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Well, we basically made Naylor the second best hitter on the Guardians thanks to how we pitched him.

Ron waited for his annual diatribe until Abreu was 0/15 and just 4/24 with RISP.

Btw, just what the Sox hitters need...Cole has added a cutter this season. Gas. He gone. Oops it's Moncada. No chance turning around a letter high 99 mph FB.

Slaughtered? Sauteed?

We might need to move all the Monday to Thursday home games to Havana to win anything this year.

Predictable.

Or young twenty-something kids like Vaughn. Yankees have now won 16 out of 18. Jesus Donaldson almost decapitated Pollock.

Can't afford to give up XB hits after walks. Solo homers are going to happen.

https://www.mlb.com/news/jarred-kelenic-first-time-playing-at-citi-field-since-trade Interesting timing to say the least to send him down right before they were about to play his drafting team at Citi...

They likely win the division in a season long battle of attrition...still must be considered favorites, but it's going to be incredibly challenging to catch the Yankees/Blue Jays and Angels/Astros for HFA. Houston is just destroying teams right now. Not to mention we basically have no good options to pick up the slack for Kopech somewhere in the middle of the season...plus there's not much payroll flexibility to add at the TDL like they did with Kimbrel last year.

Btw there's a long long laundry list of good players with track records under the 600 ops mark still... If Jose, Harrison Kelly Lynn Grandal Keuchel Pollock all continue to struggle/don't return to past form, we are going nowhere fast. AJ is showing some positive signs of pulling out of it.

Thought this was one of the better posts on last night, from SoxMachine game comments... "Banks was going to come in for the 8th until the Sox tied the game. I sit on the 3B side so I can see the bullpen very well. As soon as Moncada tied the game Kelly started warming up. Because Abreu and Roberts both grounded out on short AB’s, Kelly wasn’t warm when he came in. I’ve noticed that TLR never warms two guys at the same time. TLR didn’t plan for the possibility that the Sox would tie the game! And then had no one ready when Kelly walked Gonzalez other than Banks, who is a AAA pitcher at best. Last, why oh why did Garcia cut off Anderson on Judge’s groundball to short? Yeah, they were shifted a bit, but if TA takes the ball he is running toward first, not away from it like Garcia and gets the out. Inning over. If you signed Harrison, why don’t you play him. Garcia is a versatile substitute, not an everyday guy. I was at Monday’s meltdown and yesterday’s. This is a mediocre, undisciplined team. Roster construction is poor and on field management is worse." Dick Allen (poster obviously) responded by saying he didn't buy the excuse that Kelly wasn't properly warmed up because of the higher temps at the ballpark last night.

That was only under Hahn and then you have to go back to the 80s.

Pollock Pollock Pollock

Have been pointing this out for two weeks now.

All I know is every year in AZ he would usually go 4-5-6 innings, pile up a ton of innings/pitches, walks and numerous K's but he always seemed like more of a Javy V. guy with great stuff but middling results. Lots of stress and strain on the pen.

Thought this was one of the better posts on last night, from SoxMachine game comments... "Banks was going to come in for the 8th until the Sox tied the game. I sit on the 3B side so I can see the bullpen very well. As soon as Moncada tied the game Kelly started warming up. Because Abreu and Roberts both grounded out on short AB’s, Kelly wasn’t warm when he came in. I’ve noticed that TLR never warms two guys at the same time. TLR didn’t plan for the possibility that the Sox would tie the game! And then had no one ready when Kelly walked Gonzalez other than Banks, who is a AAA pitcher at best. Last, why oh why did Garcia cut off Anderson on Judge’s groundball to short? Yeah, they were shifted a bit, but if TA takes the ball he is running toward first, not away from it like Garcia and gets the out. Inning over. If you signed Harrison, why don’t you play him. Garcia is a versatile substitute, not an everyday guy. I was at Monday’s meltdown and yesterday’s. This is a mediocre, undisciplined team. Roster construction is poor and on field management is worse."

Torres is a notorious FB hitter. That’s one aspect of it.

Well, in terms of coming against one of the most high profile and attractive teams on our schedule...we're just continuing to breathe life into the storyline that all the Al Central can do is take their automatic bid and lose right away. There hasn't been a single postseason series victory out of the Central since 2016...unless the Indians won one in 2017/18 and I blinked and missed it.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/attendance It's ludicrous for a team that had World Series or bust aspirations to be where they are right now in terms of ticket sales. Weather or not, they clearly did the very worst job of any of the contending teams not named the Rays in motivating their fanbase to be excited about the upcoming season. We were essentially forced to motivate ourselves. Most importantly, foisting TLR on this team and fanbase...is basically cutting the nose off to spite one's face. It's the chickens coming home to roost. Every time Hahn or Stone have an opportunity to smooth things over, they insult us and somehow, almost inexplicably, pour more gasoline on the fire.

NL West +28 (W/L differential) + 82 (RS/RA) AL East +10 +2 AL West +6 +58 NL East -7 +21 NL Central -18 -75 AL Central -19 -88 AL -28, NL +28

No, the schedule is too easy for them to be that bad. If they aren't at least 5-7 games over .500 at the month, they're going to be buried at the beginning of June. Maybe if the Indians were to come in and ALSO sweep the Twins in Minneapolis after this week's Astros sweep would some creeping doubts about that begin in enter my mind.

This has to rank in the all-time TLR (second Sox run) Top 3-5 for worst managing nights...anyone disagree? Kelly walks freaking 4 of 5 hitters. Doesn't bring Banks in (which it was a bit unfair to put him in that situation, Sousa's been there recently) for Rizzo. Then has someone with a 90-92 mph BP fastball face two of the best hitters in the AL.

KU definitely has a lot more in common with the Yankees than the White Sox...

We will never win a single playoff series with LaRussa in the dugout. That was worse than Rodon in relief in the A's playoff series. Can't bring in a 91 mph fastball guy and act like he's prime Marte or Matty Thornton.