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Looking at Legend stats gets me all fired up. Leury Garcia has started 8 games at shortstop this season, lets analyze them! (summary below) Here are a couple of fun stats I have been looking at: Basically RE24 tells you how much a player costs during the game, and aLI determines high leverage spots. Is it accurate? No idea, but it seems to check out when you analyze the games separately. We start our Leury journey on April 8th, a game where we lost to the Tigers 5-4. Leury Legend, hitting 6th and protecting Eloy Jimenez (sidenote, Vaughn was hitting 8th this game), went 0-4 with a strikeout. His RE24 was -0.9, which means his performance practically cost us a run. His aLI was 0.63, medium pressure. In his 4 atbats he saw 13 pitches. Not a good performance by Legend here, but its easy to forget with the bullpen implosion. On April 9th, the Sox came back and won. Leury put up another 0-4 with a strikeout. In his 4 atbats he saw 10 pitches (only 6 for strikes). His RE24 was -0.5, while his aLI was 0.31. Not the highest of leverage for him, which is exactly where we all want him. On the defensive side Leury committed an error that ended up costing us 2 runs. Not a good day for Leury. On May 17th, we fell to the Royals 1-2. This is a game where you can look right at Leury and say that he cost us pretty big. His RE24 was -0.8 and his aLI was 1.41. Very high leverage here, and with him costing us .8 runs it hurts knowing his role in this game likely cost us a W. He went 0-3 with a strikeout, and only saw 7 pitches this game. Yes, 7 pitches. Why was this a high leverage game for him? In the top of the 5th he had Vaughn on first with no outs, and did his typical Leury grounder. He also led off a big offensive top of the 8th inning for the Sox with a quick out. We had plenty of baserunners after his 1 out, and couldnt score. On May 22nd, we beat the Yankees 3-1. This was one of the lineups that broke Soxtalk as Leury was slotted in the 2 spot. He went 0-4 with a strikeout on 21 pitches. His RE24 was -1.1 while his aLI was 1.00, pretty costly even in the win. He left men on 2nd and 3rd in the third inning, On June 2nd, we lost to the Blue Jays 8-3. The score was not indicative to how close of a game this was, as poor bullpen management cost 4 runs in the 8th. Leury was our leadoff hitter on this night, and he went 2-4 with a couple of singles on 13 pitches! Go Leury! His RE24 was a positive net of 0.1 and his aLI was 0.85. He did ok here. On June 25th, we again lost due typical TLR bullpen management to the Orioles. Leury had a decent day at the plate again, he went 1-3 with a WALK and saw 10 pitches. His RE24 was 0 and his aLI was 0.67. He did commit a costly error that allowed the Orioles to score. Not good! On July 10th, we beat the Tigers 4-2. Leury once again had a couple of hits! He went 2-4, however his RE24 was -0.2 and his aLI was 1.04. This was a high leverage game for Leury. With 2 men on in the bottom of the 8th, and the score being 4-2, Leury hit a groundout to end the inning. On July 23rd, with TA being too exhausted from the Allstar weekend, Leury had to sub in and had his costliest game against the Guardians. It was a losing effort. His RE24 was -1.0 and his aLI was a 1.60. Very high leverage spots for the Legend. He went 0-3 with a sac bunt. He had 2 opportunities with men on base and delivered 2 outs instead. Bonus game on June 22nd, Adam Hasley ends Mendick's season by not knowing how to call for a baseball. In comes Leury Garcia to save the day, except he didnt. 0-4 on 14 pitches. His RE24 was a -1.9, and his aLI was -0.79. 2 full runs! Leury came up in big spots during this losing effort and likely cost the game. 6 LOB, which includes leaving the bases loaded in the bottom of the 8th. ---------- Summary: To sum up this experiment, Leury should never play shortstop (or any position). 5 singles in 8 games, 2 costly errors, 34 atbats (while starting) of pure misery at shortstop. This is why it is so important to have Tim Anderson in the lineup, even if hes "tired" or "sore". Leury Garcia's total RE24 was -6.3. That doesn't even account for the runs that scored from his miscues. In just the 9 games above, Leury Garcia possibly cost this team 6-8 runs. Tim Anderson needs to play whether his tummy hurts, his legs are sore, or hes just tired. Not doing so is costing this team big as there are no replacements that can even come close to a 70% TA. Leury playing at all is like playing at a 1 run handicap. Abreu plays every single game. He refuses to sit. Anderson needs to do the same for this club to claw its way back in the division. Leury Garcia is killing this ballclub. You could argue his -0.8 WAR doesn't even paint how bad of a baseball player he has been. I am looking at his 2B games as well and they are littered with -1 RE24 games. A real shitstain on this team, and I can't believe he was Hahn's answer. Mendick played so well in TA's absence, I will never forgive Hasely for that as Mendick would have been a real solution at 2B, and we could be 2 or 3 games better for it.

Kwan owns us

what a swing, Gimenez is going to kill us for years

guardians contact is really impressive, we cant strike them out

TONY LARUSSA IS DABBING ALL OVER YOU NINCOMPOOPS

LEURY GARCIA SHUTS UP THE HATERS ON SOXTALK

its infuriating, the Braves of last year didnt sit anyone ever.

twins up 3 already

this is also on the players. Abreu doesnt rest probably because he throws a fit when TLR even brings up the idea. Vaughn and TA need to do the same damn thing. I went and looked at games Leury started at SS, 35ish atbats, 2 hits. How many wins is it costing us to have players like TA sit for Leury? Our best players need to step up and be leaders damnit.

Winning is all that matters now, its almost August. All of this "hey this guy looked good for once" bs is at its limit.

Finally

Reminder: this is a championship roster according to Hahn

its mind boggling how bad of a job he has done over the last few years. Could it have been better with a different owner? Sure.. but when you get outclassed consistently by organizations with much lower payrolls you have to look at how the money is getting spent.

game over with Clase coming

they wouldnt have even tried with an average fielder out there

GET A REAL FUCKING RF OUT THERE

this is why ill never consider TA a leader for this team. How many leaders would be ok with sitting in pivotal games? Abreu is out there every single game grinding.

typical sox luck

Heres the worthless Pollock

why dont they pinch hit TA for Leury right here.. so frustrating

how do you overturn that?

Hahn: Sheets is coming around

LOL

Heres sheets in another big spot

GUARDIANS PULLING A WHITE SOX