Jose Abreu

A win tomorrow would put us 1 game under .500 heading into an off day ahead of another series against the struggling Blue Jays. Let's do it

Basically the increase in home run rate negated the increase in strikeout rate.

Just don't stop saying it, because I feel like every time you do, he goes off the next day. If only the same thing worked for you with Madrigal though, haha

Admit it @fathom, when it got to 2 strikes you had "Give Moncada a day of rest" typed out!

And when healthy last year (which admittedly was very rare), the Bulls were better than the 7 and 8 seeds

Probably one of those lazy articles they put out for clicks. Anderson, Moncada, and arguably McCann/Giolito have been more valuable this year

A lot of it will probably be auctioned for charity, but not sure what they do with the rest

Even if that's the case, then I'm still not sure why his BABIP and HR rates are what they are, and I still don't understand the accusation of me making things up when I was only using his parameters, but whatever.

I gave him a 25% K-rate because that was the parameter you set with your first post. I do agree that his K-rate this year might be a little higher than that. Either way, I still am not sure of what you have accused me of making up, unless it was the K-rate, which was set by you.

Fry's best moments last year were in the middle of the season IIRC. Either way, while shaky, he has been starting to look better lately. Having 2019 Bummer and 2018 Fry would be huge.

My numbers were based on Moncada's performance with the White Sox. I'm not sure what I could have made up, or why it's hilariously sad. I know your schtick is that you're the only human being in history to never be wrong about anything, but to quote you after you presented erroneous calculations: You were wrong, it's ok.

Yes, therefore the calculations I posted are correct. Thanks for playing.

The game is over.

A home run is not a ball in play, therefore it does affect his BA.

Using his career .345 BABIP, take a 25% K-rate and the average goes to .25875. Using his home run rate of .0305, which is probably a little low relative to where it will be for the rest of his career, over a 704 PA sample, the average goes to .280.

This is incorrect because you're using his entire Sox career, meaning you're not accounting for an increase in home run rate, and you also lowered his BABIP by 5 points.

Mathematically, it is.

If his K-rate is 25% and his home run output/BABIP remain near his career levels, then he will hit pretty close to .300

The month of May has been like 10 games, so if we're pretending that such small samples matter, then he had reached base 5 times in 10 plate appearances entering today. Hot streak!

Again, I have no clue how one bad game = major funk. He was on a hot streak entering today for crying out loud

Exactly. His xStats suggest he is due for positive regression too.

You keep repeating this yet conveniently ignore that he has been really good these past two series. Just because someone has one bad game doesn't mean that he needs a day off. He reached base 3x yesterday and 2x the day before.

Either Cordell "struck out" with 2 strikes or Benetti/Stone just missed that he was called for interference

Agreed. McCann was a very smart and amazing signing by Hahn

Great defense all around there by Sanchez, Abreu, and McCann. Beautiful play