Harry Chappas

He was pitching better than Fiers. The top of the A's order should get on base. He got two outs and gave up no runs on two soft singles. He struggled if you want to call it that to the top four hitters in their lineup. He didn't have a chance to fail or at least come close to it. After the top of the first you had to think the Sox would get to Fiers and go from there. The White Sox bullpen had shown all season that they could be exposed and they were by the A's as I have pointed out numerous times. They are young relievers that the A's were making work. Not sure if it was Ricky or Cooper but whoever was handling the staff yesterday panicked and then failed miserably. I have not looked deeply into it but if Crochet was taken out simply because his velocity was down but he is fine and said so, and they still pulled him, they should be fired on the spot. Crochet was hoping to go 2+, maybe he did the Cooper and scaled back his velocity (to 98 BTW) to go longer and be more effective deeper into the game. In the end if Crochet is healthy I am a happy camper.

MyY hope is that they reassign him within the organization. I think he is a positive influence to the organization and can help the team. I hope they look at Coooper and decide it is time for him to do something new with his time.

I think in the full season the Sox win 85 games maybe get the 5th seed. I sadly think this season was too short to cut ties with Rodon and Mazara and determine the role Dunning and Cease will play long term. Kopech will come up in May and that may be a good thing in the grand scheme of things although I think if he is healthy they win the whole thing this year. Also have Lambert and Lopez handing around. They need to sit down with Bauer on day one and decide if they are going to sign him or not....if not pivot immediately to Quintana or another veteran. You sign Bauer let Edwin and McCann go (the last month has shown he is what he always has been) or sign for a reasonable amount and go from there. Hopefully they saw enough of Vaughan in the OF to make a decision it is obvious Eloy cannot paly the OF and stay healthy. They need to limit the potential for injury with him as best they can as that bat is too much to miss. Hopefully the last three days taught some guys some things on how to win.

I said this in the game thread and will say it until the cows come home. We were beat by an organizational philosophy. The A's were content to let the White Sox pitchers beat themselves and they did so by running up pitch counts going through the entire pen. The White Sox had plenty of opportunity to do the same and yet they swung at bad pitches and got themselves out. On paper the White Sox were the better team. The AL Central is theirs for the taking as long as they want it......can they figure out how to take it....we shall see. The organization needs to realize that RHP with good breaking stuff hand a majority of these guys their lunch. I think there are a few tweaks needed and simple growth of Robert, Eloy and Madrigal will do wonders, as well as the bullpen, and bringing in Vaughan. Sucks the season is over but I think there are only a few things needed to be considered the best team in the AL.

While the A's tried to do the same but the White Sox would not take it. That is what I find most frustrating after bringing in Bummer in the 2nd inning for no reason at all.

Not taking what he pitchers gives while the A's are I know that it gets old and I don't mean to sound like a dick but the bases should be loaded.

The White Sox philosophy of hitting v Oakland is evident today. The A's are making the Sox relievers throw strikes and the Sox are bailing their relievers out. Sox need hitters to work the count to balance the lineup. It is not the hitting coach either because the White Sox hired the A's coordinator. They need to emphasize that as it may well cost them the game today.

The overworked A's pen now has to close it out.

The team itself and players are fine. I go back to the idea that you cannot rely on 8 guys to be lights out in a game. The umpiring has been bad but at the same time the White Sox pitchers couldn't come through.

Welp we are going to have position players pitch this game. This game was horrifically managed and starts back to not getting a starter and then relying on 9 guys to be lights out.

I haven't been in this thread all game so I am not sure of the tone but they are going to run out of pitchers. We are going to use Fry and Cordero late in a tight game.

LFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Isn't NBA game 2 tomorrow I would thin they want all eyes on that.

There is no major rain in the forecast. Odd to cancel already not looking like rain all day. Something ain't right there....MLB covering their ass after screwing up Indians game?

I was yesterday, actually today not so much.

He faced Schwarber, Bryant, Baez, Caratini, Bote and Kipnis.... 20 pitches 14 strikes do I think he is the best option, no, but everyone here thinks he is Dylan Covey and that is not true.

Fiers numbers this year may not reflect it but he is the kind of guy that gives the Sox fits regardless of the back of the baseball card. He is the kind of guy that Cleveland and Minnesota beat us with and others destroy. He will let the Sox get themselves out........will they let him.....stay tuned.

He had two hits yesterday and is one of the more reliable bats in the lineup. There is no 9th in rally without him. You can say yes he cost them three runs but he then in the same breath got them two in the 9th and the base running gaff was on a steal attempt that may have been Anderson's fault.

That is my guess and why he is currently considered unreliable to me. I am not saying going forward he is unreliable but at this time until proven otherwise he has to be a ?

Due the fact the Sox now have one reliable starter and while the pen looks good, it is reliant on unproven guys out there. I don't think it is writing it off as much as it is an extremely young team that has some holes that experience alone can fill. Regardless of what happens in the next 9 hours, the day after the world series this year, the White Sox will be a top five favorite to win the 2021 world series which was the plan when the rebuild began.

Not replacing, making them better.

I don't like relying on 7 or 8 guys to be on. We saw what happened with Hendricks today. I start Rodon then go to Dunning or vice versa to get through 5.

Oh my

Well this got interesting

As are built on OBP gotta go Dunning but I still think it is Rodon