Balta1701

Both of those outings features key wild pitches too. Same catcher, one of them was a 2 base WP.

For the White Sox to match their 2005 record they will have to lose no more than 9 games the rest of the year.

Because if there’s one thing Grandal is good at, it’s…wait, avoiding wild Pitches and passed balls? Who wrote this script this is all wrong.

well, that took a while.

This team has seemed like they've been coasting for 2 months now. I don't think a 7 game lead by the end of the week would seem particularly tense, but I do wonder what it would be like for them to suddenly feel like they've got a target on them.

They also won 99 games and had home field advantage in every series (#2 overall record).

I just don’t get why they had to feed BS to the public about his timeline. If they had said “we did the surgery and now we think it might be 8 weeks”, I wouldn’t be commenting on this.

As of today we are 7 full weeks into a 4-6 week injury where the guy was constantly said to be ahead of schedule.

Well that doesn’t address the Kopech and Crochet issue, but aside from that we will see. A rested pen on a team that gets the number 3 seed and gets beaten up it’s first 2 games in Houston isn’t much to brag about. A well rested pen where we wind up with threads about how difficult it must be to use that bullpen since they’re so inconsistent despite talent doesn’t inspire confidence.

A lot of that is by choice, not necessity. Hendriks pitched 85 innings in the 2019 regular season and it will be surprising if he gets to 70 this year. People insisted Kopech would get plenty of innings in the bullpen to be transitioned to a starter next year and while injury played a role he is on pace to throw just over 60. Same statement about Crochet, no injury for him, and he’s thrown 42 innings all year. Bummer threw 67 innings in 2019, he’s on pace to throw about 55 this season.

I don’t see how you can justify this. He has Cesar every single day and won’t have anything else even when it’s desperately needed.

No but it might be nice to give him an off day once a month.

You say that as though we didn’t spend the whole offseason saying “hey injuries will probably be extra common this year given the weirdness so how about improving the depth?”

“We already had many good relievers” does not describe the past month either.

For a month and a half?

LaRussa won’t give up his guys.

And that unknown medical issue that will correct itself without surgery is?

They clearly don’t like him more, they decided they preferred Hernandez this year when given the choice.

This does not seem like the best baseball performance.

He’s a streaky and non terrible option as a corner OF, but I just can’t figure out why managers insist some players are fine in CF when they clearly aren’t. One day emergency fine, regular backup out there? Naw.

That one is on the manager.

Seby is going to hit 30 home runs for the Rays next season somehow.

All he does is hit home runs.

That’s in terms of run expectancy. A lead off walk that didn’t score, in an AB with 2 other bad calls so no one single cal defined the at bat. They were still bad calls, just buried in the statistic.

That’s a terrible take. Are there no other pitchers this year who have been annoyed about being taken out? Did Lance Lynn get that lecture earlier this week about being more concerned with his own ego than anything else? I want a guy who says “f*** this team, I walked a guy, the rest of these guys are dead meat, let me do my job”.