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QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 12, 2009 -> 11:37 PM) Floyd and Fields are making me look really bad Ramirez is not exactly making you look any better either.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ May 12, 2009 -> 10:35 PM) I dont know if this has been posted anywhere else on here, but did anyone listen to Clemens interview with Mike and Mike this morning? He actually said it would be suicide if he took steroids because of the history of heart disease in his family and used his step dad as an example of said heart disease running through his family. This is my exact reasoning for thinking derosa is not a candidate for steroids, been known for quite a while now that he has heart problems.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 12, 2009 -> 05:57 PM) Very nice...where does our run differential rank in all of baseball? Before today... W----L----RS----RA----RS-RA LAA 16 14 148 150 -2 BAL 13 19 162 190 -28 BOS 20 12 185 163 22 CHA 14 17 129 150 -21 CLE 12 21 170 192 -22 DET 17 13 150 135 15 KC 18 14 146 119 27 MIN 15 17 147 169 -22 NYA 15 16 172 193 -21 OAK 11 18 121 131 -10 SEA 16 16 131 149 -18 TB 15 18 169 154 15 TEX 17 14 175 160 15 TOR 22 12 204 154 50 W----L----RS----RA----RS-RA ARI 13 20 125 155 -30 ATL 16 16 141 139 2 CHN 17 14 149 148 1 CIN 18 14 145 143 2 COL 12 18 146 143 3 FLA 17 15 147 153 -6 HOU 14 17 133 147 -14 LAN 22 11 184 127 57 MIL 18 14 158 139 19 WAS 10 20 157 190 -33 NYN 17 14 154 135 19 PHI 15 14 164 156 8 PIT 12 19 130 139 -9 STL 20 12 172 145 27 SD 13 19 122 160 -38 SF 17 14 120 128 -8

This can only mean our season is over.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ May 12, 2009 -> 03:22 PM) At least the number 2 hitter has ability. Why can't A.J. play today? He was off last Tuesday and Sunday and is off Thursday. Corky Miller sucks. He makes Colon look fit. My guess is richard feels more comfortable with miller rather than pierzynski.

It's too hard to try and make any speculation on the 2009 off-season... let alone the 2010 off-season. Too much changes day to day let alone two years from now. It truly is hard enough to speculate this upcoming off-season without people making jackasses of the themselves, and then you ask two years down the road. Here comes the crazy talk...

QUOTE (fathom @ May 11, 2009 -> 09:01 PM) He's an ideal #9 hitter. No he isn't. Not here and off the top of my head no where else in the majors either. This line up is not strong enough up and down the order to put him anywhere else but either one or two. Getz would be the best nine hitter in the majors arguably. As we know nine hole hitters are generally the very worst hitter on any given team. Getz plate discipline is something no one else on this roster can give us at the moment. I do like the idea of having a very good nine hitter, which getz would be, but only if two players are brought in, who year in year out produces at the top of the order. This will be highly unrealistic as we will have even greater needs to address than the top of the line up this off season. Only in extreme cases (when a player is signifigantly worse than everyone else on the roster) will you see the worst hitter on a team bat 8th instead of ninth (in the american league), but it can be very useful, over the long haul. Over a full season if (which is yet to happy in recent history)the pitcher bats 8th rather than 9th the outcome is a total of two whole runs. Getz is ideal leading off as it currently stands. If we can bring in a a right handed top of the order hitter i could see the logic in moving getz to the two hole for the sake of righty/lefty/righty, though that could be debateable if getz does not show at least medicore XBH ability this season... he would be better suited sticking at one. I personally believe getz will be just fine if we give him for than 21 games to make judgement. I am led to believe he is currently the least of our problems.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 11, 2009 -> 07:04 PM) I believe Manny's deal next year is a player option right?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 11, 2009 -> 06:45 PM) The White Sox have turned only 18 double plays and the Indians have turned 46 (according to Farmer)? That can't be right. I know the Indians' pitching has been worse than ours, but that's quite a disparity. Neither have that many, i do not know where they get they get there information... but this is as of yesterday. http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/...-pitching.shtml

QUOTE (G&T @ May 11, 2009 -> 01:30 PM) Answer?

Was the wrong time to do it, but many here will love it.

QUOTE (JustWin @ May 9, 2009 -> 09:46 AM) He's not better but he'll probably do so well that they don't even miss Aramis. Just like the luck they got with Jim Edmonds last year who couldn't buy a hit in San Diego but then all of a sudden was wonder boy for the Cubs. Freel will end up having a career year, watch. I love how 26 of your 40 posts are in this cubs thread.

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As i mentioned in the chat earlier... quentin has the best PA per HBP of all active players in the mlb... one out of every 25.0 plate appearances.

As i mentioned in the chat earlier... queitin has the best PA per HBP of all active players in the mlb... one out of every 25.0 plate appearances.

Sure, we all do. Though not at the alarming rate such as yourself. Do not flatter yourself. I do not care about the ball bouncing off of his head. There is a sox nation myth that podsednik could not field well in left field during his time with us. I hate to break it to everyone but his ability to get to a ball was above average in both 2005 and 2007... slightly below average during 2006. His throwing ability is entirely another story, as he fights year in year out for honors of worst arm of the year. You will disagree, however. I will not argue the point about fields because when you believe something as fact there is no way that it's being changed anytime soon. Like anyone said this. It was theorized to finished for nix to finish out the year in left, then i suggested fields, as he would be the better option of the two, hands down. That would usually be why a player is moved from one position to another. Glad you figured it out. On your second point. Whether fields arm at third base is ''average'' does not mean a thing in correlation to left field. I will be the first to admit it was limited play (still not as limited as some people who think a player is a savior or garbage after two games) but he was on pace to put up impressive arm numbers. Arm numbers on average vary pretty minimally when a player is given any type of signifigant time, and are also generally a good candidate to extrapolate. Left field is the second least demanding position on the field while third base is the fourth least demanding. 1B - LF - RF - 3B - CF - 2B - SS - C From 2003 to 2006 all players with 500 chances or more... Position Average Chances 1st Base 816 2nd Base 1164 3rd Base 1112 Shortstop 1399 Left Field 942 Center Field 1232 Right Field 963 The chance numbers the past two seasons are also very, very similar to these, though i cannot find the think with the numbers, even though i have the link somewhere. I once more would like to make it clear i do not believe he should be moved from third this season, if we can help it. He needs the rest of this entire season at third before his defensive abilities can fully be evaluated. So far, he is rather disappointing, and a position change may eventually be what benefits this team most. Viciedo is two full seasons away at least. Quentin is here now Viciedo has everything in the world to prove. Quentin has already proved he is a more than capable major league player. Our future simply cannot be based off an if, but, and maybe, etc. ================================================================================ You cite zone rating by itself, therein lies the problem. Uzr until this day is far and away the best way metric around. This is a very informative article for anyone with limited knowledge on the defensive metrics out there. http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/...the-evaluators/ Also, though in it's infancy, gamday is starting to be used to track defense. This has a good chance of some day in the near future trumping uzr, though only time will tell. More at the link. http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/...-metric-part-1/

QUOTE (fathom @ May 9, 2009 -> 04:42 PM) He's been good on the bases, as he's only been caught stealing once. I love all those steals of his. Dude is a f***ing burner.

Since 1957, the MLB record for the longest consecutive game streak of 20 _____ or less (not including zero) by a player who was in the starting lineup is three games, by the "the big hurt". What word belongs in the blank? I will answer it in a day or so if anyone wants to take a crack at it... unless someone of course gets it before hand.

Hearsay, hah. He will be out in no time. Anyone who actually believes he will get committed be prepared for disappointment, though i hope i'm wrong.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 8, 2009 -> 10:50 PM) We've scored 0 or 1 run in 10 out of our 28 games. It's beyond pathetic. The weather's no longer an excuse. This offense needs more benchings than just Alexei Ramirez. I believe you mean 8 out of 28 games. Please start getting your s*** right. http://www.baseball-reference.com/play-ind...amp;team_id=CHW QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 8, 2009 -> 11:31 PM) With that line-up, we'd be hard-pressed to win 75 games. So we might as well go all out and substitute Betemit for Thome, since Jim won't be around after next year, either. Yes, because he suggested anything like that. If dye gets moved the outfield will simply be ugly no matter who is run out there the remainder of the season. Though i do not agree with him on nix in left, as he will be a much greater assest in the infield. Nix has always been touted as a plus fielder, always. Fields would of course be the logical choice to move to left. He was far from bad out in left contrary to the 2 errors you will likely mention. Historically third baseman are great to transit to a corner outfield due to there arm strength.

QUOTE (DBAHO @ May 9, 2009 -> 12:16 AM) If they're going to play Pods, might as well put him in the leadoff spot. Getz is a rookie, and should be hitting lower down the order. Makes perfect sense. This makes zero sense.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ May 8, 2009 -> 02:21 PM) Anyone know CQ's BABIP? He's hitting a lot of hard ones right at guys lately. .280 last season. .203 this season.

Win.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 7, 2009 -> 04:55 PM) What does roiding and aids have to do with one another. You were saying Benito had aids, not that he was a roider. Trust me, he has no clue.

Btw, does no one compare anything anymore? I compared wsi and soxtalk side by side for roughly a half hour and soxtalk slaughtered the s*** out of them.