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Robert seems to be standing 2-3 inches closer to the plate to cover the outside slider/offspeed stuff. Continuing to struggle with sliders and curves, but hard to be angry about anything after putting up 4 there.

Abreu exit velocity of almost 105 MPH. 30th career double against DET, most against any team in MLB. Hmmm....not sure what Grandal could have done there, miscommunication with Nick Capra about going on contact? SIGH. Can we have one CLEAN inning where we do EVERYTHING right for once? Well, that's pretty much the definition of doing something right. BLUDGEONING this pitcher. You could see it coming after everything the last 24 hours.

There we go. You can see a renewed seriousness/intention so far in these at-bats tonight, other than Moncada's struggles (again) with LHP.

Abreu 6/11 against Alexander career-wise.

Here we go again with RISP. Let's see if we can actually come up with a clutch hit in the early innings tonight for a change during this 1-5 slide...

Fine, I'm done with posting anything with a link around here. Done with the Covid-19 thread too. People in America simply don't listen to logic/science, so it's pointless to waste time anymore.

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.