Chicago White Sox

I’d still DFA Rojas tomorrow, but glad he looks better

Rojas says don’t even think about DFAing me right now

What’s wild is Benintendi had a 131 wRC+ coming into today when DHing. Like if you could move him out of the OF and for whatever reason the bat keeps playing up at DH, he might be usable and/or tradable eventually. Regardless, we got to find a way to get him out of the OF on most days. Don’t care what vilehoopster says, Andrew is very bad in the field.

I used to love Stone, but I just feel like I’m ready for a change. Plesac is straight up fun and we need more of that.

Duck

I like Plesac more than Stone 😳

Sosa is fucking insane right now

Keep earning thar $20M option brother

Hopefully we can make the Angels regret trading for this guy

Suck it Angels!

Sorry, mean dude was tagged before the runner scored

Dude is out

Colson hanging out with Meidroth…I am jealous.

Colson is a fucking stud…wow wow wow

I also think that some of the foundational investments are finally bearing fruit on the offensive side of things. These are some of the best at-bats I have seen in a long time and we know they are getting guys to pull & lift more than ever before. For the entire Rick Hahn era it was clear that we had some of the worst advanced scouting in the sport and we have heard stories that our coaching & development staffs really didn’t have plans for these guys at the plate. Feels like we might finally be a semi-competent organization 😳

So do I, but I am worried that we will pass a couple teams in the standings when it’s all said and done. Just got to hope we can end up top three or so. Would be nice to have one final draft with a big pool before a run of sustained success.

Also, Benintendi has insane splits at DH and tonight ain’t stopping that

I know it’s an unpopular opinion here, but the lineup legit looks good.

Those are rest of season projections dog

If they’re smart, they go out and add someone like Cease who is awesome but also inconsistent enough not to get an insane deal. Start the season with Smith, Burke, and either Martin or Cannon (they can battle in spring). 5th starter spot should go to Taylor with Vasil as his piggyback. We should commit to developing Taylor as a starter next year IMO, even if his innings will certainly be limited. I know Schultz has lost a little bit of shine, but my guess is he will force his way into the rotation by May. He should come in and replace the weak link in the rotation, with the loser moving into a long relief role and possibly even serving as Schultz’s piggyback. Thorpe, Adams, & Bush will need some minor league seasoning, but could all fill in come June or July. Hagen Smith and McDougle could also push for spots by the middle of the season. Going to be a lot of options come the second half of the season if guys stay healthy, which is obviously always a big wild card.

lol…Bob Nightengale is a riot.

Why play the actual games when we can just have projection systems simulate everything for us! Projection systems are obviously flawless, especially when it comes to young players.

Please explain how I am “setting myself up for disappointment”. This quality of than site has plummeted because half the posts are nothing but valueless drive-by’s or various iterations of “everything sucks so nothing can be good”. Maybe try contributing something of value using some data driven counterparts instead of this type of crap. White Sox record by month: April: 7-23 (.233) - 38 win pace May: 11-17 (.393) - 64 win pace June: 10-16 (.385) - 62 win pace July: 12-13 (.480) - 78 win pace YTD: 40-69 (.367) - 59 win pace Since May 33-46 (.418) - 68 win pace Weird how they have been much better since May. It’s almost like the talent level got better when we called up three former top 100 prospects and a kid who put up a 132 wRC+ last year in AAA. And despite your belief that Luis Robert is the worst player in all of baseball and should rot in hell for all eternity, his expected stats always suggested significant improvement was coming (something you refuse to accept to this day). Add in us getting rid of negative win players like Vaughn and Amaya and it’s not that hard to see this is a much better positional group than the one the season started with. So yeah, I think someone taking our YTD winning percentage and multiplying it by 162 and saying we are going to win 59 games is both lazy & stupid. As someone who tries to be balanced in their views, I would not assume this is a 78 win type team moving forward because of one really good month. There is a reason to believe some of the young starters will wear down and there will be some more cold streaks amongst the bats. But this looks like a ~70 win type team moving forward if Perez can come in and give us 75% of what Houser was doing.

White Sox’s results in July without Houser & Slater: Positional: 3.1 fWAR (16th overall) Pitching: 1.7 fWAR (tied for 19th) Literally a middle of the pack team for the month. I’d expect some regression as the young pitching wears down (hopefully Perez can help there though), but no chance would I take our YTD winning percentage and assume that sticks or gets worse the rest of the way. The positional group is simply much more talented and more seasoned (to some degree at least) than the one we started the year with.

What is a “leech” deal and how did you come across these terms?