vilehoopster

I'm a northwest Indiana resident and want to go down to Indianapolis to watch Charlotte play the Indy Indians. Of course I want to see Cease pitch. Does anyone know the Knight's rotation or where I can look it up so I can plan what night to go down? Thanks for your help.

Why Castillo and not McCann? It's ridiculous, like we are trying to lose on purpose. Does Lopez request Castillo? McCann should be playing at least five times a week over Castillo. He is so clearly better than Castillo, both offensively and defensively. It's like people on here say, are we tanking and trying to lose on purpose? Unless Lopez feels more comfortable with Castillo, it makes no sense at all.

Negativity or reality? I'm a big fan and try to be optimistic; I would say I'm often too optimistic with the White Sox most of the time. But come on. I think it is much more realistic that the Sox only win one game on this trip than win four. For starters, we're missing a starter!! And that unknown TBD pitcher is pitching twice on this road trip, AT Houston and at Minnesota. That sounds like 0 and 2 on the road trip right there.

I'm not very optimistic, not with our starting pitching the mess it is right now. The road trip is seven games, right? So I expect the White Sox to go 2 wins and 5 loses. I would okay with that. Not happy, but not totally pissed off. I'd be very happy with going 3 and 4.

Say it is only for a month and a half so far, but still, I believe 100% that if we had Avi now instead of paying the same money to Alonso, the Sox would be over .500 right now. Now you can say that it doesn't matter because it's early in the season or this is still part of the rebuild years, so wins don't matter. But you know what, call me crazy, but I like it when the White Sox win games. I want the White Sox to win more games than they lose. I know, many people on here keep saying that rignt now wins don't matter. I know, I know. It's crazy that I want the Sox to win more games than they lose. Even if, so far, only a month and a half, having Avi in RF with his .877 OPS (Only McCann has a better one on the Sox right now) and having his bat (instead of watching Yonder ground out time after time into the shift) would give the Sox two more wins this year, over .500. I know it's only two more or so wins, but that's two time I'm not pissed off and two more times instead of anger, I am happy. Call me crazy, but that appeals to me.

Wow, a good outing from Medeiros. Only 1 run in five innings. He has too many walks, but a very solid outing. Is that his best all year? It seems like every time he pitches, he's getting hit hard.

"Lubob" . . . I like that. I haven't heard that before. I like it; it's clean and easy to remember. I vote Lubob.

Is he really hurt or is it a BS excuse. The last time he got shelled it was he was tipping pitches. This time the excuse is gonna be a bad shoulder. I am starting to question this guy's mental toughness. As an old basketball coach, it reminds me of the player who misses an open layup and for some reason is limping back on defense. "It's not my fault I missed that bunny. My knee (or ankle or whatever) gave out for a second.

https://www.mlb.com/news/avisail-garcia-hits-471-foot-hr-for-rays Wouldn't this be nice to have in right field now? What would it have cost to have kept him? A couple million more than we're paying Nate Jones? Probably not even that much. A three million more than what the White Sox are paying Jon Jay? Less than what we're paying Yonder Alonso, that's for sure.

First of all, Eloy is an outfielder. All you guys who were going nuts to bring him up right away, the major concern with keeping him in the minors was his outfield defense. We want that monster bat (we all hope) in left field. It's relatively easy to find a good bat at 1st base. We're just gonna have to be patient with Eloy in the outfield. He is aging. All the White Sox players are aging. Do you believe that he's really 34 and not 32? Do you believe that? How do you know he's in decline? He's got 9 home runs already this year. Again on his way to 30 or more. I know he didn't get 30 last year, but that was the definition of a freak injury: What was it? Something like an infected in-grown hair. It seems to me he has somehow survived that is okay this year. And yes, he's up for a new contract. So, let's sign him to a new contract and pay him because he is our best player. Everybody on this board had a shit-fit because the Sox wouldn't pay Machado 30 million a year for 10 years. But those same people don't want to pay Abreu 15 million a year or so the next two years? And are we really motivated to bring up Gavin Sheets with his 3 home runs and .235 batting average (or his 6 total home runs all of last year) in AA, or catcher Collins with his .256 average and 7 home runs in AAA to replace Abreu?

This is an interesting idea, but it would have to be a pretty significant "discount". I'm not ready to write him off completely, but I am getting there very quickly. I would say the odds are less than 50% (if he gets TJ surgery) that he is even a decent pitcher. The Sox just took that gamble to the tune of $4.65 million that Nate Jones could bounce back from his continual injuries and now that looks like totally wasted money. Maybe something with a few years but really cheap and loaded with incentive clauses. Wow, when you think about the money wasted on Jones and the Machado bubbies, Hahn has really pissed away a lot of money this year.

Abreu leads the team in RBIs; he's 3rd in the league. Next RBI guy on team isn't even close. You could argue he is the MVP. I would agree that others have been more valuable so far. But as I said in an earlier post. He was the White Sox only rep on the all-star team last year. Also, this spring MLB.com listed the top 100 players in baseball, and Abreu was the only one listed from the White Sox. You can argue that he hasn't been the most valuable so far. But the odds are by the end of the year, he will be one of the top two or three. I would bet Abreu against any one individual on the Sox you would want to name . And this does not even take into account his value as a club house leader. So again I ask: Why would we want to trade our best player; especially for a "B- prospect" who will probably never see the majors. That trading Abreu keeps coming up on this forum I am completely unable to understand.

I've seen this on MLB.com twice: Manny B. says that he was tipping his pitches the second time through the order against Boston, implying that's why he was hit so hard. Do you think that's true? I sort of believe it. It seems so strange to me that someone could have such good success and then everything completely fall apart. It seems like there has to be some reason how things could so quickly change so completely.

Someone said this last week: We do we keep talking on here about trading our best player? It's just silly.

Can we quit with the trade/flip Abreu stuff? We had one all-star last year: Abreu. In the preseason, MLB.com listed the 100 best players in the Majors; Abreu was the only White Sox player on the list. Can we stop with dumping, arguably, our best player for some prospect we won't see for three years or so. Hopefully, the window to winning starts next year or 2021. Really, we're gonna roll the dice on Collins and dump Abreu?

I knew somebody would bring up the World Series win last year. But OmarComing beat me to my counter-reply. I was going to make the exact same claim: The Red Sox would have won the division and playoffs to World Series without Sale. He didn't do much of anything in the post season.

Do people remember last year, when people, especially Red Sox people, were saying that the White Sox really got taken in that trade. I know many Red Sox fans were smirking about that trade. Well, with the Moncada we have this year, and the Sale that Boston suddenly seems to have, this trade looks pretty good to me right now. Also, remember we got Kopech, Basabe, and Diaz also in that trade. So even if Sale were completely healthy for a long time onward, I never felt that the White Sox were taken by any stretch. Of couse, Moncada was the important one in that trade, and (I know it's early, but) he's looking awfully good right now. I guess that old saying that you have to wait a few years before you can ever judge a trade is being proved true. But the scales are tipping in favor of the White Sox with that trade now.

Did you see the clip of Ozuna of the Cardinals trying to take away a home run last night? He literally climbs the fence/ wall and stays up there by holding on to the top of the wall with his right arm holding onto the wall and on the other side of the wall. https://www.mlb.com/news/marcell-ozuna-climbs-wall I know he didn't catch the ball and fell back onto the field, but . . . I think that this is should be illegal and if a guy catches a ball in this manner, climbing a wall like that, the batter should be awarded the home run. I'm okay with fielders jumping up and reaching over the wall. I'm also okay with fielders putting a foot on the wall/fence and pushing off to get higher and over the wall. But when a fielder literally climbs the wall, and holds on standing on a section of the wall or fence. That should be illegal and the batter awarded a home run whether the fielder catches or even touches the ball. When I saw him in the video up there waiting for the ball, it reminded me of the Bugs Bunny video where Bugs goes up the flag pole and throws his glove to catch a home run. An outfielder should have to stay in the field of play, and when a fielder climbs a wall and hangs on to the top of the wall (I know the wall is in the field of play) but is the top of the wall in the field of play, and either way, holding on up there breaks the spirit of the idea of a player staying in the field of play. Do you agree or disagree; what do you think?

Has anyone see this? www.mlb.com/news/d-backs-announcers-call-manny-machado-bush-league The Arizona announcers aren't very nice to Machado. But really, I somewhat agree with them. What do you think? I think he did exactly what the announcers are saying he did; I agree with them. But it's tough. I am far from confident. But that type of act (dropping the bat there) is pure Manny Machado. I was never in love with the Sox signing him. But now that we missed, I glad. I don't want to cheer for an A-hole.

I agree 100%. God do people overreact to one or two games. His bat will come around. Are our memories so short that we have forgotten all his clutch home runs last year? His defense will get better. With what he did with his bat last year, he deserves a chance to play. It's Yonder Alonso who shouldn't be on the team and should be Palka DHing. But we're stuck with Yonder and Avi is gone, so we have to be patient. That you guys want to dump Palka or send him down is so short sighted and just an emotional reaction.

I was looking at the Sox Top-30 prospect on MLB.com and Medeiros is nowhere on the list. He was (I think) 16th or 17th last year. And what I saw of his stats in spring training, he looked solid, at least. Does anyone have a reason why he would fall off the list. Also, where was he assigned? AA or AAA? Thanks.

I'm gonna embarrass myself here and admit that I don't know what you mean. Does "out of options" and the "pass through waivers" thing mean that he can't be sent to the minors without being put on waivers and therefore claimed by another team? Is that what you mean? Also, are you therefore also saying that the Sox will keep him on the roster as a long guy or 5th starter and not chance his being taken by someone else on waivers? Thanks in advance for making this clear to me.

After seeing the lineup the Dodgers put out there today, does the pitching performances from from Banuelos and Covey mean anything. I'm not asking to devalue what they did today; I really don't know. I've mentioned before that I'm new to paying attention to spring ball. So, did Banuelos and Covey have good stuff and is it a good sign for both of them as the spring winds down or was that Dodger's lineup so weak and forgiving on mistakes anybody could have looked good against them. Also, what's your opinion? Is the 5th starter going to be Banuelos or Santana. My guess it that it will be Santana with Banuelos down in AAA putting pressure on Giolito to show something soon.

I was a huge Giolito fan last year. The strong Sept. in 2017, a great spring in 2018. And even with his struggles early in last year, I believed in him. Then he had the really good late July and August. But wow, he has fallen off a cliff. September was TERRIBLE. This spring he is TERRIBLE. Remind me if I'm wrong, but he has not gotten through his first two inning of any pitching appearance of this spring without giving up, at least, three runs. Isn't that correct?? I know it's spring ball, but really, zero appearnces where he hasn't given up at least three runs in his first two innings pitched? Wow, that is bad! If Banuelos is looking solid in AAA, we cannot waste a year on Giolito in 2019. If he is close to as bad as last year by July, we need to make room for Banuelos. Now, if no one is looking good enough to bring up by then, I guess we keep putting Giolito out there, and hope for improvement. But I am really starting to believe that you can't fix head case.

Didn't Don Baylor in his playing days have a court system for his fellow players in the locker room where he would assess fines for stupid plays and lack of hustle, things like that. The fines were known before hand and Baylor would sit at the court and assess the fines, and the players accepted this as being led and being part of a team. Does anybody remember this? Is it even possible today with players spoiled and pampered like they are? I wish Abreu would set up something like this. One he should fine for is if a reliever comes in and immediatel walks the 1st batter he faces (Like just happened for the guy who came in for Rodon). Other things I would like to see fined is if Moncada takes two called third strikes in a game. Maybe one for Anderson getting picked off 2nd base.