CaliSoxFanViaSWside

If I may, I'm repeating a post I just made in yesterdays winners thread so more people see it. That record (56) is one of the hardest to break considering such a hot hitter would be walked a lot. Besides the 21 game streak and 10 AB streak he also has a hit in 39 of the last 40 games. He had that 18 game hitting streak went 0/4 against Seattle on July 5th then started the current streak . Abreu was taken out in the 9th for pinch runner Leury Garcia who then took his place in the lineup and got 2 AB's and got a hit. The Sox did not score in the 9th and eventually lost in the 14th inning 3-2. If he wasn't pinch run for it's possible we're looking at a 40 game hitting streak now. Imagine the media frenzy once a player gets to 40. The closest anyone has come to DiMaggio's record is 1978 when Pete Rose had a 44 game streak and that was a big deal since even 40 game streaks are quite rare. I remember it. BTW the Sox record is 24 ,I believe ,by Carlos Lee. After his 0/4 Abreu was hitting .276. He's now at .310 http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/mlb/gameda..._1&mode=box link to boxscore. P.S. When Joe DiMaggio played for the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League he had a 61 game hitting streak with a total of 104 hits — five games longer than his Major League record. Source : Baseball-Almanac.com

QUOTE (whtsoxfan @ Aug 2, 2014 -> 07:56 AM) Awesome I would love to see him break Jolt'n Joe's record 54 games! That record (56) is one of the hardest to break considering such a hot hitter would be walked a lot. Besides the 21 game streak and 10 AB streak he also has a hit in 39 of the last 40 games. He had that 18 game hitting streak went 0/4 against Seattle on July 5th then started the current streak . Abreu was taken out in the 9th for pinch runner Leury Garcia who then took his place in the lineup and got 2 AB's and got a hit. The Sox did not score in the 9th and eventually lost in the 14th inning 3-2. If he wasn't pinch run for it's possible we're looking at a 40 game hitting streak now. Imagine the media frenzy once a player gets to 40. The closest anyone has come to DiMaggio's record is 1978 when Pete Rose had a 44 game streak and that was a big deal . I remember it. BTW the Sox record is 24 ,I believe ,by Carlos Lee. After his 0/4 ABreu was hitting .276. He's now at .310 http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/mlb/gameda..._1&mode=box link to boxscore. P.S. When Joe DiMaggio played for the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League he had a 61 game hitting streak with a total of 104 hits — five games longer than his Major League record. Source : Baseball-Almanac.com

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Aug 1, 2014 -> 09:34 PM) 10 straight PAs in which he reaches base is short of The Big Hurt's record by 5 Just to clarify that's the Sox record . ML record is 17 by Earl Averill, Jr. (1962) and Piggy Ward (1893).

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 1, 2014 -> 09:20 PM) Very reminiscent of the Big Hurt in his prime. I'd agree though I remember Frank getting criticized for walking too much. Abreu goes out of the zone more to drive in runs. That's part of the reason why he was K'ing a lot . He was always looking to get the runs in . Now he's getting much better waiting for that 1 pitch he can drive.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Aug 1, 2014 -> 09:38 PM) In Avi's first 2 AB's he struck out but his last 2 he got hits.. I am sure it will take time to get going at full strength but some positive signs Very positive indeed after all that time off.

BJ Upton is still owed a lot of money, more than Danks and he leads the ML in K's, is 30 soon ,and hitting under .220 .On the plus side the Braves really really want to get rid of him. Probably willing to eat a big chunk of the contract . He still runs fast and plays an average+ CF. Makes about the same as Danks but with 1 more year . He is however not LH and has a rep for dogging it. Evan Longoria got on him for not hustling back when he was playing for the Rays. He's slugging .335 and OPS is .619 . Has a pretty good throwing arm . Supposedly has all the talent in the world and this board has pined for him for a long time. I'm not recommending we go after him for Danks. I'm just throwing his name out there as a bad contract match up like you were looking for. Just get him some magic glasses and we're good to go.

Both bullpens blew but the Sox blew less. Abreu 10 AB's in a row on base , now hitting .310 . 17 hits for the Sox. 7 guys had multiple hits game.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Aug 1, 2014 -> 08:41 PM) Great game for a good crowd. Good hitting and base running. Very exciting. Now finish it off easy and let the fans cheer wildly. It's never easy is it ?

Great game for a good crowd. Good hitting and base running. Very exciting. Now finish it off easy and let the fans cheer wildly.

Holy crap Flowers can we get the Braves to eat all of BJ Uptons contract and get him some magic glasses too ?

No soup for you Chris Sale.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Aug 1, 2014 -> 07:27 PM) Sure can. The question is now is Sale done for the evening ?

9 straight AB's Abreu has reached base.

Sierra very nice catch. Him and Sale hug it out in the dugout.

Can still get Chris a W.

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Aug 1, 2014 -> 07:05 PM) Greatest hitter of all-time Hows that bet going that you made? Refresh my memory what it was . Something about how Flowers and De Aza hit the rest of the season.

I smell a Flowers HR !!

Ok since no one else mentioned it Abreu hit streak at 21games now.

Settle down Sale hold em till the Sox bash Darnell.

Lindstrom pitched 1 inning gave up a HBP ,walk, double play and RBI single.

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Aug 1, 2014 -> 12:16 PM) Saladino put up a 140 wRC+ at A, 144 at A+ and just did 134 at AAA. The best Leury ever did above rookie-ball was 104. Otherwise it's a bunch of 60s 70s and 80s. Saladino has also had markedly better plate discipline everywhere, which quite strongly correlates to eventual MLB performance. There's a substantial difference between their bats. Either way, I'm not even arguing Saladino is a starter. I'm arguing he's more likely to contribute positive value as a bench piece. Apart from generally being a better bat, he crushes lefties. We have a third baseman who destroys righties and can't hit lefties. Just face it Leury is better . You know why ? Because he didn't get injured at the worst possible time for his career. Luck trumps all. You lose

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Aug 1, 2014 -> 11:53 AM) Yeah it Sucks. And it goes back to last year with Rios, Crain etc. And this year's possible trade pieces like Jones going down before building that 1st-year-closer value. The team has had horrible luck and timing, on top of some bad choices and frightening performances from the group of guys we'd like to move, and the trade deadline has not yielded as many great chances for improvement as they may have needed. RH will need to get creative. And creative in this instance means spend some money because if he keeps hoping for miracles it's more of Sale's and Abreu's best years down the tubes.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 1, 2014 -> 11:35 AM) Dunn is better because the big mistake the Sox made, bringing back Konerko, has kept him from hitting more often vs. LHP. I was going to say he's not facing lefties as much and yes its because The Mascot is still here but pretty much any RH hitter could've accomplished that .

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Aug 1, 2014 -> 11:05 AM) QFT The last post I read was yours before I wrote mine and much to my surprise TUC, Chisoxfn, caulfield and even Wite with his joke about resigning Dunn all pretty much said what I said with minor differences. Everyone sucked balls but unlike TUC I think Dunn has been better this year than any of the previous yrs. Of course , he needs a new contract so maybe he's trying a little bit harder so I'm not as disappointed with him as I am all the other suckees. I also think moving Danks isn't all that important. He's still got multiple years on that contract and teams just don't bite on that any more unless you're near elite level. So might as well keep him starting and maybe through some miracle he re-establishes himself. Sierra, Wilkins, Semien, Micah, Sanchez bring em on and let's get this party started !

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Aug 1, 2014 -> 07:17 AM) I'm disappointed that Hahn didn't pull some magical s*** out of a hat, but I'm not surprised at all. We didn't have anything good to sell except Alexei, and there aren't any contenders that need a SS. If there's something to be disappointed about, it's that all of the guys that could have been good pieces had horrible seasons. But it's not all bad -- we do have good players, after all, it's just that we've done a good job at locking them up contractually so that they AREN'T trade bait. I forget which podcast I was listening to, but the speaker was making an argument that it was a very weak buyer's market by listing the types of guys that were realistically available, team by team. When he got to the White Sox, he said, "You can have any White Sock (sic) you want -- except the good ones." And I think there's a lot of truth in that. I remember writing that Hahn had the easy part of the rebuild done. He traded pieces that had value for other younger pieces that had value. The hard part was always going to be finishing the job. Hahn badly needed Beckham to show he had value , same goes for Paulino, De Aza, Viciedo and Davidson but they all failed and he couldn't trade any value without just creating another hole. All he can do now is hope that some of these guys show some value real soon . He might as well keep Danks but I'm pretty sure he'll be looking to save as much money as he can on Dunn's salary if he can find a taker. Beckham might as well keep being Beckham so it'll be easier to dispose of him and not give us any false hope. Sierra will probably be seeing a lot more AB's now since Viciedo and De Aza wet the bed in order to see if he can fill a hole.Get DUnn gone and hope Wilkins hits the crap out of the ball for the rest of the season or ,God forbid ,signing Dunn again might be on the horizon.