WestEddy

22nd rounder. Get AJ Pierzynski on the horn. Add in Adam Engel, and there's two late rounders developed in house.

No article, just rankings listicle. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2024/04/22/mlb-power-rankings-chicago-white-sox-standings/73405256007/

I found this at bat pretty remarkable. Vaughn doesn't even scare pitchers with the possibility that he might punish something in the zone.

I'm not even sure what you're arguing. Calling everybody on the team garbage doesn't make you prescient when a guy whose career OPS is .721 goes into a 20-game slump. Here, watch this, "crazy s%*# is going to happen this week!" So when we go over the news stories of this next week, I get to pretend I predicted all of them, right? LOL. I said that I liked the bullpen, and thought where he was going with the starting rotation was interesting. Don't bother looking for my posts where I rave on about DeJong and all, because they only exist in your head. I've become a meme because I'm one of the few who isn't constantly enraged over a baseball team that was supposed to be bad. If you predicted every single shutout, and knew what everyone's batting average would be on 4/21, why does it make you so angry?

When Getz tells him it's time.

Spring training was about 20 games. You know, a small sample size. You didn't tell me players wouldn't pan out. You complained about every single move, so you have no credibility on the subset of things you complained about that actually came true. Every team constantly sets records. I'm not concerned. Well, 12% of a season doesn't make it "historically bad". It's really weird that the Baltimore guys who came here didn't tell us about their suicide attempts during that 0-23 season opening losing streak that was, uh, historical. Nobody cares. I'm glad you have something to occupy your mind. As far as "excusing Getz", I'm not sure what is in the hopper. We've already covered that all three of Moncada, Jimenez and Robert going down at the same time was a statistical anomaly. In the last 4 years, all three have been injured at the same time for only 11 games, total, so I don't think anyone could say they "predicted" all three would be sidelined at the same time in the first 10 games, as much as they want to pretend they did. And then you're talking about two other pro hitters just falling off the table for 20 game slumps they've never had in their careers. So if you're talking about pretzel shapes, I guess I'm in "pretzel rods" shape. Not really twisted, still saying the same thing I said all year, wondering why your head is sticking out from under your knee. If you call "waiting to see how it turns out" as "excusing", I don't understand that framing. If you hate this team, you can always start a Chicago Hot Dogs blog. I hear they're a baseball team.

That's how ridiculous small sample sizes look.

Also on pace to score 710 runs the rest of the way.

It's weird how, when you talk to Astros fans, they still haven't gotten over the shame of those horrible 2011-2013 seasons. Frankly, it's all they talk about.

One thing struck me yesterday, these guys just aren't angry. Trea Turner tags up from first to second on a flyout, up 7 on a moribund offense, and Lopez is joking with Turner at second. Some commenters get all scoldy towards those who suggest some chin music, but it really seems like these guys don't care that they're going to be setting some records this year.

I'll keep saying that I don't think the "haul" everyone was expecting for Cease exists, anymore. If somebody has "A-Rod" sitting at AA, they're going to make room for him on their roster, not trade him. That is, unless, he is ranked as the 2nd best prospect in baseball, they clearly see him as a regular injury risk, and it'll take a season to fix the hitch in his swing, they'll sell high. What Cease brought back is probably what all of our dump trades should look like, going forward. Have a scouting department, trade for guys with talent and stuff, but not the guys who are so over-hyped, a guy like Mickey Moniak ends up head-lining a deal.

And seriously, you gotta like what they have Jacob Gonzalez doing in W-S. Dude's raking.

There's a lot more to follow. Birmingham, W-S and Kannapolis all have packed rotations, most of them drafted by the Sox.

Maybe they should take "hatred" out of their simulations.

I was slimed. It took me this long to get cleaned up, and out of lockup.

It rained a lot on the north side.

Jesus Christ, the guy is a career .725 OPS. He's not a schlub. Cut the BS. You're just being argumentative because you don't want to concede a simple point to me. Please show me the posts from February where you predicted these three injuries in the first 10 games, and that Vaughn and Benintendi would be worthless.

Who gives a s%*#? It's a baseball team. There were 5 established vets that should have bouyed this team with 4 holes (to not be historically bad). Oh well. Something tells me that everyone here will have their stiffies all set to break the 140 loss mark, and won't come close. I can only hope that everyone takes care of each other.

U funny. I predicted you would say this, and I predicted you would be wrong. I win. LOL.

What are you even getting at? I can be all negative, too. Here, watch this, "Caufield12 will be horrible at his predictions. Any number he posts will never be met." There. Post some final stats for Benintendi. I bet I'll be right.

Yes, 3 "injury prone" starters getting injured in the first 10 games happens to every single team in every single season. I don't care if you "wrote them off". Nobody expected the three of them to remain healthy all through the season to lead us to the World Series. It's not crazy to expect two of them to remain "healthy" into May. You didn't "know" they would be injured within a month or two. Show me the posts. A "sane" person expected Vaughn and Benintendi to at least be below ML average, not "truck driver" level bad. Stop with the BS.

You seem furious. What's your point?

3 huge injuries in the first 10 games is pretty remarkable. Yes, this team was built on the 3 big guys producing, and Benny and Vaughn being ML baseball players. I'm not sure how I should have known this would happen. Please explain how.

OMFG!!! If this happens, I'm going to cut off my gonads with a paring knife, I will be so humiliated. Who's with me?!?!?