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QUOTE (My_Sox_Summer @ Apr 7, 2013 -> 06:50 PM) So I made this pic. If it offends you, you are a crappy fan. Go Sox. I refuse to accept that I'm a crappy fan for not going to see a game in 32 degree weather. This passive/aggressive guilt-trip garbage is not helpful.

We beat their two best pitchers, too.

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QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Apr 4, 2013 -> 03:59 PM) Too early to swap the bottom and top of the lineups? Yes

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Apr 4, 2013 -> 12:38 PM) The Video > 2-0 ? Yeah I mean, I guess it has to play at least until we lose.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 4, 2013 -> 12:15 PM) Ozzie Guillen would have had 3 backups playing today. Ventura has no one shuffled out, and last year that may have helped burn the team out. Can't there be a happy medium? As long as we don't do Sunday Teeball lineups, I'm fine with whatever. What a horrible strategy.

Makes sense - we desperately needed 3B depth behind Keppinger.

Single = 2 Victory Points (VP) Double = 5 VP Triple = 10 VP Homer = 20 VP Gavin K = 2 VP (+1 VP if Hawk does NOT say HE GAWWN) Gavin BB = -2 VP Fantastic defensive play = 10 VP Viciedo makes no errors = 10 VP Dunn doesn't strike out = 10 VP Royals defenders collide = 10 VP

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 4, 2013 -> 09:52 AM) What does a score of +100 equate to with regards to baseball runs? Nobody knows, but it HAS to be good.

Dingers and great pitching.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 3, 2013 -> 03:18 PM) Macdougal is the first one I thought of. Also Boone Logan who is somehow still in the league. Check out the numbers since he left the Sox: http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playe...&position=P

Seriously?

Haha, I like how the sync the BOOMs up with homeruns, but like a third of them are other players launching them off of our pitchers.

Holy god

Farmer and DJ can't of a single team, ever, that had purple uniforms (Colorado Rockies).

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 1, 2013 -> 04:14 PM) Yeah I'm gonna go ahead and say that's ridiculous. If you use the traditional definition of a 3 hitter, you are looking for a guy who hits for average, power, and has speed. That's Alex Rios. If you want the sabermetric definition of a 3 hitter, you are looking for a guy who primarily gets on base and hits for power, strikeouts and average be damned. That's Adam Dunn. +1 to this. I think Adam Dunn, if he's right, is our ideal #3 hitter. Whether or not he can back to a .360+ OBP, however, is a big question.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Apr 1, 2013 -> 10:34 AM) POTUS will be ready..... Barack Obama ‏@BarackObama 50m Ready for Opening Day. Hmmm, he could be a LOOGY

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Mar 28, 2013 -> 02:53 PM) 2011 was not a financial disaster. The Sox have done a great job making the public believe they have no money. Reinsdorf said they lost money. Why are you so confident he's lying?

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Mar 28, 2013 -> 01:56 PM) There is always a time and place to overpay, whether by money or players, to try and compete. With the Sox current positioning, that time was not now. There are some building blocks in place, but it is an older team without a true identity moving forward - even 2 years from now, there are going to be several contracts off the books that the team will look drastically different than it does going into this year. And while you can say this is generally true, I believe that you could realistically see 9 completely different players as starters in the lineup in 3 years. I don't see that as likely - I think Flowers, Viciedo, and De Aza will still likely be here at the very least - but it's still very possible. There aren't many teams you can say that about. Spending any more significant money could have very easily been a waste. There was no reason to tear it down either because this team could easily win the division this year too. I don't see that as likely either, but again, it's very possible. Going to either extreme would not have been smart. It rarely is. Additionally, you (Marty) presume that there are always great buys available on the market. The first part of the 21st century is littered with the corpses of teams that decided to spend on whatever was available because it was "time." (See Rockies/Hampton, Dodgers/Pierre, Marlins/Bell, etc.). There may not have been anything on the market that Han was comfortable investing in at market rates this year.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Mar 28, 2013 -> 11:47 AM) You're assuming they would not be a better team, draw more fans, and make a postseason. You're assuming we know more about their finances than they do.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Mar 27, 2013 -> 07:19 PM) What if I'm wrong? They could easily afford another $30M on this payroll. Why the hell would it make sense for them to operate at a loss of $8m-$12m?

Bump for the addition of everything else. Sorry I didn't keep up, I was in Phoenix all last week without my laptop. CA: #19 1B: #12 2B: #20 3B: #23 SS: #16 CF: #13 RF: #21 LF: #25 DH: #12 (of 15) SP: #8 RP: #7 Avg Rank (counting DH as #24): #17 Surprises: Bullpen being so high, RF and DH being so low. Interesting, though, that the average ranking is 17, which feels about right. Thoughts? Was this an interesting "series" for everyone?

Very cool.

QUOTE (southside_hitman @ Mar 18, 2013 -> 02:56 PM) I don't get how pass balls are added to wild pitches when evaluating a catcher. One is an error on the pitcher and the other on the catcher. Is this some sort of attempt to diminish AJ's defense? That would be ironic because there will be plenty of pitches thrown outside of Flowers reach that he will not get to because of his size and lack of mobility -- pitches that another catcher, even AJ at his advanced age, would block or catch. Better catchers will stop more wild pitches because they're better, even if the mistake was on the pitcher. Think about how people around here like to give Paul Konerko credit for scoops. It's the same reason errors aren't enough alone to rate defense -- what does and what doesn't happen are both important. Derek Jeter wins gold gloves for making only 8 errors a year while Alexei makes 18, but Alexei Ramirez routinely makes 100-150 more infield assists than Jeter because of the massive difference in range. Think of preventing wild pitches as a proxy for range as a catcher.

QUOTE (southside_hitman @ Mar 18, 2013 -> 02:56 PM) The rankings are just opinions based on statistics and projections based on prior years and various subjective factors. These aren't opinions at all though, these are rankings based on mathematical projections. The only subjective part is the playing time breakdown.