Balta1701

He had a big surge in his HR/FB rate. He got a little lucky.

Obviously not.

The GM waited until the market had completely passed him by and left no options with a legitimate need.

i am jack’s complete lack of surprise

Or possibly he figured out the pattern of when unless were checking him and figured he could get away with using it for 3 or 4 innings a game as long as he was clean for the first and like the 5th? And more intense or random checks means he cant do that either, so that fits with the additional spin rate dropoff this year?

While I certainly can’t prove this is the cause for any player….at the start of 2022 MLB announced they were going to start much more intrusive checks if people’s equipment and hands as in ‘21 they saw a big drop In spin rate right with the ban followed by an increase over the rest of the year, and they believed that the cause was pitchers finding more subtle spots to hide stuff as the season went on. https://www.mlb.com/news/updated-sticky-stuff-guidelines

This matchup seems so one sided that something weird absolutely must happen. Either a white Sox blowout or like both pitchers throwing 8 shutout innings, because baseball is never that predictable.

spin rates for every pitch he commonly throws are at or below their 2018 levels.

Rather than fearing either team specifically, they should be far more worried about the fact that 2 teams are in front of them for the division and 3 are in front of them for the final wild card. That worries me more than either team - even if they play well the rest of the way, it may well not be enough.

Yes. Came up lame 2/3 of the way to running to first and limped to the dugout. Played the field the next inning and was pulled afterwards.

Verlander…pitcher…good…

Welp I’m out. Strange New Worlds time!

…against …. Verlander…..

So wait Yordan Alvarez, their DH, threw him out??

Running to first, slowed up about 2/3 of the way there, didn’t tag the base, limped back to the dugout. Played the field the next half inning but now pulled.

Apparently one of the two white Sox wins against Houston last year was a Giolito complete game.

I will be annoyed if this team can’t score 3 with a lefty on the mound, I don’t care who the pitcher is.

3-0.

Kasper says Moncada limping to the dugout

I don't think I'm exaggerating to say that tonight is the biggest game of the season so far for the White Sox and this is the biggest series for them.

They tried to. He screamed at them and they gave in. One May wonder about the long term effects of teaching him that lesson as well.

Masahiro Tanaka is the one k can think of that rehabbed a partially torn ligament rather than going for surgery and never hurt it worse. Sale had a forearm strain in 2012 and it took a full 7 years before TJS, that’s not bad either.

This.

Lynn coming back out

Zavala out on deck for Burger Crick up.