Look at Ray Ray Run

Eh, 3/5 of the days the starter is someone you want to watch and is interesting. That's better than most of the year so far.

This/that was literally Steve's point. It literally reaffirms what he said. You spend 99% of your day ripping everything white sox online and the other 1% defending theo and the cubs. If you like the cubs and the sox make you so angry and miserable why not just be a fan of them? I dont understand.

I'm sorry, closers get a 40% bump in their value for leverage. 40% doesn't make up for the 200%+ fewer innings pitched by closers than starters.

Save percentage has nothing to do with WAR. A save adds zero WAR to a relievers total.

An IP is an IP to WAR. doesnt matter when it happened or the situation. A starter will always have 2 or 3 times the chances to earn value than a reliever. It's really that simple.

The replacement level barometer is absurdly low. It's better than Hollinger absurdly low standard for PER, but 0 is not meant to be an actual big league talent and it's likely worse than a lot of AAA talent.

WAR is cumulative. Relievers will always be slightly under valued because of the inning discrepancy and because leverage isnt worked in but teams value it. 1.7 WAR is high enough for a reliever this time of year. It's hard to impact a game similarly to a starter or position player when you only impact 80 innings a year even if they're high leverage.

Will have to wait and see? Guy came out next AB and rocketed a double and then a homer the AB afterward. Busted his ass around the bases both times. We already saw how he responded to it.

Buxton has a cannon if he's sitting inside a cardboard box laying on his back. He doesn't need a perfect set up. No one challenges Buxton but for maybe Bux himself in that situation.

Moncada responded great to this. Well done by Ricky. You need to read your players and know your guys.

Sure and he can learn that on a big league mound during a rebuild year. Nice lesson to learn that stuff won't save you always against big leaguers. Young players struggle. Let him do it at this level and figure it out at this level. Not complex stuff.

This is a problem for me with the Sox. This is undeniable. The Sox don't value defense highly enough as an organization. The best was Jay acting pissed off after Engel swiped him. Get out of his way bozo. It's not like Jay is a young player. Its unacceptable. If I can get there as a CF'er get the fuck out of my way.

Get the fuck out of the centerfielders way. Jesus christ I'm so tired of dumb ass left and right fielders not yielding.

Kanye is talented but it's been downhill since CDO for me. From someone on that album I'd go Man on the Moon (although not sure it counts) for past 10 years in my top 5-7 albums ahead of that. Hope Cudi recovers from his mental stuff. He's so talented. The story telling on DAMN is great but I think Forest Hills has slight edge for me. Kind of nostalgic like this album for me. Ok, game time.

This jumps around everywhere. Kind of an early 90's vibe to it though. Nostalgic a bit too as it goes on. We go high a great one for me. Some hit a little some are soft for sure. The wife stuff, as a married man, was a bit too newlywed for me haha. I lost it there. The Gucci track hits good if that's you're style.

I actually had no idea, and missed the drop on spotify this morning because I had to hit the office at 5:30 this morning and it wasn't out yet but I checked back after lunch and boom. See how it holds. Every few years something drops to remind me rap hasn't died. Kamikaze was fine but not where he was.

I'd be all with you guys but peak numbers are no where near where they were. This is baseball driven. Microdosing likely takes place, and there are absolutely still cheaters (Hi Jake!), but this boom is lead by baseball this time.

@chitownsportsfan, if you're around... Name me a better rap album in 10 years than The Big Day. It's only day 1 and I've only got two playthroughs today because of meetings and nonsense, but the music and rap diversity is unreal. Chance a Sox fan so this a related post! Forest Hills and Damn good but not this diverse.

Trade him!!!! - sox talk

Definitely. I'm excited about Bailey. Huge and really young with good zone control as of now and seems to be decent power. Lots of projectability but also productive already.

Benyamin Bailey, OF, Chicago White Sox: Bailey is a pretty classic, if XXL, teenage corner outfield power projection bat in the DSL 35+FV they also have an excerpt about Stiever in the article as well. Bailey starting to pop up on prospect boards now. onathan Stiever, RHP, Chicago White Sox: Stiever’s velo is way up compared to where it was in the spring, and he was recently promoted to Hi-A, which is more age-appropriate for a college arm in his first full pro season. 40+FV

I'm irish and german with a little Scandinavian thrown in there......

Control is frequently the last thing to fully come in line for power pitchers. If you traded every young power pitcher who struggled to go deep into games when he was young you would have traded nearly all of them.

It's been 3 starts. My lord.

Thor will likely only cost a top 40ish guy with a couple interesting prospects paired. The sox could acquire Thor if they want. I'd consider it for anyone but for Mad and Robert in the minors right now.