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Everyone who opposed the rebuild should apologize publicly

Why is Grandal playing tonight?

Best content he has ever produced.

I don't smoke but I feel like I need a cig and a shower after that game, MERCY!

It's becoming uncomfortable how much I love Mendick

I would like a Robert dinger here

I have always said that in a short schedule like this year and 60 games is that you will win 20 and lose 20 it is how you play those other twenty that will determine your fate. That’s what I have always said

Maybe when Grandal’s contract expires, until then let’s use human judgment

I believe seeing a blue hue is a side effect of the two hour erection you've had watching this game

cock balls

So Keuchel has pitched well with McCann, McCann has killed LHP and Grandal has been bad vs LHP and struggled in his career off Lester? It makes no sense, as Grandal should have been catching tomorrow and Sunday.

Ricky trying to determine if Lester is a lefty or righty.

beat the fucking cubs

Fuck the Cubs.

The Cubs already threw their trash on the mound.

If Eloy can just destroy the cubs every time he faces them that would instantly make him a top 5 Sox ever for me

“BeSt ShOrTsToP iN ToWn”

If a Sox player had tried to bunt for a base hit 4 innings into a Lester perfect game, you KNOW he would have b****ed about it. But instead we sent him to the showers with more HRs given up than IP so he can suck it EDIT: Why can I say the fuck word but b**** gets asterisked?

nah nah naaah naaah NAH NAH NAAAH NAAAH HEEEY HEEEEY HEEEEY GOOOOOODBYEEEEEE

Wow, Dallas is going to be telling stories of how he struck out Babe Ruth for years now

for anyone that doesn't understand how hard it is to catch, sit in the squat position just for the first inning every time the catcher does it. then come up every time he does. let me know how your legs feel afterward. Grandal is just struggling, which shows you how GOOD he is of a hitter typically, but catchers are beasts in general.

Pudge Rodriguez career OPS was 798. Please though, tell us more.

So you’re playing Grandal three games in a row coming off back tightness? If you’re sitting him one game this series, why wouldn’t it be tonight? Cubs next two starters are righties and far worse matchups for McCann and better matchups for Grandal.

And McCann was horrible against everyone before last season. We can do this all day. The White Sox aren't sitting one of the biggest signings in franchise history to play James McCann instead after said signing has been off for 3 days. They have 4 guys (Abreu, McCann, EE and Grandal) that are all good vs LHP. Someone has to sit.

The difference is Grandal has put up 25 fWAR over the past five years while Mazara has put up less than 2. One deserves the benefit of the doubt, while the other clearly doesn’t.

Nick Castellanos' 1.043 OPS sure would of looked nice in our lineup. I wanted him so bad this past winter. Sigh.

The White Sox pitching staff has been the unheralded stars of this team. I find it funny that we have a lot of reservations about the future with the pitching - due to injuries and etc - and we have been overly critical of the staff and Rick Renteria's management of it... but one could argue the pitching staff has actually carried the offense equally as much. On the season, the 2020 White Sox pitching staff ranks 7th in fWAR 6th in FIP 6th in ERA They've done that and they haven't been lucky per se (.295 BABIP) against, as the Indians may be (267 BABIP Against). In addition, when you look at their bullpen vs starter breakdown it's been relatively similar. The Bullpen is 5th in FIP and 7th in bullpen WAR. The offense has been a lot fun, but the pitching staff has been sneakily very very good. That said boys, don't look now but who leads baseball in position player WAR!?! The 2020 Chicago White Sox. What team leads baseball in WAR? The 2020 Chicago White Sox! Get hyped.

Abreu should bat 8th.

Let me guess, you guys are gonna complain because Grandal hit that single too hard so TA7 couldn't score...

McCann puts that meatball into the bleachers

I say it every game but he's so boring to watch and its awesome

Mendick being cromulent has been a very pleasant development

Wrigley Field makes me want to vomit in horror. That massive video screen is still horribly tacky and out of place.

I’m actually ok with resting Moncada tonight, but I definitely would have started McCann tonight and Grandal games two & three. People can hate on me if they want or say it doesn’t really matter, but Ricky is terrible when it comes to optimizing his lineup for specific matchups.

I love this, simply because it means Goins will probably have a big hit tonight now.

What garbage.

There are no fans but hopefully the rivalry pressure still gives the series a bit of a playoff vibe, we need practice in handling high-stakes games. And by we I don't mean the players, I mean us, in the game thread. We melt down over random shit versus non-divisional opponents, how the hell are we ever going to handle the crucible of a playoff series? Gotta get our young posters some experience!

https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/batvspitch/_/id/28487/jon-lester McCann should clearly be the pick here going by past numbers against Lester.

Yasmani Grandal is a better player than James McCann is so there is plenty of reasons. McCann is awesome against lefties but Grandal is as well. Would you play McCann over Abreu or EE against LHP? That's basically what it would be.

Zero

I would argue that trades and FA signings are more of the reason the Sox are in the position they are in than tanking for draft picks.

You're not getting anything of note for a 2 month rental catcher that is a backup at the time of trade.

Lets beat the snot out of these bastards!

Not sure if any of y'all heard the White Sox Talk Podcast (Garfein) this week with TA on it but, man, really impressive interview. He's quickly become a professional hitter. Hearing him break down at-bats and sequences, coupled with his regular in-game discussions with Abreu regarding the pitcher on the mound, tells me that what he's doing is far from a fluke and he's bound to become an even better hitter. A team leader, becoming a good to great hitter, and working on defense...TA7 has quickly become a force on this team and the league. That he's not top 100 in this list is a joke.

The fact that this is with Bummer, Rodon, Lopez, and Kopech out is huge. Dudes are stepping up. Hahn has spent a decent amount of draft, minor league free agent, and international spending money (that they couldn't use anyway) resources on developing relief arms and this year it's coming to fruition.

This is going to be a tough series. If somehow the White Sox win two of three, it would be time to get really excited. The key is getting into the Cubs bullpen.

Lol you guys should all stop saying this. Nothing will cause mlb to stop playing the season.

Mazara having covid and missing all of camp clearly has a negative impact. I'm not sure what you expect. It's also a very small sample size. I mean Sox fans love Joc Pedetson, and look at his season. He's been awful, should we judge him based on that? And Steele Walker probably will never even make MLB. Getting anything for him is a win. Drafting him over Alek Thomas was a really bad decision. This board called both Anderson and Moncada busts a couple years ago, maybe let things play out first