Balta1701

6th and 7th walks of the day scored. 4/7 inherited runners have scored this year for Bummer. 7th is on 3rd base.

Dammit. 6th wall of the day scores on an error. So that’s how someone scores.

I have no clue how either of these teams score.

Even if they don’t score here those guys generated another 15 or so high stress pitches this inning.

How? Wasn't Crick just up 2 days ago? Do guys no longer have to go down for 10 days?

Grumbles something about Daryl Boston

I haven’t done this in a while and the game is already a 4 run Rays lead, so - where do the White Sox rank in launch angle every season of the statcast era: 2015: 28th 2016: 22nd 2017: 21st 2018: 21st 2019: 28th 2020: 25th 2021: 28th 2022: 24th

Is there any way to make money by betting those odds will get worse?

White Sox fans: “the main reason we are bad right now is the injuries.” Rays without Lowe and Franco: “here’s a 4 run first.”

It’s a mix of both bad offseason moves and bad managing. But seriously, that first 8 game losing streak where half the team looked like they forgot what a glove was for and Leury started hitting 2nd? Something happened internally there and I still have no idea what it was.

An 88 win division champ would mean they go 65-48 from here on out? I guess even I would have to say fine the staff can come back at least they went on a serious run.

Guess which team has the worse bullpen ERA.

Hahn and Kenny have been bad but TLR gets most of the blame. His players aren't hitting, defending, baserunning, or staying healthy.

His fastball was there but he couldn’t throw strikes with anything - and they had just given him 9 days off, in part to move Cease around and in part because of the off days. While he could have something wrong, that could also have just been rust. But yeah I did think of that too.

I will admit I looked and they have announced VV, Cease, and Giolito for this series but haven’t given probable starters for the Dodgers yet.

Naw. They have very specific things they’re ok with doing. They love spending on utility guys and declaring them to be starters - Bonifacio, Beckham, Keppinger, Harrison, Leury. They always want a big money closer - Robertson, Colome, Hendriks. They fully believe that big money middle relief is a good decision - Ohman, Duke, Herrera, Graveman, Kelly. And they are ok with spending the middle of the free agent market, the $10-20 million salary over 3-4 years range, but balk at anything higher - so they wind up buying corner OF and DH types but are shut out of elite guys.

That should be Cease.

So you’re saying trade for him and extend his contract by a year? Worked great for the last injured pitcher.

Unfortunately I think there is a very strong argument that Hendriks is unmovable, or at best returns so little that it isn’t worth it. The market for $13 million closers is already small. He has 2.5 years and nearly $40 million remaining. You don’t get much for a closer making that money no matter how good he is. Rick Hahn’s idiotic fourth year option screws with the tax number, so the 4th year is counted on the tax in years 123. That means for the Dodgers or Mets or Phillies or Red Sox, his tax number next year is $18 million! If you try to trade him this time next year, I believe there’s a good chance his 2024 is tax free. That could be a big discount for teams like that. (If I’m wrong on this, then Rich Hahn managed to create a $54 million contract with a $69 million tax number, which would be extra brilliant). Graveman has been almost as good and is paid half as much. There’s a guy who might bring something strong back.

And a tweet from 2014. Now that’s true randomness.