Dick Allen

The White Sox as a team, have a pretty decent walk rate, yet they have walked 39 times less in 18 games than their opponents. Unexceptable.

That's all fine and dandy, but this stuff should start the first day you report to the White Sox. I don't understand how guys make it through several years in the minors, get called up, and are as clueless as many of at least the White Sox prospects over the years, are. You learn something every day, but you should have a pretty good idea about the basics by the time you get to the major leagues, or there is a problem at the lower levels.

I get it and conditions could be a very legitimate excuse, as the entire Sox staff appears to be walk happy. I just wonder why White Sox opponents aren't having the same issue.

Nightengale was quoting KW. The poor guy had surgery last night. They had to crack his skull open to relieve some swelling and put a clamp on the affected area.

The Reds are so bad. No wonder they hired Buddy Bell away from the White Sox.

Too bad the Sox didn’t play like this last September. They would be picking first.

1-12 their last 13 games, and they scored 2 runs the game they won.

Tanking in baseball isn’t like tanking in the NBA. The advantages to being bad are the high pick, and the ability to play guys who normally wouldn’t have a shot if winning was of the essence and might be able to find another player or 2 that way. if the White Sox could get only the type of return Stanton got the Marlins, trading Sale, Eaton and Q would have made no sense. All the losing gets you is the first pick. Assuming you don’t sign someone that costs you a draft pick, once that top pick is taken and his money accounted for, teams at the bottom of the draft are sitting a bit prettier. Tanking basically gets you that top pick which rarely makes an immediate impact. If the White Sox were picking in the 20s every player the last few years they drafted, would have been available except Fulmer and Burger and Collins. I am not giving up on any of these guys. But the prizefor tanking isn’t as great as in the NBA. Just thank God Hahn signed his best players to team friendly contracts . If not, if you thought this was bad.....

Short term there really is nothing other than waiting for Kopech and Rodon. I do wonder what kind of effect getting killed every night will have on some players, but realistically there aren’t many of them on the roster that will be on the roster when winning is expected. We just have to hope guys like Giolito develop and are far better than they have shown. I will give him a pass for last night. I think he had become pretty close with Farquhar, so his concentration level might not have been the best. But he is walking a lot and not striking anyone out. That has to be at least a little concerning. But this stretch sucks for so many reasons. You wait 6 months for baseball season, and it becomes an uninteresting train wreck almost immediately. Some surprising performances in spring training but wins the first 2 games and a 3-2 first road trip made it seem like this could be a fun season. Now the games are over before they are official. pitching will get better because it has to. No team’s pitching is this bad. I just hope they clean up the other constant gaffes, like bad baserunning, missing cutoff men, throwing to wrong bases, etc. at least make it a watchable product.

Giolito really sucks right now.

Verne Troyer, Mini Me.

Nightengale’s latest tweet suggests this could be something very serious.

So Trump is tweeting Cohen will never flip on him. Isn’t that implying some guilt?

Fuck Verlander for whining. But also fuck Anderson for getting picked off down 5-0. It is dumb baseball.

White Sox starters are 1-9 with a 5.99 ERA. Think how bad it would be without Lopez.

With Gonzalez, Shields, and Fulmer in the rotation, and the crap they have coming out of the bullpen, this team is going to be bad. I don’t agree with it’s going to get worse, because it really can’t be worse than the last 14 games. get better. The question is how much? It is hard to watch them play now. Kopech will be up fairly soon. Then Rodon later. But other than that, help isn’t really on the way. I thought with all the awful teams and 2 of them being in the same division, wins would be a bit easier than usual. But this team is bad. And it isn’t just bad talent. Stupid baseball. Renteria talks about winning and losing the right way. If he thinks all the little league mistakes they make are losing the right way, I am not so sure this rebuild will be a guaranteed success. With all the teams who have done it, plus all the teams who will always have a shot because of money, there aren’t enough good players around for every rebuild to be a smashing success. Hopefully because of the head start their best players on cheap contracts gave them, this will work. If the Sox were in some other teams shoes, and didn’t have the bounties for Sale and Eaton and Q, I couldn’t imagine how long this would take.

It is 4/20

Not bad for a bust.

He can’t get his slider to look good enough to swing at.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Apr 18, 2018 -> 06:40 PM) Jones not even remotely close No biggie, runner is meaningless sets up forces everywhere.

Jones doesn’t have his good slider yet.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Apr 18, 2018 -> 06:31 PM) I do like the new base stealing Sox, but a steal of third wasn't really necessary there. Ormally I would agree, but with Engel at bat, a WP or PB seems like a better chance than a hit.

Verlander vs. Shields on Friday. Can they call it now?

There are going to be some real deflating losses with this bullpen. Amazingly, they sucked but Voltstad was mostly nails.

QUOTE (Tony @ Apr 18, 2018 -> 12:59 PM) We also were set in the OF for the next decade with Joe Borchard, Brian Anderson and Ryan Sweeney... Exactly, and it's not like it only happens to the White Sox. Especially with bats, the Sox have really struggled for over a decade now. Eventually, just luck should get them to have some success, but except for maybe Eloy, all these guys have some issues. Adolfo with contact. Rutherford with power, and for me ,Robert right now for at least health. It seems he gets nicked up a lot.