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QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 3, 2010 -> 06:15 PM) Bingo. fathom was the first one (first one I saw anyway) that brought up the park factor. And your season line is more than reasonable. I wish we had a better option. It sounds like I'm advocating Pierre for the lead-off spot. That's just not the case. Park Factor has been one of my top arguments for not acquiring him over the past few years. I posted this in the Juan Pierre Trade thread back in December: QUOTE (Kalapse @ Dec 15, 2009 -> 04:48 PM) One thing you'll notice watching Pierre play at home; our park is not suited for him one bit. The ball tends to hang up in the air due to the odd wind currents and there isn't a lot of room in the outfield unlike the 3 stadiums he's played in for the majority of his career so a lot of those shanks that would normally drop in front of an outfielder or the ball lofted into the gap that just gets down between the 2 defenders won't be happening nearly as often in the 81 games he'll play at the Cell. It's going to be hard for him to pick up many extra base hits or cheap singles at the Cell and since he's not really capable of driving the ball far enough to get it out of the normally easy-to-homer-in Cell he won't be able to take advantage of that either, our home ballpark really isn't built for his style of play. Now it's May and he's hitting .188 with a .000 ISO in his 12 home starts. The Sox really need to do a better job tailoring their roster to fit their home ballpark.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 3, 2010 -> 05:41 PM) He does if he's hitting .280, let alone .300. I mean it's really that simple. JP is a career .301 hitter in 6064 career plate appearances coming into this year. He's hitting .202 this year. Has he declined so much over one 6-month off-season that his average has dropped 100 points off his career mark? I'd say hell no. I think he'll finish around .280/.325/.345/.670, his ISO could very well be lower than .065. There's just no way he's "done" at this point in his career but he Cell is just one of the worst parks imaginable for his game, not a lot of room in the outfield for balls to fall in front of outfielders or squirt past them in the gaps for hustle doubles or cavernous gaps to pick up triples especially compared to Dolphin and Dodger Stadium, unfortunately he's not strong enough to take advantage of easy homeruns available at the Cell.

Shocked and appalled by the negative reviews 2%.

Pitch f/x had Logan at 95.60 MPH average and 96.8 MPH max for today's game and they had Jenks at 95.33 MPH avg. and 95.7 MPH max. Sound like the gun at Yankee stadium was pretty accurate.

QUOTE (knightni @ May 1, 2010 -> 07:18 PM) I was just wondering, because it costs so much to buy a game, that people might want to rent it first to see if it's any good. That's why we have gamefly. In the end though you get a good enough feel for the quality of a game through reviews, word of mouth and demos. I've bought quite a few games for the PS3 and I've yet to get burned.

QUOTE (T R U @ May 1, 2010 -> 02:11 PM) lol people already do that with normal Redbox as it is, imagine what it would be like with a MW2 or Halo Reach stocked in a machine in front of a gas station.. are you kidding me, people would breaking those things immediately.. And steve is right, there just no way to fully appreciate a game in one day.. hell, you can prolly even take that to a week.. Could you imagine only getting 1 day to play say a Fallout 3? You wouldn't even scratch the surface of that game.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 04:35 PM) I've got that bad b**** pre-ordered already. Where did you pre-order the game? I noticed yesterday that Amazon is offering the game for $60 with a bonus $20 Amazon gift card. Just pre-ordered my copy through them a few minutes ago.

This has all the makings of the worst game of the year.

Nix is 0 for 2 with a K vs Pettitte.

QUOTE (knightni @ Apr 30, 2010 -> 05:22 PM) Sounds to me like he'd be better at #3 with Q or Kong behind him. They'd be forced to throw fastballs to him, then. Carlos Quentin is right in the middle of the league in % of fastballs seen even though he's had the red hot Konerko hitting behind him most of the season. Much like what Balta said about pitchers not grooving fastballs out of fear of that base stealer at first; they're also not dumb enough to groove fastballs to the #3 hitter out of fear of putting a runner on for the #4 hitter. I said this a few days ago but the concept of "protection" is pretty ridiculous especially when we're not even talking about great hitters here.

QUOTE (knightni @ Apr 30, 2010 -> 04:17 PM) Lucy's been Garcia's catcher - hasn't he? Garcia's made 3 starts this year, this will be the 2nd time Lucy's caught him. The 1 time Lucy caught him he lasted 3 innings and allowed 7 runs. In his 2 outings with AJ behind the plate he went for a total of 14 IP and posted an ERA of 2.57 with an opponent's line of .111/.231/.289/.520.

Career vs Pettitte: Ramirez 1-2 w/ HR, BB Beckham 2-3 w/ 2B Jones 7-27 (.259) w/ 2 2B, BB, 7K Konerko 12-33 (.364) w/ HR, 2 2B, 3BB, 4K Rios 8-26 (.308) w/ 2B, HR, BB, 5K Quentin 1-5 W/ K Teahen 4-16 w/ 2 2B, 2K Lucy 0 PA Pierre 7-15 (.467) w/ 2 2B, BB, 2K

Ramirez SS (1:12 BB:SO) Beckham 2B Jones RF Konerko 1B Rios CF Quentin DH (LIES!) Teahen 3B Lucy C Pierre LF (LIES!) Garcia P

Much like AJ and his 33 year old catcher body when you have the worst month of your career at age 31 with 1450 games of wear on your speedster body it is quite alarming. Pierre is a pretty scary case, his game is 100% predicated on his speed since he's easily one of the very worst BB and XBH players in the game, an enormous percentage of his total hits come thanks to his legs, when you start to get into your 30's, weigh probably 160 pounds and have played 1400+ games in the bigs questions of longevity begin to be asked. So April, 2010 is pretty much far and away the worst month of Juan Pierre's career. Assuming he doesn't play today he'll finish with a .200/.261/.200/.461 line in 94 PA, Brent Lillibridge hit .158/.273/.179/.452 in 112 PA for us last year. Pierre's previous career low in batting average for a full month was .226 in May of '05 and '06 and his previous career low in OPS was .515 in June of 2002. Not good. Like I posted in the Catch-All Thread: If Juan doesn't pick up an XBH today it'll mark only the 3rd time in his career in which he's failed to pick up an XBH in a full month's worth of play. The other 2: April, 2002: .284/.371/.284/.655 (102 PA) Sept, 2000: .286/.339/.286/.625 (124 PA) April, 2010: .211/.268/.211/.479 (94 PA) Do I think Juan Pierre is washed up and done completely? No, not really he still looks pretty quick to me but I wouldn't stop anyone from claiming he's finished since it's certainly plausible. Personally, I just loathe Juan Pierre's game and players like him.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 30, 2010 -> 10:57 AM) You should ask Jermaine first, cause he has repeatedly said that he doesnt want to only be a DH. He even says so in the article. Then I'd want nothing to do with him.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Apr 30, 2010 -> 12:38 AM) Dan Haren has a high BA than anyone in baseball. Well that's just not true at all. Sure he's hitting .467 but Miguel Montero, EY Jr. and Marcus Thames are all hitting .500.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 06:01 PM) Aren't you the one with the stat that he converted only 50% of 1 run save ops last year? I don't think that's at all accurate. For 1.) I count 11 one run save opps and 2.) it looks like he went 7-4 with 2 of those blown saves being multi-inning save opps.

QUOTE (qwerty @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 07:20 PM) I have seen people refer to it as a pitch f/x gun. Pitch f/x is several times more in-depth than your standard radar gun, as it does calculate velocity... not to mention a great deal more. I don't believe i was incorrect. Then you and everyone else is wrong. I hear people say "I could care less" an awful lot even though it's incorrect, doesn't mean I'd be right if I said it. I am the only one that is right.

The pitch f/x pitch speed data isn't tracked using any kind of gun. It's a sensor camera that picks up the pitch several times on it's way to the plate and determines the speed of the pitch that way, it's incredibly accurate and can determine the location of a pitch to within 1 half inch, so their pitch location data (such as strikezone plots) is just about right on.

I don't know if anyone posted Peavy's pitchFX numbers from last night but his average fastball was 90.12 MPH and he topped out at 91.7 MPH. In his previous outing he was at 91.77 avg. and 94.5 max.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 04:25 PM) from cowley: BREAKING NEWS: Juan Pierre benched for tomorrow and has lost his leadoff spot when he returns to the lineup Saturday. Guillen will hit him 9 HUZZAH!!

This is the 3rd 10+ HR month of Konerko's career. He had 10 in June of '04 and 12 in June of '02.

QUOTE (docsox24 @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 12:37 PM) do we have to live with Juan for next year too?? Yes, which was my biggest problem with the deal at the time, he's due $5M next year. I don't see anyone trading for him, so unless he's released (not gonna happen) we have to live with his mediocre to awful production for another year.

Everyone on on the team with at least 10 PA has at least 2 hits with RISP except for 1 player; Juan Pierre. He's 1 for 18 (.056/.105/.056/.161), the next worst AVG is AJ at 2 for 13 (.154/.214/.231/.445). The Best is Carlos Quentin at 6 for 20 w/ 3 HR and 16 RBI (.300/.423/.800/1.223). Pierre may be passed in the next few days by Mark Kotsay (0-8).

QUOTE (qwerty @ Apr 28, 2010 -> 04:34 PM) Baseball reference player index is almost more powerful than any one person should be allowed to possess. Yep, my subscription is up on July 20th and I'm 100% positive I'll be renewing for another year. BRPI has surpassed my expectations.