Greg Hibbard

No matter what happens this season, whether we are good for two months and 15 over .500 or we are scuffling along at .500, we absolutely must add the right pieces at the deadline. Hahn did not succeed last year but literally no one in baseball thought the acquisitions of Tepera, Kimbrel, or Hernandez were duds. Everyone loved it on here, everyone loved it around baseball. I don’t see how anyone could see those failures coming. Some things don’t work out despite making the right moves. I believe Hahn is capable of making right moves this year, and hopefully the variance runs hard the other way.

I hate La Russa as a manager, to be clear - I just don’t think he has an outsized effect on outcomes. People blasted his G1 lineup and the Sox won. People blasted one of his Cubs lineups - and they won. People have studied the impact a manager has on win total and it’s not that big. Do I want a different manager? Absolutely. The bottom line is we have four extraordinarily capable starters after Lynn is healthy and proven commodities all over the lineup. If they just start hitting at career norms this team is drastically better. We are playing extremely bad baseball, and still sporting a .500ish record. I still like our chances, TLR or no.

Ok, but the funny thing is that it was perfectly fine for people on April 30 to decide this team was going absolutely nowhere based on roughly the same sample size of games - and not qualify it at all. I recall people saying things like “trade everyone” and “go into sell mode”. It was ludicrous. And now of course the sixteen games in May mean nothing, only the losses against good teams? Or the losses against bad teams? Or the record in April? We are going to play a lot of bad teams this year. We play in a bad division. Maybe if we actually get fully healthy and start hitting more like career norms, which still can be chalked up to sample size and some weather - we will have several more winning streaks- against teams that are good AND bad.

So we are back to “this team will win the central but do nothing in the playoffs”? Or are we still on the “this team can’t even beat bad teams in the central” narrative? People are in such a hurry to bury this team around here I lose track of the rationalizations.

Yes. Every single one of them, actually. We have gotten some great pitching performances, Robert has been unreal over most of it, TA is being TA at least offensively, and we are 10-6 despite having 5 black holes in the lineup every night. I still believe BABIP is killing this team.

Meh on the split. It’s fascinating how people have totally given up on this team already. Reading the comments of some on this board you would never know the Sox were 10-6 this month. You would think they had lost 12 in a row.

Annoying win. I’ll take it!

I love the way Gordon Beckham, former grindy player and much beloved underachiever, just praised fellow grinderman Pollock for his amazing sacrifice fly, and described the White Sox as having a “great” day offensively. They were 5/29 with 2 doubles.

I can’t believe he got out of that.

This is so fucking dumb.

No joke i had the exact same notion once Jose hit that double lol

that's the thing about this team that's strange. Sox BABIP is like .261 in 2022. It was .312 last year. Part of the reason why I think they are just on the receiving end of some really shitty luck

SF is not an AB

That's pretty much the equivalent of a home run for Pollock

I would honestly be relieved if he strikes out.

I'm predicting a 1-2-3 DP.

Pollock with the bases loaded? (Chef's kiss)

hahaha wtf was that wave home

why was Pollock playing that deep?

So in this inning we have proven that Reese McGuire can't hit, can't stop a ball in the dirt, and can't throw a runner out at second. Maybe they can put him in right field or second base though

I'm struggling to find a 2022 Sox player I hate more than Pollock.

Nice double, but I'm sick of the Harrison showboating routine when he hits one.

I honestly wonder if Reese McGuire is going to threaten the all time lowest OPS mark for at least 100 PAs in a given season.

Robert has played in every single game since May 1st with the exception of 1 of the Cubs games. He's fourth in the team in PA despite the IR stint. Anderson is second on the team in PA for the season. Moncada is just coming back from an injury, so I think managing the workload is wise. I understand the frustration, but let's put this in perspective. The only person who is frequently getting the shaft in terms of playing time is Vaughn.

Is the 4D chess explanation that it's 3 games in 24 hours and everyone is playing two of them?