Chicago White Sox

He should be playing everyday so we can determine if he’s a usable piece before the offseason.

At least Grifol does the right thing here.

Does Pedro pinch hit for Maldadno in the 9th? And yes, I’m aware that Lee is at DH and we would lose that position by doing so. Still 100% the right call.

Why does Leasure always look like he’s on the verge of a panic attack

lol…these guys are such clowns

The problem is that Pedro is Getz’s get out of jail free card. Once he cashes that one in, the focus turns to him. Heading into the season I thought Pedro would get canned around the All Star break, but I could see Getz potentially dragging this out now given how bad things gotten. But if the losing streak keeps building and starts approaching 20, it just might force the issue.

I mean, he inherited a very bad team and somehow made it historically bad. Even his army of fanboys should be nervous at this point and yet here they are telling us Julks is a starting caliber RF and we’ll be back to .500 in no time.

Fletcher?

The point wasn’t he was rocking a high BABIP. Obviously some guys can rock higher BABIPS. The call out from me was his wOBA was ~80 points higher than his xwOBA in 2023 and was rapidly regressing before he was sent down, hence the BABIP was never sustainable. And yes, you ignored this point and continued to use a flukey 100 plate appearance sample as proof he could hit major league pitching…even up to today.

Which we pointed out screamed flukiness based on the batted ball data which you proceeded to ignore by claiming we were just “hating”

So basically swapping out the entire OF…now it all makes sense

I’m guessing it’s more about the materiality. The dude who got the lifetime ban bet $150k whereas Popeye bet $750 total.

You think the Sox traded him because they knew of the gambling issue?

The pitching depth is great, but there isn’t a lot of hitting talent and very few with star potential. I’m still very much optimistic on Montgomery, but if he’s just a 2 win player, we are in big trouble.

The Sox currently sit at -0.4 fWAR on the season. Chris Getz has built a team below replacement level. I honestly think Jeremy Haber’s laptop with some ChatGPT could have built a more competent roster.

I think these guys may be bad

Uh oh

The way they’ve handled him since calling him back up has been bizarre. Feels like they have completely lost confidence in him and don’t have room on the 40 man for a veteran 4th OF so will instead just let Dominic rot.

Do you still believe that Fletcher is a at minimum 2 win player?

Correct…he’s a below replacement player.

It’s wild how bad these lineups are. Even when we kicked off the rebuild it was leagues better than this. And yes, I know three of our best hitters are injured, but still, dudes picked off the scrap-heap are literally batting in the key spots of the lineup.

Let’s be clear here. The Dodgers are a world class organization and the Sox are not. Just because the Sox may be handling Crochet a certain way doesn’t mean it’s right. I personally think Crochet should be handled more similar to Schultz (not as conservative though), but I’m obviously no pitching expert. I just know muscles need be conditioned over time for massive changes in usage and pretending that isn’t case will lead to disastrous outcomes 9 times out of 10.

I’m sure you’re right, especially since he’s already at AA. I just don’t like calling him up next year (at least early) if he still needs to build up innings. This team ain’t competing in 2025 and he’s still young enough to spend another season in the minors. I obviously won’t be mad if I get to watch him pitch in the majors.

These are just really weird flexes. Again, if you’re going to continue to be condescending about this, show us some examples of such a ramp-up?

Schultz probably needs another year in the minors to ramp-up. And that’s ok because I think we’ll have seven or eight guys in competition for three or four spots. Might as well use 2025 to see what you have in those guys and call up Schultz when he’s able to contribute without significant limitations.