Dick Allen

He probably had just as much of a baseball background as any of us did when the White Sox hired him. All of us think we have all the answers. Obviously his moves when they were trying to win, didn’t produce wins. We will see how this change of direction goes, but at some point, you have to figure good results should be a qualification for him to remain employed in his current position.

At the very least if you hated the current situation, and most of us do, but also see no hope the next couple of years, why would you be wasting your time on a beautiful night watching this crap?

If the Sox don’t win tonight, and it is not looking very good, they are going to have to pretty much run the table the rest of the season to make the playoffs, and even that is probably not good enough.

It was. He clipped it on either the second baseman or shortstop.

When he hurt his thumb stealing in spring training, he slid feet first.

If they are going to call them up this season it should be before they play another minor league game. To call them up in September is trading one month of meaningless games for an extra season of control, Maybe, possibly, perhaps, no one will give a crap about the extra year of control 6years from now, but a month of meaningless games is a cheap price to pay for insurance in case they might.

The other silly thing is being scared not calling them up will piss them off. They know just about every team in the White Sox position would hold them back. The exceptions would be teams so desperate for some sort of box office bump. And those teams would not be in play when they become free agents. Too financially challenged.

RIP Stan Mikita

I never said that. It isn't black and white. I am just showing you that "what is best for the player" doesn't necessarily mean trotting him out there in meaningless September games. Either call them out now, which I don't agree with, or wait until two weeks into next season. But since the Sox made Sale a reliever, I am sure you are on board if Kopech is named the 2019 closer. All plans must remain the same.

It can be both. How have the big Septembers guys like Morel, and Fields, and Owens, and Giolito, and Trayce Thompson, and Moncada put up help them later? It's a nice theory, there just doesn't seem to be much evidence sitting out September kills careers. If it does, the Sox should probably trade Luis Robert right now for whatever they can get. With all he has missed, he evidently will have no chance.

There is no good reason unless he is near his innings limit which he will be if he is down there much longer, and it's September. A few meaningless starts for a bad team makes no sense givng away a year of contro.l.

Again, you are comparing apples to oranges. Totally different issues, totally different situations. WHY DO THEY HAVE TO TREAT EVERY PLAYER EXACTLY THE SAME? Keep in mind the players you mentioned, Moncada now Giolito and Lopez DID NOT MAKE THEIR MAJOR LEAGUE DEBUTS WITH THE WHITE SOX. i guess you should be crying why did the White Sox have them in the minor leagues at all. To call up a top prospect in September on a team with no playoff shot, considering the current rules, is about as dumb of a move a GM can make. If Hahn does it, even though you will agree with it, you can go move being fired 4 times up to 5.

They really haven't had this type of situation since the rules changed. But if RH should have been fired 4 times, you should be fired for bringing Kopech up in September for a start or 2 then putting him in the bullpen, thus blowing an entire year of control .

He made 29 starts, and pitched 192 innings. What is your over/under for Kopech starts and innings next year? Seems the White Sox know what they are doing with this. Their track record vs. other teams, seems to be pretty favorable. And, if his DL stint was at the beginning of the season, what did that have to do with increasing innings?

Chris Sale went from 71 to 192. Jon Garland went from 140 to 200. John Danks went from 139 to 195. Once he gets to the 140 mark, I don't think the extra means much. Besides, a lot would have to go right for Kopech to pitch 180 innings in 2019. Probably no missed starts, and making longer starts than he did in AAA.

Abreu might have hurt a leg there.

Maybe Kopech has rubbed him the wrong way or something, but it seems it would take a perfect game with 20 strikeouts for Kopech to impress him.

They are setting you up for not minding Zack Collins defense.

It is what he didn’t say. He had kind of slammed him before, when Jason was going over his recent stretch, Stone was silent.

I get the impression Stone is no fan of Kopech

He saved 3 runs, so whatever he does tonight, he kept it a game.

Offensively or defensively?

I do not know what kind of reliever Covey would make. Out of the stretch he has been pretty bad.

I get the runner at second would get a bigger jump, but you have to have Covey pitch from a wind up as much as possible,

Stone just mentioned it. The key will be when he goes into the stretch. But so far, so good. It would be nice is Covey became useful in some way.