Jake

Hell of a pitch to end that AB

Need to know which one before I can pass judgment

Stop sleeping on him

I don't feel too badly about this game. Runs are on the board for the White Sox. Some other things happened that weren't as good. Let's build this plane as it flies.

I wrote fathom a reply and Soxtalk's servers ate it up and spit it out so I don't feel like re-writing it 🫥

I think you underrate Chase's defense. I'm also pretty agnostic about how the production comes as far as power vs. whatever else. But I'm not expecting a lot of production from Chase whether it's from power production or not, merely good enough production for him not to be the weak link on the team unless the team is really good.

In my gut, I see Bonemer at 1B after a Viciedo-esque trial at 3B.

Hate to say it because I find him annoying, but Kelenic has looked fairly hitterish at the plate. Has hit into some nasty luck so far. Of course seeing as he has s%*# for brains I don't count on him maintaining any good level of play.

Sox fans look at Meidroth, a perfectly competent MLB player, and say how can we get rid of this guy? Surprised the same talk about Vargas has quieted down in the past week or two.

Comeback is on lol

Antonacci giving a little bit of a Madrigal vibe as far as being the heady, good-instincts guy and finally meeting his match against MLB competition in that regard.

Pretty easy to see why Seattle was a good bounce of the ball away from the World Series last year. All those lefties are hell

Just remember, Jordan Leasure actually has talent

Raley is having a great year. Don't throw him fastballs down the middle anymore unless you're left-handed.

So are they tickling balls after every double or is there some other interpretation of that gesture?

Wind must be blowing in over there because balls hit like that almost always go out to the corners.

Yeah you just have to hand it to him. Julio is going to strike out 50 times trying to recreate that swing.

Randy stayed home at third because the Sox have good tape on the 1st and 3rd plays

They're hitting pitcher's pitches at this point, not sure what you can do.

I think with those 9 players, this is probably the best way to arrange them.

I've seen a lot of chatter about Roch's batting splits (which, I should emphasize, are uniformly small sample size and hard to take seriously). Roch in 3 games against SEC: .273/.357/.636, .994 OPS Roch in 14 games against RPI top 50: .382/.485/.782, 1.267 OPS Roch in 24 games against RPI Q1 + Q2: .337/.492/.696, 1.188 OPS Roch in 12 games on Fridays (i.e., against opposing ace): .255/.413/.489, .902 OPS Roch in 8 games on Fridays against RPI top 100 opponents: .364/.488/.697, 1.185 OPS So to me, not obvious that he shrivels up and dies against good opponents or is particularly feasting on bad opponents. Some additional commentary that his numbers year over year are very similar. I'll note that these splits were very different last season... 3 games against SEC: .077/.077/.077, .154 OPS 23 games against RPI top 50: .273/.383/.455, .838 OPS 29 games against RPI Q1 + Q2: .293/.390/.517, .907 OPS 15 games on Fridays: .276/.405/.517, .923 OPS 8 games on Fridays against RPI top 100: .167/.257/.367, .624 OPS While I wouldn't advise taking any of it too seriously, it is descriptively true that under the hood his 2026 production has shifted more towards hitting well against good competition.

Marlins were desperately trying to save money. They didn't even spend their entire pool and traded their competitive balance pick before the draft to further lessen their obligations. Astros were trying to get cute with the pool and got burned on that go-around. Some folks got cold feet about Carlos thanks to his last college season not being quite as good as the previous (at least with regard to his strikeout rate and total baserunners). Sox didn't get cute and I think Carlos was the right pick given the info available. Sox ultimately experienced the inherent risk of taking a pitcher in that it took a long time to get a healthy version of Carlos in MLB...and not long after that, he was out the door as a free agent.

No long-term upside with Thomas given his contract situation. I'd be surprised if Getz went after a player with such a significant tendency to chase pitches outside the zone without many strengths to offset it.

Oppor is seriously flirting with the yips this season. They may need to shut him down at some point. I wonder what his velocity and such are looking like.

It's annoying not to have him, but I don't really feel that alarmed. From what has been said about it, it seems the "setback" was merely that when they pushed him all the way to full-speed sprinting, he was continuing to feel the catch associated with the initial injury. I don't think we have any particular reason to believe that he reinjured it...it's just not fully healed. Or at least it wasn't a couple weeks ago. Brooke said during the broadcast in LA that he had reached a stage at which the main focus was his ability to bounce back after full speed workouts and that he had just reported not feeling sore after such a workout. I believe it was during the pregame show so I can't find a recording anywhere since CHSN doesn't seem to archive much of anything. Wouldn't surprise me if the Sox are trying to be as cautious as humanly possible with it. Best data I can find is that in pro sports, about a third of players who pull a hamstring will have a recurrence of it within that same season. And when it recurs, it's usually worse. So they are trying to protect him. And, of course, it's not the White Sox propping up those 33% recurrence rate numbers. It's hard to keep guys perfectly healthy. Bright side is there's not really a ton of risk of a serious long-term problem that extends beyond this season. Just a matter of getting him 100% and being as sure as you can be that it's not about to snap back (pardon the pun). Then you avoid injuring some other part of his lower half from compensation.