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Hamilton vs. Burr, that musical is 10X more entertaining than this series' White Sox offense. Maybe even Sharknado 6 or Saved By the Bell: Screech Gets Plastic Surgery to Look More Handsome Than Zack and Mario Lopez

It's like going to war with General Hooker or Burnside as opposed to Lee/Grant/Sherman. Giolito essentially a two-pitch pitcher, the change and fastball. A bit reminiscent of Jose Contreras with the FB and forkball combo back in 2005 and early 2006.

The dreaded "in-between" reactive swing...rather than aggressively hunting pitches.

Plesac's going to win a Gold Glove between all of his pick-offs at 1B and his overall athletic ability and reactions on the mound. Only gave up 1 SB all last season.

Robert's either not seeing the ball well in the twilight or he's completely out of sync, probably a little of both.

Smart not to give Eloy a fastball when he was up in the count. Nice defensive play there by Plesac, 101 MPH self-defense clinic as he was falling back a bit and off balance.

The Padres' underachieved in the second half and, despite some major injuries, GOODBYE Andy Green. Hello Jayce Tingler. You just the feeling other teams are more about winning/results than loyalty, stability, or the players' comfort level/clubhouse chemistry (whatever that gets a losing team and franchise that hasn't rediscovered how to embrace that mentality, like the Royals younger players 5-6 years ago.)

Here comes the set-up for the big inning with the heart of their order coming up now...terrible location with that pitch. Engel did a good job limiting him to a single instead of 2nd/3rd, no outs. Can at least get a double play ball here, possibly. Not sure Delmonico manages to hold him there.

At least 3 weeks....with a veteran manager like Renteria who's eminently predictable in his playing time preferences. Fwiw, if we need Collins to save us and Encarnacion's basically done, it's just one more scouting/evaluation error from our front office. That said, he absolutely blasted that homer onto the concourse against Minny. Timing is going to take a bit longer for older players, imo.

Their #5 starter would be our #3. That's the difference in the two staffs. Plutko is essentially their #6/swingman. And Bieber has really elevated his game since last year. It helps to have tonight's home plate owner's strike zone....that's how he got 14 Opening Day. 7 strikeouts. Not to mention Clevinger is REALLY nasty. We're missing their two best and in danger of getting swept nevertheless.

Watching Grandal with Crede's #24, makes one expect a bunch of flares into RF. Indians' pitching has been simply dominant so far in the early season, in both their series so far.

Counting down 3, 2, 1....before comment about Anderson and Giolito shouldn't be having so much fun in the dugout when their team is 1-4.

Unless you played for King or Simeon in the late 80's or early 90's... Btw, that new Rangers' stadium looks awfully antiseptic watching from t.v., and there's been very little offense so far there.

Or Alexei? Nice play by Moncada cutting across Anderson, Timmy probably wouldn't have been able to throw him out from that spot.

Leury was dead to rights there, but Zimmer slightly hesitated and spiked the throw a bit. Need to come up with a big hit with runners on base at some point. At least Giolito looks markedly sharper, so there's that.

Vaughn should be a beast of a hitting machine, too...

Nova, Santiago, Detwiler, Despaigne, Ruiz, Burr, Santana. Let’s GO! ”We can’t accurately assess the performance of Rick Hahn until at least the end of 2021 due to the plethora of injuries to strike the organization.” Checks list of starters for today, cringes at the name Frankie Montas yet again.

It would have to be a team like the Padres with surplus prospects...that it just itching to make a deep playoff run for the first time in many years. Trading Mejia for McCann seems quite possible, for example.

Should be consistent and go two seven inning games, but just this year to try it out first.

Recovery (full or even better) rate is roughly 60% for second compared to 80% for initial, but the number of starting pitchers in MLB history who have thrown 500+ innings after two surgeries/revisions (over the remainder of their careers) can be fully counted on less than two hands. Jace Fry and Daniel Hudson would be two examples in that particular category.

First, you can never have too much pitching. 2005 has resulted in a fifteen year curse. The negative side wins out today, the side that questions the very one-sided nature of being a White Sox fan Of course, thoughts and prayers, feel terrible for the guy...Burger, Rodon, Dunning, Giolito, now Lopez (the only one not to have had at least one major surgery entering 2020), Kopech, Cease, the list just goes on and on and on. That’s not even counting Eloy Jimenez. Micker Adolfo had the tools to be a superstar at one point in time (minus speed.) If it wasn’t for that World Series, we might be the “unluckiest/least fortunate” franchise in baseball. And if it wasn’t for the players acquired for Sale, Eaton and Q (and the Robert signing), Hahn would be out of a job and we’d be in the midst of a perma-rebuild. Trading one of the Top Ten players in baseball and a Top Ten MVP vote recipient don’t exactly help the cause. PS: Jared Mitchell and pretty much every Sox pitching prospect from 1998-2001 minus Buehrle and Fogg say hello. About five years ago, our primary niche advantage was keeping players healthy. That’s been turned on its head.

Yeah, prime example of that would be Jose Ramirez last year. Was back to his Top Ten MVP version after starting out in a terrible for over two months.

They already have Hedges and Mejia. Unless they're willing to trade Mejia's LH offensive potential and arm... doesn't quite seem like a good platoon split. Otoh, they definitely have concerns about Francisco's game~calling, framing, blocking pitches and overall leadership. They're expecting a playoff run as they bring up Gore and/or Patino. McCann and Hedges are both well-respected clubhouse guys.

Well, Keuchel was fine and relievers did him no favors...

It hardly feels like the coaching staff, front office and players are approaching every single game like it's a single elimination playoff game. Not much of a sense of urgency. Obviously, when you're not playing well, it seems like everything that can go wrong will go wrong and you're never going to win another game for the rest of the season. That said, every single game is essentially worth 2.7 games in a regular season of 162 games, so we're already played 13.5 games out of 162. No time to panic, and it wouldn't be the end of the world disguised in the middle of the season and not the first couple of weeks or pennant drive...need to pull their heads out of their asses and right the ship before it totally gets away from them on this first extended road trip. Talk about hitting Robert #3/4 anytime soon is pretty crazy...unless he really shows he's 100% got his feet under him after the first 2-3 weeks, then you look at possibly moving him up to 5/6. The biggest problem is missing Jimenez's bat from the line-up, not where Luis Robert is positioned in the batting order.