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JFC !

Hate to break it to you gregory but Pollock has been hitting .321 .368 .453 .821 for the last 15 days and .287 .319 .460 .779 for the last 30 days.

Look at you , pulling double duty as the winning game thread starter and the follow up winner thread ! You’ve got to be BLEEPIN me?? What in the hell are you doing? What are you doing Wegner??? You’ve gotta be kiddin me!!

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That has worked so well this season . Come on now. I know you said primary but every pitcher has bad days where A+ guys could hit them. Still need good LHH hitters in your lineup always and forever. The fact the Sox historically have had the worst LHH and have been a historically bad franchise goes hand in hand.

Sorry to hear it . Totally sucks.

At least 2 !

Well this is quite the surprise

Yikes I went to talk to a neighbor when it was 5 -3 and come back and see a 10 run inning lol

Oops there it was I missed it.

No one said " Go pack a lunch !"

Yea he does. Sometimes pitchers own you and sometimes you own certain pitchers. No one really knows why. Maybe Jose has just got some uncharacteristic meatballs from Verlander or run into Jose when he's hot. But I think there is a theory out there that Jose does pretty good against some very good pitchers. I don't know how well that stands up when tested but Stone always talks about it.

If you are going to bench a RHP against RHP the logical choice to sit the most is Pollock. He's hot right now but maybe he won't be by the time we get Eloy back. Plus he's been a part time player for the Dodgers the last 3 years and he's done well in that time. Vaughn has improved greatly against RHP and should be in the lineup 90% of the time . Robert still needs as many reps as possible against all pitching. Burger is murdering lefties and not so much righties so he could sit against righties but he's still a potent HR threat against RHP he may match up with well. Hahn does need to make a trade or 2 to bring in some LHH . He screwed it up this off season probably because there's not a lot of LHH who actually fit the bill in the positions of need which means somebody like Eloy would have to be moved when their trade value is down. It's been impossible to count on him for anything. Who would've thought Joc Pederson would be way more valuable to the Giants than Eloy is for the White Sox ? I'd trade Eloy for Bryan Reynolds and the Sox would have to throw in more to get Reynolds.Unfortunately Reynolds arm is the weakest part of his game. Other names , Cedric Mullins ,Anthony Santander, Ian Happ, Daulton Varsho (who I wanted in the off season but is likely to become a permanent fixture in the AZ . OF because) 34 yr. old David Peralta is a FA next yr. He would probably be fairly cheap to acquire but he never plays RF. Don't think he has much of an arm now from multiple surgeries on throwing shoulder. Trent Grisham having a terrible year so far but a damn good defensive player. Maybe the Padres part with him. Jesus Sanchez (Marlins) big physical tools undermined by his approach but big time power potential. Taylor Trammel (Sea) Nice OBP and defense. Power not so much. Odubel Herrera Plays CF & LF way more than RF. FA in 2023 might be an option. Having a nice yr for Phillies so far.

Eloy is an odd one in that he hits RHP better than LHP. But he's only had one full season and the rest of the time he's getting less than 300 PA per season.

Jose Abreu is RH so I'm not where you saw anyone say he fattens up on RHP. Like most RHH they are better against LHP and the majority of LHH are better against RHP . Abreu, Vaughn and the majority of good hitters do better against opposite handed pitchers.

SO are you saying a team is better off using all RHH 's as long as they can hit RHP ? Or is a team better off using all LHH who can hit RHP since somewhere around 73% of all pitcher in MLB are RH ? Do you think making the pitcher change how he does things on the mound has no effect at all on how he pitches? The great pitchers maybe not, but all you need is one mistake pitch to change the outcome of a game. Lesser pitchers could make even more mistakes and if those mistakes get punished you win more games . The better your LHH are, the more they can punish those mistakes because you usually see opposite handed pitching better than you see same handed ones. That is why players switch hit. It's also why when a manager pinch hits it's usually with a guy who hits with the opposite hand than the pitcher, unless on the rare occasion someone hits same handed pitcher better.That is the major reason why most hitters hit better against opposite handed pitchers. This is why a lineup has to be balanced and you see teams try to load up against our RHP by stacking the lineup with LHH's. These things have not changed in the history of baseball nor will they because the ability to see pitches better is based on angles and line of sight.

A desktop Lenovo. I've tried to connect them via wifi but I can't get one to recognize the other one but I'm not the most tech savvy guy around. I would need maybe a 25 ft. HDMI cable . My monitor is hooked up to the desktop by the old VGA method but it does have a HDMI port as does the computer and the TV have several. The computer has only one HDMI port. MY TV has Chromecast but I don't think my computer does. I think I actually have got the computer to recognize the TV before actually but without Chromecast on the computer I couldn't get my monitor picture on the TV . If you think you have a solution PM me. Thanks.

And on the opposite end of the spectrum I love free ! But some people are more easily annoyed than others. Broadcasters are just noise. I am not annoyed that they are bad since I'm watching the Sox for FREE on a big screen TV in 4K or as close as I can come to 4K (HDR10). It sure beats watching them (again for FREE ) on my 21 inch computer monitor in SD.

Interesting if nothing else . Lefty reliever Garrrett Schoenle got a start for a 2nd time in a row and pitched 5 innings with just 2 hits , no runs , no walks and 4 K's for the Dash. He lowered his season ERA to 0.63 in 42.1 IP with a WHIP of 0.80 .

If we are waiting for the new rehab assignment to start in order to get to when the 20 days is up , it's getting pushed back more and more. Already looking very close to the 2nd week in July as the end date .However Eloy is expected to be back before the 20 days has expired. Now it's a question of when the 20 days is going to start. The original tweeter thought it was going to be Tuesday and now we'll have to see if its Friday.

He knows . Wegner is a comedian . Pretty funny and nice guy.

Also after Tim got hurt, Eloy only 36 unproductive AB's, Moncada and Grandal sucking so I don't know if you can draw too many conclusions about sending down Sheets .

Right now we have a typical example of turning a negative into a positive. Sox hitting came to life without TA in the lineup . Even though it's unlikely Mendick continues on his current hot streak , imagine if he does. Bam! 2nd base problem solved in house without Yolbert, Sosa, Leury or Harrison. Now if Moncada keeps getting better that's a good LHB . Add one more LHB somewhere and throw the starting RHP off his rhythm a bit and you get more mistakes to the RHH. I've almost convinced myself the bad RHH most of the season until Abreu, Pollock and Vaughn got real hot is not really because of bad weather but because too many RHP get too comfortable/locked in without facing any competent LHH's in the Sox lineup. If the pitcher only has to game plan against mostly RHH that makes his job a lot easier working mostly to one side of the plate against RHH's. Hot streaks come and go but to get better consistency from the RHH you need productive LHH's in the lineup just to fuck with the pitcher getting too comfortable.

Yes LHH would fatten up on poor RHP . But it's pretty common baseball knowledge that if you do something more often the easier it is easier to get into a groove. It's why you practice so much in any sport. So the more you can mess with how a pitcher approaches LHH and RHH the better off you are. It's the same reason why pitchers try not to pitch the ball at the same speed and throw it in the same location. You see something too much and you adjust to it. Same reason why hitter's step out of the box to try to disrupt a pitchers timing and prevent him from getting into a groove. Same thing applies automatically when a pitcher has to jump from a LHH to a RHH and he has to alter the things he does on the mound. The worse you are as pitcher the more those things affect you. You want pitchers to make mistakes and it's easier to get those mistakes when you disrupt their routine. Just a few mistakes can be the difference between winning or losing.

How convenient it is for you to forget he had less than 400 PA and less than 300 AB's because of his constant knee problems and his age last year. So no it isnt monday morning quarterbacking to say his knees are a problem that has contributed to his predictable age and injury related decline. Eloy hasnt put up even close to a full season since his 22 yr old rookie season in 2019. Less than 300 AB's and each season since then because of injuries. He can't be counted on to stay on the field. What good is his prime when he can't stay on the field and actually produce like we all thought he could. . With all that power he still hasn't figured out how to elevate the ball. He's a GB hitter extraordinaire ! Moncada is pretty much a total mystery to everyone and we might never see a season again from him like he had in 2019.