fathom

His offspeed pitches are freaking terrible. He's not close to having the wipe out splitter he had last year to start the season.

QUOTE (Baron @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 05:56 PM) What the hell was that pitch? Umpires seem worse than ever this season

That 2-2 pitch to Abreu wasn't close.

Maybe I remember Melky just destroying the Sox, but his swing as a righty looks awful now. Seems to chop almost everything.

QUOTE (Baron @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 05:50 PM) Why wouldnt you? See if he can keep making barehanded plays. I'm betting he cant do it all the time. If the bunts were bad, I'd agree. But after two perfect bunts resulted in outs, I'd rather scrap that game plan and swing away or bunt it towards Castellanos.

Nice AB for Eaton!

Stop testing Price!

Ha, that 3-2 pitch to Beckham was significantly better than the 3-0 pitch to Alexei. Beckham looked good in that AB.

That 3-0 to Alexei wasn't a strike

QUOTE (Bigsoxhurt35 @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 05:28 PM) It would be fun to see Sale and Price back to back Sale and Rodon back to back is a good consolation prize

QUOTE (Bigsoxhurt35 @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 05:27 PM) I'm no one has called Shark an ace. Certainly not me. He's a solid 2 Cubs did a great job of marketing him as one last year

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 05:26 PM) Prices deal on the free agent market would be something like $50 to $100 million more than Samardjizas. Also a LOT of innings on Price's arm.

AVI!! Made it look easy

QUOTE (Bigsoxhurt35 @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 05:24 PM) I'd rather get Price than sign Shark. But that's just me playing with Jerrys money. My prediction is Price stays in Detroit, Cueto to Red Sox and Cubs get Zimmermann

I wonder if someone is tipping off the pitches from the stands again

Some luck that inning, but Sox were due for it. Got to get the bats going.

Lucky he fouled that off, doesn't get much more meatball than that.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 05:19 PM) Nice job by Abreu and Ramirez on that pick Thought he was out at first Sure looked like he was out

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 05:14 PM) Really? It's not like the bottom of the lineup is tearing it up. If Eaton and Melky and Jose don't f***ing hit it's going to be a very long year. Just a disheartening f***ing start man. Those three have been brutal. Eaton and Melky especially. At least Jose has a couple bombs. I want them to be in the 1-2 spot, but maybe moving one of them down takes some pressure off?

Goodness, here we go again

QUOTE (Bigsoxhurt35 @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 05:12 PM) This offense is in full suck mode this season This should be the last game of this 1-2 if they struggle again. Got to find a way to get some runners on for the middle of the order.

Well, that was quick. Melky a dynamite 0-11 vs LHP this year

Wow, sick play by Price.

Anyone else find it really shady that Olt's x-ray didn't initially reveal a fracture...but once Bryant's 12 days passed, it all of a sudden did?

QUOTE (shysocks @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 05:30 PM) 8 Eaton 7 Melky 3 Abreu D Avi 6 Alexei 5 Beckham 4 Sanchez 9 Bonifacio In my world Sanchez is with the White Sox (and the first part of the season hasn't done much to dissuade me) but he has some grisly numbers against lefties in his MiLB career too. But he wouldn't be here for his bat anyway. What you'd gain is a better look defensively, one you don't have with Avi in right and Bonifacio at 2nd. I want to clarify again that I'm not suggesting ALR is an automatic sit against lefties but his career numbers against them no longer seem important. If only we still had Viciedo. I'd take Viciedo back on the roster to help against LHP!