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1) The team should be doing his workouts to stay healthy 2) I do feel bad for Leury even though I hate him as a player. It has to be tough mentally to deal with his stinkage

McGuire is a stud behind the plate

Plenty of fans on Twitter absolve Hahn thanks to WSD and it drives me crazy

I am sure there are Hahn loyalists that are saying TLR forced him down.

If you are having to play your guys hurt because theres 0 farm depth then part of the blame should be on Hahn, his FO, and the people they employ as scouts and coaches in the minors. Although Burger has been bad on defense I don't think the majority of people want him gone. I dont. Without his offense this team is in laughable territory

I like the fact that Duncan had 0 experience in analytics or math and is head of the department. I do commend him for taking it seriously however

Then he needed to be IL'ed a long long time ago instead of pushing it further

Great job Hahn

Some interesting Moncada statistics (keep in mind this might be because his legs are hurt, as ptatc says below): - GB% at 48.6%, 5% increase from last year - LD% down 12% from last year, at a paltry 15% -MED% (% of balls as hit with medium speed) highest of career at 67% -HARD% lowest at 22% (Menechino mantra: Don't do too much) - O-Contact% (percentage of balls hit outside the zone) has gone up considerably from 2019, 11%! - Z-Contact% (percentage of balls hit inside the zone) has gone down considerably from 2019, 7%! Yet when you look at his 2019, his Swing% in both outside and inside are similar to this year. Is he sacrificing his power just to make contact? Menechino mantra again? EV in 2019: 93.1 EV in 2022: 87.6 Clearly he is swinging less hard to make contact. Moncada has been mentally broken from the coaching he has been getting. This is the EXACT same pattern we see with other hitters on the White Sox. Robert's trending in the same direction.

“I showed him how he hit in 2019 and I told him, ‘You need to start being that guy every day,'” Menechino said. Great advice Frank

Any moves that should be made needs to be done in the front office. Get rid of all the "old time" thinkers. Replace Duncan with an actual analytics guy. Pry someone from SF, CLE, LA to be the GM, replace the coaches with analytical thinkers. Spend the offseason to un-Menechino our hitters. So much needs to be done

Eloy with 2 soft groundball outs so far. Cant wait for him to come up and shit the bed

Thats my take as well, good post. I really wish people would stop spending money on the org until Reinsdorf goes away.

The players deserve blame too of course, however when your young core is declining offensively and in the same way, you have to look at the organization as a whole. Menechino has been a hitting coach for 10 years with us and the Marlins. In that time he has been top 5 in GB% every single season and bottom 5 in LA. Whatever tweaks he does to these guys leads them to hit more grounders. Just look at their numbers from 2019 to now, save for Anderson the decline of these guys is just sad to watch. We were all excited about Moncada and Eloy in 2019, they started to break out. Now they hit weak grounders on the infield. Thats their game, healthy or not. I have to ask, what the F happened? We aren't at a liberty to wait around like in 2019. This is our window. They need to get healthy and produce to what they are capable of now or this contention window is already closed. We are starting to see signs of Robert regressing in his power due to approach (He has lowered his K rate substantially, however has increased his GB% by 10%, and hitting the ball the other way by another 5%). His average LA has decreased by 5 degrees. He is swinging at balls out of the strike zone 4% more than last year which doesnt seem like much, however since hes sacrificing power for contact hes connecting on those swings 9% more than last year! This is the same pattern we see with a large number of our hitters. Robert is having a pretty good season still, but its a waste of his potential. He should be an extra base hit machine with how hard he hits the ball. Instead hes settling for singles the other way. Thats the approach under Menechino.

Sheets shitty defense cost us 2 runs this inning. Thank you Hahn

HAHAHAHA YOU JUST CANT MAKE IT UP AT THIS POINT

Yes highest %

I am currently looking over our offense and where we rank under Menechino's glorious guidance: 1) Worst team in the league against fastballs (wFA) 2) 27/30 against the slider (wSL) This is a recipe for disaster 3) 1/30 in opposite field hits 4) 4/30 in O-Swing % (balls swung at out of the zone) 5) 5/30 in GB% This tells me the offense is constantly looking to poke the ball the other way and "not trying to do too much", a Menechino mantra 6) 29/30 in LD% (Line drives) 7) 10/30 in EV (number has decreased over the year) 8.) 25/30 in LA 9) 22/30 in pitches seen 10) 26/30 in HR

I dont understand how baseball players can be so injury prone in their legs by running. Soccer and basketball players do 0-100 constantly yet they dont have hamstring or "lower half" problems like the Sox do. I just dont get it. Can someone explain this to me?

Cease is incredible, cant wait for Kopech to get more experience and be like this

if it helps him hit dongs keep it by all means

I know its not Sox or game related but my god is Shohei Ohtani a god or what? https://streamable.com/cjzwk0

I just realized something, if the Sox turn it around and win the division we will see TLR again next season.

Mancini looks like Jimmy McNulty from The Wire