Look at Ray Ray Run

Maybe the wrong audience, but is no one concerned that he's literally gotten worse YoY? And im not just talking about counting stats and babip luck. Walk rate is down. ISO is down. K rate is up. People keep posting big ten game results with ooo's and ahhh's. He's playing the big ten vs future accountants, he should mash. The concerning thing is he's mashing less. The last thing you want to draft is a maxed out player.

Does roch have a single tool better than Bobby?

Someone asked me how I knew Grant Taylor was better than Jordan Leisure and laughed at the idea...

Wood plays right field. He's a + runner, with an elite arm but his other defensive skills are just ok but offensively, very similar profiles outside of wood being a bit more athletic. I predicted that Mune and Wood would both set the K record because they'll be good enough to play all season.

For all tracking at home. Sam Antonacci now LEADS the White Sox in xwOBA at .406! That ties him for 15th in baseball, for guys with 70 or more PA's, with Bryce Harper. The other day the White Sox batted him 9th and played Colson Montgomery (2nd best SS in baseball) at 3rd base.

This is now the 3rd time you or Cali have insinuated that posts on the internet are driving decision making or changing outcomes of a major league team. Now theyre victims of it. I can only hope youre being facetious.

Isn't one role of the team and doctors to protect a player from himself? Their job is to be the rational arbiter between a player and his competitiveness, especially if he is putting himself at risk or hurting the team with their injury.

Two of the last three games, the Sox have decided to start the second best defensive SS in baseball at another position.

It would be 4 years at 120 at 30/per but either way I think it would have made sense for him 10 weeks ago, but less so now. Schwarber is a DH. I tried looking for this, but couldn't find it anywhere. Got a source on this?

Why would he accept less years at the same AAV as a 32 year old who doesn't play a position? If he's betting on himself, then he's betting on himself. I don't even think money is the sole driver here for him, but these tweets don't make sense if they are serious about signing him.

Guys been worth 27+ WAR and san Diego. Not sure how that's a bad signing anyway.

Gotta love that the best move this organization has made in a really long time was a complete accident. Hope he keeps it up. He obviously still has an incredibly risky profile.

I took this as there were conversations happening internally, not with Murakami's camp. Why would Murakami sign for 4 years and 100 million? It's amazing that somehow people think that's a big deal for Reinsdorf... embarrassing really.

14th in OBP with a top 10 ISO, so them being 25th in average doesn't really matter I will say their offense is run by two guys who I anticipate will run very hot and very cold. It'll be a lot of fun when we're riding high like right now, but there will be 20-30 day stretches where it's going to be really tough to watch. All the high notes aside, it's been ONE day since Chris Getz allowed Colson Montgomery to be played somewhere but Shortstop. Every time we have to reset the counter, we cry a little bit.

Concessions are run by Levy, not the White Sox, and I went when it was empty this year and it was a good experience. I definitely think the food is better than typical ball park food, but like anything at a stadium it can be a bit hit or miss.

White Sox are 11-6 since they called up Sam. #AntonacciMania

I've been trying to tell everyone this guy is a monster! LOL

Used to be a nice platoon bat on the weak side. Always been bad versus righties.

It may be by design, but the guy is averaging 19 pitches per inning thrown. So maybe he could be averaging 4 innings instead of 3, in AAA! What are we even arguing here. He's avg 6.45 BB/9 in the minors. When Alek Manoah and Michael Kopech had mental collapses leading to being unplayable as starters they were averaging 6.32 and 6.08 walks per 9. In the last 25 years, there hasn't been a single qualified starter with 6+ BB/9 and that's in the big leagues. Smith's walk rate would project to be worse in the big leagues. I'll say his strike % is better than the walk rate but that's added a ton by chasing as less than 50% of his pitches are in the zone!

Guy is averaging like 3 ip per start, and 6+ walks per 9. How is he ready for anything but maybe a bullpen.

Dude has a career WAR of -2.7. He's had one non negative season. It's amazing he's still in the league. 6 years of trash. Best thing that happened to his career is having a big league playing dad.

Fun fact. Ben Rice's on base percentage is higher than Quero's OPS.

Yesterday was the best I've seen him since the 2nd half of his first year. He looked good, no doubt about it.

Honestly, he's been out performing his metrics for a while so I've been wrong on him forever. That said, I always question the sustainability of that. This year he's at least missed more bats than last year (6.56 k/9 last year is not a recipe for success in the modern game, and it's why I still am not buying Burke this year), although most of it has been sequencing changes as opposed to an increase in swing and miss, and his production has been actually really good (2.87 FIP). Biggest change this year has been with his slider, which is an entire new pitch (more velo, different movement, and throwing much more often), but the outcomes (++) have far outweighed the expected outcomes (hasn't even graded out as an average slider). So I think once that pitch starts being hit like you might expect, he goes back to a 4.5ish fip arm which is a 5 at best. All that said, Bannister has been getting more out of the parts than you'd expect, so maybe he continues to maximize Martin and they get a solid year of sub 4 FIP performance which is absolutely a 3; especially considering how he pitches deeper into games.

Have been trying not to squash the optimism as I've been the positive one in in my real life circles, but this team still has no pitching outside of Schultz. Still not a believer in Burke/Martin/Fedde. Additionally, they're 24th in FIP and pitching WAR and 21st in wRC+. That's a 70 win team. They're fun, but they're not good. I think their position players, with Ant full-time and Teel back can get more in the top 12-14 range though! Think the pitching is actually worse than they've shown so far so could see them dropping there.