Friday, May 17, 2019

Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before


Yesterday, the As clobbered the Tigers, 17-3.  Ex-White Sox Marcus Semien went one for six with three RBIs while ex-Sox Josh Phegley went four for five with four RBIs.  Phegley’s 26 RBIs on the year leads all AL catchers.  Ex-Sox pitcher Chris Bassitt threw eight scoreless innings to pick up the win.  On the season, Bassitt is 2-1 in five starts with a 1.93 ERA.

 

The other day, Sox GM Rick Hahn spouted gibberish about trading away possible NL Rookie of the Year Fernando Tatis Jr. as part of a 2016 deal to land the immortal James Shields.  Speaking to mlb.com, Hahn called the initial signing of Tatis a “great success for our international scouting program.”  And what do you call packaging him in that trade, Rick?

 

Let’s see.  Once upon a time, we had Semien, Bassitt, Phegley and Tatis, then we all but gave them away for the likes of Jeff Smardzija and Shields.  If you didn’t bust it in the first place, you wouldn’t need to rebuild it.

 

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