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I probably will be too but the kid is putting in the work and if he bats 7th or 8th so be it . But I believe that he's the real deal. The only thing Moncada has going for him at this point is his fielding and ability to take a walk. The Sox desperately need guys to stay on the field and live up to their potential. It hasn't happened yet. If Colas can stay on the field that automatically gives him a shot to be one of the Sox best players. I'd love to see Eloy, Robert and Moncada finally live up to their billing . The rebuild has deteriorated mainly because they've been disappointing. I'm not going to apologize for trusting Colas to show his stuff from the get go. The core has to step up and make us believe in them again. So I'll just believe in Colas under a new manager and trust what he's done so far at every level despite a long period of rust to shake off and adjusting to every new situation in different places around the world. It's not just the talent, it's how he's already adjusted to every challenge he's faced so far. To me that's very impressive.

So . What. All I keep hearing is he doesn't have enough ABs at AAA, send him down again ,gain the extra year. I'm sick of waiting on the guys who were supposed to be great to actually be great. If you think there's nothing wrong with him batting 7th or 8th why not 6th. Who do you trust to be better ? All he's done is mash every time he moved up a level. I know the majors is a whole other level that far exceeds all the other levels. It's time to win and stop dicking around.

Too conservative but if that's what Grifol chooses to do I'll defer to it. (Like I have a choice) . But I trust he'll be batting Colas higher until Moncada can prove he's still worthy of being high in the order. OBP is a great thing but to break games open and have big innings guys have to hit. I don't remember too many World Series highlights of rousing walks. That leaves a LH opening in the top six. Just my interpretation of reading the tea leaves .

What does that even mean ? All I heard all winter from the naysayers was we hardly knew anything about his defense, his K rate and his pitch recognition. Really it's ok to be excited about him. I know Moncada has disappointed.I know Eloy and Robert are always injured. I know we forced a guy who was supposed to be our 5th best player by now out the door because unfortunately he was still our best player. If you want to win games early and often you put your best hitters at the top and middle of the order. Those guys are Tim , Benintendi, Eloy, Robert, Vaughn and Colas , not necessarily in that order. We waited on Colas to play RF . He's here now , the lefty masher we've wanted forever along with Benintendi and maybe a better, healthier Grandal. If the Sox are going to improve enough against RHP the lefty hitters have to come through. Last year the Sox had injuries, bad years , couldn't play defense, couldn't hit HRs , couldn't hit for power and had a manager past his prime forced into service by the octogenarian meddling owner and all that combined with Covid and the strike, to ruin a promising rebuild. Now the shift is banned, giving LH pull hitters a shot to be better and all hitters who put the ball in play more opportunities . I don't know about you but it's time to wake up from the nap and malaise of baseball conversatism and push the envelop a little bit and trust the savage to be a savage. We've waited on the rest of the core to be good and reach their potentials for years now. Let's not slow play this hand any more. Time to ram the talent down the rest of the leagues' throat and make the Guardians and the rest of baseball pay for for mocking us last year.

Lynn and Timmy stepping up for USA Moncada and Robert propelling Cuba. Eloy getting hits for DR. Jose Ruiz with the win, .2 innings against DR for Venezuela Nick Padilla with a win for .1 innings in PR win against Nicaragua Nice showing for Sox players so far but the competition will be stiffer soon enough.

2nd base and in the middle of the lineup and comes through in a big way. Lynn and Timmy stepping up for USA Moncada and Robert propelling Cuba. Eloy getting hits for DR. Jose Ruiz with the win, .2 innings against DR for Venezuela Nick Padilla with a win for .1 innings in PR win against Nicaragua

I'll drink the Kool-Aid but prefer Cola(s). Sox will hit RHP much better. They will play better defense. They will hit 50 more HR's than last year. How they do late in games will be key without Hendriks. Grifol gets Manager of the Year. Sox win division . Kool-Aid and Cola(s) is sweet spring nectar !

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I don't think so . Mental mistakes like Leury just made are one thing but getting thrown out on the bases isn't bad. Grifol just maybe testing the players abilities. They've stolen a lot of bases. Haven't been throw out stealing much. Colas got caught stealing when he took off too early against a LHP but they've been working with him on his secondary leads so all part of the learning curve.

Leury with a Leury play. 1 out he's on 2nd. Zavala lines out to CF. Leury doubled off like way doubled off. Must've thought there were 2 outs.

What Pressure ? There's pressure on you to perform and do your job every day. He might be nervous or have butterflies on something like opening day or opening day at home but once you're in the lineup I don't care if he hits in the middle of the order. I don't think its much different than hitting at the bottom of the lineup as far as pressure goes. You're going to come up with men on base no matter where you hit. If he is indeed a very good hitter I'd like him where he can do the most damage. Even if you put him in at the bottom of the lineup and he hits well , then you're going to hear oh no don't move him up that's too much pressure.

Burger with a bullet to the wall but caught in LF

Do we like Oscar Colassal or Oscar Colassus better ?

Top 6 nothing lower for Colas. Can't be afraid of the big stage. Get him used to it. We'll need him there in the playoffs.

will take 3 no hit innings from Kopech all day.

They practice fielding . Grifol was just talking about working with Colas on fundamentals, backing up 1st base, hitting the cutoff man, working on his secondary leads. https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/white-sox/white-sox-oscar-colas-improving-fundamentals-quest-make-majors

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Seconded. Despite the terrible history of the Sox it is nevertheless a rich history.

Pretty funny that he intimidated a lot of the young pitchers. Never shake off Pudge.

I see you got some screen time right at the beginning .

There are a couple of guys primed for breakouts on the Sox and Kopech should be near the top of that list. Vaughn is the other one. I'd include Colas but can't talk breakout unless you are reaching a point where you were projected to be a star but haven't quite got there yet. Robert and Eloy kind of qualify just because they can't stay on the field. We've seen glimpses of that top level talent but not for a full season ever from both of them. Anything resembling near peak performance from several of the breakout guys could mean big things for the Sox.

I trust Colas to be better than Moncada as a hitter. There's no way I'm putting Moncada 5th against righties. I want a hitter there not a walk/K guy. He has a lot to prove. .400 slugging guys shouldn't be batting 5th even if his slugging is slightly higher against RHP. Since Moncada will be in the lineup every day because of his defense I'd bat him 8th or 9th against any kind of pitching until he proves he can still hit. I know people are going to talk about pressure if you put Colas in the middle of the order but he is a middle of the order hitter against righties. I can see a more cautious approach vs. LHP with him but replacing him with Romy ? NO ! Every indication is that he can hit LHP pitching too. Trust the kid to be almost everything he was in the minors. I don't want to establish a pattern of him not getting AB's against LHP. He should be a fixture in the lineup like TA, Benintendi, Moncada, Eloy, Robert, Andrus, Vaughn and Grandal. He's got a lot of helium right now. I've been saying for a while he's going to be a savage and I'm not backing down from that even if I end up replacing Harold jokes about Kelenic. The whole lineup 1-9 has to play and only rested on given days off. Switch those 9 guys around depending on the handedness of the pitcher but play them all as much as possible. Grandal should get the most amount of rest but after that plan on having them all play 140+ games.