Just Crap

The White Sox are a crappy team, something I can admit even if Rick Hahn and Mickey Mouse can’t. Last night in New York, Lucas Giolito, hands down their best pitcher, gave up five runs in the first. It proved a hole too deep, and the Sox lost, 11-10. Core-wise, Andrew Benintedi went 2-for-4 with three runs scored and one knocked in while Jake Burger hit two doubles and drove in three. One double missed being a grand slam by no more than six inches, and a flyout to the wall in left fell just short of being a three-run homer. Which leads me to ask: If and when Yoan Moncada returns, where does he play? It shouldn’t be third base; Burger has played too well to have Mouse sit him down or rotate him between positions. I’d even rate Burger C+ to B- as a fielder. Moncada’s best year was 2019 when he hit .315 with twenty-five homers; seventy-nine RBIs; and eighty-three runs scored. Burger is hitting .226 with twenty-one homers; forty-seven RBIs; and thirty-eight runs scored. Keep in mind there’s a good 2-1/2 months left in the season. Throw out 2020, when everything was weird, and Moncada had sixty-one and fifty-one RBIs in 2021 and 2022, respectively. This season, he has thirteen. All these numbers point to Moncada playing behind Burger, not the other way around.