WestEddy

But like conditioning, medical tests have also progressed. In years past, guys would continue to throw on a tweaked arm, lose a couple MPH, but learn a new pitch to stay in the game. It's not that they're more brittle, but there's more ways to find problems earlier, and we have methods to slow down and let some injuries heal before they worsen.

What would stop another team? A team like the Cubs really don't have the resources, rotation spots, or ability to punt a game or two right now to grab up a guy opting out of a minor league deal on the off chance that he just put it together in his last two PCL starts. And of the 7 teams, or so, positioned to take that gamble, not all 7 are geared up to support a starting pitcher the way the Sox are right now. Sure, anyone could grab up the next Adrian Houser, but we're kind of uniquely positioned with our ability to lose, and our dearth of depth at AAA right now.

Dude, keep it to baseball, would you? Nobody cares about your patty cake games here.

Good job by M.A.T., getting thrown out, and eliminating strikeout opportunities for Kershaw.

Every time Kershaw steps onto a baseball field in a uniform, he digs a deeper hole in hell to spend eternity:

Gerrit Cole.

Gameday: ACL White Sox 4, ACL Mariners 2 Final Score (06/28/2025)

Clayton Kershaw sits at 2997 lifetime strikeouts. I think he gets at least 3 tonight.

Maybe read the stuff you respond to? You're looking at an .899 OPS in May, a heater that actually extended a few weeks into June. You pretend an 11-game slump is "reverting to his career line", while guys like Joey Bart and Al Canario are potential hall-of-famers. LOL. Joey Bart is similar to Vaughn's career line this year (without the HRs), and we don't even have to pretend that. U funny.

Vargas started out the season in a 22-game slump, made a mechanical change to his stance, absolutely raked for 50 games, and as the league has adjusted to him, he hasn't done much for the last 11 games. I guess looking at a variety of stats is funny to a bandwagon guy who judges a player by who acquired him. We get it. You hate Chris Getz. You're always going to criticize every single move he makes. You're always going to pretend that good players are actually horrible based on their last at-bat.

3 WAR is an above average player. Vargas was a top 40 prospect, and we're starting to see why. He pretends Vargas isn't a promising player because that would destroy his narrative that everything Getz does sucks.

I have no problem with this. Nastrini has not been good in, like, ever. Also, isn't Fraser Ellard on a rehab stint?

The Parker brothers are both getting drafted and signed straight to the parent club?

wrong thread I like Baldwin, too.

I get an "Oops, that page can't be found" page from that link.

Oh, I agree. His value is in not having a drop-off in offensive production while playing better-than-Vaughn OF and IF. I guess as I read, other comments hit me, and I kind of respond to all of it at the same time. Some had complained that he'll never get better on a position unless he focuses on that position. I think that ship has sailed as far as how the White Sox want to use him during his control years.

Capra plays very good shortstop. He can sub in for an inning and be a substantial upgrade in defense. Baldwin can't. Ideally, that guy (Capra/Amaya) could hit a little. I don't think the team sees Baldwin as AAAA filler, more that he needs a better approach, the lack of which was probably exposed in a couple ABs where he was flailing.

But the stats do mean something. The park doesn't make a hitter barrel more balls, or have a better contact percentage in or out of the zone. Maybe there's some data that shows pitchers adjusting negatively to the dimensions, but I don't know about that.

Sure. I'm fine with leaving Baldwin down until after the TDL when the roster opens up and he can get regular time. I'm also fine with Colson coming up sometime after Sept. 1 to preserve his rookie status, and just let him air it out for a month or so, just to make sure he sets some habits and doesn't fall back at the first MLB pitching adjustment to his weaknesses. Yeah, I don't think the White Sox "owe" it to a player to put them in a position to rack up killer WAR. I believe Baldwin will settle in and start to hit, and if he jumps around the diamond, his defense will suffer for it. How deep would they have to go? I assume Robert's gone for anything. If they're kicking in money, Benintendi's gone, too. Tauchman's most likely gone, so that's Baldwin, Julks/Baker and Fletcher/DeLoach. I guess if there's interest, M.A.T. and/or Slater goes, too, and a 4th and 5th OF from that group comes up? I just don't know how much veteran depth they want to clear out. I would think they want a couple 30-year-olds to set an example. Maybe they feel like Vargas, Lee and Sosa provide most of that already?

I'm not really picking on your post, and I know I'm combining commenters, here, but I just can't reconcile the aversion to having a guy like Sosa "figure it out" at 1B, and the calls for Colson and Baldwin to "figure it out" in the bigs. Rookies make mistakes.

This season, Devers vs. Sox:

Both Vasil and Shane Smith have spent 90 days on the active 26-man roster, so if either one went on the IL for the rest of the season, they'd still revert to the Sox with 3 options at the end of the year.