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He’s 6’3 1/2” right now, Passan even rounds it up to 6’4” at least once in his article.

Because the player who signed and the player who emerged weeks later (after the trade) in Arizona were two entirely different players. It's why everyone in the world flipped out about how Keith Law ranked him in the Top 10 out of seemingly nowhere. It's because the word quickly got out around the scouting world. Everyone was talking about him, just like the baseball world is now fascinated with Luis Robert's immense potential as well.

Well, this is a HUGE issue for baseball, because Bellinger, Trout, Tatis and Betts are arguably the four best young players in baseball and all located within 108 miles of each on on the West Coast where weeknight games usually begin at 9/10 p.m. CST/EST.

This is very MUCH not true. He grew from 5'11 to 6'3 1/2" during that time, but still gained strength, running speed and velocity on his throws. If you look at that previous generation of SS's, the Ripkens, the Jeters/A-Rods/Nomars/Tejadas....to today, there's never been one (other than A-Rod, who we can't really accurately discuss due to the PEDs issue) player of that height who became MORE athletic. Almost always, shortstops need to be moved off the position usually to 3rd or 2nd base.

"The chaos centers Tatis Jr. Surrounded by his family, this is the one place where he doesn't have to be on -- where he's Bebo and not El Niño, the nickname baseball bestowed on him. The league recognizes Tatis as an anachronism: the marketable baseball player. Young, talented, handsome, bilingual, bursting with personality -- a unicorn. One of Tatis' agents, Dan Lozano of MVP Sports Group, has booked well over $1 billion in contracts representing Albert Pujols, Joey Votto, Manny Machado, Josh Donaldson and Jimmy Rollins. Never, he says, has he seen someone so ready-made for stardom, so simultaneously relatable and magnetic." Here's the answer to those who say he's TOO COCKY. Those same fans complain that Mike Trout is too "plain vanilla/aw shucks" and basically boring. Heck, Manfred called out Trout for not being marketable enough. Of course, it's the job of MLB to market their best players, not to expect them to change in a way that makes them more marketable. It's a double-edged sword for a game that's become increasingly regional.

They would make the same arguments though about our 3 young core players in Robert, Jimenez and Moncada. I'm not even 100% convinced he couldn't have played the entire second half, think 50% of it was tanking for draft position after they got buried in the playoff race. There was never an actual X-ray provided. He's obviously swinging the bat exactly the same as last season, maybe even more violently. Also had a badly injured thumb from sliding (just like Robert) at the minor league level in 2018. That said, anytime Moncada runs at full bore, Jimenez has a defensive play of any kind that forces him to move more than 15-20 feet and Robert is threatening to run into every single player other than the catcher...injury is one of the unfortunate words that can come to mind. FWIW, cocky also has been used to describe Moncada and Robert. That's a label that gets thrown out more often than not to describe minority athletes in most major sports. Like it's a bad thing that Tom Brady is the most confident player on any football field, but, that's just leadership/moxie/character, right? If you've watched him play more than a few times, though, cocky really isn't the best word to describe him.

Missing the swagger of Kopech on the mound also has had a huge impact. If he was pitching like a Wheeler right now for us and flashing TOR stuff, there wouldn't be so much concern. Now, with what amounts to a 3 year layoff, there's a legitimate debate that he might never return to previous form, for a number of reasons, both personal/psychological and physical.

Marcus Semien is halfway there. (Just kidding.) And yeah, you're right. I've maintained all along that the greatest risk was NOT non-performance or falling off like a Puig, but getting injured (last year, the back and leg muscle from stretching for a throw like Jean Claude Van Damme at second) because of the reckless abandon with which he plays the game, runs the bases, etc. In the Passan video, it leads off with a story from when he was just 8 and did a back flip off the roof of his house in the Dominican and fractured his leg on landing.

First player in MLB history to 30 homers and 20 stolen bases...100 games into his career. That's a startling one. Let it be said for the record that I didn't start this particular thread, and kept the Jeff Passan/ESPN Special Column and Video in the MLB Catch-All, because surely reading and watching that would be even more inciting/provocative, if that's the right word. That said, he's so good and so fun to watch, it's almost impossible not want to watch him as a fan of the sport of baseball....captured so well by Passan in both pieces.

And why would we expect ANY of those things to change? The ONLY way it happens is if one of his advisors convinces Trump that doing so is the key to winning re-election...that's just not happening, certainly not on a sustained basis. For today's purposes, Priority #1 involves going back and forth between utilizing the WHITE HOUSE or GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK as the setting for his RNC speech on the 27th of AUG.

And just think, that 2013 "malaise" was coming off a near playoff appearance in a season where they led the division a good percentage of the year until finishing something like 4-11 the last 15 games of the season and being overtaken by the Tigers. At least the general mood heading into 2013 was a positive one. Of course, little did we know Jeff Keppinger would be the first of many misfires. I made a joke in the gamethread about bringing in one of the Cuban National Baseball Team coaches, but it seems like they're close to needing to do something to shake things up. They get another 7-10 days with Tim Anderson back, but if they continue to stumble and it looks like they're blowing their playoff shot, then they seriously need to reassess whether these coaches and Rick Hahn are the right guys to make the final "finishing touch" moves to complete the rebuild. Neither Renteria nor Hahn has been an integral part of setting a winning culture while in charge of an entire organization as field manager or as GM...that's concerning enough. There was just no sense of it being a playoff type game last night. You could clearly see that the players were just not giving it their all, except for Keuchel, McCann, Engel, Mendick, maybe a couple more exceptions. Everyone looked like they were in a stupor, or sleep-walking around out there in slow motion. Even if you're the most talented team in baseball, you still need to push yourself to improve and treat each and every opponent with respect. Maybe the accolades provided by overwhelmingly positive early media coverage of the offense and guys like Robert, Moncada and Jimenez got to their heads a little bit, no idea. It has definitely seemed like our season completely fell off the rails when Jimenez fell over the wall into the netting and couldn't extricate himself quickly enough to prevent Yelich from scoring on an inside-the-parker. Something needs to change, and it has to happen in the next 2-3 weeks. We can't just wait around for Madrigal or even Tim Anderson to BRING that change from the bottom-up, it has to come from the top-down as well, in CONCERT.

I thought that was KyLe...

Says Dallas Keuchel... White Sox record, 8-9, three game losing streak CURRENT Playoff Odds (FG) 6. Astros 79.1 7. White Sox 65.2 8. Tigers 37.8 9. Red Sox 36.6 10. Angels 33.9 11. Blue Jays 24.3 12. Rangers 21.5 Interestingly enough, it was exactly 4 years and 3 months since the infamous May 10th Massacre in Texas, 13-11, when the White Sox were 23-10 and leading the ALCD. https://www.southsidesox.com/2016/8/20/12567556/fortunes-changed-one-crazy-night-in-arlington-sent-the-white-sox-and This thread is all about comments/leadership from teammates (like tonight from Dallas) setting expectations/tone for a winning, playoff baseball culture. So anything related to managers, coaches, JR, KW, RH, etc. Just want to kind of keep an eye on this and see how things turn out from this point onwards, especially with Tim Anderson also coming back to the team tomorrow. Normally, team meetings and "calling out teammates" doesn't work out that well, at least historically. Time will tell whether it lights a fire under them or not. Obviously, with all the injuries, it's not going to be an EASY road, but we're still, at least at this juncture of the season, in the driver's seat for one of the final two playoff spots in the field. Anything outside that would be mighty disappointing. With just 5 from each league, not making it would have been understandable. But that's no longer the case.

Capitan? He has three nicknames, El Canon, Mal Tiempo and Pito.

Georgia school district reports 826 students in quarantine since opening From CNN’s Jamiel Lynch and Jennifer Henderson The Cherokee County School District in Georgia reported Monday that 826 students are in quarantine due to possible exposure to Covid-19. The school returned to in-person learning on Aug. 3. According to a chart from the district, 42 staff members are in quarantine. Thirty-eight students and 12 staff members have been tested positive for the virus, according to the district's website. The district said it has approximately 42,500 students. Expert says children may be able to spread coronavirus like they spread the common cold From CNN Health’s Lauren Mascarenhas Children may be able to spread Covid-19 just as easily as they spread another type of coronavirus -- the common cold, said William Haseltine, a former professor at Harvard Medical School. “There’s every reason to suspect that this virus, even though it can kill you, behaves pretty much like a cold virus, in terms of transmission. Who drives colds? Children drive colds,” Haseltine told CNN’s Anderson Cooper Monday. “And that's true of almost all respiratory diseases, including the colds that are caused by coronaviruses. And this is one of those cousins,” he added. “It even uses the same receptor in the nasal passages as one of the cold viruses. It just happens to be a cold virus that also kills.” The President's claims that it is safe for every kid to go back to class are being challenged by a new report published by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association that found that more than 97,000 children tested positive for the coronavirus in the last two weeks of July. The study showed a 40% increase in child coronavirus cases in states and cities during those two weeks. While children are far less likely to suffer complications from the virus, some have died. And the report will fuel fears that children could make teachers sick, will carry the virus home from school and infect their parents and other relatives and that schools could turn into super spreader locations. Asked about the study, Trump again insisted that since most children didn't get seriously ill it was fine to open schools and without evidence said children do not transmit the virus to other people. "It's a tiny fraction of death, a tiny fraction and they get better quickly," Trump said in the White House Briefing Room.

A's and the Yankees look like the two best teams in the AL right now...

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Someone hasn't been paying attention to Dr. Fauci or CNN Town Hall meetings nearly every Thursday for months and months now...

It works for some teams, like Carlos Santana taking his walks for the Indians. But yeah, he has the biggest contract in Chicago White Sox history in order to be a plus hitting catcher and run producer.

Is this still the Chicago White Sox??? Great that it's not having to come from either Anderson, Abreu or Grandal. Instantly embracing more of a leadership role. Did seem completely lethargic/going through the motions....no fans doesn't help. I think it was just that huge letdown from getting amped up for Sunday Night ESPN baseball to going back "down to earth" and flying to DET. White Sox seemingly expect to beat big league teams just by showing up and turning in that line-up card. Doesn't work that way.

Meanwhile, the Dodgers just keep coming up with stud after stud to insert into that rotation. Embarassment of riches.

And it was ruled an error? That will surely be overturned in NYC on appeal/review.

What happened? I gave up watching...after Engel whiffed in center.

And Cooper has a lifetime contract as "clubhouse spy."

Good teams just can't be THAT fragile mentally.