Balta1701

I'm getting Joe Rogan interviews, a terrible song by Chime that is way louder than the game, and a Jim Beam highball ad that will not stop.

I hate these Youtube commercials with a passion.

As long as they don't need him in middle relief next year...

Why would you use Lamb here?

Oh. Dear. Lord.

With an ops of 1.190.

White Sox now tied for 2nd in mlb in home runs since the as break

H Christ

White Sox are now tied for 3rd in baseball in HR since the all star break

Yeah, who the hell ever heard of an announcer getting COVID?

The groin injury he came back from 6 days ago?

Got it fixed, they’re 2.5 games out, but they’re losing 8-1 right now so maybe the standings I looked at just came from the future.

Having just created a playoff position tracker, I would note that the White Sox's record against the AL Central could easily matter as the tiebreaker for home field advantage against teams including Tampa Bay, Boston, and anyone out of the NL other than Milwaukee.

If there's ever any time when doing this won't create a jinx, it's after a 3 game sweep of the Cubs, before a series with Minnesota, and with a 10+ game lead over the division. If things get tighter, will close this thread and open one for the division. This will also be significantly more fun than the draft position trackers, and I will like having all this in one place. The playoff seeding rules are: Seeds 1, 2, and 3 in each league go to the 3 division winners. Team 4 is determined by a 1-game playoff between the 4th and 5th teams, held at the ballpark of the #4 seed. Additional one game playoffs, if necessary, are used to determine: a.) the division champion if 2 teams have the same record b.) the second wild card if 2 teams have the same record Aside from those play-in scenarios, the rules for seeding and home field advantage are as follows: In the Division Series, home field advantage goes to the 1 and 2 seeds. In the League Championship Series, home field advantage goes to the team which had the better record, unless that team is a wild card seed - the wild card seed cannot have home field advantage in the LCS. In the World Series, home field advantage goes to the team with the best record - regardless of whether or not they are a wild card team. The tiebreakers for seeding: 1. Head to head record 2. Record against your own division 3. Interleague Record 4. The team with the best record in the 2nd half of the season, excluding interleague games 5. The team with the best record in the final 82 games of the season, excluding interleague games. Continue counting backwards/adding games until one team has a better record. Current seeding AL 1. Tampa Bay 75-47 2. Houston 71-50 3.5 GB 3. CHICAGO 70-51 5 GB WC1: Yankees 70 52 5 gb in division WC2: Oakland 69-53 2.5 gb in division Last team out: Boston Red Sox 69-54 0.5 gb in Wild Card Current seeding NL: 1. San Francisco 78-43 2. Milwaukee 74-48 4.5 gb 3. Atlanta Braves 65-56 13 GB WC1: LA Dodgers 76-46 2.5 gb in division WC2: SD Padres 67-56 12 gb in division Last team out: Cincinnati Reds 65-57, 1.5 GB in wild card Other notes: Philadelphia is 4 games behind Atlanta, NY Mets are 5 behind Atlanta. Updated 8/20/21 These teams hold the tiebreaker over the White Sox based on head to head records: Houston Milwaukee NY Yankees White Sox hold tiebreaker over these teams based on head to head records: Tampa Bay* Oakland* * = upcoming series. To be determined: Boston. Records in division play for teams where it might matter: Tampa Bay 39-18 Chicago White Sox 37-25 4.5 gb Boston 34-26 6.5 gb Oakland A's 29-26 9 gb NL team records in division play: San Francisco 36-18 0 gb Cincinnati Reds: 35-20 1.5 gb LA Dodgers 32-20 3 gb San Diego Padres 28-26 8 gb Atlanta Braves 36-28 5 gb Philadelphia Phillies 34-27 5 gb NY Mets: They're also below .500 against their division As of now, the White Sox have lost the tiebreakers against the NY Yankees, Houston, and Milwaukee, and thus would be on the road against either of those teams if they finished with the same record, and as of this post all 3 teams have the exact same record. Upcoming series against Oakland, Boston, Tampa Bay could matter for tiebreakers. Winning a series against Boston, winning a series against Tampa Bay would clinch those tiebreakers for the White Sox, winning 2 more games against Oakland would clinch that tiebreaker. White Sox need to make up ground to avoid going to San Francisco in a potential World Series matchup. White Sox are also behind Cincinnati, San Francisco for the division record tiebreakers and are 0.5 games ahead of the Dodgers, so winning games against the AL Central down the stretch could also be very important for a World Series tiebreaker. OK, what did I screw up? And, anyone who wants to update any part of this as the season goes on, please feel free to do so, just adding the league records and gb would be nice. References: https://registration.mlbpa.org/pdf/majorleaguerules.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_tie-breaking_procedures https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-playoffs-home-field-matchups-explained-c256992372

No one is likely to jump on Gonzalez and pick him up while injured, so good chance he's back unless there's some reason he hates being with a team that called him up.

Whether it's something about the pitch itself or just the fact that he's coming out of the bullpen so that guys have less time to adapt to it, or perhaps something else I haven't considered, I don't know. Those are the results - people are taking worse swings against him so far this year.

So far this year, 44.4% of his thrown pitches have been in the strike zone. In 2019 for comparison, 46.8% of his pitches were in the strike zone. 2020 was 41.9%, 2018 was 44.8%. What's different from 2019 and other years in his career is where people are swinging. In 2019, players were swinging at 71.1% of the balls he threw in the zone and 28.9% of balls he threw out of the zone. Other recent seasons look similar. This year so far, players are swinging at 66.7% of balls that he throws in the zone and 34.4% of balls he throws out of the zone. He's therefore not exactly throwing more strikes (with the exception of 2020), but players aren't picking up on them as well, so they are swinging more often at balls out of the zone and swinging less often at things in the zone that will be called strikes.

5 weeks as of today. Still ahead of schedule?

Hearing this from Angel Hernandez does not give me confidence…

Even if he finishes the year strongly, he’s so close to being a nontender candidate that I wouldn’t trade anything for him. There’s a decent chance someone has to eat whatever contract he gets in arbitration next year to release him, assuming no big rule changes. If you want anything back for him, you take the risk yourself and hold onto him next year. If he has a solid first half, then he probably would have some value at the trade deadline since teams always pay something for relievers if they are having a good season. Of course, the White Sox might have a role for him in that case too.

Yo.

Kopech isn’t stretched out at all, hes a 1 inning reliever right now.

Since the all star break the white Sox have the 13th best ERA in baseball and 26th best OPS. That means…not many. Both of those are significantly worse than their averages from the first half.