Look at Ray Ray Run

If you think he can't be forced to learn more at AAA, fine I guess. I'd be shocked to see him succeed right away with his current profile.

It's amazing how much they've changed his entire delivery: Not a perfect angle, but you can still see the dramatic changes.

Kay stinks.

His contact rate in AAA is 68.8%. Colson and Mune both run low contact rates and have been successful, but they both lift the ball too (34% GB rate and 42% for Mune). It's hard to run a low contact rate (projecting around 65% in the big leagues, which would be 4th worst of qualified starters in MLB) and hit the ball into the ground and find any success. If they called him up and Mune came back, Sox could very well have 3 of the 5 lowest contact rates in baseball in their lineup.

Montgomery may need the bigs to figure it out, who knows... but his high ground ball rate combined with his whiff rate usually causes an elongated learning curve in the big leagues and some initial issues.

LOL, I know you live in all corners of the internet but you've gotta show me these people who want JJ Hardy in the HOF.

Well pal, one of two things are true: The Sox feel he's an elite defensive shortstop yet they play him once a week at 3rd base suppressing the defensive value of the team and him for reasons that make very little sense. They dont care what the metrics say, and they think he's just fine over there and are going to move him off the position for a college kid. I'm not sure why you continue to ignore this, but with the exception of A-Rod, no starting SS who has ranked top 3 at his position defensively has played anywhere but shortstop over the past 40 years in that season. Teams dont move elite defensive SS's off the position for someone else to play it. Period. Shortstop is 3 times as valuable as 3rd, so acuna could be half as good as colson at 3rd and the team would still be better off starting him there and Colson at SS. There is literally zero precedence or reason not to play colson montgomery at SS. It would be almost the same thing as the Cubs moving PCA to left field because a back up is better in CF than LF. It's nonsense. Edit: And Bobby is #1, but Colson in the 100th percentile. Partly because Colson does not have the chances/inning count Bobby does because... you know, the Royals don't randomly play one of the best defensive players in the world at a different position than the elite one he's dominating. Also, not sure why you'd use fWAR by position. We're talking about defensive value here. Colson generates more value at SS than 3B, no matter what given that he plays both positions at an elite level. The issue is total defensive value add is not optimal, and it's very black and white. I'll add one more point that Acuna has a + arm and lesser range. That seems well suited for 3rd comparatively.

Moving Colson off of SS would be malpractice on the Sox part, but we have already seen how the Sox feel about him at SS despite his elite performance over there so wouldn't surprise me. Colson Montgomery has the BEST range amongst all shortstops in MLB. The 100th percentile of range. He's 4th in baseball in FRV (Fielding run value), 3rd in defensive value (FG). We're talking about one of the five best defenders in the game, not just as Shortstop. For all the fun this team has had, they still do completely inexplicable things. Playing Colson at a place not named SS, bunting constantly in the early game, not drafting Buster Posey 2.0.

Not sure what has shocked me more; finding out SS2k is a fascist or when we found out that WSox2003 was a closet cubs fan.

A lot of curveballs to lefties. Feels like a bad idea

One of the biggest benefits of having a bunch of guys come up together around the same age is that they grinded out minor league bus trips and life, building a lot of bonds. They also tend to have similar interest and are at similar points in life - single, partying, vibing. Been a lot of fun to watch the Antonacci effect in full force!

Definitely coming back around on Burke. Even have a few shares now. Stink meter is nearing a low!

What a heater this guy is on.

I've said "I'm wrong" or "I was wrong" more than most posters, certainly not afraid to admit it. I bump my own posts to call myself an idiot all the time. I dont reserve criticism for others only. I can't say the same for you and your pals. I've found that being process and analytically driven online rubs many the wrong way. Especially when results don't fully align in the moment with the criticism. Truth is, bad process can get good results and good process, bad results. Dumb people can be rich and smart people poor. Mediocre teams can win World Series (2006 Cardinals) and great teams don't win it all the time.

I don't get the emerson pick at all really either. Not sure how the guy has shown anything this year that could warrant the bump given his level of competition and small school/conference.

Grant taylor is the truth

Colson at third again lol

That makes it even worse. Let me let you in on a little secret. What you cited are not in fact outliers and every team would be much better if you removed their worst 6 game stretch. They'd also be much worse if you removed their best 6 game stretch. 10% of the games played are not "outliers."

I'll add one more breakdown for the it's all Getz crowd. Getz received zero blame for the lack of development and drafting of Hahn, so we're certainly not going to give him credit for Hahn players. Here's the 2026 White Sox pitching staff (guys with > 10 IP) showing that almost all the obtained pitching value is from Rick Hahn players. In fact, Getz arms have more innings but have been worth much less in general. (Position player side is as lopsided in Getz favor, but the best player in the group is a Hahn player) GM WAR IP Hahn 4.8 210.8 Getz 1 241.1

Your understanding of statistics is always fascinating to observe.

I have two posts where I picked Mead as a player to be of impact because of returned power. That you quoted yourself. How can you twist this into me not actually thinking anything of Mead? I said "partly" because Vargas would be bad (which i was wrong about!) And partly because of mead regaining power form. Ive been refraining from being overly critical of moves because people lose their minds for pages at a time and it's exhausting. So ive been more tempered but I was pretty clear that I would have given mead much more runway. I even complimented the trade itself last year when everyone here was dogging it. But go ahead and try and reinvent what I said in spite of my actual words.

Some of you struggle with a good bit, which makes it an even better bit. So thank you for that. It is annoying, but I obviously don't actually care pal. Can we also get a little laugh that people will jump through immense hoops to give credit to Getz (picking up Roberts option somehow resulted in Sandlin lol) but Getz releasing a guy who has a 143 wRC+ is not his fault and there was nothing he could do about it. Now I know how I sounded with all my Hahn excuses!

I truthfully don't want to get into any back and forth's about this. I'm having a lot of fun watching this team, and they have brought some life back to summer which is what I've been asking for. I don't want to zap fun from others, which is why I've avoided most commentary that wasn't positive during a great run of baseball. I also think they epitomize the travesty that has been the Sox not trying to even be competitive for so much of the past decade +. You don't have to be great, to be fun. You don't have to be great, to be entertaining. I also said I would not re-calibrate my expectations because the Sox lowered the bar so far. That was their goal, and I would not succumb to that. So I look at this team and I certainly don't see a resounding success. I see a fun team that has had some really great moments. I also see a team that invested very little in itself this off-season, have a payroll (when adjusted for revenue and inflation) that we haven't seen in my lifetime, and a team who is succeeding primarily because of guys who were prior regime players and a stud who fell into their laps (which they deserve 100% credit for taking advantage of)... and I say that because they weren't TRYING to win when they signed Mune, and intention matters to me when evaluating decision making. I'm glad everyone seems happy, and I understand where the euphoria is coming from. Expectations are the thief of job but they're also the cause of irrational optimism. Once you get a little taste after years of cellar dwelling, all those baseball emotions come back to the surface. It's fun to be the underdog, always has been and the Sox are embracing that role.

What? I can enjoy something and have fun with it without being irrational about what it is. Sorry it hurts you feelings to read that theyre a mediocre team.

A market inefficiency lol. Youre killing me. Such an inefficiency that the Sox moved on from the guy for Acuna (post hype guy lol) and Benetendi. And the other success is a guy who added more bat speed in the off season than anyone in baseball... something that seems pretty unlikely to happen! Steroids or just great strength training, either way I love his commitment to the team!