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KW operating in stealth mode once again...J/k, but hopefully a mechanic tweak can get him some control.

He somehow just lost all his control. Really crazy. I would give him another shot. Clearly needs some sort of mechanical tweak. Still young enough with good enough stuff to be a lefty reliever.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 12, 2011 -> 02:03 PM) There's nothing to me wrong with a guy who's a 150-ish strikeout a year person...if he's also adding 30 HR power and walking. But he is likely not going to be adding the walking. Granted, he has the tools to be a really good OF, which can off-set his weaknesses in hitting. I think we gotta hope he becomes a .850 OPS guy with great D. A lower OBP/BAA Grady Sizemore seems about what he can become.

QUOTE (OilCan @ Jun 12, 2011 -> 11:39 AM) I've been noticing just a few negative posts of T2 lately. IMHO, he'll be fine. He may never hit .300, but if he continues to develop his contact first, then power, and his defensive skills, he'll be fine. He certainly has the athletic bloodlines, so that will help. Can't wait to see what he continues to do in Lower A this summer. I think the negative posts comes from the fact that he is still so raw. He is undoubtedly an elite athlete, but contact skills are not easily developed. And poor contact rates (and high strikeout totals) only get exposed more at higher levels.

What annoys me so much about this team is that it's always one step forward, one step back or one step forward, two steps back. We go out and kill two of the best pitchers in the AL against Seattle in Pineda/Hernandez, then we lose in dramatic fashion to the Ms who were starting Jason f***ing Vargas. Then the As, we kill Cahill, again on of the best, then we lose again in dramatic fashion to the As. It just seems like stunt our own momentum with catastrophic losses. And somehow we respond well to losses, and generally win the next night. But we just never keep this positive momentum, we always go backward. That's why I can never see us winning more than 83/84 games, we are glued to this .500 mark. We always want to be right near it.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jun 10, 2011 -> 11:11 AM) And for all the b****ing, Juan Pierre did put up a .365 OBP (.285 avg) in the month of May. May also happened to be a solid month for the club. He also had a > .700 OPS. June hasn't been as kind to Juan yet., but he had a nice game yesterday and that alone (given the small sample size of at bats thus far in June), will make his current June stats respectable. Basically put, Juan has been playing pretty darn well the past month (offensively). The problem is he did give up a good number of this hits getting thrown out. Pretty darn well is relative though. For Juan, yes. For the average major league baseball player, his May was still bad. He can't field worth a s***, and has the worst outfield arm in baseball. Should we really be happy our $9 million starting LF had a .704 OPS in May? Juan is a horrible baseball player who deserves to be riding the pine of a Major League bench. Tank has an immensely better arm, probably can't field much worse and would be an instant offensive upgrade of close to .200 OPS, if not more.

Carlos is literally the best and worst player for an organization to have. The best, well because his talent is immense and when he is healthy, he is one of the top 10 hitters in the game. But the worst because he is so injury prone. It's really hard to commit four years, $50 million for a guy who has played in 130 games, 99 games and 131 games in the last three years. You have to feel like if we commit big money to him, he will be constantly injured. But if we let him walk, that's what he suddenly remains healthy. Gonna be quite the conundrum, especially when we will have some big, dead money on the roster.

Anyone else think that ball was foul? When they showed the replay, it looked close.

How many losses does Juan Pierre have? And that looked foul...

Juan Pierre FTW.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 09:57 PM) Pierre is embarrassing. But he runs like a gazelle and wears his hat cool.

Perfect time for a Gordo down the right field line double. Take that slider oppo baby.

Lucas Harrell is warming. Oh god, please win it now.

Let's win it boys!

If a dude with a fumanchu beats us...

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 09:43 PM) Have we had one since Karko? He hit a home run against us tonight.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 09:42 PM) This situation against Ryan here is where we've struggled all year. It would be so typical to see a looper to short, left field.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 09:41 PM) Maybe one day we'll get a catcher that can throw someone out. To be fair, that one was on Santos. Castro is pretty decent back there.

Goodbye Vargas.

Start at 1:02.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 09:16 PM) He says it without "the". He says, "He's got a great change-up."

Has anyone else thought of the Seinfeld bit with Vargas? The bizarro Newman.

What does Hawk mean we have more than what was paid in the house? Did they sneak in?

Luckily the Mariners offense is anemic. Floyd better shut 'em down.

And that whole bit about the Sox telling teams to stay away, WTF? Dear MLB, We really like this Gerrit Cole player. We call dibs. Sincerely, The Chicago White Sox