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QUOTE (Al Lopez's Ghost @ Aug 31, 2014 -> 08:27 AM) Pretty sure he was in Birmingham. Charlotte

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Aug 31, 2014 -> 07:30 AM) Buster Olney ‏@Buster_ESPN 1m The Oakland Athletics are closing in on a deal for Adam Dunn. It's Happening!!! Are your nipples hard

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Aug 31, 2014 -> 07:40 AM) This thread sucks. Negativity only . Very good ! Wait , should I say very bad to be negative ?

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Aug 31, 2014 -> 07:38 AM) Finally, on the very last day of the last trade deadline, your sorry ass is about to be out the door. Phew. What a relief this is for the organization. You have have been the biggest disappointment in Sox FA history. You were a hotdog and anything but a baseball player for the majority of your time here. Good riddance. Let wite & all your other fans say all the positive things they want in the Appreciation thread they will create. That can be a positive place, who cares. This thread is for negativity ONLY! Good riddance and thank God. Someone hasn't had their coffee this morning

QUOTE (raBBit @ Aug 30, 2014 -> 08:46 PM) I can't believe I just read five pages of this with no posting by or mention of Feeky. I never hated De Aza as much as the rest but the change is a fresh breath of air. He was never meant to be anything and he played pretty damn well for us for a while. He's in mourning or he just became an Orioles fan and will never be seen here again

If they're reviewing that play at the plate , NY says called out against the Sox so he's safe.

2 arms for De Aza is pretty good.

QUOTE (BaconOnAStick @ Aug 29, 2014 -> 11:02 PM) Baserunning, sure. I'll give you that. But this PREMIUM DEFENSIVE POSITION REPLACEMENT LEVEL crap has to stop. Any player who can hit like Abreu holds tremendous value, I'd go so far as to say unequaled value. Abreu is the only player, regardless of position slugging above .600. Not only that, he's the only one even close. He's the only player in baseball that has even a remote chance of an OPS over 1.000. He leads MLB in wOBA and WRC+ too, lack of baserunning and all. It doesn't matter what position Abreu plays, he is cramming much more offense than anyone else in baseball into one spot in the lineup. There are plenty of teams that are not getting Abreu like production out of their 4 and 5 hitters combined (totally unverified claim). Don't give me the "well you see Trout plays center and the average center fielder can't hit near as well as the average first...", Abreu so far out classes what anyone in baseball does with the bat arguments over positional semantics are worthless. I understand your meaning. If all else is equal how is a 1st baseman supposed to win an MVP over a slick fielding , good baserunning CF's or SS's ? Why should a 1st baseman have to hit so much better than everyone else to win it ? I'd like to see the breakdown of winners by position . Where do 1st baseman rank ? I know most years voting was done before sabremetrics.

9 game hitting streak for Abreu.

2 doubles in the inning and no scoring. 3 of the 4 Sox hits are doubles. Verlander looks very hittable. Have to get to him while the getting is good. Carroll isn't going to shut out the Tigers.

De Aza rips a double down the RF line to lead off , however he decided to make the 1st out at 3rd base trying to stretch it to a triple.

Carroll through 2 unscored upon.

Eaton leadoff single, Alexei fly out, Attempted pickoff of Eaton gets by Cabrera , Eaton to 3rd, unintentional intentional walk to Abreu. Dunn Sac fly scores Eaton. Avi hits double down right field line ,Abreu to 3rd grabbing at his hammy. Gillaspie walks. Flowers K's inning over , stranding 3. 1-0 Sox after 1.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Aug 29, 2014 -> 05:34 PM) That AB should bring some people in....The magic is gone =( It's still there , just hibernating.

We need a Magic Glasses Moment .

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Aug 28, 2014 -> 01:15 PM) If I was Hahn my most basic standard operating procedure on evaluating hitters, whether they are in house or potential acquistions, would be something like this: 1) Have all video data of all current or previous year contact situations analyzed and reviewed. Does the hitter barrel the ball up in this contact situation or not? Take a count of barrell contact. Being "fooled" and so on, that's mostly going to be a swing and miss thing, or a non swing entirely. Just looking at a hitter I would want to know how often he barrells it up when contact is made, and I would want to know the number of occasions total he does that and put it into a ratio that reflects PA. 2) From there I would look at things like player tools, position, etc. You want your SS & C to be defenders first, hitters second, but a good hitting C or SS that is kinda s***ty in the field could always move to another position. Are you looking for a position are are you looking for a hitter? If you want a hitter then really position is secondary IMO. Also, mechanical flaws are indicative of what? I'm thinking that you can't fix an internal incapability with a mechanical change, you can only implement a mechanical change to try to minimize an internal deficiency long enough to capitalize until the opposition makes the necessary adjustments in return. IE you can't hit the fastball with velocity up so you stand back in the box, or you take the curveball that starts high and drops low as a consequence of taking the high hard fastball hoping it's a ball. Or you look fastball and start early, and maybe implement some sort of mechanism to get you to start earlier. But no matter what if you can't consistently barrell the ball up because the coordination abilities are absent then all you can do is listen to you hitting coach and try new s***, but the mechanical stuff is never going to get you over the hump. I'm not sure what you mean by "barreling it up " . I assume you mean hitting the ball squarely on the barrel and not getting under it or on top of it too much. I think hitting the ball hard or squaring it up is even more important. That to me sounds like hand eye coordination skills, which kind of leads me into how good ones eyesight is. Ted Williams supposedly had better than 20/20 vision. Now there is "barreling it up" and hitting it on the "sweet spot ". I think we all have these machinations about hitting. Some guys just have a knack for finding the gap or the holes. Some guys hit it hard a lot and always find a glove. I've heard Hawk talk about moving around in the batters box yet I really can't ever recall seeing very many players do it. Same thing with choking up with 2 strikes or when contact is needed . Why do some player have open stances or closed stances or squared up to the pitcher stances ? Why do some use a timing mechanism like toe tap or why do they hold their hands where they do .Why do some wiggle their bat or their body? SOme stand straight up other crouch or have a lot of bend in the knees. If you're having no success how much of all this do you change ? Will some little thing make a big difference or does it all really come down to that hand eye thing . What made Gordon Beckham a star in college but not the pros ? Is it simply that only the elite play in the Majors and all your tools were good enough to dominate at one level but not at another ? I know there's such a thing as paralysis by analysis but I see guys lunging across the plate at the ball like De Aza and Viciedo and then I see guys who appear much more balanced like Mike Piazza who hit a lot of HR's to right field but did it on what appeared to be normal swings not lunging at pitches on the outer half. Watch Chris Carter now. He hardly seems to move at all. Very few moving parts in his swing. I think as a hitter you really have to know your strengths and weaknesses and make adjustments based on them .If you K or make a lot of weak contact on pitches away then let the pitcher have that part of the plate and wait for more pitches in your comfort zone then if every pitch seems to be away away away move closer to the plate. Force them to come to your strengths. Why shouldn't a hitter face each pitcher a different way the way a pitcher does to a hitter ?

QUOTE (scs787 @ Aug 27, 2014 -> 08:41 PM) If only the Sox were in the NL....He'd be 1 RBI behind Stanton and .004 points behind Morneau(there's a bit of a shocker) for the triple threat. I think he can win the Crown Royal .

Haven't been able to say and that's a White Sox winner in a while. Sanchez is doing well . Hawk calls him mini Maggs because he looks like Magglio.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Aug 24, 2014 -> 12:16 PM) Please just tie the game and then lose. I hate unearned losses for Sale/Quintana. There you go 1st half of your plan worked. Not sure I like the 2nd half

AviGar HR oppo line drive . All tied up.

The LLWS JRobinson v. S. Korea is on ABC. 1-0 SK so far.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 24, 2014 -> 11:43 AM) Ever since Avi homered, he's been trying to pull almost everything He's going to have troubles with guys throwing as soft as Capuano having been off so long. 90 MPH is probably where his head is at now not 80.

Conor 2 R HR off the lefty Capuano !! 3-0 Sox .

Lead off dinger for Alexei ! 1-0 .

Surprised no one mentioned Eaton's 1st rehab start with Charlotte. He went 2 for 5 with a double.