SoCalChiSox

Good job EE and Mazara.

I'd bring up Rutherford pretty soon for Mazara as he seems to be impressing in Schaumberg. It can't be any worse than what we have seen at least.

Surprised Eloy is in LF instead of DH or a day off.

I wonder if they will give Moncada a day off today so he can have two rest days in a row. I assume the same will happen for Eloy.

Yep....Dunning should be the 3 or 4 right now. Let ReyLo and Rodon compete for 5.

That was awesome....congrats Giolito!

That would be horrendously bad.

He's living on borrowed time. He's going up against a crappy LHP. If he can't start mashing ASAP, he won't last long. It will be either Collins or if you believe the reports, Vaughn. They may be giving him just a few more games and then cut bait.

Perhaps Clevinger threatened to opt out for the remainder of the year if the service time game was played thus forcing Cleveland to bring him up.

Yeah that would suggest he isnt going to be traded.

Lynn is only under contract thru the end of next year so I don't see the allure especially since Hahn isn't keen on rentals (this would be a semi-rental).

Go on...

Apparently Rutherford is doing well and making hard contact from what I read today. I wonder if, like Luis Gonzalez, he might get an opportunity this year if Mazara keeps struggling.

Not Cishek is saying Sox are very aggressive and he now thinks a deal will be done but not involving a long term core piece. A poster above suggested ReyLo for Benintendi. That would be fine with me although I think Bloom is more interested in prospects not ML players. Perhaps Hahn now knows the money won't flow in the offseason so the next week is basically the 2021 offseason

He would be a good get, but probably very pricey.

Collins ABs are few but more important far between. He needs to get consistent ABs in order to be able adjust. He isnt going to learn or develop at the plate getting 3 ABs a week. You cant get into any kind of rhythm that way. McCann will not resign here to be a backup. This is his one chance to get a good contract and to start. Given that, we need Collins as the backup next year. Hopefully he can keep developing to the point where he can catch 40 games a year.

It would have been so perfect if he was a LHH. Right now, I want to see Collins DH against RHP everyday to see if he can be a viable major league power and OBP weapon if he gets consistent reps. We need to evaluate that issue before 2021 and right now he needs the reps. I agree with Parkman that EE should get a couple more series and if he cannot turn it on, its time to give someone else a shot at DH. As for Vaughn, while he is very advanced I still do not see a compelling benefit to calling him up now. It will still require a period of adjustment when he gets to the big leagues so i dont think he's gonna be an immediate 900 ops guy, so I'd rather get that extra year by calling him up in 2021.

I wouldnt give up Dunning no matter what. He can very easily be our 3 and at least a 4. He has a higher floor than most of our pitchers and has good command. Law mentioned in a recent column that he continues to believe he should be a league average SP which is pretty valuable. Regarding Collins, I still like him (I am of course highly biased as a Univ of Miami fan) and he has a role next year as the backup. I think he'd be hitting more with more playing time. And his value would also go up once electronic strike zones eventually come into play. I would hold on to him for now. If EE doesn't turn it around, I'd like to see what he can do as an everyday DH vs RHP.

How about Dalquist and a soft landing special assistant to the GM job for Eppler for Marsh?

Any thought to getting Cease out after the scary 5th inning? We felt he could get out of it. What was that based on Ricky? (points to gut and discusses how long he's been in the game)

We need to punish those mistakes by Darvish better. Blow this one wide open.

I thought the new swing was something they worked on from the spring to get him to unleash more of his power. Its obvious he isn't comfortable with it or it just isn't working. Maybe he can just go back to what he was doing with Texas and if he's 110 wRC+ vs righties but trash vs lefties, that's better than what he's doing now.

Lol

Yep, anything today is just gravy at this point. Just no injuries is all I ask. The Sox are living rent free in the Cubs heads at this point, so I won't be totally shocked if we give them another shellacking but just to get 2 wins in Wrigley is great by itself.

Great win. I never expected to win with that Hendricks-ReyLo match up. The lineup is absolutely fierce right now. Even Ron will have to send Jose a fruitbasket after this 3 HR game.