Chicago White Sox

At least Crochet is bringing the heat

Tell me Burger isn’t hurt

Lol...Abreu is gone after the 2022 season, Keuchel after 2022 or 2023, Grandal after 2023, Lynn after 2023 or 2024, & Hendriks after 2024. Not like we have some Miguel Cabrera albatross waiting in the wings.

Not the sexiest lineup against a RHP, but clearly Tony is saving Sheets & Collins for Berrios.

FYI...Kopech is only controllable through 2025 (four more years of control after this season) and we definitely will have some arb eligible players this offseason.

Same here! Let’s hope the Marlins feel the same and will take him as a piece for Starling Marte!

Huge win! Also, @chitownsportsfan = NSC confirmed:

Oh I know they’ll move to the rotation next year, but if they don’t get him some innings he won’t last the full and won’t be able to contribute much come October.

Nice win!! Fuck you Astros!

Fully agree. There is still time, but as each day passes it just seems like they want to keep him a high leverage, 1 or 2 inning reliever role.

That’s totally fair, but at some point we got to rip off the bandaid or he will be greatly limited as a starter next year.

What’s their plan exactly? Kopech is sitting at 36.1 innings on the year.

We own the city now, time to rock $180M+ payrolls

You just compared Gallo to Dunn, so not sure what Engel has anything to do about it. The point is Gallo is a monster with the bat and the glove, so his floor is certainly not Adam Dunn even if his offense breaks bad.

Why couldn’t Carlos always been this dude??

I’d probably say Burdi, although I think Zack is the superior prospect.

100% agree.

I like Hamilton as a role player, but maybe look at the 862 PAs against LHP coming into the season before saying that. Goodwin has historically been leagues better against LHP and it’s not even close.

He has a 60 wRC+ against LHP in his career over 895 PAs, I’m not sure 33 PAs this year should change our opinion of him.

Escobar isn’t going to cost that much IMO.

Depends on what changes they make in the upcoming CBA. Knowing our luck we end up with neither an extra pick or Rodon for an additional year.

Dunn played a gold glove caliber RF?

Wow, wish I read this post first...lol. But well said!

I’m not sure any of this is an accurate narrative. Lucas’ usage rate on his slider was 17% yesterday vs. 18% YTD (and 15% the last two seasons). Over his last eight starts it’s been at 19%, so slightly higher than last night. And a lot of that is attributable to a single start against the Tigers. So the slider usage is up but not significantly. Additionally, it’s the slider that has been the most impacted in terms of spin rate since the spidertack ban, being down ~6% vs. 2020 whereas his 4-seamer is only down ~2%. So yeah, he was probably using something, but he didn’t suddenly think “fuck, I can’t use the sticky stuff anymore so I better start using my most impacted pitch way more frequently”. Also, at least in terms of last night, it wasn’t that he was using the slider more, but using the changeup far less (19% vs. 35% YTD). Again, this is just one start doesn’t imply a material change in usage since the spidertack ban. Perhaps it implies some willingness to mix things up a bit more, but we need more than eight starts to draw any conclusions on him making a legit repertoire change.