Mike Vasil's steps for White Sox Playoff Success.....

1. Take a plane to Cleveland.....✔️

2. Kick some Ass.....Incoming

3. Bring Playoff Baseball back to Chicago.....Cannot Wait

Let’s gooooo!!!!

37 minutes ago, wegner said:

Mike Vasil's steps for White Sox Playoff Success.....

1. Take a plane to Cleveland.....✔️

2. Kick some Ass.....Incoming

3. Bring Playoff Baseball back to Chicago.....Cannot Wait

“There’s alcohol being poured down my pants!”

9 minutes ago, DoUEvenShift said:

Our lineup against lefties always just looks funny but I do think this is the best lineup to throw out there. Let's go boys!!!

ez win

On 10/1/2026 at 4:29 AM, The Beast said:

I am trying to wrap my head around the Sox strategy for pitching. Is it that they lack arms that can go 6+ innings from the start that they get creative with openers, then a guy who goes for several innings and then lock down the later innings?

Or is it that they are unpredictable with who will pitch, making other teams have to scout every pitcher and have hitters adjust to the pitcher coming out of the pen?

It's for sure a different openers strategy than was employed during the season.

Now its like opener and let's go with matchups the best we can. But sooner or later it'll be hard not to pitch guys that aren't great matchups.

It's pretty unique to Venables style of managing and managing starting pitchers who have problems going past 5 innings and are somewhat gassed.

It worked perfectly against the Astros but its harder to duplicate in a longer series. The more arms you throw out there the more likely you are to find one that implodes.

For the Sox to win the series they're going to have to prevent Messick and Williams from dominating them and win the match ups battle.

Cleveland has also used their running game pretty extensively against the White Sox. They will put much more pressure on the Sox defense. Sox may have to step up their running game . We may see Venable go back to bunting if runs are at a premium when approaching mid game.

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