It’s easy to be pessimistic. It’s easy to blame the skipper. It’s easy to eat too much at Ricobene’s.
What’s not so easy?
Overlooking the baseball smarts and hard work of Jake Burger.
Burger has slid easily into the DH role for the White Sox, batting a sizzling .385 and tagging three homers over the last seven games. There’s plenty of success to go around, too, as AJ Pollock and Reese McGuire seem to be honing their at-bats after a sluggish spring.
In Monday’s outing against the Tigers, Burger emphasized his major-league drive.