The Artist Formerly Known as Carlos

(Music Pun #12)

I'll explain the Prince connection here. If you go on Baseball Reference dot com, as I usually do to research prospective custom recipients and general statistical nonsense, you'll find that the WAR leader on the South Side of Chicago is some guy named Carlos Sanchez. This player does not exist, and is a very boring name for a guy who's leading the White Sox in something.

No, turns out Baseball Reference fouled this up, as this is a glitch in the general management of the site; everywhere else, Yolmer Sanchez' name has been changed to, well, Yolmer, as he started going by his birth name rather by his middle name Carlos prior to his breakout season in 2017. And EVEN LAST YEAR it had his name as Yolmer on the White Sox page. But now, and I have no idea why it's now rather than immediately after the name change, the site is still calling him Carlos again. And it's an issue that hasn't been a thing in over a year.

So...yes, his name is still Yolmer, but I was very confused while making this custom. You click on the player page, boom, his name's Yolmer again. But on the team page...there's an outdated name going on. So that was my little conundrum this week.

Yolmer, by the way, is one of the few reasons to still go to White Sox games. He's a great infielder, he leads the league in triples, and he's having some all-around upward momentum that a lot of people can't seem to catch onto. This team does have a pretty alright core of Yolmer, Tim Anderson and Jose Abreu, all three of whom are mashing the ball this year. Heck, even Matt Davidson and Yoan Moncada are having on seasons, and it has taken a while for me to say that. The only problem this team has is that it can't hit for average to save its life. This team strikes out a ton, though you would too if you had to play in the same division as the Indians.

The only thing the Sox can do at this point is hold on, and protect Reynaldo Lopez, Dylan Covey and Carlos Rodon, or else the fifth place spot that they've been staying out of might be theirs after all.

Coming Tomorrow- Out of the Japanese league he came, and he's currently heading up a rotation of established veterans with more experience than he. Only in St. Louis.