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Well, then they basically have no one of value to trade other than Montgomery, Kath and Colas. Maybe Brayan Ramos.

The bat throwing is a getting a bit out of hand. In the past, you would only do that on game winning hits/homers. There's also going to be a lot more brawls with 4-6 game series.

The Sox weren't in sole possession of first place last year until May 7th, and that was with an earlier season start.

That was quick. Tim Hill blows no no. Rogers should appear in this one.

If they are that desperate for offense (see 2006 Anderson vs. Mackowiak) that they need to force Burger in at second where's he will be far below average... they should have just signed Eduardo Escobar in the first place.

LOL. They need to showcase Burger at third for a starting pitcher trade and hope and pray Moncada stays healthy for the remainder of the season. Better not to get Burger injured playing out of position as well... imagine him handling the Candelario takeout slide/roll block. And you play who at 3B for two to three weeks? Mendick? Leury?

Other than the Kimbrel trade and signing Luis Robert... what "risky" moves has Hahn actually made? The Big 3 trades were a foregone conclusion...resulting from the front office being unable to patchwork a team together around stars and scrubs with a mid tier payroll from 2012-2016. The counter argument of course is the 2005 approach spreading the money across the roster and Dunn, Danks (injury/ineffectiveness on a $65 million deal) and then that Robertson/LaRoche/Cabrera/Shark cycle leading to oblivion. Basically, too many big contracts without matching production sink the team.

That's what it said in the MILB play by play... "Oscar Colas singles on a ground ball to left fielder Trevor Hauver." Probably because they don't ever write flare, wedge shot or soft liner. Ramos 3/4 now.

SSS, lol. Let's see where he is May 15th. Pretty crazy how Miggy Cabrera has two huge hits on consecutive Opening Days at home in miserable weather...

The bullpen failure wasn't related to this offseason... unless it's signing an injured Kelly. In general, we keep playing on the margins and are scared to death of big moves like Suzuki, Conforto and extending Gio without the club working in an advantageous clause whereas other teams are more flexible just to get the player in a uniform. And before Robertson, we went fifteen years without overpaying closers, other than Koch for one year. Yet very little to show for 3-4 years of targeting big arms in the draft mostly for the pen.

Colas 2/4 Two ground ball singles. Lead down to 6-5 at the bottom of 7.

Colas 1/3 so far...

This argument seems familiar, where did we hear it?... btw, is Kelenic going to DH more, or Haniger? Wonder why the Sox can't do the same with Eloy.

Guess I was thinking of the first blown lead in the 8th…Harrison led off the top of the 9th I think. Oh well, it doesn’t even matter at this point. Jimenez would have had the advantage over the remaining Sox pen guys. Thought about PHing Mendick just because he had a better chance to homer off Soto.

Pollock looked fine until the bottom of the 9th. Was that the first time he ever played in Detroit? Maybe one series his entire career prior to today…? We can blame the rain, but he didn’t get all the way back to the wall and post up as quickly as he needed to…he was drifting a bit and then didn’t get a good jump up when he hit the wall. It’s only like 8 or 8 1/2 feet there, right?

You mean into the tenth…where Ruiz likely would have been pitching and Harrison leading off.

When did I write that? Holeless isn't even a word I have used in my entire life, certainly not to describe a baseball team. Everyone in baseball could see that Arrieta and Velasquez starting games down the stretch was not the brightest idea in the world. And surely the White Sox are worlds better than LA and SFG, right? Winning 106 or 107, everyone can manage that... we can't even beat the Sisters of the Poor in our own division.

He closed 86% of his save opportunities...now it's actually below 85%, which used to be the bare minimum standard for keeping your job. But go ahead and keep calling him the best reliever in baseball if that makes you feel better. And these are the Tigers, one of the bottom five teams in the AL, arguably.

No overreactions are allowed until 54 games into the season. Certainly not when we're starting Velasquez or Lambert next week, lol. We can just fix everything at the trade deadline. The bullpen collapse last year in Anaheim doesn't mean the same exact thing will happen this year.

The outfield defense... bullpen from the 8th on...lack of variation from Hendriks and Grandal, offense falling asleep after scoring early. Andrew Vaughn should by all rights be the story of the game, now just an afterthought.

Sure, maybe they make the playoffs, but this team currently has more holes than the Titanic.

At least Montas' price tag is coming down...

Cubs' fans must be elated...and our entire bullpen is pretty much wiped out for tmrw.

Well, this is ten times worse than Anaheim last year because the rest of the division now thinks first place is vulnerable and no longer a given.

Pollock defense in RF comes back to bite them twice.