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I saw this coming. I don't know why I'm still surprised when people who use the internet don't actually do just a tiny bit of research . It's not like you need a vast amount of knowledge to check what you are claiming . Google Steve Cishek, Baseball Reference, click on the link provided,scroll down to Splits , pitching , then click on either a year or career Yes he does worse against LHH but the stats are good just not as good against RHH. Not really directed at you of course. You pointed out the BAA for 2019 and career. Also the 3 batter rule is not really a 3 batter rule. A starting pitcher might go 5 .2 innings . The reliever brought in can either pitch .1 inning because he is pitching to the end of the half inning and then can be taken out or continue to pitch into the next half inning where he then has to pitch to however many hitters that he did not face in the previous .1 of an inning. So If he came in with 1 out to go , walked a guy then got the final out , he faced 2 hitters and then, if not taken out, would have to face at least one more hitter at the start of his next inning. He could get that hitter out and be done, The next pitcher can get the next 2 hitters out in a row and therefore not face 3 hitters but still be done because he pitched to the end of the half inning if the manager so chooses.

Thanks. My own opinion is that people barely know how to use WAR. Not calling anyone dumb just that you see it misused a lot and it's one of the easier ones to understand and mostly people focus on offensive stats and defensive stats still are considered unreliable if considered at all. I do my best as a very longtime baseball fan to take as much as I can into consideration but I would definitely have to consider myself more as an observer of baseball/White Sox and only try hard but often fail to get a rudimentary knowledge of advanced stats because to truly understand them I think an advanced knowledge of math beyond high school math is required. Not only that but there are so many advanced stats that even trying to gain rudimentary knowledge usually just consists of what the initials mean such as WAR is Wins Above Replacement and what Win's Above Replacement means in a general sense. At the very least it takes a great deal of time to talk intelligently on the subject and is something I will never be able to do. Not only that but message boards tend to give short answers so there's really no way to get "coached" into learning more or not getting that glazed look in my eyes when i try to understand.

So in other words defensive metrics are still mysterious. I don't understand this " The percentage stat is more like batting average and lets you more easily compare players with different amounts of playing time. " You gave us no clue what they are using to get a percent like batting average is AB's and hits, Is this chances and errors ? Seems unlikely since it's statcast and errors are subjective and not related to anything you can measure by filming it. Both stats are so similar in the rankings of the Sox players you listed that I can't tell one from the other without further explanation.

No Cuthbert is a depth piece . A lot of bad would have to happen between Leury and Mendick for that to happen. There is still a possibility they look for someone to replace Mendick just in case Madrigal takes longer than a few weeks . If it takes a month or longer the way the Sox see it now playing out. You could see a Yolmer signing or someone like Holt or Gennett but they just might value Yolmer's defense more. I think it's 50/50 they add another infielder. There's always the possibilty Madrigal come up and sucks so they may want to prepare for that.

MLB Network usually does an off season "Top Ten Right Now" based on analysts and the unbiased "Shredder". They usually have a sabremetric superpanel also so it's pretty comprehensive based on opinions and stats but not always seems to conform to the Right Now" label as some will rely too heavily on career stats and not as much as recent stats. Last year only Grandal and Abreu made it but if they are still doing it this year will possibly see Moncada, Giolito, Anderson. Top Ten Starting pitchers is a difficult one to make but Giolito will probably appear on some list during the discussions but I think the final list is up to the "Shredder".

How many options does Ruiz have ? Is there any danger of losing him in any other way besides waivers or a release? 25 yrs old with a nice arm that still has upside seems worthy of keeping. Why not Medeiros ? Does anyone have any updates on Ian Hamilton ? Does he post on Twitter ?

Pretty much what I am thinking however... the longer it takes the more my mind starts to think something bad has happened like a physical that detected something like an illness or a banned substance.

Eeryone keeps forgetting about Cordero.

People were talking about it happening at Soxfest. But if the Sox want him back they will do it on their terms. They'll tell Yolmer see what you can get on the open market and no one will give you anything but a minor league deal then come back to us and we will give you slightly more than that with a chance to be on the 25. "Oh yea and Yolmer ? You also have to be Carlos again."

Maybe but it's possible they like Mendick. He can play all those positions and some OF too when needed.

Fry is the one most likely on the bubble. If Sox still want another reliever I'll guess another lefty.

Done !

Not Bruce needs a proofreader or less booze .

ChiSox buy Cishek by the sea shore ?

Good.

Nats adding a lot depth with Starlin Castro, Thames and Asdrubal Cabrera lately.

Already have one in Leury. And Bradley jr. would be more valuable , more powerful bat off the bench than Engel and also a late inning defensive replacement for Eloy . Also more valuable than Engel to replace an injured Mazara or Jimenez since he bats lefty and most pitchers are righty while also keeping in mind that you only take JBJ if you can get Workman which would be a big upgrade for the BP at a combined cost of $14.5M for 1 year of each. Not likely given BoSox BP woes but not a terrible fit for a year depending on who you give up. Engei and a relieve pitching prospect ? Boston gets a little salary relief not much but maybe enough to get them back under the luxury tax ? I have no idea. So not only saves them $14.5 salary but also saves them over $10M in luxury tax penalties.

I was on Sportrac and it appears both JBJ and Workman are FA 's in 2021. STill it is a long shot considering Red Sox have BP problems too. He's also going to get $3.4M this season. Please do some research . You not only mistakenly thought we were talking about David Price but you misrepresented how long the Red Sox have control of Workman and talked about his salary from last year as if it was this years salary. You should be happy you got a "LIKE" for being so off base on your opinion.

Guess I don't follow where you get $20M from. Price is owned $96M for 3 years and Betts around $28M this year. That's $124M, That also adds another $60M to the 2020 payroll.

People just react without thinking everything out . Red Sox are in deep shit. I told everyone 3 weeks ago the Red Sox were fishing for suckers for Price and to wait a few weeks to a month to see how that ends up . They need cap relieve bad but they still aren't budging . They may eventually trade Price but they are going to have to eat half that contract or give up someone or both depending on what they get back. I still don't see the Red Sox parting with Workman but they will keep playing the waiting game on ridding themselves of Price before they do anything else or they might try moving JDM or Eovaldi basically their higher contracts but getting old or constantly injured. Their basic plan is now get salary relieve and restock the farm. They didn't bring in Tampa Bay's Boy Wonder for nothing. If you can't get Workman you don't take JBJ so it's likely not happening.

Yep he wouldn't necessarily be Mazara's platoon guy but he could spell Robert and replace Jimenez in late innings Leury would still be Mazara's platoon mate . There are more righty then lefty pitchers anyway so he'd be better suited to late inningg bench piece and PH than Engel. Then after a year he gone.

Boston's cap hit for those 2 is going to be around $14M so it's no eating much but Workman is a FA next year but since Boston is probably still looking to compete would be hard to get Workman epecially considered the Bosox have bullpen needs of their own. Pedroia has 2 yrs. and $25M left is 36 yrs. old and not even sure how healthy he is. Rusney Castillo has $14M left and he's 32 and has been in the minors for 3 years.

Maybe White Sox can work something out with the Red Sox involving one of their spare parts like JBJ, Pedroia ,Rusney Castillo in order to get Brandon Workman.

You have been reminded he exists often enough to remember him, That's why people think you are trolling.

I had made posts about Mazara should look to improve his average launch angle above where it is right now.using Statcast data. Further research shows that he hits fly ball pitchers better than league average and hits ground ball pitchers worse than league average. Baseball Ref. uses a stat called Hit Trajectory to show how a player does when hitting fly balls, ground balls and line drives, The line drives might not look so bad when looking at his stats .588 BA , 580 OBP .813 Slg and 1.393 OPS . In these line drive . ground ball and fly ball stats Baseball Ref. uses stats called sOPS+ and tOPS+. sOPS+ compares how he does against the rest of the league in those categories and he looks to be well below league average when hitting line drives even though those other stats i posted look great . The line drive one confuses me a bit because the tOPS+ looks better way better than usual where 100 is the mean he is at 256 but the sOPS+ is at 80. I don't see how they can be so different. The groundball and fly ball stats look like they make more sense. On fly balls his tOPS+ is 222 and sOPS+ is 172. So it still looks to me that he needs to hit more flyballs which supports my Statcast /average launch angle data findings. Perhaps if the Sox wanted him to improve against left handed pitching they could use Mazara against LH fly ball pitchers. I have no idea if the Sox discuss this type of data with Renteria or make a game plan for every game to optimize lineup production or just leave it up to Renetria to make the lineup on his own. But when all this data is available it would seem foolish not to utilize it for player development and pregame strategy. Eloy has much the same problems as Mazara only Eloy tapped into his power much better but he still makes a lot of line drive outs and hard hit ground ball outs. Imagine them both improving and having 2 40 HR guys in the lineup .