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What your definition of competitive ? I think they could put together a pretty good group of young starting pitchers between Cannon, Bush, Thorpe, Schultz, Smith, Martin, Iriarte, Mason Adams and Grant Taylor. That's 10 guys who could form a decent starting pitching and BP core. There of course will be injuries and disappointments like with any groups of prospects but If I squint I can see .500 in 2 or 3 years just because good pitching can get you there faster. The Sox can't hit, field or relief pitch . That worst in history record could still have been around 100 losses instead of 120 with just a tiny bit more hitting and less late innings disasters. The thing is though it'll take a miracle because there aren't a lot of sharp tools in the shed and JR makes sure of that because he'd rather win his way than just risk financial ruin for his heirs now .

I think some some of these guys are lab rats ,like you hear how Davis Martin picked up that change up quickly. It's not usually that fast and easy to make changes that could change the projectory of your career. Bannister is like Dr Frankenstein.

Extremely succinct and to the point ! 👍

Plus it's easy to make fun of people you perceive at being outcasts. Brings out the bully when everyone gets to do it to everything White Sox. Most fans are not as vindictive nor care enough to hate so intensively.

Perfect example of what makes bad players bad and good players good. Not only is it the physical tools that are less but also the mental part of the game. Now things might've turned out slightly different if the ump had called an obvious strike a strike and called Altuve out but things spiraled after that. ALtuve gets a 2nd life ,gets a 2 RBI hits while the Stros broadcasters say it didnt look like Robert went after the ball that hard to try to prevent the runner on 2nd from scoring. Then Alvarez down 0-2 and Altuve thinks oh the next pitch might be in the dirt I'll take off if it is. He does and Robinson seems shocked. He blocked the pitch but it wasn't like he sprung out of his crouch . He casually went after it .Next pitch Flexen isn't holding Altuve at 2nd so he steals third. This is a guy who has never taken his talent for granted. He thinks, he hustles. So now the infield comes in with him on 3rd and Alvarez dumps an RBI single that likely would've been caught if the infield was back.

And you have tunnel vision. No broader perspective. I just don't understand what you expected this year. This year was always going to be very bad. From early in January we could see what was going on. If you were a fireman and I stuck you in the center of a raging forest fire of 1000 acres with just a shovel and you managed not to perish I guess I could say you were bad at your job.

? Wow a disaster really ? Like tsunami disaster or what would you compare it to. So they got a MLB relief pitcher who has been hurt a lot this year but has 3 more years to be as good if not better than he has in the past. But every chance a few of you get to rub the current state of affairs in everyone's face you do it.

Why though ? Everything happening is just the way Crochet wants it. Getz' pitcher wants to pitch. It's his job to pitch.Youre paying him to pitch. He can still throw 99 when he wants to. Maybe him getting hurt again is inevitable or maybe it's not. If he does it's because of his own choices.

Fucked it up ?They made him a star pitcher. He literally didn't want to be traded because he was already in a good situation doing exactly what he wanted to do. He had no guarantees another team would treat him like the White Sox. He wanted to make sure he wasn't used as a relief pitcher or forced to pitch too many innings, moves he thought might be career threatening. Of course it blindsided the Sox but if he is going to blow out his arm again he preferred to do it his way.

HAHA ! Too much pressure. It's just something you do in the spur of the moment. It's fun. . You should have seen my prediction of how Abreu would do his rookie season. I came very close to his BA, HR's and RBIs if I remember it right .So close that someone commented that there was no way someone could come that close without changing their prediction. I did edit my post but I edit maybe 50% of all my posts but it's usually just a misspelling or poor sentence structure I wasn't happy about. I'm not a great typist or proof reader until after I post.

Listening to Garfien and Ozzie on post game. Garfien saying he doesn't get the Sox plan with Crochet. ARe we trying to win or do whats best for Crochet or both ? Ozzie chimes in with trying to win. Whats so hard to understand ? The guy has blown past all predictions on how many innings he'd pitch this year. The plan is to keep him pitching and build up his innings. Yes it can backfire horrifically if he gets injured. However if he gets through the season having outings mostly like he had today you can see if he'll take an extension ( fat chance) or you can start taking offers on him again and see if the teams take him a little more seriously.

Crochet was great for 4 innings. 9K , 0 BB, 4 hits,1 ER Luis Robert hit 2 Hr,2 singles , (one of them off the wall). 4 RBI. Sox hang on to a 5-4 victory and end the Astro's 8 game winning streak.

Bye Bye AStro's 8 game winning streak !

7/16/23

When was the last time Robert had a 4 hit game ?

Got to get Touki out of there. They will.

Nice recovery by Touki to K Altuve and get Alvarez to GIDP

Great start Touki Walk and HBP bottom of the order now gets to face all the good hitters.

Crochet K's the side 9 K's through 4. Throwing a lot at 99 MPH. Touki warming up. Crochet @ 55 pitches 43 for strikes. Might be done. Maybe less than 75 pitch limit now. Should he get 1 more inning ?

Atuve hits one right through the LF scoreboard for a ground rule double. Alvarez follows it up dumping a broken bat single into LCF scoring ALtuve 3-1. Crochet with 2 more K's 2 in each inning .

ha ! Wish it worked that way.

No not a gambler . He just seemed due.

There we go Robert 2 run bomb!!!!

1-0 Sox on a botched DP by the Astros with bases loaded and 1 out. Astros have a lot of guys hot and have played very well since releasing Abreu. Astros have won 8 in a row. Bregman, Alvarez, Pena, and Diaz all very hot. Crochet looking like he was right about the adjustment he had to make about why he was bombed in his last outing . 4K's. 1 hit through 2. 26 pitches 18 for strikes.

Predicting a Robert HR. I do wish he'd either close his stance a little it or keep the same stance and move a bit closer to the plate. Where he stands now he swings at too many pitches off the plate inside and too many off the plate outside or can't drive the pitches outside. At least if moved closer the inside pitches off the plate would be too in on his hands to try and barrel up. Seems like he's either swinging and missing too much and either getting jammed , hitting off the end of the bat or swinging and missing way too many sliders and sweepers away. Best hitters in the bigs usually crush breaking pitches hanging in the zone. Robert is having trouble identifying spin period unless it's hanging up in his eyes.