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Maybe it's the curse of Madrigal. Royals announcers say they're surprised Sox traded him.

Sox offense is so bad. Hope they sold a lot of season tickets. Can't imagine folks who don't already have tickets deciding to save for a night at the ballpark this season.

Thanks for your posts ptatc. Let's see how long Eloy is out ... I'll go 12 weeks if Sox are lucky. He won't be back from surgery in 8 weeks IMO. They'll have to be cautious with him for obvious reasons. That said, best of luck to Eloy. Has to suck being out.

I've moved on (mentally) from Eloy. He's no longer a great prospect. He gets hurt a lot and that's that. He's not going to stay healthy period. Maybe if he changes his body. Actually lose so much weight he looks like Claudell Washington rather than the current adonis figure, Eloy. Big Hurt was a big guy. Maybe Eloy should meet with Hurt and ask him his secret to staying healthy. But I'm mentally done with Eloy. In "my mind" he'll never be healthy for more than a very short period of time. Not with the sudden movements u need to make in LF as well as racing back into the wall; and the sudden bursts it takes to hustle out ground balls. Next man up. Eloy is injury prone, folks, and it ain't changing (IMO).

Parents were certainly flawed "in my day" on the south side. They took little to no interest in their kids, never went to our Little League games in Mt. Greenwood, in fact didn't even drive us to the games. We rode our bikes. However, and this is a big however .... no parents at the games and at the practices was GREAT! Our two 60-something coaches NEVER had to deal with bossy parents. We were left to learn and enjoy baseball from 10 to 12 years old without parents doing stupid things. For some reason, every generation since ... parents have felt the need to get overly involved, intimidate coaches and managers and never let their kids be kids. I'm so lucky our parents didn't give a bleep. In the summer we played ball during the day without parental supervision and to cap it off we had organized Little League sans parents. What a life! And nobody got kidnapped ,nobody got murdered. We just did fine without our parents ruining everything. Shame on future generations of parents who felt the need to monitor EVERYTHING involving their kids. p.s. our Little League made coaches of all the teams serve as umpires. That's how they covered the games. I guess if you refused to ump you couldn't coach. Case closed. I remember seeing our coaches ump some games and laughing about it bak in the day. None of the kids dare argued a call; nor did the "fans" at the games, one or two onlookers. I would think you'd have to be missing a brain to coach or ump nowadays.

True. .300 with 3 hrs and 8 RBIs is pretty good. I shouldn't have included him. I assumed from the greg eye test he was more around .240ish. My bad. I like Vaughn and Sheets overall. ... I still don't think it's worth jumping me for this mistake. He's done OK and I like him and want him to remain a Sox. i just don't think of Babe Ruth yet when I see Vaughn, but stand corrected, my bad. ... Even tho Mendick rapped two hits the other day, the 7 8 9 slots in the lineup would make it tough for any skipper to win games on the south side right now.

To those who 'hate' Tony and want him gone, please answer this serious question: Do you think anybody could manage this team to a better record at this time considering all these injuries? I mean examine the current roster. With Vaughn and Sheets not tearing it up (yet) and all the injuries, it's a monumentally bad lineup, I mean White Sox historically bad. And pitchers? The closer blows chunks (at least in April) and two starters were hurt badly. also it's Mr. Hahn's fault the defense is so bad. Haters ... please comment. INJURIES!

They are not going to fire LaRussa. No. 1 he's a Hall of Famer and Sox would be mocked big time. Jerry isn't going to embarrass his great friend over 3-4 bad weeks in April. No. 2, cmon. The team has so many injuries it's ridiculous. When a team is this banged up, you basically write off the season and try to get something out of it personnel wise while realizing the team in its injured form has absolutely no chance of winning.

Sox have rarely put a high premium on defense since the Hitless Wonders. does pitching and defense still win?

Wouldn't that be cool if Tony resigned, said he didn't have the energy and didn't like modern baseball and Oz took over as interim? It'd give Oz a full season to show if he'd changed (the mouth that roared) and I'd like to see Oz add his personality to this team. Oz wouldn't allow starters only pitch five innings. He'd up that baby to seven innings for starters in a hurry IMO. I can dream. But Oz would wake up this team, which needs to be inspired amid all the injuries. If he didn't do a fine job, hire some genius sabermatrician next offseason.

Baseball has a way of changing quickly but the banged-up White Sox are not going to contend for the division title as the team is currently constructed. Seven consecutive losses does indicate a huge problem. I'll stick with the injury explanation but the Sox have so many holes right now they are not division contenders. Team is below average defensively, has no reliable bullpen, starters are only expected to go five innings per modern baseball, and has so many injuries the offense is mediocre at best. Ouch.

When guys are going badly, the lineups look anemic. However this lineup is interesting. Hitters 1 through 6 are on paper pretty good. That's an average to above average 1 thru 6. But 7, 8 and 9? Yuk. So the question is ... how does a lineup with six acceptable to good options and three ridiculous options score 5 or more runs? Well the top six have to produce. I ask oddsmakers ... what are the odds those top six on a bleary day can produce 5 or more runs likely needed to win? Or on a strictly odds basis, is the fact three of the nine hitters strung in a row being lousy automatically means defeat?

Very true about the road. Sox are soooo bad on the road at this early stage of the season. It's horrifying/embarrassing (with the injury caveat always there to consider as a viable excuse).

Baseball has worn me down to where this lifelong Sox fan is also uninvested. I want the Sox to win but a loss no longer ruins my mood/day. Last night while in the car waiting out a hailstorm in a covered parking lot, I watched the end of the Red Sox game. Five pitchers combined for a no hitter. Yawn. Benetti always saying a game was a "thriller" if there's some action at the end of a boring one-run game of lift and pull, work the count and either whiff on a strike three slider, draw a walk or hit a weak pop up after fouling off seven pitches. Knowing no pitcher has a chance to pitch a gem (complete game? LOL) and the boring hitting philosophies of hitters nowadays ... I just take the results as they come. Baseball is boring. Sox habit is hard to break but I'm not invested emotionally any more. That could change I guess as the season heats up, but for me the Sox are no longer "must see TV." Oh for an injury free season, too.

Injuries have totally messed up the team. I'm not worried about the record, I'm concerned injuries "could" totally ruin the rest of this season as well. In the "next man up" scenario I'd still pick regulars and give those new "regulars" the majority of at bats. Work the injured pitchers back in where applicable.

Can't argue with this. But he's a bust IMO only cause of injury. If he coulda stayed healthy somehow with those physical tools I think he'd have been a terror at the plate.

True about not being graceful. But you can't deny the guy hustles his butt off at all times. Very sad. It's pretty obvious he'll never be healthy playing sports. His track record suggests that big body of his implodes/explodes way too often.

This is heartbreaking. Eloy, Robert and so many of our guys who get hurt a lot obviously love the game of baseball. They hustle so hard and get hurt all the time. Just read on Twitter Eloy was crying and Sox players who saw him immediately started crying. I won't say anything dumb about how these guys get hurt all the time, but some of these physical specimins just seem to have body parts that can't handle the sudden movements required in baseball. So sad for Eloy. All the Sox as a team can do is have next man up philosophy moving forward as the team has injury after injury,.

I am out for the rest of the game. I'm speechless right now at bad things are going for the team. I do think a 7-run inning is in the Sox future.

I didn't like stratomatic. I did like All Star baseball with the player discs. Love me some Bill James.

He's been messed up at the plate for one full season and a month now. I don't think he's finished yet. I don't know the guy but to me I think he's just been in a mental funk at the plate a while now. He's been the opposite of hitterish. Sox are who they are. A beat up team physically that has to hope to stay afloat til it gets healthy. If it doesn't get healthy it will have a disappointing season.

I do hate Sabes. Though I was one of Bill James' first fans. Read his awesome ratings of players every year for a decade. Couldn't wait to get the Bill James Abstract right after it available.

Did he get hurt running the bases or hitting? I was reading some old stories about his injury but it didn't say how he did it. I guess for the future the Sox need to be two deep with "stars" cause history suggests our guys are gonna get hurt and be out significant portions of seasons. Sox subs are not very good. Sox need a better 2 deep.

I like your posts generally but anything negative about Eloy is misguided tonight. He came through with the leadoff double and should have scored easily if not for pathetic at bats as Sox hitters appeared to be praying for bases on balls rather than slashing hits against a lousy closer.

Getting rid of Collins and having the replacement be McGuire bothers me. My gut tells me several of the Sox reserves reek.