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It isn't so bad. I know you didn't want Madrigal from the beginning but it's time to just relax and just hope he turns out to be a good hitter. Makes no sense to get all worked up about a kid that's been banged up and hardly had any time to sit back and savor what he and his team accomplished in college.Guys like Moncada, Giolito and Lopez gained valuable experience and built up innings. Its not sexy and the results are mixed but its invaluable. They may have found a future DH with Palka with the most LH power since Adam Dunn left. He's a rookie , an older rookie, but he could get better. Rodon has come back from injury very strong. Kopech's looked good in his small sample. There are good things happening , The rotation is starting to come together and Eloy showed he is the besss and in baseball time he is only 2 months from being a fixture in the lineup. Actual time we still have the off season which hopefully provides us with a few surprises.

Sort of helpful the Yankees were missing Judge, Sanchez and Gregorius.

I don't see how you figure he would be a year behind. If he come up now he plays a little more than a month.When he comes up next April it equals around 2 months total. 1 month this year + 1 month next year. That is not a year. I'm pretty sure that will not hurt him. It would suck if the Sox fell to around 10th in the draft after being 3rd practically all year. It's totally possible we pass the Tigers , Padres and Marlins but playing well enough to drop to 10th rather than 6 or 7 th would be a disaster. Remember the Astro's had the number 1 pick 2 years in a row . The higher you pick the better the chance of getting impact talent. 2017 we had pick 11, 2018 was 4th. It makes no sense whatsoever to cut our own throats in the draft. It's really great we can see some hope for the future now that Kopech s here. Remember I'm the one that started this thread but let's not get too carried away. Too many win's now are detrimental and useless to a season that was long ago lost.

I think service time has to be seriously considered when you are still maybe another year from a shot at the playoffs. That being said I thought both Kopech and Eloy deserved a call up They both were just doing so well. Eloy has had a tremendous year and bringing him up with the roll the Sox are on needlessly would hurt draft status and burn service time. That's a double whammy that would be hard to take.

A lot without Abreu too. This is the kind of game I envisioned the White Sox becoming . If Robert makes it This team could be the reincarnation of the Go Go Sox. Imagine if the Engel "tease " becomes more than a tease.. Pitching speed now just need better defense and some OBP guys and we'll be where we can win a lot of games.

The ESPN broadcast here in california is way behind the actual game, The Yankes have Torryes at bat in the bottom of the fifth,.

I agree. Using phrases "like some of us saw this coming" and " I hope he turns things around"just make a mockery of just how beat up the kid is now,the long emotional ride of winning the college world series and the incredibly small sample size after all those other things . I don't even know what it was he saw coming. Give him a year of full season ball and some time to take a breather for heavens sake before you rip the guy to shreds.

Rodon

Baby Ruth

Walker 4 for his last 8 with 2 HR's and 7 RBI.

I hope so . I'd much rather call him "The Way" rather than "The Darkness."

I don't think any of those things matter that much. Right now the Sox are still a really bad team(albeit much better now that Kopech and Rodon are in the rotation and Giolito apparently having turned it around.) The Yanks and Red Sox are 2 of the best teams in baseball. The Sox have already burned a year of service time on Kopech and though possible its unlikely they do the same with Eloy. Holding both down might've looked suspicious to the players union but calling up Kopech mitigates that. This season is already a lost cause but the death of tanking is more geared toward the off season and next year with a slight boost to our hopes this year with now seeing the light at the end of the tunnel after reaching a low point a month or so ago.

It was actually the 3rd time through the order. It was even pointed out by Benetti as such. We all want to see him start well. I think we are pretty aware he will have growing pains. It's just that he means an awful lot to the success of the rebuild and who really wants to curb their enthusiasm now ? It's exciting watching him pitch. It's the beginning of a new dawn and we are all just soaking in "The Light ."

A minor detail

It's called players weekend. Players wear alternate jersey's and put nicknames on the back or names of friends/ relatives who have passed away or anything really .One player named Boxberger had emoji's of a box and a burger on his jersey. Also bats and cleats could be decorated and colorful. One player had plain white cleats decorated with the names of kids in a hospital he visited with around 80 kids adding their names to his shoes in their own writing . Sox catcher Kevan Smith honored former friend and teammate Daniel Webb who passed away last October by putting Webby on his jersey. Then he proceed to hit a HR in his very 1st swing wearing that jersey and it was his 1st HR of the year. If you think that's strange ., He also named his son after Webb and his son was born with "webbed" toes. https://sports.yahoo.com/kevan-smith-honors-daniel-webb-234934665.html

In honor of the last day of the players weekend congrats to Michael " The Light" Kopech , Adam "The Tease " Engel , Avi " The Enigma" Garcia and Tim "Dandy" Anderson.

I actually contemplated using your thread when constructing my post. I only decided against it to make the contrast between the other threads I listed more stark. But I will say that thread was definitely a prelude to this one.

I thought about calling Moncada "The Way " but the religious aspect, if not apparent with the 1st 2, surely becomes burdensome once I add The Way But I really do want those 3 to put us all on the path to baseball righteousness..

This didn't age well.

I don;t understand the whole argument of wanting him to stay in the 7th. He had a rough 6th came out of it almost unscathed. Saw comments about bringing him in for 1 more innings or one more batter for various reasons. But he ended his day on a very positive note. What does one more batter or inning accomplish ? All the reasons I saw for keeping him in were things he can do later when he's not at a career high innings pitched, He had already done well getting out of some high stress innings. Injuries can happen at any time but probably more likely when arm is fatigued. I understand trying to uphold your end of the debate but whats done is done and for sound reasons.

Should be a new pitcher for the 7th. Sox will be monitoring his innings for the rest of the year. No reason to push him now . He got 4 more starts yet to go.

He's such a tease.

DP ! yes

Kopech/Moncada so sexy

Cruisin'....on a sunday afternoon...