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32 minutes ago, Green Line said:
It was disgraceful. But the angry mob ran TLR out of town and they'll be begging for him back soon.
WTF are you on about? Nobody is every going to want that embarrassment back here. Nobody. If Grifol turned out to be the worst manager in baseball (he won't be, despite whatever the ultra-overreacting sky-is-falling doomsayers wanna say), he would still be a GIANT upgrade over LaRussa. That numbskull was HISTORICALLY terrible. Like, more than once last year, he made a boneheaded decision so inexplicable that it had never happened before in the history of baseball. Like, literally. The Sox would be better off with no manager at all than they were with LaRussa here.
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1 hour ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said:
I don't understand the proof that he's soft comment. Unless you feel what he feels how can there be proof ? Certainly not proof that would hold up in a court of Law. Class action suit: White Sox Iron-Men fans vs. Yoan "House of Pain" Moncada.
Yoan sells every little ding like he's Shawn Michaels, but I don't see how anybody can call him soft. He's dramatic, but he doesn't miss much time at all. He doesn't "act tough" but the proof is in the pudding.
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21 minutes ago, Chicago White Sox said:
Is your argument let’s never sign expensive free agents because there is some chance they don’t work out?
Historically, $100 mil+ free agents fail to meet expectations (previous career norms) around 2/3rds of the time. Don't get me wrong, I think we should spend ALL the money, I just prefer it spread out on several pretty big contracts as opposed to one or two huge ones
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1 hour ago, Chicago White Sox said:
Someone will take him because they won’t be as emotional as Sox fans and overreact to his two month stint with us. On a full season basis, he was 6th in fWAR at 2.2, 7th in FIP at 2.43 (w/ at least 30 IP), 3rd in K/9 at 15.08, and had a 98th percentile xwOBA. This was over 59.2 innings, which is roughly a full season for him.
Meanwhile the other “year and a half” everyone loves to cite as being horrible was a total of 36 innings (~60% of one normal length season for him). And the best part is Kimbrel wasn’t even bad in 2020. Coming off a COVID impacted spring training, he had two bad appearances to start the season (33.94 FIP in 1.3 innings). Over the rest of the season, which was a total of 14 innings, he posted a 1.12 FIP with a 18.0 K/9. He literally was just as dominant over the final 91% of the 2020 season as he was with the Cubs to start 2021.
I know, I know, Two Gun Pete will call me a “slicer & dicer” for daring to use any sort of critical thinking when assessing Kimbrel’s stats over the past two years. And he definitely won’t like me using context and pointing out that changing roles, experiencing a 44 inning YoY inning increase, and/or dealing with a sick daughter may have had something to do with his sudden falloff after joining the Sox.
Regardless, some of the brightest minds in baseball were highly interested in him at the trade deadline and I have zero doubt a few of those same minds see a potential buy low opportunity here. I doubt we get much in return, but major league front offices almost certainly value Craig Kimbrel much higher than the majority of posters on Soxtalk do and we will be able to move him.
He has been brutal in meaningful games for several years. When the cubs were in the hunt, he was absolute trash, then pitched well when it didn't matter, then got traded to contender, mega-trash. And in four Red Sox postseason a, his ERA was around 4 and a half, never better than 4.15.
He is a fraud.
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3 minutes ago, chw42 said:
Yeah cause TLR made him play at the warning track so he wouldn't kill himself.
He was visibly faster around the bases and in the outfield when he returned.
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Just now, Balta1701 said:
Hmph, while Fangraphs and UZR didn't like his defense, both Statcast and DRS agree that he was an average OF last year and notably better than in previous years. Interesting.
I was basically going off the eye test. He clearly worked on his foot speed, he was a much faster player when he returned both around the bases and in the outfield. His jumps are still not awesome, but they're certainly improved. And he's a young guy who works hard. I have no reason to believe that he won't continue to improve.
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5 minutes ago, maxjusttyped said:
I don't want bad outfield defense either, but if the Sox are going to lock themselves into it, doing so on cheaper guys like Rosario is preferable to me than spending up for Schwaber or Castellanos.
After returning, Eloy was vastly improved defensively last year.
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7 minutes ago, bmags said:
Actually screamed
Yeah, not only doubling down, but now speaking in a demeaning way about your stud pitcher? What a leader of men.
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26 minutes ago, Balta1701 said:
I’m sure this was dealt with somewhere else, but how exactly is $50 million the largest contract in history for a reliever when Chapman signed originally for 5/$86 with an opt out?
You have to really do some mental gymnastics to make it true, but I'm almost positive the people saying biggest reliever contract ever mean that it's $54 mil guaranteed, even if he pitches three years for the Sox. In that case, he technically has the highest AAV of any reliever ever.
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1 hour ago, Harry Chappas said:
So in three years when Hendricks is good but no longer elite and Bummer is the closer and the Sox don't want to spend $15M on a non- closer, this board should be fun.
They are definitely not picking up that fourth year. They might as well say it right now. The only reason it's there is to make the AAV look higher than it actually is. This is a 3 year deal for $39 mil. The 1.5 a year each year for a decade is basically nothing, big picture.
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14 hours ago, YourWhatHurts said:
I remember not meeting him. I sent him a couple messages to a website many years ago asking if he wanted to go to a Brewers game with me and a buddy and get pretty hammered in the parking lot (sitting up in the nosebleeds of course). He'd didn't respond. This is the only time I have ever messaged a celebrity or really anyone I didn't know o have a business-related reason to, but I tried just because he seemed cool enough to perhaps actually do something like that, and I wanted to see.
Mr. Show is pound for pound, sketch for sketch, the greatest comedy creation in the history of mankind by my estimation. I haven't watched any of the DVDs in years but I know if I put any one of them in I'd go right back to laughing my ass off again.
Also I want to say that they did a Mr Show tour in the US many years ago and I saw them in Chicago. This was I think several years after the show officially ended. You see that also?
I did see the Mr. Show live show. I wanna say they had to call it something different, because like you said, it was years after Mr. Show aired, but I could be wrong about that. I remember laughing my ass off, though.
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5 minutes ago, Harold's Leg Lift said:
Why? Nearly every pitcher on the staff has had TJ. Why would Crochet be treated differently?
It feels like every pitcher in professional baseball gets TJ at some point, these days. I was actually happy when I first heard that Cease had "gotten his out of the way" years ago.
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On 12/30/2020 at 12:39 PM, YourWhatHurts said:
Norm MacDonald is probably the greatest most underappreciated comedian of all time.
I remember way back when that Comedy Central put on a pilot called "Back to Norm" which I hoped would get picked up. Of course it didn't.
I thought it was great.
I really can't stand the shitty shock value comedians / bar trash comedy that is just like bullies telling jokes, etc. like Louis CK, etc. Ron White is a hack, etc.
OTOH always loved Bob Odenkirk and David Cross's stuff, loved Steven Wright, love Norm MacDonald, those guys.
Bob Odenkirk is tied with Jim Thome for the nicest celebrity I've ever met, in person. I don't like bothering famous people out in public, but way back in the day, when I was working as a route driver for a spring water company, I got assigned to deliver to both the set and the office for the movie "Let's go to Prison". I didn't expect to see Bob Odenkirk while I was there, but when I saw him in the office like ten feet from where I was setting up a water cooler, I had to dork out to him over my love for "Mr. Show". Not only was he not annoyed that the water guy was bugging him on the set of his film, but he got up and came over and enthusiastically engaged me in conversation for like ten minutes. Awesome, awesome guy (at least on that day). Whenever I see his name mentioned I feel compelled to mention that.
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4 hours ago, Y2Jimmy0 said:
The Padres gave up a lot of talent though. Two of those dudes were significant international signings that have had immediate success in rookie ball. Caissie was highly regarded 2nd rounder. People were expecting more but it wasn't a straight salary dump. Cubs acquired some real talent.
They acquired very raw, super young talent. Basically lottery ticket prospects. That's not at all in line with what they are outwardly saying, that they are going to do a "re-tooling" ala Boston, not rebuild. Then they traded their most valuable piece for guys that, if they're super lucky, two of them pan out, and in maybe four or five years.
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What's the possible point of getting into the minutia of analyzing numbers on a guy who played a very small number of games immediately after "recovering" from a virus that, while there is still very much we do not know about, one thing that we do know is that a significant percentage of people who get it experience chronic fatigue for several months? Especially when the guy we are talking about flat out told us that he was feeling those effects for the entire short season, and the numbers on his foot/bat speed seem to back up that claim?
This all seems like a pretty pointless exercise, no?
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5 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:
Coward.
Just because somebody doesn't have an immediate take on something doesn't mean that they are a coward. If he just found out like us, I understand his waiting a day or so.
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On 10/16/2020 at 8:33 PM, iWiN4PreP said:
That's actually false.
How so? Kershaw was bad in the postseason before Roberts even got there.
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1 hour ago, Orlando said:
If Dave Roberts can’t win with the Dodgers, he can’t win with anybody. Pass (unless it’s between him and La Russa).
It's not Dave Roberts' fault that Clayton Kershaw is a garbage fire in the playoffs.
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On 9/22/2020 at 8:03 AM, hogan873 said:
Don't forget the numerous tweets from Nightengale saying the Sox are not in contact with Bauer.
From what I can tell, Hahn plays this stuff incredibly close to the vest. The Grandal thing came out of absolute nowhere, as did several of the extensions he pulled off.
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Just now, Buehrle>Wood said:
Absurd there's no lineup yet
WTF is going on, seriously? It's gotta be Eloy-related, right? I mean it's practically gametime
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3 minutes ago, KipWellsFan said:
We seem pretty evenly matched with Oakland. So we have to play sound baseball today. I love Nicky Two Strikes, but he made at least 4 mistakes yesterday. I don't expect that from him today. But no unforced errors may be needed. No extra outs and have to take every base available to us!
I think we have more talent, they have more seasoned veterans. This game is a coin flip IMO.
Also, Nicky needs to work on fielding grounders at the cut of the grass. It is consistently a problem for him. He's a baby, though, he'll get better.
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Can he call the game for ESPN today, please?
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Doesn't it seem like Hahn is just biding his time until he feels Jirschele can come up? That's certainly how it feels to me.
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1 hour ago, Joshua Strong said:
The Sox shouldn’t overpay for a backup catcher. There a better ways to spend that money.
They would be paying for an ace pitcher more than a backup catcher, IMO.
4/3 - Giants @ Sox
in 2023 Season in Review
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At least I've seen individual games where Ruiz has decent command and pitches well. Diekman is, well, I don't know what he is, but he aint a major league pitcher. Even if it's a small percentage chance, Ruiz still has the potential to be effective because of his stuff and occasional very good outing. There is zero chance Diekman will improve, because he's been exactly this for many years now.