Jake

I've tried to do the dive on Yoendrys and I just can't see what made the Yankees, Dodgers, and Sox want to give this guy a paycheck (inning-ending strikeout notwithstanding)

An offense that sucks will make you really hate your relievers

Sox getting back to anti-luck ways of 2024

Leasure and Eisert are probably your best relievers right now

Woops

Glad to see Venable giving Davis this inning. It's not like you've got great options in the bullpen, so let's see if Davis can keep going with the low pitch count.

Even New York is screwing Vaughn at this point

I'm mostly following the box scores, but hard to avoid the conclusion that Schultz has regressed for whatever reason. Hope he's healthy and that he can figure something out.

My unpopular take is I'll be okay with Elko going back down once everybody is ready to come off the IL

Didn't realize that LouBob entered the day leading the Sox in xwOBA (tied with Quero). Seems like he'll probably end the day on top too since he's barreled two balls today. Will probably be our lone player with an xwOBA (barely) above league average.

All we see on the tape is Jirschele jogged to his position during the warmup and suddenly the umpire came at him pointing fingers and shouting. Not sure what motivated the ump to do that, maybe something Jirschele said

Wonder what the hell is going on with Jirschele

One of those days

Two more soft hits and a run. Again, please bless my team with this kind of luck

I can certainly think of a word you're not allowed to call him (I personally would never be allowed to use that word 🫣)

Before I accept Stone's framing of the White Sox's star being hit by a pitch, we need to establish the Cubs being aware of the Sox having a star player and who that player is.

Not really sure why Vargas seemed to think the Cubs hit him on purpose. Maybe even the young people know the legends of Keller being a piece of s%*#

Colson 0-fer but just 1 K in 5 plate appearances, had a walk and a very loud out.

Couple badly hit balls get them a run. Give the Sox some of that luck sometime

Baldwin has made some of the highest difficulty plays among Sox outfielders this year in terms of catch probability — he's a good runner and gets some good jumps. But the finer points of outfielding have gotten him badly with balls near the fence and windy days. And his throwing arm is not good at all so he loses value there too. I think if he had time to learn the position he could end up being decent but he's not there now and his bat isn't picking him up. He hasn't fielded well in the infield either and there aren't many excuses for it.

FWIW, this might seal the deal on Brooks going down to AAA for Slater/Tauchman

So if you're Cannon, you had the guy struck out but the call isn't made, then the guy squeaks one inside the foul line, guy barely safe at home (if at all), pop up gets dropped, crazy slide gets the guy an extra base..

Probably going to fall back to the call on the field here

Some lucky SOBs on the north side

If you can't handle Sosa being a solidly okay MLB player you're gonna hate this rebuild