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Probable for tomorrow according to CBS sports.3 down 1 to go. great baseball tonight and some clutch white sox stuff.
any word on robert?
Probable for tomorrow according to CBS sports.3 down 1 to go. great baseball tonight and some clutch white sox stuff.
any word on robert?
Well - you managed to circle the bases on me.
To claim predictability on any pitched ball - isn't necessarily bad - certainly leaves me speechless.
I do enjoy your takes - and if all I wanted to to is hear my own opinions - I wouldn't be here.
I enjoy your takes too, man. My favorite conversations are also about baseball theory/philosophy. Which is why I get into these talks. It's also why I get driven kind of crazy by people who seem to ignore the bigger picture.
This will be long, but it will be it for me on this. I promise. lol
I don't know if I completely understand what you mean with the bolded portion. I am not saying to do the same thing every time. Unless you're Wade Boggs, etc. and it's what makes you feel comfortable. It's also clear Anderson feels comfortable with zero restraints and swinging whenever. I think that's fine and I think having a few guys like that is a good thing. However, I think it's an absolute death sentence to have a bunch of guys going up ready to rip on the first pitch.
What is the upside in that? The downside is you never walk, ever, and you let pitchers get through your lineup with a microscopic pitch count quite often. Why would it make you a better hitter to have that approach? Pitchers are trying to get ahead. So, yes, the first pitch will often be a strike. However, that does not mean it's a good pitch to swing at. Scouting reports are insane these days. Pitcher's target your "cold" zones vs your "hot" zones. Every pitch has a plan. No one is just floating one over the plate 0-0 for the hell of it.
Theoretically, 0-0 why would I be swinging at anything that wasn't a total mistake and exactly where I want it? More pitches you see? The better your timing gets. AND... the chances of seeing a mistake increase. That's how most hitters at the highest levels think.
I don't see what would leave anyone "speechless" about the above. The White Sox had a batting average only .004 points behind the WS winning Nationals last year. But... the Nationals were #1 in OBP. #2? The WS runner up Astros. Clearly, there is something to seeing more pitches that you're not giving credit for. IMO
Dude...There is, was and always will be one sample size. Whatever the player does for the Sox/Bears/Bulls. What he did before becoming a White Sox got him the contract here, and now he has to live up to it. Fair or not. He's the highest paid player in our history and frankly that's sad.
As for his prior production, do me a favor: Go to your local office supply store, buy a bigass poster board. Go home with it. Pick a franchise, ANY franchise, doesn't have to be Sox...Hell, doesn't even have to be baseball. ANY F*CKING SPORTS FRANCHISE you want. Write down every free agent in that franchise's history on the poster board...Put it up on your wall...Then throw 10 darts on it...and when you hit at least 4 guys that produced worse than they had prior to their FA signing, tell me about how much I should give a sh*t about what Yasmani Grandal did for the Brewers, Dodgers or the Lehigh Valley Ironpigs...
Grandal isn't bad, but he was a bad signing the way this is turning out. I've said this to Mingo before and will reiterate: We're treating a guy that is just a piece like a centerpiece. That never turns out well. That isn't to say Yasmani Grandal is a bad player. I get that he brings...shall we say..."this and that" to the table. But he's not the guy. So beyond all the ball busting, it really does peeve me that we're throwing him into the heart of the order. He should not be there on this team.
I don't really care what Grandal vs. Realmuto is. Whatever it is, it's not there this season from what I've seen, if one is even inclined to believe it ever was. One of the best catchers in the league? Fuggedabout it. Look. Simple story. If it's bottom of the ninth, based loaded 2 outs game tied and you asked me "Grandal or McCann"...It's not even question for me. The fact that that is even possible to consider, much less STRONGLY consider, about our franchise's highest paid player...is frankly depressing. What a weird circumstance.
When a real star anchor type player goes up, you know it. You can actually hear it in the announcers. "Holy sh*t here comes Luis Robert...Good f*cking Lord this pitcher is f*cked royally' (paraphrased) When Grandal comes up to the plate, it literally is like Stone and Bennetti are two marketing interns selling a pet rock to their Advertising 101 professor. "He's got a great eye and is so good for the clubhouse and hoo boy what he does for our pitchers, and he's not afraid to take that walk....Annnnnd that's strike 3."
Move his ass down in the order please and thank you. No more of this heart of the order sh*t.
Love ya richi.
Yes?
2020 Chicago White Sox.
And what can I do for you?
We're changing our identity to "Playoff Baseball Team."
Let's see...That'll be $75 million and a year of .240 baseball at the 3 spot.
Fine...Deal.
I guess we are talking past each other some how.
If you never swing at the 1st pitch - and that is the book on you - what's the point of the pitcher straining himself to throw you an unhittable ball? You have to be respected on every pitch, or you start every AB down 0-1.
geezus is richi still going on point by point about yasmani and how great he really is? LMAO!Good morning boys.
richi richi richi...
I just skimmed that sh*t and God help me I'll never be a point to point guy so forget about it. If it makes you feel better, remember that every time I click submit on a post, I do so with full understanding that you think I'm an idiot and are flabbergasted at some of the things I say. I'm going to keep doing my do anyway. That should help you condense about 1/2 - 2/3 of your content towards me as it will eliminate the need for you to say so in various, shall we say, eloquent manners. Then we can get down to business...Just something to consider as you're throwing down with the keyboard.
As for Grandal? Grandal was sold to us through the media as the largest contract in Sox history. That's not a mistake. That was intentional. Just like you're peddling how baseball teams divulge to the smallest detail how they're going to approach a specific hitter/pitcher pitch by pitch, so too are there a set of stiffs in suits and ties spending their days on press releases and how they want a specific player addressed in the press to the fans. We all know what the Sox were trying to sell when we signed Grandal. That he was some big team-course-altering signing.
So no, I'm not gonna stop. He will be judged by the standard that our team set when we signed him...as would any large signing for any team. You can argue about pedantics about what qualifies as "highest paid player," but it would be wasting your time because I'm not gonna stop as I don't agree with you because the point of what I'm getting at is more than justified.
But I'll make you a deal, an honest to goodness offer: If you make a compelling enough case to the Chicago Tribune about how Yasmani Grandal didn't get the largest contract in White Sox history and get them to print a retraction, I'll never dog him again and forevermore refer to you as the Lord of Baseball Knowledge. As a matter of fact, I'll even buy his jersey and post a picture of myself holding a piece of paper that says "I love richi and I love Yasmani Grandal" on it.
Godspeed young soldier.
XOXOXOXO
Madrigal needs to get back because Mendick is settling in nicely.
Madrigal needs to get back because Mendick is settling in nicely.