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This is the Socks Machine Podcast with 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:54.960 your hosts Jim Margolis and Josh Nelson. 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:57.360 Hello, folks, welcome to a new episode of The Sox 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:00.880 Machine podcast, part of the Foul Territory Now Work. I'm 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:05.039 your host Josh Nelson, and in this episode, man, what 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.240 a great weekend for the Chicago White Sox and I 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:10.840 can just tell on social media and as well in 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:14.240 the Sox Machine comments that everybody is bumped up with 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:19.040 the Chicago White Sox sweeping the Detroit Tigers, an outcome 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:22.360 that is very welcomed. I don't think anyone was really expecting. 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:25.880 So to help me recap what happened this weekend, and 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:30.240 also look ahead, because I think this knuck up on everybody. 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:33.640 It's White Sox Cubs this week. Did you know that 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.840 I had to remind myself that this is happening, not 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:40.240 as much anticipation of the series that we saw in May, 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:43.760 but however, both teams are playing great baseball, so it 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:47.480 should still be a very exciting series in Chicago. 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:49.920 Enjoining me at Sox Machines, Managing. 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:55.280 Editor Jim Margulus and Jim Man, What a weekend for 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:59.560 the Chicago White Sox sweeping the Detroit Tigers. And I 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:03.160 know that it seems like with every passing week we 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:06.760 still have this hint of disbelief in our voices that 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:10.720 this season is actually unfolding the way it has for 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.440 the White Sox, and after stumbling against the Reds, and 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:16.680 I don't blame anyone looking at these six games against 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.160 its Tigers on the road and going to Wrigley Field 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.160 to play against the Cubs if you are concerned that 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.519 maybe the White Sox would trip and be closer to 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.680 five hundred and the division lead would be in trouble. 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.240 Instead, now listen to us. 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:33.320 The White Sox, Jim, are five and a half games 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:37.760 ahead of everybody in the American League Central. So with 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:41.600 this series tweep, is the postseason dream becoming more real 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:42.640 in your opinion? 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:48.160 Oh, it should be. I invoked the magic number in 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:51.880 the recap for the first time after Sunday's game. I'm 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:55.640 not at the points where I think the magic numbers 0:02:55.639 --> 0:03:00.600 should be a daily pursuit, but over the course the weekend, 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:06.079 winning three games against the direct challenger second place team 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.320 to remove six games from a magic number in one 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:13.600 weekend in now the second half of August, that is 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.079 worth noting. So now that the magic number is down 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:19.200 to thirty four, that's still a long ways away. I 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:23.400 remember from twenty twelve that stands out of the season 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:27.200 where the magic number come September didn't really go down 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:30.919 much and just hung on one number for far too long. 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:33.680 And so that's why I'm not going to make this 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:37.600 a daily feature of recaps. But I think just when 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:41.920 you have that kind of performance, the kind of statement 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:44.960 against the second place team, the team that was the 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.080 hottest team in the American League, especially in terms of 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:50.840 run differential, and you knock that down so dramatically, it's 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:51.440 worth noting. 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:54.640 And when you take a look at de Voss and 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:57.760 odds for the White Sox, and we grab these from Fangraphs. 0:03:57.800 --> 0:03:59.720 So for those that are listening to the. 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:03.600 Odds version of this podcast, I'll talk through it. But 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:06.040 for those that are watching on YouTube for Fangraphs, the 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:09.880 White Sox chances of now making the postseason are at 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:15.760 seventy three percent. Before opening day GYM it was one percent. 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:19.719 So to look at this graph, and now Cleveland has 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.800 the second best odds. They're at twenty six percent, and 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:27.520 that's mostly because supposedly they have the easiest schedule remaining 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:31.000 in Major League Baseball. The Twins are at twenty percent, 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.800 the Tigers now dropped to nineteen percent. The Royals are 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:36.640 at zero percent. The Royals actually had the second best 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.719 odds of making the postseason on opening Day in the 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.680 American League Central. So it's great looking at this graph 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.600 and looking at the great line and just like almost 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:49.760 skyrocket because of what happened in this weekend. Gym at 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:53.080 seventy three percent to make the playoffs. But when you 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:55.800 look at the American League Central odds of winning the division, 0:04:56.360 --> 0:05:01.479 the White Sox are at sixty four percent. And this 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.920 is why for me, it's becoming more real and as 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:08.960 a season ticket holder podcast listeners, we have not received 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:14.160 our playoff invoices yet when they come though, it's been 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:15.599 a minute since that's happened. 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:16.520 We laughed at. 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.280 It in twenty twenty two, Jim when they came in 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.159 because it was just absurd that the White Sox we're 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:24.119 offering it at that time. 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:28.160 But now we have to take it seriously. And the White. 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:31.400 Sox also added some of their lead against the Houston 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.200 Astros and they're looking at that two seed in the 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:35.720 American League, which means that. 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.000 If you look ahead, if you're making. 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:42.599 Plans everyone, all whites, everyone, it follows to White Sox 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:47.200 fans media, like, we may have plans, Jym on October third, 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:49.800 and that might be Game one of the American League 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:53.640 Division Series. And for all White Sox fans that were 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:57.400 booking vacations in October, maybe you wouldn't change your plans 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:00.880 because you may suddenly have plans with how the White 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:04.000 Sox have been playing. But I don't know about you, Jim, 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.360 but looking at those graphs and looking at those percentages, 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:10.680 that's where at one part, Gym, it becomes more real 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.760 for me. But at the same time, I just kind 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.200 of chuckle and be like, this is just how far. 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.599 We've come in this season from opening day to now. 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.520 It's funny when you look at the projections before the 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.640 season and you see the White Sox have a one 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:30.279 percent chance of making the postseason, or I think Pakota 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.480 might have had two point something percent, And you look 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.480 at Pakota has this graph that shows you all of 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.800 the outcomes from the thousand simulations they run and just 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.440 the spread of winds that are possible, and you see 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:46.600 like the very front edge of that wind curve being 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.760 you know, high eighties or something like that, and you 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:52.360 think that, okay, that's like the one out of a thousand, 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:56.560 or you know that sliver represents like sixty out of 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.480 one thousand that were run, and you think of everything 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:01.720 that has to go into the White Sox having that, 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.760 and it requires like a lot of you know, over performances. 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.720 Will say, ye, just based on what the projections were, 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:12.040 Like Miguel Vargas, like the ninety ninth percentile projection has 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:16.840 nothing on what he's doing right now. Tristan Peters, I'm 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:20.840 sure he's similar. And then you see like all the 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:24.680 failure elsewhere, like you see the Mariners especially I think 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:28.600 they're probably one of the team's most I guess, creating 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:31.880 the most wins available for other teams to snatch, and 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:35.160 you have the the rest of the hill West is 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:36.760 the kind of a disappointment. The Blue Jays have been 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:41.040 a disappointment, the Orioles have been a big bummer, and 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.280 all of those teams creating wind vacancies for some team 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:45.800 to come in, and the White Sox have done that 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.400 with the way they've played. And so it's funny when 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:49.680 you look back at that now and you look at 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.160 the standings, and you know, one hand, the reaction is, 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.600 what are these you know, algorithms, know these projection systems. 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:55.720 Know. 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:58.560 On the other hand, it's like, well, they did account 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:04.400 for this in a sliver of all the simulations they ran, 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.200 and I guess this is what it would look like. 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:09.280 It looked like the you know, the Royals, another team 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.760 crapping the bed. Yeah, and you know, maybe they weren't 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.760 going to be a favorite like the Mariners were, but 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:17.320 they certainly are leaving you know, twenty wins at a 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.240 table or something like that, you know, based on the 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:22.680 the pace that they're currently on, or at least I 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.120 would say like, yeah, maybe fifteen wins, but yeah, it's 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:29.280 there are so many wins for the taking that, yeah, 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.880 this is what it looks like when the entire American 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:35.200 League is down and the White Sox are talented enough, 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:39.360 explosive enough to have these outbursts that allow them to 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:41.120 overcome what deficiencies they have. 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.439 So looking at this series again, the White Sox sweeping 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.480 the Tigers. They won Game one nine to five. Game 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.920 two they won four to three. Game three they won 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.079 seven to five in the first game, and the third 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.840 game they were down by three against the Tigers. The 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:02.720 Tigers seen to be well in a great position to 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:06.760 win those games against the White Sox. But it is 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.360 this power in the lineup that we have just been 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:13.199 seeking for this White Sox team gym. 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:14.280 And in the. 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.080 Second game, I give them a lot of credit. It 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:19.120 was a key double by Colson Montgomery, a two run 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.760 double to get them to three runs, and that Andrew 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.720 ben Attendee being the VET, was able to pull through 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:27.280 to have the game winning hit for the White Sox. 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.760 So they didn't hit any home runs in the second game, 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:32.800 but in the first game they hit four. Miguel Vargas 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.199 had two in that game and Murricami had a home 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.720 run in that game, and then in Game three, again 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:43.040 it's Vargas and Murakami and bless your heart, Drew. 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.719 Romo with that big two run homer to. 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:47.600 Cut it from a four to one deficit to four 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.199 to three and spark some hope that this White Sox 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:54.720 team can once again come back. That's the most impressive 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.120 thing that I took away from this series win for 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:00.920 the White Sox is that even though the pitching wasn't 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:05.680 all that great, they didn't stay in the pin. To 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:09.839 use your analogy that you've been using many times this season, 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:13.120 the White Sox ability to kick, and it's really the 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:16.600 home run power that powered as far as this series 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:18.040 win in my opinion, Jim. 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:20.319 Yeah, I mean that makes such a huge difference when 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.680 you can't get that instant offense. And I think you 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:27.880 can supplement that by saying the outfielders, uh, the you know, 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:31.840 the non fixtures in the lineup, the Tristan Peters reaching 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:36.079 base seven times in three games. You had Randall Gritchik 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.840 basically being an automatic double when he came to the plates. Uh, 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:44.760 those of them. Yeah, those kind of supplemental performances I 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.319 think go a long way to maximize the power when 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.200 it arrives. And then you have Drew Romo coming up 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:53.680 with a big hit in the ninth spot. Uh, chase 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:57.160 Mydrath when he's down seventh or lower and hitting like 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.400 he's hitting. He's useful. So yeah, it's a common I 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:02.680 think of just the instant offense and the ability to 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.040 all of a sudden turn the tides really quick, and 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:10.960 then just the steadiness of the one through nine to 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:14.960 where any part of this lineup can start something. And 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.840 you know, we saw it on Sunday with just the 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:22.760 way they scored runs, the variety of ways they did it, 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.719 like Tristan Peters doubling and scoring in a couple of 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:28.959 productive groundouts like they needed that run after falling behind 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.520 free nothing. They got it done. I'm thinking back to 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:35.600 Sam Antonachi hustling out a double when it looked like 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:37.280 just a routine single off the middle, and he kind 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:40.079 of caught Javier Bayaz napping a little bit in center 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.080 and those ninety feet mattered scoring run. He had Munataka 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.120 Murakami getting caught in a rundown on a contact play 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.880 but then extending the rundown long enough for the runners 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.800 to back fill second and third. So you saw the power, 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:55.679 but you also saw the White Sox, you know. And 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.640 I shouldn't say they didn't leave runs on the table 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:01.360 because they had went four for eighteen with the rundres 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.120 in scoring position one game. They went one for ten 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:07.680 on Sunday. So still not the perfect performance with runners 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:09.520 in scoring position. I think most teams are saying that 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:14.120 about themselves in twenty twenty six. But they create opportunities 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:15.840 a lot of ways to where they don't have to 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:17.720 come up with the big hits in a given inning 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:22.319 to turn the tides, or they don't have to have 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:26.920 homers from Murakami and Vargas and Montgomery to make it work, 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:31.720 like they can scrape by in other ways and by 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:35.080 time for either the hitters show up or like the yeah, 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.640 it's it's a team really working well together when you 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.679 have that going on, and then a pretty flexible bullpen 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.280 with a lot of ways to cover for needing a 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:47.160 bullpen game or Jose Orkhaty to cover three and a 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:50.640 third or having a Sean Burke at less than full power, 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:54.800 like they didn't have everything in their favor and yet 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:58.120 they kept finding ways one way, you know, you know, 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:00.520 on one side of the ball or the other to 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:02.240 just make up the gap. 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:06.080 We'll talk more about the White Sox pitchers in a moment, 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.440 because I do think that is a key topic, especially 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.760 as the White Sox continue this path where they play 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:15.440 sixteen games in sixteen days. But speaking of the home 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.679 run power, looking at the White Sox home run leaders, 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:22.400 Miguel Vargas and Munataka Murakami are now tied. They both 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.600 have twenty eight home runs. Colston Montgomery is third on 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:30.000 the team what twenty six home runs, so Jim. Unlike 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:34.760 previous seasons, we have a spicy home run race for 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:38.319 the White Sox. We don't have to debate who's actually 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:40.559 going to reach twenty home runs for the White Sox. 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:44.400 So this is a dice change of pace for the 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:45.520 Chicago White Sox. 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:49.400 But I do ask you who is going to. 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:53.079 Win the White Sox home run race between Murakami, Vargus 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:54.640 and Montgomery. 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.520 I think it's gonna be Murakammie. That feels a little 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:00.840 bit chalky to me to say, and it all spicy, 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:05.200 but it's just so effortless when he hits him, he 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.679 hits a lot that looked like they're mishits and they 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:11.600 still carry carry carey over the wall. So when he 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:16.520 has that kind of margin for error with regards to 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.320 the quality of his contact still generating over the fence power, 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:21.960 I think that just gives him a huge leg up, 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:25.360 and I think, you know, Vargas is somebody who can 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.000 do it. I'm thinking back to last year when like 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.640 Lenine Sosa won the home run title with twenty two 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:36.000 and it was just very uninspiring, not much of a chase, 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:40.480 you would say. But yeah, when it comes to Vargas 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:43.160 being somebody who like he would have won the home 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.920 run title going away last year, he certainly has the 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:49.160 ability to get on heaters and really rip the ball. 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.360 But I think he's still somebody who's he needs his 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:53.680 best contact to get over the fence. He's just making 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.360 his best contact more often and that helps him a lot. 0:14:56.400 --> 0:15:00.640 But I think just Murakami, his ability to mishit the 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.800 ball or just the way his uh swing is angled 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:08.520 is such that creates so much backspin that more fly 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:10.640 balls of his get over the fence than I think 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:13.920 most hitters in general, the most power hitters, especially. 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:18.240 Especially his ability now to go opposite field like, I 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:22.520 think that's the difference between Murkammi Vargas and Colson Montgomery. 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.480 Montgomery and Vargas they need to pull the ball. But 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.800 as we have seen recently from Murrikkammy, he's starting to 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:32.720 demonstrate Jim that opposite field power of being able to 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:34.600 go to left field with his home runs. 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:39.560 So I'll give you mrk Kami. I'm gonna take Vargas. 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.920 I feel like Vargas, he loves hitting at Wrigley Field. 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:47.280 He had a huge series last year in Wrigley Field. 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:51.440 To me, it's just so heartwarming because we could see 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:53.640 three thirty plus. 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.280 Home run hitters in this lineup. 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.360 Jym like, I feel like Colson Montgomery's gotta get to thirty. 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.560 I feel like Vargas and Murkami are both going to 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.080 get to thirty five homers. Murk Comedy to get to 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:06.480 thirty five homers after missing quite a bit of time 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:11.480 with this hamstring issue. Very impressive. But man, we've been 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:13.520 I've been asking for this. I think a lot of 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:16.320 White Sox fans have been asking for this because despite 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:20.600 what Ozzie Geehan says, his best teams were the ones 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.520 that put the ball in the seats. They hit more 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.520 than two hundred home runs and I feel like the 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.960 White Sox finally have that right mixer, because I mean 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:34.520 Andrew ben Attendee has twelve, Chase mydraft has twelve, and 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:36.920 they're starting to get some more home runs, especially from 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:39.480 the role players like Drew Romo and Tristan Peters. 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:41.560 I feel like the White Sox are. 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.720 Going to get to that two hundred home run milestone 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.600 this season, and it's a big reason why they have 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.800 a comfortable lead now in the American League Central. 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We talked about the White Sox offense 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:58.520 really helping out in their series we be against Detroit. 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:01.760 Let's talk about this state of the White Sox pitching staff. 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:04.199 Because Davis Martin is on the injured list because of 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:07.280 his blister. He's going to be out a few more 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:10.400 weeks earliest that he'll be returning as at the end 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:13.919 of August for that series up in Minneapolis against the 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:20.080 Minnesota Twins, and Jose Orchati might be an option to 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:24.080 start some games. It's really sounded ify Jim from Will 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:27.520 Venable after Sunday's win on what's going to happen with 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.080 the White Sox pitching staff. So this is what I 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.320 have on paper. What their starting rotation is at the 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:36.480 moment Anthony Ka because he starts before Seawan Berke, even 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:38.600 though we all agree that Sean berg is the. 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:41.520 Numb one started for the White Sox right now, Sean. 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:46.199 Burke and Luis Castillo question mark question mark, Like, I 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:50.280 don't know who I fill in for those question marks 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:54.400 for the White Sox. So in your opinion, what is 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:56.280 the White Sox current starting rotation? 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:01.159 I think you can maybe in that to Jose Arkidi 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:05.320 right now. Okay, they they phrases a bullpen game, but 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:09.000 it really was the classic kind of opener bulk boy, 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:12.840 and Arkadi was the bulk boy, and I think he's 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:15.520 he and like Jonathan Cannon, and you know, I think 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:18.439 they're kind of the same same kind of guy to 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:23.480 where and Fetti two to that regard of just you 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:25.719 can hope that they get their lineup twice and then 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:29.679 after that anything is a bonus, but hopefully they have 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:32.720 an opener beforehand who doesn't take away from their high 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:35.360 leverage pile later in the game. And so you're talking 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:38.280 about getting through five innings or you have your bullpen 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:41.199 entirely arrested and like Shaw Newcomb, ready to go with 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:45.520 multiple innings afterwards. But I would guess it's Arcadia and Fetti. 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:49.359 It's just I think having those two guys being kind 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:53.520 of so similar and in terms of not having overwhelming fastballs, 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:57.679 needing a lot of secondary stuff to get by ya, 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:00.880 Fetti is I think vulnerable against lefty is, whereas Erkidi 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:04.400 really has to use his change up against Righty's more 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:07.600 than And this is me watching him, you know, a 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:10.119 couple of times, once in Charlotte, once here, but just 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:11.760 you know, he's easing his change up a lot against 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:14.480 Righty's and when it doesn't when it works, it's fine. 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:17.120 When it doesn't work, you think, like, oh, that's never 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:19.479 gonna work because of just the way the ball kind 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:22.360 of tails into the hitter's bat path. And so when 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:23.879 he gets taken deep on a change up, you think, 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:26.000 of course he would. And he's just trying to get 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:29.280 by with two good pitches basically, and he has to 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:31.440 throw him no matter what, even if the handedness doesn't 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:33.879 make sense. So I think he makes me, well, I 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:36.400 guess they both make me nervous, because Fetti just I think, 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:38.159 got his role kind of messed with a little bit, 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:40.280