2 hours ago, fathom said:

Have noticed this as well. Between this and Colson not being told to use the whole field, the hitting coaches are letting these guys down

Fire everyone.

Who are guys you think are replaceable right now on this 26 man roster. Names I have are Acuña, Rogers, Doyle, Quero on the position player side. Urquidiy, Murphy on the pitching side

Bring Romo back, he's been better than Jake Rogers and Edgar Quero. You don't need 3 bad catchers on your bench, 2 is enough. I believe Charlotte's season ends soon, so Romo would otherwise just be sitting at home.

Get rid of Urquidiy, and Murphy and call up Drew Thorpe and Schweitzer. Thorpe's pitched in the majors, he isn't some green rookie. He's also been dealing on his rehab stint. Having Thorpe and Sandlin in the rotation lets you hide Castillo in the bullpen, which strengthens a gaping hole for this team right now which is the rotation. Murphy isn't as good as Schweitzer, lesser of two evils

Controversial take: Jettison Acuña and bring back Rikuu, he's been playing regularly, if you need someone to hop over to SS you can move Chase and plug Rikuu in at 2B in a pinch. Don't see this happening because Getz refuses to DFA a guy who has two fucking at bats this month.

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8 hours ago, Colome's Hat said:

I am not bothered by strikeouts like I usss to be. Would rather have someone strike out then ground out because a ground out does more damage. He needs to walk more. I wish he were like Adam Dunn in this regards. Dunn stuck out a lot but he also had one of the best eyes I've ever seen at the plate.

That comment by Kolson really has me steaming. The Rays who have already won 90 games are one of the few teams this year with more hits than Ks and by over 300, the Sox are just about the complete opposite. The Rays have played old time baseball this year which is really refreshing, I’m so tired of the modern game with strikeout after strikeout and all this BS about bad speed and launch angles and that Ks are just another out. We really don’t have to go back that far like the 1950s for old time baseball, our 2005 World Champion White Sox had 450 more hits than Ks and could beat teams all different kinds of ways, remember Ozzie’s Small Ball.

The Sox can’t trade Kolson Montdumbery fast enough.

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47 minutes ago, The Mighty Mite said:

That comment by Kolson really has me steaming. The Rays who have already won 90 games are one of the few teams this year with more hits than Ks and by over 300, the Sox are just about the complete opposite. The Rays have played old time baseball this year which is really refreshing, I’m so tired of the modern game with strikeout after strikeout and all this BS about bad speed and launch angles and that Ks are just another out. We really don’t have to go back that far like the 1950s for old time baseball, our 2005 World Champion White Sox had 450 more hits than Ks and could beat teams all different kinds of ways, remember Ozzie’s Small Ball.

The Sox can’t trade Kolson Montdumbery fast enough.

1959 White Sox

580 bb's

634 k's

.250

.327

.364

.691 ops

10 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

1959 White Sox

580 bb's

634 k's

.250

.327

.364

.691 ops

That team won like most White Sox teams of the 1950s and 1960s with pitching, defense and speed and had over 700 more hits than Ks.

The only reason that they had more Ks than walks is that pitchers had to hit in those days, the position players had more BBs than Ks.

Since we are looking at the 1959 Sox, there’s only one team in the AL this year that has a team batting average higher than the .250 of the 1959 Sox and of course it’s the Rays at .261.

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56 minutes ago, The Mighty Mite said:

That team won like most White Sox teams of the 1950s and 1960s with pitching, defense and speed and had over 700 more hits than Ks.

The only reason that they had more Ks than walks is that pitchers had to hit in those days, the position players had more BBs than Ks.

Since we are looking at the 1959 Sox, there’s only one team in the AL this year that has a team batting average higher than the .250 of the 1959 Sox and of course it’s the Rays at .261.

Their ops would rank 29th in 2026.

58 minutes ago, The Mighty Mite said:

That team won like most White Sox teams of the 1950s and 1960s with pitching, defense and speed and had over 700 more hits than Ks.

The only reason that they had more Ks than walks is that pitchers had to hit in those days, the position players had more BBs than Ks.

Since we are looking at the 1959 Sox, there’s only one team in the AL this year that has a team batting average higher than the .250 of the 1959 Sox and of course it’s the Rays at .261.

Can we at least acknowledge that the strike zone was massive in those days, not to mention the average fastball in 1950 was probably somewhere around 80?

7 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

Can we at least acknowledge that the strike zone was massive in those days, not to mention the average fastball in 1950 was probably somewhere around 80?

It wasn’t massive, it was definitely higher, up around the top of the letters but still at the knees and not any wider.

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30 minutes ago, The Mighty Mite said:

It wasn’t massive, it was definitely higher, up around the top of the letters but still at the knees and not any wider.

Based on the TV highlights from the era, many guys got 4 to 6 inches off 9f the corner in application.