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Bummer looked pretty good, seemed to be another case of soxtalk overreaction over a fucking single

50% or more of your posts are personal attacks. re-evaluate your self. this is an opinion board. I can state my opinion on Jason and it's an opinion formed by over 15 years playing the game and over 30 watching it.

This idea we can't critique the shirty CCP is asinine. Fuck the CCP.

Robert seems to be figuring it out as well which is great to see.

Yep and people voted for trump based on life times of living. That doesn’t mean anything. Your obsessed with Jason and is in every one of your posts. Get over it

If we put it through the Ron simulator and replace the variable of "Mercedes" with "Abreu" the output seems to change.

Put me on mute if it bothers you Jason is a clown and I will continue to point it out

That was..........2021 White Sox-esque.

Impatient Sox

Lynn has been great

The 5 best records are the Mariners, Angels, Royals, Indians, and Red Sox. Those also happen to be the 5 teams the Sox have played. We've played some hot teams and are .500 with a plus 18 run differential. And we haven't even started clicking yet.

New Soxtalk drinking game: take a shot every time you call someone "pal" or "buddy."

I would be shocked if that guys fucked anyone

These guys throw year round. Kopech isnt coming back from not throwing. I think modern pitcher management has been a complete disaster with no real evidence supporting its effectiveness. Kopech has arm strength. If you want to keep inning escalation down, fine, but thinking you need 5 days to recover from 41 pitches because like you haven't been throwing daily for 16 months is nonsense to me. You build arm strength and durability by pitching, not resting. Don't throw through fatigue and soreness too much and you'll be fine. Inning load management has just increased injury.

Nick deserves a shout out for three hard hit balls today. If he can rip some line drives in the gaps, he can be a very valuable hitter.

There is one championship roster, and it's right here on the south side of chicago

Hes literally explained what It means on-air many times while you were yelling at him and telling him to only talk about the game. Your obsession with benetti is absurd. And a 92 wRC+ is significantly better than his batting average looks which was his entire point.

Sox have looked pretty bad and are .500 and more importantly 2.5 up on Minnie. They’re fine. Honestly my biggest concern is that it looks like there’s exactly one championship roster in baseball this season.

Lmfao get out of here with this bullshit. I honestly think he fucked your girl. Jason’s 1000000000 times better than hawk or the dudes on the north side

There are many things that its understandable to criticize Jason for, but his knowledge of advanced stats is definitely not one of them

Ron must be so close to climaxing.

Fuck pnoles

Waiting for the xtra inning runner on 2nd walk off

The pitcher was born in Hong Kong and Stoney just said glad he got out when he did. Nothing bad. Just kinda weird

The weakest ,slowest, least talented player in baseball with a big leg double.

This series is one big BABIP clusterfuck lmfao

That’s who Abreu is, his 2020 sprint notwithstanding. lack of patience is what seperates a good hitter like abreu from a great hitter

You're a really good poster but man you quite literally shit on Benetti 2+ times every GT. Relax. Put it on mute or something

You could go all the way back to 2001 with the exception of 2005.

You left out 2010 2011 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 and 2019

It's one thing to question Vaughn in the lineup It's another to want Nick Williams in his place and continuing to defend it

Dane Dunning: 3 starts, .60 ERA, 1.00 WAR

How lucky are we to have a batter with a .319 OPS batting 6th in the lineup? Truly #blessed.

You’d almost think Bummer didn’t have a 2.08 ERA based on some of the posts in here.

Of course he hasn't looked good at all this year, but people's opinion of Bummer has changed from he's lights out to he can't be trusted in high leverage spots based off of 3.1 IP. That is quite an overreaction.

Love when Debbie downers have to eat shit

That’s even scarier. The 32-15 start last year is the main thing holding together the current belief that we might still be one of the three best teams in the AL. Because the positive additions of Lynn/Eaton/Mercedes are being cancelled out by...well, there’s zero point in rehashing all the things that are currently going awry. Or a century plus franchise history of not making the playoffs over two consecutive seasons.

One team just made the World Series. The other is the winningest in MLB history. The White Sox, otoh, have lost 20 of their last 30...and are completely unproven against the best teams in the East and West of both leagues.

Agreed. They need to protect both Vaughn and in all likelihood Crochet after rushing them. Something is not quite right with either player...we can diagnose from the living room couch, but it needs to be addressed. The massive drop off from McCann to Collins has happened as pretty much everyone who looks at spring training realistically predicted. Engel with pressure to pick up the slack offensively doesn't work like Adam the complementary spare part/platoon guy. Sincere doubts whether Hahn can pull off the right move to get us to the end of July. Realistically, it’s 50% relying on the Twins or Indians to implode or suffer their own set of injuries, but that’s not the mindset of a real playoff contender with killer instincts.

Alright guys, in terms of “must win” games, this is about as close as they come in mid April. The Sox currently sit 6-8 on the season and are 2.5 games beyond the Royals for 1st place. The good news is the Twins are also off to a sluggish start and have an identical 6-8 record to us. While it’s still super early no doubt, losing the first game of this double header puts us in a tough spot given the fact a less reliable pitcher will likely be starting game 2 (Stiever / Lopez). To eliminate the chance of ending today with a 6-10 record, Keuchel needs to bring his A game, both eating a considerable amount of innings and getting us a win. Unfortunately for us, Dallas is off to a rough start with a 5.44 FIP and xwOBA in the 20th %tile so far on the season. It’s really hard to draw too many conclusions based on three starts, but Dallas is seeing unusual increases in his BB & HR rates and has really been beaten up on his bread & butter sinker. Looking at his Statcast figures, his stuff & movement pretty much look consistent with previous seasons, so I think we’re simply seeing a guy rounding into form after a limited camp. That being said, he does need to figure out his shit and soon. He’ll never be the 1.99 ERA guy we saw last year, but we do need him to consistently give us around six solid innings and that’s critical now more than ever with heavy bullpen workload expected for game two. For the Red Sox will Tanner Houck, a 24 year old former 1st round pick who will making his fifth major league starter. His arsenal is built around his four seamer (92 to 95 MPH) and slider with a sinker also in the mix. The slider is his primary weapon with a nasty 56% whiff rate this year in a small sample size. Sox right-handed hitters are really going to struggle today if they don’t lay off this pitch down & away, which puts even more pressure on our left-handed bats to do some damage. On paper this is a scary matchup despite us facing a rookie, but the Sox have typically played well when their backs are against the wall. If Dallas can improve his command and limit his mistakes, I think the Sox can steal game 1, but that also requires the offense to start hitting with runners in scoring position. Can’t keep throwing away opportunities and expect to win non Lucas / Lance starts. Hopefully today we start seeing some much needed regression to the mean in that area. Let’s fucking go!

Apparently someone is unfamiliar with the track record of taking one of the lowest payrolls in baseball and consistently turning it into post season appearances it was is most often the toughest division in baseball.

They’ve got two years, if they don’t make it to the post-season this year. Really 1 1/2 from 2022 through midseason 2023 when they face the same decisions the Cubs are with Baez, Rizzo and Bryant. The difference is the Cubs are bottoming out after a window ending from 2015-2021. Those guys might have all peaked, and they devastated their future with trades and bad FA deals, but that’s as good as it gets unless you have the budget of the Dodgers, Yankees and Red Sox. The problem the White Sox is the timing, obviously. They can’t afford to go backwards, it will devastate the fanbase. It will be the equivalent of the Indians trading Lindor, or the Marlins trading Christian Yelich. Moncada has to perform like peak Bryant...and soon. Cease has to perform. Robert has to be a 4-5 fWAR CFer. Eloy has to come back as a 900ish OPS hitter. Otherwise, they’re miss timing the veterans with the first and second waves of talent. Their veterans will get old or depart (Lynn) before the second wave of youth is 100% ready (Kopech, Madrigal, Vaughn, Crochet). That’s the massive inherent risk right now. And they might have to start over with a new manager and a ticking clock to midseason of 2023, then another year later with TA. The only short term way to dig out it is spending more money/taking on additional salary obligations.

It looks like another version of the Samardzija deal, not that it would have worked out well for the Sox to have awarded him that final long term deal for around $100 million. We definitely helped the A’s make an extended run of post-season appearances with those 4 guys, though. https://theathletic.com/2006926/2020/08/19/why-dane-dunning-always-had-the-fortitude-to-make-his-white-sox-debut/ https://www.si.com/mlb/whitesox/features/deserving-dane-dunning-needs-to-be-third-starter-in-the-playoffs Halfway through Spring Training now, Dunning thinks repetition and executing pitches are the two biggest things he needs to work on. Dunning is likely to be a piggyback option for the Rangers, and less of a traditional starter, as he works his way up to throwing more innings. Manager Chris Woodward said one of the main points he communicated to Dunning was attacking the strike zone early in counts. “I know [Jose] Trevino was working with him in the dugout in between innings,” Woodward said. “I guess the last inning, he struck out the side and it was basically nine pitches or 10 pitches. So it was good to see him progress through the outing and still have a good one. To finish the way he did was very encouraging.” Kyle Gibson, the Rangers' 33-year-old starter, credits Dunning for his delivery and the tight spin he has on his breaking ball. He also praised Dunning for his preparation and his willingness to learn as a young player throughout Spring Training. Gibson said Dunning’s mindset is that he always knows what he wants to take to the mound in each outing. “He's obviously a well-thought-of prospect and a highly regarded guy to come in and make an impact soon,” Gibson said. “So for a guy to still be trying to work on his craft, and to get a little bit better in that position where he's pretty good. I think that shows a lot about him.” Dunning echoed those sentiments, saying he’s happy to be in a position to learn from players with a lot more experience than him. He said he’s picked the brains of various pitchers on the staff and even started using a water bag workout routine he learned from Gibson. “I’m just fortunate to be in the situation I am,” Dunning said. “Just being able to talk and be able to learn with the people who have had years of service time. Me, being a rookie and coming up, I'm trying to establish myself and be successful. I'm trying to surround myself with that environment. Being able to talk with every guy and learn simple things, I really love it.” https://www.mlb.com/news/dane-dunning-learning-from-rangers-veterans

I don't want to make a new thread but trading Dunning looks really stupid right now. It's early, but it looks fucking stupid.

Not when you have several players on the roster who can't hit a lick.

Wouldn’t it make sense for the starter to start one game and the backup start the other.............

If we do not sign Lynn to a long term deal then we better go deep this year or win the whole thing.

Because this is our manager.

We know. You compared him to Delmon Young last year, and a month after, you were apologizing for being such a dope