Game Recap: White Sox 6, Twins 1

18 minutes ago, Whitey333 said:

The ridiculous banter regarding rbi production is ridiculous.  Just as the new wave of boring analytics is ruining the game.  The game thrived for decades without all of the invented and discovered stats.  Now the game is boring and becoming unwatchable.  Add in a poor team that manages by computer and trends and refuses or is unable to manage in game is sad.

All these, "boring" stats have existed for decades and teams have been using them for years. Now they have names, so a guy doesn't have "warning track power" we might instead look at ISO or a different statistic. If anything this can make it easier to understand the game for newcomers as it doesn't read like insider baseball information.

Look at Earl Weaver being arguably the most famous example of a manager altering his lineup based on favorable matchups using slugging or on-base percentages. If you watch the game you should notice there are plenty of managers, Rocco included, who ignore what the "computer" says they should do quite often.

I really don't understand this argument, if you don't like statistics just ignore them, RBI, batting average, and runs still exist in the stat line. It's not information that's making the game, "unwatchable" there are many other factors that have led to baseball's viewing decline.

16 hours ago, In My La Z boy said:

I wonder what Buxton is thinking, and hope he is more anxious to get back with us, than anxious to get away from us. I am embarrassed about this. We just generally don't play well. We need Buxton, and we need to hang in there with him. The white sox have an excellent starting 5, and a great closer, and we are not competitive against them.

We must build an excellent starting 5, build something decent around Rogers, and dig in on Byron Buxton. I expect we move most of the expiring vet contracts one way or the other to get our prospects on the field in Aug/Sept, and we have talent - what we don't have is a white sox pitching staff.

I'm now adding his new middle name Byron Ellsbury Buxton. 

Throw away the stats and let's start playing the future now and on a regular basis.  I like consistency in the lineup.  Hopefully something can be acquired by trading Cruz (don't want to but it makes sense).    I miss Austidillo.  I loved watching him play. Sometimes it is not all about stats.