Last 13 Games

After watching his underachieving offense go 2-for-14 in a 4-3 loss at Tampa Bay, manager Ozzie Guillen promised some changes to his White Sox roster.

“Just be ready because I expect movement Tuesday,” Guillen said. “I expect Kenny to do something Tuesday, and if we don’t do anything Tuesday, there are going to be a lot of lineup changes. That’s all I’m going to say about the offense.

“It can be me. It can be (hitting coach) Greg Walker. It can be the players. It could be anybody. I’m sick and tired to watch this thing for a year and a half. I’m not protecting anybody anymore. (Bleep) it.

“If they can’t get it done, Kenny should find someone to get it done. That’s it.”

vince fan-shot it

They can’t lose.

Cubs = 36 – 21
White Sox = 30 – 26

Meanwhile, we get ridiculous pitching but our offense is pathetic. I noticed that Prior is set to undergo season-ending surgery and I thought how the Cubs wish they had drafted Joe Mauer instead, but they have Soto anyways.

Charlotte starter Jack Egbert earned his first career Triple-A win. Egbert was masterful through 7 innings as he allowed just two Richmond runs off of three hits. Egbert also struck out four Braves hitters, as his fastball was routinely in the mid-90s

Are we seeing the beginning of the end of the Ozzie era? What the hell is wrong with Kenny, he’s not throwing him under the bus. He’s stating the obvious: This team’s offense sucks, and he needs to make changes. If Kenny is going to be offended by that, then he should, and if he fires Ozzie then I am done with this team!

send Swisher to AAA. He shouldn’t be here right now.

Left-hander Clayton Richard threw a three-hit shutout for Double-A Birmingham on Saturday.
Richard had a 3.63 ERA in the Carolina League last year, but since that came with mediocre stuff and mediocre periperals, no one thought much of it. Now he’s at 2.64 ERA in the Southern League. Richard doesn’t get many strikeouts with his below average fastball, but his command has gone from average to well above and he doesn’t allow a lot of homers. We’re sure White Sox fans will be thrilled to have another potential Heath Phillips on the way. Jun. 1 – 3:31 am et

cowley:

At some point between now and Tuesday, Ozzie Guillen and Ken Williams are going to have to sit down and hug it out before things turn ugly.

and i don’t mean over the short term, but with the long-term deal? interesting analysis of this so far:

When Santana was supposedly heading to the Red Sox or Yankees, there were whispers that his problems with the long ball would be exacerbated there, due to their parks’ respective leanings towards aiding offense. When he was eventually dealt to the Mets, these whispers were silenced, thanks to the offense-dampening Shea Stadium. However, what we have seen from Santana in 2008 belies the nature of the stadium, as his HR/9 has climbed from 1.4 to 1.5 per nine. Granted, he’s gone from giving up 30 homers per 200 innings to 32 over the same time frame, but the thing that has Mets fans worried is that he was supposed improve, at least superficially, thanks to a league switch and move to a pitcher-friendly haven.

This has not happened for a few reasons. First, Santana has lost additional velocity. He’s dipped another half-a-mile per hour on his fastball, which had already dropped from 93.1 to 91.7 mph. He rarely used his cutter in the past, but it’s been cut out of the equation entirely at this point. The past two seasons have shown Santana using his fastball more so than in the past, despite its status as an inferior pitch relative to what he was capable of before. It’s a bit much to say Santana’s lost it—he’s still one of the top pitchers in the NL thanks to low walk totals and a still-excellent 7.9 K/9—but this is not the Santana the Mets thought they were trading for, the one they signed to pitch for them through 2013. Though it has not hurt them too much in 2008—the Mets have other problems to focus on outside of Santana’s rising homer totals—it’s something that’s going to become bothersome and problematic in the future if their expensive ace can’t figure out a way to pitch his way out of this recent trend.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=7586

kenny scouting alonso; sox eying wallace

http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/cs-080601-white-sox-offense-minor-leagues,1,2378802.story