Chicago White Sox

You are giving Pedro way too much credit here in terms of his strategic thinking

He will be up soon enough I’d imagine

And I’ll take that end of an inning

I love me some Yoan, but dude just breaks my heart every time I think about what if he could stay healthy.

Because what if the bench coach is in the shitter when Pedro gets tossed? Who coaches then smart guy?!

Prove me wrong, but bringing in Kopech with 1 out and two runners on would be considered doing “something stupid”. May the baseball gods take mercy on our souls and grant Kopech with immense mental fortitude this inning.

Pedro is such a gentleman in how he addresses shitty umpiring

Six outs away from our first win! We should be able to close this out assuming Pedro doesn’t do something stupid.

I know it’s early, but I know a .091 OPS is never good

Because Pedro doesn’t want to go 0-5 and we are two innings away from possibly lucking into a win. This is exactly what we should all be worried about.

I hate even typing this, but there is no way Grifol doesn’t get Crochet injured at some point. Like he isn’t even attempting to manage his pitch count or innings at this point.

Groundball city!

And there is a monstrous duck snort from the big fella!

Runner on this with one out and our cleanup hitter up What could go wrong??

Hopefully you don’t think of this guy when you watch Vaughn batting like I do

I was telling someone at Easter yesterday that there is no doubt in my mind that we should have traded Vaughn over Burger. Jake is a way better hitter given the power differential, a significantly better base runner, and likely a better defensive 1B if given a full time shot. I have literally lost all faith in Andrew ever being an above average 1B.

It’s truly wild that Sheets is batting cleanup despite putting DFA worthy offensive numbers in his major league career

I got bad news for you about the next ~1,400

Crochet in this case

I hope Hahn is sitting in a dive bar in Winnetka crying right now as he watches what he could have been.

Luckily he can still hit though ?

I seriously doubt Jerry Reinsdorf is providing any input on this

At some point the minor league arms will be ready for their shot. Cannon, Thorpe, & Eder in particular should be pushing for roles in the second half. I’d imagine Crochet gets shut down by August and Soroka is dealt at the deadline. I agree that Flexen gets cut or moved to a swing role eventually and signing Clevinger hopefully helps accelerate that.

I think they realize Flexen is absolute garbage and will eventually need to be replaced. A rotation of Crochet, Soroka, Fedde, Clevinger, & Nastrini could be decent for what is otherwise a very bad team. Flexen becomes the swing man and jumps back in when there is eventually an injury or when a spot opens up. I just hope that they use this as an excuse to claw back an extra year of control with Nastrini, but my guess is Getz will bungle this opportunity unfortunately.

I think there is a very slim chance he is here all season. Pedro is the laughing stock of baseball and I truly believe the only reason he’s being kept around (other than to help Jerry’s wallet) is to be the sacrificial lamb for a shitty team in transition as we wait for our main prospects to reach the majors. At some point the losses will be too immense not to do something in season or Getz will bring heat upon himself. My guess is that will be sometime between Memorial Day and the All Star break.