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When was the last time Robert had a 4 hit game ?

Got to get Touki out of there. They will.

Nice recovery by Touki to K Altuve and get Alvarez to GIDP

Great start Touki Walk and HBP bottom of the order now gets to face all the good hitters.

Crochet K's the side 9 K's through 4. Throwing a lot at 99 MPH. Touki warming up. Crochet @ 55 pitches 43 for strikes. Might be done. Maybe less than 75 pitch limit now. Should he get 1 more inning ?

Atuve hits one right through the LF scoreboard for a ground rule double. Alvarez follows it up dumping a broken bat single into LCF scoring ALtuve 3-1. Crochet with 2 more K's 2 in each inning .

ha ! Wish it worked that way.

No not a gambler . He just seemed due.

There we go Robert 2 run bomb!!!!

1-0 Sox on a botched DP by the Astros with bases loaded and 1 out. Astros have a lot of guys hot and have played very well since releasing Abreu. Astros have won 8 in a row. Bregman, Alvarez, Pena, and Diaz all very hot. Crochet looking like he was right about the adjustment he had to make about why he was bombed in his last outing . 4K's. 1 hit through 2. 26 pitches 18 for strikes.

Predicting a Robert HR. I do wish he'd either close his stance a little it or keep the same stance and move a bit closer to the plate. Where he stands now he swings at too many pitches off the plate inside and too many off the plate outside or can't drive the pitches outside. At least if moved closer the inside pitches off the plate would be too in on his hands to try and barrel up. Seems like he's either swinging and missing too much and either getting jammed , hitting off the end of the bat or swinging and missing way too many sliders and sweepers away. Best hitters in the bigs usually crush breaking pitches hanging in the zone. Robert is having trouble identifying spin period unless it's hanging up in his eyes.

Paddy was actually good for the Sox with getting Robert , Abreu and Tatis, Jr. but in the case of Tatis, Jr. it's been said that Tatis, Sr. for some reason pursued the Sox which paved the way for Tatis ,Jr. signing with them. Jim Margulus had a good article when the Athletic interviewed Dave Wilder. While you do have to take what Wilder says with some grain of salt. He did make some points that alluded to how JR runs things his way. Wilder: [Reinsdorf] sat in on everything. And if he didn’t, every meeting they’d take notes and give it to Jerry. Minor league coaches, every Latin or Black coach I wanted to bring in, Jerry would — if they weren’t from the White Sox — usually not be interested. In any business you have, if you have someone who has been successful, I want their ideas. He never asked for ideas. He never said, ‘Dave, you were with Atlanta, what were they doing?’ He was too smart. Nothing has changed. It was Rick and Kenny to some extent, they don’t have the ability to put together a team the proper way. But the only way they had was the “White Sox Way.” They used to talk about that (White Sox Way) all the time. We had the owner who doesn’t know s— about baseball telling guys what to do. So the right guys got fired, but if I’m the owner of the team and it’s dysfunctional, it comes down on me. https://soxmachine.com/2023/09/following-up-david-wilder-takes-shots-at-white-sox/

Again it's JR. Paddy may or may not be competent. He did sign Tatis Jr. However , I can state with 85 % surety that Paddy has a much smaller pool of players to choose from because of restrictions about dealing with players from the DR. Every year it's the same . Sox will sign plenty of Venezuelans and Cubans but the place that's had the most talented players consistently for 50 years is the DR and the Sox only swim in the DR kiddie pool. This will not change as long as JR owns the team.

Reinsdorf is in a different place now. He's preparing for the team to be sold after he dies.

I don't see anything respectable about those offers. If anything offering a sore armed pitcher is completely disrespectful and doing what many seasoned GMs will do to a rookie GM with an owner looking for more money. As I have said in previous posts they were treating Getz like a crack addict trying to pawn a Rolex. We know you're desperate ,take it or leave it. This situation is completely on Reinsdorf. Any discussion about Getz' competency should always remember this. While he may indeed be incompetent it's quite literally impossible for him to get a fair shake from fans who only judge trades by who you got back for who you traded.

Dodgeda bullet. Now an insurance run or 3.

No one move can change the Sox situation so that's kind of CPT.Obvious stuff. The Sox have to makes dozens or scores of correct moves which seems impossible while JR prepares for his heirs to sell the Sox . He was incapable of making these moves even in his heyday. Never cared about infrastructure to support and develop youth. He reduces upper managements chances to succeed by trying to build a contender from a series of moves that must need to have a 80 % success rate from working in the margins like Williams managed to do prior to the 2005 season. You need like 10 or more of your 26 man roster to have career or near career years. Kenny Williams probably deserves a lot more credit than we give him for somehow doing the impossible under JR.

I see what you did there.

GMs who make the right hires build a stronger organization if they are allowed to beef up weak areas of scouting and development with quality hires.

The team gave Grady a 1st MLB win shower of all kinds of stuff after the game.

He had a very whippy swing. Bat speed maybe ? Haven't seen any stats on it.

Your hot takes lack any perspective.Sending a guy down is not giving up when you're playing other guys in the OF ,one of whom you needed to trade.Plenty of time to get Fletcher a good look.

As if u ever wait to declare early defeat.

Yeah the Yankees must suck.

They'd have to be really really bad to blow this one now.