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The fact that you can't admit that Colson makes the play because he's a better Shortstop is incredible. It's your obsession with critiquing anyone who critiques perceived authority. One guy is an elite defender, the other isn't. The point of playing your best players at their best positions is to maximize outs. The Sox not playing their elite SS at SS cost them the win. It's really that simple. In fact, some have been screaming that this would cost them all year. Now it does, and you act like people are playing Monday morning QB.

The Colson one is fascinating because by all intents and purposes, he passes every eye test. In fact, guys like Colson sometimes get graded up because they're ++ athletes and athletes sometimes get the benefit of the doubt in areas other players won't. I've watched Colson for 120+ games now, and he's elite as the word can get. He has huge range, gets to everything, but also has a great first step. His arm is probably only a 40 in strength, but it's an 80 in accuracy and his timing is so impeccable that I'm convinced he probably has more MPH's under there but just never needs to get to them. I'm just happy to see someone write about Colson. He has to be the most underrated first-year player (first 162 games) in my life of watching baseball. He's on a 6.5 WAR pace over his first 160! That ranks Colson as having a top 15 Rookie Season of ALL-TIME. In the HISTORY of baseball!!! He never gets any pub, doesn't even get to play his natural position everyday on his own club. Colson is a Superstar, but the league covers him like a supporting piece and the team treats him like some developing player.

Well, it appears that Veneable also has missed the boat as have the White Sox as an org. Heck there's some fans that refuse to give him his due and think he and Acuna are similar.

Brooks is having a baby? That's pretty big news for science!

Acuna definitely been swinging it better and he obviously isn't as bad as how he started, but literally none of that changes the fact that he shouldn't be playing short with Colson on the field and healthy. Period. And this team disrespects their best player constantly...now the manager is comparing his world class defensive short stop to a league average short stop at best.

Like saying Benetendi and Mune are basically the same hitters. I believe it though based on his dumb ass decision making.

Acuna is not an elite defender at SS lol. He's been negative there this year (small sample) and doesn't even have significant enough mlb innings to fully assess let alone compare him to Colson who has nearly a full season of elite work over there. Saying the difference is negligible is literally just lying.

Yes.

Acuna can hit dingers from any position on the field but for the one position held down by an elite defender.

Optimized to lose, the White Sox way. Even the simple things they make complicated.

The Sox run differential is -4. The Tigers is -5. The Tigers are 11 under 500 and Sox are 2 over. Pretty crazy.

Glad the sox had acuna at short to lose the game.

Dont threaten him with a good time!

Hmmm, I played in a team setting through college. I said elsewhere but the narrative that everyone on the team loves Vasil is obviously not true. Some i'm sure love his energy, but others likely find him a bit annoying. Every team Ive ever been on has a guy like Vasil.

Can't give less than a C for a guy leading a team performing well beyond expectations, but also can't help but think he's holding them back a little bit at the same time.

He's played a quarter of his game at 3B.

Colson Montgomery at Short and I dont care about any of the other positions. Put meidroth at 1b. I dont care.

So... defensive changes. Confirmed. Thanks. Somehow every other team with an elite defender finds a way to keep him in his spot all game all year. Crazy how that works!

Oh so they didn't move Colson off of short? I must have imagined it. Can you explain how they weren't defensive changes? I never implied the moves were made only for defensive purposes.

Just typical "find a way to get Colson off of shortstop" antics.

I dont really even know what to say about his defensive management at this point. Vibes are king, I guess.

Sox only late inning defensive changes team that actively makes their defense worse.

Sell! Auction! Do what it takes.

Make sure to keep us updated on Braden.

On the Anthony Kay stink meter, Andrew Painter is an 11... slightly worse than Anthony stinKay. Last time Painter was good was 4 years ago. Still hasnt come back from the injury. And for that reason, I'm out.