Feeky Magee

Fully aboard the Kahnle train. He looks incredible.

Hopefully Swarzak's success will make the Sox start to target more pitchers with good peripherals and ugly ERAs

Zack Burdi has been completely dominant at AAA and I've seen his name mentioned about 7 times all year on Soxtalk. Good sign for the system I guess.

Bernardo Flores 6.0 IP, 4H, 0R, 1BB, 6K

Danny Hayes continues to be intriguing

QUOTE (Scoots @ May 9, 2017 -> 06:42 PM) Are you suggesting he is going to throw a perfect game knock on wood? No of course not. He'll throw 9 perfect and give up 1 in the 10th.

Well Pelfrey is very similar to Philip Humber...

Nicky Delmonico now has 14 walks and 16 strikeouts on the year.

Matt Cooper went 4.2 with 4 hits, 3 earned runs (left 2 runners who were both allowed score), 5 walks and 9 strikeouts. QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ May 8, 2017 -> 06:04 PM) The worst strikeout rate in Southern League history (minimum 70 PA) is 45.1%, set in 2014 by... any guesses? This was Keenyn Walker btw.

I'd be a bit more bullish on Giolito than others are here. Seems the velocity is there which was arguably the biggest concern about him. The strikeouts are there (reduced K's is the number one indicator of a pitcher in trouble to me). What he needs to regain is fastball control, which it seems to me is easier to regain than velocity/stuff. He's had it most of his career. He is apparently reworking his delivery. I wouldn't be panicking yet. He's definitely not the prospect he was but there's absolutely no need to be writing him off.

Not sure how much it says about Trey Michalczewski's prospect status that he's hitting below Courtney Hawkins in the lineup. The Hawk just struck out swinging and is very close to a 60% strikeout rate this year through 79 plate appearances. The worst strikeout rate in Southern League history (minimum 70 PA) is 45.1%, set in 2014 by... any guesses?

CHAR: Giolito BHAM: Cooper W-S: Off KAN: Lambert http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.jsp?c...mp;ymd=20170508 http://mlbfarm.com/index.php?team=CWS Things to watch for from the starters: Can Giolito keep his walks down? Can Cooper keep dominating? Can Lambert get his strikeouts back up to last year's level?

Very strange. Scouts said he looked good and he looked decent in his start the other night. Assumed it was a matter of time before he was up. Would love to know the behind the scenes.

Surely those runs get changed back to unearned at some point?

Starting to think Kahnle is for real. That was an absolutely nasty changeup.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 6, 2017 -> 08:37 PM) I don't think he's going anywhere If we don't trade a very tradable asset so he can be a mentor to a completely different style of prospect, I'm going to be very mad

Abreu up to .294/.342/.514. 137 wRC+. That line or better at the deadline and he'll be worth 'spects.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 6, 2017 -> 08:24 PM) Still gives up way too many hits to be a legit MLB starter Not sure I follow this. If the strikeouts aren't there, he'll give up too many hits, sure. But if they're there, as the poster you're quoting is hoping, he shouldn't. Unless you think he has a particular negative ability to control balls in play that basically no other pitcher has (stats show pitchers have very little control of their BABIP).

Just to clarify, I meant that Matt Cooper is not a top prospect in the sense that he is not ranked at the top of prospect lists and not at an age-appropriate level, and should therefore be exempt from service time concerns, not that I don't think he's a legit prospect. I think he'll be a quality major-league starter.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 6, 2017 -> 07:29 PM) What's DJ Carrasco up to? This team needs a rubber armed reliever that can pitch 90-100 innings. I know I'm obsessed, but Swarzak genuinely can be that guy imo

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ May 6, 2017 -> 07:13 PM) Covey has a purpose and it's to delay calling up our important prospects before they're ready. I honestly think some posters here don't realize we're rebuilding. Who exactly would you like to see up instead of Covey? Matt Cooper is nearly 26, not a top prospect and has double the AA innings as Covey. This year he's K'ing 34% of batters and walking 6%. White Sox promoted Quintana straight from AA. I'd much rather see him than Covey, to give one example.

End the Covey experiment now. He is just not good, and probably never will be.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ May 5, 2017 -> 08:04 PM) I haven't really dove into his stats this year until now but yeesh, what a weird f***in line on the year. Coming into today's game he had an ERA of 7.01 and a FIP of 1.76!

White Sox bullpen is good now but will be better if Luebke and Burdi replace Ynoa and Holmberg

Jordan Guerrero is doing things this year, if you ignore his ridiculous ERA. 5.0 IP, 4H, 1R, 1BB, 8K.