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After a 4-2 home stand against the Angels and Tigers the Guardians head to Chitown for a four-game weekend series against the White Sox, who are on their way to perhaps the worst season of all time. The Pale Hose are 8-28 which projects to a 36-win season. That would blow away the current record for 162-game futility; the 2003 Tigers who finished 43-119. I say we try and help them break that record. They can't do it on their own.
The Guardians went 2-1 against the Sox in Cleveland in April, but the series was surprisingly competitive with a cumulative score of 16-13. Logan Allen allowed five runs in four innings in the Guardians’ lone loss. He will get another crack at them on Sunday.
The Sox have won 5 of their last 11 games so they may be starting to emerge from their coma and return to the land of the living.
The Sox are missing Luis Robert and Yoan Moncada, who have just 28 and 39 at-bats this year. Their only every day player who is having a good year is RF Gavin Sheets at .260/.792. Sheets is 1-for-14 against lefties and is hitting .289/.874 against righties. He hammered the Guardians in Cleveland going 3-for-9 with two doubles, a home run, and 5 RBI’s.
The White Sox have been pathetic offensively, averaging 2.86 runs per game, obviously last in the majors. The next worst offense averages 3.50 runs. The Sox are last in OBP, slugging percentage, and total bases per game. They’re 29th in batting average and isolated power and 28th in home run percentage. As a team they’re hitting .208/.588. It don't get any worse than that.
Their pitching staff is 28th in ERA and strikeout percentage, and 27th in WHIP and walk percentage. Their bullpen ranks 26th in WAR and their defense ranks 28th. From the numbers it appears they are at or near the bottom of the league in hitting, pitching, and fielding. Baserunning they're just OK.
Ben Lively goes against 31-year-old right-hander Erick Fedde in the opener. Fedde’s career mark is 23-33 with a 5.25 ERA. He’s doing better this year with a 2-0, 3.46 mark. He went five innings against the Guardians in Cleveland allowing four hits, but three of them were home runs to Josh and Bo Naylor and Steven Kwan.
After that game Fedde had three excellent starts in a row before giving up five runs in 4.1 innings in his last start, so I don't know what to expect.
The other three matchups are:
2) Cookie vs. Garrett Crochet, 2-4, 5.31. Crochet is a young lefty that we missed in Cleveland. He had been good his last two starts.
3) McKenzie vs. Mike Clevinger. Sunshine has only pitched two innings since being signed, allowing 6 hits and 4 walks. Lot of rust to be knocked off.
4) Allen vs. Michael Soroka, 0-4, 6.34 ERA.
I would not put these games in the bank yet as the Sox played the Guardians almost even in Cleveland and have won 5 of 11. We do have a huge advantage in the bullpen (1st versus 28th in FIP) so if our starters can get us the lead after five or six innings, or even if it’s tied, I like our chances.
The Guardians went 2-1 against the Sox in Cleveland in April, but the series was surprisingly competitive with a cumulative score of 16-13. Logan Allen allowed five runs in four innings in the Guardians’ lone loss. He will get another crack at them on Sunday.
The Sox have won 5 of their last 11 games so they may be starting to emerge from their coma and return to the land of the living.
The Sox are missing Luis Robert and Yoan Moncada, who have just 28 and 39 at-bats this year. Their only every day player who is having a good year is RF Gavin Sheets at .260/.792. Sheets is 1-for-14 against lefties and is hitting .289/.874 against righties. He hammered the Guardians in Cleveland going 3-for-9 with two doubles, a home run, and 5 RBI’s.
The White Sox have been pathetic offensively, averaging 2.86 runs per game, obviously last in the majors. The next worst offense averages 3.50 runs. The Sox are last in OBP, slugging percentage, and total bases per game. They’re 29th in batting average and isolated power and 28th in home run percentage. As a team they’re hitting .208/.588. It don't get any worse than that.
Their pitching staff is 28th in ERA and strikeout percentage, and 27th in WHIP and walk percentage. Their bullpen ranks 26th in WAR and their defense ranks 28th. From the numbers it appears they are at or near the bottom of the league in hitting, pitching, and fielding. Baserunning they're just OK.
Ben Lively goes against 31-year-old right-hander Erick Fedde in the opener. Fedde’s career mark is 23-33 with a 5.25 ERA. He’s doing better this year with a 2-0, 3.46 mark. He went five innings against the Guardians in Cleveland allowing four hits, but three of them were home runs to Josh and Bo Naylor and Steven Kwan.
After that game Fedde had three excellent starts in a row before giving up five runs in 4.1 innings in his last start, so I don't know what to expect.
The other three matchups are:
2) Cookie vs. Garrett Crochet, 2-4, 5.31. Crochet is a young lefty that we missed in Cleveland. He had been good his last two starts.
3) McKenzie vs. Mike Clevinger. Sunshine has only pitched two innings since being signed, allowing 6 hits and 4 walks. Lot of rust to be knocked off.
4) Allen vs. Michael Soroka, 0-4, 6.34 ERA.
I would not put these games in the bank yet as the Sox played the Guardians almost even in Cleveland and have won 5 of 11. We do have a huge advantage in the bullpen (1st versus 28th in FIP) so if our starters can get us the lead after five or six innings, or even if it’s tied, I like our chances.
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