DirtySox

I'm ready to see a solid start from a starting pitcher please.

Is today the day the corpses in the BHAM outfield come back to life? They've certainly had a fugly start. Fingers crossed.

Happy Cease day! https://www.milb.com/scores/whitesox/2019-04-08 KAN: PPD BHAM: Nolin W-S: Kubat CHA: PPD

Via Longenhagen's daily prospect notes: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/daily-prospect-notes-4-8-2019/

It's absolutely Graeme. It's been the knock on him all season. It's why he's now ranked number 32 on the FanGraphs board and 41st on Baseball America's. His stock has crumbled. His peak on rankings was before the season started. See below for BA's blurb revisiting his preseason ranking, which was written/posted April 2nd. https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2019-mlb-draft-stock-watch-revisiting-preseason-to-do-lists/

I would be in favor of taking some pitching at 3 if it weren't so weak at the top. The only pitcher you could feasibly pop that high is Lodolo, and even that might be a bit of a reach. He's the only 50 pitcher FanGraphs has on the board. I think the ship has sailed on Stinson. Way too much questions this season, way too may instances of sitting in the upper 80's. I'm not touching that at number three with a fifty foot pole.

Solid line for Pilkington, but I'm curious about the velocity. I'm also going to reign in any enthusiasm until he's doing this in at least High-A.

3 run shot to take the lead in the 9th.

Robert HR. Wow.

Believe he pitched yesterday. That game was then suspended because of fog. Today's first game was a continuation of that.

Yup. He missed most of spring training with an injury after a car accident though.

Another one. Sosa also just doubled. I would be very pleased to see a Seby/Collins duo in Chicago in the distant future.

Timmy is amazing. Keep pissing off the no fun police too.

I mean, did people really expect starting pitching to be good this season? This was always going to be another tank season. I'm watching for the Timmy, Yoan, Eloy at bats.

Sure would be nice to see some pitching prospects take off this season. The system desperately needs some solid pitching. I'm looking at you Pilkington and Stiever.

Making contact is the problem based off last seasons Charlotte stint.

Can we stop hitting Mr. Robert with pitches? Thx.

Phew. Now we don't have to cast him into the sun with the Birmingham outfield.

I respect that. I'm personally bullish on Vaughn. I'm at: 1.) Adley 2.) Vaughn 3.) Abrams 4.) Witt After that I'm kinda all over the place. I think I'd be okay with any of Bishop/Bleday/Lodolo.

Robert singles in his first AB. Stay hot.

I think I prefer Abrams to Witt at this point. Especially if Abrams truly has the better hit tool. Also, Abrams clips.

Yup. Draft thread gonna draft thread. The pendulum is going to swing the other way soon, as he went 2 - 3 with a HR 2B and BB yesterday.

Sosa 4-5 today with a 2B.

Timmy locked in.

Lucas has lost it completely. Sigh.