Balta1701

He made contact!!!!

That was a quick inning.

Pleas stop with the Yankee highlights MLB.TV

No. We will bench him every time we face any RH. And sometimes against LH to get Leury in there.

That article is surprisingly old for the subject.

It depends on how much of a trendline you're willing to draw from his 2 hits coming against lefties. But...damn, if you can't play Vaughn against righties, and you can't play Engel against righties, heck at least keep the one on the roster who can catch the ball.

No. 11 games, 11 different lineups, 11 different sets of position players.

0. This is game 11. This is the 11th distinct lineup. https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHW/2021-lineups.shtml

You're writing this like LaRussa doesn't have the final say over players and front office decisions.

FWIW, I am not a fan of that either, but I also don't believe that COVID is just over - take a look at the entire Vancouver Canucks team being down right now with the Brazilian variant of this thing. We don't know how many vaccine refusers there are on these teams (although the White Sox said nearly all their guys got it on yesterday's broadcast). Like it or not, you need to have a backup plan on the books in case some team has a major outbreak and misses 2 weeks of play - either they're forfeiting games somehow, or you need a way to handle an enormous number of double-headers without everyone's arms falling off. That's a minor complaint compared to everything else we have had to deal with this year. 2022 (if baseball happens), yeah I'd much prefer 9 inning DHs.

It would be genuinely stunning if they all got it last Thursday and issues suddenly cropped up today, 4 days later, without any idea over the weekend that something was amiss.

I would be stunned if the White Sox were swept in a 4 game series this year.

Moderna is virtually identical to Pfizer so basically expect it to see a similar result. We already know J&J is less effective against it since some of their testing was done in South Africa.

To be fair, this thread is talking specifically about the bullpen.

For once I can’t complain about the bullpen usage today! More minor but I don’t like either of the bunts. One big reason to bunt is to avoid strikeouts, so why would you ever sacrifice bunt with Nick Madrigal? You drop the chances of him getting a hit to almost zero in exchange for no change in the odds of a strikeout. And Eaton hits a 2 run HR last time up, so you let him swing away on pitch 1, put the bunt on for three pitches, then he strikes out swinging away after getting to 2 strikes? At least if you are putting the bunt on, give the guy two strikes, or let him swing away the whole time.

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Nick Madrigal should never ever sacrifice bunt.

Ok Tony, send Hendricks out to the bullpen now. He doesn’t have to start warming, but stretching is ok...

#releasethezemocut

He didn't have enough innings to qualify, but in 2018 he was still the 2nd worst defensive outfielder in baseball (behind Bryce Harper, who they moved to CF a bunch that year) according to Fangraphs.

Let's just be fully honest - the reason why there has been so much "moving of the goalposts" and "lack of consistency" started at the very top. A year ago today one of the President's top advisors was out saying how they were going to dump hydroxychloroquine doses out onto the states as fast as possible. And yes, the farm subsidy program is awful and needs dramatic reform. It also does a huge amount of environmental damage.

I don't care what the excuse is, he's being paid 7 figures to do this at the highest level. None of those are acceptable excuses.

I really hope they don't start this game, have Lynn go for like 2 innings, then run into an hour long rain delay.

Why would Vaughn sign an extension? The team has him up, if he turns into a big success he gets to FA in 6 years rather than 8. The team is surrendering its leverage by having him up.