Rock the Casbah

Last night, it was Gavin Sheets, Andrew Vaughn and Jake Burger homering in a White Sox 7-2 win over the Guardians. Manager Pedro Grifol kept his lucky streak going by letting Mike Clevinger pitch into the seventh inning, up to and including loading the bases with nobody out. Grifol then doubled down by bringing in Reynaldo Lopez, who only walked in one run. Sox win, 7-2. Here's a question: What happens when Eloy Jimenez comes back from his appendectomy? Burger has ten homers in seventy-nine at-bats, and seven of them are against right-handed pitching. Sheets now has six homers and looks to be on the verge of figuring things out as a left-handed power hitter. As I’ve been saying, this is a power-stacked lineup with twenty-homer-plus potential from seven of nine positions. Andrew Benintendi most likely isn’t going to hit twenty, but he’s the big free-agent signing and won’t be going anywhere. That leaves second base. If only Eloy or Burger could play it; they can’t. Yoan Moncada could, which leaves me to wonder…