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Well considering the response was about him having a .380 OBP last year on a free-swinging team last year might be relevant.

The guy is literally ~30 ABs into the season.

Haha this is Soxtalk. Every AB is the end of the world

Keep hit & running. No DP's please

Whaaaattt?!

Lol Engel showing bunt

Walked away for 5 minutes and missed the top of the inning? Seems right.

Low 90s and can't locate it. Why is he out there right now?

Fucking shocker there.

Needs to re-earn that second leadoff hitter spot

Has Grandal ever thrown out a runner for us? Even once?

Leury is more valuable than pollock at this point

With Beckham on the mic isn’t that the defacto approach?

is Jose back? Would sure love to see it

Ugh Lucas losing the zone already

Outside of batting Vaughn ninth I have no complaints.

Welcome to Soxtalk!

Of course, they won that game so obviously TLR knows his ideas worked. Always gotta double down.

For the record, if we do win both that puts us at 12-6 in May. If we can take 3 our of the next 5 against KC & NY and come back home to face Boston and the Cubs to close out May I wouldn't feel horrible about it.

How can we call Robert consistent? He is one of the streakiest players I have ever seen. Remember all the "sky is falling" reaction during his 0-19? Moncada came back literally a week ago and has looked solid if unspectacular, which is what we have all been saying about him (very good but not great). Vaughn has been one of the highlights early on in the season at the plate. If you read my note, I said that the White Sox prospects have largely performed as expected. The pieces Rick added on (Harrison, Leury, McGuire, Pollock) are black holes.

For sure, not all prospects pan out - look at Blake Rutherford. But ReyLo is still a valuable and important piece on this team and between Giolito, Kopech, Cease, flipping Dunning into Lynn I would say that the pitching prospects look like a remarkable success.

That's a fair point. I was referring more to Parkman's statement that players are overrated based on prospect value. I don't think that's fair to Vaughn (and the others mentioned above) by stating that Vaughn is largely doing what he should have been expected to and failing in a spot that he never should have been put into. Now do I think the organization overrates Vaughn's ability in the outfield and failed by putting us in the position where we have a bunch of 1Bs running around in the outfield? Absolutely. My greater point in general was that I think that the prospects gathered in the rebuild have, for the most part, come to form a solid core. It's specifically Hahn's failure to surround that core with pieces that make this a better team that is the primary issue we are dealing with right now.

Andrew Vaughn is at a 0.0 WAR solely because of poor defense at positions we all know he should not be playing. It's not fair to hold that against him. In his second full big league season, never having played above high A ball, he is currently at a 135 wRC+. The bat is there, and that's always what he was expected to be. Not a competent LF/RF.

I'd say this is definitely true of Eloy, who outside of a good start has been relatively terrible in MLB. Robert is a small sample size but appears to be the real deal. Same with Vaughn so far. Moncada has real value, if not the MVP caliber value expected of him. Madrigal looking be a bust. I'd say the pitchers have largely panned out, even ReyLo. I don't think its the prospects that we brought up that are the issue. It's mostly the pieces we've added around them.

To be fair, didn't Kenny and Rick have the same idea with Kimbrel last year? That was obviously intended to be the home run move and definitely didn't work out, though TLR's usage of him was stupid for sure.