Look at Ray Ray Run

Yeah, when Joe brought in Ruiz I remember everyone being enthused.

yeah, nothing instills confidence in a young player like switching his position in the post season because you don't think he's capable despite excelling there all year. that's what i want from my leadership.

Have you just lost your mind? Yes, Robert is going to be moved off a position that he graded in the top 4 in every defensive metric because you feel more comfortable with Engel in the "shadows." Robert is #2 in Statcast Outs above average - tied with Keimier. #4 in FG defensive metrics and #3 in DRS via BRef. In all of baseball. It's great who you trust but I'll go ahead and play the guy who is elite based on every single look.

In a regular year, the Sox are the 5th seed and in the playoffs. Citing that they're the 7th seed to discredit it is weird. They didn't sneak in as an extra team because of the rule change to add more teams, they actually got pushed back two seed slots because of the dumb new expanded rules. If the Sox were the 5th seed and won 94-95 games, people would say he was worth of manager of the year. Sox are in the playoffs with the best match-up they could have possibly asked for - two lefty SP's in round 1 in three games. Couldn't have worked out better. Kevin Cash is the MOTY.

White Sox secret geniuses; will face 2 lefty starters in the first round. Couldn't have picked their opponent better amongst the field of qualifers. Let's go!

They're 11 games over .500 after 59 games. There's nothing irrational about being positive and excited about that. Every team loses games and has bad stretches. Frank Thomas had plenty of stretches far worse than the Sox just had on his teams in the past. They're on a 95-98 win pace right now. In Big Franks entire time with the Sox, they won more than 95 games once. They are leading the AL in run differential; a Frank Thomas led team did that once before.

I dont enjoy participating in the irrational and pointless negativity.

If Sox win today, they will have won 2 of their final 4 series - against winning teams. The world is on fire though!

LOL

WhY dOeS YoLmEr PlAy!

Plesac pitching out of his mind this year, he's no where near this good. He's due for a big blow up start.

And Yoan, by all accounts, hasn't been 100%. That's a 38-40 game total for a regular 162 game season.

I'm so confused by the guys pandering for Ross Detwiler. Citing his 3.2 ERA this year at 34 years old, through 19 innings, while completely ignoring the entire duration of his career before then.

What are you even complaining about this time? Jaysus. Rodon is the 26th man on a 26 man roster and you're crying about him being on the team... because no team sticks with a highly regarded 1st round pick who has shown flashes of success sprinkled amongst a plethora of injuries over a few years. No team would ever put a lefty with an 80 grade pitch in their bullpen for a playoff run. SMH

yeah, how will we ever no what kind of pitcher **checks notes** 34 year old 12 yr veteran Ross Detwiler is without a few more one inning relief appearances.

The front office is going to dictate the starting pitchers in the post-season. If Ricky wanted to start Rodon, and the Hahn wants Dunning or Cease, guess who is going to start?

Yes, the manager is deciding who the SP's are in the playoffs. ?

When I made this thread, it was Ozzie and Chuck every night. Ozzie talked about himself 24/7. Frank has made the show much better, and has made Ozzie better, but when it's still just Chuck and Ozzie it's trash.

Getting Aaron Bummer back is HUGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. What a boost to the pitching staff. Moves everyone up an inning and gives you absurd depth from the left side.

One added bit; a position player has to replace a position player, and a pitcher has to replace a pitcher. A reliever getting hurt couldn't lead to the Sox activating Vaughn for example.

Vaughn is a part of the final 40 man pool the Sox had to submit for the playoffs. Vaughn can only be placed on the roster in the playoffs for injury/COVID related reasons (I believe). If a player was called up in the month of September for an injury related reason, they are automatically eligible for the playoffs even if no injury occurs within the playoffs. Both rules are related.

It's not about who you are replacing; the person is irrelevant. Rule is just written for this year if an injury forces a player onto the roster in the final 30 days, then said player is now postseason eligible.

Ruiz is gone too, the order didn't really matter. Sox had three lefties with Fry, Bummer and Crochet all ahead of Detwiler.

It's not about who you replace, it's about an injury forcing a guy onto the roster making him eligible for postseason play.

just now