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I was about to say the same. Welcome to yet another Gavin Sheets experience…

Exhibit A):

Wait until the next series. If they lose by only one in each of those I’d call that a huge win.

Won’t stop them from rushing him up.

You paying attention, or Pedro???

It’s been pretty bad across the league so far this season.

I've been watching this team since 1990, and baseball in general since around then too. I'm highly critical of the White Sox org because I want them to win. I want them to be good. But we have all watched them fail repeatedly, and stupidly, especially over the past decade. The White Sox don't operate the way good orgs do, and have not earned any benefit of the doubt. It is possible, healthy even, to be critical of a sports team we have invested time, energy, dollars, and emotion into. It's also cute that you crow about insults and name-calling, but have been engaging in the same behavior since you showed up on this site. I guess emotional maturity isn't guaranteed to increase with age.

But, CULTURE...?

Luis Robert vs the world. The rest of the lineup is hot garbage ?

But it’s pick your poison with Lopez and DeJong…

Watching someone twist themselves into a pretzel repeatedly trying to prove they aren’t wrong can be entertaining from afar at times. But this is not one of them.

Why stop there?

Exactly. Maddox was a soft tossing finesse/control guy. I don't even know if he threw a slider. Guys throwing mid 90s weren't commonplace even in the 1990s. There is a big big difference between the wear and tear on the arm, elbow, and shoulder today than even the 80s and 90s. Countless pitching analysts say that guys are max-effort throwers now. I'm no kinesiologist, but the data is readily available. It's not hard to figure out why guys aren't throwing 250 innings any more. Calling that coddling is willfully ignorant.

Seriously, give it time.

Did Maddox throw 100mph repeatedly day after day year round? Did any of the guys throwing 250-300 innings back then? Did they snap off countless sliders as well? A pitch that wreaks havoc on elbow tendons? The answer is no. Guys throwing near 100mph and over were rare when 4 man rotations and 300 innings were commonplace. I'm not disputing history here, but if you think guys throwing 100mph isn't max effort, or that how arms are handled today is coddling, then I don't know what to tell you.

Zero within a small sample size is still zero.

Anyone know the statistical probability of back to back hit by pitches happening? Or a HBP and a passed ball?

As yes, knuckle dragging drunken frat boy Wrigleyville transplants are peak human normality…

A lineup that strikes fear in every opponent…?

Now now, we can’t go expecting Pedro to use actual data when making the lineup now can we?

Yes, pitchers throwing hundreds of max effort pitches is coddling.?

That's what I'm guessing too.

How long can we reasonably expect a pitcher new to starting and without many innings under his belt to go out every 5 days and throw 80+ pitches? I'm not against him being a starter. He obviously has the talent to do it. I question whether his body has been conditioned to do so, injury history aside. The Sox braintrust doesn't exactly inspire confidence that they will manage his innings to maximize said immense talent for that matter either.

At some point the lack of innings will catch up to him. I just hope it doesn’t result in serious injury.