Chicago White Sox

This team really knows how to bring the fun in fundamentals

What role does Lamb play unless they hope he can fill in at LF somehow? We shouldn’t be benching Yoan against RHP to get Lamb in the lineup.

Yoan goes stretches like this all the time and will be fine with time, but he shouldn’t be batting 4th right now and especially not against LHP.

Seriously, looked like he wasn’t even trying.

Embarrassingly bad swing there

Wow Jose

It’s almost like he’s kid with less than 60 games experience ?

To be fair it’s been two innings. I like what I’m seeing so far, but it’s way too early to draw any real conclusions.

Some big hits are coming soon enough, it’s just a matter of time when facing B & C tier left-handed starters.

Apologize and the baseball gods will take mercy on us!

This Mitch Trubisky comparison you’re trying to make is truly bizarre...they were nothing alike as draft prospects.

The Sox definitely need to add left-handed bat with some defensive versatility to the bench between now and the deadline. Brad Miller would have been a nice fit, but unfortunately that would set us back way too much financially.

Here he comes

Grandal!!!

Ok I’m done with Nick Madrigal

Mitch Haniger isn’t commanding Andrew Vaughn

Yeah, he really should be batting 6th most likely

Here we go

Is Lambert hurt?

It’s obviously an unconventional comparison, but the point is Hamilton is getting a lot of rope while Hendriks isn’t. And I don’t hate Hamilton, I just think it’s insane to use him as anything other than a pinch runner & defensive substitute at this point in his career.

My beef isn’t spending the money on Hendriks necessarily (I would have prioritized other things given our salary constraints in hindsight), but his value is tied to him pitching a lot and in all sorts of high leverage situations. Only 1.1 innings in four close games is crazy and not using him last night is simply unacceptable. I hope La Russa has much more aggressive plans for Liam than what we have seen so far or his signing will be a total waste of minimal financial resources we were able to deploy this winter.

Wow...more Billy fucking Hamilton. He’s already at 13.1 innings on the year and should surpass 20 by the end of tonight. Meanwhile, our biggest free agent addition is sitting at a cool 1.1. What a fucking mess.

Does Liam automatically get an inning tonight or will La Russa continue to save his closer for save situations only?

They were able to contend last year with most of these same guys and black holes at DH & RF, so they should be able to again. But this is where the lack of depth hurts. No one is expecting all stars on the bench, but a reserve infielder who can play SS & 2B while not being a black hole against RHP would be a godsend right now. Instead we have to rock Leury out there while Timmy misses time. Unfortunately, when you compound that with a bunch of developing players your margin for error becomes razor thin.

He’s played 60 total games, I get he’s looked ugly, but the kid will likely adjust. It’s just going to take some time. Unfortunately, that puts even more pressure on Jose & Yoan to mash.