Look at Ray Ray Run

You actually literally can.

Tony is all about getting his guys ready for the 7th, 8th, and 9th innings. Thats how he manages. Getting them ready to lose.

LaRussa just has no idea what he's doing. Williams and Lamb hitting in the 10th representing the tying run. I just dont get it.

Agreed. No idea why he's taken the 10th twice now.

Why is nick Williams batting. This is amazing

Hes had multiple inning outings and the white sox have said they view him as a starter in the future. As I said.

Hes a reliever because you think he is? The sox clearly don't view him as a reliever going forward. They want to build his innings since, again, there was no college or minor league season last year. Hating on crochet is hilarious

Maybe because he's a 6'6 lefty who throws in the upper 90s and is in the big leagues despite having zero junior year of college or minor league experience? Lol Just a hunch. But I guess he sucks because he gave up one hard hit ball in the stupid ass 10th inning

Why is it an advantage? This only makes sense if the logic is you have a lefty specialist in the pen, you can get 1 out and he only has to get 2. Those guys don't exist really and I don't understand how it's an advantage.

There was zero benefit to that. He wasn't going to finish the 8th. The only result would be having to take him out of the game. He was losing his command at the end of the 7th. Now he's on the hook.

Why would Giolito start the 8th inning.

I'll give Jake Lamb this. He was good more recently than LaRussa.

I have no idea how he'd fare because I haven't been able to actually see him play enough games to draw a conclusion. He'd likely lay off things out of the zone, and work the count, which is better than the garbage we're throwing out there instead.

I think that argument pertains to batting order, not the actual players. If you chose to sit your better players for bad players the effect on W/L is directly correlated to the lost WAR which can certainly equal way more than 2 wins when done enough. Edit: I don't think anyone is analyzing "what if this manager is a moron and plays the lesser players on the team more than the better plays because he feels like it"

The Sox signed Nick Williams in January as a spring training invite with a minor league contract.

This feels very very right.

Gotta earn at bats by going 8-8 Vaughn, obviously. No one has earned at bats more than Nick Williams. Not for this team! Not with what he's been through and done for this organization.

What?

LOL my CBS Vaughn update: Andrew Vaughn 1B | CHW White Sox's Andrew Vaughn: Manager promises usage uptick

Here's me arguing why Mercedes should have been protected on the 40 man in 2019 and me arguing that Mercedes should have gotten at bats in 2019 as the back up catcher: So please spare me the "I taught Ray Ray about Mercedes" nonsense. Guess what? Mercedes likely still can't hit good breaking stuff, that hasn't changed. You can still be a productive MLB hitter without hitting breaking stuff. I wanted Collins to get a look over Mercedes at the end of 2020 because I would like the Sox to give Collins a fair shot given his age. That doesn't mean I dogged Mercedes.

Wait, are we back to using small samples again to draw vast conclusions? Nice! And I never laughed at anyone about Mercedes. You're back to making things up again.

Jake Lamb was an All-Star! What has Yermin Mercedes or Zack Collins ever done to earn the spot over an MLB all-star?!?!

This is only because there was such a huge difference in 2018 when Bieber wasn't good. Bieber is a much different pitcher now and since he actually started dominating big leaguers he has dominated lefties more than righties (although it's negligible and he kills everyone).

Splits vs Bieber since 2019: Season Handedness IP ERA TBF H 2B 3B R ER HR BB IBB HBP SO AVG OBP SLG wOBA 2021 vs L 5.2 - - - 26 3 0 0 1 1 0 5 0 0 12 .143 .308 .143 .236 2021 vs R 6.2 - - - 27 5 1 0 4 4 2 2 0 0 12 .200 .259 .480 .316 Season Handedness IP ERA TBF H 2B 3B R ER HR BB IBB HBP SO AVG OBP SLG wOBA 2020 vs L 37.2 - - - 142 20 3 0 6 6 1 11 0 0 57 .153 .218 .198 .194 2020 vs R 39.2 - - - 155 26 3 0 9 8 6 10 0 1 65 .181 .239 .326 .247 Season Handedness IP ERA TBF H 2B 3B R ER HR BB IBB HBP SO AVG OBP SLG wOBA 2019 vs L 101.1 - - - 408 87 17 0 40 35 18 20 0 3 127 .228 .271 .414 .288 2019 vs R 113.0 - - - 451 99 20 1 46 43 13 20 1 3 132 .231 .271 .374 .273 Guy has arguably been tougher on lefties than righties since he became good in the big leagues. Tony thinking he's outsmarting the world batting a bat lefty 5th vs him and starting another shitty lefty (Jake Lamb) at DH. Why the Fff is Collins' not DH'ing at the very least if you had this broken brain left/right theory.

For the 1000th time before I leave this thread, I am talking about his approach at the plate. I'm not sure what is so hard for you to grasp about this but it's clearly causing issues. Have a good one.