Chicago White Sox

What about Fat Yolbert? How’s he looking?

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/sprint_speed_leaderboard?year=2017position=team=

How much weight do you think he’s gained that would actually have impacted his speed? He’s still a scrawny little b****. His speed may not be as advertised, but he’s certainly not a below average runner for all major leaguers. This is an obvious sample size bias.

To be fair he was 77% for sprint speed last year, so I’d argue this is a function of sample size.

Offensively I see nothing to suggest he’ll ever hit more than a couple HRs in a season. I do think the rest of his game will improve over time. He seems to be way too much in his own head and/or trying to do too much. There is no chance he is this bad in the field and on the bases. How much better he’ll be remains to be seen though.

The real question is will Liam ever pitch again if we don’t run into another save situation? Let’s be up four plus heading into the 9th in all future games and find out!

Nasty

Really not good

Not good

No walks!

lol

Ball four base hit

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Man another run or two would be huge here

Vaugh’s ability to get on-base is going to be a godsend for this offense. And Collins’ looks legit awesome.

Jose always starts out slow

Would be really nice if Moncada did something other than a walk

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Robert is going yard here

Lol...I was actually just looking at that

What’s the alternative? Sacrifice offense for Leury or god forbid Hamilton’s defense? Vaughn is going to hit at some point and will add much needed OBP to an offense that can get very undisciplined at times. Zero reason to stop the experiment because of one ball that was barely out of his grasp three games into his OF career.

Great post. I’m as frustrated as anyone right now and have real concerns about this roster, but the hot takes here are starting to reach insane levels.

He was awful? I guess I wasn’t paying close enough attention, because I don’t remember that many bad things that happened with him behind the plate. Meanwhile, I can recall everyone of Madrigal’s fuckups. And I’m not suggesting Zack will ever be a good defensive catcher, but this board loves jumping on a single bad moment from any catcher not named James McCann and scream they are the worst catcher in baseball.

Because of one bad play?

Honestly, I think you have to give him a few more weeks bare minimum. If he’s still costing us extra outs come May 1st, then I’m not sure you have a choice but to send him down.