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Don't look it up . Who are the 5 White Sox position players with both a 100 or more wRC+ and a positive fWAR ?

All the lefties we got and no Vaughn and Pollock and Leury 2nd ? When does Anderson's 1 game suspension start ? I'd be trying to get Pollock back into a groove asap since he's one more power bat and I would probably just keep playing Burger and Vaughn and Sheets too. I do admit it's difficult to keep Eloy, Sheets and Vaughn all in the same lineup. That line up is way too slappy. I'd put Leury 8th at 2nd base instead of Harrison. And maybe Grandal batting 2nd. Edit: Ahh I see you were making a little joke , reverse psychology and all that with that post. I didn't think it sounded much like you leaving Vaughn out and Sheets in and the rest of the questionable stuff. Although Sheets is starting to come around now.

Nice pitching Hosey

Andy !!

Would be nice if some of then started to prove it.

Nah I think he's saying everyone sucks not just Leury or TLR so spread the venom around.

Maybe it's one of those areas they save money on ?

ALong with punting the draft pick for Rodon that would make punting 2 draft choices

Leury didn't exactly stretch towards the catcher on that throw.

And if that is indeed the case there is blame on both Robert and Leury as I said before. Leury read the flight of the ball and the bad fielder correctly and easily gets to 3rd on the ball. Robert read all that wrong.

In little league you don't have professional coaches. I can't blame Leury without knowing if he was picking up McEwings sign to send Robert or if McEwing made his decision to send Robert based on where Leury was.

The ball was never inside Reyes glove .It was maybe off the tip of it or just beyond his glove or only hit his glove after it went off the wall. I'd have to see it again. Leury might've got back to 2nd safely if he's picking up a stop sign from McEwing.

Not by Reyes, it was slicing away from him. ANother thing Robert should know.

Jose being RH and the ball slicing away from Reyes is also something a good runner should do assess when the ball is in flight .

Right I did edit the post to say Leury had some blame before I saw your post. However if McEwing holds him do we know for sure that Leury wouldnt have got back to 2nd base if the throw ends up in the cutoff guys hands. Does McEwing send Robert because he see's Leury on Roberts tail or does he send Robert because he thinks with Roberts speed and a ball off the wall should score Robert from 2nd base ?

Reyes is not most RF. Read the ball and know the outfielder . Analyze, assess, that's what good base runners do.

Don't think so. As a runner at second you have to read the flight of the ball and know who the fielder is. Instead he had his back to the wall and was looking over his shoulder. Leury did that and Robert did not. Robert should easily score on that ball once it goes off the wall. He's already in scoring position at 2nd base with great speed. He could've walked home if he went even a quarter of the way to third. Obviously there is some blame on Leury too because he had to stop once he saw Robert still there.

Blaming Leury for that is funny STone. Robert was looking to tag up instead of going half way on a ball that was to the wall with a terrible fielder in RF.

double steal coming ?

Remember me writing to you about Eloy ?

Hahn's reactionary moves do not necessarily improve the team but you can always hope that he can manage it without trading Montgomery or Ramos. Usually it's just Tony said more relief pitching because JR said let's just ignore lefthandedness and starting pitching and just fill in with scrubs like we did in the rebuild

Just go back to the thread where it was discussed and ask the people who said they shouldn't have or implied that the front office knew best .

There are different ways to skin a cat of course but I guess you are being intentionally disingenuous. The Brave were limping through the season and were 51-54 . Most importantly they didn't have the same guy as GM at the helm of the rebuild as the guy who had ruined the team in the 1st place. Anthopoulos had come to Atlanta four years earlier to clean up the mess left behind by the previous front office, whose illegal signings in Latin America cost the team 13 prospects, wrecked their ability to pursue premium international talent for two years and got the previous GM, John Coppolella, banned from baseball for life. ANthopoulos made mid season gambles that paid off. Plus before the season started they signed Charlie Morton, Drew Smyly, Josh Tomlin and Marcell Ozuna to a team that had lost in the ALCS. They also had Freeman on a big money contract and had signed Acuna earlier to a $100M contract . Do those off season moves or those $100M contracts look anything like anything the Sox have done recently ? The Sox idea of investing is to invest in relief pitching in every situation. How long has LH hitting been an area of need for the Sox ? Who did they get at the trade deadline last year and the past off season to fill that void ?

You seem to have trouble grasping what I mean by "investing" even though you saw what I posted about all the starting pitchers signed during the off season and all my posts about resigning Rodon. Are you intentionally being disingenuous ? The Giolito, Kopech and Cease moves were start of the rebuild moves. Lynn was cheap when they traded for him for just 1 year and resigned him for 2yrs/$38M. Kopech, as good as he might be, is an infant in terms of starting pitching time. Big time teams with hopes of winning a World Series sign big time pitchers. Cubs did it with Lester and Astros traded for Verlander. Keuchel was good for the Covid season and has sucked since then.

He is right though. I edited my "Never" post to say pretty much the same thing before I saw Two Guns post.