Jake

I've never seen professional journalists act like such big babies. Put on a f***ing coat on your way into the stadium and shut the f*** up. New Orleans is a s***hole anyway

Yeah, I think the obvious question is not so much whether he can sustain statistics exactly like these over the long haul, but rather which ones will change. The saber way tends to assume that K/BB stays the same, in which case the outlook is bleak for Abreu. However, we have good reason to be skeptical of the stability of the K/BB rates of a player with such unique circumstances, in such little time, and partially influenced by injury.

Your diet is going to explain 75% of your results and pretty much 100% of your weight loss results. Exercise, though, is going to affect the way the weight is lost - even the most basic of exercises will help you preserve muscle mass and cause you to lose more "bad" weight than otherwise

We're still working with too small of sample sizes. Abreu essentially jumped AA and AAA right into the majors. That K rate and BB rate are going to do some fluctuation. For a while, it looked like it was going to be 8-9 BB% and 19 K%. He's going to probably look both worse and better before things start to normalize and it will be a perfectly valid expectation that those peripherals improve next season whereas they typically stay pretty static.

A lot of physical talent, not much production. I wouldn't pay much and I'd have to think he would need MiLB time. caulfield, I didn't look at said scouting reports you're talking about, but Spanish naming conventions are First Name Paternal Last Maternal Last. So Dayan Viciedo is actually Dayan Viciedo Perez. It might be that Arredondo is his maternal last name

Yeah, LA is still reeling from all the money blown on that Puig character

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 19, 2014 -> 10:49 PM) Sale said the White Sox have to do something else to rid themselves of this rash of injuries. If they continue to occur the two-time All-Star might be open to hiring a witch doctor or sacrificing a live chicken, anything to rid the White Sox of this epidemic. [RELATED - White Sox Chris Sale sore from start but elbow is fine] “We have to disinfect the clubhouse,” said Sale, who is nearing a return. “We’re getting bit by the bug. Something’s going on. But you look around baseball and we’re doing a little better than most. You look around baseball — there’s freakish things happening around baseball for some reason, with pitchers and guys on field with obliques. Be thankful it’s not more.” Dan Hayes, www.csnchicago.com Ozzie's into Santeria, might have to bring him back

Also, I believe Love and Derrick are friends - Rose would still be a draw for Love. Noah, too, for just about everyone I'd imagine

Bulls haven't signed top tier FAs in anyone's lifetime because they always draft them. MJ and Scottie? No top tier FAs to sign when they're on your team. Rose and Noah? Again, they're on your team. There was a small window where we could have done it and we turned it into a nice little core for several years through the draft instead.

He acts like that's something new. Yeah, they are going to keep taking a look at it to make sure it's okay. Yeah, when he arrives in Chicago he's going to see the doctors again. Yeah, when the only way to heal the injury is to keep you off your foot, he's going to wear a walking boot.

Go big or go home Bulls. Love AND Melo or nothing!

I have no feeling about Danish's outing. It's just a sorta bad day, but not really that bad of a day. It happens. It's neither good nor bad.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 18, 2014 -> 03:39 PM) Now you know why most info is shared via pm. Sign me up then.

Yeah, Rock's always been..."rock" solid. I hope people being dicks doesn't dissuade him from posting

That's brutal. Could cost us the game

Rock, can you explain the thought process behind "planned" DL trip? It would make perfect sense if they anticipated it but were keeping him out there in hopes that it might resolve itself. Simply pre-planning it would have to have some kind of personnel-related reasoning...ie, wanting to wait for Eaton's return or something

If you thought the worst case was 15-day DL but there was some chance it could get better without 15-day DL, the only insane thing to do would have been to send him straight to DL

I'm guessing this means Dayan to DH

I believe the argument is that we saw him get better over several days and then today got back to where he used to be. Therefore, we didn't see him get worse. We saw him return to baseline hurt.

It's a calculated risk, but really not much of a risk at all. They decided that making the injury worse was basically a non-possibility, which tends to be the case with ankles like this. So there were two choices: -Play him at DH and hope you can rehab it away while he still helps the team. If it doesn't work, he misses [some amount of] days. -Immediately rest him for [some amount of] days. Why not try number one, with nothing to lose and plenty to gain? We've seen this with Cabrera, except they kept playing him in the field too.

Speculating about an injury like this is pretty much a giant waste of time. There's no way to have any useful amount of info about the day to day pains of Abreu's ankle. As far as possible lineup refiguring if Abreu misses time, I'm guessing Viciedo goes to DH for the most part and we have an Eaton/ADA/Sierra outfield for the most part.

Let's extend this Noesi kid, he looks great.

Hawkins is said to have a very strong arm. Could throw 90 as a pitcher.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ May 16, 2014 -> 04:44 PM) Sale's wasn't stellar coming out either. He had to develop that change up. Sale was all fastball slider coming out. Sale's slider was his worst pitch coming out. Changeup was more polished. Didn't learn to harness the slider until we put him in the 'pen

I'd like them to do that, then once its approved in a few months immediately move to reclassify. This way, as it is being disputed in court, there are SOME rules to fall back on