Look at Ray Ray Run

Offense is the worst it's ever been in the history of the game and in your mind people who manage pitchers and pitchers themselves don't know what they're doing and are sad.

No pitcher in twenty years has been asked to go 7 innings every start and throw 110+ pitches. Certainly not against trash competition in april.

You've lost your mind

No

Lol It needs to be in the cards in April vs the worst team in baseball? What?

That's negligent, all jokes aside. 115 pitches vs the Tigers in April. Guy should have came out before the inning feeling good about himself and healthy/strong. It's one of the more puzzling managerial decisions I've ever seen.

Guy is going to throw 115 pitches in an April game vs the Tigers. This is honestly amazingly

Goolito still pitching lol This is amazing

Larussa is a moron. Theres really nothing else too it.

Kinsler was a 30 steal guy. I know steals aren't everything with speed but he had some + wheels when he was younger.

Reminds me of Kinsler but a little slower. Plus at a lot but not great at anything. Good player

As shown in this thread, vaughn has an 830 ops since his first three games and an 850-860 in his past 5. Im not sure how much better you're expecting him to be?

I, for one, can't wait until we send vaughn down as if he's struggling (he's not) and then start 650 ops Adam engel instead everyday.

The pioneer league is an independent league trying to draw some fans with a gimmick.

Every time he gets going he gets benched. Its just baffling

Wonder if Baldelli will move himself to a lower leverage situation so he doesn't forget how many mound visits he's made and be forced to pull his starter early... on accident. Never saw that before last night in my entire life.

Not sure the "don't give a closer all your FA money" crowd is the same as the bring back colome crowd. Bullpen hasn't really been worth pounding chests about and Hendriks has blown 2 saves in 6 chances so n idea why that is a "great signing" at the moment. Unless your goal was a 66% save % when they signed him for huge money.

1. The ball; it seems to be effecting fly balls more which is hurting runs scored. There really isn't a huge difference between this April and last year when it comes to swStr% or contact %. It's definitely slightly down, by around .4%, but it's not dramatic. 2. Velocity. I thought pitchers would benefit from the shortened season last year and so far they may have. Time will tell. Every tick in velo is going to be a slight tick up in k rate and a tick down in contact %. Velo is likely up a bit because of the continued rise of the reliever. 3. Bullpens and IP/start. The trend continues as fewer starters are ever able to see a lineup 3 times. I find it fascinating that offense is WAY down, meaning pitching has been good, but the avg starter is barely over 5 IP/start. This means that despite good performances, arms are just getting the hook.

So now that Kevin Goldstein has already written an article stating that Nick Madrigal is "good" despite this quoted text from Harold, how long until Harold admits that Madirgal is good? Soon: +100000 Never: -1000000

Yes.

Yeah, I still attest that the seeding was pretty fake last year too though. The Sox would have been the 5 seed in a typical year with a two game lead over the 6 seed.

The White Sox made the playoffs by 9 games last year in a 60 game season (meaning they had a 9 game lead over the team that "could have taken their spot". How is that "barely holding on?"

Agreed, I've loved the way Collins has looked this year. Incredibly impressive improvement imo in multiple facets of the game. Hard to be consistent offensively without playing a lot but his contact has improved a lot and he's been fine with the glove. Certainly not "unplayable" like people were screaming for years.

Between the White Sox and the Padres; one of their SS's has zero errors on the season, while the other teams SS has 9 errors in 16 games. TA74MVP

The Pirates are terrible. They're every bit as bad as people think. Not sure what your second point means. Sox haven't played the Tigers once this year.