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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 22, 2016 -> 02:53 PM) Does everyone have their Picks to Click in? All 6 people in the thread? Anyway Melky RBI drives in Eaton who walked. Q gets 3 up 3 down. 1-0 Sox after 1 .

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 22, 2016 -> 09:46 AM) Well, for a time the white sox were quite successful. As both Magglio Ordonez and Carlos Lee were great finds from non-draft scouting. The Dave Wilder era was a literal lost decade, which only began getting cleaned up in 2013 with Marco Paddy. Those players are finally coming stateside with major positive ramifications. Carlos Lee is Panamanian and Ordonez is Venezuelan. . I know all about the Wilder scandal. If that messed up 10 years what about the other 40 since the Alou brothers came into MLB around 1963 where are our Dominicans ?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 22, 2016 -> 11:37 AM) Is it worth noting again that the White Sox are only right now successful on 64% of their bunt attempts (which is right at the league average)? 1/3 of the times guys try to bunt, they fail to successfully sacrifice before there are 2 strikes on the batter, on average. Some guys are better than that, but some guys are also much worse. So about 1/3 of the time the bunt is called for, the out is given away without accomplishing anything. For comparison, in the runner on first, 1 out or less case, the White Sox hit into a DP 11% of the time. Wait, maybe I don't understand. You said 1/3 of the time they fail to sacrifice before there are 2 strikes on the batter then said 1/3 of the time the out is given away without accomplishing anything. Ok so now there are 2 strikes on the batter and he doesn't bunt right ? So you are saying that every time the bunt is not successful every batter has made an out that doesn't advance the runner ? No one got a hit with 2 strikes ? No one hit into a DP with 2 strikes ?

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 22, 2016 -> 06:31 AM) I mean so far his last two drafts have initially looked good and the Latin pipeline is growing. Have the Sox ever had a good player from the Dominican Republic developed through their system ? I don't know the history of Dominican baseball but it's safe to say they have made quite an impact on baseball for the last 50+years since the days of the Alou brothers and Rico Carty . Telling me that the Latin pipeline is growing for the Sox is like telling me they just got a new rotary phone when the rest of baseball is using cell phones.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jun 22, 2016 -> 08:55 AM) They usually put it up for the 4th of July. http://cache1.asset-cache.net/gc/98316380-...hU7v04Kcw%3D%3D Very sly

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jun 22, 2016 -> 08:51 AM) Isn't part of the rule to limit the "neighborhood play" making it more difficult to turn a double play? Like ss2k5 said I'm talking more about the take out slides used to break up double plays which have always been an integral part of baseball. The neighborhood play or phantom touching of 2nd base by the infielder came into play because of takeout slides and the umps doing their part to safeguard the fielders from those slides. Now that those slides are no longer allowed fielders don't have to use the neighborhood play any more and can touch 2nd base much more easily without worry of injury. So yes it is still much easier now to turn a DP.

The debate about bunting has changed a bit recently due to the new rules that make it easier to turn a double play. I am surprised no one has brought that up. I think I would rather see a hit and run called than a bunt but not a hit and run ( run and hit ) with freaking Dionner Navarro on 1st base. There is also 2 schools of though about bunting over an already fast guy like Anderson with one of our better hitters who just happens to be one of our best bunters. If you bunt a slow guy to 2nd it still might take 2 hits to get him home but a fast guy is more likely to score with 1 hit. Bunting for a sacrifice is just dependent on many things , who's the runner , who's the bunter, how many outs there are, who's coming up next, how is your team at scoring runs, what's the game situation and more.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 22, 2016 -> 04:15 AM) You should be licking your chops if you have Boston this week in a 13 run pool. Anybody still do 13 run pools? Probably not, too old school. That's from back before there was fantasy baseball and Sabre-toothed mathematicians who think how a catcher catches a pitched ball is more important in getting strikes called than the place the pitcher throws it.

I don't know what the big deal is. As a GM you win some you lose some. Hahn has lost more than he has won and by a fairly substantial margin. The bad still outweighs the good .However as many have said it starts at the top and Hahn is only a part of the problem. As awhole organization we really can't pinpoint anything the team does well that can lead to sustained success.

Nice to see 2 wins in a row and Mr. Anderson doing well.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Jun 19, 2016 -> 07:44 AM) Alex Avila hitting 6th today...ugh For the last week Avila has been hitting better. What you should be saying "ugh" about is Frazier and Lawrie both hitting .181 for the last 30 games. Avi has a 9 game hitting streak and a .357 average for the last week and .278 for the last 15 games, yet he's hitting 8th.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 18, 2016 -> 09:36 PM) Everyone saw this coming. People that do other things for a living and casually pay attention to baseball saw this coming. What did Erik Johnson do to this FO and why do they believe someone's name entitles them to $9m/per while guys making 5% of that are deemed useless almost immediately. This was the straw that broke the camel's back. It's really mind boggling to me that Hahn could give up basically 3 pitchers (Danks, Latos and Erik Johnson ) for one who makes more than all of them combined for a longer commitment who has been worse than all of them. Granted none of them was setting the world on fire. But holy s*** Shields has been so, so , so, so, so bad he's making those 3 look much better. All we can do at this point is pray for a miracle that he somehow figures out some way to get better. My one word response I posted when it was just a rumor was NOOOO !

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 16, 2016 -> 01:12 PM) Not really sure how Trout isn't the right answer here. It is the right answer. He's Captain America playing baseball.

QUOTE (hi8is @ Jun 15, 2016 -> 08:32 PM) #TimAnderson4MVP I'd settle for ROY if he keeps hitting through the playoffs.

Anderson looking just fantastic. If Morneau can come in and hit like he has the last 2 years we might have a decent offense while Hahn tries to secure another bat and perhaps a relief pitcher. Then Rodon and Shields pitch better and Sox could look pretty strong. As much as I've supported Avi he's a huge liability in the OF and Morneau crushes righties so Avi to the bench or traded. Come Sale Away !

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 15, 2016 -> 06:26 AM) Well if you can't beat Mike Pelfrey with Chris Sale then you probably don't deserve good things to happen to you Wasn't there a Pelfry /Sale matchup a week or 2 ago that Sale lost ?

Saladino 2 run dinger

QUOTE (Condor13 @ Jun 14, 2016 -> 07:32 PM) Don't know if anyone answered ChiSoxFanMike question. FUBAR stands for F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition. Must've never seen Saving Private Ryan.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jun 14, 2016 -> 05:23 PM) it's been proven, with stats, that it's not repeatable. Your attitude is like sticking your fingers in your ear and saying "2+2 isn't 4 it's 5". There is not a single data point that says "clutch" exists. Notice that I'm not claiming that "choking" doesn't exist. Just that no player has ever, ever been proven to be able to raise his game in any sort of statistically significant (I'm using this term in a very precise way in a statistical test application) way. Not a single one. For those of you who put your faith in mathematics it's all well and good. Some things cannot be measured. So you're arguing that it's possible to lower your game because of pressure but not rise to the occasion. Interesting since neither can be proven mathematically yet you believe in the negative aspect but not the positive one. Why talk about math at all if you think choking is possible then surely so does rising to the occasion. If people can crack under pressure so can they rise above it.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 14, 2016 -> 12:37 PM) Frazier off tonight, Avi in RF and Shuck at DH Did Frazier change his stance ? He seemed awful far away from the plate last night ? And if he did change his stance I would play him just to let him get AB's with his new stance. If he did change his stance what is he doing differently that I didn't notice ?

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Jun 14, 2016 -> 09:53 AM) Being good with RISP isn't even remotely close to being a repeatable skill. Maybe it is , maybe it isn't. Some guys do better with guys on base. Concentration levels increase or whatever. Besides I am not arguing weather it's repeatable or not just that it's important. Of course stat geeks will argue that driving in runs is based solely on situation blah blah blah. But regardless it's still important to drive in runs . Can't win without scoring . The point is Avi has been valuable this year in that respect. He is making the most of the situations to score runs , better than anyone on the team. Talking about weather it's repeatable just clouds that fact. People talked about how Cespedes was inconsistent but his hitting with RISP was always good. There's something to be said for rising to the occasion. Weather or not you believe in clutch is up to you. It was easy to pick Cespedes as the best of the Big 3 FA OF's in the off season . You might think it was luck but not in my eyes.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jun 14, 2016 -> 09:02 AM) This is the issue with looking at stats in general. You can manipulate them any way you like to make a point. What one person thinks is important, another does not. This is the issue with WAR and many of those other overall numbers. The people who created them created it with what they though was important. So they are biased toward that line of thinking. True enough but being good with RISP would seem to be pretty important for a team that can't hit very well in general so when guys do get on base driving them in becomes even more important.

QUOTE (Hatchetman @ Jun 14, 2016 -> 08:44 AM) one stupid stat deserves another dude. Both 40 ABs. High leverage is a game 7th inning within one run. .How is how you hit with RISP a stupid stat ? Again . Support your case . Use some type of argument besides , "duhhh it's stupid " . So your stat has nothing to do with anything. The bases could be empty, he could be leading off the inning. . I think mine has a little more substance to it.When a team can't hit runs anytime matter just not from the 7th inning on.

QUOTE (Hatchetman @ Jun 14, 2016 -> 08:35 AM) In high leverage situations as defined by baseball reference, he has an OPS of .545. That tells me nothing. Doesn't tell me how many AB's that covers or what they consider a high leverage situation . Sound bytes like yours are not informative. Try actually communicating with thought and substance.

Everyone complains about the offense and the lack of big hits or hitting with RISP. Then many complain about Avi. I have pointed this out a lot recently and will continue to do so because the AVi hate is running rampant and it just isn't warranted for his hitting if we actually bother to look at how he hits with RISP. Best on the Sox (40 AB) hitting .375 , OBP .435 , SLG .600 , OPS 1.035 . Also best on the Sox w/ RISP 2 outs. b**** all you want about his fielding but when the Sox need a hit with guys on base Avi is best on the team and anyone hoping for his release or demotion (caulfield) is letting their hate for other facets of his game cloud their judgement on his ability to come through in the clutch . He should always be in the middle of the order. I made pretty much the same points in the off season when there was a backlash against Cespedes, ( buying high, too inconsistent ) and he's the only one of those big 3 OF's who has been very good so far. Don't tell me what you hit , tell me when you hit. Hawk does have pearls of wisdom every so often. I'll take a guy who hits better with men on base every time . Frazier has been terrible in that regard.