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The team’s nominee for the Roberto Clemente Award, Anderson also continued to establish himself as a presence in the community on the South Side. He joined Lucas Giolito, Yoan Moncada and James McCann in making extreme transformations and elevating themselves to the status of some of the best players at their positions in the game.Īll along, Anderson remained a critically important member of the White Sox off-the-field, bringing energy they noticeably lacked during his extended stay on the injured list while recovering from a high ankle sprain. 335 batting average, the highest in the majors and a number nearly 100 points higher than the one he finished 2018 with. Though he maintained his swagger, Anderson let his play do the talking for the majority of the remainder of the season, and it spoke volumes. His April bat flip grabbed national attention as he declared himself a crusader for a more fun version of baseball, becoming a face of the “let the kids play” school of thought in the face of the old-schoolers, like Kansas City Royals pitcher Brad Keller, who beaned Anderson after that bat flip. He started strong but made more headlines for the things that didn’t show up in the box score. But Machado went to San Diego, the White Sox were left with Anderson as their shortstop, and Anderson went to work proving that he was indeed a cornerstone of this rebuild. He spent the offseason fending off questions about where he stood in relation to the White Sox pursuit of free-agent shortstop Manny Machado. 240 and reached base at a sub-.300 clip in 2018 could do enough offensively to cement himself as the team’s long-term shortstop.

240 hitter to the big league batting champion.Īnderson entered the season facing legitimate questions about whether the guy who hit. There was perhaps no better story on the South Side than the transformation of Tim Anderson, from a. With the postseason in swing and a little bit still before the hot stove starts cooking, let’s take a position-by-position look at where the White Sox stand, what they’re looking to accomplish this winter and what we expect to see in 2020 and beyond. The 2019 season is over, and the White Sox - who have been focusing on the future for quite some time now - are faced with an important offseason, one that could set up a 2020 campaign with hopes of playoff contention. “I probably don’t weigh that maybe as much as I should, but certainly with what’s gone on here the last couple days and the frustrations, the guys stayed at it,” manager Kevin Cash said.Previous: Third base| Second base| First base

Lost in the defeat was another show of the Rays’ resiliency, as they clawed back from a 7-2 hole after starter Ryan Yarbrough gave up four runs in the fourth and, in part due to a Yandy Diaz throwing error, three more in the fifth. I wish that you would just go play baseball, like you play baseball for the previous nine (innings).”

“Obviously I didn’t execute, so I can’t really complain too much. “It is what it is you’ve got to play with it,” he said.

(The Rays are 3-6 in extra-inning games.) I’m pussyfooting around instead of going after people.”įairbanks also made it clear he is not a fan of what he called “a seventh-grade softball rule” that has teams, as they did last year, start extra innings with a runner on second. If I want to attack people, I’ll be good. Throwing way too many off-speed pitches instead of attacking people. “Throwing too many sliders,” Fairbanks said. Fairbanks was most mad at himself after Jose Abreu started the 10th with a groundout that moved Andrew Vaughn, the designated runner, from second to third before Grandal’s liner into the rightfield corner ended it.