April 17, 2025Apr 17 If one more person says Robert is a 5 tool player I'm going to have an episode. He needs to go.
April 17, 2025Apr 17 1 hour ago, tpz76 said: If one more person says Robert is a 5 tool player I'm going to have an episode. He needs to go. GMs can't react emotionally, like fans. They have to be more dispassionate and level-headed.
April 17, 2025Apr 17 This offense is worse than last year, Getz has given us another year of AAA baseball.
April 17, 2025Apr 17 54 minutes ago, The Mighty Mite said: This offense is worse than last year, Getz has given us another year of AAA baseball. I’m sorry but there is no way that is true. Is that true? I’d expect we are 10 runs at least ahead of last year
April 17, 2025Apr 17 14 minutes ago, bmags said: I’m sorry but there is no way that is true. Is that true? I’d expect we are 10 runs at least ahead of last year This year they have scored 54 through 17 games (if my spot math is correct), 36 through the first 17 last season. i mean, we were legit threatening the shutout record through the first two months last year lol, this offense hasn’t gotten close to that so yea this year is better so far conversely, given up 68 this season and through 17 gave up 89 last year. So, kind of the difference of having a few blowout wins lol
April 17, 2025Apr 17 1 hour ago, The Mighty Mite said: This offense is worse than last year, Getz has given us another year of AAA baseball. I don't think that's true about the offense. They seem to have a lot more people on base this year, they just can't deliver the big hit. Vaughn, Robert, and Vargas are killing them.
April 17, 2025Apr 17 What frustrates me is the shitty ABs. No situational awareness. Just hack wild then get called out on strikes on pitch down the fucking dick of the plate. The wild hacks against a guy who can't throw strikes and missing or fouling back fucking meatballs and cookies screaming to be crushed
April 17, 2025Apr 17 9 minutes ago, PaleAleSox said: I don't think that's true about the offense. They seem to have a lot more people on base this year, they just can't deliver the big hit. Vaughn, Robert, and Vargas are killing them. Well when you got Palacios hitting 5th..... Almost as bad as leury hitting cleanup....
April 17, 2025Apr 17 A outmatched player can have all the situational awareness in the world and will look like trash.
April 17, 2025Apr 17 1 hour ago, bmags said: I’m sorry but there is no way that is true. Is that true? I’d expect we are 10 runs at least ahead of last year after 17 games, 2024 - 36 scored, 91 against, for a -55 run differential 2025 - 54 scored, 68 against, for a -14 RD
April 17, 2025Apr 17 In theory and assuming everyone is healthy and on the roster this should be what's happening and in no specific order: Tauchman/Slater RF Robert CF Vargas 3B/DH Vaughn 1B/DH Quiero/Thaiss C Baldwin SS Meidroth 2B Benintendi LF/DH Drury DH/3B Bench: Taylor OF (Defense good to keep around and spot Start. Sosa 2B/1B Jones PR/Of in a major pinch
April 17, 2025Apr 17 13 minutes ago, JoshPR said: In theory and assuming everyone is healthy and on the roster this should be what's happening and in no specific order: Tauchman/Slater RF Robert CF Vargas 3B/DH Vaughn 1B/DH Quiero/Thaiss C Baldwin SS Meidroth 2B Benintendi LF/DH Drury DH/3B Bench: Taylor OF (Defense good to keep around and spot Start. Sosa 2B/1B Jones PR/Of in a major pinch If everyone is healthy, Jones isn’t even on roster.
April 17, 2025Apr 17 8 minutes ago, Bob Sacamano said: If everyone is healthy, Jones isn’t even on roster. And Slater may not even play on this team again, this year. When Benintendi, Tuchman and Drury are back, there's no room to carry 5 dedicated OFs.
April 17, 2025Apr 17 9 minutes ago, WestEddy said: And Slater may not even play on this team again, this year. WBenintendi, Tuchman and Drury are back, there's no room to carry 5 dedicated OFs. hen Murderer's row. This is supposed to be the major leagues.
April 17, 2025Apr 17 14 minutes ago, Bob Sacamano said: If everyone is healthy, Jones isn’t even on roster. Realized that after the fact, so ok eliminate jones
April 17, 2025Apr 17 12 minutes ago, WestEddy said: And Slater may not even play on this team again, this year. When Benintendi, Tuchman and Drury are back, there's no room to carry 5 dedicated OFs. Well that’s how they planned it going into the year so I wouldn’t say it isn’t possible (5 true OFs on the team). Edited April 17, 2025Apr 17 by Bob Sacamano
April 17, 2025Apr 17 10 minutes ago, WestEddy said: And Slater may not even play on this team again, this year. When Benintendi, Tuchman and Drury are back, there's no room to carry 5 dedicated OFs. I read that his injury is 4 to 6 weeks out. You think he might be cut when he is ready to return?
April 17, 2025Apr 17 6 minutes ago, Dick Allen said: Murderer's row. This is supposed to be the major leagues. No one saying it's murderers row, but they should put up a little more fight and maybe win some of these games that were within reach
April 17, 2025Apr 17 9 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said: I read that his injury is 4 to 6 weeks out. You think he might be cut when he is ready to return? If Slater comes back June 1, you're talking about Drury, Lee, Tauchman, Benintendi, Rojas, and maybe even Colson Montgomery being ready for roster spots. Slater will be in competition with Taylor for backup OF with Drury, Baldwin, Rojas and Vargas all able to play a corner. 12 minutes ago, Bob Sacamano said: Well that’s how they planned it going into the year so I wouldn’t say it isn’t possible (5 true OFs on the team). It's not impossible, but they're going to have a 2 month roster crunch from June 1-August 1 if they don't start making some trades or cutting some OFs.
April 17, 2025Apr 17 2 hours ago, bmags said: I’m sorry but there is no way that is true. Is that true? I’d expect we are 10 runs at least ahead of last year I think only 1 shutout so far this season? Offense still is anemic. Most of their runs have come in 3 or 4 games
April 17, 2025Apr 17 It should improve. Obviously both young and old players can struggle, but with Meidroth, Quero, and soon Benintendi, Tauchman, and Drury, I can’t imagine it being worse. Also, call up Elko to DH. That should be 4 to 5 better hitters added to the roster after already adding Meidroth, replacing some absolute scrubs that have no business being in the starting lineup for an MLB team.
April 17, 2025Apr 17 8 minutes ago, wegner said: I think only 1 shutout so far this season? Offense still is anemic. Most of their runs have come in 3 or 4 games 8 of their 13 losses have been by 3 runs or less, 3 have been walked-off.
April 17, 2025Apr 17 6 hours ago, tpz76 said: If one more person says Robert is a 5 tool player I'm going to have an episode. He needs to go. “Trout 2.0” lol one thing I can’t figure out is why do Sox hitters peak in their low to mid 20s? We’ve seen it now with Timmy, Moncada, Eloy, Robert, Madrigal, Vaughn. Given the peak was short lived in most of these cases but each hitter got objectively worse when they entered their late 20s. Does this happen to other teams too? Seems odd to me.
April 17, 2025Apr 17 9 minutes ago, JUSTgottaBELIEVE said: “Trout 2.0” lol one thing I can’t figure out is why do Sox hitters peak in their low to mid 20s? We’ve seen it now with Timmy, Moncada, Eloy, Robert, Madrigal, Vaughn. Given the peak was short lived in most of these cases but each hitter got objectively worse when they entered their late 20s. Does this happen to other teams too? Seems odd to me. More like “Temu Trout”, haha. Good question. One could wonder about injuries for most of those guys but that doesn’t explain Anderson and Vaughn. I think Anderson just never really had a very good approach at the plate but how does he go from batting title to worthless so quickly? But he hacked at a lot of bad pitches so once you realize he doesn’t have much more patience than Hobby Baez, just stop giving him pitches to hit. Edited April 17, 2025Apr 17 by WhiteSox2023
April 17, 2025Apr 17 10 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said: It should improve. Obviously both young and old players can struggle, but with Meidroth, Quero, and soon Benintendi, Tauchman, and Drury, I can’t imagine it being worse. Also, call up Elko to DH. That should be 4 to 5 better hitters added to the roster after already adding Meidroth, replacing some absolute scrubs that have no business being in the starting lineup for an MLB team. Full "strength": C - 2 of Lee/Quero/Thaiss/Narvaez (Lee has options, Thaiss doesn't) 1B - Vaughn IF - Sosa/Baldwin/Meidroth/Vargas/Amaya/Drury/Rojas OF - Benintendi/Robert/Tauchman/Taylor/Slater My guess is they eventually go with 6 IF and 4 OF, Amaya being DFAed, and one of Slater/Taylor being cut/traded. They only way to roster Elko is a straight replacement for Vaughn. Vaughn traditionally hits a *little* better in May, and is full throttle in June. If they see any value in Vaughn, they may wait until July 1 to cut bait. If Vaughn continues to OPS at this sub-.500 rate, maybe they consider Elko end of May...?
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