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16 minutes ago, wegner said:

Hmmm, thought they were keeping that Barons group together? Interesting.

Not quite sure why they called up Cannon when they needed a reliever and then a starter, but he always Getz his man... and then dfas him.

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34 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

Not quite sure why they called up Cannon when they needed a reliever and then a starter, but he always Getz his man... and then dfas him.

They seem to need 2 starters, now. Thorpe starts Tuesday, Cannon throws Wednesday, and then Crochet on Thursday. They just rostered a lefty in Peralta, so maybe Hill gets his walking papers Tuesday morning. 

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30 minutes ago, WestEddy said:

They seem to need 2 starters, now. Thorpe starts Tuesday, Cannon throws Wednesday, and then Crochet on Thursday. They just rostered a lefty in Peralta, so maybe Hill gets his walking papers Tuesday morning. 

Cannon did a great job in the pen yesterday; why not just leave him there and let him learn for the rest of the season or for a month?  Lord knows he's better than the hacks that the Sox have in the pen.  The pen is a good way to ease into the league; he can start next season.

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1 hour ago, GreenSox said:

Cannon did a great job in the pen yesterday; why not just leave him there and let him learn for the rest of the season or for a month?  Lord knows he's better than the hacks that the Sox have in the pen.  The pen is a good way to ease into the league; he can start next season.

Agreed, I think Cannon needs to stay in the 'pen for the rest of 2024. Let Thorpe come up, hopefully not be awful, and actually if they are going youth movement, cut one of the has-beens from the bullpen, and let Nastrini work out of it for now as well.

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uh oh, don't the White Sox know he needs to throw a perfect game at BHam before he's ready? Then pitch another 300 innings against 35-year-old washouts in Charlotte? Poor Drew Thorpe, his career is over before it got a chance to begin. 

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1 minute ago, baseball_gal_aly said:

Interested to see if the changeup plays at all against MLB hitters. 

Will imagine the opposing gameplans will be to sit fastball and only swing at that. 

The reason he has been so good is you can't recognize which one it is until the bottom falls out of the change.

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15 minutes ago, baseball_gal_aly said:

Interested to see if the changeup plays at all against MLB hitters. 

Will imagine the opposing gameplans will be to sit fastball and only swing at that. 

Lol. Good luck with that. The reason change ups is work is they look like fast balls.

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6 minutes ago, TaylorStSox said:

Lol. Good luck with that. The reason change ups is work is they look like fast balls.

Yeah that’s a terrible game plan. 

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10 minutes ago, TaylorStSox said:

Lol. Good luck with that. The reason change ups is work is they look like fast balls.

Real life baseball isn't that easy.  It's like saying he should only swing at strikes 

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5 minutes ago, SoCalChiSox said:

Congrats to him ....well deserved.

BTW Aly...FG has his changeup at 70/70, so I would expect it to work on MLB hitters. Whether his other stuff works remains to be seen.

His template for success is Giolito with the Sox in 2023

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1 hour ago, baseball_gal_aly said:

Interested to see if the changeup plays at all against MLB hitters. 

Will imagine the opposing gameplans will be to sit fastball and only swing at that. 

Keith Foulke did pretty well as a two-pitch pitcher with a big time change up

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