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Pakistan’s western borderlands…? Even ISIS and Al-queda know Davis Martin now after three outings.

So you have to be the Rays, A’s or Guardians…or Dodgers/Mets on top of the scale. But that doesn’t exactly explain Jose Ramirez, Mike Trout, Machado or Buxton…to name just a few who are performing on long extensions. Alvarez, Harper, Goldschmidt, JD Martinez, Betts, George Springer. Devers is one of the few on a one year deal, like Judge and Trea Turner whose extension is ending. Contreras another one expiring, and at the top of the TDL want list for many teams. Extension are perfectly fine for the true superstars, just not the next couple of tiers down.

Nobody in baseball would claim Grandal's contract...

Boo! Why would Moncada give up switch hitting when he looked good yesterday against a lefty? He hasn't had Jose Valentin-esque splits since the end of 2018...

But the White Sox used to own LHP. We had that long consecutive victories streak against them at the beginning of last season...

To remind Lucas of the late morning Patriots Day Massacre at Fenway last season?

Otoh, Cano and Trayce Thompson 4/47. Rick Hahn could hit more NBA 3 pointers in nearly fifty attempts in an empty United Center. Maybe.

Buxton, Arraez and Correa might disagree. The crazy thing is that of the six teams in the current fight for the #6 AL Wild Card position, the White Sox at -52 RS/RA are a full 40 runs behind the “worst” team of that grouping, the Mariners at 6 games under .500. Boston and CLE lead at +39 and +35 respectively. Angels and Rangers at +7 and 0/Even. Mind boggling they’re still even in the heart of that race, let alone the division.

By that argument, McGuire, Grandal, any lefty or SH playing against RHPers…it wasn’t a bias against Vaughn so much as he was L/R/L obsessed against RHP and the defense weighing. Pollock was losing at-bats for the same reason (LH hitter obsession), although not off to the same offensive start. If there was no Abreu around, AV would get 90-95% of playing time, though.

Or Mazara is now Brett/Gwynn/Jose Ramirez…

Not even Top 5. Leury Legend, Kelly,TA7, Hendriks, Harrison

You have a tough lefty and they should see if Grandal could get some momentum going finally…play McGuire Sunday.

Luis Gonzalez at .309 and Nomar Mazara .421 (8/19) as of this moment…

Try the Celtics crowd tonight with Draymond Green. Didn’t quite go as intended in the end.

Mazara starting out 8/19, .421. Probably more hits than Cano and Trayce Thompson combined on the year.

Grandal's first XB hit since April 26th. Wow.

Burger single non-play turned out to be the key to the inning. 3-4 lose plays by Rangers tonight. Like mirror opponent. Garcia or Calhoun probably get to the Walker ball. Holy hell, 5 Harrison RBIs and now a Mendick bomb.

Thought it bounced over wall/fence.

Victim of the White Sox slow footed corner defense camp. 3 RBI's to 15. Thought it was ground rule double.

Feels like 2020 first 45 games for once.

Speed to spare.

What is going on? A rally?

Eat a Whopper! Probably has more infield hits than Yoan.

They can't give Abreu another $15 million and block Vaughn another year can they?

Now they burn Hendriks or risk another key loss in the wild card race. Unless Burger homers that is.