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Should I assume this is sarcasm too, because I am assuming it's just a terrible take but whenever that happens you cry sarcasm so I want to check in. Entering the day the White Sox had the 5th highest OPS in baseball.

Last year, on May 23rd the best offense in baseball faced one of the worst teams in baseball and one of the worst starting pitchers in all of baseball from the year prior. They were held to four hits and were struck out 9 times by that starter while walking 0. The team was the Houston Astros and the starter was Lucas Giolito. There is no point in changing how you view this team or their offense because of the results through 6 games because the 6 games mean very little.

Adam Engle has had the two best at bats of the night; i'm dead.

Giolito lives up in the zone so him not going down isn't shocking; his changeup has caught a couple strikes at the extended bottom. He has gotten the same inside part of the plate expansion consistently for the most part.

Because he had three weeks to get ready for a season?

196 times I believe he said, but could be wrong. Regardless, it happens. Quite often in fact lol. You proclaimed it was their career highs as if it was some crazy performance; reality is, neither guy has made even 30 starts in their career.

Are you watching the same game I am? Pitching is dominating for both teams with a bigger zone. Sox need to stop chasing balls - imagine a little bit of pressing. Someone needs to relieve the pressure from the balloon.

Fact is, umpire has a big zone away and low. Plesac has lived there. Sox haven't laid off and have been forced to chase things slightly off. A recipe for good pitching performances... as we are seeing.

When Grandal goes bad he goes really bad; it's been the story of his career.

LOL at career high. This was Zack Plesac's 12th career start and Civales 22nd? I believe. So yes, it's been their "career highs" in less than 2/3 of a regular season.

Good teams simply have more opportunities to drive in runs because they get more people on base and have a higher team OBP and OPS'.

They had a man on second base and hit a ball 105 and 108. What do you think the expected outcome in that scenario is 0 runs? Yesterday they left 10000 runs on base. Do you think driving in runs is a skill and not luck?

It's almost like luck and sequencing can really influence small samples in baseball.

Lol he was 4 for 9 yesterday.

It's been weird that the Indians have attacked Tim with off speed stuff away. He killed that last year and has hit it this year. Whats even more odd is how bad he looked on it there.

Why do so many think swinging at first pitch is a bad AB? He got a pitch up, and he was late. He was clearly looking for it. Shit happens.

That was so dumb even though it wasn't an out. My God leury.

What I find odd and it's an observation I've seen in many righties; why does a right handed starter with a big curve and ++ fastball start to lose the effectiveness of that off-speed pitch as his change up becomes better? I've seen this in so many fB/CB or slider guys who develop a + change.

But the Sox don't walk... hard to walk when ball four has been missed about 5 times already this year.

They also have a top 5 OPS despite facing pretty good pitching, and despite playing a guy with a wRC+ of 1 every game.

I wrote a little something small about Lambert in a random blog piece today and he went on the IL like 3 minutes later. I'm sorry Jimmy, I mushed you: https://www.ecopolibbling.com/post/five-games-is-still-just-five-games " While I am a fan of their arm talent, they (being Lambert and Dunning) are both coming off Tommy John surgery and neither one has thrown 100 innings at AA combined. Lambert’s repertoire plays really well in the modern MLB game – he lives up in the zone with a + fastball that doesn’t have elite spin (2205 RPM) but has enough deception and velocity to get swinging strikes (17% Whiff Rate), and pairs it with an average to average+ curve ball that he keeps down, mostly away, in the zone and a change up that he has done a nice job keeping away from righties."

I was surprised we didn't see more arms opt out honestly.

Yeah, awful. This blows. Hope it's the one out of 100 shot that it's just barking a bit because he was throwing more often.

forearm strain is bad.