Don't Look Back

Didn’t Satchel Paige say something about not looking back because somebody could be gaining on you?  This would seem to be the case with Jose Abreu.

The White Sox first baseman hit his 20^th homerun of the season last night, a three-run walk-off in the 12^th inning to give the Sox a doubleheader sweep of the Tigers.  Named to his third All-Star team last week, the 32-year old Abreu is hitting .272 with 63 RBIs.  After the game, he reiterated his desire to stay with the team past its perpetual rebuild phase.

But here’s the thing—the Sox keep drafting first basemen.  In 2017 they took Gavin Sheet is in the second round.  Sheets is doing nicely in Double A but apparently not well enough to keep Rick Hahn and company from selecting Andrew Vaughn with the third pick in the MLB draft last month.  What’s the rush, exactly?  As ever, Hahn isn’t saying.

All a fan can do, all a player can do, is take the game at hand and not worry about the ones after today.