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The fans were chanting for Ruiz mania and you gotta give fans what they want.

Matt Ruiz fanclub President checking in.

if the ball lands in foul territory when they dropped the ball, the batter is not out.

If you can't go inside without hitting someone, then you can't throw inside.

This has nothing to do with intention; this is about telling a guy to learn to control the baseball. You're a professional. Do your job. Tim told him he knew it wasn't on purpose, but the guy needs to control the damn baseball.

Not everyone can be Jerred 458 OPS Kelenic.

What is Burger doing

We're 80+ at bats into the season and Tim Anderson's K Rate is 12.6%. It normalizes and becomes predictive at about 50 PA's, so this is pretty sustainable and pretty incredible for a guy who is hitting the ball with a lot of authority too. Tim could be on pace for a 30 homer, 40 double pace with 20 steals. Pretty great year. 6-7 fWAR. If the defense returns to normal and he gets out of that funk, maybe 8 WAR. let's go!

Jack everytime he sees a Kopech pitch under 95 MPH.

This is how I feel about it pretty much.

It's the players fault that the manager doesn't put him in the lineup now? My goodness.

Please. The minor groin strain isn't going to heal for 12 months? Stop it. Load management doesn't work in baseball. Baseball isn't physically demanding enough to demand rest - actually to the contrary, it needs time to build endurance and consistent play.

Robert was finally finding his swing and getting in a grove, and now he sits on the bench. It's just bad managing. I said it to you before PTATC, baseball is not some physcally strenuous activity that requires constantly rest to maintain health. In fact, I'd argue it's the opposite; additionally, haven't you argued of late it's the "mental" side you need a break from? I'd also argue that's absurd as you need to learn to push through mental blocks to be a great baseball player. You and I have very different philosophical opinions on the game. Additionally, trainers and etc I have had in my life to train me for higher levels of baseball also disagree with the premise of constant rest.

My solution has never been to give excess rest to baseball players. Endurance and your body adjusts to the consecutive days played; that's how you build up. Every repeated rest day is a set-back in my opinion. Also, if you're not 100% you shouldn't be back at this point. If you are 100% you should be playing.

The good old "sitting guys" to keep them fresh strategy. It's really worked wonders for the White Sox.

But the team is in the bottom 3 this year, not the middle of the pack at 11-13 as you'd expect to see based on your own math at 12.5%. So Yaz isn't the reason the team isn't in the top 3 this year. That was my entire point.

Not really; you wouldn't expect an even distribution of walks at 11% per starter and you'd expect some fluctuation. Because Yaz missed so much time last year, his impact wasn't as significant. Moncada had 3 fewer walks than Grandal. Also, Grandal going to 9.75% would be pretty crazy given his career % is 14.8, and every year but one he's been over 13% and this year he's started slow and he's still at 12%. That's why I removed 40.

Yet he's never had shoulder problems. Jack, please give it a rest.

Not sure what is "wrong." If you removed 40 walks from Yaz last year, the Sox would still have ranked in the top 12 in BB rate.

Jack does this every year and is told this every year but still obsessed over a radar gun reading every start. He'll tell you he's a huge giolito fan though and one of his biggest supporters... just like yoan. Then he'll make irrationally negative and over the top critiques of both.

Your obsession with velocity over production, especially early season velocity, is absolutely hilarious. Giolito has been worth more than 5 WAR per 200 IP since 2019 and you call him a solid #2 lol I personally would bet on guys who don't rely on elite velocity to be damn productive, I'd also bet on a guy who has ADDED a + pitch to his arsenal each of the past two years. That's called growth. I'm certainly glad you're not the gm assessing talent and future production.

That's a bit of an exaggeration, he's not even the most overrated Angels prospect of the last decade+. Brandon Wood was #3 in all of baseball and he was a complete Hack. Adell still may figure it out with the bat. He's had some flashes.

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One player isn't going to carry an entire roster in that category - especially given that he lost significant time last year as well. Yaz accounted for 6.2% of all White Sox PA's in 2021. edit; And sorry, Sox were 4th in walk rate. 9th in P/PA. Still, they clearly were one of the more patient teams in the game.

Except the Sox were third in baseball last year in BB rate and pitches seen I believe.