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Let’s not forget we have Anderson and Grandal on the bench...supposed to be two of our top 6 hitters.

Eaton out of the game for Hamilton. Minnesota swept the Orioles, who have now lost 9 in a row and have the worst overall record in baseball at -15. Twins -9.

8. Not counting Eaton getting thrown out at home.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29679378/sources-choices-mike-clevinger-zach-plesac-break-protocol-caused-rift-cleveland-indians Let’s not forget Plesac and Clevinger drew the ire of management for breaking Covid protocols last year...Clevinger eventually getting traded (see Bauer, as well...) Of course, Carrasco’s salary was jettisoned in the Lindor trade. So huge start for McKenzie to retain/protect his rotation spot.

775-825 seems perfectly realistic, based on the approach we’ve seen in the majority of his plate appearances.

Is that Hahn? “Let’s get Jirschele on the horn, stat! CPD is holding a bewildered LaRussa and listening to him reminisce about the Bash Brothers.”

Carlos Rodón, LHP, White Sox Key stat: 35.2% swing-and-miss rate It took years of ups and downs, injuries and a brief foray into free agency last offseason, but Rodón is finally delivering on the promise that made him the No. 3 overall pick in the 2014 Draft. And this version of Rodón? Worth the wait. Among pitchers with 40-plus innings, the lefty ranks among MLB’s top five in ERA (1.27), Statcast’s expected ERA (2.12), strikeout rate (37.3%) and opponent batting average (.148). Simply put, Rodón is dominating, and it’s not just the no-hitter, either. After a hiccup on May 15 against the Royals, Rodón was right back at it in his last start, blitzing through the Yankees’ lineup in the Bronx for 13 strikeouts and no walks in six scoreless innings. Many pitchers have one bat-missing pitch, but the new-and-improved Rodón has three yielding a whiff rate over 30%: a four-seamer with career-best velocity (95.1 mph), a slider that’s held opponents to 1-for-46 and a changeup to keep righties honest. With those weapons, this doesn’t look like a fluky hot streak. It looks like the start of a thrilling second act. -- Andrew Simon https://www.mlb.com/news/the-2021-breakout-players-to-believe-in?partnerId=zh-20210526-156906-MLB&qid=1026&bt_ee=HLweXSSBO9LKNtiiKwUJK6Xnz%2BPTSW7sU%2B2Sf1XJ4%2FGfWFUvnagST216ars1EMrY&bt_ts=1622029293202

Cleveland righty Zach Plesac was put on the 10-day injured list Tuesday, the result of breaking the thumb on his pitching hand while yanking off his undershirt after a rough outing. There was no initial word on how long the 26-year-old Plesac would be sidelined. According to manager Terry Francona, Plesac hurt himself while "rather aggressively taking off his undershirt" after Sunday's start against the Minnesota Twins at Progressive Field. Plesac started the game with three perfect innings, but the Twins scored five times in the fourth, including a three-run homer by Max Kepler. Plesac was removed from the game with two outs in the inning, starting the chain of events leading to the injury. "I think he caught it on a chair," Francona said before a game at Detroit. "It was pretty swollen yesterday, so we sent him for X-rays last night and got them back about the sixth inning." Startribune.com/sports

And Hamilton...making Leury or Mendick and Lamb the ones left out. Likely Lamb. And honestly hard to see TLR picking Mendick over Leury.

Ultimately, what do you want? A war? To force China, Russia, North Korea and Iran together? Will you join the military to fight, because you feel so strongly that China is an existential threat to the future of America? This kind of thinking is what led to World War Two...do you really think Germany wants to be forced to pick a side when they believe China is a stronger economic partner, simply due to the number of cars they export, or the 5G networks they want to build? Trump’s solution of going it alone was getting nowhere. There’s 10x as much pressure now on China than under Trump. Trump abandoned traditional US allies that didn’t want China to take over the Trans Pacific Trade Agreement. The EU is now mostly united against China...Trump only threatened and pissed off US allies, for what purpose? And, in the end, if India, China and the US can’t work together on climate change and protecting the planet, everyone eventually will suffer the grave consequences.

It hasn’t been proven in any conclusive way...even the lab or hospital reports from those three researchers who were supposedly hospitalized could be accurate or fabricated, and there’s no proof of that either, (just an allegation or accusation), it could have been the flu or strep throat or any of a million things since everyone goes to the hospital here for even a slight temperature, coughing or sore throat. Just like if 3 out of 200 employees at your company were sick at the same time, does that mean anything? People in research labs can’t have a regular cold instead of carrying or incubating a nefarious bioterrorism weapon? Playing this out, they were completely prescient enough to know that the Trump administration would completely screw up the response for well over a year, crippling the economy in the process? Then if it was in the lab, why wouldn’t they immediately have their own vaccine or antidote to save the rest of the world instead of coming in a terribly disappointing 4th or 5th to the US, UK, Germany and even Russia in the mRNA vaccine race? The Chinese mRNA vaccine will be at least a year late coming online, if its even granted EUA by the WHO.

“A natural hitter, Yermín had to learn to hustle” https://www.mlb.com/news/yermin-mercedes-long-journey-to-mlb-stardom

Make SoxTalk Great Again...Jesus, we're getting into the political weeds more and more with every TLR post, it seems the polarization exactly mirrors the "real world," at least at this current transitional moment in time.

Not quite a save situation because tying run's not up to bat? Or can he be "in the hole"?

96 to 97.7 was the velocity range on his fastballs....most were high 96/low 97.

They need to just send Crochet down for awhile and let him build up some innings...then recall him in September for the bullpen.

Then we should add one for Tatis since one of his was robbed by one of the best catches of the season by Rojas. Just kidding. Tonight, against OAK so far...2/3, RBI Now at 614/.182 (2 homers, 5 RBI's). At least he's outhitting Leury???

You forgot Ruiz. Strange, because arguably his most impressive outing was last time out against the Yankees.

Windy City Limousine dude? Yellow M&M's jacket? GEORGE JACOBS

Real-time RS/RA differentials SD +79 LAD +77 CHW +74 HOU +55 SFG +53 TB +49 BOS +45

Heuer's velocity down a little bit, or he's just taking it easy and going on cruise control to get through the final innings.

Madrigal running his OPS back to 731 with the 3/3 so far tonight. Only 1 XBH so far, strange game. Of course, Vaughn ALMOST/SHOULD have had that homer in the early innings.

https://www.milb.com/player/jason-bilous-663467 This guy might be our next bullpen solution...skip over AAA and try someone from BIRM. Zack Granite also getting some attention down there, because of his previous major league experience with the Twins.

Adam Engel just homered!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Madrigal showing off 70-75 speed there, haha? Burger 2/4, 2B (6), RBI, .274/.980