Some things about me, life long White Sox fan and Chicago sports fan, lover of music (mainly r&b right now), can eat a sonic coney dog in under 2 minutes.
@Billy_Rehfeld@Sam_Phalen Lenyn Sosa trade hasn’t looked great. Sosa hasn’t looked great but still an MLB player for a guy in rookie ball with a 600ops, Chris Murphy trade has been questionable, Curtis Meade trade, cam booser trade. All not great trades.
@JamesFox917@SoxMach_pnoles I’ve noticed some cub fans hate him. One of my fraternity brothers runs a Cub fan page with a couple thousand followers and he will put out memes with “Ian Crapp” despite him leading the team in home runs for most of the season, he’s also the longest tenured Cub, it’s confusing.
@Rjb5150@BobFrank35@BattleToad2785@notgaetti@EutawStReport The nationals have only just started embracing a more analytical approach after the firing of Rizzo. Teams aren’t one dimensional, some are just more analytically driven than others. The White Sox have really gotten into becoming analytically forward, LaRussa is a special advisor
@Rjb5150@BobFrank35@BattleToad2785@notgaetti@EutawStReport Ralph how did they compete, in recent years it’s because of their analytically driven approach. The Rockies and Nats have only recent started becoming more analytical, wanna tell me where they’ve been the last 6 years? The bottom, because they refused to catch up.
@KyleHall324@Sam_Phalen I like to use @TJStats, I’ve talked about Peoples in the past and what most people say is he has to get the walks under control, he has done better job recently and has super stuff, img 2. Iriarte doesn’t have crazy stuff but he’s getting a 98% ground ball rate to go w 2.45 xFIP
@illinividsource@loyal_cityzen@Sean_W_Anderson He struck Manzardo out on 3 straight fastballs, Watson took and outside fastball at 100 the other way he’s a major leaguer too. I think you are unable to read, I said he needs to use his very good pitches, you’re acting like I can do anything about that. GT is still the Truth.
Mike Vasil on his 'banter' with Tarik Skubal.
"He's obviously one of the best pitchers in the game... he's probably like who is this dude?
At the same time, I'm thinking, you know, I'm the Wizard...I can't just back down." 🤣
@illinividsource@loyal_cityzen@Sean_W_Anderson 30 pitches and only 9 were in the strike zone. He clearly didn’t have his best stuff so why try the other pitches he’s not confident in? I don’t disagree with you, he needs to expand his repertoire but that’s not going to happen instantly. 1 slider thrown that breaks the scalebtw
@illinividsource@loyal_cityzen@Sean_W_Anderson The other reply already talks about the coaches but if I had to guess they tell him not to throw the other pitches, they plan on him joining the rotation in the future so it’s interesting they don’t have him throwing his other pitches. His stuff is still good, he’s in a funk.