Jake

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 13, 2013 -> 08:33 PM) Wow he might as well be the tallest midget who cares offense sucks. I should say most of his WAR value comes from his baserunning and defense, but he's far from the biggest problem here. 28 year old CF who can bat his weight, I'm looking elsewhere for a target of my angst

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 13, 2013 -> 08:33 PM) The problem is when does it simply become "who they are," part of their identity? Like last year, the good hitting with RISP lasted as a trend for 4 1/2 months. Bring back Camp Cora, haha. Well I suppose that was the other part of my article. This team over the past several years has been one that doesn't commit errors. Players like Alexei don't have a track record of negative ErrR as part of their UZR. Something has changed/this is one hell of a statistical anomaly

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 13, 2013 -> 08:31 PM) De Aza should not be in the June plans. Leading the offense in WAR

That ball was kilt

QUOTE (fathom @ May 13, 2013 -> 08:28 PM) Bad baseball is bad baseball. You keeping making fundamental mistakes, and it comes back to bite you. The stats will show one error that inning when really there were 4 terrible decisions made by a team that couldn't be playing dumber this season. I know your article today tried to say the defense isn't as bad as the error totals make it seem, but the bottom of the 3rd is a reason why it might possibly be even worse. I also said that preventable poor defensive play is pretty the main constituent of issue, so we're basically on the same page

QUOTE (fathom @ May 13, 2013 -> 08:25 PM) Haha, are you even watching this game? The other team didn't gain anything on Rios's bad throw. Who cares? No stat should ever reflect that he made a bad-ish throw that harmed nobody and helped nobody.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 13, 2013 -> 08:23 PM) And I said they make horrible decisions that don't show up in errors, which doesn't always mean a runner advances an extra base. If the other team gains nothing, then it can't be much of a mistake?

QUOTE (fathom @ May 13, 2013 -> 08:20 PM) How does it take into account Flowers almost throwing one into the outfield when there's no play on the runner or Rios short hopping the catcher from about 180 feet out? If the baserunner gets an extra base the defense is held accountable

QUOTE (fathom @ May 13, 2013 -> 08:17 PM) This is the worst defensive team I've ever seen for the White Sox. Not only do they make a ton of errors, but they also make horrible decisions that don't show up in errors. UZR's ARM rating covers that

QUOTE (fathom @ May 13, 2013 -> 08:16 PM) My gosh this defense is atrocious. Should have been an easy 6-4-3 DP. It would have been a real nice DP, but he made half of the hard part just by getting there

Should be E6 IMO

This is going to be a part of the Hector experience. He'll get wild now and then.

Can't we save the b****ing for when we're losing?

Noah has had his head in his ass this entire game

Real happy bunch in here

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 13, 2013 -> 07:49 PM) Dude, he's does this every year. You can't win championships with this guy. He's too much of a liability in April/May against elite competition. He sucked against the Nets, I remember

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 13, 2013 -> 07:47 PM) One more year, correct? I can't wait until he's gone. He was our best player this year. I'm not going to get mad that they could slow him down while he's our only threat.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ May 13, 2013 -> 07:42 PM) Ozzie Guillen...wait, he's gone...uh....Greg Walker... I got nothing. Right. I don't know how to explain it. All those Chicago nightlife attractions? Bad luck?

If everyone comes here and gets worse, what does that mean?

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ May 13, 2013 -> 07:37 PM) Look at his splits last year. He had a nice 1/3 of the season to start then basically went back to being s***. Even with all those HRs he was still basically a 1 WAR player because of his s*** defense, playing DH, s*** baserunning and s*** (for a DH) OBP. he's had two nice months as a Sox. The rest of the time he has been complete and utter garbage. How his string hasn't run out,well, we got 16 or so million reasons why I guess. He was a major league baseball player all of last year. I realize his play dropped off especially late with that oblique business, but he wasn't this negative WAR player

If we could just make 40% of our shots from here on out, it will be competitive

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ May 13, 2013 -> 07:35 PM) He's in his head like the rest of these mental midgets. Sounds like the coaching is lacking, then

Nate is absolutely broke.

I'm searching for a logical explanation as to why he was basically fine last year and he's looking far worse than 2011 so far this year. The approach change made sense early, but he has clearly abandoned that

QUOTE (bbilek1 @ May 13, 2013 -> 07:22 PM) If Konerko is hurt that is one thing, but there has been no reports to say so. One way to break a slump if you're a right handed hitter is to face a left handed AAA fodder like this loser. From the sound of it, he's been having considerable difficulty dealing with daily wear and tear