Chicago White Sox

Not sure if this means that LuGo moved past Basabe or if the lack of options was the only issue. For whatever reason, I find it even more annoying that we just gave Basabe away now.

This pitcher is a legit slump buster.

My god this is amazing!

We should definitely put Yoan on the DL for a week cause he’s just killing us.

Wow he was out by a mile. Good fucking decision right there.

His ground-ball rate coming into today was the lowest on the team at 26.7%...

No walks please

So he’s basically ever player ever?

What’s wrong with LF?

Same bad pitches there by Hudson, but credit to Jose for not swinging at something stupid.

Wonder how they are going to attack Jose here? 🤔

I was thinking the same exact thing

Anderson’s wOBACON was at .507 coming into today, league average is .369. That is really fucking good.

Wow, that does seem to be blasting Ricky!

BABIP <> automatically mean luck and our team should always be high BABIP due to the profiles of our hitters. Also, Statcast seems to suggest we’ve gotten unlucky when it comes to balls we’ve made contact on based on our wOBACON.

Are you actually a Sox fan? Seems like you are more of a prospect junkie would actually like to see Madrigal fail because he wasn’t one of your guys.

Fair enough...just no way anyone would have thought Madrigal would have been the worst baserunner in baseball after five games. Clearly a couple bad plays (including the one he got injured on) driving that.

You may want to redo the offensive ones after yesterday’s spectacular effort!

Lol at without looking...you’re hunting for reasons to hate on Madrigal.

Abreu batting cleanup again! I guess when you’re 33 you never need a day off!

Never

Just wanted to point this out, but here are our hitters’ average launch angles this year vs. last year with their ground-ball rates in parentheses: Jimenez: 3.1 / -6.2 (54.7% / +6.8) Anderson: 7.4 / -1.3 (52.9% / +4.3%) Abreu: 7.8 / -3.1 (55.6% / +9.3%) Grandal: 8.9 / -4.4 (41.7% / +2.6%) Robert: 9.4 / NA (42.0% / NA) Moncada: 16.8 / +4.5 (36.5% / -5.8%) Encarnacion: 22.3 / -4.9 (42.3% / +11.5%) Mazara: 20.5 / +10.1 (26.7% / -20.1%) MLB Avg: 11.9 Some of our guys are actually hitting balls pretty hard this year, but their launch angles have decreased quite a bit YoY and that has resulted in a lot more ground-balls. Eloy & Jose are real problems as they are guys with serious power who you’d like to see lofting the ball much more. I’m not sure if this is from a lack of awareness of how launch angle works, a lack of game-planning against certain types of pitchers & pitches, or just a sample size issue (I’m sure this is part of it), but our offense will continue to have problems if what should be a power-oriented offense keeps hitting this many ground-balls.

It’s needs more Zack Collins.

Alright boys, today is the definition of a must win as the Sox are currently in 10th place in the AL at the 35% mark of the season and wouldn’t make the playoffs at the moment. It’s officially time to stop fucking around and being swept at home and going to two games under .500, regardless of no fans, would simply be a kick to the dick. On the mound today, we have a man named after one of the great American cities vs. some dude named after not just one but two of the lamest states in the entire US. Our boy Dallas has been as good as advertised this year, keeping the ball on the ground and working towards a 3.04 ERA and 3.48 FIP. Meanwhile, this Dakota character has only made one start and gave up 4 runs in 4.1 innings including a couple of blasts. This was also 21 days ago, so dude should be rusty but then again this is the White Sox he’s facing. Dakota is very much a sinker-slider type pitcher and I could see that poising challenges for our RH hitters. We desperately need a plan at the plate today and that is to not chase his slider down & away. It’s without question his put away pitch and our hitters need to expect it when Dakota gets a favorable count. As for the lineup today, if it were me managing I’d finally give Abreu’s ground-ball inducing ass a day-off (he has literally started every game) and go with some combo of Collins & Encarnacion at 1B & DH. I know I’m in the minority, but this is a perfect spot for my boy Collins and I hope Ricky finally realizes he does have a LH power bat on his roster not named Mazara and that it’s ok to use him in certain matchups. Regardless, let’s get a fucking win today and welcome those Tigers on a high note! Let’s fucking go!!