Jim Margalus

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248 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 10 Jul

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Rahimi & Grote Show · Jim Margalus joins the show to talk White Sox, Mark DeRosa joins the show to talk Cubs, and PFF left Ben Johnson off their Top 10 coaches list! (HOUR 2) · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

Oh, yeah.

And we still have a lot of calluses, a lot of defense mechanisms built up over the years to where that can easily be deployed if needed.

It's probably a bit of everything.

It's probably scouts.

It just seems like the information flow is a lot better.

Um, you know, whether it's game day, uh, plan of attack or, you know, minor league information in terms of how they're preparing for opponents or how they're going into preparation pregame, uh, talking to hitting coaches and prospects down the system, just talking about how more challenging batting practice has gotten because of, uh, like some of the, uh,

Developments that the Ryan Fuller infrastructure and him filling it out with more of his guys and just more of a consistent approach down the chain really helps.

And then I imagine scouts kind of feeding into that as well and kind of understanding, okay, here's what we're doing with these players.

Here are players who might respond to that.

Tristan Peters is another one in terms of.

Not only scouting prospects, high schoolers, JUCO guys, college guys, but also other teams.

The White Sox have swung and missed on a lot of outfielders, so it seems like they were due to convert on one.

But Peters being somebody who is...

providing some of the best of the league center field defense.

PCA doesn't really count in this conversation.

But in terms of one level down, especially American League, he's among the best there when it comes to center field defense.

And the fact that he's providing a credible doubles power left-handed bat as well, and is among the league leaders and wins above replacement for rookies, coming out of nowhere.

Yeah.

when the center field situation looked like Luis Angel Acuna dependent, is really a revelation and another feather in their cap.

Oh, always a pleasure.

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