluation, player promotions from the Minors, and prescient trades.