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Derek Shomon

👤 Speaker
336 total appearances

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Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: Getting To Know New White Sox Hitting Coach Derek Shomon

Great to hear.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: Getting To Know New White Sox Hitting Coach Derek Shomon

That's great.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: Getting To Know New White Sox Hitting Coach Derek Shomon

You fans, I appreciate you.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: Getting To Know New White Sox Hitting Coach Derek Shomon

And just know everybody's working to put something really quality and special on the field.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: Getting To Know New White Sox Hitting Coach Derek Shomon

Oh, Ryan, I talk almost daily, man.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: Getting To Know New White Sox Hitting Coach Derek Shomon

I've said it on record several times already, like the work that he's done along with the rest of the hitting department, like there were serious strides made last year with the Chicago White Sox offense as a whole from the big leagues all the way down to the DR. I think that's really important to note, right?

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: Getting To Know New White Sox Hitting Coach Derek Shomon

Like

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: Getting To Know New White Sox Hitting Coach Derek Shomon

we, we like to just like really hone in on the major league level, but like, we need to understand what's happening elsewhere.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: Getting To Know New White Sox Hitting Coach Derek Shomon

That is eventually going to influence what happens right on the field at rate field.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: Getting To Know New White Sox Hitting Coach Derek Shomon

So like there was so much good stuff last year, so much progress made that said, now it's like, we have to continue making progress.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: Getting To Know New White Sox Hitting Coach Derek Shomon

We have to continue getting better.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: Getting To Know New White Sox Hitting Coach Derek Shomon

And there is no one better to be in that seat overseeing all of this as a director of hitting than Ryan Fuller.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: Getting To Know New White Sox Hitting Coach Derek Shomon

I think like,

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: Getting To Know New White Sox Hitting Coach Derek Shomon

very calculated also connects with people exceptionally well like we saw what he was able to do with colson and like uh building that relationship with him right and um what kind of came out of the wash there but yeah fuller and i talk fuller and i talk almost every day to some capacity i mean that's great to hear obviously that there is becoming a more cohesive unit which obviously can only help this team grow further and further like you said you know there were positive steps

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: Getting To Know New White Sox Hitting Coach Derek Shomon

Yep.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: Getting To Know New White Sox Hitting Coach Derek Shomon

Great question.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: Getting To Know New White Sox Hitting Coach Derek Shomon

Get asked it often.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: Getting To Know New White Sox Hitting Coach Derek Shomon

There's not any one particular player that I'm like most excited about working with.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: Getting To Know New White Sox Hitting Coach Derek Shomon

I think I like to think in terms of what you just alluded to.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: Getting To Know New White Sox Hitting Coach Derek Shomon

And it's like this, this co-op, this collab.