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QUOTE(scenario @ Apr 1, 2007 -> 10:47 PM) 2004 Got more walks, flashed a little power, still didn't hit well enough to play full-time 2005 Got full-time at-bats; only hit .251; but he did get 76 walks; and hit 29 homeruns; not too bad 2006 Had a 'career year' in 264 at-bats playing in the National League as Philadelphia's 4th outfielder Let's look at it in more objective terms: 2004 - 94 OPS+ 2005 - 128 OPS+ 2006 - 125 OPS+ Pods over that same time: 2004 - 79 OPS+ 2005 - 86 OPS+ 2006 - 76 OPS+ So... looks like Delluci's WORST season over the past three years is still better than Podsednik's best season. Oh, and the Michaels comparison is brutal, too. Michaels never flashed enough power for a long period of time to be a full-time player. Will Delluci's number fall a bit now that he's more of a full-time player? I'd expect that... but they'd have to fall a LONG way for him to be as awful as Podsednik.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Apr 1, 2007 -> 10:01 PM) They are different hitters. We don't need a Dellucci smaking out 20 dingers. We need someone to get on base and steal 50 bases. So which one of those does Podsednik do well? Because he doesn't get on base at a very good clip -- Delluci over the last three years DESTROYS Pods in that category -- and while Pods steals bases, it doesn't make a big difference, as he's under 70% for the past two seasons (not including pickoffs, either). But hey, maybe Podsednik will magically revert to his 2003 season. And maybe Gustavo Molina will hit .400 as our backup catcher. And maybe the Sox will go 162-0, too!

QUOTE(BearSox @ Apr 1, 2007 -> 09:32 PM) I picked Pods of Dellucci because Pods has more speed and if Pods has an 03/05 esque season, that's be better then having Dellucci being his usual .250-.270 avg guy with 15-20 homers. Huh? Pods best season -- his 2003 season -- isn't anywhere near as good as Delluci's last two seasons. His 2005 season isn't even as good as Delluci's 2004 season. There's really no reason to take Pods over Delluci, other than BS "I think he's going to have a good year" conjecture.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Apr 1, 2007 -> 05:36 PM) I said he averaged something like 30 homers a year in Japan. I didn't say he consistantly hit 30 homers year in and year out. I think 6 more homers, but in less AB's, is very do-able for Iguchi, if he is batting lower and swinging for himself more often. Iguchi is a powerful guy. That makes no sense. How can he average 30 HR per year if he only hit above that number once? Must've hit about 60 in that one season... Impressive.

That's the one. Thanks fellas.

I hate to change the topic, but one of you guys posted a video a while back of a game where you play the part as a 'medieval assassin' type. It was the game developers (a woman) talking about the game as someone demoed it a bit. Anyone remember the name of that game?

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Apr 1, 2007 -> 12:02 AM) This is the end of my good run, since GTown was my champ. Jeff Green is a really good player, a very smart player, but I really wish he was more assertive in this game. I didn't think OSU had anybody who could match-up with him, and he was never really involved. Georgetown has been a sloppy first-half team for this whole tourney, and it bit 'em in the ass today. Good run for the Hoyas, but I wish they played a little better. Oh well. I'm in your boat -- my bracket's done now, as I had all the FF teams, but G'Town as my champs.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Mar 31, 2007 -> 10:43 PM) How do you know Podsednik won't go back to an 05-esque form? Supposedly from what I have heard, he is in great shape-like best of his career shape, and the whole Org. is looking for a big year from him. Even in 2005, Podsednik was only good for half the year -- he had a .326 OBP after the from the All-Star game till theend of the year. He really wasn't that great in 2005... he was acceptable. Steal bases at an 80% clip? He hasn't done that since 2004. He's coming off of surgery and is 31 years old... That's like saying, if Gavin Floyd could put up a 4.50 ERA, he'd be a good pitcher. We're talking about the likeliness of that happening. Even if Pods puts up a .280/.340/.350 line, that isn't good. It's still a sub-700 OPS. LF is the furthest spot down on the defensive spectrum -- you should be able to have an .800 OPS hitter there. Again, I'm not saying he'd be Podsednik's platoon partner. Having him out there for a couple games would be okay. He'd make some bad plays out there, sure, and he's obviously not vecry good anywhere he is on the field, but again -- it's LF. It's not like we're asking him to play SS. What the hell does this even matter? If you can improve at one spot, you do it. You improve every spot you possibly can improve. DH is a spot where we need better offensive production from, and there was an obvious upgrade there if you kept Perez. As far as Thome not liking to sit vs lefties? I don't think any baseball player would want to EVER sit. But we're a better team for that day with Perez as our DH and Thome sitting. He wouldn't have to sit against every lefty, but there's waaay too many lefties out there who make Jim look pathetic.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Mar 31, 2007 -> 10:23 PM) A chance of having a healthy and producing Scott Podsednik at the top of the order is a better risk to take then a position-less 'lefty slugger', IMO. Podsednik hasn't been a good baseball player in over a year-and-a-half. People have chalked up his 'badness' to injuries. Guess what? He's 31... more likely than not, he's going to be injured sometime during this year. And when he's injured, he goes from being 4th OFer-bad to not-AAA-acceptable bad. What does Perez' lack of a position have to do with anything? He can DH as Thome was bad against lefties last year too, and that's not going to get better -- Thome's OPS vs lefties in his career is .763. And it's not like Podsednik is any good in LF (defensively) anyways -- so I don't know what that really matters... People say things like, "it's just our backup catcher, that's not going to make or break our season. It's just a bench guy." These things add up. Keeping Perez over Podsednik would have made this team better. Maybe not 15 wins better, maybe not even five wins better, but still better.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Mar 31, 2007 -> 08:51 PM) Would keeping Pods be that big of a deal if we didn't sign grinderstad? I don't like the Pods signing, but I think he's a better for 2007 than Darin. If you keep Pods + Perez and not sign Erstad, you're stuck with the same CF situation of last year, i.e. Mackowiak as the backup CFer. I think when taking everything into account, Erstad and Pods will be pretty similar players this year -- I'd take Erstad because he can play CF, so if Anderson fell flat on his face, you could call up Sweeney or Fields to take over in left.

Well, whoever I criticized for suggesting 3/$15 earlier this winter -- my bad.

The Sox had the chance to add a player who is known for his ability to crush lefties. He more or less fell into their lap, and the Sox would've had to spend a whole 300K to keep him. Eduardo Perez seemed like way too perfect a fit. Instead, the Sox chose (a couple months earlier) to keep Scott Podsednik for almost ten times as much money. Just gotta have that speed! Kenny is a smart man, and I think you can make a good case for the rest of his moves he made this winter. Keeping Podsednik, though... unexplainable.

QUOTE(scenario @ Mar 31, 2007 -> 04:54 PM) Dellucci has a sub-.250 career average hitting in the American League. He had a career year in the National League last year. Big deal. His total career batting average (both leagues) is about the same as Pods hit last year which everyone is abusing him for. His career OBP is only slightly higher than Pods'. In Delluci's last three seasons, his OBP is right around .350. You also fail to mention the fact that Delluci slugs close to 75 points higher than Pods. I'd bet a lot of money that Delluci has a better year than Pods next year. Oh, and all the intangibles in the world don't make up for the offensive difference between Pierzynski and Martinez. The last three years, Pierzynski's OPS+ is right around 90 and Martinez' is right around 125. Really, it's not even close.

QUOTE(CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Mar 31, 2007 -> 01:26 AM) Im sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong but doesnt a pickoff count as a caught stealing ? I'm 99% sure it does not...

Willie Harris = 78% success rate on SBs. Scott Podsednik = 76% success rate on SBs. And that doesn't take into account the what, 30 (?) or so times that Pods has been picked off over his career. Just 'cause Willie didn't run every time he got on base doesn't mean he didn't know how to steal.

QUOTE(CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Mar 31, 2007 -> 01:08 AM) SO if he hits .275 and fields decently will u have a problem with him or continue to beat a dead horse ? If he hits .275, that'll mean that his OBP is (most likely) right around .330. So that'll mean -- not only will we have a below average OBP at the leadoff spot, we'll have a below average OBP at the #2 spot. Honestly, .275 is right around what I'm expecting from Erstad. .275/.330/.375 seems about right... That'd be awesome if he was on the bench or if he was in left and Anderson was in center.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Mar 30, 2007 -> 07:47 PM) Aside from Bard, the consensus selection for the White Sox appeared to be Pedro Beato. http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?sh...1&start=400 Interesting. Here's my own perspective on drafting McCulloch: (sigh) He would have looked great in our system. Yeah, Beato sure seemed like a no-brainer. I think he's already popped up on some Top 100 lists (or some honorable menion list) -- more than McCollough can say. I remember Met fans being absolutely disgusted when they didn't sign him (IIRC, he was a D&F). Then again -- after looking back through that thread -- I can't say McCollough was a 'bad' pick. I guess we'll have to see how hard he's throwing this year, but BA had him ranked in the top 20. Seemed like a slightly amped-up version of Broadway.

Is Rick Bozich a relation to aboz (I'm pretty sure the answer is yes, but...)? He's on ESPNNews, so I was just wondering...

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 30, 2007 -> 01:09 PM) I hope you are right about Valido, because it seems to me our system is really weak up the middle (SS, 2B, C). Yes -- it's scary weak up the middle. One of Valido and John Shelby need to step up this year, hopefully both. On an unrelated note, I hope that by trading for Danks, the Sox will now have no fear of taking a Boras client in round one. I really would've been interested to see if Daniel Bard (I think it is?), the UNC pitcher fell to the Sox last year. He was just one spot away before the Sox picked -- the other Sox grabbed him, FWIW. He had some pretty easy looking heat in that College World Series. I remember seeing a whole page of curse-words on Soxtalk as the BoSox took him.

QUOTE(Rex Hudler @ Mar 30, 2007 -> 05:15 AM) Maybe I have not been following closely enough, but that lineup doesn't look to me like it will be able to hit itself out of a wet paper bag. I was going to say... That lineup looks really weak. When Chris Getz is your best hitting 'prospect' (Valido? Lucy?), you're not a very strong offensive group

Ben Wallace has post skillz...

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Mar 30, 2007 -> 01:44 AM) Do you really want the Sox to flip Buehrle for another Gavin Floyd and ex-Sox prospect? If it came to it, I hope that the Mets would be knocking pretty hard -- unless they think Pedro is going to come back strong. I'd ask for Milledge straight up, so long as Buehrle was able to replicate his first half of 2006. There should be a lot of teams bidding for Buehrle if he had a decent first half and the Sox tanked. The Cardinals, several AL East teams, Mets, a couple NL Weest teams -- dare I say the Cubs?

QUOTE(fathom @ Mar 30, 2007 -> 12:39 AM) BTW, any update on Dominic James going pro? Dominic James news has taken a backburner to the Crean to (insert bigger school than Marquette) speculation. I don't know how any scout who watched Dom James this year could recommend his to his GM to take James in the first round. I'd say it's 75% chance that he comes back -- I really can't see the benefit of him going pro this year. But no actual news -- just me speculating.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Mar 30, 2007 -> 12:36 AM) Our table setters are 0-6. Just an overall terrible day for Estad. Guys, watch the Bulls -- over the next five months, you're going to see enough weak left-handed pitching mow through our lineup. Enjoy life while you can...

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