Jake

Alexei screened him nicely

Call it a hit!

Hit a bomb you prick!

Well, this was the most fun game to watch in quite a while /jinx

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 9, 2013 -> 09:18 PM) Phegley has a lot of work to do on his receiving skills I can't believe the reports were accurate. He can't catch balls on the fly. What a silly problem

Alright Q, finish this thing! #ThingsRobinWouldSay

Phegley sucks. 3/14 we want Flowers!!!

Phegley sucks. 3/13

It's Tank time baby!!!

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Jul 9, 2013 -> 08:55 PM) I saw Verlander go up against Darvish in the beginning of year. His velocity was way down and he was throwing a ton of change ups. It doesn't look like that's changed. I think his arm is ouchie. I wouldn't want him being my number 1 starter in the playoffs. He's obviously got something going on. His stuff is so good that he's still a good pitcher, but that contract may look horrible in a couple years

I will say this.... SUCK IT VERLANDER

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 9, 2013 -> 08:53 PM) I didn't know PEDs makes you a better defender? LOL they very well may

DUNN

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Jul 9, 2013 -> 08:47 PM) I don't even know what UZR is. I've seen Peralta play defense for years and he sucks. UZR is an advanced fielding metric compiled by humans using objective measures on film to rate each and every defensive play. UZR suggests (as you might remember) that he was horrible and one of the worst defensive shortstops in baseball during pretty much his entire stint in Cleveland. He became average over the next year or two in Detroit and rates as excellent in the past two seasons and pretty good so far this year.

Peralta has been wow-good this season and in recent seasons if you like UZR

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 9, 2013 -> 08:29 PM) Didn't they try this same philosophy with Nick Masset to mixed (at best) results? They turned him into Ken Griffey Jr. Worked really well!

I'd say Tank made use of that off day

You can look it up on Baseball America. If it's behind the pay wall, I'll look later

Anheuser-Busch thanks you

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jul 9, 2013 -> 07:25 PM) Who wouldn't though? I don't know, he's hitting worse than Dayan this year and also has less track record. He does have defense going for him, though, which explains 100% of his value last season

Twitter suggests they were talking about trades. Robin said something to the effect that he has mixed feelings about whether he wants advanced notice on trades

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 9, 2013 -> 06:52 PM) He was 23 when he first appeared in AAA. That isn't out of line at all. I'm talking about production. My whole post was about how they move guys at appropriate age over appropriate production

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 9, 2013 -> 06:54 PM) Because they're probably showcasing Alexei for a trade right now. ^^ can't rock the boat and make it seem like you want to get rid of anyone, even though you clearly want to. You also wouldn't want to cast any doubt on their playing ability by benching them

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jul 9, 2013 -> 05:12 PM) Get a big boner and grind on her, I've heard girls absolutely go crazy over this

Walker has been too aggressively promoted. Sometimes the White Sox push guys to age appropriate levels while (I assume) fully knowing that they don't have the track record to warrant being there. There is some chance that Walker catches up age-wise and becomes a contributor, but it will wind up being more like Jordan Danks, who needed to repeat AAA until he became a hair on the older side for that level. Danks is another guy where you can look at his year-by-year stats and find yourself thinking, "huh? why did they send him to AAA so fast?"