fathom

Is it a change or splitter

His stuff was very crisp the last few innings.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Apr 29, 2014 -> 01:56 AM) Beckham is barreling up the ball pretty well, just right at people. He's been hitting well, but that was not a case of getting the barrel on the ball.

Wow, Dunn hit the crap out of that

Not quite sure what game Hawk/Stone are watching. That was an off-the-end-of-the-bat fly ball.

Biggest inning of the game for Rienzo here.

Nice Semien! Great, easy swing by him.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 29, 2014 -> 02:34 AM) I'm glad it didn't get caught, because I'm not entirely confident he would retouch second base, lol Exactly

Ravelo is simply on fire. Average is up to .371

Great base running by Viciedo there

Nice Alexei! Haven't seen him hit one that far to center in a long time.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Apr 29, 2014 -> 01:25 AM) I am in the Rienzo fan club. It was either Rienzo, Paulino, or Lessman. That is an easy pick. I don't get the b****ing by some how he sucks It's more that as DA just said, he seems to have a strange game plan with his pitches tonight.

Nice sequence there

Wow he has nothing on these pitches. Another starter with diminished stuff this year.

Rienzo seems to be hanging a lot of pitches

Davidson just can't hit RHP this year.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 29, 2014 -> 12:34 AM) Tuesday - Quintana Wednesday - Noesi Thursday - Danks Friday - Carroll/Sale Saturday - Rienzo/Sale Please don't bring back Sale so quickly.

Johnson's OPS against RHP around 1.1 now

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 28, 2014 -> 11:22 PM) Hence, the Davidson acquisition rather than someone like a Soler at the high A level...or the equivalent of another Courtney Hawkins. Mitigating the risk factor, while tamping down the upside just a bit. We're in Year 1 of a strategic rebuild that started this offseason, they're in Year 4. And we're already well behind the Rays in attendance. If it wasn't for the Indians, we'd be last. That CLE situation is a good example of two huge sell-offs decimating a similar fanbase that supported the hell out of that team in the 90's/early 2000's and set a record for consecutive sellouts at Jacobs. And bad ownership...disliked by locals. Well, maybe not Sterling/Snyder/Ted Stepien bad...but BAD. To be honest, the Sox can't catch a break with their attendance right now. The good weather nights seem to coincide with either the Hawks and/or Bulls playing. If Abreu and company keep playing well, they'll start creeping up to 20k a game. Given the weather today, the attendance will not be good (unless Tampa's starter pulls a Carroll and has his entire town attending the game).

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Apr 28, 2014 -> 11:21 PM) I have no problem with the older core, but they should have done something on the pitching side in case they were right about the offense. They could end up missing a golden opportunity. Outside of Santana and Jimenez, what could they really have done? I was hoping for someone like Hammel, but Paulino was their choice for a cheaper lottery ticket. Don't get me wrong though, I was hoping for a swing man like Capuano given the lack of pitching depth in the organization.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Apr 29, 2014 -> 12:15 AM) That's an older core for a rebuild. Putting it another way, they are further along their development cycle than typical rebuilds. Yeah, but that was clearly by design. To be honest, I don't think the Sox could afford losing such a big portion of their fan base if they went into a Theo-Cubs style rebuild. I have no problem with getting players that are so close to the majors, as it's not like the Sox have had a good history of developing hitters that spend a long time in their system.

QUOTE (Jake @ Apr 28, 2014 -> 11:12 PM) The reason Silver didn't drop the hammer is because you don't want to be wrong about this stuff. When this story dropped, you had the word of TMZ and that was it. It is beginning to look more and more likely that it was indeed him, and in this case I don't think it matters how the recordings were procured. I trust TMZ just about as much as any other source right now.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 28, 2014 -> 08:45 PM) After last year, .500 is great. +100000 There's already been at least 3 victories this year that are more memorable than anything from last year.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Apr 28, 2014 -> 10:26 PM) Kinda sad but I'm already thinking about the fact that he can opt for arbitration when eligible, that will put a damper on the $11M AAV that every baseball reporter in America is throwing around right now. He'll make $10M in his 3rd year, given that he's guaranteed only $10.5M in his 4th, he's a lock to opt out and go for a big pay day in arbitration if he's anywhere near as badass of a hitter as we believe. If he deserves it, then I don't think we'll be too upset with paying him a lot more money given the team should be in contention by then.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Apr 28, 2014 -> 10:30 PM) K rate I would imagine As well as spray chart, which is much more even for Beckham that last two years than Semien (at least the visual appears that way, not sure how to get the actual statistic)