Yasmani Grandal gets on base.
When he’s not standing on first, as he has nearly 60 times following walks this season, Yaz can usually be found being mobbed by the White Sox bench after a clutch hit or walk-off bomb. Increasingly over the last month of baseball, Grandal has become a hometown favorite.
Not bad for a guy hitting .177.
Now, Grandal’s bizarre statistics have been analyzed and whispered about at all levels of baseball. Drunks preach in the bleachers about his .389 OBP. Sports-suited broadcasters in the ESPN offices (who at least have noticed that the White Sox exist) marvel at his batter’s eye, which has netted him twice the number of walks as he earned last year in the same number of at-bats.