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Colas hit his 4th HR today. What's genuinely impressive is that this is his first year of competitive baseball since hmm 2019 maybe 2020 . Hard to tell by his stats page. Get him up to somewhere around 125 AB's and promote him .

How could TLR's usage of him be stupid? We had a closer, a very good closer. Trading for Kimbrel was just another way to avoid paying for a bat and trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Atlanta picked up 4 bats and look what it did for them. And after a full off season we still didn't get any LH bats. Every move Hahn's made since Kimbrel and Hernandez has sucked so far except for Graveman.Harrison, Leury 3 yrs, Velasquez, injured Kelly, picking up Kimbrels option, trading for Pollock, no QO to Rodon, no LH batters added, no starting pitcher of significance, prioritizing relief pitchers over improving the lineup. That kind of record of futility is quite impressive.

Sheets is really the only one that consistently tries to pull the ball. At least he knows his strengths. Grandal tries to pull it too but he's slowing down. The whole team just isn't seeing a lot of fastballs they can crush because pitchers are wise to their free swinging ways.

I wouldn't trust Hahn to trade baseball cards. If LaRussa has input to hell with that idea too. This is all Reinsdorf's fault but he could give Hahn the green light on firing LaRussa. I'd sure like to know just how much Jerry interferes with Hahns job. I'd like to think it's not that much besides setting a budget so I could say fire Hahn too since his track record figuring out how to build a winning team is pretty bad.

At least he knows how to take a walk . But I'm sure the Sox are just going to wait and keep waiting . It sucks when old RH vets like Harrison and Pollock, scrap heap pitchers and injured relievers and light hitting utility guys are given millions while youngsters paid minimum could probably do just as well if not better. At least being young and adjusting to big league pitching is a legitimate excuse. There's really no excuses for many on the team being as bad as they have been. Acting like you've never seen inside fastballs and breaking pitches off the plate is not an excuse.

You're probably right . It's like cutting branches off a dying tree. It's just cosmetic. I don't know what it is . The Sox approach of letting the ball get deep and going the opposite way only works for a guy like Tim, Abreu and Robert to some extent. But all this approach does is encourage guys to go oppo and swing at stuff outside and forego pulling the ball. No one gets ahead on counts and looks to get out in front and pull it. Even when they are ahead in the count you have to look for a pitch in your zone. If the pitcher aces you on the black somewhere that's ok. Just too many guys not taking big league hacks like power hitters should be doing. Keep the weight way back on that back leg and transfer it . Even drop that back shoulder some and let it rip as long as you keep your front shoulder in and your head down on the ball. That's why I enjoyed watching Adolfo in Spring training. That guy has massive power and could hit some out oppo but he takes big league hacks. Guy like Lindor and Albies became HR hitters because they know how to pull the ball.

Too bad he didn't include 2018 when they lost 100 games . I'd like to see how many times that team scored 5 or more runs in in their 1st 37 games. Edit :Just looked it up the 2018 team scored 5 or more runs 13 times in their 1st 37 games

Complaining about the scrubs isn't going to fix anything. The Sox can't hit. Didn't even matter that he gave up a couple of runs. They got more runs with a team full of scrubs in 2018 and 2019 at this point in the season when they were 51 games below .500

He wasn't bad last year. But the problem is that's why you need a lot of defense at one position before you can say someone is adequate. You can go a long time some times in the OF without many things that challenge you as a fielder. This years there's been a lot of things that have challenged him. When you see that lack of speed at a young age it's not like he's going to get any faster as he ages. That was me being fair. It's unfair when people don't realize these things and stick to the fanboyism and cannot be objective. It's real easy now to criticize him but I was on an island last year.

I know that feeling all too well when I said Vaughn was way too slow to be an OF last year during the season yet all off season tons of people were saying he could play LF regularly.

The Sox were more fun in Spring training watching Cespedes and Adolfo hit HR's. I think the minor leaguers in ST may have out homered the regulars.

No one should ever throw Robert a strike. Go hard inside off the plate and breaking ball him away off the plate and down.

If he's only one of a few to be getting the job done then it's the right thing to do.

That blowout is just around the corner.

If I was a political cartoonist I'd be drawing pictures of legless zombies wearing white sox uniforms crawling around on the ground with the caption "The Non-Walking Dead."

Nice to see Carlos Perez in there. I guess traditionally a 25 yr old who has never been in the top 30 before is hard to move higher but between the power surge and K rate thought for sure he'd at least be in the top 15. Martin is 25 and he made a huge leap.

I liked Segura but not many others did. He's always been pretty healthy, a professional hitter and could've been a valuable piece to back up at SS also. He's surrounded by mashers in that lineup so not sure how he would've fared here amongst the non walking dead. That was early in the "what could we get for Kimbrel" speculation.

Benintendi's arm and how close he was vs. 2 outs a struggling relief pitcher with Robert up next and Staumont coming in next inning. If he doesn't send him do the Royals change pitchers to face Robert ? The out obviously makes it seem dumb especially when he was out by so much.

Leaving Kelly in to die again

Sucks that we will never see Cease hit again.

Ha I can't keep track of the comings and goings .

Agreed. Perez is 25 already and having a great season. Time to get him up and see if that hitting can continue on the big club. Couldn't be any worse than McGuire's hitting. The problem is we have no idea who is making decisions on player's comings and goings. Grandal and McGuire are the only 2 catchers on the 40 and I think a 3rd is needed. The 1st guy on the 40 chopping block would have to be Mercedes.

Day game after a night game will be interesting to see if Moncada plays the 1st game, the 2nd game or possibly both. I wouldn't be surprised if Abreu plays both since he showed a pulse yesterday but he usually is the exception to any rest plan but Vaughn could play 1st base the 1st game. McGuire probaby starts the 1st game at catcher . Harrison, Leury split games at 2nd base. Mendick probably gets a game at SS. Outfield should be Pollock Robert and flip a coin in RF between Engel or Sheets since both played yesterday. Somebody out there will play in both games. Wouldn't mind at all Tim playing both games maybe one of them at DH but unlikely with 2 RHP will be going for KC. Vaughn probably sits for one of the games. All I know is that one of the games the lineup won't be one too many people like. Who plays both games ?

Cueto, Engel, Grandal (for better and worse) Robert, Hendriks. All W 's are Welcome.

Winner winner time for dinner