chitownsportsfan

I'm 100% for that plan. I don't know what the arm strength metrics are, maybe it's just max velocity and by that measure Chase is below average for a SS -- but he gets in such great fielding positions that it really doesn't matter that much. Only time it burns him is on the occasional double play where he's flat footed at 2B. He has certainly passed the eye test and the metrics test so far. He's made 95% of the plays needed of all sorts, that's all you can ask from a SS.

Yea I really don't know how you take him off SS. He's playing an above average MLB SS. There is no guarantee Colson is even in the same ballpark at SS. I'd give Colson probably another month to cook down in AAA and let Meidroth continue to play SS everyday in Chicago for now.

Tauchmann's OPS dropped 100 points in a week and he's a career dead average hitter who will be 35 in a October. I have no idea why people are crowing so hard about that signing. Congrats, you got a month of pixie dust from a veteran on a team careening towards 110 losses.

Not every player has to be a chiseled Adonis but at the very least a player should be adding explosion and power going from 23-27. Vargas did it. Chase should be looking to do it. Sosa is in the process of doing it and so on. Vaughn just looks like a guy that goes to the gym, does a few dumb bell sets and goes to play 18. Fine for a weekend warrior, but as a pro athlete not going to cut it. I don't believe the non sense about having a "tapped out" frame coming out of college. With modern nutrition, supplements and lifting methods anybody can continue putting on muscle into their mid 20s, don't even need the anabolics.

It was also maybe 3-4 voices out of the few dozen regulars that post here. I just read the preseason prediction thread, most people were going with around 50-60. Maybe two said we had any chance to be worse than last year. The team is still really bad. We've gone from historically bad to just really bad. Wake me up when we have a team capable of winning 90 games and competing for a division title. We're still 30 WAR away from that.

off the end of the bat, damnit.

come on bro.

not sure i've seen chase get a bad hop at SS, dude is just all over the ball off the bat.

man some decent ABs but they seem surprised he's throwing so many changeups.

vaughn lets that go into RF.

fucking meatball popped up.

yikes.

Boom!

Great AB.

Good inning. Didn't throw much over the plate.

Seems like a great clubhouse guy, can't hit a lick. Plays a decent corner OF. He's playing too much.

just a very competent game today: pitcher's threw strikes, offense came through and defense made every play.

Don't stop now boys!

narrator: he did not in fact hunker down

huge run, good job boys.

god i love good LHB. been a while.

wow, some nasty s%*# on the black that inning.

[John Shriffen a "Professional" baseball PBP guy watching a ball roll into the corner of RF] "that's a single".