fathom

Gotta hold them and then hope to get a bloop and a blast.

Overmatched

Over the last six weeks, Hudson and Escobar have more clutch hits than Konerko

Strike 4 on Konerko...swing the bat Captain

Nice Youk!

Another reason to put Rios in 3rd spot is to avoid the LOOGY coming in to face ADA, Youk and Dunn

QUOTE (TheCut87 @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 07:54 PM) once again you didn't pay the guy to hit for average. Everyone knows when adam dunn comes to the plate he is going to do 1 of 3 things....walk, HR or K. He has never been a person to hit for average but as long as he is hitting HRs, driving people in, and getting on base I can take a low batting average. That has never been his thing, no reason we should assume he is going to do that here. But he can feel free to hit higher than .200 in a Sox uniform

Danks and Beckham both with good pitches to hit, and couldn't do anything with it.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 07:50 PM) If GB gets on and Coke comes in to face De Aza, please PH Viciedo. I know it won't happen. I like how you think

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 07:49 PM) Absolutely, I'd take him back on the Sox right now at that price. Yep, at least Castro has been good so far in the minors this year.

Wow, nice job Flowers! Swing hard Gordon

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 06:46 PM) Rios has been playing great all year, not sure what he's done to deserve to be amnestied... Agreed

QUOTE (Caesar @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 06:44 PM) That's crazy. Absolutely crazy. What has he done to earn that kind of money? That's a great deal for the Padres, IMO.

QUOTE (kapzk @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 06:44 PM) Yea sure the deal looks bad cuz of being hurt. Just the whole timing wasn't good. And that's why you amnesty it

Padres signed Quentin to 3 yr, 27 million dollar deal.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 06:39 PM) Rios, for sure. He says "NOT ME"

Danks would be my choice, no question about it.

Since this thread is active, figured I'd get the most responses here: if you could amnesty one contract with the Sox right now, who would it be?

QUOTE (Caesar @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 07:33 PM) He probably is better, but he isn't performing, so try something different. Shake it up. Try to do something to light this teams fire. Put him back in the 2nd spot where he was playing well. Go with this lineup ADA Beckham Rios Dunn Konerko AJ Youk Viciedo Ramirez

I'm pretty sure the Sox have had the lead in every game since the ASB.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 07:32 PM) Toronto having no problem hitting Lester without Bautista 9 runs in 2 innings..............Sox should of smoked that guy. Ha, they did

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 07:29 PM) Maybe the team IS just tired, who knows? I think Ventura will learn from this season how to better mix and match the bench into the lineup.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 07:28 PM) I just hope we're not paying Myers essentially $6.5 million to be a set-up guy for 2 months. The Astros better be paying that buyout money. Sox are paying him 1 million dollars this year

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 06:27 PM) ADA needs to sit a few days. He's hit the ball with some authority at least. You really want to see Danks get more at bats in CF?

Youk looks awful at the plate all of a sudden.