Dick Allen

Yeah, I think Yermin probably instagramed his chance of being a September call up away with his retirement, and then the Japan hint.

Yes, but an option is more attractive to other teams. Edit, saw the rule, so he is coming back for sure. I still think he will have a career. He should be on Detroit or Pittsburgh or somewhere he would actually get a chance to succeed. It seems half the time he caught was against LHP. It's got to be hard to be sharp playing as infrequently as he has.

My wife and I were walking down the street one night and a fortune teller was trying to give me an advertisement. I told her I didn't want it but that she probably already knew that. My wife got so mad at me. She is an intelligent woman a lawyer with an LLM. But she believes in these people. It is so bizzarre.

I forget Crochet is on the team once a week. He isn't used consistently.

Just remember his 1st White Sox appearance. He got booed.

Kimbrel get the 8th?

I've always wondered about something like this. Do you think they let Mendick know he was most likely going down when Rodon got activated, or do you think they sprung it on him after the game yesterday?

I agree. He had the bullpen going the second he gave up a hit.

McCann also has a bad back.

Last night, I thought about the post after Kimbrel was acquired, I think by Balta, that his acquistion LaRussa-proofed the bullpen. I thought it was a really good point. Turns out it was wrong. There is no LaRussa-proofing as long as he is getting a White Sox paycheck.

Maybe in the hit column.

Hernandez needs a day off. Wait, they are giving Hernandez a day off? WTF? Vaughn is horrible with 2 outs and RISP. Why isn’t Vaughn in the line up in a run producing spot?

So if you were managing the White Sox in October, you would rather have Heuer than Kimbrel, correct? Since you are twisting and turning stats in an attempt to fit your narrative, wouldn't the 2021 Codi Heuer bear some blame for the White Sox overrated bullpen?

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I've never understood the "just don't give him anything close" approach. You are risking a PB, WP or as we saw when they used to have to throw 4 pitches for an intentional walk, a couple get pretty close to the zone. Tony should be mad only at himself. He only had to raise 4 fingers.

Clearly Pilkington is going to win several Cy Youngs in his future, and most likely, if he stays healthy, be in the HOF. Hernandez is up there in all time terrible, but not as bad as Madrigal who definitely would be the worst player ever to put on a major league uniform if Zack Collins wasn't standing in the way.

2018 Lance Lynn had an 11.57 postseason ERA, Hendriks postseason ERA was 18.00, and according to the Guaranteed Rate commercial Lucas Giolito was the worst pitcher in baseball. The Sox are screwed.

Gotta love him blaming the rookie. Yell to the umpire, put 4 fingers up Tony.

But you are going on about 2018 and also admitted a bad outing or 2 blows everything out of proportion.

The first 8 innings he pitched in the postseason in his career, he gave up 1 hit and struck out 15.

One thing is for sure, it you knew TA was banged up, all the posters who think the Sox need to approach every game like it was game 7 of the WS, would be livid if TA played, got hurt and wound up missing the playoffs.

The first WP tonight, a defensive catcher probably blocks the ball. The one that scored the run, Johnny Bench in his prime was probably 50-1 stopping it.

These last 2 “disasters”, one good thing is he isn’t getting hit very hard.

Why did Tony give a no comment about the Vlad AB? Did he just find out that he could intentionally walk him afterward?

I personally think they really never had any intention of keeping Kimbrel next year, so it might be awkward with Hendriks to make Kimbrel the closer, and then go back to Hendriks next year after he really didn’t lose the job. But at this point, the Sox need to win some games and have Hendriks unavailable and see what happens with Kimbrel in the 9th. If it is more of what has been going on, then th 8th vs. 9th is BS. If he is mowing them down, start giving Hendriks some 8ths and see what happens.