Jake

The pitcher on the mound for the Sox walked in the losing run two days ago so I suspect that may have played a role in deciding not to walk the bases loaded

Games like these are decided by basically random events. Neither team did much to go out and win it. I'm at least glad to see good games at the plate from Mune, Colson, and Pereira

Really not a bad game but it gets more irritating as it goes along

I think Benny should have scored there

Everything going exactly how we planned

Was hoping Sam had a little more speed than that

What kind of Mickey Mouse dugouts are these that Hudson can't even stand up tall without hitting his head? 😭

Big Game Bryan!

I guess Grant probably isn't available with just a day of rest following a 35 pitch outing. I don't think Will really has any good options for this game.

Don't really want to walk Kurtz because I worry about him walking Soderstrom. But you don't want to lose to Kurtz here either.

Oakland learning not to challenge this White Sox defense

I guess all roads lead to Bryan Hudson anyway. Is Grant Taylor not rested? We saving him for something?

FWIW, even though he has a couple soft hits, Antonacci has clearly hit into some hard luck as well.

Who will we see for innings 8 and 9?

Leasure is a pretty good reliever but not the kind of guy I'd want to bring in knowing he's going to see two power-hitting lefties. Of course there aren't a lot of good options to cover all three of the remaining innings. Is Taylor available?

Top is Sherm Lollar with 32 WAR. About halfway to HoF really. Fisk doesn't get credit for his youthful indiscretions with the carmines. I'm thinking more in the Abreu-Konerko-Lemon tier.

My (somewhat?) hot take is that Teel will retire as the Sox franchise leader in catcher WAR

I'd probably slot into the relatively positive fan camp but my frequent absences from Soxtalk can't be totally blamed on the White Sox. I can only read the same conversations about Chris Getz and the various rushes to judgment about every player and other Sox-related person so many times

Caleb's at 26% K-rate. Not alarming but don't want it any higher either. I wouldn't promote him if it was any higher almost regardless of the rest of the production.

Soft singles stink but more often than not when they turn into a run, there's a walk mixed in there

I like him. Fun player to watch and old school in a good way.

Vargas has been murdering the ball over his last ~10 plate appearances and he finally got something out of it

Not sure what Hill was thinking there. I guess he thought they were going to throw through to third but uh, not a good read.

Bad news: Kay's xERA starts with a 7. Okayish news: expected stats aren't as predictive for pitchers as they are for hitters Back to bad news: FIP, xFIP, SIERA all start with a 5 too. But it's early and the stuff does look good.

Doesn't count as bad luck as Edgar really didn't hit that hard enough to get away with lofting it so much. Would have been a nice way to even the scales though.