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I can agree with this. Have to think what was the 3rd base coach telling him? Yoan should know better anyway but a friendly reminder about ground balls to the pitcher or 3rd base or anything directly at a fielder with the infield in drawn in you don't go. Or if its to the 3rd basemen you kind of follow him down the line maybe or get a little bit in front of him so he catches you out of the corner of his eye and maybe then take off after he throws it or distract him a bit. The SS would have to cover 3rd so you could get back to 3rd if you had to.

1st of all have to wait on the Grandal report . All Star game is in a week so if you IL Grandal for 10 days maybe he only misses 5 or 6 games and won't have to do anything. If it's serious then the Sox are in some dire straits.

Yea I just checked . Too bad Sox didn't jump on him the 1st time Grandal went down even though I have no idea of his defensive rep.

Don't forget a possible strike next year.

Zavala's already traveling with the team.

OK you backed off it was Goodwins fault at least so there's that. 5 runs per game from the offense on the road isnt bad . It's just the pitching sucked.

From the time the ball left the bat to when hit it the ground was approx. 3 seconds. Look at the replay and count it yourself. It was laser beam. You know sometimes the best CFers have balls go to the wall. Goodwin isn't the best CF by far but come on now.

A good fielder positioned 5 feet closer than where Goodwin started might get to it. That ball was smoked.

SOrry that ball was in the gap and was a line shot . It wasn't even in the air long enough to get to it . I have no idea what you are looking at . The twins announcers said he had no shot on it and that's how it looked to me. https://www.mlb.com/gameday/white-sox-vs-twins/2021/07/05/633487#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=videos,game=633487

Yea who wants a power hitting lefty or a power hitting 3rd baseman who both have all their eligibility ?

What did Goodwin do on Gordons triple? I didn't see anything. The ball was just hit over his head.

I thought when he hurt his calf the 1st time the Sox might pick up Robinson Chirinos who the Yankees let go if no one's picked him up since then. Edit: Never mind the Cubs signed Chirinos.

Nice to see Grandal and Moncada playing again. That looks like our strongest offensive lineup if not by spot in the lineup certainly by the players. Too bad no place to fit in Burger. He reminds me of Vaughn. Hits the ball hard ,good plate presence , uses all fields. more of a line drive type power hitter and certainly not a lift and pull guy.

This. No reason at all to hit Donaldson . Just bring your A game to road like it was at home and stomp them once again. They must start winning road games against far inferior competition. I know it's hard when there are so many regulars out and there is time to be among those the best record in baseball. I just don't want to fall too far behind. Start tonight .

I'm sure they will try but if you were in the players positions if the Sox want them more than any other team then they will have to pay them more than any other team. I think certain players may allow room for emotional ties to a particular team that goes with the camaraderie developed, winning and not moving his family around. But in the end ,monetarily, they do what they think is best and that's usually taking the most money for the most years.

Just like that sign Lynn and Rodon . So easy.

I know this thread isn't getting much play now because everyone wants to talk about big acquisitions. I just feel like the Sox are going to pick up some rentals as unexciting as that is. It'll be Escobar, a couple of relievers and that will do it. Sure we try to find a RFer too but more trades = more prospects that you give up and I'm pretty sure the Sox would like to limit that to as few as possible. It's in Arizona's best interest in trading him early when healthy and get more of his salary paid for rather than hold onto him longer for a return that might be only slightly better while risking an injury that makes him untradeable.

Unfortunately with 3 pitchers you can guarantee at least 2 of them pitch.

No which is why I've been crying all year about filling holes we have because with our great home record and mediocre road record I'd prefer to win as many games as possible to secure home field advantage through the playoffs. Health of teams in the playoffs might end up being the biggest factor but home field advantage might make the difference between pretty equal teams. The Sox just seem to play a lot better at home.

No they aren't . Except he's better off just hitting the mute button on himself and discuss it with his manger and defensive positioning guy based if they have the stats to confirm or refute what he's saying. I guess you would have need a lot of info we sure don't get. Seems like he want OF's to play shallower for him because he's saying he either gives up singles or HR's if you don't count doubles or triples that get hit down the line and just count the ones that go over OFers heads. You would need a chart that has where the OFers are positioned on every hit he gave up and where the ball landed and analyze the data. Of course then if you play the OFers shallower ,extra base hits are more damaging than singles and most OFers are better coming in than going back so you have to take that into consideration and analyze all that data too. It's also very hard to trust your eyes. A slow OFer with a bad jump might look fine to the eye when he doesn't get to a ball when he misses it. If a faster OF gets a good jump but runs a bad route but still can get to the ball, he looks worse because the bad route is more visible to the naked eye. To viewers, for the slow OF with the bad jump a double just looks like a double. For the fast OF with the good jump with a bad route it's going to look worse to us if he barely misses it and we see the bad route or even if he catches it we say he took a poor route to that one. We see the routes but we very rarely get enough video proof when watching the game on TV to say how good or bad the jump was. The Jump and Route data baseball savant uses is all based on studying video replay and analyzing how fast an OFer covers the ground in the amount of time the ball is in the air and how direct the line to the ball was. A straight line being great and a not so straight line bad . Then there is always how wind might affect a ball in mid flight which can always make a route appear bad. You can't make a blanket statement like Leury is a bad OFer by eye analysis. He appears sometimes to look bad but often uses his superior speed to run down balls a lot of average OF's couldn't reach.

Congrats and I will forever hate the All-Star game if one of them gets hurt . That's the type of year it's been.

Pinch hit Hamilton for Collins to lead off the inning Collins. Probably decided not to risk Grandal running the bases with a calf injury if he took a walk or got a hit. Plus if the Sox did tie it up with or without him PH he'd have to catch too.

Have to be willing to stand there and do nothing. That's pretty hard to do even when every cell in your brain is telling you he just came up and in so now he's going low and away with a slider which usually aren't strikes. Then if he throws the fastball right down the middle you get the WTF why did he just stand there ? And since it was a 2-2 count even if you hold up then you have to do it again.

Pretty much the difference in being the home team vs the away team when the Sox lineup has 3 regular starters in it and 1 is Eaton.

Pitched 120 IP in 2018 and 165 in 2016. Those are the only 2 times he's pitched over 100 innings. He's at 84 now without building up any arm strength for the last 2 years. I hope you're right but a lock ? That's pushing it unless his innings find a way to be limited by a bunch in the 2nd half.