1 hour ago, Chicago White Sox said:

He should be, but I think Sandlin is better than Fedde right now.

Have to agree. I think you're right about Fedde being a ticking time bomb. He's good enough to have as a long reliever on the team, but I think Sandlin has shown that he can be a 5th starter. Hell, his stuff alone opens the opportunity for him improving and becoming more than a 5th starter.

4 hours ago, ron883 said:

They did him dirty.

He’ll be back soon.

The thing about Fedde vs. Sandlin is if there's any uncertainty about whether you might need both of them later, there's only one of them you can temporarily remove from the team and that's Sandlin. Probably won't hurt David to have his workload managed a bit as well.

23 hours ago, Chicago White Sox said:

He should be, but I think Sandlin is better than Fedde right now.

Fedde had a rough May, but in all 5 June appearances have been strong with a 1.68 ERA.

13 minutes ago, GreenSox said:

Fedde had a rough May, but in all 5 June appearances have been strong with a 1.68 ERA.

His FIP & xERA are significantly higher, but reasonable for a #5. I just don’t think he’s ever going to give you a lot of innings and is benefiting from the use of an opener. And both of those factors hurt a very short bullpen.

22 hours ago, Chicago White Sox said:

His FIP & xERA are significantly higher, but reasonable for a #5. I just don’t think he’s ever going to give you a lot of innings and is benefiting from the use of an opener. And both of those factors hurt a very short bullpen.

13 man pitching staff....

6 hours ago, oldsox said:

13 man pitching staff....

I mean in terms of quality relievers. Things get dicey real fast after Taylor, Hudson, & Newcomb.

19 hours ago, Chicago White Sox said:

I mean in terms of quality relievers. Things get dicey real fast after Taylor, Hudson, & Newcomb.

Decent chance that situation improves over the next month.  Hicks hit 100 several times on Sunday.  If he could keep it together (which I realize he hasn’t in ages), he’d be a huge boost.  Murphy has some stuff and is effective when he doesn’t walk the world.  Lately the BBs have been in check. 
Overall, the Sox have done a good job with depth…both in assembling it and using it. Still a couple of putative major league relievers in Charlotte (Palette, e.g.)

14 minutes ago, GreenSox said:

Decent chance that situation improves over the next month.  Hicks hit 100 several times on Sunday.  If he could keep it together (which I realize he hasn’t in ages), he’d be a huge boost.  Murphy has some stuff and is effective when he doesn’t walk the world.  Lately the BBs have been in check. 
Overall, the Sox have done a good job with depth…both in assembling it and using it. Still a couple of putative major league relievers in Charlotte (Palette, e.g.)

I mean, Hicks never had problems hitting 100. He just doesn’t have good secondary pitches and as such his heat gets lit up. he never really has been very good, just a throw hard guy

43 minutes ago, Kyyle23 said:

I mean, Hicks never had problems hitting 100. He just doesn’t have good secondary pitches and as such his heat gets lit up. he never really has been very good, just a throw hard guy

I guess the thread that I'm hanging on, thin as it may be, is that the Giants signed him expressly to start. And that was when the Giants were run by Zaidi, who was pretty seasoned FO guy. So maybe there's something there.

47 minutes ago, Kyyle23 said:

I mean, Hicks never had problems hitting 100. He just doesn’t have good secondary pitches and as such his heat gets lit up. he never really has been very good, just a throw hard guy

I'm oddly optimistic on Hicks. Sometimes it takes some lowered expectations and the right role for a bullpen guy to thrive. We'll see how it shakes out. Sounds crazy but it's 50/50 if I'd prefer Hicks or Seranthony in a close 7th inning assuming Taylor and Newcomb are not available or being saved for the 8th and 9th.

48 minutes ago, Kyyle23 said:

I mean, Hicks never had problems hitting 100. He just doesn’t have good secondary pitches and as such his heat gets lit up. he never really has been very good, just a throw hard guy

There was a buzz right after the trade, where writers opined about Hicks getting back to his glory days, and in 8 seasons, he's had two stints of under 30 IP where he stayed around a baserunner an inning. Everything else has been walk city.

3 minutes ago, WestEddy said:

There was a buzz right after the trade, where writers opined about Hicks getting back to his glory days, and in 8 seasons, he's had two stints of under 30 IP where he stayed around a baserunner an inning. Everything else has been walk city.

I looked at his stats and did a double take because I have a weird memory of him being lockdown in St. Louis, but I look at his numbers and it doesn’t really appear to be the case

2 minutes ago, Kyyle23 said:

I looked at his stats and did a double take because I have a weird memory of him being lockdown in St. Louis, but I look at his numbers and it doesn’t really appear to be the case

Wasn't he one of the first guys that could pump 100 fairly regularly? That's what I remember of that era.

3 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:

Wasn't he one of the first guys that could pump 100 fairly regularly? That's what I remember of that era.

Yea I think that was it. Now he is just another guy in that respect

10 minutes ago, GreenSox said:

I guess the thread that I'm hanging on, thin as it may be, is that the Giants signed him expressly to start. And that was when the Giants were run by Zaidi, who was pretty seasoned FO guy. So maybe there's something there.

You think the Sox are going to convert him to a starter this season?

12 minutes ago, Kyyle23 said:

You think the Sox are going to convert him to a starter this season?

Now that you mention it...
No, the point was that you need several pitches in order to start, so a GM that at least I respect thought he had that in him. So perhaps he does have secondaries so that he can be an effective reliever.

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1 hour ago, Kyyle23 said:

I mean, Hicks never had problems hitting 100. He just doesn’t have good secondary pitches and as such his heat gets lit up. he never really has been very good, just a throw hard guy

Yeah, the whole problem there is he has never been able to "keep it together" for any extended period of time for a while now.