Chicago White Sox

Vargas is such a good baseball player

Wands magic is working again!

They don’t like how he handles a pitching staff apparently

I think Jacob was reluctant to adopt some of their proposed changes and they were just trying to be brutally honest with him. People can be really stubborn, especially baseball players, when it comes to change.

Game is entirely winnable. Sox should fare better the second time through the lineup and some of this batted ball luck should normalize. The real challenge is whether Fedde can keep us it on the pitching side.

Let’s fucking go!

Fedde is coming in after Hudson

This has to be the most ridiculous hard flex I have ever seen in my time on this site. Kyle Tucker has put up 13.6 fWAR over the past three seasons with a 147 wRC+ over that period. Meanwhile, your boy Andrew has been worth -0.3 fWAR (yes, negative value) with a 94 wRC+ (yes, below league average). That’s cool they are hitting about the same this season…there is reason to believe Tucker will get better while Andrew won’t. And if Benintendi doesn’t get significantly better, he’ll remain a replacement or negative value player who offers no zero roster flexibility and is paid a meaningful amount of money. Hopefully Andrew can stay hot and prove me wrong, but weird player to rally around on like this.

Great article. I don’t always agree with Law when it comes to pitching, but his track record on positional prospects is amongst the best I’ve seen. If he’s a believer in Gonzalez, then I think we should all start getting excited.

Going to be so fucking awesome when that happens.

This is the right approach…be aggressive, but not stupid. Also, for reference, here is how much team control we have beyond this season for our existing positional group: 1: M. Murakami (1B) 2: none 3: M. Vargas (3B) 4: B. Baldwin (UT) 5: C.Montgomery (SS) | C. Meidroth (2B) | K. Teel (CA) | E. Quero (CA) | T. Peters | E. Pereira (OF 6: B. Montgomery (OF) | S. Antonacci (LF/IF) | J. Gonzalez (IF) And this doesn’t include Bonemer and whomever we take at the 1.01, who have strong chances of being part of this core. That is a fuckton of positional talent and most is controllable for a long time. Outside of extending Murakami and possibly Vargas, we can commit our financial & prospect resources toward the pitching staff. As I mentioned previously, I wouldn’t give up any of our top 5 prospects, but pretty much anyone else I’d be willing to consider trading. Again, be aggressive, but just not stupid.

Sure, but did those proposing we add Bauer contact one before assuring us he would be the answer to our pitching problems?

Trevor Bauer is an awful clubhouse fit even if you believe him innocent of any criminal wrongdoing. I also don’t understand why anyone would think a 35 year old pitching in the Nippon League or wherever he is will come back to the MLB and be really good. Not trying to be a dick, but just a bad idea all around.

Small things matter. Chase breaking up the perfect game and Peter’s ending both the no hitter and shutout are huge. Despite getting killed today, the team will wake up tomorrow feeling ok knowing they prevented the big time s%*#.

7 more dongs and we got this!

Never a doubt!

It’s not going to happen so help me god

100%

Thanks for the updates!

This game is far from over…

That has to be some sort of record

Hopefully whatever is happing on the mind fucks with Yamamoto

Joe Rock makes Sean Burke look Greg Maddux in terms of control

Wow wow wow

Montgomery x2 + Jacob = runs