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haha good guess, but you are actually looking for a nerd with disposable income. As a nerd who is still in grad school for another month, that is unfortunately not me.

We may have lost Luis but at least we still have one future gold glover in the OF ?

Imagine before the season trying to guess which one of these is Giolito and which one is Rodon. We would have been excited to see that Rodon was a mostly average pitcher!

Sox just hit for a team cycle in the first inning

How about after 1?

I don't know why everyone else does, but as an owner of the Green Bay Packers i have set an unfortunate precedent for myself....

mea culpa, y'all are right, Latos was a cheap-shot example. Still, there are plenty of questions that one month does not answer. Cease has had moments of brilliance before, 2 good starts in a row does not prove he has put it together. Two weeks ago he was on a 4 start streak of less than 5 innings and 3 walks each. Rodon has had moments of brilliance before, but can never stay healthy. Lynn has already had a back injury, and we saw how those can linger with Keuchel last year. I don't mean to sound like a pessimist, I don't think all of these things will go wrong, Katz seems to have our staff on the right track. Maybe its because I'm a stats person or maybe I am just suffering PTSD from Eloy/Robert, but I just don't ever believe in a team hitting a 90th percentile outcome until it has already happened, and it seems like for the first month of the season our rotation has hit a 90th percentile projection (or better?).

I'm still mad we didn't beat the Marlins dirt cheap offer for Starling Marte at the deadline last year (IK he is injured right now but still).

For his career, Billy Hamilton has only hit into a double play in 4.4% of his opportunities to do so (league average is just under 11%). With a runner on third and less than 2 outs, Hamilton has scored the runner on 47.6% of opportunities (league average is 50.4%). To keep the same chance of scoring a single run, Garcia would need to have basically a 99% chance of successfully stealing 2nd base. And even from a total expected runs in the inning standpoint Garcia would need to have like an 80-85% chance to steal that base. Just inexplicable decision making.

How can a team this good also be this embarrassing, wtf

Mercedes followed by the top of the order. If we are going to win this game, this is almost certainly the inning to do it.

Keuchel seems like the perfect candidate to follow an opener. With his finesse he can absolutely get you through the order twice most days, and probably face the bottom half of the order three times, but I am very nervous to see him face the top of the lineup a third time.

tbh I still don't. All of them starting off hot is certainly better than the alternative, but its May 5th. In 2016 Mat Latos was 4-0 with an ERA below 2 at this point. I hope they all keep it rolling and Katz turns out to be the best pitching coach ever (for SPs anyway) but it is WAY too early to be talking about trades or who is being replaced by Kopech, etc.

How the heck did you become a fan of all these teams? Did you just close your eyes and throw darts at a map of the US?

That's still a pretty huge difference. That is going from an average player to an All-star. That is going from Eloy to Leury/Engel/Hamilton for a season.

If this award existed, it would already be named in honor of Caulfield, he shouldn't be eligible for it anymore.

Only until they move Kopech to the rotation full time

People wanted him to get some seasoning against AAA pitching though, so facing Mize should be good for him.

TIL there is a report post button lol. That is my bad, I'll use that in the future.

Meanwhile this post is still sitting there in the Manfred thread....

Oh the irony

Ah, the classic sports argument retort of "well you couldn't do any better." Though, I suppose if your point is that neither Tony nor me are capable of successfully managing the White Sox, I'd have to..... well, not agree, I'm too egotistical for that, but at the very least you'd probably be right.

Every single morning from the second the alarm goes off. If you don't groan "fuuuuUUUUUUuuuuck Cleveland" during your get-out-of-bed stretch, you're doing it wrong.

At this point, my meatball take is that I'd rather try to teach Eloy to play 1B and leave Vaughn in the OF. No clue if that is feasible for Eloy but at least at 6'4" he would be a big target.

It cracks me up when people trot this out as some sort of gotcha. First of all, changing the definition of the strikezone for an automated ump would literally be a 5 minute change. Once the system is there, tweaking the definition of the strikezone is super simple. Second, this is one of the reasons they are trialing it in the minors right now, any needed strike zone definition tweaks will almost certainly accompany the tech when it reaches the majors. Furthermore, no one is saying to take the umps off the field. If the system is malfunctioning or if there are judgement calls like check swings that the system doesn't work for, the umpires would still be there to step in. But for the other 99% of cases, we'd finally have a fair and consistent strike zone. Let's not let perfect be the enemy of good here, especially when the state of umpiring is FAR from good.