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Good, 'cause nobody was saying otherwise. But, you do realize, a 162 game season is really long, so those 162 game extrapolations mean there is no room for even a backup player in whichever batting slot the player resides. If you had 9 players with 75-run extrapolations, playing them would give you a season total of 675 runs, which would be, um, not actually good. (League average last year was 720.) 75 runs is good in a normal context, because the normal season for a player is below 162 games, but that's not what the 162-game extrapolation found on b-r.com is telling you. A full team performing at a level Keaschall has shown so far would be challenged to get out of last place in their division. There's hope, especially given his youth, that he shows more than so far. Thus the article, which you and I are both responding to.

Tough call (😀, for the humor impaired ) but I'll take Carew over Wallner. And if you mean Gallo, I was never a fan, though I'm not sure what the slur after his name is meant to inspire. I didn't bring up any of these players and I'm not responding to further strawman arguments. This article is about Keaschall and why adding some power could benefit him and thus the team. If he turns out no better than 66-run Arraez, I guess he still has a place on the team, but he'll always be looking over his shoulder.

Gallo hit 200+ homers and the $38M that b-r.com says he earned in his career went for hardly anything other than those homers, so I'd say he's a pretty good example of the aphorism (granting that in the modern game even a player earning the minimum can afford a Cadillac if he wants one, so Kiner himself would have phrased it differently today). Wallner, at this point, reflects what happens to a failed power hitter whose other skills to fall back on are pretty limited, though it's still possible he turns it back around. Let me put it another way. Are you of the opinion that runs win games and that scoring those runs is more important to a ballplayer than sabrmetrics or other attempts at advanced analytics? Do you agree that scoring or driving in 100 runs in a season is an important benchmark for the really good players in the game? Because guess what, it's not just the RBI guys who hit a lot of homers, it's also the 100-run scorers too. No one in 2025 scored 100 runs while hitting homers at the pace Keaschall did last year. Of the 12 players who scored 100, only two had fewer than 30 home runs, and those were De La Cruz (22) and Tatis (25). Keaschall last year was on a pace to hit about 12. One of the very best ways to score a run is to drive yourself in, and 100-run scorers like Ohtani and Judge and Soto do exactly that dozens of times each season. There certainly is room in the game for players who will never score 100 in a season. They're not likely to wind up being the best paid though. Renowned singles-hitter Luis Arraez, who scored 66 runs last season despite leading his league in base hits, is earning $12M from the Giants this season on merely a one-year deal. The market has spoken, and continues to speak. Who can blame them if ballplayers by and large choose to listen?

I'm just following on Gameday and I saw there was a mound visit. What did the pitching coach tell him? "Nobody's coming back out to get you. In case you were wondering." 😀

The Red Sox played in green and yellow this past weekend. Simply nothing is sacred anymore.

Baseball's a game of inches and of bad coaching decisions. 😀

Zebby with 6 full innings and 3 runs against. That's a Quality Start, folks! Would not have bet on that, earlier in the game.

Same number of hits and walks as the Sox today so far. Only difference being an extra fly ball going to a lucky fan.

In that order, perhaps. 😀

I know. Managing a ballclub isn't color-by-numbers. And different kinds of injuries affect different players in different facets of the game. Still, any time he goes 0-4 as DH, I feel vindicated, while if he gets a hit or two, then, well, that's baseball. 😀 Like I said, 2023 scarred me.

It's rare that I would criticize making the third out on a play at the plate. However, this was on a single by the 9-hole hitter, meaning that Buxton's on deck. The ball wasn't hit very deep, so this was a "make them make the play" kind of situation, and it didn't work out too well with the runner being out by a mile. Giving Buck a shot with men on base sounds better to me.

"White Sox announcer! Give me your tears! If you will not give them to me, I will take them from you!"

2023 left me with the conviction that if Buxton isn't healthy enough to roam CF, he isn't 100% at the plate either. Hope he proves me wrong today, because I'm inferring it's difficult to get him to accept an IL stint.

Wonder what the "book" is on him. Pretty clearly the opposition's plan that one game was to see whether he would chase. I usually think of pitchers (and their catchers) trying first to see whether the new guy can even handle a major league fastball, or else see whether he can hit the curve, but eventually all these aspects will get tested, and thoroughly.