9 minutes ago, 2Deep said:

Really need to win this game in the worst way. But honestly I don't think I have a lot of Hope because our Bullpen is taxed

Gotta win 1 of the next 2

8 minutes ago, Sambuca said:

I don’t even understand how we are doing a bullpen game today and the past two games the majority of our bullpen wasn’t available.

What the hell are we doing here?

If I had to guess, our starting pitching since the all star break is averaging less than 5 innings per start (non opener games). This is where the Smiths, Schultz, McDougal and Sandlin having bad years is brutal on the depth.

What do we have to lose letting Sandlin and Thorpe have a chance in the rotation?

If they get lit up, who gives a s%*#.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2026/08/18/white-sox-noah-schultz-hagen-smith-tanner-mcdougal-david-sandlin-brian-bannister-will-venable-erick-fedde-jose-urquidy-davis-martin-al-central

Fegan is great. With that said, a lot of excuses by Bannister.

14 minutes ago, Bonemer, I Hardly Know Her said:

What do we have to lose letting Sandlin and Thorpe have a chance in the rotation?

If they get lit up, who gives a s%*#.

Sandlin, in his limited innings, has some of the most extreme splits I’ve ever seen.

OPS of .444 vs righties, 1.005 vs lefties

3 minutes ago, fathom said:

Sandlin, in his limited innings, has some of the most extreme splits I’ve ever seen.

OPS of .444 vs righties, 1.005 vs lefties

He definitely needs another pitch against lefties.

Regardless, we need somebody to eat innings against the Cubs today. Whether that he Sandlin or Thorpe.

2 minutes ago, ron883 said:

He definitely needs another pitch against lefties.

Regardless, we need somebody to eat innings against the Cubs today. Whether that he Sandlin or Thorpe.

Isn’t that what Urquidy is for?

55 minutes ago, fathom said:

Dead last in catching success, 28 out of 30 overall

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/48305211/2026-mlb-abs-challenge-system-tracker-team-player-rankings

That’ll happen when your main catcher who’s supposed to be an anchor in the lineup and in the field is hurt for the majority of the season, and when the backup you thought was going to be good isn’t even on the roster when the main guy is hurt after bringing in two other catchers.

1 hour ago, JoeCredeYes said:

Would be nice to see the Sox lay off offspeed below the zone today. Starting to feel like the 2013-2018 era when soft tossing lefties like Bruce Chen were the bane of our existence.

Cubs did their homework. “Just keep throwing splitters”.

Nestor Cortes signed with the Phillies. The Sox were in on him apparently, according to Francys Romero.

16 minutes ago, fathom said:

Sandlin, in his limited innings, has some of the most extreme splits I’ve ever seen.

OPS of .444 vs righties, 1.005 vs lefties

That's insane

After the last two long nights I'm fortunate that I'll be at my surgeons office this afternoon for the follow up to the rotator cuff surgery I had on August 6. I'll feel a lot better not following this one.

Who knows, maybe they won't urinate away another lead after the 7th inning like the last two nights.

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3 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:

After the last two long night I'm fortunate that I'll be at my surgeons office this afternoon for the follow up to the rotator cuff surgery I had on August 6. I'll feel a lot better not following this one.

Who knows, maybe they won't urinate away another lead after the 7th inning like the last two nights.

Can they put you under during the game to save you the pain?

20 minutes ago, fathom said:

Fegan is great. With that said, a lot of excuses by Bannister.

I hear you but to be fair as I've posted before, Getz never in his wildest dreams, expected the team to be in this position this season. He probably thought it was going to be another development season, maybe win 75 gams so nothing really was done this past off season.

Now throw in the Sox unable to keep pitchers healthy anymore, JR refusing to pay the going rate to good pitchers and this is where you are at.

That being said Getz may ultimately have to take the blame for not doing more at the deadline. Although we don't know what was being asked for pitchers or what JR allowed him to do regarding the payroll.

19 minutes ago, fathom said:

Isn’t that what Urquidy is for?

I forgot about that bum. I guess we'll be seeing him today.

4 minutes ago, ron883 said:

I forgot about that bum. I guess we'll be seeing him today.

Wind blowing in now at least

19 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:

I hear you but to be fair as I've posted before, Getz never in his wildest dreams, expected the team to be in this position this season. He probably thought it was going to be another development season, maybe win 75 gams so nothing really was done this past off season.

Now throw in the Sox unable to keep pitchers healthy anymore, JR refusing to pay the going rate to good pitchers and this is where you are at.

That being said Getz may ultimately have to take the blame for not doing more at the deadline. Although we don't know what was being asked for pitchers or what JR allowed him to do regarding the payroll.

Despite the claims otherwise, the package of work done the deadline screams payroll restrictions.

2 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

Despite the claims otherwise, the package of work done the deadline screams payroll restrictions.

I’m of opposite view…either prospect hugging or simply not having guys with value outside the top few

2 hours ago, AntMan26 said:

They need to figure this pitching out if they are serious about winning in the postseason. This is negligence and unsustainable.

This isn’t negligence at all. This was a developmental year that surprised every one of us by being competitive. Not one person on this site was thinking playoff rotation in March, we all were thinking about gaining innings and flip candidates

This is rough but honestly gutting the minors for a mild chance at running through the playoffs was not a choice I would have made either, and I was excited for the deadline.

2 minutes ago, Kyyle23 said:

This isn’t negligence at all. This was a developmental year that surprised every one of us by being competitive. Not one person on this site was thinking playoff rotation in March, we all were thinking about gaining innings and flip candidates

This is rough but honestly gutting the minors for a mild chance at running through the playoffs was not a choice I would have made either, and I was excited for the deadline.

I’m not saying they should have gutted the farm system. Development year or not, having barely half a starting rotation is just extremely poor planning.

23 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:

I hear you but to be fair as I've posted before, Getz never in his wildest dreams, expected the team to be in this position this season. He probably thought it was going to be another development season, maybe win 75 gams so nothing really was done this past off season.

Now throw in the Sox unable to keep pitchers healthy anymore, JR refusing to pay the going rate to good pitchers and this is where you are at.

That being said Getz may ultimately have to take the blame for not doing more at the deadline. Although we don't know what was being asked for pitchers or what JR allowed him to do regarding the payroll.

You're wrong. Getz thought this team would contend this year. The only other person who thought this team would contend is me.

Question for the doctors and physical therapists on the board: if Schultz can’t use his optimal mechanics due to his leg/knee issues, is that something they could fix with a minor surgery?

3 minutes ago, AntMan26 said:

I’m not saying they should have gutted the farm system. Development year or not, having barely half a starting rotation is just extremely poor planning.

If they weren’t competitive, Schultz would still be here trying to figure it out, they probably would have given Smith a shot too, possibly MacDougal too. And none of us would care Schultz was struggling like that because it was developmental. Being competitive changed everything.

5 minutes ago, WBWSF said:

You're wrong. Getz thought this team would contend this year. The only other person who thought this team would contend is me.

Ok man. Cool.