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Give'em another Royal ass whipping!

He should be, but I think Sandlin is better than Fedde right now.

No such thing as running up the score in professional sports.

I don't care what the score is, down by 10, up by 10, whatever, if you know the call on the field is wrong then you challenge the call. That's part of being competitive. It's not classless, it doesn't go against some stupid unwritten "rule", it's the right thing to do. As a player I'd want my manager making that call every time.

Ok fair. I don't personally give a s%*# about Roch Cholowsky's batting average. Also don't feel like debating. We'll find out in a couple weeks and I'll analyze then.

Sox win 6-2 let’s wrap this up already.

22 is a good start but i'd like to see 30 today to break the all time franchise record

ESPN Predictor and Vegas like Sox in this around 60/40. Lets get it done. 2-1 works. 5-4 works. 11-10 works. Just win baby.

I would think there's a definite difference between playing balls out and running up the score. Were they bunting or stealing bases up 20? I could see the logic of TLR's admonition of Yermin swinging on a 3-0. (I don't agree, I just see the logic.) Play hard, don't take advantage of the sitch. Purposefully drawing out another crooked number keeps the guys on the field longer, they start pressing to get out of the inning, make mistakes, get hurt, etc.

Thats actually not at all how the math works in these cases. For one, the mark you cite is a random snapshot of June that is the lowest number in 50+ years. Offense is historically lower early on in the year than it is later. Prospect grades are normalized which allows you to compare players across periods. You would adjust expected outcomes to the environment once a player reaches thay point, but the general premise of being a 240-250 hitter as a 45 is a reasonable benchmark. League average in general is down about 10 points 10 year period over 10 year perood, but that doesn't mean it'll be down 10 points in Roch time. The below is 12 years old but its one of the baselines I built my scales. FanGraphs BaseballScouting Explained: The 20-80 Scouting ScaleScouting Explained: Introduction, Hitting Pt 1 Pt 2 Pt 3 Pt 4 Pt 5 Pt 6 When I started here just last month, I promised I would write a comprehensive series of articles explaining every part of the 20

Generally I like the “brawls” (usually it’s just 2 or 3 dudes throwing punches and everyone else holding them back, with the bullpen arriving about 5 hours late, not sure that really constitutes a brawl). And I think having one tonight would be exciting however, I don’t want injuries. Could care less about suspensions. Injuries scare me. So maybe no fights. Also…if the royals start some s%*# because of a manager challenge, regardless of the score, that’s some sore ass loser petty bullshit. They deserve to get knocked around if they do that.

Schultz is probably ready to take his next start.

I am sure Caglianone, Antonacci and Teel will broker an armistice, then all change sides, multiple times.

Thats the thing, they didn’t let up or go through the motions or half ass it. The entire play was played in full. And challenged. Is what it is, I’m not gonna be angry about it happening but it would suck if a brawl breaks out today and we lose a bunch of players to suspensions

Five factoids today: June 27, 1910 – The White Sox lost the final game played at their original ballpark, South Side Park III (39th Street Grounds). Cleveland knocked them off, 7-2, in front of just 4,300 fans. Fred Olmstead started the last game for the Sox but only lasted one inning giving up four runs. In fact the Sox didn’t score at all until the last inning in the original park getting two home in the ninth. Just four days later, the White Sox returned home and unveiled “The Baseball Palace of the World,” Comiskey Park. They lost that game as well, 2-0, to the St. Louis Browns, in front of 24,900 fans. June 27, 1922 - Catcher and future Hall of Famer, Ray “Cracker” Schalk became the first White Sox player to hit for the cycle when he did it against the Tigers in Detroit at Navin Field. The Sox would win 9-5 with Ray going 4 for 4 with two runs and two RBI’s. The hits were a home run in the third, triple in the fourth, single in the seventh and double in the ninth inning in that order. June 27, 1958 - He came so close to perfection. Sox left hander Billy Pierce fired four one-hitters in his brilliant career, but he never came closer than on this night to baseball immortality. With two out in the ninth inning, Pierce lost a perfect game as the Senators Ed Fitz Gerald, a pinch hitter, doubled down the first base line on the first pitch thrown. The hit was fair by a foot off a low outside breaking ball just past Ray Boone. The crowd at Comiskey Park stared in disbelief. The Sox won 3-0 but Pierce never came closer to pitching the ultimate masterpiece. On the night the Senators only hit six balls out of the infield. Pierce struck out nine and only went to a three-ball count on two hitters. The game took 1:46 to play and was Billy’s third straight shutout. He was looking to become the first left-handed pitcher to throw a perfect game in the modern era. Another historical oddity… Fitz Gerald’s grandfather was an important businessman in Milwaukee, including the shipping industry. Years later a ship would be named after him. The name of the ship? The Edmund Fitz Gerald. (Cue the song from Gordon Lightfoot!) June 27, 1967 - It was one of the most bizarre individual plays in White Sox history. The Sox were at Baltimore and in the last of the fourth inning of a scoreless game the O’s Frank Robinson slid hard into second baseman Al Weis trying to break up a potential double play on a ball hit by Brooks Robinson. Robinson’s head slammed into Weis’s knee briefly knocking him out. The next day he woke up with double vision and missed a month. Weis meanwhile had his knee torn up and his season ended because of the contact. While both players were lying on the ground Sox right fielder Ken Berry noticed that time had never been called and Frank wasn’t on the base! He ran in, picked up the baseball and tagged him with it. Second base umpire Nestor Chylak called Robinson out. Officially it went into the books as a force out; third to second to first to right field. The Sox behind Joe Horlen would win the game 5-0. June 27, 2004 - The first of the on-field steps that would eventually lead to a World Series title took place on this day as the Sox acquired starting pitcher Freddy Garcia from the Mariners for catcher Miguel Olivo and outfielder Jeremy Reed. Some fans anguished over the loss of five tool prospect Reed, but no one was complaining after Garcia helped close out the Astros the following October to clinch the first championship in 88 seasons. Freddy would go on to win 55 games for the Sox in two different stints. In each of his three full years with the team, 2005, 2006 and 2010 he’d win at least 12 games.

There's nothing for you to agree or disagree with. The average batting average in MLB right now is .239. It's just math.

Not sure i agree with this at all. A 40 mlb hit is a 240ish hitter. I guess if you want to move it down 10 points because of the league shift towards lower averages I could buy that. Has grade inflation infiltrated the world of prospects too now?!?

I believe he's 198 at Pipeline

Not even close. Ranked 498 at BA (probably moving up after the Combine showing) and 236 at Over-Slot. This is a raw tooled up guy that's probably a corner OF with hit tool concerns. Someone to dream on though. It's a Padres draft pick if I've ever seen one.

40 hit would be below-average which isn't even usually a big league regular. Being a .240 hitter is generally seen as average (50) and the landscape now is even more skewed.

Fans paid good money to see the best the players have to offer...not just go through the motions of finishing a lopsided game.

Where is Veras listed? First round?

They did him dirty.

Maybe they're gonna let him build some confidence off that strong start by facing a few AAA teams inbetween last night and his next big league start, he looked fantastic