chitownsportsfan

Nothing on this team management or player wise (other than Luis) is particularly impressive, bullpen and bullpen management including. The stupid thing is how much time and money and effort they've put into fielding a mediocre bullpen. You can win with a mediocre bullpen if you have a good offense and a good defense most nights. That's not the Sox.

On a functioning team your stars play like stars and you can work in younger players, sometimes over the course of years, in order to mold them into solid big leaguers. On our team, our stars don't play like stars (other than Robert) so it puts too much pressure on young guys that need MLB development time.

I though AV was turning a bit of a corner with regards to consistently elevating the ball, but his expected slash line based on his batted ball data is pretty much exactly what his real line is. He's hitting a few more balls in the air relative to his first seasons, but it's still not enough to make him a good hitter instead of just a decent one. As noted, he's -6 runs on the bases and -8 with the glove so far, hard to produce much value as a 1B unless you're better than a wRC+ of 111. He's on pace for 1 fWAR, and that feels pretty accurate, just another guy, not even an average regular.

Not sure even the White Sox can screw up an incredibly athletic lefty hitter with this hit tool and command of the strike zone that at worst profiles as a league average 3B.

start the game you cowards. I'm ready to get pissed and annoyed again.

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I remember as a kid we'd have the artificial hip bo as a pinch hitcher. I bet even on a metal hip bo could outrun gavin.

I've said it a million times, there's nothing worse than the death by a million paper cuts that is bad baseball over a long hot summer.

shocked he dropped that. he just missed it. WTF would they challenge Jason? He hit it in fair ground easily.

I'm sick of this excuse personally. You're a veteran professional reliever. Figure it the f*** out. That said, this loss is once again on the offense. score more than 3 runs.

Your bullpen is only as good as your (3-4 run) offense.

It was a good thing a ball into the corner was foul, lol. Quality analysis.

He wut Jason?

Probably not. He's just a dime a dozen swing man. Good enough to be on a roster, never good enough to pitch high leverage situtations.

Yikes, Ronaldo is a mental midget. I want to like him but it just is what it is.

This team is so fucking bad at the little things.

Colas is smooth out there. It would be nice if Jason would mention it.

Luis Robert is good.

Lucas needs the sticky stuff 2nd time through.

Stone and Jason are more pro wrestling announcers than baseball, yikes.

Pitcher is wild and just had a HBP -- PERFECT TIME FOR A HIT AND RUN. We have the dumbest coaches man.

From the little I've seen he gets really good jumps.

Not sure Gavin makes that last play in RF.