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Why? In the old days of Jack Morris, Gary Peters, Bob Gibson, Fergie Jenkins, LaMarr Hoyt, Juan Marachal, Mark Buehrle, such things as rest were not considered. Ballplayers played ball. To heck with pitch counts in college and workload. They just pitched.

I read your whole post and enjoyed it. Good stats; good post. ... However I tire of the White Sox having possible solutions to problems or expected problems no other teams with a clue ever have. This desire to save arms for the future, rest the arms now. And worrying about things to do for players in hitting slumps. Look, Meidroth plays every day and see what you have. If he's utterly pathetic and you have to bench him, fine. And Smith ... geez. Just have the guy pitch. If you deem his stuff has become totally hittable either send him to the minors or suffer with his bad performances. It's a long season. If the Sox think Vargas is a big league regular, play him every day with the occasional day off. That's baseball.

I can't think of a good fit for Robert. Hell, maybe Milwaukee again with Vaughn off to a good start there. Or the Cubs. Do they need a pinch hitter type for the stretch run or a regular DH? The Royals might be a landing spot but KC doesn't make real trades with the Sox.

No doubt Sox have a weird roster.

Kudos to fathom. He has posted a long time and yet never offends anybody or acts like a know it all. Some of us have poster flaws on occasion. Fathom is an MVP poster IMO.

Comments: 1.) Civallo was awful. Meatballs. 2.) Jays are hot and smart to not take the Sox for granted. Teams that beat up on the Sox do well in the standings. 3.) Good to see Montgomery keep it up and get a hit. 4.) This game was like the old days. Sox got boatraced.

I disagree with you. For instance Soxtalk freaks about making sure players are "ready" before they come up to the bigs. It's a non sequitir. So Vaughn is deemed "ready" yet when he comes up he has to play a different position than he's been trained at all that time in the minors? It nullifies the being ready argument cause he's certainly not ready to play outfield when he's not played it in the minors. But these guys are expected to just move from a comfy 1b or DH to outfield? It's stupid IMO.

Yeah he finally got a lot of at bats. Hopefully the change of pace will help him. I think Burger is still in the bigs for somebody.

They decided none of our everyday players are hitting well enuf to not have embarrassing stats for an all star game. Beni's BA is too low. Tauchman is up to .280 but not an all star. Most don't have enuf at bats. I'd have pulled a Bill Veeck and named Abreu, Jose to give him a proper sendoff from the game. Let him have one at bat as a Bill Veeck type stunt. Frankly the team doesn't have a player on the active roster who deserves it yet.

He's 27. Time to start raking. Wish him well. Not his fault he was with a losing organization.

I'm speechless. Aside from Nancy adapting the Na Na song to White Sox baseball, I personally think Ozzie making the "hulk sign" when calling for Jenks is one of the funniest, coolest, most special things in Sox history. Makes me laugh to see Ozzie not wave his right hand but do the "hulk" when summoning Bobby. Rest in peace Bobby. You were a star closer. Very sad to hear of his passing. Enjoyed hearing Ozzie's take/memories.

Oh my. Sosa and Colton. In my mind the Sox are close to having enough hitters to contend in our weak division. The problem I think is our pitching staff is not good. It's not in the top 50 percent of all staffs. Montgomery baby. He appears to be a natural hitter. What a swing. With him, Meidroth, Teel, Vargas, Quero, maybe Baldwin, Beni, Yoda, and whoever I'm forgetting (Tauchman isn't so bad) we can hit. If the season started today we might contend for the division title though. We look more like a .500 to .550 team than the usual horsebleep squad. Colton baby!! Way to hit.

I thought you got credit for a hit when it's catcher's interference. I see he had no hits today. So what is it? Hopefully not an out on your BA since it's ruled an error by catcher. If it's an out, that's a rule baseball needs to change. It should be a hit.

Congrats to the poster who called this. Said bring him up this weekend, no pressure in Colorado. I predict he may just play this series then go back to the minors. However if. he sticks this is a huge moment. An actual good player joins the team to go with a few others like Meidroth and Vargas and Elko and Teel n Quero. Go Sox.

Good post. That's what I thought. Robert is always under .200 it seems.

Seems like he'd been better than that. 30 games? Are u sure? That's awful.

Listening to some of the Dodgers highlights it seems we were just what the doctor ordered for some of their players who were 'frustrated' and slumping before clobbering our Sox. Sox helped turn St. Looie's season around this year. The poor Royals have stopped dominating our Sox thus their playoff hopes are wretched.

He's an OK player but nobody we should 'miss.'

Predictably we get swept. Since our division now stinks it makes the tank lovers look dumb compared to those of us who wanted to keep the team strong the traditional way. We can't even contend now when the division reeks. Keep on tanking, baby. It works so well.

Yes. The fanbase is mainly old people. The traditional stats are dead and gone. Batting average doesn't matter. RBIs don't matter. A .220 batting average is fine nowadays as long as you stroke a lot of home runs. And pitching has been decimated/boring with the five inning max starter, 100 pitches. Games still take too long and too many pitchers are used. It is very very boring without personalities and goals to achieve as far as the old time stats that determined Hall entry.

Nah, it's analytics that ruined the grand ol game. Sad.

What a terrible loss that was. Boom, an excellent game goes awry late.

I hear you. I am one of the old time fans who is saddened by the end of the complete game starter and the 3,000 strikeout guy. And the guy who wins 300 games. ... Think how sad it is that we'll never have another 300 game winner. Never. Very few guys will pitch complete game no hitters ever again. Sad, sad. I also wonder if anybody will ever get 3,000 hits again. Doubtful. Candidates for 300 wins: Nobody. Candidates for 3,000 hits ... Machado (no. I just sense he'll pull a Jose Abreu and at some point just stop hitting). Freeman: No. He's 35. Altuve: 35, too old as well. Ramirez: Too old. Lindor: Too old by today's standards as well. Remembrer today's standards are u are pretty worthless to a team at 35, 36. Bryce Harper: Maybe the best chance. Betts: Maybe a decent chance. Mike Trout and Ohtani: Doubtful. Soto: Doubtful. Bobby Witt: Maybe. I would say the only players who have a realistic chance to hit 3,000 hits in a career before it's totally impossible to do so: Witt and Harper (gets hurt a lot). Then Altuve and Freeman. Prediction: None of 'em make it.

The announcers made a good point. Kershaw will be the last pitcher in baseball history to hit the 3,000 mark in strikeouts. Amazing.

Is Shane Smith really that good? His pitches got raked tonight. Is he a 25 year old wonder or blunder?