Chicago White Sox

Oh fuck yes!!

So far Leury & Collins are 0-3 with two K’s and five LOB. I may be Zack’s biggest fan on this board, but these decisions are mind-boggling and actually hurting us

That was beyond embarrassing

JFC Jason...even Madrigal is laughing at how weak that contact was. Anyone know the exit velocity of that?

Oh god full count

Ball four base hit

Mendick’s? Pretty damn ugly

The good news is if we flip the lineup over we’ll have Leury ready to make em pay for putting so many guys on

Slapdick Nick keeps the inning alive!!

Would be great time for Madrigal’s first HR

Shit call right there...Collins has a better eye than a lot of these umpires

Come on Zack...do some damage here!

Against LHP I agree...don’t think we have any better options against RHP though.

I know it’s early, but we’re going to need another versatile bench piece. Leury is obviously better than what he’s showed so far, but his bat doesn’t fit well on this roster.

Ducksnort!

Leury is so bad right now

I missed the first batter, but liked I what I saw afterwards. Now let’s get some fucking runs for him and let him pitch with a lead!

Jerksticks’ post wasn’t exclusive to the catcher position. But let’s say it was, it’s not like Collins is Cease’s personal catcher. What are the other considerations here?

Very few guys on our roster have faced Minor somehow and he’s limited them to a .408 OPS. Abreu & Moncada are both 0-4 while Leury is 2/3 with a BB. While those samples are ridiculously small, I have feeling that career OPS against us is going to rise quite a bit after today.

Then please rationalize these against-the-platoon decisions

Cease taking steps forward and optimizing the lineup aren’t mutually exclusive. Seasons can come down to a single game and every decision matters. I agree in many ways that Cease is the fulcrum to the season, but I’d also like to see La Russa show more as our manager.

He’s already caught Giolito & Lynn and now will be adding Cease. Keuchel has always been a Grandal fan, but right now it doesn’t appear any of them outside of maybe Dallas will only work with one guy. I still think you should avoid using personal catchers and go with the best offensive matchup each day, within reason obviously.

And apparently the batteries are setup days in advance with no flexibility:

The two most egregious decisions are starting Collins over Grandal against a lefty despite two straight days off and facing a righty tomorrow and then leading off Leury over several better options.

Theoretically yes, but you may have just angered the baseball gods by being this confident ?