South Side Hit Men

14 Ks tonight! White Sox feasting on AAA hitters. Every Mariner has struck out at least once.

I'm listening about fucking bike riders now because the fucking ESPN 1000 radio station sucks. Fuck the four letter network!

Missed the past few minutes of the Four Letter Network Radio Broadcast because an engineer there went to a national program.

2022 Giolito Kopech Cease Rodon Keuchel

Tony may keep him in four so he gets the all important Save.

Ashley Rodon's Twitter account on fire tonight.

Posted put a laughing mark on my pregame post, not sure why.

94 pitches. Weak team, but looked good getting out of a few jams. Nice to see him with killer instinct. Likely Kopech (2 IP) Marshall (1 IP) and Crochet (1 IP) to close it out. Maybe Hendriks gets an inning to avoid rustiness.

This, which is why I didn't understand the gnashing to start the year of keeping him up. Makes more sense for him to play at Charlotte once the AAA season begins, and he can play for a solid stretch. Can also play LF everyday if that's going to be a thing they will try beyond self induced WS emergencies.

"Or my pocketbook."

Much better - Just illustrating those behind Hamilton. Yermin 1.563 Grandal .872 Abreu .793 Robert .683 Hamilton .661

Glad they got out of it, though this junk isn't going to work against a team of actual major league hitters.

White Sox OPS YTD in the game today: Hamilton .661 Madrigal .564 Moncada .488 Leury .308 Vaughn .222 Time for the bats to wake up. Nice to see Kopech up.

Rodon's getting a little shaky here, needs to try to at least get 4 tonight. Any mention of pitch count target tonight?

Tatis just went down, don't think he's coming back soon. https://www.mlb.com/news/fernando-tatis-jr-injured-on-strikeout

You just killed the rally. Watch the postgame.

Andrew with his biggest at bat this year!!!

Bo knows Baseball! Leury knows bunts!

Rodon is dealing. Wonder if he had any substance on that 3,587 spin rate pitch. https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/gamefeed?date=4/5/2021&gamePk=634551&chartType=pitch&legendType=pitchName&playerType=pitcher&inning=&count=&pitchHand=&batSide=&descFilter=&ptFilter=&resultFilter=&hf=playerBreakdown#634551 Pitches Swings Pitch Velocity Exit Velocity Pitch Type Count % Swings Whiffs % CS CS+Whiffs CSW% Fouls BIP Max Min Avg Yr-Avg +/- Avg Min Max 4-Seam Fastball 31 58 17 4 24 5 9 29 9 4 98.4 92.3 95.4 92.8 2.6 ↑ 80.1 63.5 96.0 Slider 20 38 11 8 73 2 10 50 3 0 87.7 72.3 83.8 83.4 0.4 ↑ Changeup 2 4 2 1 50 0 1 50 0 1 86.4 85.1 85.8 84.3 1.5 ↑ 92.3 92.3 92.3 53 30 13 43 7 20 38 12 5 98.4 72.3 90.6 82.5 63.5 96.0 Pitches Spin Vertical Break Horizontal Break Pitch Type Count % Max Min Avg Yr-Avg +/- Max Min Avg Yr-Avg +/- Max Min Avg Yr-Avg +/- 4-Seam Fastball 31 58 3587 2136 2318 2254 64.0 ↑ 14 8 11 15 -4.0 13 5 9 7 2.0 Slider 20 38 2690 1245 2387 2404 -17.0 ↓ 62 32 40 40 0.0 11 4 7 9 -2.0 Changeup 2 4 2008 1656 1832 1808 24.0 ↑ 21 21 21 29 -8.0 18 16 17 14 3.0 53 3587 1245 2326 62 8 22 18 4 9

DJ Speculated it may have been coming from the dugout.

Oh my. WTF? DJ speculated it might be coming from the bench, otherwise he doesn't know what the hell is going on with all of the throws to first.

Moncada = Nada.

The process, tunnel vision, overvaluing a player when superior options existed.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports-saturday/2020/12/11/22170759/2017-draft-revisited-mitch-trubisky-topped-a-lot-of-charts https://www.mlb.com/news/nick-madrigal-taken-4th-overall-in-mlb-draft-c279777574