South Side Hit Men Posted March 1, 2024 Share Posted March 1, 2024 Chicago White Sox Chicago Cubs For the Twitter Impaired Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted March 1, 2024 Share Posted March 1, 2024 People will be focused on Kopech’s fastball, but I’m more interested to see if he has a competent slider. It was god awful last year. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chitownsportsfan Posted March 1, 2024 Share Posted March 1, 2024 10 minutes ago, fathom said: People will be focused on Kopech’s fastball, but I’m more interested to see if he has a competent slider. It was god awful last year. I'll be looking to see if his delivery has changed I guess. Some talk that it's more compact now. He had problems locating fastballs to RHB to say the least last year. If he's still missing glove side 80% of the time nothing has changed. I don't care about his numbers, just show some positive command and control improvement when starting a count. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dohnut Posted March 1, 2024 Share Posted March 1, 2024 The fact that MLB.tv isn't free during Spring Training still boggles my mind. I'll have to follow along on Game Day until T-Mobile gives out the free MLB.tv on 3/26 :/ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baseball_gal_aly Posted March 1, 2024 Share Posted March 1, 2024 1 hour ago, fathom said: People will be focused on Kopech’s fastball, but I’m more interested to see if he has a competent slider. It was god awful last year. Yep. Kopech's slider has been bad for 2 years. He has enough spin on his heater that it still plays at 94-95 mph. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted March 1, 2024 Share Posted March 1, 2024 Cruel joke having to listen to this announcer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baseball_gal_aly Posted March 1, 2024 Share Posted March 1, 2024 1 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted March 1, 2024 Share Posted March 1, 2024 1 minute ago, baseball_gal_aly said: He’s just not a good player. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baseball_gal_aly Posted March 1, 2024 Share Posted March 1, 2024 Just now, fathom said: He’s just not a good player. Exactly why you don't take a 1B in the top 10. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted March 1, 2024 Share Posted March 1, 2024 3 minutes ago, baseball_gal_aly said: Exactly why you don't take a 1B in the top 10. Especially one who is physically maxed out 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baseball_gal_aly Posted March 1, 2024 Share Posted March 1, 2024 Kopech still all over the place and his slider looks bad. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted March 1, 2024 Share Posted March 1, 2024 Pinpoint as always with his command. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted March 1, 2024 Share Posted March 1, 2024 Just now, baseball_gal_aly said: Kopech still all over the place and his slider looks bad. I was hoping that was a cutter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almagest Posted March 1, 2024 Share Posted March 1, 2024 Kopech has zero control Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vilehoopster Posted March 1, 2024 Share Posted March 1, 2024 4 minutes ago, baseball_gal_aly said: An example of why WAR is a joke, expecially concerning 1st basemen. Before the Covid year, Abreu with over 100 RBIs had a War of like 2.9, and Yolmer Sanchez had a War of like 2.6. The next year, the White Sox cut Yolmar to start the season and Abreu went on to win AL MVP. Abreu's value to the Sox was only a 1/3 of a run more than Yolmer?? What a joke! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted March 1, 2024 Share Posted March 1, 2024 1 hour ago, fathom said: People will be focused on Kopech’s fastball, but I’m more interested to see if he has a competent slider. It was god awful last year. I'm more interested in if he can come close to throwing strikes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted March 1, 2024 Share Posted March 1, 2024 Just now, Dick Allen said: I'm more interested in if he can come close to throwing strikes. Nope….he looks as bad as last year. He so desperately needs a change of scenery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buehrle>Wood Posted March 1, 2024 Share Posted March 1, 2024 1 minute ago, fathom said: Nope….he looks as bad as last year. He so desperately needs a change of scenery. Or a change of career since he hates baseball Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted March 1, 2024 Share Posted March 1, 2024 Just now, Buehrle>Wood said: Or a change of career since he hates baseball Did he say that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almagest Posted March 1, 2024 Share Posted March 1, 2024 Why is he so worried about Madrigal? Tiny little legs run in quicksand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted March 1, 2024 Share Posted March 1, 2024 If that’s his slider, he’s getting almost no horizontal movement. He threw one nice fastball to Busch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almagest Posted March 1, 2024 Share Posted March 1, 2024 Just now, fathom said: If that’s his slider, he’s getting almost no horizontal movement. He threw one nice fastball to Busch. He needs to drop that pitch and use the curve more. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted March 1, 2024 Share Posted March 1, 2024 1 minute ago, almagest said: Why is he so worried about Madrigal? Tiny little legs run in quicksand. Maybe he was in the draft war room when they said he was a 70 runner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted March 1, 2024 Share Posted March 1, 2024 Just now, almagest said: He needs to drop that pitch and use the curve more. That one to Gomes was way, way better. Maybe those were cutters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almagest Posted March 1, 2024 Share Posted March 1, 2024 Just now, fathom said: That one to Gomes was way, way better. Maybe those were cutters? I don't know man. This guy had electric stuff before TJS. This is like a different pitcher. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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