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QUOTE (ptatc @ May 9, 2017 -> 06:49 AM) Where is this mentioned? The Baseball America article I linked right above from April 14th. http://m.mlb.com/news/article/229218144/lu...beyond-results/ Merkin just wrote another...after last night.

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QUOTE (TheTruth05 @ May 9, 2017 -> 05:35 AM) This was to be expected and yet it's doom and gloom 1 month into the season,even with his velocity creeping back up. For Giolito to be doing an Eric Johnson impression was expected? I don't think anyone said that the day of the trade...nor were the words "a total work in progress" commonly bandied about.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/07/opinions/dem...pinion-zelizer/ Greg, don't waste your time with Rush, Hannity, Huckabee or Meghan McCain. Or try Tomi Lahren, since I'm sure you will be taken with her. https://www.facebook.com/therealtomilahren/ What he's trying to say is more elegantly elucidated in this article.

Realistically, the only two young players that would be added are going to be Delmonico/Hayes...unless you want to get rid of Soto/Narvaez for Kevan Smith. Saladino or Sanchez would get more playing time, depending on what they do with Moncada. Maybe Willy Garcia, he'd be the other choice, or Rymer Liriano. Then you've got Carson Fulmer, maybe Lopez when he improves his control and Burdi. Doesn't seem like we're going to see any wholesale changes.

He's not changing his mechanics or throwing motion, though. What he has been working on is more related to leg drive, downward plane, towel drills, etc.

Wait a second, isn't Steve McCatty the pitching coach for Charlotte now? In 2009, McCatty became the second pitching coach in Washington Nationals franchise history, replacing Randy St. Claire, who was fired, and McCatty was called upon to replace him after working at the Nationals' AAA affiliate. The Nationals fired McCatty and the entire coaching staff after the 2015 season.[1] McCatty is the one supervising his mechanical changes? I'm assuming they brought him in to work with Lopez/Giolito because he was already familiar with both of them from his time with the Nationals? http://www.baseballamerica.com/minors/comm...cago-white-sox/ Going back to this BA article from mid-April, it says all of the "interventions" are about fastball command/control and adding a slider...but nothing about mechanical changes. Hmmm... http://www.masnsports.com/nationals-pastim...own-tigers.html So McCatty was credited with helping Strasburg and Jordan Zimmerman, but also took a lot of the blame for the Bryce Harper/Papelbon blow-up in late 2015. One would assume he was also blamed for the way Strasburg was held out from pitching in order to prevent an injury, which later blew up in their faces. Interesting.

4 starts and 6 games total is a lot more of a look than Daniel Hudson got in the middle of a playoff race. If we want to argue "extended" is 4 weeks or 6 weeks or 8 weeks rather than 3-4, okay. I'll obviously agree that Lopez got more of an extended stretch than Giolito, though.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 8, 2017 -> 07:33 PM) Fans of a team that has just seen Matt Davidson return from 2 borderline DFA seasons to playable in MLB and are watching Yolmer Sanchez and Leury Garcia hitting in our top 5 for OPS, and to top it off have our top reliever as 27 year old TommyKahnle who for years had been unable to harness his control are about to write off a 23 year old former top prospect after a bad month. If you are currently bad you will be bad forever, good, good forever. When's the last time the top right-handed pitching prospect in all of baseball got lit up in the major leagues for an extended stretch...then followed it up with a month of throwing up a 7+ ERA at the minor league level for over a month the following season? Just curious if anyone can think of any relevant examples...especially someone Giolito's size and having already gone through one TJ surgery previously. Luke Hochevar comes to mind, but he never made it as a starter. He did end up having a successful MLB career as a 7th inning set-up specialist.

They probably think Delmonico needs another month or two of seasoning at AAA, after he struggled there at the end of last season. That said, if Asche continues to hit .100ish, they might have no choice.

That's why Ted Cruz will never be the GOP nominee. That Harvard debate "gotcha" side of him, he's just not likeable...and he's a very smart guy, but he wants to let EVERYONE around him know that fact, which basically means he has zero friends. There's just no way Yates was going to come in there under-prepared after her reputation was dragged through the mud by the right-wing media after Trump replaced her.

The White Sox for most of the last decade would have been fairly happy to have an OPS of 700 at the leadoff spot. For the Cubs, compared to what Fowler did for most of last season, it's unacceptable. Granted, a month ago Kris Bryant was one of the worst hitters in baseball, it doesn't take long to reverse those numbers in the first half of the season.

I was going to guess Jared Mitchell. He was probably 3rd or 4th. But too recent.

Well, that's all we can do here for now. But yeah, if you throw 93-95 and don't know where it's going and have to throw it when behind in the count, you're going to get killed. You're probably still going to get killed at 96-98 MPH. He absolutely has to get his offspeed stuff over the plate to keep them off the fastball and vary his pitch selection tendencies. I remember when Felipe Paulino was up with the Sox after all those injuries, he was throwing about as hard or harder than Giolito but he absolutely got killed. It's about a lot more than velocity, as you mentioned. There's location, and especially movement. Some prefer to go with spin rate. I'm not sure what's going on between the two and four seam fastball, if he's having trouble with both or one pitch specifically or what the heck's going on with him. Maybe his two-seamer's not getting that good sinking action and he's leaving it out over the plate and hitters are feasting on it? Obviously the four-seamer is the one that should be the highest velocity, but he's off by 2-4 MPH with that pitch compared to a year or so ago.

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.