Chicago White Sox

How about a line drive?

Need to get at least one here and obviously two would be ideal

Yeah, I think he will also get better out there with more reps.

What a catch! Antonacci is a better OF than many give him credit for.

JFC

Don’t stop now!!

nice Vargas…f*** them Cubs

Lineup needs to man up and fucking get on the scoreboard ASAP

Eight K’s in three innings ain’t too shabby

Urquidy earning his paycheck so far!!

Never mind, he got up and threw it pretty fast

How did he not beat that out?

Save us Mune!

What a disaster that sequence was

Man the CHSN app sucks…just randomly goes on delay over time

Everyone needs to read this article. Full acknowledgement of our shortcomings on the pitching development side of things from Bannister. Shocking to see that we’ve made some major investments like Hawk-Eye motion trackers but aren’t fully utilizing the output data yet. Modernizing an org isn’t easy so perhaps it should be a relief that we aren’t 100% there yet given how many of the young arms have performed.

Totally agree. Not having your opening day SP or a single one of your three top 100 prospects who started the year at AAA in your August rotation is a massive failing and needs to be assessed. I get that Bannister has done fairly well with the major league guys, but the minor league development has been atrocious and that’s part of his job too. Changes are likely needed in some capacity and outside additions will need to be over-indexed in the short run to offset. Although to nitpick I wouldn’t say Sandlin is having a bad year. I know you think he can’t get lefties out, but the changeup has been ok, he just hasn’t used it all that much. I feel like he’s flashed enough to be a competent back of the rotation SP, but you have to accept some short term growing pains to get there.

Newcomb vs. Holmes. Unclear if they are calling anyone up to eat some innings today (Thorpe is today’s SP for Charlotte) or if they plan to just go with Urquidy as the bulk guy. Regardless, no pep talk from me today. The Sox’s offense needs to step up big and take some pressure off of a beaten down pitching it. That’s it…that’s the entire plan. Three or four runs won’t be enough, so score early and score often. Let’s fucking go!

I said his max pitches thrown were 75 last start. He’s continued to go up in pitch count each start and I’d expect that to continue until he reaches about 100.

They traded for and called him up a few years back despite his velocity being down a bit from where it was with the Yankees. It’s possible things have changed, but with Will talking about him recently I think he’s the guy they are banking on to claim one rotation spot. Let’s pray for a strong start tomorrow.

I think Sandlin & Thorpe are our best hope for some rotation prosecution. Zero confidence in Cannon and very little in Urquidy but you never know.

100% this. Hard to evaluate Will on his bullpen usage right now when they are so over-worked. I just don’t get what the plan is for the rotation. Still shocked up Mason Adams and didn’t get a SP back. Prioritizing Doyle over another SP and at the expense of one of our better bats against LHP remains perplexing.

How has Adams since the trade? Haven’t checked yet.

Nice catch!!

Meidroth is insane