Lip Man 1 Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 (edited) From the Sun-Times: The unreliable offense and shaky bullpen are largely why the Sox have the same record as last season. They have blown eight saves in 12 opportunities. The bullpen’s ERA was 24th in the majors. Of the relievers who’ve pitched more than 10 innings, six of the eight have an ERA of 3.00 or higher. And more often than not, the Sox’ offense hasn’t produced enough runs when needed to support the rotation. Getz said the goal this past offseason was hiring director of hitting Ryan Fuller, Venable and the rest of the coaching staff. With the Sox being more pitcher-oriented, Getz said the organization needs to “focus on bringing in players that can help us on the offensive side.” https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2025/05/22/after-50-games-white-sox-on-par-with-last-years-team Edited May 23 by Lip Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 Did not realize we have the same record, that's hilarious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteSox2023 Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 26 minutes ago, bmags said: Did not realize we have the same record, that's hilarious. “It’s a rebuild!” ”Getz is trying to lose!” And so on and so on… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmy U Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 27 minutes ago, bmags said: Did not realize we have the same record, that's hilarious. Yeah, but last year’s team put up two significant losing streaks that started right about now and the ramped Crochet down, and traded Fedde. Truly an historic season. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 43 minutes ago, Timmy U said: Yeah, but last year’s team put up two significant losing streaks that started right about now and the ramped Crochet down, and traded Fedde. Truly an historic season. Yeah but it was also right about now where we were all thinking "ah we stabilized the ship, just gonna be a regular bad season". Anyway I don't think it'll happen again but yeah we basically didn't win in July last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T R U Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 10 minutes ago, bmags said: Yeah but it was also right about now where we were all thinking "ah we stabilized the ship, just gonna be a regular bad season". Anyway I don't think it'll happen again but yeah we basically didn't win in July last year. I don't know, depending on who they are able to deal away near the deadline this year this team could still get much worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-teams-likely-to-sell-at-2025-trade-deadline Robert Martin Booser top three trade candidates. All the vets noted as pretty much worthless. Thaiss should garner some attention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmy U Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 This team could also get better. The bullpen has blown 8 of 12 save opportunities. That is crazy. It is possible they bring up guys like Pallette, Coffey, Wikelman, and *shudder* Grant Taylor *shudder* and suddenly have a reasonable bullpen. That would change their inability to win one-run games significantly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 Things are definitely better this year. It isn't always easy to notice, but they haven't had any of the prolonged stretches of terrible so far this year, like they did last year. They do seem more competitive, buthe big problem is we still aren't playing enough of the guys we need to learn about to do it, so longer term it isn't really helping us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyle Moooton Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 (edited) This is a better team. I mean, like 50 wins I think, so not good by any means. But better. Wayyyy more watchable. Edited May 23 by Lyle Moooton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeC Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 5 hours ago, Timmy U said: This team could also get better. The bullpen has blown 8 of 12 save opportunities. That is crazy. It is possible they bring up guys like Pallette, Coffey, Wikelman, and *shudder* Grant Taylor *shudder* and suddenly have a reasonable bullpen. That would change their inability to win one-run games significantly. Which part? Blowing 2/3 of your save opps, or only having 12 save opps through 50 games? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soxfest Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 (edited) I don’t see anything different under Will after 50 games than 2024. Same mistakes on defense and mental errors. Edited May 24 by Soxfest 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lip Man 1 Posted May 24 Author Share Posted May 24 1 hour ago, Soxfest said: I don’t see anything different under Will after 50 games than 2024. Same mistakes on defense and mental errors. It's not all on the manager and coaches, "baseball-stupid" players have some responsibility as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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