TheFutureIsNear

I would go with an unintentional, intentional walk vs Merrifield. Don’t give him anything to hit

I thought Dozier was still at the top of his jump and fully outstretched when that ball went over his glove...

Way to shut people up Luery

Mike Minor embodies everything people complain about when saying baseball is too slow

There’s no way Tony’s blood pressure can handle a heated argument

Wow, just wow

Slowest DP ever

Good AB by Benintendi, layed off 2 really good close pitches...but lead off walk has disaster written all over it

Obviously injuries are the reason, but that lineup looks kinda 2018ish...

Is that a tattoo, bruise, or giant hickey on Yermin’s neck?

Maybe you were saying the reasonable things in the 1st paragraph...but not everyone, and I doubt it was even the majority. Hell, there were people talking about Mendick as if he was a decent player just last year. I get that its the internet and a message board, but this board’s knee jerk reactions seem to be high even for the internet’s standards. And why are you acting like Madrigal has been flat out awful at all times? He had a .370 OBP his 1st taste of the big leagues last year. Obviously he needs to cut down the errors, can’t have that. But there’s a huge middle ground between “hes hurting the team” and “he shouldn’t have been drafted that high”. I think people are having a hard time with that for Madrigal, and to a lesser extent Collins as well. And I’m not saying you can’t send him down if he keeps hitting this poorly, just saying that maybe 21 PA’s is a little too early to make this thread.

I gotta say, it’s pretty funny seeing some of the same people that anointed the likes of Tyler Saladino, Nicky Delmonico and Daniel Palka as future starters after a small sample size then kill prospects after an even smaller sample size. I didn’t like the pick of Madrigal when it happened because I thought his ceiling was too low for a top 10 pick. But it is what it is now, throw the memory of what pick he was away. Last year he hit the ball very well, this year he’s struggled through 20 something AB’s. If there’s a reasonable middle ground of him hitting .300/.340 without the mental errors in the field we’ll be perfectly fine with him as a starting 2B. And I’m pretty confident he’ll be able to do that.

Crazy. Just crazy

The White Sox are a very fun team to watch. It’s game 3 of 162, relax man

Horrible play by Luis, but is it just me or did Tim have absolutely no shot at that ball where he was calling it from?

Lol wow Luis. Is the sky making the ball impossible to see or something? Makes no sense

I could use a little Crochet and/or Kopech in my life...

Clown. These posts are embarrassingly dumb. What weird bias do you have against Collins?

Butterfly affect- Missed strike 3 by the umpire is going to cost us a full inning of bullpen work

That change up is absolute filth

Yeah I mean are we really believing anything this Hector Gomez guy says at this point? I’ll be happy if we can get Eloy back by late August to get AB’s in before the playoffs..assuming the Sox make it

Just as you know I can’t find someone who has said publicly that he can catch, I know that you can’t find me proof that anyone has written him off as a catcher either... And to the bold- so he hasn’t proven anything, but you’re also completely unwilling to let him have a chance to prove himself? And for Jonathan Lucroy? Makes 0 sense to me, but to each their own...

Collin’s inability to catch is greatly over exaggerated IMO. It was the narrative starting his career and people refuse to get off of it and acknowledge that he has indeed improved. We just need him to be average-above average in his limited time behind the plate and I don’t see any evidence that he can’t be. I know he’s not going to be a positive defensively, but you act like he’s going to hurt the team every time he catches and I just don’t agree.

Or maybe they just found out that he’s completely washed up and not deserving of a major league roster spot? The rest of the league has seemed to agree for 2+ years now...

Only saw a quick replay. Did Eloy ever end up being able to move his shoulder? Or are we looking at an obvious tear/dislocation that will keep him out?