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After the Chicago 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:10.560 White Sox ended up losing on Wednesday to the Baltimore Orioles. 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:13.200 But they won the first two games and that is 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:18.040 huge because they finally snap their road series losing streak, 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:21.319 finally winning a road series since early May back in 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:22.200 San Diego. 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:24.280 And this is a good. 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:27.039 Omen because now the White Sox had the Cleveland which 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.240 is to date the biggest series of the season for 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:32.720 the Chicago White Sox as they still hold a one 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.880 game lead over the Cleveland Guardians and the American League Central. 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:37.880 Joining me is Sox Machines. 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:42.440 Beat reporter James Vegan and managing editor Jim Margolis. And hello, gentlemen, 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:46.520 Let's start with recapping what happened in Baltimore as the 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:50.440 White Sox had two easy wins on Monday and Tuesday 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:54.200 thanks to the offense. And again the White Sox are 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:55.760 forty five and forty. 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:56.520 On the season. 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:00.200 And James, you recently wrote a wonderful feature with it's 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:04.160 plenty profanity from White Sox hitting coach Derek Showman, and 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:08.640 I'm sure he is going to enjoy as far as 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:10.600 those quotes, as he got excited last. 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.880 Time about it. And I found it very. 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:18.240 Interesting because it continues this line of coaching and thinking 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:22.000 from Will Venable of leading with empathy and on a 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:25.600 hitting perspective, not trying to put too much pressure on 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:31.480 the hitters, allowing them to make stakes, understand that they 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.360 want their A swings and to continue to try to 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.160 do as much damage as possible. Do we get a 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:40.160 chance to see some of that come to light against Baltimore, 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:42.320 especially in the first two games of this series. 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:49.119 I mean, I think it's like something that's like their 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:56.840 overall methodology, which is very warm or conducive, at least 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:59.959 they say so to like coming back in terms. 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.519 Of like the players believing, you know, they. 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.840 Not getting discouraged, not kind of getting wrapped up with 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:11.560 their mistakes, you know, even kind of accepting that in 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:14.359 getting multiple shots at a starter maybe not even having success, 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:15.840 or just trying to get to the bullpen of general, 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:17.560 that there's always kind of opportunities in the game. I 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:20.560 think Showman's even referenced like telling him about like when 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:22.320 they're down in big games that they still get paid 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:24.200 off the at bats that they have late innings, which 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:27.160 is like, I think a refreshing tone for them to 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:28.840 take so. 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:30.760 Well. 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:32.760 I can't say, like, oh, they had like a pep 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.600 talk in the seventh inning after like bas departed on Monday, 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:37.800 and like that's why they rallied. I think that their 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:41.360 general attitude of like moving on from mistakes quickly and 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:49.880 not necessarily like having a restrictive response to or even 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.440 just like a reactive response like not getting to a 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.080 starter or not getting like offense going early in the 0:03:55.120 --> 0:04:01.000 game and being kind of not doing things that kind 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.400 of facilitate panic or self doubt or just kind of 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.200 like frustration early in the games. I think they view 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:08.800 that as something that pays dividends broadly and certainly like 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.080 keeps them in a good frame of mind when they're 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.960 down in games. So that's at least what they attribute, 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.440 you know, having have so many comeback wins and having 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:21.799 so many especially recently, like because they try to slug. 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.720 I feel like they've had some outings recently where the 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:30.280 starter like has a pretty efficient you know start or 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:32.479 pretty efficient open to the game where they're getting through 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:35.080 the lineup once or twice on a limited amount of pitches, 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:36.839 just because like the Socks are so often trying to 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:40.120 like blitz strikes that they see early that bad and 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.880 not wait for them, and the fact that that doesn't 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:47.920 seemingly like build panic in them or see them kind 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.760 of spiral into losing their approach or not like even 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:52.920 just kind of hunkering down a bit more and working 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:57.240 account later in games as they adjust mid game is 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.040 something that I guess they at this point view he 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:03.040 was endemic to what they're doing overall, and like kind 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.800 of the environment they're building for hitters. So yeah, that's 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:09.360 part of the positive feelings that they have. Also generally 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:10.760 just they got a lot of pop. They got a 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:12.880 little left fan of pop and that should play well 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:16.000 in that ballpark, and it certainly did for a couple 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:16.800 of games. 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:17.440 I think we wanted. 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:18.760 Yeah. 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:22.320 I think a good example too from White Sox as 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:24.680 far as the culture that they are building Jim when 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:29.520 it comes to the offensive side, is allowing young employers 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:32.800 like Jacob Gonzalez to take islamps. He had a pretty 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:39.000 lengthy hitless streak, but in the last ten games, Jacob 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:42.160 Gonzalez has figured out how to hit MLB pitching and 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.400 that is huge, especially in the bottom of the lineup 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:46.720 where he's batting ninth and he's coming in with these 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:51.000 big doubles, especially against Baltimore that seemed to be backbreaking, 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.000 where Orioles pitching things that they have a breather here 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.920 because they're facing number nine hitter and they still get hurt. 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.640 And in this series against Baltimore. Gonzalez went five for 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.479 a lets been with six RBIs. But when it comes 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:07.000 to Jacob Gonzalez, Jim Munitzaka Murakami could be returning soon. 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:11.560 We don't have a definitive date when Munittako Burkami returns, 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:14.840 but when he does, and with how Jacob Mignzalez has 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:18.599 been hitting, how do you see Jamgonzalez fitting in with 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:19.920 the current White Sox roster. 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:25.640 There's always the caveat that every time we try to 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.440 plot out what a rosterill look like. When a player 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:30.520 returns from injury, somebody else gets hurt and so you 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:34.480 never have this confluence of healthy guys that are going 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:36.599 to spell at the end of Luis an Helicunya like 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:37.800 Austin Hayes. 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.080 Eversin Pereira, like we've been playing that game. 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:44.120 With the outfield, so like I'm hesitant to do it 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:47.200 with any part of the White Sox roster, be it 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:49.279 rotation or innfield or anything else. 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:52.159 Because of the way an injury ends up. 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.760 Solving the problem. Well enough, but let's say let's indulge 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:58.120 your question and say Murakami comes back with nobody else 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.920 missing time, and I think this, You know there are. 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:02.000 A couple of ways to do it. 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:07.480 This could finally be the end of Luisan Hellacunya because 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.840 he isn't really playing in the outfield much anymore now 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.200 that Tristan Peters is more or less the everyday center fielder, 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:16.160 and if he's the backup shortstop, well, you know, my 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:20.080 Drath and Gonzalez can cover that well enough. And it 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.600 seems like Akunya just right now, he's kind of a bunter, 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:25.040 especially with the runners on base, like he more or 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.600 less gives himself up, or whether it's he's terrified of 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:32.160 grounding to a double player, uh you know, the coaching 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:33.800 staff is, or they just want to get something out 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:35.440 of his back. They're almost treating him like a pitcher 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:37.560 when he comes to the play with a runner on base. 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:42.080 So you could use this as the opportunity to be like, well, 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:46.280 you know it's Kunya can go out, we will have 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.000 an eight to nine part of the lineup, no matter 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.640 who's pitching. That feels like you can start something for 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:54.800 the top of the order, you know, because either Gonzales 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:56.600 will be down there or my draft will be down there. 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:02.000 So there's that approach, but that requires probably a big 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.960 chunk taken out of my drafts playing time, which some 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.280 people might be okay with because of his platoon splits. 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:11.920 But I think the White Sox have been generally supportive 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.080 of him or like they you know, they like the 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:17.480 defense he brings, the overall approach he brings, and aren't 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:21.440 dismissing him as a platoon player yet. So if that's 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:25.280 the case, then it seems like probably Gonzales goes down 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:29.320 just because yeah, a kunya, say what you will about him, 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.000 but the White Sox really don't care how often they 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.000 play him, Like if he plays one day a week, 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:36.680 it's more or less fine because he's out of options, 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:38.679 and if they lose him or they try to put 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:40.760 them their waivers, they might lose him, and that's not 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.560 something they seem like they want to do until it 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:45.959 gets that points where their hand is forced. And if 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:47.560 they want Gonzales to play every day, then he can 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.800 go back to Charlotte's and maybe go back to positions 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.640 of need that they can anticipate, be a second base 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.680 or be more of a utility guy versus being somebody 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:58.880 who's forced in the first base and just wait for 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:02.439 the next opportunity to pop up. I guess the other 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:04.480 one would be, you know Andrew Benin Tendy is you 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.760 know DH right now is left handed bats. So if 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:08.360 you want a Gonzalez to be more of a DH 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.280 or use that really more of a flex spot versus 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.000 Ben and Tendy hogging those bets, that would be another 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:15.760 way to do it than you relegate Bet and Tending 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.640 to the bench. But you know, everybody seems like they're 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.720 more or less happy with him being the veteran presence 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:24.959 on the bench, especially since he's playing well with Gritchik, 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.040 you know, being somebody that can swap in and out. 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:29.920 So it seems like they have a good arrangement there. 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:34.160 So I would say I would anticipate the most likely 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:38.880 scenario being Gonzalez goes back down to Charlotte's, but I 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:42.800 wouldn't necessarily bet on it over Kunya finally getting waived 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:48.520 or dfad see if he clears waivers, just because they 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:50.720 could step on the gas and say we want to 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:54.000 have a threatening lineup no matter what, and we'll see 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:57.480 how Gonzalez plays when he's playing half the time versus 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:58.160 most of the time. 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:03.000 Well, there's Junior Perez who he had a three run 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:07.080 homer against the Orioles. Is that an opportunity to option 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:11.120 back to Charlotte without having to lose Luisa Halikunya. 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:13.559 They could, but just more a matter of like if 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:16.160 they want, you know, Gonzalez doesn't play the outfield yet, 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:17.959 so if they're looking to get him at bats, that's 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:19.679 where I think you kind of run into problems is 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:22.880 can you know Gonzalez. 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:24.199 Be on the roster but also get at bats? 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.760 And who's at batsayes he take and I don't think 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:31.360 he threatens perezes at bats to where you know he's 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:32.600 in the factoring the discussion. 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:38.679 Oh they have maybe Jim finally found more bats than 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.400 spots White Sox lineup. 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:44.040 But they haven't done it yet. 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.560 They have to actually get there, like where comedy is 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.880 like one into two or more weeks away, Like until 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.240 they actually reached that point, they're not more bats than spots. 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:55.240 It's the problem with like doing this. 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:58.680 Who happens when somebody goes like pumps back projection is 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:01.079 that you were never actually overloaded until you. 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:03.520 Reach the point, which is the whole reason you need covered. 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:11.120 Sorry, yes, I know that's what Jim mentioned earlier when needs. 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:12.600 More flustered fashion. 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.800 They're over eight million drivers in the state of Illinois. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.480 With that many people on the road, accidents are bound 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.600 to occur. 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They could really use someone to be 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:16.000 that number five starter in this rotation right now. What 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.240 did you like from Noah Schul to start on Wednesday? 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:25.240 His slider played for whifts to each handed hitters. 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:27.040 I guess as well as he could have hoped. 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:30.480 It obviously didn't carry him through the fifth inning or 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:33.800 anything like that. But in terms of like showing progress 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:37.840 or showing the sweeper playing the tops the handed hitters. 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.520 I want to say one like the CSW was pretty good, 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:45.960 but just in general, like I think it was fourteen 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:47.960 swinging strikes like that was pretty happy z own for 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:52.400 him to be in overall, it's just like, especially more 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:56.400 so if he's like throwing strikes, which he's still not 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:01.160 doing to his efficient degree, and and it's kind of 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.559 out a character outside of like when he's dealing with 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.440 knee stuff and you've obviously had him miss a bunch 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:09.240 of time with recurring the stuff last year and kind 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:13.400 of have it this year. So it's it wasn't exactly like, ah, 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:18.240 this looks like him top operational gear even outside of 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.920 like not saying like he's not healthy, but just in 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.200 terms of like the Noah Schultz, it's like going to be, 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.080 you know, take be a dynamic part of the rotation 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:29.960 going forward, and the second half as you're worried about 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:34.160 like upgrading rotation, would like to see like more or 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.600 less uncompetitive misses in general. And so a little little 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:41.000 of what he needed and a little like stepping back 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.240 from like what is the baseline profile of what makes 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:45.600 it work, which is you know, kind of his own 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.400 So but on the one side, I thought like they 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:50.520 need a good start from him because maybe like the 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.440 bullpen would be needed in the first two games, and 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:54.960 said it wasn't needed at all really beyond like some 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.000 grand tailor work, so they didn't need him to get 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:01.240 the six innings to like have a you know, coherent 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:04.040 plan to end the game and just not doing anything 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.120 offensively took care of that. So at least depends on 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:07.960 a good place going in Cleveland. So that part of 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.600 like needy Noh Schultz didn't come up as much, But 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:12.800 I don't know, some good, some bad. 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:14.920 And that was given me. 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.160 My follow up is what you're hoping to see that 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.080 he can approve upon because he's going to get an 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.520 extra day of rest as the White Sox have Monday 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:25.320 off after their Sunday game against Cleveland and they'll be 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:28.080 returning to action at home at rat Field against the 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:32.400 Boston Red Sox on Tuesday, July seventh. Then Noah Schultz 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:37.160 right now is projected starter. Is there a milestone or 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:41.000 what aspect of Noah Schultz's start against the Red Sox 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.000 are you hoping for more improvement? 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:49.120 James under three Walks, I think is like a probably 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:53.640 a crude way to say it, but certainly like being 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:57.040 able to locate the sinker just fast falls a bit 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.200 more and work accounts more like. I think those are 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:05.040 general things that would work towards you know, you were walks, 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.440 which is more just like tag into a result. But 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:11.200 I felt like it was kind of there's maybe like 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:13.320 one of those walks where he's just like, all right, 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:15.280 you lost a good battle and you don't really fault 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:17.160 him for it. But I think the rest were just 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:21.520 kind of like spraying the fastball a bit, which he 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:23.560 knows he was kind of like up and down with 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:25.920 control through the rehab process of him being rusty. A 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:30.600 little bit like that happens, but more so than like 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:33.000 it's nice to see the whiffs uptick. But like if 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:37.040 Schultz is like a seven or eight KPRI nine guy 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.720 with like control and like a fifty percent ground ball, right, 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:42.360 we'd be like, all right, that looks like the guy 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.320 who's coming up as a prospect. Whereas like there's not 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:48.240 really big precedent of like him being super effective while 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.320 like working Dylan C style where. 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:54.120 He's walking three to four guys per AUTI got it, all. 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.560 Right, Well, we'll see what Schultz does again. His next 0:15:56.560 --> 0:16:00.920 projected start is against the Boston Red Sox. Next Jim 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:04.560 Yervick was Colson Montgomery and he hit his twenty first 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:07.640 home run of the season. He did go two for 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:11.240 ten against the Orioles with four strikeouts, but he also 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:14.960 did drive in three RBIs. Is that a satisfying outcome 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.320 for you from Colson Montgomery in this series? 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:21.520 It's in terms of how it played, Yeah, I mean 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:26.000 just because the homer was really impressive, you know, in 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:30.920 those Utah Street violent four hundred and forty footers always 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:34.080 fun to watch, and you know, one hit a game 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:37.560 is kind of the baseline for you contributed something, So 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:41.200 that part worked, I think, you know, kind of bigger 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.600 picture is it fits in Wealth is June in which 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:48.400 he kind of hit two hundred and he slugged pretty well, 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:50.080 But he also struck out nearly forty. 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:50.440 Percent of the time. 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.800 So four strikeouts and ten played appearances is a lot, 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.280 and you just wonder how long that can continue. Like 0:16:56.360 --> 0:17:01.920 he's been contributing while doing that, So it's not a 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.560 case where you're sounding any alarms necessarily, but it's kind 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:07.239 of like the long time to go on striking out 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:08.680 forty percent of the time and think like, is it 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:10.320 gonna get better or is it going to have to 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:14.520 pay the price of having so many empty plate appearances 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.400 to where you're gonna see a kind of pronounced slump 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:21.200 that you know requires some intervention besides. 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:21.760 The odd game off. 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:26.359 So it's okay, just at some point, you know you'd 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.080 like to see him you break this strikeout Jaggie's been on. 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:32.880 And produce more. You raise the average a little bit. 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:35.480 But if he's able to somehow go one for five 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:39.000 or a game and hit the occasional homer, like that's uh, 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:42.520 it's hard to bank on a two hundred average playing 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.520 that well or that practically, but you know he's he's 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:46.640 found a way to do it so. 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:47.280 Far in his career. 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:51.919 Is this an Adam Dunn hitting profile? But it actually 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:55.040 can play shortstop a fewer walks. 0:17:56.240 --> 0:18:01.600 So it's a case where yeah, it's yeah, there's. 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:04.840 There's more of a hit tool, but it's also like 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:08.240 the hit tools tested more because he goes out of 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:11.960 the zone more, and I think he's trying to. You 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:15.760 can see him thinking long with pictures and pictures getting 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:17.720 to him because like they're gonna tack me high and 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:20.000 then they go higher than high and somehow it you know, 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:20.960 he ends up chasing out. 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:24.560 So yeah, and it's he's a work in progress. 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:26.840 Still, like he said in James Post the show and 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:30.440 post like when I'm struggling, I'm adjusting and just been Yeah, 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:31.959 I guess you could just say there's been a lot 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:36.359 of adjustments lately. But fortunately, you know, playing shortstop and 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.399 not having like the numbers are down, but he hasn't 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:43.480 had like the huge hitless slump, but he had one 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:45.199 in the middle of the month. But lately it's just 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:48.520 been like one hit a game mostly, and that's fine. 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:50.879 It's just it's you know, it's not great for the 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:53.720 season numbers, but as it plays for a shortstop kind 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:56.520 of like Tristan Peters in center field, Like if he's 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:58.199 playing a good center field and he comes up with 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:00.760 a single, uh you know, that's something that will keep 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:03.560 his value afloats until he uh you know, it gets 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:04.000 on a heater. 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:08.439 Well, again, it is twenty one home runs or Coleson Montgomery, 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:12.760 he's on pace to maybe get to forty home runs 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:18.560 this year. Only one White Sox shortstop in franchise history 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:23.560 has hit twenty five or more home runs Pop quiz 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:25.560 do you remember who that shortstop is? 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:27.960 Jim? 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:29.159 Is that Ron Hanson? 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:35.359 No, okay, more recent, Jose James. It is Jose Valance. 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:40.960 It's Jose Valentine. Josh, thank you, James, thank you, thank you. 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:43.680 Jose. Jose did it three times. 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:48.280 Nobody else for White Sox shortstops has hit twenty five 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:48.959 home runs. 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:51.520 Hanson topped out at twenty, but it was a nineteen 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:53.960 sixty Ford old Comisky Park so had played really big. 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:57.480 Yeah, end up being his seven point seven war season. 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:03.080 Uh Wanner Reba came close. Alexi Ramirez came close. Tim 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:07.080 Anderson came close, but Coles Montgomery just needs it four 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:10.040 more and he joins very rare company in White Sox 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:11.040 franchise history. 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:14.320 And then my pick was Tristan Peters. 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:18.240 Tristan had a solid series, went four for twelve against Baltimore, 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:20.800 solid performance. I thought that he was going to be 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:23.240 the one to maybe help carry the offense and set 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:26.120 the table for top of the lineup with his performance 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:27.800 at the bottom of the lineup, but that ended up being 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:32.080 Jacob Gonzalez again, Jacob Gonzalez picking up six RBIs in 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:35.800 that series win against the Baltimore Orioles, so good series 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:38.520 win for the White Sox. Also a cap tip, I 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:42.760 thought that Sean Burke looked really strong as well Jim 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:45.760 on Monday, and he seems to be on a heater 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:46.320 right now. 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:53.720 Yeah, it's he's helped stabilize the rotation. I think he's 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:57.000 been the if not a number two started the way 0:20:57.040 --> 0:20:59.639 you classically think of one, at least number two started 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:03.080 this rowation needs behind Davis Smartin, I think Athony k 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:07.920 is been. Yeah, he's pitched more like a number four 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:09.480 than number three, but he's kind of a number three 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:13.119