Holy smoke! We're actually playing the White Sox and it's the third of a four game series. But far be it from me to mess with the mojo man of the moment.
None of us have any idea what's going on with Devers's shoulders.
But he has a .684 OPS and only 1 home run in 20 games. Sure doesn't seem like he's fully operational.
OTOH pulling themselves off the mat and winning the last 2 against the Rays showed something.
I'll just go with Parcells here: we are exactly what our record says.
Sure, but it's kind of an instant logic fail that when he got no 200 million offers this year at age 31, he's going to get them next year when he's 32...
So in this last series we scored 9 (average 3.00 per game, lousy), gave up 20 (average 6.67 per game, lousy) but won 2 out of 3.
Just another reminder that in baseball the data is derived from the games, but the games aren't derived from the data.
It's certainly a valid argument. To me Casas makes a good test case because he's a young hitter who seemed to have a great approach when he came up but now seems to have badly regressed.