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Perfect. 14/24 hits for extra bases for a 160ish hitter. Goodwin had no business running into Lamb there. Bullpen lets the Sox down yet again.

Apparently the Indians have lost Naylor for what looks like all or most of the season...

https://sports.yahoo.com/jose-abreu-white-sox-blue-jays-ump-baseball-bat-mlb-011841264.html

It’s that kind of season all around...most teams have lost 2-3 pitchers and 2-4 members of their starting lineups at different points. This guy has been their breakout performer this year, really good numbers.

Engel/Hamilton/Cordero

Burger for LF, Vaughn to 1B. Putting absolutely no weight on it going off the field.

Just put him on the IL for ten days. 97. Play Vaughn or Grandal at first.

Yep, retweaked his hamstring.

Not really...he’s a catcher. Not a lot of solid scouting on him due to his age.

Then how do you explain old school Herm Schneider having the healthiest team in the majors for 15 years? Also, it’s not like A.Thomas is from the dark ages, he raised his son to be a modern Top 100 prospect in all of baseball. That doesn’t happen purely by accident. Are the Indians firing their training staff because Plesac, Bieber and Civale all got hurt? Then who gets credit for their keeping Clase on the mound after he missed all of 2020 or Karinchak from going down when he gets used so frequently?

You’re overthinking this...sure, and the White Sox can just as easily be working on a simultaneous deal for Ryan McMahon. Who blinks first? Pretty clear the DBacks are in for a long rebuild and need to save all the money they can. No point in paying guys like Peralta, Calhoun, A.Cabrera or Reddick for a team already buried and looking to be without Ketel Marte again for quite some time. After Marte, Zac Gallen might be their second most valuable player. They need both to load up on prospects and salary relief simultaneously. But the Pirates see the same opportunity to sell high on Frazier, just like the Rockies with McMahon.

Starting Game 2.

Keuchel is starting one of the games...that’s all we know so far. Looks like for the second game starter.

He looks like a CFer in the same way Avi Garcia does... time will tell, but hard pressed to believe he's not a corner guy at the major league level. They can play him there, and it would do nothing but benefit his trade value in the long run. Realistically, him playing in Chicago in 2021 always required every thing going wrong (that part happened), but missing so much in terms of playing under real game conditions means we should be content if he can somehow make it to Birmingham, where big offensive numbers go to die.

I think you’re severely overvaluing Crochet based on the 2020 version. We might never see that stuff again, certainly not as a starter. He could be Sale II, but just as likely another Ring, Burdi or Poreda. But he does suffer for not having the flashiness or flamboyance of those other big names we keep mentioning. He’s also 2-4 years older, and seemingly bee around forever, like Benintendi, so there’s some excitement fatigue with him as well compared to his first season after being acquired. Finally, the constant comparisons to Devers, as well. While not a disappointment, exactly, there’s also not the sense he’s playing to his full potential either. Hence, the comments from Stone and others.

That would be the ultimate overpay guy right now. The reality is that Escobar seems so obvious to everyone it seems like an impossibility the teams aren’t talking. He had a huge night at the plate, they broke their historic road losing streak and now they can make fun of the Rockies for being even worse, 6-30 on the road.

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They can only have one player with a similar name in franchise history, haha.

Interesting first post. Welcome aboard.

They’re looking at disappointing homer numbers and not XB hits. Same can be applied to Robert’s first month of 2021. That said, Eduardo Escobar has 17 homers and 51 RBI’s already, and some are dissatisfied with those numbers since his ops is “only” around 775.

That sounds like a lot of confidence in his sources...

Huge dude...

Fwiw, Plesac’s on the verge of starting his rehab assignment...Civale out 4-5 weeks at least with his finger injury and the entire season coming down to Bieber’s eventual return or not.

Hard to imagine that trade happening...as it puts the White Sox in a situation where they’re dead in the water if another starting pitcher goes down. That’s the crazy thing about what the Indians are doing. By my count, they’re on their 9th and 10th starting pitchers of the season in less than three months. For the White Sox, that means starting Wright, Siever, Lambert and no idea who the other two possibly would be. It wouldn’t be pretty, needless to say. And despite Wright’s gaudy top-line numbers, it’s telling that he really hasn’t been considered for a promotion.

This Mercedes is now an Edsel.