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They certainly could just give the position to Saladino for a month and let Tim get his head on straight. Not sure it's the RIGHT time just yet for that type of move, I think they will wait until the end of May...and it's not like Saladino has just pushed in the door forcing himself to get playing time with his level of play this year. He hasn't been much better, except from a defensive standpoint. The other thing we don't really know about for sure is how close the friend that passed away recently was to Tim. That could be yet another explanation.

Except with Giolito, his confidence is already shot. Exposing him to getting destroyed in Chicago won't do anything. It's not a matter of "wiping that confident smirk off his face" to make him more open to advice from the coaching staff. Unless there's something going on with him and he's not listening to them, listening to someone from the outside or his family...granted, that's all speculative, certainly someone at Future Sox who is close to the AAA coaching staff/pitching coach must have some insight, although I'm sure it will never get out for media purposes until the interventions start working successfully.

Hahn better hope Dunning and Lopez make it, because it's looking like they couldn't have missed the mark much more on Giolito if they were blindfolded scouts. Hopefully they were psychologists too, because it seems like the process of completely changing his mechanics have led to an abrupt fall in confidence...which presumably began when he got lit up at the major league level last year and hasn't reversed since then. Whether it's physical, mental...they need to try SOMETHING different. Let him skip a start and just let him observe what's going on around him, slow things down. Send him to Chicago and let him work with Don Cooper for a week or two (not on the active roster). They need to brainstorm and figure out a way to reverse this tail-spin. (Note: I realize the "spin" on this will now be that Giolito would never have been available were these flaws not readily apparent...and had the Sox staff not believed they had a fix or solution. I guess we'll see if they can earn their money.)

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You also have to take into consideration the havoc Moncada causes when he gets on base...there's no simplistic way to quantify the effect speed has on the psyche of the opposition.

15th inning now...ESPN got almost 2 games for their money. Unfortunately, Judge left the game a long time ago. Finally, the Yankees score in the Top of the 18th. 1:00 a.m. Chicago time, 2 pm China, haha. Ironically, Starlin Castro involved. Yankees getting to Strop. OVAH. Bryant and Rizzo walked with two outs (intentionally), Kyle Hendrick PH for Strop and struck out against Chasen Shreve with nobody but pitchers available to hit on the bench.

Baltimore is far from a GREAT team. A lot of baseball is just the timing of when you play teams, home and away, etc. When you start Dylan Covey, you can't expect to win more than 10-15% of those games. We'll find out how they respond at home against the Twins and Padres, two teams in similar situations as the White Sox...

Payoff from bettors, lol? Have no idea why they didn't just intentionally walk Bryant in the first place...even though that didn't directly burn Girardi. And they go to extras. Btw, when did Aaron Hicks start to become a legit hitter? That's got to sting a little bit if you're a Twins' fan.

One thing's for sure, the solution isn't having police officers hovering over fraternities. If people that age can't learn how to control or manage themselves, then they simply need to suffer the consequences of losing their frats/sororities as well as facing criminal/civil penalties as in this case. A large part of the college/university experience is about growing up...becoming more mature and responsible, adding police or security officers into the mix is not the right way to go about it. The next thing is that parents would request to have all of their children's classrooms under 24 hour video surveillance (that they could watch from home)...at some point, you have to trust teachers, or, in this case, 21-23 year olds, to be the leaders they are supposed to be.

QUOTE (Jake @ May 7, 2017 -> 07:32 PM) I wouldn't say Covey can't possibly be a major leaguer, but it's looking more and more like he won't be able to develop the ability by pitching in the majors right now. Harrelson made the point that in the past, the Sox rushed guys like Ruffcorn, and I could assume he meant Garland, Daniel Hudson, McCarthy, etc., where they had to contribute right away to pennant-contending teams. The White Sox aren't contending for anything this season, but there's a certain point where he keeps getting his head bashed in that it's counter-productive for Dylan and the organization to keep trotting him out there. At the very least, you put him in the Ynoa role if you REALLY want to hold onto him for the future (and you're indifferent about losing Ynoa) and make him earn his way back to a starting role later in the season.

Can we please have a pinned thread at the top of the page for service time accrued/exactly when their service time clock hits for 7th year/Super Two, etc. My argument isn't to bring them up NOW if it would cost the White Sox anything in the above-mentioned areas. With Carson Fulmer, who almost lost his rookie status last year in terms of IP, it seems that it woudn't matter if it was this week or next or two weeks from now, as long as the coaching staff at Charlotte were all in consensus. Frankly, I do think another 3-4 starts pitching as well as he has been would be okay, too. Burdi is probably the least necessary of the 3 (that I suggested) with how well Swarzak and Kahnle have been pitching, which obviously won't last forever. Moncada Fulmer Lopez Giolito Burdi Delmonico and Hayes, although those are definitely lesser considerations compared to the first 4-5 guys. Kevan Smith would be the 3rd name right now at Charlotte, of the "second/third" tier guys.

Nobody expected the White Sox to be anywhere close to first place in the 2nd week of May. The Indians have been playing like a World Series hangover team and the Royals have the worst offense in baseball, and lost Ventura tragically. The Twins are in the same position as the White Sox (albeit Sano looks to be the second best young player in the division to Lindor), so that only leaves the Tigers and Indians as actual threats, with the Tigers clearly on the downside. Q, Tim Anderson, Rodon, Saladino and Giolito have given the White Sox little compared to what they were expected to...not to mention Cabrera and Frazier. The third argument is Kolek/Aiken/Rodon (none of them have set the world in fire 1-3 in the draft) or even Courtney Hawkins, that there are zero guarantees in the draft. So instead of throwing Covey out there to be massacred, the argument goes...let's put Moncada, Fulmer and Burdi on the roster (as long as their service time/Super Two deadlines have been met) and see what they can do...the odds of someone who throws as hard as Burdi and being a member of the Sox bullpen making it into his arbitration years or getting extended (see Nate Jones) seems to be an argument that wouldn't prohibit them from recalling him, as well as the argument he could learn a lot more at the big league level around Don Cooper and veterans like Robertson, Shields, Gonzalez and Holland. So what are the odds that Moncada could kick start the offense as a dynamic presence (especially impacting Anderson/Saladino/Cabrera)...that Fulmer could solidify the back end of the rotation and that Burdi could make the back end of the bullpen one of the most dominating in the game (especially when Nate Jones returns)? Would that be rushing the rebuild? I honestly don't know. The odds are certainly in favor of the Indians...all that said, it would be (and will be) fun to watch. And that's without expecting anything out of Giolito or maybe even Lopez (surely we'll see him at some point, though) this year.

Turned out the Astros made the right move standing pat...or at least it looks that way.

Thank god for Moncada. Homer and RBI double now, 2 RS. 24 runs scored, leading INTL League.

Farmer and DJ are pissed. Back to bed, 2:33 a.m. And not worth listening to this debacle any longer. Besides, the game will probably still be going on at the snail's pace they're setting. 58 pitches, not even six outs. Between Rodon, Anderson, Q and Saladino...frustrating.

Dunning with nearly 50 pitches to get six outs. And now a three run bomb. Ends that long stretch without giving up any runs. Two singles, a walk and homer this inning. Tack on an error. 71 pitches. 9-3, might not get to 5 ip for the win. Got a K but pulled from the game early.

Well, at least Winston-Salem scoring some runs today. 9 off Elias...albeit some errors mixed in.

The Saladino play was not an error but a fielder's choice?

This whole inning needs to be thrown into the garbage. Poor Q. 28 pitches. Harrelson must be blowing a gasket. Or just depressed.

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https://mobile.twitter.com/HernandezJavier/...001200849887233 Incontrovertible proof that President Trump's image and implicit blessing of investor "Golden" visas as a path to citizenship...is directly connected to the Kushner Real Estate Group. Senator Patrick Leahy's going to be up in arms about this. His image was used (without permission), as well as Grassley, Jeh Johnson and Gen. Kelly with DHS. http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/07/opinions/cur...itis/index.html For far rightists, the curse of Trump's example

Kahnle reminds me of Aardsma with better secondary pitches now...

Another single for Collins. .232/759

Collins at .222 now. 745 ops

He should have two homers, according to Harrelson.