Yasmani Grandal’s unicorn season

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

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4.4 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

There is a method to the madness that is Yasmani Grandal who's putting up a group of numbers we've never seen before in baseball history. Seriously. Chuck Garfien speaks with stat guru Chris Kamka about Grandal's unique offensive season. They dig into all of the numbers to explain why Grandal is the unicorn he is and what he means to the White Sox offense.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's Chuck Arfine.
0:09.4	Welcome to the White Sox Talk Podcast, brought to you by Winchrust.
0:16.1	All right, you may not realize it, but Yasmani Grandeal is having a season we've frankly never seen before.
0:24.5	He's become a statistical anomaly.
0:29.1	A guy putting up numbers that almost don't make any sense and has stat gurus like our own Chris Kampka, amazed and even dumbfounded.
0:40.3	It takes a lot to get Chris Kampka to be amazed and dumbfounded at baseball stats, and yet, here we are.
0:47.3	Thanks to Yasmani Granda.
0:49.3	I mean, how can a guy with that low of a bad and average be doing so much damage,
0:56.5	especially since he walks once every four times he comes to the plate?
1:01.3	And lately, he's been on such a tear that it has me wondering if this is a preview of what's to come in the playoffs.
1:10.6	So today on the podcast, Chris is going to join me as we go deep inside the numbers to explain what Grandal is doing, how he's doing it, and even why.
1:21.6	It is the unicorn season of Yasmani Grandel making sense of baseball
1:27.7	senselessness
1:29.2	it's coming your way
1:32.1	White Sox
1:33.6	White Sox
1:34.5	Go go white socks
1:36.2	A ball hit deep way back
1:38.4	Deep to the
1:39.4	Holy cow
1:42.0	Carlton Fess
1:43.4	has put the White Sox ahead.
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