Jose Abreu

Quite the inning

One of the few bright spots of our season at the Major League level has been Tim Anderson. Coming off what was a rough 2017 for him in many ways, he has made huge strides defensively, increased his walk rate, decreased his strikeout rate, become more of a stolen base threat, more of a menace on the bases, more of a home run threat, and still has a very low BABIP (.276, was .328 last year) which suggests better looking offensive numbers by the end of the season. Defensively, he still botches a routine play here and there, but he also makes rangey, flashy plays and has gotten better as the season has progressed. It's been fun to watch him grow and I'm confident we have our shortstop of the future. That said, looking at where he was at the end of last season, it would probably have been considered a surprise to learn that he has likely been our most valuable player through 75 games. While he still has room for improvement, it is clear that he has begun to iron out irritating mistakes and has become a more complete hitter offensively. I'm sure more improvements will come. Watching him improve has given me more faith in improvements from Moncada, and even in the rebuild as a whole. Yoan is similar to Anderson in the sense that he's young, uber talented, and sometimes frustrating to watch. But seeing Anderson slowly but surely put his main concerns to rest with time has made me feel a lot better about Moncada doing the same, perhaps to an even greater extent.

Wasn't able to watch this game but glad that Giolito did well and Anderson finally got a little luck to go his way with the way he's been killing the ball this year. Anyone know why our wise manager went with Volstad with the bases loaded in the 8th rather than... literally any other reliever?

In his 6 ABs today, Moncada has hit the ball hard 6 times and struck out 0 times.

And what if Madrigal is worse than Anderson/Moncada?

Eduardo Escobar? Yolmer Sanchez? Gio Gonzalez?

Is that the scorer's name? Is it possible to contact him like you can for NBA scoring?

I'll agree on Yoan but Tim has been really unlucky at the plate with good defense this year overall

I thought it should've been ruled a hit. Really tough play to make

Another good AB for Moncada. 104 MPH EV

Ugly game man

Apple commercials are so bad

Nice inning for Shields

Good to see Yoan swing at a first pitch fastball. Hit it well too but right at the CF

Thank god Abreu

Yikes

Tim is so unlucky... consistently hitting balls 390+ feet and 97+ MPH but getting caught for outs this month

My point is that win-now moves like that are dumb and detrimental to his development. How will he improve as a RHH if we don't give him ample opportunity to?

It's just because it's a LHP. Also he had a good series in Cleveland IMO

I agree that we need to maximize his PAs as a right hander hitter in order to help him improve. Hitting him 6th/7th is a win-now move.

He's statistically having one of the worst offensive seasons in the history of baseball for a full time player.

Who are those guys?

I'd flip Moncada and Davidson's positions.

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