Jack Parkman

LMFAO

Vieira looks like meat.

I was just about to type this. LOL

That was good, Gio.

Throw out anything that happened before July. He's getting plenty of swings and misses on it now. Giolito from 3/27-6/15 and Giolito from 7/1-now are two completely different pitchers. If you can't see that and realize that, I can't help you. The stuff and control is night and day. If his fastball value is still the worst in baseball post ASB, I'll eat crow. Based on the eye test, I would find that hard to believe. The big difference is that now his bad starts are 3-5 ER instead of 6-8. The other thing is that RR cost him probably 1.5 runs on his ERA by leaving him out there when he shouldn't have in the early part of the season when Giolito was clearly struggling.

I don't think he's currently great, but I could certainly see where he could be in a season or two. He's really close, IMO. He's a young pitcher, sometimes it doesn't click right away. At this point in the season he's certainly got the stuff to be great. It is just a matter of learning to finish an inning now. And yeah, he did have to get four outs that inning. The guy was always a project. I think he'll be fine in the long run. He's learning to pitch in the bigs having to go through more adversity than he should have had to because his prior organization messed him up.

Yeah, I won't argue that but I think he'll figure it out next year. He's come so far in just one season.

Giolito has the throwing strikes part down, now he has to learn to finish innings. He seems to give up way too many runs with 2 outs right now.

I love watching great pitchers pitch, and a potential future top 4 of Kopech/Rodon/Cease/Giolito would give me a baseball woody. LOL.

I'd love for the Sox to somehow start to do business with Scott Boras' FA clients. I absolutely love Carlos Rodon's arm. I am a proponent of trading him more because I don't believe the organization will pony up than anything else. I'd love to see them act like a large market team for once. Maybe if the Cubs fail to capitalize more than once on their window, and the Sox get new ownership, we'll see the Sox try to take a larger share of the Chicago market.

Unfortunately, the White Sox are one of those teams that has deserved their fate. The Bulls were still a cash cow in the early 2000s when they were bad and the Sox were good, JR had zero reason to spend on the Bulls at that time and he could have taken some of that money and poured it into the Sox and he didn't. I know they have two different ownership groups, but he could have at least put a good portion of his share into the Sox. You don't get trophies, banners or parades for winning the "fiscal responsibility championship."

I think high velocity fastballs and the shift are going to cut into a lot of hitters late career numbers. Just look at what has happened to Pujols. It is going to be really hard for anyone to get to 3000 hits or 500 HR anymore, mostly because hitters aren't going to have as much longevity as they start to get blown away by 95 mph fastballs as they get to age 34-35. I wouldn't be surprised if you could count on one hand the number of today's stars that have an at bat past the age of 40.

Well, I'm glad that someone agrees that Yankee fans are a bunch of petulant children.

Preach on brother.

It never sucks to be the Yankees or a Yankee fan. They deserve shit like this because they had such a financial advantage for so many years. Maybe it will knock their fanbase off their high horse a bit. The baseball gods are punishing them for their years of gaming the system. I will never feel one bit of sympathy for that team or their fanbase. They can go eat a bag of dicks. They're all a bunch of spoiled children.

He didn't hit the corner, but I think the movement got Adrianza. Started off the plate and broke right down the middle.

With that kind of movement, Giolito will be fine at 93-95. Woof. That is really nasty Greg Maddux shit right there.

I think they brought up Kopech to get ready for 190-200 IP next year. I'd imagine they'd pitch him about 165-175 this season and then they'll shut him down.

Read this here people.

I'd Imagine you have 5-7 years on me. They had an MTV special on weird Al in 1994 ish, They showed all of his MTV specials. I was like 9 years old and remember this special was the original release of the "Amish Paradise" video. Bad Hair Day came out a few months later.

I still like the option of trading Rodon to the Braves for Gohara/Allard/Contreras. That deal, while it doesn't give quite the value of the Q deal, would be more than acceptable for me.

Anderson makes way too many outs. Ramirez was barely passable with a .310 OBP, and Anderson's is hovering around .285. If he's hitting .250 with a.285 OBP, he's not good enough for me.

With the pitchers, it has to do with team control. Anderson can stay at SS until a better option is found, be it Madrigal or a free agent. I've been one of the biggest Giolito defenders here, because the Nationals messed him up and he was always a project, otherwise he wouldn't have been available for Adam Eaton. He's shown a lot of improvement this season, let's see if it sticks or not over the offseason. Lopez I'm on the fence on, whether he's a back of the rotation starter or a bullpen swingman. I don't think his stuff will play in the bullpen because he doesn't have a consistent second pitch.

I don't either. However, I'm still concerned that the Sox aren't here once JR isn't here. For some horrible reason, I think he's the only one keeping them in Chicago. It wouldn't shock me if they moved to Charlotte after he passes. On topic, I'm no longer on the Kopech=Closer train. His last 7 starts or so have answered all of the concerns I've had about him. I think he could be the ace that we're looking for. If he's an ace, the Sale trade is already a win and whatever they get from Moncada/Basabe is gravy.

I feel really good about them producing four, pushing Eloy to DH. I feel really optimistic about them being able to internally fill the top of the rotation as well. I have a really good feeling that the following will stick in the rotation: Kopech, Cease and Giolito. They need a LH starter and they'll be ok. I think that Dunning or Hansen are still wild cards as well, due to health. I think that core will be good for a while.