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And Taylor blew that series clinching game in Cleveland in the 9th on Tuesday of the last week of the season. But Hudson has gotten hit hard at the end of the season and throws a 91MP 4 seamer. He doesn't get flustered and he closed games well, but in the playoffs 91 leaves too little room for error . I'll take my chances with Taylor. It's a long season and players have good days and bad. I like using our best players, irrespective of what happened earlier v. a specific team.

While Hudson was very important in the regular season, I think he's last resort of the playoffs. Just a lack of stuff. For game 2, it's got to be Burke. Leery on Martin as he spit the bit against Colorado on Saturday.

I liked this matchup and the team played well. Fedde - man. Didn't handle the pen well during the season but nailed it today. Hicks- good gracious. Maybe we're light on starters, but the bullpen is deep.

They really did play a fine game. Hagen Smith -man. Love being wrong. The only downside is Taylor is done for the series. Leery of Hudson as playoff closer. He's got the stones, but not the stuff.

They love Richards but he and his 91MPH fastball have been getting hit hard lately.

I like Beckham. I think he'd be a good color guy with a quality PBP guy (I liked DJ with Farmer, but when Kasper got there, he really blossomed). Stone is okay and is knowledgeable, but I think it's about time. One place to look is at some of the sideline and/or studio reporters. Steve Gelz with the Mets might be really good. I remember when the Rays plucked Dave Wills out of the White Sox radio studio (and he was a really good PBP guy). That guy on MLB network in the late mornings is from Chicago and does some PBP (although I find him annoying on the MLB network). I think Dani Wexelman would be good (I realize that won't happen).

That's the answer, but they'll never do that. As it is, prefer this system over the 1-game wildcard.

Not a single walk in 93 ABs. Williams/Hahn era profile player. His peak year was .764 OPS in the best hitters park in baseball. One of those is okay if he produces. And we do need his defense.

Knight is Schriff without the “yeah buddy” schoolboy stuff. They can do better.

They are good relievers. Hicks is inconsistent - but he's good when he's on. What's your point? This woe are we stuff is for the birds.

Hicks, Newcomb, Brazoban, Taylor are all good. I'd pitch Kay 2 innings at most tomorrow; I'd rather him in the playoff pen than soft-tossers Hudson and Richards. Just have to win 2 against a mediocre team.

3 pitchers and 1 Marcus Semien from the 2014 WhiteSox are still in the league. On another matter, I guess there's no thought to holding back Martin and taking our chances with the bullpen....

Hey Royals, walking 6 of our guys in the 9th last Wednesday evening would have been a fine thing to do.

Who's the SS under the trade Colson proposal? He knows he needs to get straight, so hopefully he makes strides in the offseason. He could start by not swinging for the fences. There's a bigger cost in prematurely dumping young players.

I think there's a lot of hyperbole around this aspect. The 24 team was terrible, but was really a 50ish win team. And it's not just bad luck: it was a fluke that so many players had just awful years, even for them. And a reason that 2024 team was so terrible was Hahn really did a good job in July 2023 clearing the 26 man and unloading a lot of riffraff right before he got severed. Not much was left to field a team for 2024 but it accelerated the rebuild. 25 was closer to a 70 win team. So we improve by 15 or so games. Unusual, remarkable, but not historic.

We don't control the division. Texas won WS via wildcard a couple of years ago. I misread it. It's Tuesday; much better.

i didn't realize the wild card started Monday..that's ridiculous. It's a tough tightrope to try to win to get the bye versus keeping the pitching set up decently should we play Monday. Because as of now, it's opener.

They don't want to throw Burke today so that he can pitch in game 1 of the WC round if it comes to that?

Great coach. Too young May he rest in peace.

2 games back, effectively - Astros have tiebreaker.

We can beat them. Caught them at bad times. But Texas would probably be better. And I believe we just need a Sox win and a Rangers loss and we’re in. Doesn’t matter what the Astros do.

This was the game for Joe Rock.

Altuve's 36. He gave them a lot of good years. They didn't have replacements for Bregman; nor Tucker; and Pena's coming up soon. It's hard to keep. up with it.

Didn't realize that the Royals had gotten their hands on Gonsolin. I was hoping that the Sox would take a flyer on him.

Their bad play certainly crippled the franchise. Just make sure that the farm keeps producing talent to cover for the ones that leave or the ones that don't but we wish had left. The Astros re-signed really only 1 of their core: Altuve. They picked the right one. But when Correa left, they had Pena ready to go; Spring out, Tucker in. And with that, they still had a high payroll.