Terry's baseball predictions are usually ridiculous. Like when he thought Prior would win 28 games in 2004. That was before li'l danny realized "wins are meaningless and out of a pitcher's control" or dan was so excited about the "team with no weaknesses" that he didn't even argue with Terry about it.

Latest prediction: Cubs win World Series in 2017. It's a mortal lock.

Jose Abreu has been a revelation in his first season with the Chicago White Sox. The Cuban first baseman entered Sunday leading the major leagues with 30 home runs and appears to be a shoo-in for the American League's Rookie of the Year award.

But as far as his home runs actually go, Chicago's six-year, $68 million man sure hits a lot of cheapies.

Nearly half of Abreu's homers—13 of 30—have barely gotten over the wall, according to Hit Tracker, a website that documents home-run data. That is by far the highest rate since 2006, the first season for which Hit Tracker data is available.

Ryan Howard, who led the league with 48 home runs in 2008, had only nine "just-enough" home runs all season. Additionally, four of Abreu's home runs have been "lucky"—the designation for shots that wouldn't have been home runs on a 70-degree day with calm winds. Among past home-run champs, his luck rate is only rivaled by Miguel Cabrera's six lucky ones out of 44 dingers in 2012.



Meanwhile, only two of Abreu's homers qualified as "no-doubt" home runs, meaning they cleared the fence by at least 20 vertical feet and landed at least 50 feet past the fence. Edwin Encarnacion of the Toronto Blue Jays has 26 home runs this year, and 13 of them were no-doubters.

Incidentally, no one has hit more just-enough homers than Alex Rodriguez did in 2007. Of his major-league-leading 54 homers that season for the Yankees, over a third—19—were of the just-enough variety.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

I guess when Aaron Rodgers loses home playoff games, its OK because he only loses by a couple of points and doesn't get blown out.

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UHhhhhhhhh...

A win is a win whether its 50 points or 2 points.

A home run is a home run whether its clears the fence by 3' or 100'

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White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu has been named American League Player and Rookie of the Month for July, the second time this season he has won both honors in the same month.

Abreu, 27, batted .374 (37-99) with 11 doubles, six home runs, 19 RBI, a .432 on-base percentage and .667 slugging percentage in 25 games. He led the AL in average, doubles, slugging percentage, OPS (1.099), extra-base hits (17) and total bases (66) while hitting safely in 24 of 25 games during the month.

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I think if Bill James had created a stat called TWTW, he'd buy into it. I will come to Terry's defense a little bit here though -- I've heard him speak up against Bernstein when he gets too far over his skis on blind adherence to stats when discussing a guy. But you are correct in 85% of the scenarios -- much easier for Terry to say Yes than to formulate an opinion and have to defend it against the penguin.

I am not a legal expert, how many times do I have to say it?

Jose Abreu is the best hitter in the world.

CLEVELAND -- Jose Abreu said after his first All-Star Game that he was moved to tears that night by the national anthem, so much so that he'd like to sing it himself before a White Sox home game. Learning the language will play into Abreu's desire to take on a bigger leadership role, which seems inevitable because of his talent and professionalism and the respect he receives from teammates. The losing -- the Sox fell to 63-79 with a 2-0 loss to the Indians -- doesn't sit well with him, and he already has talked to fellow Cuban Alexei Ramirez about stepping up as leaders.

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Sporting News ROY

http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2 ... -white-sox

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"I'm preparing for a longer season," said Abreu through a translator. "I'm not preparing for 162 games. I want playoffs in Chicago. Individual accolades won't matter. At the end, we will be remembered for what we accomplished as a team, and as a team, we have business to finish this year and years to come."

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I still can't believe those early scouting reports on him. Below average hit tool, below average bat speed, bad defense. That is what you call a "miss."

He will never be Rizzo

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