One good thing about tonight: Jose Abreu had 3 hits, 2 doubles.

Wonder if a line-up of Uribe, Thompson in CF and Napoli/Byrd/Trumbo/Desmond/Fowler would be doing much better?

 

Hard to say.

 

I looked up Trayce's stats tonight, and he has the exact same OPS this year as he had with the White Sox last season.

 

 

We can't say it's all bad in terms of hitters we've brought it since 2006, because you still have Thome, you've got Carlos Quentin, Alexei Ramirez, Jose Abreu and hopefully Tim Anderson. Adam Eaton has become one of the best players in the entire AL, if not MLB.

 

You look around these days and you see lots of players w/ White Sox roots. Eduardo Escobar and Paulo Orlando in the same game. Gimenez and Stewart were catchers who came out of our system, along with Josh Phegley. Chris Carter, Trayce Thompson and Marcus Semien are really holding their own this season. Chris Devenski had a good stretch of starts with the Astros. Daniel Hudson's rebounded from yet another injury to become a dominant set-up man.

 

 

It's not ALL bleak, but when it comes to the big moves like Swisher, like Dunn, like LaRoche, we've had far more hits than misses. Gordon Beckham and Dayan Viciedo come to mind instantly as well. It's just a confluence of different factors, bad luck, scouting, development.

 

Sometimes you wonder if Don Cooper having so much influence (and tenure) in the organization hasn't led to a self-fulfilling prophecy where more of our resources are being allocated to pitching (certainly the case in 2006) and not enough to balance it out with the offense. More money going into players like Sale, Rodon, Danks, Fulmer, etc., you expect to see some results.

 

Well Thompson might be for real but Frazier has probably been our best hitter, fills a big need at 3B, and there's no one in our system who projects to take over at 3B anytime soon. I still think it was a great trade. Thompson might be getting good pitching matchups which could influence his stats some because he doesn't play every day.

Need to win today.