Jose Abreu

Definitely irrelevant if OBP/OPS/wRC+/wOBA, whatever you want to use, is good. Joey Gallo, for example, has a career .822 OPS but a 38% strikeout rate. He is a valuable batter because of the good OPS.

Well let's hope he doesn't go 0-32

It's so nice to have Moncada in the lineup today after thinking we might be missing him for a week+ yesterday

Tim Anderson. easy

We win that game if TA and Moncada were still out there. The lineup is so much worse without them

If my kid did anything to taunt the opponent then I would have a similar reaction to you. Simply celebrating with his teammates is fine though, I'd even encourage it.

Yes

Where did you hear this? Awesome if true

I'm glad he did though. I've seen literally hundreds of tweets/posts saying "Tim Anderson is now my favorite baseball player" from both baseball fans and non-baseball fans because of it. The Sox need to market the hell out of him.

Today is, in my opinion, the best day for the White Sox in terms of positive, nationwide media coverage in years

This has been my exact experience online today

Exactly- in my thoughts that I linked here earlier I was trying to get at that by referring to "pitcher privilege". They can exploit defenseless hitters without facing any comparable consequences.

Tim is awesome. So glad that he's on our team. Quickly becoming one of my favorite players ever.

I have a lot of thoughts on today's events. It's way too much to rephrase or copy/paste, so I'll share the link: https://soxon35th.com/2019/04/17/tim-anderson-pitcher-privilege-and-unwritten-rules-baseball-must-change/

Exactly. There is no "right way" to play baseball, and fetishizing Victorian ideals of masculinity in a sport in 2019 is going to do nothing but decrease its popularity

No, he doesn't. If pitchers have a problem with him, they should maybe try getting him out

If it's revealed that Moncada doesn't actually have a concussion but rather is just out of sorts from the impact, would he still need to miss 7 days since he left the game?

I hope Tim walks it off today and moonwalks around the bases

Gameday says he was hit by a comebacker in the 2nd

Is it true that Giolito's injury was a result of being hit by a comebacker the inning prior?

I really hope that's what this means but I think you're giving them too much credit. Deep down I think he's still getting regular playing time for the rest of the month at least

I read somewhere that the Week 7 one might be wrong. Not that it really matters, since we'll find out tomorrow