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Anderson was just the 3rd White Sox batting champion in team history. Frank Thomas and Luke Aches and Pains Appling the other two in well over a century of baseball.

So, just so I don't get in trouble, might as well DELETE this post as well. Everyone can click on the link I posted if they really care that much about the Alexander scouting report. The Tatis post was from Dennis Lim, who also writes for the San Diego Union Herald. I made sure it wasn't more than 35% of the entire article. It's just a REALLY REALLY long article, I didn't come close to posting the whole thing.

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2017/2/6/14259732/detroit-tigers-prospect-rankings-tyler-alexander-scouting-report From the Tigers' fan/team site...so obviously it's going to be most favorable to their own prospects. It's not a site that is going to generate any revenue at all, they're break-even at best, and most of those similar sites around the web are losing money and have all volunteer content writers trying to get experience and exposure for their work in order to get a paid gig. I just threw it up there very quickly because Balta asked and it was the first in-depth report I came across, and forgot to include the link. Okay, I'm not going to include any "previews" anymore to make it easier for readers, I'll just throw up the links and trust that people in this site can figure out how to click or not click on them. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/fair-use-rule-copyright-material-30100.html One argument on behalf of a site like SoxTalk is that it's solely for educational/informational purposes and not for profit/commercial application or subscription fees. Bless You Boys is not a site like The Athletic, for example...it's also for informational purposes, and exposing their writers/gaining experience and building their resume/CV. Honestly, I just copy and pasted it so quickly and wasn't paying attention because I was looking at my phone, Ipad and writing at the same time my wife was talking to me. You can go through the entire Covid-19 thread and you won't see an article without attribution or at least CNN or a connection to the news source somewhere in the article, for example.

Control pitcher without dominant stuff, inexperienced at the big league level. The White Sox have no business going down 3 1/2 games in the standings to the Tigers at near the 1/3rd post of this season. No excuse that Gio's going, or that Leury Garcia is out. We have all of our expected starters in the line-up, other than Madrigal (you can debate that one, vs. Leury/Mendick) and Engel over Mazara in RF.

There's no legitimate reason we can't be the 7/8 seed in the AL. If we're not there, with our favorable schedule (other than the Cubs, the Cardinals are going to have to go through Dante's Inferno in term of their August/September schedule playing in St. Louis of all hot/humid places in the world,) despite the injuries and Kopech opt-out, something has gone radically wrong. Especially if the Tigers were to make it ahead of the White Sox. There's just zero excuse for an organization that was supposed to be at least 2 years behind the White Sox trajectory.

Greg busting out the SAT vocabulary today...

Emphasizing your point to make sure everyone gets it? Good luck!

Ryan Goins has more than NINE lives with the White Sox...train your kids to be versatile Whit Merrifields/Ben Zobrists/Chone Figgins'es or left-handed throwing relievers, they will last in the big leagues until at least age 35, if not longer.

Billy Russo is angry at you for that. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2018/8/16/18387506/white-sox-translator-billy-russo-wears-many-hats

Go BISONS!!!

Really love McCann more and more. Interesting nothing so far out of Grandal, Abreu and EE. Anderson will certainly have something to say if he’s in the lineup and we lose four in a row.

Of course, ACC, Big 12 and SEC are in predominantly states won by ... ??? Even NCAAFB has turned just as political as mask wearing or anti-vaxxing conspiracy theories.

Stick a fork in it. The next big question is how long the NCAA BB season can push things back into January...we have to see what Oct/Nov brings first, in terms of the dreaded second wave of cold/flu season combined with Covid hospitalizations overwhelming health care systems. And WH will likely be in limbo, and no longer actively addressing until late January.

Yes, this too. And Erik Johnson, to boot.

Andrew Miller and Maybin were a lot better (career-wise) than the Sabathia/LaPorta multi-player deal, for example.

Probably should have added the caveat, modern baseball history. And the Ruth trade was almost purely a financial transaction...not about trading baseball talents for each other, orvtalent evaluation, as the Red Sox already knew what they had in him.

https://theathletic.com/1988018/2020/08/11/dallas-keuchel-calls-out-white-sox-teammates-as-slide-continues/?source=dailyemail Keuchel digressed a few times during his postgame Zoom session. He mentioned that Monday was “one of the first times” in an 8-9 start to the season that he felt like effort and execution were “subpar” across the roster, and that as someone who saw the Astros walk the path from rebuilding laughingstock to World Series champions, he knows the shift in standards is “something that happens on a young team.” But for the most part, he unleashed the kind of intolerance for inconsistency the White Sox front office said the team was excited to add in December. “If you love baseball, show up to the park every day and make sure that you’re ready to go,” Keuchel said. “We got in at 2:30 in the morning, we played a tough ballgame against the Indians. That’s who we’re going to have to beat if we’re going to win this division or we get into the playoffs. It just seemed like we were taking a night off. We can’t afford that with a young core that we have here. We’ve got to show up every day, and even if there’s no fans, we’ve got to make sure that we’re ready to go. And if we’re not ready to go, we’ve got to fake it until we make it.” That Keuchel even suggested that various members of the lineup were sleepwalking through one night in a 60-game season, let alone one where the Tigers pitching tandem Michael Fulmer and Daniel Norris bounced back from a rough start at Sox hitters’ expense, is a fair sight more critical than Renteria typically is of the club’s effort. This is a new tone for internal reactions to White Sox losses. Optimistically, Keuchel’s scorn reflects the sense of urgency necessary to make the leap to playoff contention in a compressed, 60-game format.

The only problem is the Carlos Sanchez one. Be it team joker or prankster or Gatorade dumper, you have to be one of the better players on the team to take on a leadership role...and Yermin will always be one of those AAAA guys who gets an occasional cup of coffee but never afforded a real opportunity to play nearly everyday, and part of it’s simply discrimination against his body frame/physical appearance.

We were being a bit hard on Abreu...when he hits it so hard, sometimes it just looks like an awkward swing and hardly ever graceful. He’s never been an aesthetically pleasing swing, like most lefties with longer swing paths.

He doesn't strike me as the type of guy who would actually enjoy being locked into 162+games of any one team, to be honest.

The acclaimed duo of play-by-play announcer Joe Davis and World Series champion A.J. Pierzynski cover all the action from the San Francisco Giants contest with the Los Angeles Dodgers, immediately prior at 4:00 PM ET. I could have sworn he was on a Twins’ broadcast this year, either radio or tv, but sometimes they have the ESPN or Fox National feeds instead of the local broadcasters on MLB.TV and then I switch to Gameday Audio to at least listen if the feed goes bad or sticks. As it stands, he already has that Fox gig as well as paid baseball ambassador with the White Sox (many former Sox players listed.) It’s also quite possible the White Sox were playing the Twins the same day I was channel surfing through all the feeds looking at different games. Maybe part of the problem is always playing devil’s advocate to get my HS students to think critically, so I end up taking minority positions quite frequently, then ask them to make the opposite argument which is much more difficult for “obedient” Chinese students who are almost programmed not to break uniformity, some would call it conformity, I guess.

Are you making fun of his height, lol?

We're all going to require a fix if this keeps up for another 7-10 days with no light at the end of the tunnel in sight.

Now Keuchel can't ever speak up, because..."he who is without sin may cast the first stone" is the argument? I mean, it's not like Dallas was a hitter, or orchestrated the scheme, or was a part of the front office braintrust that was always looking to exploit any little niche advantage. It's not like he was using a spitball, or nail file, or KY Jelly on the ball. If we're going to condemn him for the rest of his life and disallow him to speak his mind, then we never should have accquired him in the first place. We're not attempting to enter the gates of heaven, after all, we're simply looking for leadership that will finally GET us to the playoffs and maybe even use those past experiences to his benefit when such a situation eventually arises. Purity tests? Really? Maybe we should just recruit a bunch of baseballin' monks from the Sisters of the Poor in Kolkata, India...

Kippers for Breakfast Aunt Helga? @Imyellinganyway “Keuchel's comments after the game are so concerning, he's coming from two of the most forward-thinking organizations (cheating aside w/ the Astros) and its taken him like a month to see what a shitshow we're running here. Don't think this team can ever eclipse mediocre with Hahn.“ Points for creativity with those two monikers...especially the first. Kippers? Too funny. Sounds like ingredients for Ted Danson Celebrity Sandwich on Curb Your Enthusiasm.