CaliSoxFanViaSWside

Yoooo Mekkyyyyyyyyyy !

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ Jun 22, 2016 -> 06:34 PM) Where are you? Nothing going on in Oak Lawn yet. Say hi to my dad .

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 22, 2016 -> 06:41 PM) Indians finished home record in June 11-0 must be nice. And Royals are great at home too. Hard to compete with that unless you have a similar home record.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 22, 2016 -> 06:41 PM) Anderson has no pitch recognition at all I think he's ok with that. It's knowing the strike zone that's off. This is when I wish baseball had helmet with a coach in the dugout connected to the hitter. If I could call that low splitter some how some way a coach needs to let a young hitter know.

Damn had to know that low splitter was coming since he didn't throw it at all to Anderson up to that point.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jun 22, 2016 -> 05:54 PM) Time to tie this game up. Rodriguez hasn't gone longer than 6 1/3 yet. Yes sir.

Time to tie this game up. Rodriguez hasn't gone longer than 6 1/3 yet.

Good time for Andersons 1st steal.

OK be patient now this guy is running on empty already.

QUOTE (Insp @ Jun 22, 2016 -> 04:57 PM) Good News: Coats got his first ever MLB hit, a double, Bad News: He got it by swinging on the first pitch like an idiot. Plenty of guys gets hits on the 1st pitch. There's nothing wrong with that. Pitchers typically try to get ahead since hitters behind in the count do worse than when ahead. That's why sometimes it's a good idea to swing at the 1st pitch because often its a pitch just to get ahead in the count and the best pitch you will see.

QUOTE (SoCalSox @ Jun 22, 2016 -> 04:55 PM) Coats first ML hit is a double! So great to see . Get him home.

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.