1 minute ago, JoshPR said:

Not a good read by Jacob there

Yeah that route was fucked

like i hate to b**** but he rolls over that shit way too often, come on eloy!

Just now, mqr said:

Yeah that route was fucked

that ball exploded on him.  jose ripped it, to his credit, maybe Robert or Trout gets it.

Edited August 19, 20205 yr by chitownsportsfan

Eloy 0-3...

Just now, Chicago White Sox said:

To be fair, Cease has been pretty bad this year despite a good ERA coming into tonight.

He's 24 years old and 18 starts into his pro career in a weird ass season where pitchers are getting hurt left and right. Cut the kid some damn slack.

3 minutes ago, fathom said:

That was the Abreu of last year!  He’s starting to hit all over the field now.

Hopefully it’s just not Abreu playing the tigers....

11 minutes ago, Jack Parkman said:

Dude idk what it is....he's not fooling anyone and he gives up a ton of hard contact. 

If you want to say that's ridiculous that's fine, but I know what my eyes are telling me. 

It’s his 19th start in a pandemic fueled season and despite posting 98th percentile velocity and 93% percentile velocity spin you are completely writing him off.  Like I don’t know many times you have to do this before you realize jumping to conclusions on still developing young players is fucking stupid.

Tim Anderson is an animal.

TAIAA

cease has found his fastball command a bit, let him ride renteria.

1 minute ago, chitownsportsfan said:

cease has found his fastball command a bit, let him ride renteria.

Yup. 

cease can't seem to get his landing point down consistently.

3 minutes ago, Chicago White Sox said:

It’s his 19th start in a pandemic fueled season and despite posting 98th percentile velocity and 93% percentile velocity spin you are completely writing him off.  Like I don’t know many times you have to do this before you realize jumping to conclusions on still developing young players is fucking stupid.

That's fair man. I'm being impatient because they're supposed to win. There aren't a lot of finished products on this team. 

Mendick is magical

MENDICK IS A GUY WHO FUCKS

Just now, Jack Parkman said:

That's fair man. I'm being impatient because they're supposed to win. There aren't a lot of finished products on this team. 

This is not a finished product team

Stick the DickMan in RF once Nick is back

Nice stop by Mendick

10 minutes ago, fathom said:

It’s hard to say Giolito is for sure a TOR guy 

Yes, would like for him to be able to repeat last year but I think he’s on that track. 

Outstanding play by Mendick!

Cease pitches a clean 5th. 

Just now, fathom said:

Mendick is magical

The Little Magician!

man I love defense!

Just now, TheTruth05 said:

Stick the DickMan in RF once Nick is back

No thanks, need more offense from that position 

Just now, Yearnin' for Yermin said:

The Little Magician!

we def need a shot of robert and eloy next to mendick and madrigal.

7 minutes ago, Joshua Strong said:

Pitching is very hard. I have no long term concerns about Cease. I think he’ll be good for the Sox long term.

The problem is that Cease is being over depended on. I think he’s a 4 or 5 starter on a good staff right now. I think that’s why people are frustrated with him, they’re expecting too 3 starter stuff and he’s not that yet.

The Sox need another TOR arm to pair with Giolito and they need another bottom of the rotation arm who can eat innings and keep the Sox in games. Kuechel is a 3. 

Cease easily has #3 starter ability, and he'd be the #3 starter or better on half the MLB teams right now.

And the Sox really aren't relying on him to be a #3. The ideal rotation in 2021-2023 is Giolito, Keuchel, Kopech (you forgot about him), Cease, and Dunning/Crochet/Rodon. Kopech opting out hurt their plan, but there's zero way they could have predicted that.

This board melts down every time a pitcher allows a run or a hitter Ks. It's not representative of rational thought

Just now, fathom said:

This is not a finished product team

Yup. This year to me is about enjoying a halfway decent team for the first time in like 8 years and seeing improvement. Next year is the time for expectations.