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When he was called up last year, my husband noticed that he looks like Nathan from South Park (which makes Vasil Mimsy I guess) so I'll be sad for weird comedy reasons when they eventually get rid of him. But yeah, he strikes out too much and it seems like he might be bad at tagging people out

Was at the office looking down at this site, and just dreaming about how great it will be when Related MidWest makes it sing, especially paired with Ishbia. Just a team with a lot of integrity that does business the right way, I'm excited to see how it goes. Reinsdorf sucks.

Iguchi shined the brightest. What if he just lifts his elbow higher? We should ask Schriff about it.

I want to see some Royal ass kicking culture this weekend.

If the Sox draft Cholowsky, he will likely be at second base by 2028. Antonacci may stay in LF. Meidroth is going to be very expendable, in fact there are already several viable candidates in the organization.

chissoxmike is such a b****. most of sox twitter is.

Who do you want starting at 2B? The Chairman of the… Oh f*** that nickname. 🤮

And I want you stop promoting Jerry like you are a Reinsdorf.

Bro just stop opening the thread.

I wish he would stop the balancing act of pulling the ball and just go back to an on base machine contact hitter. That and his gold glove caliber defense make him valuable.

I feel like I have said this a million times, but I will say it again. These things have a way of sorting themselves out. I can't remember the last time we had an actual roster crunch or positional fight because we had too many good players at the same time. Oh we have these debates all of the time about what if this guy makes it, but until that actually happens, just play the guys in front of you. The odds that everyone of these guys makes it and forces Ant and Meidroth into some kind of fight to the death for only 2B, then we have a great problem people you have someone who you can then trade for a nice return. As it stands today, no one worth a damn is being blocked. Let them play and see who fails and who makes it.

Iguchi really wasn’t that great outside of the WS year in 2005. We just remember him as better than he was because of the WS and that it had been such a long drought at 2B. Ray Ray owned Iguchi.

I saw the title and thought Noah got injured again, s%*# my pants.

Sandlin will get another shot at patching the gap in the rotation

If the Sox draft Roch and he doesn't turn out to be a better player than Chase, both offensively and defensively, it will be one of the worst #1 picks, in the history of the draft. That said, I personally lean toward Lackey.

This is like saying, "see, 50 year old Tom Brady is no longer the greatest QB ever! I was right 20+ years ago!"

Hey now, he's a SoxTalk member and the most prominent White Sox Twitterer. Bite your tongue! Kenwo is the dumbest white Sox Twitter account. No question.

We need to do a deep dive and see if Peter Thiel was behind every ounce of success AJ has had.

Amen, king!

I can never unsee it now.

lol it only took a few years for the guy to stop playing

LaMelo driving in the snow is a terrifying notion.

Please.

Small but positive Mune update: He's up to full speed work in the cages. The remaining checkpoint is running at full speed (he was reportedly at 80% a couple days ago), then they'll map out his rehab/return.

My guy Mason Adams was solid in AAA rehab start #3. 5 innings 0 runs on 66 pitches. 2 H, 2 BB, 5 K. 40% whiff rate. Looked like he could have gone deeper. 2nd straight 5IP/0R outing.

Wikelman Gonzalez has been moved up to Winston Salem to continue his rehab

I'm not trusting that property brother looking dude

It just might be the magic wand that is the difference. Before and after wand sabermetrics is the proof.

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

This is a troll post

I just said to wait to see what Roch does in the Minors for Csakes.

We need a boner emoji

He will never be another Bobby Witt in power or speed or defensive brilliance. Meidroth is a very good but not quite great/elite defender. 2006-2008 Sox position groups, 2019-2021 all make good arguments. Current White Sox still not getting enough from OF overall...catcher pre Teel and DH has been below average, too.

Trade Meidroth!

I attended the 1964 Sox-Cubs game with my girlfriend, overflow crowd and we wound up sitting in an aisle in the upper deck down the right field line. There was nowhere to move as the place was literally packed to the rafters.

Like I've been writing NEVER underestimate the stupidity of the owners. It's almost like they are doing everything they can to force a confrontation. (Which if past is prologue they'll eventually crack, cave-in and lose)

Every proposal is worse than the previous one.

Not since Ray Ray, and I mean good Sox player, not the toolbox poster here. 🤣😉

Back in my day the Sox couldn't find a 2B to save their life, now we have way too many.

No, actually the Sox could use more RH bats, at this point, especially if they extend Murakami. As I have often asserted, it's about balance. The organization seems to have well corrected the previous roster imbalance, to my delight.

The fact they are even putting this s%*# out in public is disgusting and designed imo to piss off the union and poison the negotiations.

Pope Leo sure is amassing an awesome White Sox memorabilia collection....will there be a public viewing at the Vatican?

In all seriousness, if you don't need your kids to be educated, it is a great place to live. Everything costs less, starting with property taxes. I pay no more than 1% of my homes assessed value every year. After last years tax cuts, I was back under $1000 for the whole year. Plus, even out here I am an hour to downtown by car, and an hour and 15 minutes by train. I live a mile from the beach, two miles from the Dunes National Park, and a bunch of other stuff. if you have any questions about specific spots, feel free to reach out.

remember when the mid 10s cubs were good and had a good farm and people were like 'oh they gotta trade X player, they already have starters here' and instead they just hoarded most of them and it was fine and they enough depth to be good for years instead of becoming a 140 loss team in 2 years? I think about that sometimes.