When a team sets playoff-or-bust expectations in spring training, this is what happens.
Rick Renteria’s lineups for the White Sox first handful of games this season have inspired plenty of furor among a certain segment of the fan base, the kind of thing that making a leap into contention mode brings.
But one thing has seemingly irked more than all others: Why is Luis Robert batting seventh?
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Indeed, the complaint might not be directly tied to that position in the batting order but that players who were considered preseason reserves, now briefly thrust into starting roles due to injuries, have been slotted ahead of Robert, who White Sox players and coaches spent "Summer Camp" talking up as a future superstar.