Jose Abreu

Great outing for Hector.

Leury?

Questionable managing by Seattle too. I feel more comfortable with Nicky facing a guy like Rzepczynski than a hard throwing righty. It's not like he has a R/L split issue

They're not really comparable players aside from the shared position

Is that 2:15 now in terms of bad plate calls? Anyway, thanks Moncada

According to @WhiteSoxUmp on Twitter, the Sox have benefited from 2 calls at the plate today and have been hurt by 13.

I usually don't mind this but Volstad and Santiago aren't getting those calls.

Omar Vizquel is hall of very good, in my opinion. Same with Baines.

Leury is the latest victim of the big zone

Didn't see the first AB (which was a walk) but he looked fine there. Was the victim of a bad call

This zone is just massive... that, coupled with the shadows, makes this a pitcher's dream.

He's safe

Is it safe to say he's been figured out?

Oh, that's what he meant. The way the post was written, I thought he meant we were the 2nd best offer or something.

The Sox went after Yelich?

Me too but I don't think Arizona lets Goldschmidt go away. Same with Arenado in Colorado.

I guess I may be displaying recency bias, because with the way this team has played, I've seen posters just giving up on the Machado dream on the basis that he wouldn't want to come here. All I know is that I trust us to at least be competitive with our offer. None of that 3 year max BS we saw with Cespedes.

That's funny, I see it the other way around. I think people believe we have virtually no chance, when I think we will at least be up there in terms of money offered

You could literally add Harper (let's say 40 mil) and Machado (30 mil) to next year's payroll, plus arbitration guys, and we likely would still be outside of the top 8 in payrolls. It definitely won't happen, but it speaks to the flexibility.

That's true. I really believe that we will be that team for Machado (he may not accept, but I think we'll offer him the most money).

Tim Anderson

Fulmer, Yoan, and Abreu deserve most of the praise, but that first inning was a team effort. 7 straight hits to start the game was really something.

Where is the little icon that tells you which # post each post is within the thread? Is that gone?

I'd be fine with either Yolmer or Tim there, with the other hitting 6th or 7th

To be fair there are guys like Gomez and Cedeno who are good but not on the 40 man