Not sure cursory knowledge and savant are the same type of description.

Many that is true, but an incomplete statement.

I still think IMU has a cursory knowledge of MLB despite another big swing and miss here.

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Thats true. He is kind of like Ron Santo with legs and a beard.

It's more fun to be a victim

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

It's more fun to be a victim

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

It's more fun to be a victim

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

There are 54 qualified players with SLG of .500 or above. It is a good number, but I wouldn't call that elite either.

You guys are having your fun jabbing each other during the peaks and troughs. I'll wait to see the final number.

However, he has put up years of .581 and .552 and so, he has played at an elite level in the past in terms of slugging

Abreu was an elite hitter, just below Rizzo in terms of production. That gap has widened.

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The evidence that Jose Abreu will be back with the White Sox after his contract ends at the end of this season has been ample throughout 2019.

Here's some more.

In an interview with the Sun-Times' Daryl Van Schouwen, the slugging first baseman said that White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf has told him that he will play for the White Sox for the remainder of his major league career.

"Jerry, several times, has told me and my family that I am not going to wear a jersey other than a White Sox jersey," Abreu told Van Schouwen. "I believe him. I believe in his word. And like I said, I'm very happy with and loyal to this organization. Hopefully everything is going to pan out."

That's the latest example of the mutual admiration between Abreu and the White Sox. Abreu has spent much of 2019 talking about his love for the organization and his desire to stay with the team as it makes the transition from rebuilding mode to contention mode. Likewise, White Sox brass continuously talks about how much Abreu means to the team, not only as a productive hitter but as a mentor for the team's growing group of young players.

"The impact that I don't think he really knows that he has is how hard of a worker he is," James McCann said last month at the All-Star Game in Cleveland. "He's a superstar. He's a three-time All Star, he puts up unreal numbers, he's setting organizational records. But you wouldn't know that based on the way that he acts, the way that he goes about his business, the way that he works. He's the first one in the cage, he's in the weight room every day, he leads by example.

"So for me, the impact that he has is when a young kid shows up there and thinks he's made it and then looks at this guy over here who's busting his tail day in and day out. That's only a good thing. It helps the culture. It helps the clubhouse realize, ‘Hey, we've still got to work.'"

While general manager Rick Hahn has made it clear that it's unlikely Abreu would get a new deal before the end of the season, with the White Sox preferring to take care of such business in the offseason, he's also said that it's "very likely" Abreu will be around for the good times after experiencing nothing but losing records in his six big league seasons with the White Sox since coming over from Cuba ahead of the 2014 campaign.

Abreu's resume is undeniably terrific, a three-time All Star with consistent levels of production that made him just the third player in major league history - along with Joe DiMaggio and Albert Pujols - to start his big league career with four straight seasons of at least 25 home runs and 100 RBIs.

He's also red hot at the moment, with a .325/.382/.613 slash line to go along with six home runs and 20 RBIs in 20 games this month. And that's before he started Wednesday's game with three hits. He's on pace to smash his career high for RBIs, up to 96 of them on the campaign as of this writing. After a pair of freak injuries last season that limited his production in 2018, Abreu has played in every White Sox game but one this season.

The White Sox have repeatedly mentioned their love for Abreu as a mentor and role model for all the organization's young players, and it's clear that they hold him in the same esteem as players who have their numbers retired and have statues built at Guaranteed Rate Field. Reinsdorf presented Abreu with a specially made ring when Abreu hit for the cycle in 2017.

Abreu has returned that love over and over again in his comments, and it seems like a new contract between the two parties is inevitable.

"I'm telling you guys that if the White Sox don't sign me, I'm going to sign here anyway. I'm going to sign myself here," he said last month. "I'm going to be here, believe me. I'm going to be here.

"I don't want to miss this, I don't want to miss what is coming, and I'm going to be here."

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The hidden item that revs up Rizzo's OBP is HBP even though his body is over the plate and those events should be strikes.

This is just false.

which part

No doubt about that. Abreu was an elite hitter, just below Rizzo in terms of production. That gap has widened, which was a genesis for this thread. Abreu is in the decline phase of his career.

Thus far in 2019, Abreu has three more homers, 17 more RBI, 3 more doubles, 11 more hits, and only trails Rizzo by 11 points in batting average.

The only area where Rizzo has a clear advantage is walks. And as I have stated MANY times, I will take the guy who hits homers and drives in runs playing 1st base and hitting in the middle of my batting order ten times out of ten over a guy who walks a bunch.

"In terms of production"- your words- Abreu has been above Rizzo so far this season. Maybe not quite 'FAR SUPERIOR', but definitely better. You've got the gap widening the wrong direction, son.

And as far as Abreu declining, he is on pace to put up career highs in Homers, RBI, and doubles. Clearly is all about power as he is getting older. That's isn't necessarily a bad thing.

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I notice this went un-replied to by the baseball messiah. I guess the educator prefers to not get educated himself.

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even more importantly the slugging is now over .500

the thing that drags him down, if OPS is your metric of record, is OBP, at which he has never been elite

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He's back to his best approach of slapping the ball around. Good short swing, lots of singles. Much better hitter when he doesn't sell out to try to generate that extra power he doesn't organically have any longer.

Yeah, that 35 Home runs and 110-120 RBIs that he is going to have by the time the season ends sure mean that he has become a "slap hitter". What a fool you are. Perhaps you should change your ID from IMU or My Favorite Poster and Hero to reflect that you are basically an example of IRRITATED BOWEL SYNDROME.

Many that is true, but an incomplete statement.