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Wasn't wrong, just early in my expectation that Tristan and Luisangel would ultimately be not much different offensively. I think what triggered this slump was that I allowed myself to believe in Tristan a little bit

I'm not super down on the group in AAA but I don't see much below that level. I'm sure a few people will emerge as some kind of option but will need some development before that group gives you anything to be excited about. And I certainly won't just assume that the development will occur.

Really nice series for White Sox catchers.

BTW, did Ky Bush die? I would have expected to have heard something about his return by now. He's not really part of the plan at all but every now and then a guy like that will get something going.

Usually there's something discernibly wrong or different about a guy slumping as bad as Peters but really when I look at the numbers, nothing jumps out at all. Strikeouts aren't up too much. Chase rate not much different, depending on the time window you use he might even be chasing less. Walks are slightly up. Rate of hard contact similar. Closest thing I have to some insight is he's taking more strikes as of late, although that's probably more of a symptom than a cause. He just doesn't know what he's looking at up there. To some extent, it's hard to pick up patterns in Tristan's underlying data because 1. He's been somewhat erratic in most of these metrics all year and 2. A lot of the metrics didn't look very good before the slump

Hope Sal is okay with Richards throwing strike 2 up and in

Antone used to give me hell in MLB the Show

Tanner was a 5th rounder taken out of high school who had TJS right after being drafted, so I won't list him anywhere near the top of pitching dev failures. Being a guy who looks like he may be MLB-quality is a dev success even if it's not crazy to wish he didn't have similar issues to some other higher-stakes draftees.

Yeah I'm not like against him or anything but I've always felt he was one of those guys who too-online Sox fans are too optimistic about based on too little track record. And so I still need to see him prove it. This wasn't an ideal first outing for him given the rain, but it wouldn't have shocked me if he had similar issues in dry weather/low pressure/etc.

Wonder whether Tanner is bothered by the rain and thinks he can't grip his offspeed.

Tanner is another one of those guys, which pro baseball is full of, who has huge fastball velo but the pitch doesn't seem to both hitters as much as you'd think. On the other hand, his hook was dominant against minor league hitters (and surely the fastball velo helped keep hitters off balance)

Let's see McDougal pitch a scoreless inning before we get too deep into the alternate histories of how great it would have been if he came in sooner.

Wish we had a PH for that spot but I guess you can't always have platoon advantage

pitch chart of a guy who has absolute control of his fastball and would never miss way away from the zone unless he was sending a message

I don't see Davis as eager to hit anyone, he was missing almost every pitch to high to the arm side, and Sal Stewart as far as I know didn't do anything to merit being hit besides going deep.

Fedde almost threw out of the windup with a runner on first if you want to know his state of mind right now.

Have to also mention that a lot of those relief appearances are "bulk" outings where he's getting starterish innings but coming in for a carefully selected part of the order. I'm not super mad at Fedde in general, he's more or less done what has been asked this year but he's a marginal major leaguer. It's been marginal production. It's better than sub-marginal production. Not as good as good production.

Tomorrow's starter is TBA right? I assume Sox are going to have to call somebody up to cover that game?

Now, if we learn postgame that Davis got himself tossed via some other kinds of words or deeds besides the pitches, then that's totally on him

Well I've never seen an ejection that bad in my life. I'd like the players to play and see how it goes. At least Jose Quintana was intentionally throwing behind a guy when he got tossed. Very possible Davis was on the verge of letting it blow up in a similar fashion, but we didn't get to see that timeline unfortunately. And if that was going to happen, the ejection hurts the Sox in the long run because we have to wait around even longer to see what Davis looks like in a full-length outing.

If you like the rest of the arms and don't want to demote e.g. Tanner (which I think is worth considering), might have to let him go soon. Maybe even tomorrow? No idea who is going to start. And then you may want to make space for Thorpe to take a stab at claiming the 5th rotation spot going forward.

Well Davis should have been an all-star, that's not an award based on future performance. In fact I would more urgently give the honor to a player who I suspect won't repeat his performance. Also, Davis wasn't looking good today but the umps are the ones who decided this game.

Have to think about how long you're going to leave Fedde out there

No slandering Godfrey Illinois's finest

I suppose it's a good thing that nobody came to mind as an obvious choice for "it would make the team better if this reliever got suspended"