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Yea well I'd like a 8" pecker.

No out pitch. Almost every tool in his arsenal can be fouled off until the batter sees a better pitch to drive somewhere.

Sox on a pace to hit infinity home runs.

The year he was traded he saw a big drop in his peripherals which he luckily offset with the highest strand rate of his career. If Q was a stock Hahn bought at rock bottom and sold at the top. Hahn has clear weaknesses but trading high is not one of them. It was a heist and most Sox fans knew at the time Q was entering the downside of his career, you could see it in his peripherals that year and just watching him pitch. Lost some of that command on his fastball and he didn't have a huge margin for error.

What outliers? He was remarkably consistent in walk, hit, strikeout rates, etc with the Sox, if anything with slight improvements year to year.

We won the Shields Trade: “James Shields got me to go to a spiked curveball, he threw his curveball a little differently than me, and I wanted to try his out,” Dunning said. “When I tried his, it was a lot more effective and sharp. But I wasn’t throwing it consistently until I went to a spike.” “Yasmani [Grandal] switched up the grip on my changeup. Now it’s a lot more effective. The numbers on it show that it’s getting better. Coaches like Everett Teaford, who has been helping me get carry and ride on my four-seam. Now everything is getting put together, and I feel really good about it.”

it's one thing to lose it's another to lose in the manner they were doing it. that's what I think most of us complainers were b****ing about.

I still laugh at that.

Mazara! Told you to play him

Lol its his 18th career start .

Hahn sold high for a perennial 35hr everyday player and a #3 starter. Couldn't pass that up. Quintana was due to regress with some of his outliers.

Once Mendick dumps a gallon of milk down his pants, we'll start talking

But he did. And so that isn't something you can hand wave away.

Maybe recently, but overall there's always freaking out whenever a loss happens. The shortest game threads are wins. People go nuts over every loss. I'm not picking on any one person just entertained by the whole concept. I truly think most posters here can't just sit and enjoy a game. But I guess that's just passionate fans.

Quintana is the heavy favorite IMO to be the pitching addition this offseason

Gausman must have pitched well against Padres

McCann is a UFA next year. Sox are probably not gonna bring him back. You don't pay Grandal $73 million and then pay a 2nd catcher big money.

Cordero's jersey keeps shrinking by the game....now it's down to Adult Men's Size M.

I like Moncada 2nd a lot more. He is going to work deeper into counts, and give a guy like Anderson a chance to run.

Reading this thread is amazing

Seeing the replay, that was down and in too, and he still managed to hit it 400 feet.

That's the best Nomar's hit a ball this year.

Man Edwin was running HARD ?

You were saying? ?

TA7 is going to will this WIN today.

Comerica is a really shitty park, change my mind.

That is pretty much only an out in Detroit and Oakland.

Not a bad start. Wish we would have had runners on base for those dingers though

If my daughter was grade school age, I'd tell Trump I will decide when she goes back to school and otherwise he can just shove it.

Finally, a day game to distract me from work.

Moncada had COVID, showed up 4 days before the season started, and he's played 15 games in the past 15 days. He looks tired and it certainly makes sense. People that were ripping the two off days early just overlooking the grind that this is for a guy who was fatigued.

Everything is obvious in retrospect. Cole Hamels was a washed out veteran pitcher who was TERRIBLE for the Rangers in 2018 and then went to the Cubs and put up a 2.4 WAR in the second half of 2018 for the Cubs. If Shields does that instead of the -2.1. They may have had a chance. Having the White Sox role the dice on the Sale/Quintana/Rodon/Shields/ David Robertson/Nate Jones pitching staff to lead them to the playoffs where anything can happen was not the dumbest move ever made. Throwing in some nobody was meaningless. It didn't work out but the failure led to the rebuild. You take chances in life and shaking your fist at the clouds after the fact really doesn't help.

Is there a division between the American guys and the Latin guys? I'm sensing so.

Huh, weird, I must be missing the quotes where they blow off what he said because he played for the Astros? ?

Moncada not in lineup- looked gimpy last night, hopefully nothing serious

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Maybe Ricky doesn’t know Boyd is a LHP

Hahn didn't have the power in 2016. This was still Kenny's team and he was still the big gambler hoping to hit it big like in 2005. I didn't support this...I was part of the rebuild believers...but it was not unreasonable. Sale/Quintana/Rodon put up a +12 WAR that year. Nate Jones/David Robertson/Dan Jennings/Zach Duke had a +6 WAR as the core of potentially a very good relief staff. Adam Eaton was elite that year, Tim Anderson had a very promising rookie year and you had Abreau and a bunch of old vets that compromised a reasonable offense. The idea wasn't bad the results were. People here pretend that they KNEW Shields was toast at the point of the trade...but that's fiction. Shields had averaged 3.9 WAR the previous five years, and in 2016 he had a 3.06 ERA...2.5 to 1 K/BB rate and a +1 WAR until his last start in San Diego where he gave up 10 runs in 2 innings. If you want to say you were ready to throw out the previous 5 years and 10 very good starts because he had a bad two innings I'm skeptical. You would have been RIGHT but you had basically no evidence to support it. Shields was 34 at the time of the trade. Randy Johnson was 34 in 1998 and after his first ten starts had a 7 ERA...about the point in the season where Sox got Shields. Seattle traded Johnson who then put up a 44 WAR in the next 4.5 years. Sometimes you get lucky. As for San Diego targeting Tatis...I mean ok...after the White Sox said...you can't touch these 40 prospects. You know how unlikely it is for a non-top 30 prospect to even sniff the major leagues? San Diego likely said "well he's very young, plays short stop and his father was a major leaguer. Of all the garbage he's the most likely to maybe become a reasonable back up major league shortstop. The odds of Tatis then becoming the best player in baseball is so remote its not worth talking about. We wouldn't have these endless arguments if Tatis becomes Ryan Goins. This was not a master stroke of talent genius by the Padres this was damn luck. Damnable luck.

Yes to all. Until the next game. Baseball is a game of failure and dealing with it is the hardest part of the game. It's a good thing the posters here arent MLB players. Or maybe that's why. ?

https://www.mlb.com/padres/video/padres-relay-nabs-taylor-at-home https://www.mlb.com/video/tatis-jr-s-92-8-mph-throw https://www.mlb.com/news/padres-are-must-watch-team-in-mlb By the way, our old friend Yonder Alonso is joining the Padres and reuniting with Manny Machado...

Bump for @caulfield12

huge win now build on it tmr.

Heuer looks like he's been figured out a bit.

I'm thinking the new normal of lift and pull everything, K or HR, is not necessarily the best course of action for the majority of Sox hitters. I never understood why with two strikes hitters don't try for contact only and to get on base.

Babe Ruth

I really wonder how draft order is going to be determined. Have we heard any rumblings? Or are they likely to actually go off record like normal?

Leiter and Rocker are both so filthy