Chicago White Sox

I have only seen bits & pieces of him, but the main takeaway is the reports of diminished stuff were greatly exaggerated. He’s routinely around 98 MPH and has hit 100 MPH a couple times, so he’s only down a couple ticks velocity-wise at worst. And from what I’ve seen, the slider & changeup still flash plus, so the arsenal of pitches he had that made him so special is intact.

Seriously, unless it’s SoxFest and you plan on putting Hahn on blast, you might as well act if we never actually had Tatis in the first place.

My feed hasn’t ended

Timmy is a legit superstar!!!

TIMMY!!

Great first inning for Gio!

So he’s simply not strategic then?

Maybe Ricky doesn’t realize Boyd is a lefty? It wouldn’t be the first time this year Renteria got a pitcher’s handedness wrong. I still don’t get how you don’t adjust your lineup at all when facing a lefty. Maybe it’s not a huge deal, but it just reeks of laziness and a lack of strategic thinking.

I totally get the fit argument and while I wasn’t a fan of the acquisition, him batting higher than 8th means he’s blown up or things have gone horribly wrong with Abrue or EE. Either way, let’s hope he wakes up soon, because he’s more or less useful if he’s not hitting hitting some bombs.

I will say the fact Ricky makes zero adjustments to his lineup when facing a RHP or LHP should be a fireable offense on its own. Dude doesn’t have a strategic bone in his body.

Our lineup is theoretically stacked, so not sure why anyone would expect him to bat higher.

Yeah, I was mostly joking, but could see a back-end starter on the cheap if one of Lopez & Rodon aren’t back soon, but not expecting anything that impactful.

Sorry for the delay on this, but crazy day at work and totally forgot I started yesterday’s game-thread. Normally I’d like do a small write-up on the match-up, but for the sake of time I’m simply going to say: FUCK A TIGER & LET’S GO BOYS!!

Controllable talent it is then!

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.