Insanity

White Sox acting manager Miguel Cairo keeps sending out the same lineup as if certain underperforming players will grab the opportunity to turn things around. Nope. Yoan Moncada and Yasmani Grandal keep doing the same old same old. Moncada went 0-for-3 with a walk in yesterday’s 7-2 sleepwalk of a loss to the Tigers while Grandal chipped in by going 0-for-4. The Tigers recorded one stolen base (giving Grandal a caught-stealing rate of sixteen percent), and Vince Velasquez was charged with a wild pitch, nudge-nudge, wink-wink. No passed ball there. And don’t let me forget reliever Jake Diekman. Tuesday, Diekman gave up three runs on five hits to the Guardians, a performance he managed to top in the seventh inning last night with four runs on five hits. This gives Rick Hahn’s big trade-deadline acquisition a 7.31 ERA since coming over from Boston. Speaking of the Red Sox, remember Reese McGuire, the catcher Hahn traded for Diekman? Since going over to Boston, McGuire has hit a torrid .361 in eighty-three at-bats with three homeruns and twelve RBIs. For the season, he’s hitting .274 with twenty-two RBIs in 234 at-bats. Compare that to Grandal with his .205 BA and twenty-six RBIs in 307 at-bats. Oh, and McGuire has a caught-stealing rate of forty-five percent. Crazy.