Chicago White Sox

Trade for Story & Escobar and move Anderson to C

Could be...it was weird though as he wasn’t putting any extra weight on his leg when the injury happened.

I actually think that’s what it might have been. At a bare minimum, the fact he was able to able hobble under his own will power makes me think it’s not something of the season ending kind.

Except hitting RHP

He’s fucking on how own!! Edit: meant “walking”

Never mind he’s fucked

He’s standing at least

Holy fuck we are cursed

Wow that’s tremendous news.

Great to see...he had been slowing down quite a bit as of late.

Yeah, time to go hang out with the kid. We have no business winning this game with this lineup if Lucas is going to give up six runs. Have a great 4th of July.

That really sucks

Fuck

Huge play!

The rebuild is back on!!!

Collins has hit righties as good as anyone on this roster not named Moncada, but he’s a platoon guy. Rip his defense if you like, but people are nuts to rip his bat, especially when it’s coming primarily at catcher.

Double play??

This isn’t intended to be a “gotcha”, but you can’t argue both sides of this and act like his April wasn’t a decent month because of some shitty numbers against LHP (partially driven by a flukey BABIP). Eaton put up a 129 wRC+ against RHP and actually looked the part of a legit two hole hitter in April like you said. We’d all be ecstatic right now with a Eaton/Engel platoon in RF if we were getting a wRC+ of 129 from the strong side. Also, I’m with you in not liking the signing in the first place, but that’s more because Adam simply can’t stay healthy and is a below average defender. I’m 100% for upgrading RF because we can’t bank on Eaton being the guy we saw in April as his body likely won’t allow it.

Lol...let’s hope so. And let’s also hope he finds a way to stop giving up so many HRs. Seems like he’s throwing way more meatballs this year than in recent seasons and his HR rates are up on all three pitches.

Haven’t his day game numbers actually been better than his night game figures?

Depends on how the D-Backs view Ruiz. I’m not a huge fan of his stuff despite getting decent results this year and wouldn’t be surprised if they wanted something else.

I actually said at the time it was too early to draw any conclusions, but @Look at Ray Ray Run can’t say to “relax it’s one good month” after he himself was hyping up Eaton’s bat as being a “perfect fit” for the two hole after that one month and speculating it would last all season.

Story scares me a bit. Obviously super talented, but he’s much better against LHP and then you’ve got the whole Coors factor that makes you question his road / home splits. I’m fully aware of the hangover effect, but a 86 wRC+ on the road against RHP is a red flag. I’d still be down to acquire him, but you’d think he’d be one of the more costly rentals out there.