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Burke has been as good as Ryan through 7 really. Main difference is the ordering of the hits and that one of them was right down the line instead of a few feet closer to the outfielder. Of course we're expecting Ryan to go even longer.

I'm okay taking the risk with Burke here given how unbeatable Ryan has been looking. See if you can give the pen another inning of rest.

Great play by 2B and Ryan. All set up by the horrific strike call on the first pitch that forces Mune to chase that.

Ump really sucks

Ump sucks

Great outing from Burke.

Peters is the perfect 5th outfielder. Unfortunately I think we already have that player and his name is Derek Hill

Braden not exactly setting the world on fire

got a couple of runs out of that

My post was about how the subsequent triple negated the difference

He won't, but single vs. double didn't really matter so there's always that

Decision to dive could cost a run. Hope Burke pitches over it

Ball boy has stone hands

It's only a challenge if there is a verbal request paired with the gesture. This ump is a certified dumbass

Burke is throwing a lot of sinkers to lefties. Not usually something you want to do, especially on the outside part. So far he's getting away with it perhaps because they are really geared up for the 4-seam.

Nearly every fastball he threw in that inning would have been the fastest of his career up to today. The final pitch to Colson is, so far, the fastest of his career but he already broke his own record a few times that inning.

The official narrative of Noah's 2025 is that the reason he struggled with his command in Charlotte in a way he never had before was because his knee was bothering him and he was trying to pitch through it.

TBH, I think it is very unlikely that Rikuu can give the defensive value that Eaton did. Eaton was just a really good player, could do a little bit of everything. That's why he was able to put together one of the best White Sox position player seasons of all time.

Sandlin's statcast metrics and repertoire look meaningfully different this season compared to last. Against righties, he's throwing about 40% 4-seam, 31% sweepers, 20% sinkers, and a curveball or cutter here and there. Last season against righties, the 4-seam was only 14%, the sweeper was 27%, a cutter was being used for 19% of pitches, 10% were a slider, and 30% was the sinker. He got a lot of whiffs on those non-sinker offerings to righties in 2025 but when there was contact he was hit really hard. Not quite so many whiffs this year, but the contact has been much weaker. Against lefties, leaning even harder on the 4-seam using it 48% of the time. The featured offspeeds are an 81mph curveball for 21% of pitches and a 91mph cutter for 17%. There's also a 91mph "sinker" used about 10% of pitches that I suspect is a kick change. Last season, he only threw the 4 seam 27% of the time to the lefties and really just had a kitchen sink approach: 26% cutter, 17% sweeper, 13% sinker, 10% slider, 7% curveball. None of it really worked in 2025. Lefties haven't really hit him at all in this short stint in 2026. Besides the difference in mix, the pitches don't seem the same. The curveball is slower and bigger. He's no longer throwing a slider. This year's cutter has more depth. This year's sweeper has a lot more drop with the same big sideways break. The 4-seam has a much lower spin rate and slightly less rise but has been a lot more effective. I suspect he was slightly cutting the 4-seamer last year which tends to create wasted spin. It's interesting to see all that change and the mostly-good results in AAA, but it also makes you think he might not have enough reps to be consistent with all this new stuff. Hope it all goes well.

You'd think he loaded the bases from reading this thread

Splitters are crazy

Surprised how our outfielders are positioned for Larnach

More likely than not Dominguez gets the save but there's no denying there's a sense that we're just delaying the inevitable in terms of him losing the closer job.

Nice job hanging in there

This is not the day to hit those high flies over there