Look at Ray Ray Run

Robert has honestly looked much better. He spit on a slider out of the zone there setting himself up to get the mistake. He's fighting himself a bit early in counts as you can tell he wants to swing but his approach is improving game to game. The reward for that will come.

Robert. Crushes. Mistakes.

Why would the white sox want to acquire the worst player in baseball?

He'll find his release point. I'm not at all worried about the guy.

Not gonna troll me with this ron lol He has had nearly 10 starts past two years at this same avg fastball velo https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/gamefeed?date=4/6/2021&gamePk=634609&chartType=pitch&legendType=pitchName&playerType=pitcher&inning=&count=&pitchHand=&batSide=&descFilter=&ptFilter=&resultFilter=&hf=pitchVelocity#634609

He hasn't had his fastball command in either start to begin the season, it's what has killed him. He's at least thrown some good sliders tonight which he didn't have in the first start .

Eaton and Vaughn are both going to be awful. It's a lot to ask of robert. If madrigal stays who he's been, which is all we can go off of, 3/8 of the starters are flat out bad at defense.

Being the worst defensive team in baseball is concerning and if they're anywhere near this bad it's going to be a huge impediment on their goals

It's really not. No idea why people keep saying this. His avg fastball is right around where it was for 3 starts last year and 7 the year before that.

Meanwhile mccann had another ball get away to score a run today. Agree with you 100%. He's been fine,

He's lived here many many times in the past two years. Not concerning. Velocity is typically lower early on in the season and he's had multiple starts with an avg around 92. His fastball plays up due to his size and extension with the back spin

What? They've given them 3 extra outs lol

He pitched to Grandal opening day. Not sure what you're going on about.

Our manager is bunting up 1 in the 4th inning with first and second. It worked but this is unbelievable

The rays barely let anyone see a lineup for the third time through last year and were one of the best teams in baseball.

It was 5.2 innings in 2019 and has been trending down for over a decade. 2020 wasn't that unexpected. 5 is normal now.

The avg start in baseball last year was just under 5 IP per start. Baseball is changing. Covering 4 innings is the norm in the game now.

wow, look how smug and snarky fangraphs are! how dare they say something was a bonehead move and substantiate it statistically. Don't they know some posters just exist to blow off steam and use the forum as a venting tool?!?

I will say, the sox played absolutely as bad as they possibly could have this series. Even an actually bad team won't play this bad. And they very easily could have won all 4 games. I would say thats a good thing even though this was hard to watch. To play really bad for 4 games and still have a chance late to win them all is much better than lacking any talent and playing bad and games being over early. Thats the optimistic look.

The ball was 8 feet over the wall. Was he supposed to bring a trampoline out there.

Madrigal doing something retarded again on the bases and gets bailed out. Truly unbelievable

Had three outs left in the game and the manager just had the player give one of them up. Unbelievable in 2021 that shit is still happening.

Not only has he looked good, but his power is legit and iglesias is a monster vs righties so no vaughn.

If collins doesn't hit in the 9th ill break something.

I dont get it. When Britton was throwing his 97 mph power sinker he wasn't 60/40 with another pitch. His slider is nice, but he hasn't had or thrown his sinker nearly enough.