Jose Abreu

Chicago is a great city, and [insert FA here] gets to play with Moncada/Jimenez/Robert/Madrigal etc... I don't get it. We have top prospects too.

Lol, Moncada gets walked and stays in the box for a couple seconds because he's so used to garbage pitches being called strikes

Eric Hosmer signed with the Padres in December because they offered him the most money. The Padres haven't made the playoffs since 2006. It's all about the money for most of these guys

Seriously, I'm so tired of every thread getting bogged down by the same 3-4 posters, "old man yells at cloud" nonsense. We get it, you guys hate the White Sox front office and every decision they make, but you don't need to derail every. single. conversation. to make your opinion heard.

Yeah I'm not as mad about that one, although it is quite annoying that a skill (zone recognition) is being robbed unfairly so often this year

Dead ball since he got hit by the pitch. But since he swung at the HBP ball it's an automatic out with no drop third strike

I seriously don't know what game you're watching tonight pal. It's as if you're watching some game from June that you recorded and posting here like it's live

Let's stop running on Salvy, thanks

Because it's the 3rd inning, he has thrown 46 pitches, and he has allowed 0 runs

Benetti is really talking up the Whit Merrifield "gamer, grindy grinder" stuff, lol. Sounds a lot like Madrigal to be honest

If it were that serious then they would've traded Sale immediately (it happened in mid-July) IMO

Covey sure is having an inning right now

The Middle Infield Game

Wasn't it said that he would be assigned to Winston-Salem, with stops along the way? Making this an "unofficial" rehab stint, I guess?

Eloy: "I don't really know" [what boxes need to be checked]

Good point. And he does go to Charlotte with some regularity. I'll assume it's a coincidence that it also happens to be an off day for Eloy.

*resume eyeball emojis*

Does this mean anything?

moncada

I'm glad you guys are getting your laughs but that's not what we're arguing. About 72 games (for this season and some of next April) times about 4.2 PA/G (White Sox hitters average 4.15 PA/G, and since Jimenez would likely bat somewhere 3-5, he would average more. I'm being generous by only adding the .05) is 303 PAs that Jimenez is not getting at the MLB level. He's not gonna be a bust or bad player because he isn't getting that experience, but he also is not getting any better by not getting that experience. It's a significant amount of playing time.

Why is Nick Madrigal still in Kanny? This is pretty long for a rehab stint

It's not that I don't want to slow him down, it's that I want him to improve. You can't just remove a month from the equation because he usually doesn't play during it. Playing him in September (and August, and April) in the big leagues would do nothing to slow him down.

I think this is the point that is being lost. We aren't talking about a couple weeks in September or 11 days in April, we're talking about 2.5 months of baseball, about half a season, and the player in question is making a joke out of minor league baseball. In all the examples that have been brought up, nobody has been as "ready" as Eloy, in my opinion. Springer and Bryant had major strikeout issues. Lindor and Correa weren't doing that well at AAA.

That's his entire year slash though. In AAA specifically he was at .273/.307/.388, a .695 OPS. If Eloy had a .695 OPS right now I would not be clamoring for him to be called up.

Aside from Acuna and Springer, those guys were not good at AAA. Totally different situations