Balta1701

Obviously compared to yesterday Martin and Crick are going back down.

i believe his shoulder is bad enough he's unlikely to play this year as of the last report.

Twins: Correa, Trevor Larnach, Sonny Gray, Bailey Ober, Chris Paddack, Dylan Bundy, Miguel Sano. They've been healthier than the White Sox, and 4/5 of their starting rotation, their starting DH, and their star SS have all hit the IL, in addition to relievers and backups.

Middle of the pack teams last year had 30 players hit the injured list at various times during the year, for a total of over 1600 man-days. That latter number the equivalent of 25% of your 40 man roster spending the entire year on the IL. The Padres had nearly twice that much IL usage. The White Sox are in the top 10 for IL usage this year, but that should be totally unsurprising - they have an old roster overall, they had several guys come into the season with injuries, and they had several guys with injury records. You absolutely can't sit here and tell me it's surprising that Lance Lynn is missing time with a knee injury and no one could have foreseen that in the offseason when he missed time with a knee injury last september! You can't tell me no one could possibly have foreseen Eloy or Robert or Pollock having muscle injuries - all 3 of them had those last year! Frankly, right now, with Moncada back, Pollock back, Robert back - they're probably healthier than you should expect them to be the rest of the year. They only have 6 guys on the IL right now, the Reds and Cubs have 14, the Twins have 10.

After all no one could have predicted this team would be dealing with injuries, am I right?

Here’s the thing that’s been true throughout Hahn’s tenure - building a team through free agency or even finding substantial parts has long been a terrible plan. In almost every case, for a guy to become a free agent, the team that has the guy has enough money to keep them if they really wanted to, and they’ve decided there’s a better way to spend their money. This is already telling you something - most free agent bets are sucker bets, the team that knows the player best already booed out of the way. I did a check last time they were trying to compete and roughly 75% of deals were things you wouldn’t do again. This is why even when a deal works out for a veteran it might not be a smart thing. If you trade away a cheap guy for a veteran, even if it works out - you still need another cheap guy to replace them somewhere. If you are in a position where your team can’t win without big free agent successes, your team can’t win.

In 2015, that team had so many needs at the deadline if it was going to be competitive and so many guys being paid good money to struggle that Hahn threw his hands up, declared “if we keep playing like this we’ll be right there at the end” and did nothing. I think there’s a decent chance something like that happens here. What are they going to do, a makeover with like 5 new guys coming in? Cut and or bench that many guys, almost all of whom are on veteran deals? With their payroll already high? Count me skeptical.

Although he’s hurt right now, easily the smartest answer was Joey Wendle.

If we are pointing out the 10-6 record by artificially stopping at May 1, then it’s equally fair to add in the caveat that 7 of the wins were against bad teams.

7 of those wins are against the Cubs, Red Sox, and Royals.

Royals were 1/23 with RISP.

Nicky Lopez, the number 9 hitter, has led off 6 innings today. That was the first out he made in those cases.

Ever since seeing a team that actually practiced rundowns in 2012 I’ve thought that is a great test for whether your coach is on the ball or not.

How many throws were in that rundown? Kasper gave up on calling them out.

Oh for crying out loud

Who will be worse - the very back of the white Sox bullpen or the Royals offense?

Lol this is the first THC edibles ad I’ve ever heard during a white Sox game.

The Astros hit 5 home runs in one inning off Eovaldi.

If I recall correctly there was a little bit of chatter about whether we could trade Rodon in 2018, and I think the general consensus (possibly dominated by me) was that he'd bring back so little that it wouldn't be worth moving him - that the remote chance that you might get a year of really good pitching from him if he was ever healthy was likely worth way more than what you'd get for trading him at the time. In 2017 people might have talked about it, but he had 2 major injuries, a biceps injury followed by the shoulder problem, so it just wasn't practical once the rebuild started to try trading him until he was healthier.

He's also a 23 year old who has already put up 13.6 WAR (b-r). Long way to go but that's one hell of a head start.

So it's only temporary, but right now the White Sox's starting rotation is: Cease, Keuchel, Cueto, Velasquez, Martin.

Rodon started the 2018 season on the injured list with a serious shoulder injury that knocked him out for several months. Someone might have given you a pittance for him at that point once he got back, but teams also don't mess with shoulder injuries and his stats at the trade deadline had some red flags (4.5-5.0 FIP at the time).

They moved Crochet to the 60-day IL.

Narrator: “and thats how Rick Hahn became the fall guy.”