The Sox whole damn lineup is lefties basically. The only right-handed regulars are Vargas and Meidroth. This team will get eaten alive if we face a good lefty when we make the playoffs. What's the solution here? Is trading for a right handed DH the obvious move? They really could use a righty between Mune and Colson.

@SoCalChiSox willed this into existence.

Don't worry Ron. Roch will be up for the playoff run.

Edited yesterday at 04:04 AM1 day by DirtySox

There's never such a thing as too many savages, Ron.

Our lineup is actually fine vs even LHP (see below WRC+ vs LHP not including tonight's game):

Murakami 137

Montgomery 135 (he's actually slightly better vs LHP than RHP at least so far)

Vargas 217 (!!!)

Grichuk 113 (it will go way up after tonight)

Meidroth 164 (!!!)

Romo 121

Antonacci 7 (ok that's bad but you can platoon him with Pereira against lefties)

Pereira 206 (!!!)

I'm not gonna count Beni because he shouldn't be in the lineup regardless of the pitcher.

And ofcourse when Braden comes up he is a switch hitter. This lineup is full of guys that also kill lefties. Even the two big savages are very good against lefties.

Edited yesterday at 04:17 AM1 day by SoCalChiSox

Well, there’s your/another argument for Roch over Emerson…

45 minutes ago, SoCalChiSox said:

There's never such a thing as too many savages, Ron.

Our lineup is actually fine vs even LHP (see below WRC+ vs LHP not including tonight's game):

Murakami 137

Montgomery 135 (he's actually slightly better vs LHP than RHP at least so far)

Vargas 217 (!!!)

Grichuk 113 (it will go way up after tonight)

Meidroth 164 (!!!)

Romo 121

Antonacci 7 (ok that's bad but you can platoon him with Pereira against lefties)

Pereira 206 (!!!)

I'm not gonna count Beni because he shouldn't be in the lineup regardless of the pitcher.

And ofcourse when Braden comes up he is a switch hitter. This lineup is full of guys that also kill lefties. Even the two big savages are very good against lefties.

Dang, I should have looked this up before posting the thread.

I could absolutely see us targeting a RH DH, a starting pitcher, and a reliever at the deadline with moves that won’t sacrifice our prominent prospect pool.

While that is true, I just wanted to construct a sentence with such a masterful example of consonance:

“Prominent prospect pool.”

White Sox vs. LHP:

• .774 OPS (4th in MLB)

• .438 SLG (2nd)

• .335 OBP (5th)

• 21 HR (2nd)

just make them bat right u doofus

9 hours ago, Quin said:

@SoCalChiSox willed this into existence.

Wasn’t there another poster who was absolutely obsessed with only lefty hitters? I want to say it was a poster with a female name.

46 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

Wasn’t there another poster who was absolutely obsessed with only lefty hitters? I want to say it was a poster with a female name.

Otherwise known as the Grady Sizemore incident.

2 hours ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

Wasn’t there another poster who was absolutely obsessed with only lefty hitters? I want to say it was a poster with a female name.

I was about to post that. Her whole existence on this board was advocating for LHH

2 hours ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

Wasn’t there another poster who was absolutely obsessed with only lefty hitters? I want to say it was a poster with a female name.

Hopefully she's still alive. She was pretty old I recall.

5 hours ago, Harry Chappas said:

I was about to post that. Her whole existence on this board was advocating for LHH

Exactly. If you were a RHH, it didn’t matter how good the player was. He wasn’t good enough because he wasn’t lefty.

2 hours ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

Wasn’t there another poster who was absolutely obsessed with only lefty hitters? I want to say it was a poster with a female name.

1 hour ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

Exactly. If you were a RHH, it didn’t matter how good the player was. He wasn’t good enough because he wasn’t lefty.

@Lillian was more or less correct on that point.

Edited 23 hours ago23 hr by SoCalChiSox

17 minutes ago, SoCalChiSox said:

@Lillian was more or less correct on that point.

That was the poster. Thanks for remembering!