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Btw, if Thursday's postponed game was moved to Friday, isn't it strange that the first two series of the season had a scheduled off day between games 1 and 2? What's up with that?

Rather save him for high leverage situations. 18 pitches, 6 outs is a pretty impressive (albeit small) stretch though. If there must be an opener, throw Hicks out there.

Had to do some work and missed the last couple innings. Looks like another EZ win for the AL Central frontrunner

I'm imagining a Sox-centric R&B supergroup called Monty! Monti! Muré!

fucking incredible. just thinking Colson has a prime opportunity against this 25 ERA pitcher

LET'S GO

nice pick too

That was inevitable

Estrada had a 6 ERA at AAA last year. Need to punish this dude. He's probably done for the day though.

Beats sitting on the bench, I reckon. Don't know if he ever gets a shot over Muncy.

Vargy makes his case for gold glove

yeah, curious that Lenyn is DHing and Mune is in the field. lucky to get out of that inning unscathed. need to start putting up some runs.

gotta make that play, man on the mune

Kay makes me nervous. Lot of hard contact.

Money is a good place to start. Also Murakami seemed to choose the White Sox over the Ugly Sox despite reportedly the same money.

Must be. They have more info on him than our crew does lol. Which isn't surprising.

that pitch got all of the plate. challenge this s%*#, who cares if it's 0-0.

TSN broadcast is obsessed with Peters.

imagine intentionally walking a guy with a .167 batting average. good idea i suppose

That'll do, Mune senpai

there ya go, Lenny.

Agreed but at least today there’s a platoon advantage. I mean somewhat, the only lefties in their lineup are Varsho and Gimenez.

Interesting point, JR. Didn't notice all those starting pitchers on the free agency market? Might've had to spend some money though.

Why are you being like this? I'm just replying to what you wrote and you happened to be wrong in your assessment. You said he was playing poorly but he is literally playing like a 3 WAR player because that's what the statistics are. His bat is 23% above league average and he is playing the same kind of defense he always does. Chase is playing fine and if he played exactly the same way for the rest of the season, he would produce 3 WAR. You're the one talking about 7 games and how he already needs to be benched. I simply ask "why would you replace the guy on pace for 3 WAR and not the guy on pace for -8 WAR? Because a middle infielder can't play left field?". Fact of the matter is that several of these middle infield prospects need to learn the outfield. There's no room for them. There are practically zero notable outfielders in the system outside of Braden, and if there are some to be bullish on (Wolkow, Zavala, Ely Brown, Alcala), they aren't making the MLB roster anytime soon. Converting middle infielders to outfielders is just the way baseball works. If you're a position player prospect of some note, chances are you were a shortstop in college and high school or you're left-handed and played center field. I'd start playing Bonemer there too. Bryan Ramos should've learned left and he might still be on the team. If Carlson and Roch join the team and play to their potential, where are the rest of these dudes going to play? Not to say Chase is the second baseman of the future necessarily, but there are by far bigger holes on this team.

That’s not what I wrote though. All I did was extrapolate on his current production per Fangraphs and noted that’s what his statistics would be if he played at the same level for 162 games. You said he wasn’t lighting it up or something, except those are his current statistics. Extrapolate on Beni and you get a -8 WAR player. It’s pretty rudimentary math. If you can play second base, you can play left field. Converting middle infielders to the outfield is not the recipe for disaster you seem to think it is. It’s incredibly common. It’s better when they haven’t debuted. Vaughn is not the measuring stick. No first baseman is.