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Mr. K 1 ,2 ,3 with 2 K's.

That one will buy Kodiashii another 4 weeks.

If I could merge the beer thread with the game thread when Derek Holland pitches what would I get ? Anyone remember Grolsch Beer ? Don't know if it still exists but it's slogan used to be " Nothing Less than Hollands Best".

There's a Garcia on the list so there's hope the Sox can land someone since they seem to be collecting Garcia's.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 4, 2017 -> 06:13 PM) Putnam hasn't been able to stay healthy, and he doesn't have dominant stuff (on the radar gun), so those two factors weigh down his value, along with being RH. Petricka was just another guy. Not being able to dump Shields' contract off on someone hurts mostly in a financial sense. Otoh, Holland and Miguel Gonzalez are intriguing options, and obviously David Robertson. Hopefully Frazier can get his average back in the 240's or 250's, he could bring a nice piece back depending on other 3B on the market, Cabrera will end up mostly a salary dump. In the end, they really need Rodon to come out of this healthy by the time 2019 rolls around, whatever's wrong with him. Anderson needs to look much more dangerous than his bottom 5% OPS would indicate. As for the next few months, even if Jones can't come back, they've still got Swarzak and Kahnle that are increasingly intriguing, not to mention Burdi lurking in AAA. It's not like they have to worry so much about service time with him either, White Sox closers never make it into arbritration years. Going to be at least a month or 1 1/2 months till teams start looking for pieces. Q/ Robertson and pending FA's might be the priority but anyone expecting 5 or more trades will probably be disappointed. After all you need starting pitching to finish the season and bullpen pitchers also. Just have to wait to see who is healthy and who else decides to sell. I don't know how many sellable pieces the Sox will have then , probably more than half the 25 man roster to varying degrees.

QUOTE (raBBit @ May 3, 2017 -> 10:36 AM) Cubs rotation is kind of scary. Arrieta - Has been great but is a FA. Lester - Just 2 QS in 6 outings. More walks, less swings and misses. Lackey - Now the 5th oldest player in the league. Hendricks - Doubling the walks, doubling the homers and a .227 BABIP has aided him to a 4.18 ERA. Smoke and mirrors up. Anderson - Hasn't gotten hurt yet but he sucks now. On the farm, they have Eddie Butler and Williams Perez backing them up. Pierce Johnson is a reliever now. UUUUUUUUGly. Pretty much what I brought up in one of the Quintana threads about how Q would fit in with the Cubs before the season started especially with the extended playoff run.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 4, 2017 -> 05:23 PM) Great win. 5-2 versus KC? That's crazy good. Davidson has hit some towering home runs this season and hit one today. Avi has been stellar and was today. I'll give Holland credit. I despised his signing but so far he's been very admirable. I still say this is proving how bad Robin was. If only we had Renteria earlier we might have won the division a couple years at least of the Robin era. It's nice to see the Sox score runs once in a while unlike the Robin era. Sox have scored a lot of runs for instance in their wins over KC this season. It's not an automatic horrible game this season with the bats. Sox still suck offensively on most nights but they also break out on some nights. I don't know about winning the division but the biggest mistake Sox management made while "going for ir" besides the half hearted effort of going for it was not firing Ventura.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ May 3, 2017 -> 12:10 PM) Regarding his defense, he may actually have improved. In both 2016 and 2017 his UZR and DRS numbers are both positive, and in this Fangraphs article about the new Statcast defensive data he was the 4th most improved outfielder defensively from 2015 to 2016. Obviously a pretty small sample size, but at the very least I think it's fair to say he's no longer a disaster out there. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/examining-t...-probabilities/ I'm glad someone else noticed the defensive improvement last year. I think earlier in the spring I had said he had improved but since Eaton was out there most of the time it was hard to tell but the DSR or dWar was positive if I remember right. The statcast data on 1-5 star ratings was also encouraging to me although I've seen it misinterpreted .

Anyone know the longest stretch so far this year when Avi hasn't got a hit ? I'm going to guess like 5 official AB's. He's been very consistent .

QUOTE (Scoots @ May 4, 2017 -> 03:42 PM) Nice to come home from work to see the boys split it. 15-12. Tied for first in the division. Now on to Baltimore. Definitely a tougher team to face, and with Covey and Pelfrey pitching, not too overly optimistic, but definitely optimistic. Baltimore has lost 2 in a row, so there's that. Will be interesting to see how the Sox play against a "good" team outside of the division. Holland looked good. Swarzak extended his 0 ERA. Mr. K had no K's but no runs either. Avi 2 more hits and 2 RBI. Abreu and Davidson with jacks. Davidson 2/3 with a walk. Even Kodiashii had a key hit that drove in 2.

Very nice outing by Holland going 6.2 with 1 earned run .

Nice piece of hitting by Avi driving in 2.

Kodiashii with the 2 run double !

Holland cruised through the 1st 2 innings .

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 4, 2017 -> 11:38 AM) 452 feet on the Davidson homer. I've seen the live play and 2 replays and still can't find the ball.

QUOTE (ptatc @ May 4, 2017 -> 06:08 AM) There really isn't that type of surgery anymore. With all of the advanced imaging, they usually have a pretty good idea of what's going on. It's usually the extant of the damage that isn't known prior to surgery. If they really thought this was an option he wouldn't be throwing at all. However, as I've said from the beginning this case is so odd that anything is possible. I've don't recall a team being so conservative with all of these "reported" injuries, especially this team with Herm running the training staff. So you think it's a lat issue. Most reports have said bicep bursitis . Could he have both or one led to the other ?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 4, 2017 -> 05:14 AM) That is some petty and impressive grudgeholding. I don't mind. His repeated use of "oft injured" when referring to Rodon still is inaccurate.Obviously there is what is going on currently and one other trip to the DL when he tripped on the dugout steps. If he thinks that is oft injured so be it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 3, 2017 -> 10:38 AM) The Nats also seemed really anxious to put Giolitto into a deal and trade him over the winter too, so who knows what they know that we don't. I think the reason the media thought the Sox got the best of that deal was because the media was behind about Giolito . The Nats and the Sox were both fully aware of his struggles. Since the Sox clearly trust their pitching coaches to fix problems they couldn't pass up 3 highly thought of pitchers even if the ranking of Giolito versus the reality of him misled many at 1st.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ May 3, 2017 -> 06:50 PM) We just tied a major league record for striking out in an inning. And all 4 swung at strike 3 out of the zone.

Entering Wednesday the Sox bullpen is also leading the league with a 1.88 ERA while the White Sox as a team have given up the fewest runs in the majors . Anthony Swarzak is leading the league in most innings pitched (13.1 )without allowing an earned run. He also has a BAA of .073 and a WHIP of 0.30 Nate Jones hasn't allowed a run in his last 7 appearances while K'ing 13 .

QUOTE (Dizzy Sox @ May 3, 2017 -> 01:53 PM) Useless/stupid trivia question to keep this timely thread alive...Adam Dunn had a bit part in the in the movie Dallas Buyers Club. Anyone remember who was the last Sox player to appear in a major Hollywood movie prior to that? (Or at least the last one I can remember?) Ken Berry was in Eight Men Out.

Continuing the fine Soxtalk tradition of posting while intoxicated.

8 shutout innings for Jose Quintana, aka the Feathered Serpent. He gave up 4 hits, K'ed 7 and walked 2. The Sox offense even scored runs for him. Winner winner chicken dinner, 6-0 Sox over Royals.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Apr 29, 2017 -> 05:43 PM) And that's why Robbie Cano jogs to first on occasion. I'm only half serious but Eaton is a 100% max effort guy and because of that he was always more of an injury risk than your average player. I feel badly for him but on the other hand it's not like you didn't see it coming, in one way or another. I look at Avi the same way. He looks a little bit foot twisted when he hits 1st base some times.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 30, 2017 -> 01:03 PM) We know he is capable of being good, he has just gotten back to some bad habits, one handed plays, throwing off one foot when it isn't necessary...he will put in the time to correct it. This is what young players, u less they are superstars do. Eventually, they all struggle, and his defense was so much better than advertised, he may have either slacked a bit with it, or wanted everything to always look spectacular He has been overall awful defensively, but has made many spectacular plays. IMO, he just needs to get back to basics, and not try to do too much. Make simple plays look simple. Statcast had Ttim running 50 yards at 10 yards per second on that pop up. That's 10.0 seconds in a 100 yd dash while looking up tracking a pop up.