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Bassitt has been stingy with the HR. Id like to get some speed guys on base. Look to steal and hit and run. In close games need to get on, get over and get in. Wouldnt surprise me at all to see a sac bunt on either side today. Speed and defense wins pitchers duels.

Mazara is just slapping hits to a vacated left side of the infield. I guess in some scenario you still can see him hitting a bomb moreso than the just coming off a long injury , 0-4 w/ 2 2Ks Leury. I can understand that and I'll still take Garcia's speed in the OF and on the bases and more power shown this year than the Big Chill ( Nomars nickname in TX.) You never know how that extra 1/2 step is going to benefit you somewhere.

Disagree 100 %. And this is coming from Mazara's numero uno supporter in the off season. He's been Cordell, Delmonico, Tilson bad. He had a long chance to get it together. A few measley singles at the end doesn't change my mind. Engel earned what he's getting now and proved it in the 1st game. Check his stats against rigjties too. They are good. Oh and yes I'll take Leury again too. He was taking some good hacks. I'll also take his speed into the gap and coming in on balls over Mazara.

This was a perfect game !

I'm just being empathetic.

If you have the MLB Sox package it doesn't include playoff games ? Doesn't look like I'm going to get it.

Glad Leury is back. Poor McRae pitches 3 ? nearly perfect shutout innings and gets DFA.

if its his right ankle he could've hurt it rounding 3rd then again when he slid. On the replay it does look like his cleat stuck in the dirt for a microsecond then twisted a little then shot up and over home plate.

I think he is. He said he was. Maybe just giving him 1 extra day. If needed he will probably pinch hit.

I agree mainly because Moncada isnt the Moncada we saw last year. We all know he can still draw walks but he shouldn't be at the top of the lineup anymore. Opening the game with 2 .300 hitters sets the tone.

I liked emoji all posts so far. Let's Be cool with each other and raise the karma factor for our White Sox !

Me too. Can't leave McCann out of the lineup against any lefty anymore. EE's time should be over.

Those are all the guys I want to see in the lineup. I would drop Moncada behind McCann against the lefty . I don't think either of us will be right however.

I didn't even know we made the playoffs next year.

Garrett Crochet has only been up with the White Sox since Sept. 18, and he’s already thrown the second-most 100 mph pitches in the Majors this year. The hard-throwing lefty made headlines for being the first player to appear in the Majors the year he was drafted since Brandon Finnegan in 2014, but once he set foot on the mound, all eyes -- and storylines -- have been on Crochet's velocity. Through his appearance on Saturday night, Crochet has thrown 45 pitches of at least 100 mph in just six innings this season. The only pitcher with more 100 mph pitches is the Dodgers’ Brusdar Graterol, with 47 in 22 1/3 innings. https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/garrett-crochet-100-mph-pitches

Right but you have to use Keuchel in game 2 because if used in game 3 that just delays him starting in the ALDS . Use the regular rotation like you have all year. The 3rd and 4th starters just have to step up if we are going to go anywhere in any additional series. We may not tee off on Bassitt and there's a better chance the A's tee off on whoever starts in place of Keuchel . I don't want to give away a game then delay Keuchels start in the ALDS should he happen to win a game 3 and throw the rotation off kilter. Remember if we win in 2 games we get more time off . SO we might be able to pitch Giolito and Keuchel in the 1st 2 games of the ALDS

I'll give it a 50% chance that EE is left off . The Renteria quotes sounded like a we are leaving him off speech . You have to have McCann and Grandal playing together and hopefully Eloy in LF . If Eloy can't play the field that complicates things . If EE is left off we probably do see Collins. I'm more than fine if we need a PH against a lefty that whoever is not playing amongst McCann, Engel and Leury that they are more than adequate . Engel has hit RH just as good if not better than he hit LH this year and as a sub in 13 AB he has 7 hits which more than likely means he has been our best pinch hitter.

Ha please specify Gonzalez when you say Gio.

I didn't hate Nomar when we got him. I thought it was a good gamble on his upside. Funny thing is if he had just hit like he normally did against RH in 2019 everybody would have loved him. .288 BA , .344 OBP ,500 Slg. and .844 OPS . That looked a helluva lot better than the output we got from Jay, Cordell, Delmonico and Tilson. However the stats he put up offensively were just like the guys from last year. Just terrible. Now I don't care how many singles he hits to LF in the last game or 2 , that's not why he was brought here. He was supposed to have an .800+ OPS against RH not a paltry .544 . Also weird that his fielding was better than expected as was his hitting against LH but in a small sample size. We needed his help against RH not LH. At that he failed miserably. Throw in the Moncada bad year .699 OPS 2020, .945 2019 and our expected output against RH pitching tanked . If Eloy wasn't hurt I'm not even sure Mazara makes the playoff roster . I'm predicting EE is left off the playoff roster.

Yea all this playing scared is for losers. Hit them with your best shot the 1st 2 games .

Strange thinking . You win game 1 you're want to do everything in your power not to let it get to a game 3. Put your best on the field and be confident you can finish them off in 2 . Bassitt is not some superstar pitcher.

Its not his game .He is what he is. He'll manage a few hits to RF and CF and that was usually good enough when he was hitting more than .225 but age and short season was his doom.

https://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2020/7/27/21339212/samardzija-semien-phegley-bassitt-ynoa-athletics-white-sox-trade-retrospective

HAHA i hope I'm right Nope I'm wrong bWar has Leury at .6 this year while Nomar is at 1.0 for his career. fWar has Mazara at -5.5 oWAR and .7 dWAR and it somehow finishes at .2 for 2020 and a 1.9 for his career. In his 16 games this year Leury had a 109 wRC+ 1.3 oWAR and .4 dWAR = .4 fWAR 1.2 for his career. Not too many conclusions can be drawn for Leury's meager 63 plate appearance but he was performing very well. K % was way down. Leury hit more HR's (3) in his 63 PA than Nomar did in his 149 (1) ?