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I'm so happy for meaningful fun baseball. lord I've missed it.

Eloy now sporting a .218 ISO with a 239/286/457 line. Rob Deere 2.0 clearly.

ELOY! 112.4mph is that good?

great job gio!

that's the knob!

throwing darts. McCann actually isn't moving all around when he gives his target. Simple thing for a MLB catcher but something we've struggled with.

damnit.

wow haha! suck it Astros.

Staking our Ace to a lead! #justwhitesoxthings

YES!

Don't help him out.

Tilson doesn't get himself out very often, so fucking refreshing from a call up.

Those are pretty slick Boosts Yolmer has on, I'll give him that.

We should all be thrilled with the rebuild progress at the big league level this year imo. The pitching was always going to suck horribly, without Rodon it's now even worse. But really who cares. Heal up Kopech, get Cease up, continue to develop Gio and Lopez and just hope and pray you can find a couple more guys either in FA or internally.

Not sure what's more unlikely that he was literally the worst pitcher in baseball last year or that he now looks like one of the 20 best over the last month. Baseball, what a game.

His delivery is perfectly balanced, using his legs. Looks fucking awesome.

Maybe the best I've seen him throw, ever.

Giolito looks amazing.

Good for preventing jock itch.

when's the last time we had a guy with a good pickoff move? MB?

Yea it's incredibly concerning that he's got essentially 24 months left as a prospect. If he's 25 and hitting 270/330/350 in AAA he's not a prospect anymore he's a poor man's Yolmer Sanchez. It's late early for Madrigal.

Yes you can see that in his batted ball data. A 268 BABIP which you might think is unlucky until you see his pull percentage. Dude does not turn on the ball. When he does hit it, it's usually opposite field into the ground or up the middle on the ground. Seems like he's going to need to completely retool his approach and swing. I was a fan of the pick but right now it looks like another massive Sox scouting fail.

He's been unlucky but even when he had a BABIP near 300 last year he still only managed a 97 wRC+. It wasn't too hopeful to think he'd work out as a 1.5 WAR DH in a rebuild year (after he failed to attract Machado, go figure...) but that hope is gone now. Just cut him and let Palka DH.

I know. I thought for sure he'd at least hit for average if not power. But he's hitting 265! And his walk rate sucks too. @Timmy U -- ugh.

I'm worried that Nick Madrigal is a fucking utility guy. How is he not hitting more than he is in A+ as a "polished" 22 year old college guy with a full offseason to work on his body? Frankly he doesn't even look like a utility guy he looks like guy that's going to wash out of baseball at 27 with 30 days service time at the MLB level. Those power numbers are dreadful and he doesn't appear to be a SS.