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Rienzo has been bad this year but today is just awful luck. Two bloops, a bunch of ground balls, and a bad block. He's been throwing strikes and getting grounders

1.000 BABIP today for Andre

B-R's wonky WAR calculation has Eaton as ninth highest position player in MLB, with 4.0

I think the main question marks on the Bulls are things that, if answered, decide whether they're merely an ECF contender or Finals contender.

Rienzo getting a bit unlucky here. Balls finding holes. Arencibia didn't even know he hit his single

Adrian Gonzalez posted a .690 line across a couple of levels before getting things back together the next year. Brandon Phillips had a very bumpy ride over four seasons in AAA. The things I see looking through guys on the BA 100 for Davidson comps: -Not uncommon for guys to play really badly in the middle of their MiLB career -It is uncommon for a guy to have a year like Davidson did last year (decent success in AAA, decent cup of coffee in MLB) and not spend some or all of his next season in MLB. A lot of guys who go to MLB, struggle badly, then go back down to AAA and struggle badly before going back to MLB and killing it in the future -A lot of guys just flat out struggle badly in MLB for a few years. So the question with Davidson is whether it's meaningful that AAA is the level he's struggled at and whether it's meaningful that he is struggling as he repeats AAA. There aren't a ton of comps for his situation because, like I said, not that many guys go back to AAA. While lots of guys struggle, it's not always in AAA and it's not always when repeating a level. And when I say guys, I'm saying "guys who I know to have had good MLB careers"

Aaron Boone was a decent comp here, perhaps. .850 OPS, 22 HR in AAA, then gets a cup of tea in MLB. The next year he posts a .680 OPS in AAA

Alex Rios was a pretty bad MiLB player until the season before he got called up. Brian Dozier had a .620 OPS in AAA before coming to the big leagues. That's what I came up with via a few minutes of just looking at guys

Interesting to me that Davidson has walked 7 times in the past 6 games. It's not like he's done anything else well, but it seems less than coincidental that he'd have a collection of walks like that. He'd only had 6 walks in his past 20 games before that. I'm just looking for signs that he's working on something up there.

Who keeps track of that stuff? There's something weird going on with Davidson. Maybe whatever it is will never change and he won't hit well again. But there's no way you can say that a guy who did what he did last year and the years before that can be reasonably expected to hit like he has this year. Something has changed - physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, I don't know - but he hasn't been the guy we traded for.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 5, 2014 -> 08:05 PM) He's hit into a lot of DP lately for someone with his speed. Hopefully Sanchez is in his role next year. Well, I hope we don't have someone with as much value as Sanchez in the "never plays" role. With that said, I don't see why we don't give Leury a shot in AAA at playing every day once we get some of the other MIF up here. Leury has never really repeated a level and could benefit from doing that. He doesn't have to hit very well to be a really nice piece.

I like Danks and all, he's a good guy who has pitched really well for us, but I'm obviously worried. I hope he can turn it around and I don't think it's impossible that he does - but there is no good trend to fall back on.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 5, 2014 -> 07:31 PM) Last couple of games, he's been fouling off some meatballs that he had been hitting over the fence before the ASB. Thankfully, he's stopped chasing the slider low and away for the most part. Seems like he's gotten a little focused on hanging offspeed pitches. While he was lining fastballs to right and pounding offspeeds to left, he's got himself into a spot where he's starting to miss the heaters, even in fastball counts. The beauty is that he's doing so many things right that he's still hitting well

Danks FIP by month: 4.14, 5.27, 4.78, 5.10 Oh, and for now August is 15.14...but he's only thrown one inning so we'll let him work on that a little bit more. My general point is that outside of having an okay April, he's been bad all year. His hot streak was a mirage

Abreu let several mistakes go in that AB

He was on track for a regression. I was hoping his FIP would regress to his ERA, but that's not usually how that works

Javascript blocker killed that popup for me Rock

He had a ton more value last July than this one. We just weren't willing to send any money along. Not a bunch of surplus value on his contract

I've always heard that, especially at this time of year, there are so many guys on waivers that many just get missed. When there are realistically 20 or more players you'd want to claim on the wire, you can't claim all of them because then you're stuck. I'm guessing the majority of teams just assumed the Yankees had no intention of letting him go to the team that claimed him

I don't think Biogenesis was around long enough to implicate guys who haven't played in the past 4 or 5 years. Were busted too soon to implicate Abreu.

Sweet Jesus does Adolfo have a catastrophic K rate. This level might be too high for him to get better. That would make Jared Mitchell blush. Tough call for the Sox to get him near our best instructors but still try to keep the competition level manageable.

White Sox players have been pretty unharmed in all of this stuff over the years

I think Martellus is beloved by his teammates. Fuller cheapshotted him and I think whatever it was he said to Martellus made him lose his cool. Trestman is in the right to punish Martellus for losing his cool so easily.

I'd be shocked if he makes it through the NL

QUOTE (kev211 @ Aug 5, 2014 -> 11:12 AM) What was he doing before the glasses? Was he just going with his regular bad vision? Or was he wearing contacts? I don't see how switching from contacts to glasses would help any. Glasses still offer better vision correction, especially when it comes to people with vision problems like astigmatism. If he had allergies (I've been there), contacts can become unwearable as well. You'll have them coming out of place and getting literally covered with the gunk your eyes are producing