"Good pitching beats good hitting."
Thanks for the insight, Grandpa, but times have changed.
An updated version of that old baseball motto should read, "Good pitching with no hitting, will get you nowhere."
A perfect example of this is the 2010 Chicago White Sox.
They have a rotation that rivals any team in baseball and a lineup that rivals any team that has ever lost 90 games in a season.
A typical lineup has speed at the top, a combination of power and skilled batters in the middle and average hitters who won't kill you and can sometimes step up at the bottom.
Seem reasonable?
Well Kenny Williams has tried to follow that formula, but just like my volcano at the third grad science fair, it's blown up.
See, instead of assembling a lineup that fits the formula, Kenny has assembled ...
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