{"id":136895,"date":"2026-05-22T22:33:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T01:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/giants-white-sox-series-preview-mass-appeal\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T22:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T01:33:45","slug":"giants-white-sox-series-preview-mass-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/en\/giants-white-sox-series-preview-mass-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants-White Sox Series Preview: Mass Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"zephr-anchor\">\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The White Sox spent a little bit in the offseason and acquired a fun player from Japan who has slugged the franchise back into relevance. As fun as it has been to see that the literal Pope of the Roman Catholic church is a White Sox fan, Munetaka Murakami\u2019s fast rise in 2026 has dragged the Southsiders from embarrassing afterthought to a firm \u201con second thought\u201d team and that alone makes this matchup feel cringe-inducing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">See, the Giants were supposed to be better than the Chicago White Sox. They\u2019re supposed to be the better-run operation. Their player-turned-exec isn\u2019t the one who should be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mccoveychronicles.com\/san-francisco-giants-analysis\/106537\/san-francisco-giants-no-hot-seat-for-buster-posey-despite-awful-start\">getting grilled by AM radio hosts<\/a>, it\u2019s Chris Getz, the utility guy who hit .250 for his career then ditched his cleats for the front office, who should be having a tough time of things. He not only put together the 2024 &amp; 2025 teams which combined for 223 losses, he was the exec in the offseason <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/white-sox-gm-chris-getz-165503973.html\">who couldn\u2019t remember the handedness of a player he traded for<\/a> \u2014 embarrassing\u2026 right?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">And yet, his team has some heat. Not just from Vatican City, but across the country and in Japan. Game one of this three-game series is Friday Night at Oracle Park, which just so happens to be Japanese Heritage Night. Once again, the Giants don\u2019t have a Japanese player on the roster, perhaps not for lack of effort, but they sure could use Munetaka Murakami in their lineup right now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here\u2019s an extensive highlights package put together by MLB:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On the other hand, as Ben Clemens wrote for FanGraphs <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fangraphs.com\/munetaka-murakami-as-advertised\/\">a month ago:<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<blockquote class=\"duet--article--blockquote _1teeyfa0 ls9zuh9\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">The book on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fangraphs.com\/players\/munetaka-murakami\/37120\/stats\/batting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Munetaka Murakami<\/a> was pretty straightforward when he hit the market this winter. Phenomenal cosmic power \u2013 itty bitty contact rate. While acknowledging recent injuries, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fangraphs.com\/lets-scout-the-players-coming-over-from-asia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">our writeup<\/a> noted his contact rates against good velocity (63%) and secondary pitches (50%) as red flags in his profile. And these weren\u2019t little red flags, either. [\u2026] \u201c\u2026if Murakami is only ever the quality of contact hitter we\u2019ve seen the last three years, with no changes or improvements, he basically can\u2019t be a good MLB hitter.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the 26 games since that post went up, the White Sox have gone 16-10 with Murakami hitting.253\/.372\/.526 in 113 plate appearances, boosted by 8 home runs and 2 doubles in 24 hits. His 18 walks and 38 strikeouts translate to a 15.9 BB% and 33.6 K%. On the season, he has 17 home runs and an 18.4 BB% paired with a 32.5 K%. That strikeout rate is currently 7th-worst in the sport behind the following players:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--block-placement jgpyd51 jgpyd50 duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<ul class=\"duet--article--unordered-list _1nfb3k4i feuejx0 ls9zuh1\">\n<li class=\"feuejx1\"><span class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup\">Hunter Goodman, COL \u2014 36% (99 wRC+)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"feuejx1\"><span class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup\">Garrett Mitchell, MIL \u2014 35.9% (100 wRC+)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"feuejx1\"><span class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup\">Oneil Cruz, PIT \u2014 35.1% (115 wRC+)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"feuejx1\"><span class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup\">Ian Happ, CHC \u2014 33.0% (123 wRC+)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"feuejx1\"><span class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup\">Kyle Schwarber, PHI \u2014 32.9% (168 wRC+)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"feuejx1\"><span class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup\">Spencer Torkelson, DET \u2014 32.6% (95 wRC+)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I hope the takeaway is <em>not <\/em>that you can be a great hitter with a high strikeout rate, even as this list shows increasingly better hitters as the rate goes down. The 26-game sampling I just cited suggests that Murakami is trending in the direction the projection systems indicated given his numbers in Japan, too. No qualified hitter ended last season with a strikeout rate that high (Ryan McMahon had the worst with 32.1%) and only Zack Gelof in 2024 could \u201cboast\u201d something worse (34.4%). That walk rate is very competitive, though. It\u2019s currently fourth-best in MLB behind Nick Kurtz (21.2%), Taylor Ward (21%), and Mike Trout (20.4%). His 17 home runs trail only Schwarber.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Why am I mentioning any of this?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hmm\u2026 is it that I think the Giants missed out on signing a 26-year old slugger? Not exactly. I can certainly see the organization <em>not <\/em>wanting a player with lots of swing and miss in his game and I see that they\u2019re willing to ignore the power potential to back up that belief (hello, Bryce Eldridge \u2014 or, rather, is it soon to be <em>goodbye<\/em>?) and I also acknowledge that 17 home run total might be closer to 8 or 9 playing in Oracle Park \u2014 though, it must be noted, the majority of his dingers have come on the road. And, it\u2019s plausible that he\u2019s going to regress to a mean ol\u2019 mean pretty soon here given the spiking strikeout rate. But, just for a moment, it\u2019s fun to imagine a team coming out of a rebuild led by a former player. Sounds nice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Because how else have the White Sox gotten to the point of being above .500? Before he was the GM, Chris Getz was the team\u2019s farm director. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Getz\">From his Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<blockquote class=\"duet--article--blockquote _1teeyfa0 ls9zuh9\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">In 2014, Getz was hired by the Kansas City Royals as their assistant to player development. He worked with them until 2016 when he went to the Chicago White Sox as their director of player development from 2017 to 2020. There, he worked with many talented prospects like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luis_Robert_Jr.\">Luis Robert Jr.<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yo%C3%A1n_Moncada\">Yo\u00e1n Moncada<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eloy_Jim%C3%A9nez\">Eloy Jim\u00e9nez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Kopech\">Michael Kopech<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lucas_Giolito\">Lucas Giolito<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dylan_Cease\">Dylan Cease<\/a>. The White Sox farm system was ranked as the best in the MLB in 2017. In 2021, White Sox promoted him as assistant General Manager to then-GM <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rick_Hahn\">Rick Hahn<\/a>. Following Hahn\u2019s firing on August 22, 2023, Getz was promoted as the White Sox new Senior Vice President and GM on August 31<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The current roster has his fingerprints all over it, both from player development and during a teardown that saw the franchise go 162-324 over three seasons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><strong><em>C \u2014 Edgar Quero<\/em><\/strong> (acquired in deadline deal trading away Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo Lopez)<br \/><strong><em>1B \u2014 Munetaka Murakami<\/em><\/strong> (signed in the offseason via the posting season, 2 years, $34 million)<br \/><strong><em>2B \u2014 <\/em><\/strong><em><strong>Chase Meidroth<\/strong><\/em> (acquired in deal for Garrett Crochet)<br \/><strong><em>SS \u2014 Colson Montgomery<\/em> <\/strong>(1st round draft pick \u2014 #22 \u2014 in 2021)<br \/><strong><em>3B \u2014 <\/em><\/strong><em><strong>Miguel Vargas <\/strong><\/em>(acquired in 3-way with Dodgers &amp; Cardinals for Michael Kopech &amp; Erick Fedde)<br \/><strong><em>LF \u2014 Sam Antonacci<\/em><\/strong> (5th round draft pick in 2024)<br \/><strong><em>CF \u2014 Tristan Peters<\/em><\/strong> (acquired for cash considerations this offseason \u2014 was acquired by Giants in 2022)<br \/><strong><em>RF \u2014 Jarred Kelenic<\/em><\/strong> (signed as a free agent in the offseason)<br \/><strong><em>DH \u2014 Andrew Benentendi<\/em><\/strong> (the inherited bad contract \u2014 just one more season to go!)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><strong><em>Starting pitchers: Davis Martin <\/em><\/strong>(14th round draft pick in 2018), <strong><em>Sean Burke <\/em><\/strong>(3rd round in 2021), <strong><em>Anthony Kay<\/em><\/strong> (a pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mccoveychronicles.com\/general\/102514\/affordable-starting-pitching-depth-for-a-tender-budgeted-team-san-francisco-giants\">I thought the Giants might\u2019ve signed<\/a> this offseason), <strong><em>Erick Fedde<\/em><\/strong> (signed him out of Korea and got the best season of his career in 2024), <strong><em>Noah Schultz <\/em><\/strong>(1st round draft pick \u2014 #26 \u2014 in 2022).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">They also signed Seranthony Dominguez in the offseason to be their closer. It hasn\u2019t gone well so far (6+ FIP), but the White Sox kept pushing even if the vision wasn\u2019t quite clear. And from above I intend to illustrate that this is the road map the Giants have been chasing since 2017, just without those 100+-loss seasons as catalysts. Some of Chicago\u2019s later round picks have paid off on top of trades and free agent pickups.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">One of Getz\u2019s other key moves was hiring Max Venable to be their manager starting last season. Max and Molly\u2019s kid really wore it in year 1 of his deal (101 losses), but with Murakami and the fruition of some talent development, he\u2019s off to a much better start in 2026. In Wednesday\u2019s post-game wrap, Dave Flemming mused that Max Venable is the first major league manager that Duane Kuiper has ever changed the diapers of and that notion had Kuip feeling some kind of way. Max Venable\u2019s name had been mentioned as a possible candidate going all the way back to the post-Bochy days, but here he is now wrangling another team trying to win its way back to relevance. Who\u2019s got it better right now?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Giants have lost 3 straight games and are just 7-12 in May with a -26 run differential. Their team 89 wRC+ puts them ahead of only the Mets and Rockies in MLB, but their team batting average of .244 puts them in a three-way tie with Arizona &amp; Washington for top 1\/3 of the league, so, who\u2019s to say if they\u2019re bad or not? The White Sox are hitting just .235 but have a 105 wRC+. They also have better pitching (3.8 fWAR to the Giants\u2019 2.3), but if you\u2019re only looking at ERA then, sure, the Giants have it over Chicago with a 4.17 team ERA compared to Chicago\u2019s 4.35. But if you\u2019re only comparing batting average and ERA, please check the nearest calendar because you might have traveled back in time to some point in the 20th century.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><em>Who: <\/em>San Francisco Giants (20-30) vs. Chicago White Sox (25-24)<br \/><em>Where:<\/em> Oracle Park | San Francisco, California<br \/><em>When: <\/em>Friday at 7:15pm PT, Saturday at 1:05pm PT, Sunday at 1:05pm PT<br \/><em>National broadcasts: <\/em>None.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><strong>Projected starters<\/strong><br \/><em>Friday: <\/em>Davis Martin (RHP 6-1, 1.61 ERA) vs. Trevor McDonald (RHP 2-0, 2.37 ERA)<br \/><em>Saturday: <\/em>Erik Fedde (RHP 0-4, 4.30 ERA) vs. Adrian Houser (RHP 2-4, 5.25 ERA)<br \/><em>Sunday: <\/em>Noah Schultz (LHP 2-3, 4.93 ERA) vs. Robbie Ray (LHP 3-6, 4.28 ERA)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p><h3 class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup\">White Sox (besides Murakami)<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><strong><em>Randal Grichuk: <\/em><\/strong>Here\u2019s where this almost-Giant wound up in 2026. Well, first he was in the Yankees\u2019 minor league system, then granted release, and then the White Sox got him. With three lefties in the Giants\u2019 bullpen, it\u2019s probable we\u2019ll see him as a pinch hitter in this series as that\u2019s been a big role for him in his 13 games. He\u2019s 7-for-22 with 4 homers in this small sample size.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><strong><em>Jordan Hicks: <\/em><\/strong>Here\u2019s where this former Giant wound up in 2026. The Red Sox wanted him off the roster enough to send cash, a prospect, and two players to be named later and all he\u2019s done for the White Sox is continue his terrible slide into not being a major league-caliber pitcher. Having said that, don\u2019t be surprised if he\u2019s asked to get key outs in one of these games.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><strong><em>Victor Bericoto: <\/em><\/strong>As of this writing, it\u2019s unclear who he\u2019s replacing or what his role will be, but figure we\u2019ll see him in this series at some point. The 24-year old left-handed batter has an .804 OPS in 186 PA for Sacramento this season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><strong><em>Trevor McDonald: <\/em><\/strong>The Giants seem like they <em>don\u2019t <\/em>want to send him down when Logan Webb becomes eligible to come off the IL, but it\u2019s always worth checking out one of his starts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With Eldridge and now Bericoto on the bench (presumably), might he turn to it a bit more often?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Giants will win a game in this series!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mccoveychronicles.com\/san-francisco-giants-game-information\/106870\/giants-white-sox-series-preview-mass-appeal\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\nMore: https:\/\/theglobaltrack.com\/<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/corinthiames.com.br\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White Sox spent a little bit in the offseason and acquired a fun player from Japan who has slugged the franchise back into relevance. 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