Home Run Derby

A couple of Months ago when I profiled US Cellular Field as a Home Run paradise, I told you Ozzie Guillen was a Snake Oil Salesman and his Snake Oil was his White Sox playing “Small Ball” …

”We have a different way.  We’re going to play games — give bunt situations, give pointers, the way they used to teach … I’ll be in charge on that field because we have to do stuff better.”

- Ozzie Guillen in Spring Training

Bunting, stealing, positional hitting, hitting and running, sacrificing, general dinking and dunking the other team to death.  That’s Small Ball.

In the White Sox last 37 innings, they haven’t scored a run which wasn’t driven in by a Home Run.  And that’s been while their big Home Run slugger, Jim Thome, has been on the DL with sore ribs.   They’re 0-4 in that span.

Through 25 Games, the White Sox rank dead last in the MLB with a team batting average of .221, have the fewest hits (180) in the MLB (the stinking Nationals have 221!), and they’re 2nd to last in the AL with only 10 steals. 

Mind you, they’re tied for the fourth most Home Runs in MLB with 32.

Maybe Ozzie will get a refresher course in Small Ball next week when the White Sox visit the Minnesota Piranhas – I mean Twins. 

Small Ball?  Smart Ball? 

Try Piranha Ball.

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