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Dammit. Hung up. Eaton giveth and taketh away...just need to get this game in the W column somehow.

Ugly ugly game for Moncada so far tonight. The opposite of Opening Day.

Feels like we have to score at least one run here. That cushion just doesn't feel comfortable after being up 7-1 and watching Eaton's play tonight after Madrigal's yesterday.

Can't be one of those nights where the offense goes to sleep early after putting up a crooked number...

Stassi looking like one of the best all-around catchers in baseball against Sox pitching...like that darned kid on the A's that dealt us a death blow last year in Game 3.

Well, it's a game again. Had a feeling that Keuchel was going to have a rougher go of it this season...hopefully Game 2 last year wasn't a harbinger of things to come.

You're right, I looked at the first column and he actually hits lefty. So the answer is actually Matthew Boyd. Still a 16-0 streak then. He beat us once and lost to us once the final two weeks of 2019.

The White Sox always seem to get up for guys like Ohtani that are media darlings. That said, would rather face Quintana...have to go with the 15-0 regular season streak against southpaws. I looked up the end of the 2019 season. Buck Farmer of the Tigers was the last LHP to beat us, second to the last game of the season. Counting Luzardo in the first game of the playoffs last year, though, it would be a 16-0 string against LHP.

Sounds like Madrigal just broke his bat....thought it was another humpback liner into LCF off the bat. Should have known better.

If Eaton/Madrigal/Anderson start rubbing off on the rest of the line-up...and they also start paying attention to the strike zone control of Grandal/Vaughn, this whole line-up will be better off. We've been such a free swinging, low walk team for so long. Then we can start playing more team-approach baseball and less individually-focused, swinging out of your shoes style.

Or D'Angelo Jimenez, the most despised guy in Sox clubhouse history.

Vaughn and Grandal are really going to help the OBP numbers...then you have Madrigal/Eaton as the "pesky" guys. Andrew showing some "decent enough" speed to go from 1st to 3rd.

I think we already went over this argument (to death) in 2017 and 2018. He's (seemingly) always going to be better from the LH side, but not to the extremes of someone like Jose Valentin.

If he puts up another 3 Top Five MVP years...he'll definitely get some votes, in the same way Ichiro was credited for the prime years of his career in Japan. That said, it's really hard to make it from 1B because there's such a focus on a lifetime of HR and RBI numbers.

Vaughn showed a decent enough arm on that ground ball and handled the at 'em ball just now. Now let's hope he can quickly get his first MLB hit to join the parade with Yermin.

Encouraged by Luis Robert's first two at-bats tonight. Abreu is money. Keep waiting for him to slow down...will have to wait to figure out the ideal solution to the Vaughn/Jimenez/Abreu positional dilemma.

I knew the GA/Atlanta ASB one would be locked before I even opened it. Limiting dropboxes, precincts in minority areas, not allowing snacks or even water when lines are prolonged, trying to shut down voting at 5 p.m. should be obvious points that transcend race in America and goes to the very core of what constitutes a democracy. The interesting aspect here is that baseball is viewed by most as a sport for older white fans. Many in that constituency are likely Trump or GOP voters. There’s not quite the same demographic overlap as the NBA and NFL. However, if Manfred wants to cater to younger, less white fans...it makes sense. But it feels like more political correctness simply because MLB has been so sensitive over the last twenty years about the declining percentage of African American players as well as white ownership groups. In my opinion, it’s better to stress the opportunities for Latin American players, but they are nevertheless two sides of the same coin (minority participation and representation.) Even then, you’d have more people upset with Roberto Clemente’s #21 being retired like Jackie Robinson’s than with honoring Hank Aaron in a similar fashion. The MLB argument is there is already a specific Clemente day and humanitarian award that in some ways is the most respected one that MLB awards each year. Do I really think Manfred cares at all about disenfranchisement, though?...not at all.

In Texas, probably. In Boston, with only 4500 in Fenway much less likely. Of course, we’d need to see numbers of immunized vs. non-immunized naturally or through vaccines to draw any conclusions.

Dunning is going to be the type of pitcher who’s going to be limited to no more than two times through a lineup...at best. For whatever it’s worth, he is the Rangers’ fifth starter after Folty.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/batvspitch/_/id/33618/raisel-iglesias well, here’s why he didn’t face Lamb, current White Sox hitters 0/14 against Iglesias

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/profile.asp?ID=143167 Wonder who was playing SS for Cal when Semien was playing 2B...? Interestingly, no 3B at that time, purely up the middle player.

54-60 games into a season, lol. Post count is irrelevant. That Opening Game always gets so much attention and everything feels magnified like a post-season game, but if the same thing played out on a random Saturday afternoon in April or May, the game thread might just be 4-5 pages. This year, with increased expectations, 8-10 pages. Seems we also might have caught a break with the Donaldson hammy injury, because Buxton looks like he’s approaching the next two years before FA like he expects a $200 million contract, having added 10-15 pounds of muscle in the offseason.

If Luzardo and Manaea get on a roll together, watch out. Bassitt is what he is, Montas has had some really dominant stretches but certainly his ups and downs https://www.athleticsnation.com/2021/3/31/22361241/oakland-as-opening-day-roster-daulton-jefferies-aj-puk-cole-irvin With Fiers, Daulton Jefferies (relation to the former Met phenom?), AJ Puk and Cole Irvin, they definitely have more depth, overall.

The difference is third base is not Moncada’s natural position, it’s SS, so his third position (although pretty sure he briefly debuted there in BOS since the two middle infield spots were already spoken for.) Whereas Madrigal has been a 2B almost exclusively since Oregon State because of the presence of Cade Grenier there.

“Late game blunders, early Donaldson injury make for sour Twins loss in opener • Neal: Through one game, Twins were wrong about having defense covered • Donaldson gets Twins' first hit, then leaves with hamstring injury” headlines from Minneapolis Star-Tribune sports page We learned fans are also (rightfully) miffed in Minnesota and Cleveland...