bubba phillips

Top 5 very good. Bottom 4 suck.

Since Abreu will be 33 next season, I'm surprised that no one is suggesting an incentive-laden contract. I know it went over like a fart in church in the Machado negotiations, but still. How about $8 million guaranteed with various benchmarks for HR's, RBI's, OBP that could bring it to a max of $14 million if he reaches them all. Also an option for a 2nd year if minimum benchmarks are met.

Didn't realize there were so many bad fielding 1B's. On second thought, isn't that where you put somebody who can't field any other position? BTW, which of those stats reflect Abreu's "statue-like" agility in going to his left or to his right on batted balls?

You must average 3.1 plate appearances for every game your team plays, or 502 for the season. At this point, Anderson is 18 PA's short. If he averages 4 PA's a game for the next 20 games, he'll be caught up.

You must average 3.1 plate appearances for every game your team plays, or 502 for the season. At this point, Anderson is 18 PA's short. If he averages 4 PA's a game for the next 20 games, he'll be caught up.

I guess he wasn't "squeezed" all that much by the home plate umpire.

One of my pet peeves as a Sox fan growing up in the '60's was what the White Sox record was for home runs in a season at the time: a puny 29!! I thought for sure that in 1963 that would be broken by 3B Pete Ward. He started the year by hitting 8 in the first 23 games. He ended the year with only 22. The record was finally broken by another 3B, Bill Melton who hit 33 in 1970.

Easy solution: Make Abreu the permanent DH. Let someone who can actually field the position play 1B. I know he wants to play in the field, but he's got to realize that he's hurting the team with his glove.

Sometimes?

How's this for an oddity? The lowest BA in the starting lineup today is a season high .240---and it belongs to Eloy Jimenez of all people.

That's at least the second game he's cost us with his errors. You would expect that these minor league scrubs that are called up due to injuries would at least play decent defense.

Many posters have referred to Jimenez's "noodle arm". Eliminating loafing, proper positioning, throwing to the correct base, etc. can be taught. Can a noodle arm be strengthened or is he destined to never throw out a runner at home or at least keep base runners from running on him at will?

Highlighted items are from the movie "Airplane". Hope Walton gave them credit when he used those lines.

minor sidebar: Sox won 7-2.

Yea, but it was dead ball for everybody. Walsh was still the best of that bunch.

Didn't somebody post just a couple of games ago that his fielding was improving? Must have meant somebody else.

He didn't win a Cy Young, since the award didn't start until 1956, but he definitely was the best pitcher in the MLB in 1908. Ed Walsh had the best record ever by a Sox pitcher. He was 40-15 with an ERA of 1.42. In fact, he holds the MLB record for best career ERA of 1.82.

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Actually it is. The likes of Alonso, Rondon, Palka, and Reed are finally all gone. There were games when we had 2 of them in the lineup in the same game, usually one of them batting 4th. Good riddance.

Now that Castillo has inched his way over the Mendoza Line (at least temporarily), we are fresh out of sub .200 hitters on the current 25 man roster.

Just need 8 more wins to match last year's record. Should be a piece of cake. They can lose 3 of every 4 games for the next 32 games and they would tie last year's mark----and still have 11 games left to improve on it. I, for one don't think these are meaningless games. I think it's paramount for this franchise to show some improvement from last year, just to show that the rebuild is working. Damn going for a top 5 pick.

Exhibit A: HOF'er Mariano Rivera

The Sox also won the season series versus the World Champion Red Sox last year.

Nope. Happened yesterday. I made a post to that effect. (Q: What's wrong with this lineup? A: Nobody in it is batting under .200)

So tanking is selective? Try like hell to win some and then try like hell to lose some?