I just do not know what the hell Tony is doing right now with the bull-pen. Its alarming really. What the hell is Katz's role right now?  Tony looks like he is flying by the seat of his pants on these bull-pen decisions.

Quote from: Bird of Prey on August 24, 2021, 10:28:33 pm

Quote from: BillSharp on August 24, 2021, 02:40:02 pm

the Great Cesar is hitting .227, .207 as a White Sox (.276 SLG)

Cleveland is laughing at us.

 He is a very good player. Certainly better than Madrigal(for this year at least). He made a play a couple of days ago to get a runner at 3rd that very few second basemen in baseball wouldn't have even tried. He'll hit and hit with power like he has this season.

Leury is a bigger offensive factor right now, Cesar stinks right now. The stats don't lie.

  Stats lie all of the time. I had a statistics "emphasis" when i got my MBA. YOu can make anything you want to out of a set of "stats". The guy is a Golden Glove second baseman and a better hitter than of all people, Leury. He'll be fine, Bill.

sure stats can be manipulated, but I'm talking about batting average (.207) and slugging % (.276) which are not being manipulated. They can only be ignored, as you are doing.

Baseball is a funny game, when a guy falls off as bad as Cesar it can mean a lot of things. You're hoping he's just in a slump, I'm worried it could be more.

We got rid of Yolmer Sanchez because his bat was weak. Right now his offensive production as a White Sox far surpasses Cesar's and I find that troubling.

   Its a very small sample size. Yolmer Sanchez was a very weak hitter . Look at this entire team, except for Eloy and Robert who just got back, they've all been in slumps. Besides, Madrigal was not going to play the rest of the season. Hernandez has 20 home runs this season for cripes sake.

Nice to see bats waking up.

You have got to be kidding me!  And he wont take him out why??   Because of Hendricks last week in Tampa?

White Sox beatwriters tweets:



White Sox beat the Blue Jays, 10-7

The top-four of the batting order combined for 6 RBI and 3 HR, while César Hernández starred on both sides of the ball. Craig Kimbrel got the save.

Sox are 74-55. They won three games on this road trip and none of them were chill.


Tim Anderson on the offense’s mindset today:

"They pitched a heckuva game last night, so I think it was mandatory that we wanted to go out and whup em. And you see how we jumped out on them. It was mandatory to get a win."

Most 3-hit games since 2019

38  Tim Anderson (3 hits today)
35  Starling Marte
35  Charlie Blackmon



In his first start in 19 days after an IL stint, Carlos Rodón went 5 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, BB, 3 K, HR, 46 of 67 pitches for strikes with nine swinging strikes.

His fastball (94.9 mph) was a tick below his season average, but his last heater of the day was his hardest one (97.3 mph).

“Can’t wait to send him back out there,” said Tony La Russa of Carlos Rodón

There will be an off day on Monday that will give Carlos Rodón extra rest before his next start. He said that was by design.



Craig Kimbrel earned his first save with the White Sox today. Said any struggles he's had recently had to do with mechanics (as opposed to the inning he was pitching in):

"Had nothing to do with what inning it was. Had everything to do with what I've been working on."

Craig Kimbrel said in Tampa that he wasn’t pleased with his fastball spin/action. He’s been working on riding on his back leg and not getting around the ball on release, and saw the work show up today

“My ball was spinning like it was supposed to today.”



Pitchers to record a save for both #Cubs & #WhiteSox in same season:

Ryan Tepera, 2021
Craig Kimbrel, 2021



Steve Stone tweet:


Despite some frustrating losses, the Sox came off their most difficult 14 games vs all winning teams. The boys went 7 and 7. With Tim missing some games and Grandal not back it wasn’t bad. Carlos is back and Cease was brilliant vs a huge offense on the road. All in all not bad.

Yep, nothing wrong with 7-7 in that stretch.

Damn nice player no matter what Billy Goat Gruff says.

José Abreu since Aug. 1:  .302 / .352 / .625  with 9 HRs and 20 RBI


From Sox notes: White Sox have hit 24 home runs in their last 9 games against the Cubs, including five straight multi-homer efforts. Eloy Jiménez is a .389/.450/.944 hitter with five doubles, 5 homers and 10 RBI in 10 games v. Cubs and José Abreu is a .341/.399/.651 hitter with 11 home runs and 26 RBI in 33 games.


Tony La Russa raved about the way the Sox responded in yesterday's win in Toronto after Michael Kopech gave up five runs in the sixth, talked about how the dugout was amped and determined to finish off a win:

"Given how 9-2 became 9-7, it's our best three innings of the year."



Rick Hahn on if it's possible to convert Cubs fans to White Sox fans, with the White Sox in the great position they are currently in: "We're open to anyone who wants to come in and root for the White Sox .... Welcome aboard."

Welcome back Yaz.