mvp 78

With those guns, my initial thoughts were Kapler, Lansing or somebody who got popped for PEDs. I was going to go with Shea Hillenbrand, but I'm not comfortable with it because of how hairy those arms are. LouMer?

Day Bello? Yuck! Daytime Bello: 855 OPS, 5.48 ERA, 1.632 WHIP

Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson reportedly was involved in a physical altercation with teammate Yasmani Grandal, less than a month before his suspension for squaring up in a benches-clearing brawl with the Cleveland Guardians on Saturday. Grandal allegedly slapped Anderson in the face and the two had to be separated in the clubhouse prior to the White Sox’s game with the Cardinals on July 9, according to Shane Riordan, an executive producer for the “Parkins & Spiegel” show on 670 The Score in Chicago. Riordan reported during Monday’s show that things escalated when Grandal complained in the clubhouse about not being in the lineup for Chicago’s home game against St. Louis, which took place a day before the All-Star break. Grandal, in an expletive-filled rant, said he wanted to leave for the break a day early since he was not in the lineup, multiple sources told Riordan. When Anderson, who was in the cold tub at the time, overheard Grandal’s comments, he offered to help remove Grandal from the clubhouse. According to Riordan: “Tim Anderson says, ‘Well, f–k you f–k that,’ if he wants to get out of here now, I’ll pay for his flight and bring him there myself. “Yasmani Grandal walks over to Tim Anderson and slaps him across the face and they got into a fight from here. They had to be separated.” He's a guy that tears down teammates rather than builds them up per reports. Not a great combo for this team IMO.

Huh? You might need to check the statcast. Sox had 5 exit velos above 107.

The mojo system worked great when we had active posters that were invested in getting game threads up. The past few years, that went away. Standardizing the system is a good change. Having games start without a thread is unacceptable.

The radio announcer (Cooper Boardman maybe? Not Will Flemming) is making sure to remind everyone every few seconds how many hits the ChiSox have. 🙃

Always nice when Story gets going.

I don’t know what to say at this point.

Sabol letting that Abreu throw get by is little league

Zavala should be up instead.

He’s been brutal. Either watching called third strikes or popping up first pitches. Yuck.

DFA casas

Sabol stinks

Meidroth’s family is half the attendance

Wheelyer/Campbell back to back. Classic combo

I don't want to get into it, but yes? He's probably not going to have an All Star ceiling, but should be able to stick around the majors for a while. He's ok defensively and can put the bat on the ball. For a small market team like the ChiSox, he's a great fit. He really wasn't going to find a fulltime role here, but maybe a bench spot.

If it ain't workin' don't fix it. That's what I always says.

He might not be able to pinch with that shoulder either! 😨

Actually, I did watch some of the series against the Jumbo Shrimp, but only to see Bello/Dobbins.

SoxProspects were saying that people in the org were high on Clarke this Spring. Nice to see his first outing went off smoothly. Haven't watched any MiLB games yet, which is not how last year went down when I was only watching the MiLB games.

I hope Newcomb can earn his first W, not that the stat really means anything.

No, it doesn't make sense for CLE.

But he can't THROW!

He was a guy that I mentioned here and there in the offseason due to his framing. On an MiLB deal, at least you are bringing him in to see what he has. I heard concerns about clubhouse issues, but I didn't look into it.

If there's significant discussion in the prior night's game thread, I wouldn't be opposed to leaving it open on the main page for a little while (excitement over something in particular happening or something relevant happening in that particular game). For the most part, the conversations surrounding the prior game are typically over and done with by noon the next day. In the previous incarnation of TalkSox, the game threads would get locked and sent to the gulag. At least now, they can stay open in the game thread forum for a little while. I know most posters only stick to this one forum, but there are other forums that you can click on as well!