fathom

Hopefully now that he's healthy again, we start to see more extra base hits by Anderson. His slugging pct. is way down from last year.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 15, 2015 -> 11:34 PM) Lol To be fair, one of those games was started by Correia, who was in the minors all season.

Of his first 28 pitches, only 4 were sliders. What the hell is with that game plan?

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jun 15, 2015 -> 11:33 PM) Send him down. He didn't have command in Charlotte and he doesn't have it here. He was great of late until this start. With this team not going anywhere this year, they should be using his starts to get him to mix in some change-ups. More focus on development, less focus on results.

All 5 hits off of the fastball...nice pitch selection

Pirates needed extra innings to even score a single run twice over the weekend.

Pull him, good effort Carlos

This team is so freaking bad. Even one of the few overachievers no-showed tonight.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 16, 2015 -> 12:27 AM) This is shaping up to be one of those times you pull the plug early to protect his innings. Nobody will be watching Noesi anyway. The preparation and effort level by this team early in games is just ridiculous.

Rodon better start throwing strikes if he wants to get out of the first few innings.

QUOTE (Condor13 @ Jun 15, 2015 -> 11:25 PM) Wtf kind of effort was that from flowers to block that slider I thought Soto was supposed to be Rodon's catcher?

Another great start for the Sox tonight.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jun 16, 2015 -> 12:13 AM) This is a pretty consistent trend. We ranked similarly past two years. We are a horrible defensive baseball team and nothing the team did this off-season changed that fact. In fact, they probably only got worse defensively (not better). I'm willing to bet the defense would instantly improve if they flipped Melky to RF and Avi to LF. From there, I expect we'll see a new 3rd baseman here next year that will be better defensively than Conor. A problem that's lurking for Hahn is the team desperately needs to find better offensive players, yet they need defensive upgrades as well. Guys that are good at both are usually very expensive.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jun 15, 2015 -> 09:02 PM) IIRC, the Sox wanted Kolek or Nola but Rodon fell into their lap. If Rodon was gone, they were taking Nola according to an article a few weeks ago. No idea who wrote it though.

Infante now leading for 2nd base for ASG. 8 of the 9 starting spots to KC players. I didn't know that greg is the only person allowed to vote

Saw this lineup earlier.....that's just incredibly ugly. Against someone like Liriano, just tell everyone but Abreu/Avi not to swing. This team desperately needs to DFA Bonifacio and get another bat on the roster.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 15, 2015 -> 08:05 PM) Anyone have the data on the distance of the average fly ball Melky hit the last few years compared to this season? To answer my own question, it doesn't look like there's a significant difference from Melky's average fly ball distance over the last two years (according to Baseball Heat Map)

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jun 15, 2015 -> 07:23 PM) Interesting that the Pads and Sox, two of the off-season darlings, and both underperforming. Black is gone and as far as I'm concerned, he's a much better manager then Ventura (but I am a big Bud Black fan). All that said, his team was .500 just a day ago. Padres have had some bad injuries this year (Myers, Alonso, Morrow) as well as some of the same black holes that the Sox have (2B/SS)

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 15, 2015 -> 08:14 PM) He has hit into a lot of bad luck, and has been bad when not doing that. It happens. To think he has nothing left and the numbers he has now is basically his ceiling is something the people certain of this will never actually put money on. Yes, he's absolutely hit a lot of line drives right at the outfielder. My concern is that he lacks the power to get it over the outfielder's head consistently now, which is resulting in so many hard hit outs. In the past, maybe those would have left the yard/hit the fence. He doesn't seem to pull the ball in the air very often. With all the concerns we've mentioned, I think we can all agree his swing from the right side is completely broken.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Jun 15, 2015 -> 07:06 PM) Melky was busted for PEDs in 2012. He had 1000 plate appearances after getting caught in which he put up an OPS + of 119. It's not the roids. And now he has the worst ISO in all of baseball. From 80th place last year in all of baseball to dead last.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Jun 15, 2015 -> 08:02 PM) A guy that has has been a 124 OPS+ hitter the past four years doesn't fall off a cliff over the course of an offseason. Yes, Melky has been horrible, no doubt. But he is not a sunk cost. Anyone have the data on the distance of the average fly ball Melky hit the last few years compared to this season?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 15, 2015 -> 07:58 PM) John Danks has been worth 0.4 fWAR so far this season. You can probably believe that, he's had a couple solid starts so he's not great but has helped in a few games. Melky Cabrera has been worth -0.8 fWAR so far this season. He's been that bad. You may have confidence in him turning it around, but at the rate he's going right now he's "Worth less than nothing". He could be better than this and still make John Danks look like a bargain. If a team was willing to take on Melky's contract right now and the Sox get nothing in return, I think the Sox would jump at that deal. More than maybe anyone else in baseball, there are questions about Melky's ability without performance-enhancers. If so far what we've seen is the clean version of Melky, then his contract is going to be a huge albatross.

QUOTE (daggins @ Jun 15, 2015 -> 06:37 PM) Yeah not sure if his answer was facetious or not but Gallo is an extremely valuable property. He isn't enough by himself but as the headliner in a package of player, that's pretty pretty pretty good He'd already be 4th on the Sox in homers and tied for 7th in walks if he was on the team this year. Not bad for 21 year old 3rd baseman.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jun 15, 2015 -> 05:19 AM) If we trade Chris Sale, I probably would stop following the White Sox this season. No return is fair. Unless you're getting back proven stars, you don't trade a top five player in baseball on a ridiculously cheap contact. If Dodgers want to trade Joc, Seager and Urias for him....then I'm fine trading him

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 15, 2015 -> 03:01 AM) They showed no patience last offseason and that's set us back at least a year, maybe more. Maybe my favorite post in a while on here!!