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Except not started the whole national controversy in the first place. 1-3 since.

This was the game where the presence of Hamilton makes such a huge difference in the much more expansive CF...would definitely have prevented that third run from scoring. That’s the only way to beat Cole, keep it as low scoring as possible and best the Yankees’ pen somehow. Plus Anderson and Abreu and Vaughn are really scuffling...not to mention Grandal. Too much to overcome.

But those OPS numbers and BA’s for the last three or even four seasons...yikes.

Fangraphs has him at over -1 defensively. He’s okay in LF, but CF grades out like Kelenic...below average. And his arm strength doesn’t play well in the outfield, either.

You knew the bad vibes from this week were going to come into play...the big question is whether the team goes completely flat or actually gets up for beating LaRussa’s former team. Let’s hope this isn’t our peak and only week all season as the so-called best team in baseball. Just like the Dodgers are missing Bellinger/Seager, we just have to ride it out and hope the unprecedented financial flexibility can at least carry us over the Indians.

O’Neill or Cone just said they haven’t seen any CFer that shallow since Andruw Jones.

Can’t afford to surrender another run...and there it goes. Pretty sure Luis Robert has that. Garcia took a terrible route...that much is for sure. Way too shallow couldn’t get back...got sideways and the ball faded away.

Well, that’s probably the game right there...especially if Cole is getting those low strikes at 98-99 mph.

First sign of trouble so far. Can’t get that slider close enough to plate.

Vaughn or Lamb are obvious...Hamilton, Mendick, etc. Isn’t he still leading or close to leading in BA still?

Moncada not getting a good read...well, he’s gone anyway. What we need to do is just figure out how to go 2-3 the next five...because 1-4 and the whispers about not beating the better teams will start to grow louder. Not sure that the White Sox could survive the AL East gauntlet with their payroll and current lack of depth...not to mention lack of trade capital in the minors.

Best comp is the Eeovaldi deal...4 years, something like $70 million. Not sure JR is willing to hand out another Danks possibility if it goes awry.

He doesn’t want to get tossed because he believes fans actually come out just to watch the second (well, almost) most winningest manager in MLB history.

Almost 2? Vaughn almost overran that one...had to reach backwards a bit.

Yankees’ payroll=$201.5 million White Sox=$131.5 million Indians=$50 million

No hitter, walkoff, triple play...never has happened in just a three day span for any team in MLB history. Looks like the only Cardinals we’re missing are Mikolas in his season debut and Adam Wainright. At least we don’t get 24 hours of Waino/TLR puff coverage. Only 2 swing and misses on first 38 pitches. First time with two walks in an inning as well for Cole this season.

LaRussa thought it was a foul ball and actually came out of the dugout? Miracles never cease.

Opposite of Dunn deal where the first year historically horrific but then was pretty good in 2012...

Well, especially when you consider how many starting pitchers the Cubs have produced since Hendricks...

#84 Cease number related to meditation and yoga...that’s different. https://fansided.com/2021/05/05/dylan-cease-meditations-breakout-season-white-sox/ So not necessarily a Katz win...?

Well, that wasn’t very close. Makeup call.

Well, this might be a pretty quick game if Cease can match Cole somehow...

Worst BA in baseball but 25th best OBP for Grandal...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/20/opinions/white-sox-la-russa-yermin-mercedes-jennings/index.html White Sox manager’s alarmingly stupid move Even CNN is weighing in with opinion pieces. MLB executives should act against La Russa immediately, suspending and fining him heavily at a minimum. The White Sox have grounds to fire him because he clearly supported violence against one of his subordinates. As for Mercedes, thank goodness for players like him, who still see Major League Baseball as a dream worth achieving. I hope he swings at every 3-0 pitch for the rest of the year and hits a few of them into the stratosphere. I hope he becomes a huge star and can provide forever for himself and his family (he currently makes the league minimum salary of $570,500). And I hope Major League Baseball's executives continue their quest to keep the game fresh by standing up for its future -- players like Mercedes -- instead of protecting dumb vestiges of its past.

https://www.mlb.com/padres/video/check-out-tatis-jr-s-3-run-homer https://www.mlb.com/news/fernando-tatis-jr-hits-50th-career-homer 50th career homer Trout’s came on July 8th, 2013, at basically 21 years and 11 months old. Tatis’ at 22 years and almost five months. 266 career games for Trout to get there, 161 games for Tatis to do the same. Obviously missing almost two months with the back tweak at the end of 2019, 102 games to Covid-19 last year and 17 out of the first 45 games (Covid and shoulder) this year knocked him back a bit. https://www.milb.com/video/abrams-leaves-the-yard