Sox Fan In Husker Land

I'm not sure I see the logic of not playing Grandal against LHP. He's got a .269/.400/.500, 145 wRC+ line this year against LHP. Granted it's only 35 PAs. This would be my lineup Vs. LHP if Eloy is capable of playing LF, 1. TA SS .458/.509/1.021, 1.530OPS, 307 wRC+, 53 PA 2. Grandal DH .269/.400/.500, .900 OPS, 145wRC+, 35 PA 3. Abreu 1B .255/.309/.569, .878 OPS, 135wRC+, 55 PA 4. Eloy LF .289/.304/.556, .860 OPS, 132 wRC+ , 46 PA 5. McCann C .429/.528/.714 1.242 OPS, 236wRC+ 36 PA 6. Moncada 3B .229/.364/.343, .706 OPS, 105wRC+, 44 PA 7. Robert CF .262/.347/.452, .799 OPS, 120 wRC+, 49 PA 8. Engel RF .313/.353/.438, .790 OPS, 121 wRC+, 34 PA 9. Madrigal 2B .238/.238/.238, .476 OPS, 29 wRC+, 21 PA Bench Leury .500/.500/.875, 1.375 OPS, 281 wRC+, 8 PA Encarnacion .125/.263/.438, .701 OPS, 90 wRC+, 39 PA Mazara .286/.348/.333, .681 OPS, 95 wRC+, 23 PA

I love the lineup we have now, but those 90s Indians teams were very good. C - Alomar Jr 1B - Sorrento/Franco/Thome 2B - Baerga/Alomar/Tony Fernandez SS - Vizquel 3B - Thome/Matt Williams/Fryman LF - Belle/Giles CF - Lofton/Grissom RF - Manny DH - Murray/Justice

That Luis Robert is some kind of something

https://twitter.com/jimcallisMLB/status/1274114571326849026

If MLB wants to show they actually take this cheating as a team seriously, they should take away Houston’s 2020-2023 1st through 5th round picks in the MLB draft and the pool $ that comes with it. They should also ban them from International Signings for 4 years. MLB needs to come down extremely hard on them, or you just encourage others to do the same.

0 today. They were all ground ball singles, and one bunt single.

Yermin Mercedes SF to score Madrigal and tie it up.

Madrigal at 3rd. Palka at 1st. Yermin up with 1 out. Down 1. T9.

Madrigal goes 5/5. Average up to .331 at AAA

Vaughn with a 2B, now 2/4.

Pilkington 3 IP 3 K 3 H 0 BB 0 R for today. Finishes season with a 4.12 ERA across 129 IP in A/A+. 1.27 WHIP. 9.63 K/9, 3.48 BB/9. FIP around 3.50.

Madrigal at AA/AAA this season (not including tonight) 65 G, 287 PA, .329/.394/.438, .832 OPS, 135 wRC+, 9.1 BB%, 3.5 K%, .336 BABIP, 51 R (that would be on pace for 127 over 162 games), 26 RBI, 18 SB, 8 CS, 16 2Bs, 3 3Bs, 2 HR. 26 BB. 10 K.

Gavin Sheets has certainly turned it around at AA. In his last 75 games 314 PA, (not including tonight) he's at .298/.376/.502, .878 OPS, 155 wRC+, .322 BABIP, 13 HR, 15 2B, 33 BB, 51 K, 10.5% BB%, 16.2% K%. Also, Collins since demotion (not including tonight): 32 G, 136 PA, .351/.456/.685, 1.141 OPS, 185 wRC+, .370 BABIP, 9 HR, 10 2B, 31 RBI, 22 R, 21 BB (15.4%), 21 K (16.9%). Love the K rate going down, down, down.

Collins with a BB off LHP. Now at .294 AVG. and .975 OPS.

Vaughn HR

Robert 2 run HR. That is his 28th of the season. 12th at AAA.

Collins AAA stats/splits Prior to being called up to MLB 50 G, 206 PA, .250/.374/.482, .855 OPS, .337 BABIP, 115 wRC+, 9 HR, 9 2B, 17.5 BB%, 32.0% K%, After demotion (including today's # except wRC+ which will go up after today) 24 G, 107 PA, .364/.458/.693, 1.151 OPS, .391 BABIP, 181 wRC+, 7 HR, 8 2B, 14.02 BB%, 17.76 K%. Look at his K% since being demoted. It has never been this good in his entire time in the Sox organization. The wRC+ doesn't include today's game. Date K% BB% wRC+ BABIP AVG OB% SLG% OPS Jul-16 31.4% 11.8% 129 0.308 0.244 0.333 0.489 0.822 Aug/Sept-16 26.5% 23.9% 142 0.340 0.244 0.425 0.407 0.832 Apr-17 26.7% 22.1% 122 0.286 0.212 0.384 0.379 0.763 May-17 23.4% 20.6% 158 0.283 0.244 0.411 0.500 0.911 Jun-17 33.7% 15.4% 80 0.240 0.170 0.298 0.318 0.616 Jul-17 33.3% 9.9% 111 0.256 0.214 0.291 0.471 0.762 Aug/Sept-17 20.4% 23.7% 198 0.348 0.290 0.462 0.580 1.042 Apr-18 29.8% 22.6% 126 0.297 0.206 0.393 0.365 0.758 May-18 23.8% 27.0% 201 0.426 0.322 0.508 0.540 1.048 Jun-18 34.3% 15.2% 110 0.362 0.238 0.347 0.400 0.747 Jul-18 30.5% 17.8% 115 0.304 0.211 0.359 0.368 0.727 Aug/Sept-18 31.5% 12.0% 78 0.259 0.194 0.287 0.344 0.631 Apr-19 31.4% 16.3% 143 0.333 0.275 0.384 0.623 1.007 May-19 32.3% 21.5% 91 0.286 0.204 0.369 0.367 0.736 Jun-19 32.7% 14.5% 97 0.393 0.261 0.364 0.391 0.755 Promotion/Demotion Jul-19 17.0% 15.1% 147 0.429 0.349 0.453 0.488 0.941 Aug-19 18.5% 13.0% 216 0.345 0.378 0.463 0.889 1.352

Collins another HR. Off a lefty to boot. https://twitter.com/CaballerosdeCLT/status/1162448126143291400

Collins since demotion: 22 G 99 PA .350/.455/.638. 1.092 OPS. 175 wRC+. 15.2 BB%. 18.2 K%. .390 BABIP.