Greg Hibbard

Evaluating whether Palka has enough of a power tool to be a decent LH platoon DH is not a terrible thing. If he doesn’t, I would rather waste 40 ABs and find it out this year while it’s meaningless and never see him again. It’s like Rondon. Thank god he is sealing his fate now rather than leaving us with some borderline call.

There goes the neighborhood

I DON’T BELIEVE WHAT I JUST SAW

Imagine for a moment being such an utterly miserable human being as to only be able to take pleasure from continuously trolling a white sox fan board about 2/17 slumps Jose Abreu is having, only to immediately duck for cover when he gets hot. i know, I can’t really imagine it either. It’s despicable and sickening behavior.

A manager with a brain might have plunked Mazara in that situation.

I would have put a right handed dog in the batters box over Alonso

Top 10 dumbest thing Ricky has done

Fine. It looked like it was hit hard to me based on the play that occurred.

I think you missed my point. BABIP is a stat that accounts for the variance of results. This was kind of a freak double play that was amazing defensive performance than it was a referendum on Abreu’s playing ability. for all of you citing exit velocity, what was the exit velocity of yoan’s single, and if Jose’s ball is three inches more away from Odor I wonder if we are having this exchange about being “disgusted” by Abreu.

Jesus guys, Abreu blistered the ball and Odor turned it into web gem. Let’s not be overly results-oriented.

Except that’s not the way baseball goes, as we know. Look at what happened with Giolito and Lopez. It’s not like the NBA where you can count on production with a smaller range of variance. Baseball players (outside of superstars) have a huge range of variance in their performance from year to year

The Steve Sax Experiment Redux

But some context is required for that statement as the Sox are in a unique position in their rebuild. Before Machado came on the radar as a serious acquisition we were always going to go after veteran stopgap guys. One of those guys happened to also be James McCann.

We seriously need to stop placing a false equivalence on $9 million of bad money to Alonso and Nova each vs. $300 million to Machado. Almost every major league team spends a bad $10 million on one to two players every season.

Mazara looking like Babe Ruth in this series

The day he is gone I will bring a sign to the game that says THANK YOU FOR DFAING ALONSO ❤️

And the Alonso error leads to “ballgame”

Alonso, baby

I want Alonso to be the worst hitter in Sox history at this point out of spite. also “Roughed up by Rougned: the Ivan Nova story”

What if those “bullets” include the kind of outings we are seeing from underdeveloped or lesser talent in the rotation? I think the recent scary run of injuries tends to overshadow that most pitchers don’t go down like that necessarily, historically. I guess the ball is different now, though.

Nice double! After the replay I wonder if he could have made three running hard out of the box instead of watching

I don’t think, in this case, you should. Giolito was a highly touted prospect, struggled, and now is apparently ace caliber. Cease has shown flashes of dominance, and if you have the type of pitcher that gives you 4-6 good to great years, we should absolutely bring him up 8 months later when there is no pressing need

I’m inclined to wait on Cease, Robert, and Madrigal until after service time flips next year. I would much rather have them as mature pieces of a competitive 2026 than as learning on the job in 2019.

I don't think Brian Anderson ever got a fair shot, and I kind of wish he had. IIRC Ozzie later admitted he detested him, and didn't like that he was a ladies man. Imagine if we had evaluated any number of people (Yoan Moncada, Tim Anderson, Leury Garcia come to mind) on their first 900 big league PAs. Anderson was a defense first CF and sported a .650 OPS as a 23-26 year old. He was a nearly 0 WAR player but for reference beloved Scotty Pods had a 6.8 WAR for his whole career.

28.15% strikeout rate - 13th in total strikeouts for all of MLB which is nice to see him come down from the most or one of the most. This has been an "A" season for Moncada. I never would have dreamed he could hit for this high of an average / OPS over an entire half of a season. I was thinking .270/.820ish this year. Yoan is my favorite Sox player, and the advanced stats look good and look like this is for real, but it's still too early to tell what type of total package he'll be with the sample size.