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The 2024 Chicago White Sux.

Now now, there's nothing wrong with drunk posting on a Monday morning. Let's not shame Tigeraholic1.

Do you think that perhaps, just maybe, that this stretch of April pales in comparison to what he's done throughout his career? If you want to make a case for Carpenter at 2, that's fine, he's probably the best hitter right now. But the top 3 right now need to be Greene, Carpenter, Canha, in some order or another 1 through 3. Greene is probably the best skilled hitter in the lineup, Carpenter is currently the best hitter in the lineup, and Canha has the best career hitting resume in the lineup as well as one of the better current hitters in the team. Keith will be fine. I'm not sure he's earned the right to hit higher in the lineup just yet. I have no doubt he'll improve upon .185/.274/.197. But right now I'll give more plate appearances to .250/.350/.422.

I'm not sure there was an angle that showed Canha was safe beyond a doubt. I understand the run expectancy and it'd have been nice to not give up an out there. But it also would have sucked losing a challenge that early in a game without knowing what the future might hold. The top of the first is awfully early in a vacuum. But given the offensive struggles at times, I can also understand the reward side of trying the review.

I think I'm fine with seeing the scorched line drive double rather than a wind addled high fly ball the gets over the fence if it is a sign of things to come.

.286 AVG and .881 OPS with RISP this season. Not very clutch? PHing for either catcher that cannot hit right now later in a game with runners on and the game in question. The result is a baseball result. Any hitter could strike out in that instance. Any hitter could get a hit in that instance. I think we can agree that risk/reward is different in that situation depending upon the hitter, right? But you would prefer to not try better odds in that circumstance and just send up the worse of two options?

I think I’d like to see him at one spot as well. 2B full time until he’s ready to move to 3B full time or 2B full time. He has a history of needing time to warm up once promoted. Give him the stability on defense to get his bat up to speed.

So let me ask you this. If Canha were due up as the hitter, you’d have been asking for either Rogers or Kelly to PH for Canha in that situation?

Well, I’m not sure how it could be a good sign. And with the degree to which folks are on social media these days,…..

I don’t mind the idea of Keith at 3B. I think I’ve read before that he’s better there than 2B and that Jung is better at 2B than 3B. The extent to the truth of that and the degree of the differences is something I wouldn’t have a whole of confidence in stating as fact. But, if that theory has some merit to it, I’d say moving Keith to 3B is fine as long as his shoulder is up to the task. Perez has been fine so far. But I don’t think I’d move Keith in lieu of Perez right now.

Gotta work on the bat flip.

Seriously, what has happened? Is this an opposing correction to the mean? Are they not really as good as the first 15 games, but also not as bad as the last 5, and things will flatten out in between?

Well, let’s be honest, I’of set my own bar pretty low to begin with.

A career .794 OPS with RISP from one of the three better bats on the roster is worthless? What a terrible post.

Greene is leading off again? That’s it, I need to find a cliff to jump off’ve.

Please bring the fielding mittens to the game.

I can usually avoid it pretty well. Usually I'm not too far behind. Last night was a bit different, but the person that could have foiled it for me knows my viewing habit and knew I'd plug into it once I was able to tune in (a few hours behind.

My guess is MLBTV doesn't allow to record and view at your leisure?

Desperation and digested McDonalds? Gross.

If I watch, I'll usually record and then start watching some time after the game has started. I can zip through the commercials.

The blame goes on miscommunication. I don't know if Meadows wasn't loud enough and/or if Perez kept calling himself (didn't see that angle) and/or if Perez ignored Meadows. One of the fundamentals of playing outfield is that the CF has priority and when he calls it, he gets it. That shouldn't take too much RF experience to understand, especially for someone that has CF experience.

Leyland did this with Marcus Thames to get his bat into the lineup a bit more. I don't the current situation with Carpenter is the same as with Thames. No one is going to accuse either of average defense in the OF. Carpenter's major weakness seems to be anything around the wall, and maybe its just going backwards in general that's an issue for him. But I think he has gotten his glove up from bad to playable. And I think his bat is more of a component for this offense than Thames was back then. I like versatility. I'm just not sure that I'd mess with Carpenter right now. That seems like a spring training experiment. That might be something to consider next March when Canha leaves and if Malloy is destined for Detroit. Then maybe toy with Carpenter/Malloy at 1B to see if either can spell Torkelson at 1B. Heck, they can do that with Malloy in Toledo now.