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Fangraphs had an article on June 8th about Paul Goldschmidt not hitting 95+ 4seamers very well this year and listed the 13 worst. ABreu wasn;t on that list https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/paul-goldschmidts-troubles-with-velocity/ Fangraphs gets a lot of that info from Baseball Savant. Maybe Jose is on it now , maybe Goldschmidt is off that list. My point being that in a small sample anyone can look really bad or really good. I know Balta is tracking something over an extended period of time but if that stat has dropped so precipitously why haven't his stats had just as bad a drop ?Sure his career year probably was his 1st year but he hasn't been terrible. He think he was tested a lot his 1st year. Pitchers threw hit a lot of heat and he proved he could hit the heat. Over the years its been a series of adjustment by pitchers and Jose like its been for many years for many players Maybe the trend is again to throw him fastballs and again we will see if Jose makes an adjustment. I surely expect him to be much better the 2nd half but if he isn't its possible Balta has something here. But while I suspect Jose will make an adjustment , sooner or later time will catch up to him and although its ugly to many of us looking for clues to when a true decline starts its the nature of the business . If you want to win trades that's what you do . It's not always the knowledge that gives you the power its the correct evaluation of the knowledge that matters most. We will see but eventually someone will be right when they say he's going downhill .

Why list just those 4 years ? Might as well just list his first 8 years in the league and make it 2 separate 4 year periods when Frank averaged .330 .452 .600 1.053 182 Batting average OBP SLG OPS and OPS+

Leury Garcia provided the key hit in the fourth, lining a double to right field to make it 1-0. Garcia is 8-for-17 since coming off the disabled list on June 22. per whitesox.com

"It's a designed play. I actually called the play myself," Shields said. "Knowing that, I know I have to make sure I step off and fake to first and throw to third. I'm pretty sure, I'm very confident, that I did that, and I went back and looked at the video, and I clearly stepped off. per whitesox,com

Sounds fair to me.

MLBN (well Ryan Dempster) was totally convinced that was a play Shields had been working on. If you step behind the rubber that makes you an infielder and you can do more or less anything after that . Question is ,and has been, was he behind the rubber ? I saw no definitive proof that he wasn't. One fly in the ointment if it was a designed play ( a really smart thing actually) , why did he chose the totally wrong time to use it ? Sure there was a guy on 3rd but there was a shift on and Yolmer was nowhere close to the base.

The Angels even more so . They are really hurting literally for some pitching. Starter and in the pen.

Pressley made the mistake of throwing Avi too many good pitches.

Chuck = Yeager and Norris, Charlie = Brown. Chuck it is !

I thought someone pissed in your Cherrios to start the game. I now think u smoked a fatty and are much cheerier.

Ok Shields big inning . You got a lead, no walks ,no HR's.

That'll get the job done Omar.

Yea Timmy !

Yea Leury !

Avi really needs to know they are just going to keep throwing him shit until he lays off it.

It's that 3 in a row jinx.

Spencer Adams getting roughed up

As much as I love 80's new wave when i see Damn yankees i still think of the much older musical even though I don't think I've ever seen it from beginning to end before.

I decided to put this here rather than the WS Winner thread because it's more national than local. Yolmer was on the MLB Network show Intentional Talk before the game yesterday and Kevin Millar was talking to Yolmer about the IT mojo which is when a player appears on IT they usually do good in the following game and asked Yolmer to make a signal if he did something good to show the IT mojo worked. When Yolmer hit the bases loaded single to give the Sox the lead he did what Millar asked ( make an I T signal by making an I and T with his arms. You can see Yolmer did just that at the very end of this video. https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/yolmer-sanchez-keys-white-sox-in-victory/c-283117430

Yolmer came through when others failed. Sox could've had a lot more runs. Real solid night for the pen . No runs no hits no walks in 2 2/3 .

C'mon Jose get it together. It's like you heard you're the leading vote getter then decided you didn't want to be an All Star

Maybe just the Sox actually winning means nothing when people rather root for losses I suppose.

Funny. Just odd to me . Every other Sox run is mentioned but nothing for an Avi jack who's resurgence would mean a lot .

An Abreu double right here would be good for him and the team.