Jake

FWIW, I said that Flowers had said that BEFORE the season. He anticipated an adjustment to full-time catching, he isn't saying anything about it now.

I like Caldwell-Pope, I hope he falls to the Bulls.

I think rest is a huge part of the reason his defense has disappointed us. He makes these mistakes because he's winded. A backup is never winded. He talked about this on the radio in the preseason, that he was going to have a hard time with conditioning since it had been a while since he caught full time.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ May 23, 2013 -> 10:16 AM) Elaborate. You can't just state something so vague. That comes across as super dismissive. It isn't Flowers vs Gimenez, it is Flowers vs Phegley

This is the wrong comparison. With that said, who knows? Hopefully Tyler comes out of the off day rested and figures something out.

lol Paulie

I've always thought that Flowers will be given until sometime in June, at the least, to prove himself. I assume the same is still true. I'm sure they won't let Phegley rake and Flowers struggle for too long, but they will want to be sure that both players are being themselves in the way they are playing

This should decisively end Veal's run as a White Sox

This should be a good trial run for Veal.

The thing that always puzzled me about Nate is why he never throws his curveball. Scouts had raved about how good his curveball was, but he ditched it for a slider when he came up to the Sox. He has a great changeup too, but has abandoned that because he struggles locating it.

Add another hard hit ball to the list of those that didn't fall tonight

This hasn't exactly been the perfect game, but let's not let slide the fact that we have been beaten by a damn good pitcher to this point.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 22, 2013 -> 09:50 PM) It should be all year, as you don't go into this season with this stupid plan they had if you're not willing to live with his struggles. Have to be encouraged that Phegley has done well, though. Good organizations can have guys that struggle when there is a hot minor leaguer right behind him

What's that? A slider strike from Jones?

I think the Sox are happy to give him time to struggle at the plate, but he is really pushing his luck with his defense. It'll have to be Phegley though, because Gimenez has been even worse defensively

Our catching tandem can't have played any worse defense this year than they have.

lol

Pretty clear that Robin was slow to replace Omo because he didn't love the replacement either

I still think Omogrosso has a place on this team. But yeah, he has to be protected a bit. Robin is trying to get a two-day break for a taxed back end of bullpen so without a lead, the only guys available are Omo, Veal, and Jones

QUOTE (fathom @ May 22, 2013 -> 09:39 PM) Haha, Veal is only person warming up. Does Ventura know the score? Jones has been up

QUOTE (fathom @ May 22, 2013 -> 09:38 PM) They were saying he was that high last season Ha. Complications on the flight to Chicago subtracted four mph

QUOTE (fathom @ May 22, 2013 -> 09:35 PM) Remember when people said Omogrosso threw 99 mph in the minors? Hasn't he had several major arm surgeries?

f*** with the seeing-eye grounders

Bucholz has his arm wrapped up like he's trying to keep it warm

We've had absolutely no luck tonight on hard hit balls