Look at Ray Ray Run

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.

Liam is back!

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.

Sox didn't need schwarber or castellanos because they had sheets lol You can't make that shit up

Sheets sucks

That ball had some absolutely absurd spin on it.

Bat drop time

The negative nancy haters are gonna eat crow tonight.

I'm gonna make a bold claim that these are thr only 2 runs lucas gives up tonight. Calling it with a man on second.

Terrible from lucas.

I have never seen trout strike out to a fastball down the middle looking in my life and I've watched a lot of trout. That change was in his head

Benetti said he expects to see a high scoring series as if he hasn't watched white sox baseball.

I think Ramos is likely a shoe in. He was already a fast riser and is dominating. Assuming he doesn't tail off too hard, I wouldn't be shocked to see him move closer to top 50 than back end top 100

No nod for simas kid?

Trying to get T-Shirts made before our next get together. Should it be MR's pals, or JFcrew

I never doubted Jose, so I had zero concerns about the baserunners. That's what it's like when you're the president of the Jose Foster fanclub.