Look at Ray Ray Run

He's been bad defensively in the OF.

Another game ill be at so like 75% chance things don't go well but I did watch the cub slacking so maybe things are turning around!

Robert should be batting second.

I just wanted to check in and say congratulations kimbrel on giving up zero runs! Don't want to be accused of never talking about his outings where he walks the tight rope but doesn't break.

Its kind of faded but still pretty sweet little sweatshirt. Worried about washing it too often though. Would grade, 7/10.

That's way more than I've seen but I imagine this varies from place to place as it's a pretty inexact science. 50 runs seems like far too many though.

For 1, I think people exaggerate the effect of shifting - it definitely has an impact, as it decreases ERA (at least in 2017-2020) by about .065 but it doesn't rob endless amounts of hits. You are only shifting dramatically maybe 25% of the time - total shifts are around 31% of the time - and of those 25% or so I'd say that the players who are heavily shifted on lean more towards being flyball hitters - so their ground ball rates fall around 40% or less. So the impacted plays are a lot less than the total amount of times a team would shift. Over a large enough sample, .001 takes away about 170-200 hits over the course of a season spread out among the teams. Given that the ground ball rate in general falls around 42% for the league, a .002-.003 difference between shifting babip on grounders vs not only, checks out to impact overall babip at about .001-.002 (max). The runs saved are maybe 4-8 over the course of an entire season per team that shifts. There have actually studies now that show that shifting on righties might have a negative effect too.

Take this for whatever it is worth, but BABIP is not impacted (between .001-.002 max) by shifting. Shifting is still effective, but it doesn't impact BABIP. It does impact the batting average on grounders and liners, but does not lower the overall BABIP.

the White Sox have challenged 9 calls all year and rank in the bottom 5 of all of baseball. if this is a part of his job description, then he's failing at it; regardless of what else he does for the team. if he's so valuable elsewhere move him there and get him out of this position. i know you love to stan for larussa and i guess now kash, but get a grip.

Vaughn hit a homer today lol. I get that this is a bit by you now, but its still really dumb.

Variance can be a b****. And yes, the 30 days is merely a product of statistical variance. It will even out. The sox will hit with RISP similarly to what they hit regularly over any extended period.

The Indians weren't bad, and they were the opposite of what they are now. The Indians waved the White Flag. That team in 2005 didn't wave the white flag. On this date in 2005, the Indians were 8 games over 500 and the Sox had a 12 game lead. The Indians were still good. They were't 2 games under with a massively negative run differential.

eh, rather struggle now than in two months. teams run hot and cold; it's not a terrible time to get a little cold.

It's like when Jason kept saying he was still concerned with the Twins while they were 97 games under 500, with the worst bullpen in baseball and no starting pitching. The Indians have given up. Honestly, even though it's nice to have wrapped things up this early part of me is bummed because none of the games really matter which takes away some excitement. This series was a lot of fun because there was intensity to them, but there won't be many series with that intensity. When Grandal gets back the lineup gets way more complete and even more dangerous. The key is getting hot near the end of the season, not now. Go through your cold stretch now if you want to; every team has them.

Kimbrel was more expensive than Bryant. The problem is Hahn and company have a hard on for big name relievers and think it's wise to invest heavily there.

The division is won. It's not really a question. I get that White SOx fans are irrationally negative due to the past, but this take is one of the most comical by far. The White Sox are 19 games over 500 while the next best in the division is 2 games under. No one else in the division has a positive run differential, the closest is -34. The AL Central is full of bad teams. The White Sox are not anywhere near a bad team. They are just getting healthy too, so this take and concern is just terrible.

nah, you always get a woody when the Sox lose games but "could have come back." You seem to really enjoy those losses. It's odd, no doubt.

Weird take, they've clawed back and made for an exciting finish despite having some bad luck with RISP. They don't appear to be coasting to me, they're just not getting the big hit and the bullpen gets canned everyday.

Before yesterday, Hernandez had like a 785 OPS with really good defense. So yes, up until yesterday he had been damn good even if he's been scuffling a bit of late.

you're celebration of White Sox losses is always weird as shit. No reason to be upset about stranding 100 runners and the bullpen giving up runs every single game lol.

Cesar Hernandez has been great, but holy cow was today one of the worst games a player could ever play.

huh? on the replay he was clearly safe.

Good thing we didn't challenge a clear safe call.

Sox outplayed the Yankees tonight. Wasn't that close but sox just didn't capitalize. It happens. They play this game 10 times sox win 7+.

We are much better. Our offense is better and our SP is much better.