White Sox (Wilson) vs Twins (Festa): 4/23/25, 6:40pm

[USAFChief]

1 minute ago, Patzky said:

Rocco has to go get into Laz. This is BS.

There's no point. It's not that Laz is trying to call a bad game. He's not capable of calling a better one.

Yelling at him won't help that.

[David HK]

Walking the leadoff guy.

Unforgivable.

Make him run laps.

[mrtwinsfan]

2 minutes ago, David HK said:

Walking the leadoff guy.

Unforgivable.

Make him run laps.

with the Sparten helmot on

[Patzky]

Just now, mrtwinsfan said:

with the Sparten helmot on

What no sausage race?

[The Great Hambino]

Just now, mrtwinsfan said:

with the Sparten helmot on

There's a nonzero chance their homers are down this year cuz no one wants to put that stupid thing on

[Patzky]

Would be nice to see Correa bunt for a hit here.

[mrtwinsfan]

Imagine if Correa was in N.Y. ,  be seeing alot big  time boos, and  garbage can covers  as a give away 

[Jocko87]

Buxton home run was a 930 xBa but 30/30 parks.

You trying to tell me 7% of 414ft line drives are caught?

 

[David HK]

3 minutes ago, Patzky said:

Would be nice to see Correa bunt for a hit here.

Would be nice to see him lead off every inning.

One out at a time.

[thelanges5]

C4 💥 with a .540 OPS. Woof; runs slow and can’t hit. Rough start to the season. 

[Aggies7]

Laz loving life right now 

[MMMordabito]

Well, France, I think that strike 3 call smelled like Pepe Le Pew too.

[thelanges5]

Sox using up a lot of RPs tonight. Could be a good thing got tomorrows game. 

[USAFChief]

1 minute ago, Jocko87 said:

Buxton home run was a 930 xBa but 30/30 parks.

You trying to tell me 7% of 414ft line drives are caught?

 

Sometimes modern analytics aren't well thought out.

For a long time UZR (which Fangraphs still uses for defense for fWAR to this day) made no adjustments for ballpark. Just divided fields into "zones."  But the zones were the same for every ball park. A ball hit off the wall at Fenway in left might be considered "should have been caught" because it was only 340 feet from home plate. Even though it hit 15 feet up the wall. 

They've since made some adjustment to that, but still. Stupid.

[Jocko87]

1 minute ago, USAFChief said:

Sometimes modern analytics aren't well thought out.

For a long time UZR (which Fangraphs still uses for defense for fWAR to this day) made no adjustments for ballpark. Just divided fields into "zones."  But the zones were the same for every ball park. A ball hit off the wall at Fenway in left might be considered "should have been caught" because it was only 340 feet from home plate. Even though it hit 15 feet up the wall. 

They've since made some adjustment to that, but still. Stupid.

I like data but outliers like that keep me from taking it very seriously.

[Jocko87]

Laz got dinner reservations.

[Patzky]

Winnah

[USAFChief]

31 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

Stewart warming.

Let's say it stays 4-3...who gets the save opp?

Coulumbe?

Not 4-3, but still...

[Tlaker]

Winner!

[USAFChief]

Just now, Patzky said:

Winnah

ditto

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

Let's make it 3 in a row tomorrow!

[David HK]

Wow, did they allow all the fans to come sit behind home plate?  Or did they save those cutouts from back in the COVID daze?

[Aggies7]

Is it somehow possible that this white Sox club is just as bad if not worse than 2024? You’d think it impossible 

[Twins_Fan_in_NJ]

4 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

Is it somehow possible that this white Sox club is just as bad if not worse than 2024? You’d think it impossible 

They seem to be slightly better in the field. Otherwise, could be just as bad everywhere else.

[Mike Sixel]

5 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

Is it somehow possible that this white Sox club is just as bad if not worse than 2024? You’d think it impossible 

I don't know. Did they add much? 

In any event, the Twins win again. Doing their job. 

[Aggies7]

3 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

I don't know. Did they add much? 

In any event, the Twins win again. Doing their job. 

I’ve seen that their AAA and AA teams are highly rated, for what it’s worth. Probably just biding time until some of those guys come up. They were 3-21 after 24 games last year and 5-19 now. Improvement!

[sampleSizeOfOne]

What i miss?

[Aggies7]

3 minutes ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

What i miss?

The game.

[cmoss84]

51 minutes ago, Jocko87 said:

Buxton home run was a 930 xBa but 30/30 parks.

You trying to tell me 7% of 414ft line drives are caught?

 

While playing college ball, I once had a line drive hit at me that I almost (but thankfully did not) got to.

You know what happened to that ball? Went over CF wall. By a lot.

[David HK]

1 hour ago, Aggies7 said:

I’ve seen that their AAA and AA teams are highly rated, for what it’s worth. Probably just biding time until some of those guys come up. They were 3-21 after 24 games last year and 5-19 now. Improvement!

Like a lot of us older fellas, I suffered through the early 80s, 82 especially. But even through that, you could see it coming, Hrbek, Gaetti, et. al.  The young guys were showing something, then came that 84 run.  I don't get that same feeling looking at the Sox.