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Thad Bosley

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  1. Teahen actually resembled a real third baseman on that double play.
  2. QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 21, 2011 -> 06:50 PM) c'mon G, stop f***ing around I think he heard ya!
  3. QUOTE (mcgrad70 @ Apr 20, 2011 -> 06:17 PM) New ownership is the only way I'll ever go back which means I'll never see my team in person again. Why didn't DeBartolo sue MLB to let him in? Steinbrenner was afraid of his money so he colluded with Reinsdorf because he knew Jerry wasn't going to compete with him. Then soon after Reinsdorf gets in, Steinbrenner refers to Reinsdorf and Einhorm as the Abbot and Costello of baseball. And how exactly did he do that, this collusion business of which you speak, given Reinsdorf was not yet an owner at that point?
  4. QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Apr 20, 2011 -> 02:06 PM) So...his overall winning percentage averages out to about 85 wins a year and that puts him in "unfireable" territory? It's good to be Ozzie Guillen. At least he's in good company. Joe Torre and Tony LaRussa's overall winning percentages average out to 87 wins; Whitey Herzog's 86 wins; and Tommy Lasorda checks in at 85 wins.
  5. QUOTE (C_LEE45 @ Apr 19, 2011 -> 06:57 PM) calm down this is a good team we are just in a funk we will figure it out and get back on track......DONT STOP BELIEVING +1
  6. QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 15, 2011 -> 10:16 PM) With Pierre, you try to have him steal, then try to move him over by hitting to the right side. I just don't understand giving up an out there. Isn't that 99% of the reason we traded for him in the first place, to steal?
  7. A.) .902 career OPS B.) avg. of 38 homeruns, 100 RBIs the past seven years C.) only 24 at-bats thus far this season, half of which interrupted by an appendectomy D.) IT'S ONLY APRIL 15th!! Um, so why are we even having this discussion?
  8. QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Apr 15, 2011 -> 09:08 PM) This thread is REALLY just a joke, right?? Yes, and quite a bad one at that.
  9. If the baseball world could put up with Sammy Sosa and that obnoxious hopping he used to do right out of the batter's box as he watched one of his homers leave the park, followed by taking those little baby steps around the bases and then the point-to-the-sky thing when he reached home plate, and oh yeah, the heart tapping and mugging to the camera show afterwards in the dugout, they ought to be ok with Lastings and his removing-of-the-helmet routine as he reaches home plate.
  10. QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 9, 2011 -> 04:50 PM) I remember Robin and Franks debuts that year. There wasn't a whole lot else to watch on those teams. I can't imagine how Soxtalk would have looked if they had to watch that baseball being played. On Robin's debut team from 1989, yes - not a whole lot to watch there. They were a last place team. But Frank's debut team of 1990 was a terrific one. That club came out of nowhere to give the then-mighty Oakland A's a run for their money in the AL West that summer. It was the last year at Old Comiskey Park, too, which added to all of the fun that year. And for Frank's part, he hit the ground running. He batted .330 to go along with a .983 OPS in 240 bats, on his way, of course, to becoming the greatest hitter in White Sox history.
  11. QUOTE (WCSox @ Feb 1, 2011 -> 06:45 PM) This piling-on is getting so stupid... He has a career OPS+ of 97, with some gap power and a reasonable .330 career OBP. That isn't indicative of "suck." It's indicative of "average." If Teahen's 2007-2009 seasons, where he was a full-time player for the Royals with at least 544 at-bats in each of those seasons, coupled with what we all witnessed last season, comes across to you as "average" offensive production, what body of work from other MLB players with similar amount of at-bats and at the same positions Teahen has played would qualify them as "less than average"? That's really my point, here. What some may be charitably willing to classify this guy's production as "average", I am saying it seems to me as "below average". Remember - if there is "average" production out there, there then has to be "less than average" production somewhere. I believe that's what Teahen has provided throughout his career to date.
  12. QUOTE (WCSox @ Jan 30, 2011 -> 11:00 AM) This is true, and a lot of people are conveniently forgetting it. That said, I tend to agree with those who don't think that he's going to hit .275 with 20 HRs (even if he got the at-bats, which he probably won't). He doesn't suck nearly as badly offensively as some people here want to believe, but he's still not good enough to play a high-OPS position on a major league team. Any chance that Kenny shops Teahen and offers to eat half of his salary? Or does he want to keep him around in case Morel doesn't pan out immediately? Conveniently forgetting what, exactly? That he might have had a week or two there where he was hitting ok before he went down with his injury? Whatever. Truth is up until then he was hitting as he's pretty much hit his previous five, full years in the league, when he's featured a routine no-power/no-speed/high-strikeout offensive performance. Outside of his admittedly nice performance way back in 2006, I don't see how you can't conclude that this guy doesn't "suck" bad offensively, especially if you fairly compare him to his peers around the league at the "high-ops positions" at which he plays.
  13. QUOTE (Lemon_44 @ Jan 30, 2011 -> 12:03 AM) I may be the only one who thinks Teahan is going to have a nice year. I thought he was just starting to get comfortable and his hitting was picking up when he got hurt. By the time he returned, Vizquel had unexpectadly played so well that is was hard to remove him from the lineup. I argued last year that there is an ajustment period that everyone goes through probably even moreso with Ozzie. He should feel alot more comfortable this year and I think could easily hit about .275 with 20 HR and 70-80 RBI. I'd think anyone would take that. By no means am I ready to hand over 3rd to Morel based on a late season call up. He shows promise but so have alot of guys. Either one will have to earn it. What makes you think Teahen might "easily hit" at this level? Prior to his abysmal 2010 season with the Sox, he had three 524+ at-bat seasons with Kansas City, where the most he was able to muster was 15 homers and 60 RBIs. I'm sorry - he has done NOTHING during his six year career now to suggest he's able to hit at the levels you suggest - levels that aren't even all that great, truth be told. Certainly not for a corner infielder/outfielder, the positions he's purportedly headed to play.
  14. QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 29, 2011 -> 11:01 AM) Here's the pre-ST Teahen fluff piece. 350-400 at-bats for Teahen is about 150-200 more than I was hoping for.
  15. QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 28, 2011 -> 01:17 PM) Way before my time! Ron Kittle 1983 Rookie of the Year and lone Sox representative in the '83 All-Star game at Comiskey Park Don Kessinger
  16. QUOTE (klaus kinski @ Jan 13, 2011 -> 03:36 PM) Baines' catch that saved Seaver's no-hitter. Huh? Seaver didn't throw a no-hitter in a Sox uniform.
  17. QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Jan 13, 2011 -> 11:46 AM) I love that the Sox do this with their young guys. Is this "camp" limited to just our young guys, or could a guy who could use a lot of help on his infield defense, say, like a Mark Teahen, also participate?
  18. QUOTE (Heads22 @ Dec 16, 2010 -> 12:40 PM) Can't say we aren't trying. What we can say is that they seem to be finding a lot of coinage in between and underneath those seat cushions!
  19. QUOTE (Buehrlesque @ Dec 16, 2010 -> 11:32 AM) Hey, you make a lot of good points overall in this post. No doubt Beltran is a longshot. But just sayin': if Quentin ($~5.5 mil) is traded, and Teahen ($4.5 mil) is included in the Beltran deal with a Kyle Bellamy and/or Nathan Jones and the Mets pick up $6 mil or so on his contract, the whole series of transactions is nearly payroll neutral. Not saying that makes it likely, just that the Mets aren't going to get a ton of quality prospects for Beltran in any case, and this might be feasible if guys like Quentin/Pierre/Jackson are moved out. If not, of course it's not going to happen and the team will be worse off if it trades Quentin or a SP for prospects to save cash. Can we just stop with the talk about Pierre being traded? He is not going anywhere, no matter how much he is not liked on Soxtalk. If anything, in reality he's probably as much of a lock to be on the 2011 roster as anybody on this team.
  20. I don't know why people keep coming up with these Juan Pierre trade scenarios. He's clearly not going anywhere. Guillen loves him, and unlike with guys like Quentin and Beckham, there has been no speculation whatsoever this offseason about him being moved. He has one year left on his current contract, and he'll serve out that year as the Sox' leftfielder and lead-off hitter.
  21. QUOTE (Charlie Haeger's Knuckles @ Dec 10, 2010 -> 02:37 PM) For as much flack as Teahen takes, its because of his 3B defense (was anyone really surprised?) and his contract - but not for his bat. His valuation is based on his hitting (again, ignoring WAR). Keep his glove away from 3B and he'll earn that 4.75 million. If puttiong Teahen on the field and in the lineup 2 or 3 times a week keeps Quentin out of RF, I am all for it. Nobody should have been surprised by Teahen last season, least of all any fans of the AL Central. He played like he did with the Sox last year - meaning he was sub-par offensively and defensively - for five full seasons with the Royals prior to coming to us. That includes being lousy with the glove in the outfield. So it's bad enough that he will more or less be the 25th man on the roster next year as a result of that contract we can't unload. Just please don't suggest he be run out to the field in any capacity at any frequency approaching regularity.
  22. QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 9, 2010 -> 03:01 PM) The argument isn't even about SB's, as I think anyone will tell you they are valuable - in a vacuum. The issue is effectiveness, which comes from rate. A guy who steals 18 in 20 attempts is more valuable than a guy who steals 50 but gets caught 30. The negative value of a CS is more than the positive value of a SB. His success rate in stealing last year was 79%, and if I'm not mistaken, the threshold for being a good stealer is 80%. So from that perspective, he was fairly effective at the craft of stealing bases last year, especially given that he accomplished the feat more than anyone else in the league. Couple that with the very good defense he featured in left field, and I hardly think we have a "terrible" player on our hands here. Great, no. Good, probably not. Decent, probably. Terrible, no. I would save the terrible label for a guy like Teahen, who for the most part is below average in almost every aspect of the game.
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