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Curbelo with an RBI double

Also great pitching by Lynn, which is like automatic at this point.

Jose !!! Billy!!!!

Nasty. Double headers a lot more fun this year!

Taking my son to the game tomorrow. If TA doesn’t play he will be throwing a fit. Was sorta hoping he’d sit today ha

Sheets 4-4. Man, Kanny outside of Jose Rodriguez is all in worse than a rut.

The white sox did a hell of a lot more to develop Yoan Moncada than the Red Sox did

I think this is a bit crazy. Certainly TA is an amazing success story, but Yoan was in AA and coming off a disastrous mlb stint. Eloy was in A ball. Robert was 19 playing in a watered down Cuban League. And they all made it and have all been successful hitters. No matter how polished you think Vaughn and Madrigal are, they made it to the bigs and Vaughn did so whilst being developed with no minor leagues. And add to that, Engel was a bad college hitter drafted in the 20th round who made it to the bigs and has become a productive player. Mendick was a teens mlb pick now an mlb player. Even Leury, he was a defense first, nothing offensive player that was transformed into an MLB depth piece when used right. Jake Burger doing what he's doing in AAA makes him now one of the better batters selected in the last 20 picks of the first round in 2017. Granted Nick Pratto has been pretty good in AA now, and that Evan White 28 wRC+ looks sexy.

Yeah not surprised beat writers May have something here, but if you are a national writer and have a take on this... you are full of shit

I get this, it's just this year we are at 22 instead of top ten, and I think he's athletic enough that he's not done changing. But it's uber risky, I get. And you don't want to become the 00s white sox that got zero production out of first round picks.

It's interesting but upclose it is not straight black but imitates asphalt I think?

I actually think the call to mies van der rohe (if that is a real quote) is my favorite part about it, especially given it being so near to IIT. But the fonts, god those are terrible.

I think this is a little overblown, but I will say I don't feel like the sox do a good job of creating lore or any nostalgia. And I know you can say it's because they lack winning, but i can't think of a franchise as old as the sox that has stayed in one place with such a lack of history/disjointed history. But you can always "start that", and what's unfortunate about this is missing some reference to a feature that was just about going to sox games. Just in the same way I hope we carry on the nancy faust salute to loser pitchers, this was a nice place where parents could tell their kids about a vendor that was there every year of their childhood. It's good to cultivate that stuff that's just about going to games and having a shared knowledge. Overall, this is just someone being way too into alliteration and not enough people on staff knowing the history, in my estimation.

Is he a switch hitter or Left Handed?

So this thread is a good reminder that the year is long and unrelenting. But some funny stuff at this point in time. Joc after his horrid start is now up to a 106 wRC+, and is now 0.0 WAR. He has been dragged down by poor LF defense, which is consistent with previous years where RF was his strongest place. After a great start, Eaton is hobbling and down to 91 wRC+ and 0.7 WAR driven by strong RF defense, which is good since that fell off quite a bit last year. But here's the funny part to me. Production vs. RHP (Left is Joc, right is Eaton) 123 vs. 111 Production vs. LHP (Left is Joc, Right is Eaton) 45 vs - 14 Funny to me just because of the howling about Joc being a platoon player and eaton being unbelievably bad vs lhp this year (.290 ops, 2 hits all year). In July, I'm sure Eaton gets a few hits off LHP and is just appropriately bad. Now Mazara: 63 wRC+ and -0.5 war. So...fun stuff. The season is long...so so long.

I don't think the changing hats thing is that big of a deal, I think the "it's illegal but we mostly don't care but also announce very public investigations about it to tarnish star players" part of it is what I hate. The issue is they take a "speed limit" approach to everything in baseball, where a little bit is okay but a lot is too much, but if everyones doing a lot then it's too hard for them to enforce still so they just snipe at the players and randomly make examples out of people.

is DSL a thing this year?

I feel like pitchers should be allowed something to help with grip, just choose what it is and regulate it. I don't really think football would be better if we banned receivers from wearing gloves. Give each pitcher their allotted container of pine tar each game. Getting tired of this stuff. Feels like the game just hates itself right now. Figure out what the boundaries are to baseball and let the players play within them, tired of the constant shaming of the players and game when it leads to some gameplay or time consideration people don't like.

I'm glad to hear this. Completely forgot about him.

I think it's been nice to just know the numbers have been gradually going down but today's numbers in IL were just 1.3% positives (897 cases out of 67k specimens). The 7-day positivity rate is now below 2%. Add to that IL is now up to 67% with first dose and staying pretty close to 70k/day.

Davis Martin with some gaudy numbers as well. Beard had a triple and Jose Rodriguez a double.

I'm sure every cards fan is thinking the same thing with their bullpen this year.

Also who cares about his season numbers, if he has a hot month with high ks and good scouting reports nobody will care that he had a bad game in low-a.

he's still decent vs righties thou

I'm surprised Eaton's sprint speed is right in his norms, feels like he's slowed down a lot recently.