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Giolito - Ace form TA7 - Batting champ form Abreu - RBI champ form Mazara - Trash Can form

McCann is considered a poor framer by fangraphs but how does fWAR account for this? *Giolito ERA pitching to Grandal: 5.66 *Giolito ERA pitching to McCann: 1.29 and then there’s this as well which I don’t believe even accounted for today’s game... https://mobile.twitter.com/CST_soxvan/status/1296509695633620992

It is almost becoming an awkward situation. We have Grandal off to a really slow start and a really big contract. And then we have McCann picking up right where he left off. Plus the fact that he has a great flow/ game plan with Giolito. And he has history with Keuchel too (teammates at Arkansas). I think there is a way they both could coexist on this team. They both bring alot to the table.

I consider James a leader and a core player. Do the Yankees have pricey veterans on the bench? Yes. I would make a serious 3-4 year bid and see if someone outbids the Sox. You can cut costs somewhere else like DH. When you have value its OK to pay a fair price. Most of their pitching is cost-controlled. Losing James will hurt the team.

If we continue beating up on the bad teams like this, there's no reason we can't win 35 games. I just looked over the schedule and there's a lot of Pirates, Tigers, and Royals on it. If we take care of business vs. them and just split against the Indians, Cubs, and Twins there's no reason we can't compete for the division.

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3/$50 off of 4-5 really solid months and the All-Star berth, compared to the relatively pedestrian rest of his career with DET? How would we feel if we were fans of another team and they signed McCann to that kind of deal? Really not that far off from Grandal's numbers, 1 year less for contract, "only" $2 million more per season for Grandal, who has an established track record and playoff history of performances dating back over a number of years. 5,2 5.8 4.1 4.7 5.2=25/5=5.0 fWAR average over the last five full seasons for Grandal James McCann is at +2.1 for his ENTIRE career. Including 2.3 last season. That would have to be about his max, right?

If I was saying anything remotely inappropriate on a conference call prior to a client hopping on, and it turned out they were on, I would be fired. If they were not on yet, it is very likely I would be fired if other reasonable people from my company were on the call. If anything he's more protected "being in the public eye" since he can cry "pc police". It's incredibly easy not to say racial or homophobic slurs at work. It's kind of a barest of minimums kind of requirement.

What’s McCann worth to the Sox just based on the fact that their top two pitchers prefer pitching to him and perform better when pitching to him? That alone makes him worth $10M/year imo.

My heart says to keep him but my brain says what will you give me for him.

Best part about day games: Get to watch the White Sox at work Worst part about day games: Don't get to watch the White Sox after work

Would be so 2020 for my lifelong fantasy of a Sox/Cubs World Series to be fulfilled -- and not be able to go to a game.

That's why charter schools thrive. They can do that while public schools are forbidden by law to do it. All of the "expensive" students end up dumped in public schools because privates and charters make the "choice" to not accept them.

There’s a better chance of Thom Brenneman being the Grand Marshall at the Pride parade than McCann signing to be a back-up next year with the Sox.

Sox should pick him up. Former first round pick. Electric stuff in college. Coop will fix 'em.

Dunning's start was a huge positive, that said, really annoys me that they didn't give him the drew Anderson start a few weeks ago. We have same control now, and he would have given us a much better opener in an important game.

Thank you for including the start time!

Dangling Vaughn is a garbage idea. 1st base prospects don't fetch great returns. Vaughn is going to be a special hitter. He will be a much needed high OBP bat for this team.

Alright boys, today is the fourth & final game of the series against the Tigers. The Sox have won the first three and have outscored the Tigers 22 to 9. The Sox are now 14-11 on the season (.560) and sit just two games back of the Twins for the Central lead. As I mentioned yesterday, the Sox have a tough series coming up agains the Cubs and sweeping the Tigers would allow us to enter that series with momentum intact. On the mound for the Sox is Lucas Giolito, who has struggled to live up to expectations so far this year. He’s currently 1-2 with a 4.08 FIP on the season, but has battled two issues that are more or less related: 1st inning woes & poor fastball command. Giolito’s FIP is a whopping 6.94 in the 1st vs. 3.45 in all other innings. For those who watched him closely, being unable to locate his fastball early in games and especially in the 1st has really hurt him. Lucas & Coop definitely need to find a way to get him comfortable from the get-go or the Sox will quickly find themselves trying to claw back from a deficit early in the game. As for the Tigers, they will have 27 year old right-hander Spencer Turnbull on the mound. He has a very interesting pitch mix, primarily being a sinker-slider type while coming up through the minors until recently developing a four seamer that per FanGraphs “moves unlike any other four-seam fastball” generating both high ground-ball & whiff rates. He now uses the four seamer 43% of the time, with the sinker more a complimentary pitch to keep batters off-balance. Given his arsenal, Spencer generates a lot of ground-balls (54%) and that could be troubling for a group hitters who are prone to hit the ball into the ground. They’ll have to be patient today and wait for pitches they can elevate and while watching out for Turnbull’s slider which is a wipe-out pitch for him. Overall, this should be a pretty good match-up even if not as exciting as yesterday’s. Let’s fucking go boys!!!!!

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16 of our remaining 34 games are against the Pirates, Royals, and Tigers. If the main guys stay healthy, we'd have to majorly fuck up to not win 30+.

I swear I thought Yoan got hurt at the end there.

That Leury injury really hurts right now.

This guy really knows what he is talking about.

Wait, didn't someone tell Eloy he couldn't hit homers anymore? We are winning by too much.

Everyone is a candy ass when it's their own sensibilities being offended.

I hope Abreu makes me eat so much crow I turn into a corvid.

Is that good?

I would approach the Dodgers for a Bellinger/Mazara swap. Both need a change of scenery ?

Hawk would ramble about Yaz every time Grandal came to the plate.

Hawk pulled a You Can Put It On The......no never mind probably a thousand times.

Then we should trade Giolito if he is going to suck with any catcher not named McCann.

Private schools are better at this as they can control every aspect of e learning and can pivot quickly and can engage faculty to assist in the transformation. In the Chicago area for public schools this is not the case. Public school district faculty and administrators have nobody to answer to if they fail. Many really didn't do much over the summer as that is what they were used. In early August they then tried to figure it out. The ISBE IDPH and governor gave little hope. CPS and the CTU are an embarrassing disaster but nobody cares. In the end for me it has been and always will be the fact that is no middle ground in this country and still 5 months into this thing we can't all agree that we should wear a mask and put proper protocols in place to get back to school. I believe education is essential and now it is viewed as being non-essential. At this point educational officials treated this as such all summer because of a complacency of school administrators and unions. Where was the union input in May, June and July to partner with school districts. Schools can be opened safely if people really wanted to put the work in to do it. I feel the public school system in northeast Illinois rewards complacency far to often. There is zero accountability and enormous salary and pension hand outs for putting in little to no effort.

Right exactly, he’s at work! His producers were hearing this even if the audience didn’t cut in. This isn’t someone saying they heard him use it at a restaurant.

https://www.cibercuba.com/noticias/2020-08-20-u194102-e74-s27066-principal-prospecto-pitcheo-cubano-abandona-cuba My spanish is rusty, but here goes. At the age of 17, he went 7-3 with a 0.83 in the national junior championship with 135 strikeouts in 82 innings.

Well this didn't age well

That's right. Today - Giolito Cubs series: Kuechel, Cease, Gonzalez Mon: Off day Pirate Series: Giolito, Kuechel Thur: Off day Royals Series: Cease, Gonzalez.....and then recall Dunning for 8/30 game

Man of faith. Not who he is. Then why oh why did he say it while at work? He didn't seem to apologize to any of his co-workers who would have heard it. But once he found out it went out on the air, and people were calling for his job, oh so sorry. Everybody screws up. I just hate these cookie cutter "apologies". What he was sorry for was being caught. I'm sure it's not the first time he's said something similar. I don't really think this should cost him a career, but it should cost him his job and maybe his Fox football job. Let some other person "of faith" take over. I'm guessing they won't say what he say. He can do the faith thing for a while. Get some sensitivity training, and then look for a new gig, and if he's the best person for the job, the next team or network should have no problem hiring him.

Two games behind Minnesota. Soxtalk sure feels different than it did one week ago.

I don't pay good money to see these punks have fun. I pay to watch them play baseball!! Enough hotdogging!

I ask again, why is there such a vocal segment of posters who think Collins is so bad at catching that he can't even get a game here and there? Aside from his form on that wild pitch in the first inning, he looked fine back there, called a clean game, and even stole a few key strikes. Not sure why he can't be penciled in as our backup catcher next year

They certainly helped, but I always like to think the player is the one who put the work in. This team in general is a glowing endorsement for the new drafting and PD team, even though some Sox fans would never admit that: Mendick Anderson Engel Burdi Foster Heuer Marshall Robert Collins Cease Dunning now It's hard to argue with the PD being trash anymore.