Chicago White Sox

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

I don’t mean me and you need to know, but that the Sox need to now so they can ensure the player is actually in Chicago for the time of the game.

The problem is tomorrow is a day game, so we kind of need to know if we’ll need one of the Charlotte guys for tomorrow so you can ensure they can get here in time. I think if you plan to use both Fedde & Urquidy, then you have no choice to bring up Thorpe (or Shane) for tomorrow’s game.

Any updates on this front? All I know is the Sox said they would take it day by day earlier on the broadcast last night. I also believe fathom mentioned Hudson would serve as opener today, but haven’t personally seen that reported. Sox ending up using four relievers yesterday including two of their bulk guys in Schweitzer & Richards. That sucks about the latter given they had Castillo on the bump last night and were probably hoping to get a few more innings out of him. A true bullpen game would have been easier with those two available. They still have Fedde & Urquidy to provide multiple innings, but hard to feel confident either of them will go beyond four. I think we’re going to see Hagen sent down and one of the Charlotte SPs called up. Shane is scheduled to pitch tonight for Charlotte & Thorpe is scheduled for tomorrow. I think one of those guys has to get the call. Protecting the bullpen is just as important as winning one of these next two games, so need the extra arm to have more options to absorb innings at minimum.

Yup, this and the Vargas error were killer. Still no idea why Will let Rogers hit in the 9th and not move Acuna over. I have to imagine our win probability would have skyrocketed with one additional run. If you are afraid to use Acuna on the basepaths late in the game, I’m not sure what the point of rostering him is.

Underwhelming stuff? He had stuck out 13.5 per 9 coming into tonight. His issue is command / control. The velocity stuff is overplayed around here.

Should have had Acuna running in the 9th or bunted him over. That was a big mistake and solely on him. Rogers botching the challenges isn’t on him, but doesn’t help that guys continue to burn them on horrible calls early in games like Antonacci did tonight.

These are terrible at bats

Chase deserves a bad game after the heater he’s been on.

so hit and run there???

Why not pinch hit here? Are they saving Colson for Rogers?

That ain’t a fight…that’s just a pure beat-down