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Steveo16220 is a GGTK said 05/31, 04:46 PM
The AL Central this year doesn't have a complete team. Where one team as in the Twins have the best batting, the White Sox go and make that up with the best pitching

As far as the TD goes i guess its up to me to prove that the our white Sox have worse batting than the twins have pitching...Making Minney a better all around team than Chicago


Minney
Pitching 17th
Hitting: 8th

Sox
Pitching 3
Hitting 26

White Sox pitching has been lights out...no doubt. They take top 3 in

Team ERA 3.374
Team WHIP 1.27
hits given up 440
1 team in Earned Runs Given up:187

Why do i put this out there? Because this is the reason why the White Sox have been winning games.The pitching is only allowing 3.5 runs a game

Our Hitting: We have one of the WORST batting averages in the Big leagues...ranked 26th...(compared to Minney with a rank of 8th)... with only 240 runs driven in...WITH NO players hitting above .300, and 3 of the biggest stars on the team hitting BELOW .210

This team has GREAT pitching with struggling hitting...combine that together and i do not see a complete team...if anything, Minny whos sitting 2 games back with a little higher overall ERA and better hitting is that team

Steveo16220 is a GGTK said 05/31, 05:14 PM
HR are a small factor when it comes to hitting...we can have more than double the HRs than the Twinkies, but when it comes down to runs driven in, they have more...and thats what counts..who has more runs at the end of the game

Regardless of how you see the two teams offense, the twins have the edge in almost every statistical category for hitting...

ONWARD!

Its not the HRS that reflect our winning ways...if you were a true south side fan you would know our pitching is a product of that winning and 1st place record...our hitting has rarely saved games at all this season and has had little to do with the success

Prior seasons of players have little to do with this season...Like you said Konerko has HAD 4 straight seasons of 30 + homer runs...well our chump of a first baseman is off to a .210 batting average and 6 HR...to me, its doesn't seem he will hit nay numbers that he put up over the past 4 years...i mean he has 11 years in th league and is hitting a slow point in his career

i would take a team that has moderate numbers than one that has one DOMINATE are compared to one greatly struggling area any day f the week...it shows consistency and overall completeness of the team.

Steveo16220 is a GGTK said 05/31, 05:33 PM
Ok lemme put it to you like this then...you said MOST COMPLETE TEAM...when a team struggles to be good at all the aspects of a sport, than they are not a complete team

If Chicago just hits Home runs for their Runs, and RBI's, then they are missing out on other parts of the sport, as in singles, doubles ..triples...e.i the rest of the game that make a complete hitting team...the Twins utilize all aspects of hitting, doubles triples and hr.....and the BA is a reflector of how well teams hit in every category....and with the Twinkies have a much high batting %, it just goes to show that they are a more complete hitting team....they utilize ALL aspects of hitting rather than just HRs

Now comparing both pitching and hitting, i would much rather take the team that is more consistent...as to where each respecting are is putting forth effort...and when Chicago has a 3rd ranked pitching compared to a 26th ranked hitting...there is no way that the team is more complete compared to a team that sits more in the middle of both categories...as the twins have a rank of 8th for hitting and 16th for pitching

Equal offensive output? almost...done in the COMPLETE fashion that you made the td? NO