South Side Hit Men

Excellent post. Ricky had a bad week last week for certain, but the overall management of the bullpen beyond Jimmy Cordero worked, the bullpen overall performed above expectations. Matt Spiegal had a good balanced segment on hit and run on Saturday regarding Rick Renteria which mirrors my thoughts on his tenure and last week. It’s worth a listen if you are opened minded. Spiegel: Should Rick Renteria be on the hot seat? https://www.radio.com/670thescore/podcasts/hit-run-with-matt-spiegel-59

Lost meaning / importance at this point with literally a team in the bottom half of MLB is now a "playoff participant", and two teams two games under .500. Playoffs used to signify a quality season, wild card cheapened it, 16 teams destroyed it. Now it's worse than the NHL (31 teams) and tied with the NBA (30) as the least meaningful regular season.

Hitting - 90 ABs + (Batter, Primary Position, bWAR (Plate Appearances) - Comments Starting Nine: Jose Abreu 1B 2.8 (262) - Top 10 MLB Finish, LeMahieu (2.9) lone AL hitter higher. Tim Anderson SS 2.2 (221) Luis Robert CF 1.6 (227) - dWAR > oWAR 1.0 vs. 0.8 Eloy Jimenez LF 1.1 (226) - Defense really hurt with a -0.6 dWAR Yasmani Grandal C 0.6 (194) - Doubled after final game (0.3). Yoan Moncada 3B 0.5 (231) - Hopefully he will regain full health next season, looked good to close the season. Nick Madrigal 2B 0.4 (109) - 7th best OPS among starters / key reserves, nice rookie year but needs improvement in baserunning and added gap power. Nomar Mazara RF -0.3 (149) - Adequate defense saved him from finishing last among the starters. Edwin Encarnacion DH -0.5 (181) - Brutal signing, would like the real story as to whether Hahn or Ricky continued to want him in the lineup after Labor Day. Bench James McCann 1.2 (111) - 50 more ABs at C or DH would have been prudent. Danny Mendick 0.6 (114) - Adequate fill in / reserve. Adam Engel 0.5 (93) - 50 more ABs at RF / LF would have been prudent. Pitching: (IP) WAR Starters Dallas Keuchel (63) 2.0 - Great first season with the Sox. Lucas Giolito (72) 0.8 - Nice season, flashes of brilliance. Key rotation piece. Dane Dunning (34) 0.1 - Nice exposure for the rookie, may need more seasoning in the minors to build on his success. Dylan Cease (58) 0.1 - Took the ball each time with mixed results, needs to gain command of his pitches to gain the next step. Biggest ??? coming into next season. Carlos Rodon (8) -0.4 - Should be joining Carson Fulmer as a former White Sox first rounder this offseason, unless he agrees to return as low $ / incentive laden contract. Reynaldo Lopez (26) -0.6 - Not sure he will ever be able adequately perform at the ML level. Relievers Alex Colome (22) 1.0 - Great season for future free agent, hope he returns. Codi Heuer (24) 0.8 - Excellent unexpected season for the 2018 6th rounder. Matt Foster (29) 0.7 - Excellent unexpected season for the 2016 20th rounder. Evan Marshall (23) 0.6 - Another solid season, hope he is on for the playoffs. Aaron Bummer (9) 0.3 - Injury major blow, though allowed Heuer and Foster to gain valuable exposure and experience. Garrett Crochet (6) 0.3 - High impact for a mere 3 innings, hope he can transition to a starter by 2022. Jace Fry (20) 0.1 - Adequate middle reliever. Gio Gonzalez (32) -0.3 - Likely the end of the road with the White Sox. Jimmy "Everyday" Cordero (27) -0.8 - WAR crushed on the final day, possibly his last as a Chicago White Sox. My final grades are B+ for the starting nine, B+ for the bench, B for the starting pitching and A for the bullpen, the sum of which is B+ for the entire class.

Surely science and technology has improved over the next two decades to make this feasible for Eloy's remaining tenure in Left Field.

I don't recall seeing this mentioned here, but I like the fact the White Sox will avoid Tampa, New York and Cleveland until the ALCS, due to the fact there is no reseeding. It's a tournament style bracket this season. Tampa has a hard second round match-up guaranteed, and the Dodgers have no picnic with San Diego looming. The Cubs' pod is the worst of the four.

For TV, games will either be 2 / 3 or 9 CDT. With eight games on Wed and Thur, I’m expecting a day game after a night game if it goes 3. TB Toronto will be the first game each day.

Hahn has several IDs here, Kenny has a few. Ricky doesn’t know how to log on.

Brutal call, still appreciate the battling back. Clean slate, see you all Tuesday!

You need to pinch hit here, bring in McCann.

Tim Anderson Batting Average after 9/22 .353 Batting Average 5 days later .322

Nick is the dumbest player I can recall since The Dyber.

Sorry, that is Cooper's seat. He will breathe on you mask-less until you move.

Cleveland up 7-6. runner on 2nd. Gas up the plane.

Cleveland 2nd and 3rd nobody out, down 1, should have scored but Hernandez screwed up on the bases.

Was Cordero trying to hit Bryant there?

Original Contract Value (no COVID adjustment) Complete waste: Edwin Encarnacion $12.0M Kelvin Herrera $8.5M + $1.0M Nomar Mazara $5.6M Steve Cishek $5.3M + $0.7M Carlos Rodon $4.5M Nicky Delmonico $0.6M Paid more than added value: Yasmani Grandal $18.3M

Not sure if he has say over Encarnacion's playing time. Hahn is his boss, Hahn gave him Grandal, Parrot and Mazara to play, and they are playing.

I'm thinking $5 at the next White Sox Garage Sale.

2020 Home Run Power Stats: Billy Hamilton 1 / 28 ABs Nomar Mazara 1 / 131 ABs Thank you Rick "Genius" Hahn.

Tim Anderson was at .353 a few days ago, .325 now.

I don't ever recall a "Wild Card" Banner in any sport.

All I know is I'm going to puke if they will have a "2020 Playoff Participant" Banner ceremony next year.

Nice at bat Robert, finally something positive today. Keep it going Mazara!

Pitching the vida loca.

As bad as Parrot and Mazara has played, the Grandal signing is the most damaging, in terms of continued declining production and contract albatross vs. the budget.