Grrh!

If White Sox starter Dylan Cease is barely adequate, what does that make Lucas Giolito, who threw 101 pitches in four innings in a 5-3 loss to the Yankees yesterday? You decide. While you’re at it, decide on your favorite move by manager Tony La Russ. They’re so many to choose from, but I’ll stick to two, starting with Matt Foster to pitch the ninth in a two-run game. Oops, Foster made it a four-run game giving up a homerun to Luke Voit. Sorry, but at some point that 5.67 ERA does tell the whole story. As for Cesar Hernandez, again, someone please tell me why we couldn’t hold onto Yolmer Sanchez. Oh, right, Yolmer would cost too much in arbitration. Well, in the case of Hernandez, hitting .236 with three RBIs since coming over from Cleveland, you get what you pay for, or considerably less. It looks more and more that the better way to go would’ve been a combination of Danny Mendick and Leury Garcia. But, no, GM Rick Hahn couldn’t help himself, and no one seems to be able to reach Hernandez. Yesterday would qualify as a player’s worst nightmare, 0-for-4 at the plate and three errors in the field, which is exactly what Hernandez did. Wait, there’s more. Our number-two batter also hit into two double plays, including one to end the game when he represented the winning run. Now, riddle me this: what was La Russa thinking as Hernandez stepped to the plate to face Wandy Peralta? Me, I’m looking at what the batter’s done on the day. Hmm, three groundballs and a walk. And let’s not forget those three errors, one of which let in a run. Guy’s probably anxious. I’d either be giving him the take sign—hey, they’re paying me the imaginary big bucks to make the tough decisions—or I’m sending Tim Anderson from first on every pitch. Instead, we get Grandpa—it takes one to know one—refusing to call out any of his players (oh, like catcher Seby Zavala with his sixth passed ball already, not to be confused with the day’s two wild pitches) while he talks about it not being his team’s best game, “but it’s as hard as we’ve played” all season. (team website) What a crock. And for this they fired Rick Renteria?