Jose Abreu

Thanks for this. I know it's a weird season but I feel like a lot of guesses I've seen are way overshooting the amount of wins the best teams will have

I get it, especially the Royals part, but FWIW, Berrios allowed 18 runs in 34 innings (4.76 R/G) against the Sox last year, while Giolito allowed 9 in 25 against the Twins (3.24 R/G), and 7 of those 9 runs came in 1 start. To be fair, 7 of Berrios' 18 runs were unearned, but nevertheless, we've at least put up a fight against him, whereas Giolito owned Minnesota aside from 1 bad start.

But the Twins should be, who are on the road, and facing an even better pitcher who happened to shut them out in his penultimate start against them?

While I am "going back" (online) for the year, some of my friends are not because they don't think it's worthwhile to pay tens of thousands of dollars for online education. To them, sitting around and making little to no money is a better option to paying money to (in their view) not really get what you're paying for. Personally, I'm going into my senior year so I just want to get it over with. But if I were a rising freshman or sophomore, I would definitely look into trying to find some sort of job/extended internship and taking a year off from school.

That would be 5.42 runs per game. I'm really high on the offense, but only the Yankees, Twins, Astros, Red Sox, and Dodgers eclipsed that mark last year. League average of 4.83. I'll take the under but it won't be too far away IMO

I really like how TA has looked defensively this month

I read a great thread on the topic that I don't think was shared:

I have an issue with the money being categorized as a "loss". It was expected revenue that he didn't earn, sure, but it's not as if MLB/NBA owners are guaranteed an annual profit. Everyone loves to bring up how risky investing in a sports team is; well, here's one of the rare examples of actual risk playing out.

I do remember he had a great outing against the Padres right before Spring Training got nixed. But then again, it's Spring Training

Word on the street is expanded AFL, but I'm skeptical that they can pull that off

Grandal's framing that inning was exceptional. He stole like 4 strikes in a 6 pitch span.

I still find it so funny/weird that the Not Cishek account popped up and exclusively tweeted White Sox news a month before the real Cishek even signed with us

Day-to-day with a sore back

Anything to the left of full-blown fascism is communism these days.

I wrote a much more detailed explanation in December, but I'd argue that the defensive concerns are overblown. Our only bad defenders are at the least important positions (1B, LF, RF). Tim Anderson is the key, like you said, but I'd hesitate to lump him in as "bad" since he was good in 2016 and 2018, and looks really smooth so far. Either way, the plus defense at premium positions in CF, C (huge upgrade there), 3B/2B, and ideally SS is more than enough to outweigh poor defense at 1B/LF and, to an extent, RF (although Mazara isn't that bad) IMO.

I don't get this trend. The only way I see the Sox being "really bad" (which, to me, is <25 wins) is if there are a ton of injuries/covid cases. Even if the young guys struggle, this is still a mediocre team at worst, when healthy

Man, Guerrero is getting pummeled

Do you think it was intentional? I thought he just flat out missed it

I think part of that is also that the grades on Robert's defense are way too low. Nothing against Franco, but having watched Robert's defense for years now, I don't get how anyone can think he's an average/typical defender. Yet, his scouting grades are typically uninspiring

Not to mention, if he's really *that* rusty, this lineup is so stacked that you could just shift him from 2 to like 7/8 and let him ramp up. Like you said, his worst days would still be the same or better than the best of Cuthbert types

Moncada also just posted "I'll be back soon" on Instagram

It has definitely set us back a few decades in terms of political progress.

I love how his MLB ERA is always used as some knock against him as if he didn't have a 0.82 ERA before his final start where he was visibly injured (my overall point being that ERA, or any stat, over such a small sample is meaningless)

Full recap with game log and video highlights: https://www.soxon35th.com/2020/07/13/results-from-mondays-white-sox-intrasquad-scrimmage/

I'm already having nightmares of us trying (and failing) to bunt runners over from 2nd to 3rd in extra innings. Or even worse, doing it successfully and then striking out. Seems inevitable