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Palka would be on pace for exactly 30 homers if he got 625 at-bats...(horseshoes, hand grenades, etc.) Has Renteria been asked on the record about some of the ball/strike calls the last couple of weeks...and why he hasn't even gone out once to protest? Just a weird situation not to stick up for your players...

I'm going by the MLB.com tracker....MLB At-Bat. 1/4 of the ball had the strike zone according to that...

Moncada 86 k's / 245 PA's=35.1% For what it's worth, he's right at his career average now over 2016-2018, .233 over his entire career.

That was a strike, the first one was marginal...could have gone either way. Did Moncada sleep with one of the umpires' wives or girlfriends? Hard to figure out any other explanation for some of the calls he's gotten the last 10 days (across multiple home plate umps).

94,4 there might have been his best fastball of the season....93.4 and 93.5 his other two best FB's. ERA finally under 7 at 6.97

Hopefully Hermie has his "injury-free to the point of anomalous" karma back with this organization.

And Burger is still doing well after the second Achilles' tear, hopefully it's "taking"?? Any updates from his Twitter?

We have 2/5th’s of a starting rotation with Rodon and Lopez. Everything else is up the air. That said, you can’t go out and bring in the White Sox version of Jon Lester until you get a much better reading on Covey, Giolito, Stephens, Kopech, Dunning, Hansen and Cease first. The thing we have to remember is that with starters going shorter and shorter in terms of innings pitched/total pitches, their value in the marketplace will fall by 10-15%, especially for the non-marquee guys, the ones you fill in the last 3 spots in the rotation. With our budget, we’re looking for a solid 2/3 guy, what Floyd and Danks were before they were beset by injuries. Overpaying for an ace’s past performance usually backfires, especially in the FA market. Maybe the best acquisition of the offseason (so far) was Mike Mikolas out of complete obscurity in Japan. https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/cardinals-mikolas-learned-value-of-quick-outs-in-japan/article_87efa812-e076-5aae-b2a2-7a9ced3862ed.html What is he doing differently? Something seemingly quite simple, pitching to contact with two strikes (not unlike the Pirates’ philosophy of going to shifts, two seam sinkers/pitching to contact AND a renewed emphasis on pitch framing.

https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=ss&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=190&type=8&season=2018&month=0&season1=2018&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0 12/27 for Anderson at SS (qualified) Moncada is 9/25 but has slipped almost 200 OPS points since April 26th...if you believe he’s going to stay at a 728 OPS and never will be a 900 OPS player again based on his performance since coming back from injury, well the reality is he’s not as good as late April (at least not yet) and he’s not as bad as the last thee weeks, either. The midpoint between those two ranges is around 825. He’s also made two costly errors in the last week, and been the victim of some of the worst strike zone calls since the umpires’ union was organized. That said, other than the bomb against Minny the first game of the DH, he hasn’t been hitting much...or for power. He has also fallen from 1.6 fWAR all the way down to 1.2.

Reddy, you might want to pay attention to Kara Eastman (NE), who shocked the DCCC candidate in Brad Ashford https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrats-apos-divisions-haven-apos-100019407.html Not to mention Jerry McNerney and Carol Shea-Porter were candidates that Rahn Emmanuel only supported (begrudgingly) after they won seats in Congress, while all of his 2006 candidates were defeated. So that, I feel, is going to motivate people to go to the polls. What happened in 2006, the last big blue wave that-. What happened is that Rahm Emanuel was the head of the DCCC. He did everything he can, he could do, to disadvantage progressives. So you know, all over the country he would be backing these terrible conservative Wall Street candidates, and some of them were anti-gay, some of them were anti-choice, and they were all pro Wall Street. And some of them were pro-NRA. It was just a terrible lot of candidates. But he knew, he’s a smart guy. He knew that what would happen is people, there was a wave building, and people would just go and vote for his atrocious candidates. So first of all, in the primaries, some of his bad candidates lost, and the progressives won. He then would, he then cut ties with them and just gave up on those districts. However, many of those candidates won anyway. And some of them are still in Congress, like Jerry McNerney, for example, or Carol Shea Porter, another example of candidates that Rahm would help after they won against his terrible candidates in the primary. They’re still in Congress. But you know what happened to every single one of Rahm’s candidates, every one of them? Not one, not one, it doesn’t fit in with what I’m telling you. Not one of them is still in Congress, because the next time there was a primary, that’s when-. I’m sorry, the next time there was a midterm, the Repub the Democrats the progressive Democrats said I’m not voting for this guy you voted with Republicans all the time in Congress. He’s terrible. I got sold a bill of goods and they were defeated. That was in 2010. That was the next primary after 20 06. And people say, oh, look how badly the Democrats did. No. What happened is all of the candidates that Rahm snuck into Congress in this big wave, they were all defeated the next time Democrats could defeat them. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/candidate-survived-domestic-abuse_us_5af47e3ce4b0859d11d15299 Democratic candidate survived domestic abuse, only to have it used against her by Dem opponent But the relationship between the two (UC-Irvine) professors deteriorated over time. Porter told the Huffington Post in May that she believed Min was behind a whisper campaign against her, insinuating that elements of her 2013 divorce from an abusive husband rendered her unelectable. “Dave Min is making desperate, false and sexist attacks against Katie Porter in order to cover up his own record siding with corporate interests,” reads a message on her campaign website. Porter supporters also told the Huffington Post that things got tense at the California Democratic Party Convention in February when Min won the party’s endorsement by just one vote. Some Min supporters tried to intimidate Porter’s team from collecting enough signatures to force a second vote, they claimed. Min’s campaign manager responded that the campaign did not employ either rumors or intimidation to get ahead. ... Porter cried as she told me these stories in the basement conference room of a Marriott in Washington, D.C. It was mid-April 2018, and in a few hours, female Democratic senators and celebrities would descend on the hotel for the annual EMILY’s List gala. Porter was also being celebrated that night as part of the post-election wave of women candidates vying for office. A 44-year-old Harvard-educated consumer advocate, she was the first congressional candidate EMILY’s List endorsed for the 2018 cycle and has since landed the endorsements of Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.). ... Porter knew that millions of women would be able to relate to her story ― 1 in 3 American women are physically abused by an intimate partner in their lifetimes, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence ― but she also had little choice about coming forward. Her divorce and the protective order she obtained against her husband have become the subject of a whisper campaign in the competitive Democratic primary for California’s 45th Congressional District. Several delegates to the Orange County Democratic Party told Porter they’d heard rumors from a rival campaign that something in her divorce records might disqualify her in the general election. The last straw for Porter was when a man in Denver named Kevin Matthews whom she’d never met referred to her as “Katie ‘Restraining Order’ Porter” on Twitter. https://www.law.com/2018/06/06/bruising-primary-drives-wedge-between-u-c-irvine-law-prof-candidates/?slreturn=20180511031059 In the end, Porter defeated Min 20% to 17% to get into the runoff against Mimi Walters (has been a GOP Congressional district forever despite going Clinton over Trump this past election)

Unless you pick Prior over Mauer, or Aiken/Kolek over Rodon...

Oprah's HIGHLY UNLIKELY to run. I would say the chances are greater than zero but less than 3%. A LOT depends on what happens in the next 1 1/4 years, obviously. I don't think she would be very well accepted at all by the progressive side of the Democratic Party, likely leading to a 3 way/divided national ticket (which would pretty much ensure a Trump victory in 2020.) https://truthout.org/articles/henry-a-giroux-the-nightmare-of-neoliberal-fascism/The Nightmare of Neoliberal Fascism

Yeah, it was pretty EASY to completely forget about Delmonico after the start that he got off to...he will need at-bats as well. Palka would seem to have the advantage playing 81 home games at Guaranteed Rate Field.

A combination of Palka and Davidson at DH would be perfectly acceptable (future-wise). They're going to have to showcase Leury for a trade if he can get on a hot streak when he returns...Thompson and Tilson are definitely not going to stand in the way of anyone who needs playing time, including Engel/Cordell in there as well. Odds are we won't get what we want for Garcia and he's a perfect bench weapon for the Sox the next two years due to his positional versatility and base-running speed. If Skole wasn't already 28, you would even have to give him some more consideration. That said, nobody every would have predicted Jose Martinez would become a big-league regular in his late 20's (especially for a playoff contender).

Encouraged that Robert's at least making contact in the early going...the power will come, that's not going to be a problem with his frame and athleticism. So far, (considering the rust and abbreviated Extended Spring schedule) just 6 k's in 23 at-bats.

It should be more than the usual 10% this year...because Trump isn't going to be the only issue in play in the House and Senate races, and the electorate has become more and more polarized, with perhaps as much as 35-40% identifying as centrist/moderate/independent. The fascinating part will be watching which races are successfully nationalized (on the Dem side), which ones are successfully dialed down to mostly local/regional issues...

According to Chris Wilson at WPI Intelligence, Republican primary turnout was up 43 percent or more over 2014 in states like Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia. The president’s popularity has been rising overall but especially in these critical battleground states. In West Virginia, his approval rating was over 60 percent in 2017. That sounds more like a red wave than a blue one, especially for imperiled senators like Joe Manchin in West Virginia and Claire McCaskill in Missouri

At his age and injury history, do you really want to offer 2-3 more years to Soria? Doing that with Nate, even crazier. I do agree they should at least consider guys like Rondon and Cedeno. Rondon under control through 2020. You still have Burdi, Ian Hamilton, Vieira, Tyler Johnson....a gaggle between picks 11-15 this draft class like Bilious.

Soria will definitely be gone if he keeps this up. Rondon and Jones are 50/50 shots to be traded, and Avilan should be aggressively shopped, too. They still have Fry, Cedeno with one more arb. year and Bummer. No need for Andrew Miller at the overpay he will represent. http://www.espn.com/mlb/standings/_/sort/pointdifferential/dir/desc/group/overall White Sox much closer to Reds and Rangers than bottom 3 in the RS/RA differential category. But now technically tied for Pick #4 with Marlins. 7 more against Indians in next two weeks. CLE, Det, at CLE, at Oakland.

Down exactly 200 ops points since April 26, but how is Moncada supposed to hit with the strike zone imposed upon him recently today or by CB Bucknor?

Not even close on Moncada again. Great baserunning by Anderson, though.

Great play by Anderson there!

Great play by Anderson there!

Tilson looking clueless against Green Monster this series...

Exit velocity higher than 40 for Narvaez...yay?