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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Is Luis Robert Jr. broken?

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed White Sox center fielder Luis Robert Jr.'s struggles and pondered how much the moribund organization has contributed to his poor performance.

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0:00.0

We've talked and, you know, for me, it's just as an observer, you know, you see a guy that's got one mentality on the basis in the outfield and maybe, and that's an aggressive one and then maybe a little in between at the plate.

0:12.6

And so, you know, for me, it's just about, you know, making sure that he felt supported and that, you know, at the same time that we're challenging him to do all the things that he needs to do to make adjustments to get better, and he's doing those things.

0:24.0

So, yeah, I think he knows where he's at.

0:27.3

He's working extremely hard to make adjustments, and, you know, he's going to find what he needs to find to have more confidence at the play.

0:36.2

Will Venable talking about Luis Robert, who has remained on the struggle bus for the

0:42.4

White Sox this season.

0:43.7

For all qualified hitters in Major League Baseball, Luis Robert has the seventh worst

0:50.6

OPS in all of Major League Baseball.

0:54.2

He was an All-Star two years ago.

0:57.6

Andrew Vaughn as the fourth worst OPS in all of baseball.

1:00.8

We've all given up on Andrew Vaughan.

1:02.4

I know.

1:03.1

But Luis Robert.

1:04.3

Some of us earlier than others, though.

1:06.0

The Luis Robert thing, man, we dreamed.

1:09.3

We compiled the comps of the skill set and what the ceiling

1:14.7

could be for the five tool hero that he seemed to be, you know, blooming into at the beginning

1:22.0

of his career. He was a five war player two years ago. And now he is broken on the field and apparently broken psychologically.

1:30.4

It does seem that way because the talk, and we've talked about it here on the show, that

1:35.5

there's, you could trade him, you know, like that at the beginning of the season, I was hoping

1:41.3

that he would have already been traded because what I didn't

1:44.3

want was another half year of him in a White Sox uniform for a lot of reasons. I don't know if he'll

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