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Palka sucks.

JFC, that was a god damn missile.

If Yonder hits like this all year that would be nice.

Jesus Christ Leury, so typical of his baserunning.

Yes they are, which is stupid.

Good job by Moncada not getting himself out. Signs of maturity perhaps.

I'm still waking up apparently. Thank god it's a half day at work.

A lot of that motion is just BS with one indicator for how they want to cover a bunt or maybe to call a pitchout or pick off. When I played low level college, for big ABs, we had the manager relay to the catcher the pitch call then the defense so if the pitch was a fastball away we'd shift slightly over in the OF after the SS relayed it to the CF.

Something is wrong in his shoulder. Good luck to him but this could be the beginning of the end.

Good job Sox.

So are they gonna play it or what? edit: yikes, it's only Wednesday, they are still in Cleveland.

that's well said. but we're tanking and I'm gonna be bothered. puting covey into that came was like putting in Felicio. I'm kinda sick of it. but some of the kids are playing well so for now it's tolerable.

Probably the first time in a White Sox uni Gio had all of his pitches at least somewhat working for him. Positive beginning for him no doubt.

I'd be thrilled if he can put up 3-4 fWAR this year. He is the type of guy that could have some absolute monster years in his prime and he'd be well on his way if he can do that at 23/24 season.

Had a few hot stretches, but maybe 3-4 compared to this one. https://www.fangraphs.com/statsd.aspx?playerid=17232&position=2B&type=&gds=2018-03-29&gde=2018-09-30&season=

He's at .4 fWAR with a 249 wRC+ and a 16.5% K percentage. A soft contact rate of 7.1%. An incredible start.

Bingo. Who cares if they have to go three days in a row? There's an off day today and it's April. It's not like these guys have 100 innings under their belt and it's late August.

I agree the days off early are stupid. Just take the risk of a double header later in the year if it's bad weather opening week.

Looking at the schedule they literally could not have picked a worse day this week to have the opener. Thursday looks like it will rainy and in the 40s. WTF is this bullshit 2 day series with Cleveland with an off day mixed in? I don't get it.

well with no scheduled days off for weeks and it being august and herrera already having 80 innings this year...wait what?

I'm still lukewarm on the move but so far he's looked solid there. Thing is I'm not convinced he wasn't going to take a big leap at 2B this year had he stayed there. He made some incredible plays last year as well just had some youthful lapses. Moncada had only 5 doubles all year against LHP in 2018 and an OPS of 585 against LHP. He is 1-1 this year with the double after yesterday's game. Keep it going.

If nothing else he got 650 big league PA last year. He's almost 24 this could be his breakout year. You could count on one hand the amount of times he showed pull power (I like how he went and got it and turned it around, he is a talented athlete when he's focused with elite hand eye) against lefties last year so if he can keep that up somewhat he's going to be a much better player long term. Needs to get that OPS up around 700-750 against LHP and then around 880 against RHP long term. Kid has flashed quite a bit this year if you didn't know anything about him or the Sox you'd easily think he's our best player. Keep it up.

Haven't really seen during his tenure that Ricky knows what high leverage innings are. At times it feels like he's tanking. As for the start, really it's about what was expected outside of the nice start from Nova. Team has mediocre SP at best, a god awful defense, and solid lineup and a mediocre at best pen. All is going to add up to around 75 wins. Could have squinted and seen 80+ with Machado, that's the rub. Also: let's keep these threads open or make a postgamer win or loss.

RV and RR manage the bullpen on hope. Well, shit in one hand and hope in the other and see which one fills up fastest. It's fucking April, you can burn through some innings with your late inning guys and get them rest later if need be. Blind hope is not strategy.

I don't mind Yolmer, was a huge fan of his as a prospect but I get the vitriol towards him because he's a symbol of the offseason failure. He should be a bench guy, but instead he's starting again.