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This is personal for you, eh? Wowzers.

Well this at least allows us to skip the bullpen day. I'm ok with this.

Horrible post.

Feel free to comment on your choices.

Yep couldn’t have worked out better. Tony was a genius to use all the relievers last night

It doesn’t even bother me where he was picked now. IMO, it’s all about whether or not getting a lot of singles outweighs his horrible defense and base running. Given all the core players locked into other spots, 2B seems like a position in need of upgrade down the road if the Sox want to build a super team.

Nick Madrigal; now responsible for Yermin Mercedes psyche. Soxtalk.com

I will never understand the desire to be the first person to overreact to a small sample size and write off a young player. Nick Madrigal has 45 fucking games of major league experience. Him making some dumb plays in the field and on the bases does NOT mean he will forever be bad in those areas. Good god some the takes here are scathing hot. And even worse are people who seem to hate him simply due his height. I hope when Nick Madrigal goes home after a game to his million dollar house and bangs his hot as fuck girlfriend that he’s laughing at these chumps who rip his height or post pictures of dwarves on the internet in some pathetic attempt at mocking someone who has probably accomplished more in a day than they’ve accomplished in a lifetime.

The posting of pictures of children and gifs of dwarves is a bit strange my man

1. Nick Madrigal is for all intents and purposes still a ROOKIE. Why do so many of you refuse to let prospects develop and adjust? 2. You are looking like a gigantic fucking douchebag with all this smarmy rhetoric and pictures of children. Ironically it's more a portrait that represents the maturity of your behavior. I'll take being short over being an asshole any day. Grow the hell up.

Let's go back to the segregation of the 1960s south, except instead of by race, it's by vaccination status. Vaccinated = 100/300 levels Not vaccinated = 500 level

Sweep!

The Sox won the series! On to the next one.

No offense but professional sports teams should not evaluate their players based on what fans think.

Dude, nearly 7,500 posts, and you still haven't been right once. Perhaps one day your posts will "get better".

The farce is making the manager wear a mask in what is one of the most rigorously tested environments in the world. But we have turned masks in outside settings into a dogma and not anything about safety. One could argue it reduces risk sure, but then again so would cancelling the entire season and sitting in a locked room. We are at the point where we have to recalibrate risk in vaccinated and controlled environments and it doesn't seem like some people can quite grasp the appropriate level of caution, including on outdoor mask usage.

From all accounts Mendick is a humble, stand up guy. I wouldn't lump him in this mess.

Manfred set to test out such new in-game events as "who can read Shakespeare the fastest out loud between innings", "No alcohol first inning", "random ticket draw to kick out a person attending the game, with family" and "home runs are limited to 2 per game, the rest are outs" in order to increase fan interest.

You’d think people would learn here in what, year 8? But nah.

Luis Robert - he's heating up (NBA Jam announcer voice)

I was curious about the debate so I dusted off the baseball simulator I wrote and simulated the 2019 season (that's what I have data for) assuming every White Sox hitter would hit according to Madrigal's career stats. FWIW the Chicago Madrigals were last in the league with a runs per game average of 3.52. I don't think that actually means much in terms of Madrigals value to the actual White Sox. Personally I am of the opinion that his stat line can be very useful in the actual Sox lineup. But it does show that a lineup of 9 Madrigals would not be a successful baseball team.

I‘m not sure Madrigal could throw a ball that far, and that’s not mocking him. One of the worst throws I’ve ever seen.

This is just flat out wrong. Jered Kelenic projection as of today, using STEAMER is .3 fWAR, with a slash line of 237/300/403 over 385 AB's. Madrigal projection when he was first called up was that of a 2.5 fWAR player, and even now (after his 45 game sample) he's still projected at 1.6 fWAR ROS with a wOBA of 319 over 491 AB's. Pre-debut, Madrigal projected to be better than Kelenic (obviously at a more developed age). Kelenic is younger and has a higher ceiling, sure, but this proclamation that he's some can't miss superstar on this forum is laughably wrong. He may be a great player, and he's a talented kid, but he is not projected to be a superior player as of today and saying otherwise just isn't true. Again age matters, but Madrigal had a higher wRC+ at AA than Kelenic did. The Sox have not been poor at drafting for two decades either, that's another completely false proclamation. You're full of those though.

Dunning > Lynn.

Way to skip a Lynn start, part I.

Don't watch them then. Baseball games are long. So what. Its what makes the grind of a 162 game season so beautiful. I absolutely love parking my ass on the couch and watching a 4 hour baseball game. Are there areas where we could see things speed up a bit? Sure. I am all for 30 second shot clocks on pitchers. Replay reviews take WAY WAY WAY WAY too much time and this should be the easiest thing to speed up yet the genius' at mlb can't figure that out. Filling the beautiful game of baseball with gimicks to speed it up isn't the answer.

This post is such garbage. Shameful.

Vaccine passport required and 100%. Let’s do it.

Big, if true.

This is fantastic news

Yeah but It's mostly about people determined to find something to complain about when it comes to Madrigal.

Considering he was being included in trade proposals this offseason, I would say the front office has concerns a well

It's actually not, and it's not rubbish to use historical outcomes to compare and project future outcomes. That's literally how ever projection model is built. We get that you're the greatest hindsight general manager in the history of the world, but sadly you're not running the White Sox and we're stuck with these fake professionals that don't have your HOF eye for talent.

My god this board can be toxic at times. It's like Madrigal is a complete bust.

He's the only one that said that. I'm just pointing out that you were wrong.

and I'll say this until I'm blue in the face, that's because fans have NO IDEA what they're talking about when it comes to the likelihood of success from the #4 overall draft pick. Madrigal has already been more successful than many players drafted #4 overall since 1990:

the /g means green, which if I'm not mistaken means sarcasm. IDK if that's an internet thing or a Soxtalk thing.

I don’t really see what is impressive about also getting your forecasting wrong consistently by crying decline with every single negative at bat. Decliners would have missed out on an mvp year which is likely as bad an outcome as any early decline we may have with Abreu on contract. So anyway if you previously thought Abreus bat had slowed to point he wouldn’t be productive and were wrong you have as much need to sit down and think about why you suck at this than someone who thinks each season he’ll get on the right track.

Back home they need to do stuff like that to scare the dingoes away from the field.

You should read up on Nassim Taleb's thanksgiving turkey. Mofo just gets fatter and fatter, in fact it seems like his growth can't ever be stopped -- they just keep feeding him, good times are rolling, and then one fucking day *boom*, poor sod is all chopped up and down to zero pounds. What this means of course is that inductive reasoning, or more simply, basing the future based on the past, is inherently flawed. But hey, dunk on us thinkers.

Thanks 4 the update. Keep us posted, thx

There are some genuinely embarrassing comments in this game thread lmfao. Thanks for the laughs, all.

Madrigal makes a tough play with a runner right in front of him and people still ripping him. Doesn't matter how much you get someone by. No bonus points.

I wish Robert and Vaughn would be playing up to their potential as well as Madrigal has played to his.

Jose is the leader by example and Tim is the vocal/emotional leader. You need both guys.

I hope the middle of the movie includes an ass whooping of the Yankees in Iowa.

[waiting with bated breath for the first person to say Drake LaRoche]