Jake

Swing away baby!!!!

FWIW, I thought it was reported on the air that they planned to give Noah three rehab starts. Frankly, I don't love what I saw today with a little too much traffic on the bases and him needing 57 pitches to get through 2.2 IP.

An important development no matter what is that Davis is pitching really well today.

Montero has not thrown many good pitches to hit in this one so far. It can be hard to make things happen a pitcher isn't making mistakes and isn't walking people.

A taste of their own medicine!

Scratch that, the Greene blooper was a 100% hit probability and that nudged them up higher

Sox xBA is higher than Tigers today at this point.

If the Sox could hit it nice and soft like that they'd have a couple hits themselves

Mixed bag for Noah today. High zone rate and velo looked pretty good at times. I notice that a lot of his misses were pretty bad misses though, including a couple HBP. They ended it pretty early, I assume they were targeting a 60 pitch count or something. It was a relatively sweeper-heavy attack, I hope he's intentionally trying to throw extras of that pitch to improve his feel for it. He hasn't gotten good use out of it at all in MLB yet, mostly because he tends to miss badly and only hit the zone with it when he misses up near the top of the zone.

Doesn't help that the ump is giving Montero every millimeter of the strike zone this inning. And maybe a few extra too.

3-0 challenge is so stupid there. I did see a discussion that the high-volume, low-accuracy approach is basically working out for the Sox because almost all other teams are way too cautious using their challenges. But imagine a catcher with some common sense who challenges aggressively...

I saw Colson go up there with a plan to not swing first pitch because the first two batters got out so fast, then he took a middle-middle slider that he should have swung at. Montero is totally attacking the zone, Sox haven't chased a single pitch yet. When a guy does that you just have to hit the ball well.

Was doing that on his debut day as well, thanks I think to the Tiger's RF being named Cruz.

From watching White Sox games, I can only conclude that Keider Montero is the greatest pitcher alive.

Montero gave us hell last time out. Hope it looks different this time around.

The recent CBAs have arguably been terrible for the White Sox. By the league's internal metrics, the Sox are basically the poorest and worst off team that is classified as too rich and well-off to get any help from the revenue sharing and competitive balance systems. If the Sox do well financially, they will have to share a bit with the poorer teams. If they do poorly, they are on their own. And they get the big-market penalties with regard to draft lottery, compensatory picks, international spending, etc.

As soon as we get a lineup with about 6 MLB-quality hitters, we want to trade one

I'm starting to wonder whether it was just mis-reported about him being slated to catch yesterday.

I thought the plan was for Teel to catch on back to back nights before they "reevaluate" whether he's ready for a call-up. Is him DHing tonight a change of plans or was I mistaken about the plan?

Well, hope you pick one up tomorrow. These have been close games, offense just hasn't been all the way there. Pitching matchups have been extremely unfavorable to the Sox so far even though our side of the pitching has mostly held up its side of the bargain. Skubal and Melton are really good pitchers and we haven't seen the bad parts of their bullpen (other than Kenley, you might argue). Tomorrow's matchup is better for the Sox even if we're all wondering whether Davis is going to get it back together.

Nice cut from Romo but no joy.

Yeah I mean obviously the sample size is small but he has the qualities one might expect a good 3B to have. Yes, I have no doubt he's the best 3B although that doesn't mean he should always be there since, as you say, he's also the best SS.

I don't really care about Colson getting innings at 3B. I want the players aligned in whatever way makes the team defense the best. Meidroth is good at SS but I suspect his arm might limit him a bit as a 3B, so the team may well be better defensively with him at SS and Colson at 3B than the other way around. And I think Antonacci's infield D is best hidden at 2B so you're kinda stuck with him there, IMO. Not to mention that you now have the advantage that Colson is getting increasingly experienced at 3B so it's not exactly playing a guy out of position. I don't remotely think it puts him at injury risk or anything like that. That being said, I recall James Fegan saying that a reasonable assumption is that the White Sox's internal evaluation of Colson's defense at SS is probably a shade less optimistic than the couple public metrics that have him at a top-top level.

Did I miss a defensive substitution? Weren't there just two pinch hitters?

Get Rock back out there!