Jake

Big break! Very un-Tampa-like play a couple times today now.

It's not so much a stuff issue with Humber, he simply has been lacking command. Walks and mistake pitches over the middle. I can't say that he's looked terrible today. I think there are equal chances of implosion and strong finish at this point.

QUOTE (Baron @ May 29, 2012 -> 07:20 PM) Absolutely and thats all Im saying. There are many factors that have to be right for them to make that decision. But with Gavin it always seems like an illusion. He'll look dominate for a while. Then the next few games he cant get out of an inning. This is because his success is so dependent on one pitch and that pitch is one he can't be very consistent with. This is why he's been adding that slider in, searching for consistency

QUOTE (Baron @ May 29, 2012 -> 07:18 PM) Yeah he was been off since the perfect game. He clearly doesnt have as good of stuff as he can have. So do we automatically lose?

QUOTE (Baron @ May 29, 2012 -> 07:16 PM) I mean if the Front Office is serious about contending. If were in first place at the trade deadline. Then you need a starting pitcher. Gavin Floyd and Phil Humber are either on or off. If they are off you automatically lose. Is Phil off today?

2 runs does not a bad outing make Let's go Phil

QUOTE (Jake @ May 29, 2012 -> 07:14 PM) Playing with some fire so far, but haven't been burned We've been burned

Playing with some fire so far, but haven't been burned

That was Humber's fault.

Good changeups are just murder. If he keeps it near the zone and low, we'll be in trouble (especially those lefties)

Might want to rethink that last pitch there

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 29, 2012 -> 06:30 PM) Pierzynski really spiked Zobrist there with his left cleat. Will be interesting to see if there's any payback for AJ. Probably deserves to wear one for that. Tampa may not want to do it with all the scrutiny they've had lately.

Decent first inning

QUOTE (flavum @ May 29, 2012 -> 04:13 PM) I agree with that. Two months from today, the Sox finish a series in Texas. I would be very happy with a 55-46 record at that point, which means 28-24 from now to then. That would leave 61 games to go 35-26 for 90 wins. Let's just win something like 20 in a row and play mediocre baseball the rest of the year

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 29, 2012 -> 11:24 AM) I wish people would stop trying to rationalize Rios's results. He's an every other year player, it very obvious. He'll be s*** next year and will be tinkering the entire season. I really don't buy into this idea, but you can see it on the smaller scale with Prince Fielder. He goes from ~1.000 OPS to ~.850 OPS every other year. Guess what -- it's his .850 year, and his OPS is .850...

I think if we hadn't seen how hard GB has been hitting the ball and the newfound quality of his at bats...the numbers could really look like a blip on the radar. I honestly can't see how we could add much. Youkilis is the only move that even remotely makes sense at this point, and that's because we could ship an expensive vet like Thornton their direction. We don't have much of anything in the system and I don't see us giving up anything that is cost-controlled to try to make a run this season. We have a good rotation that has to pitch well and stay healthy. We have two potential third basemen (O-Dog and Morel) and one of them needs to hit. Gordon is going to be fine. Bullpen is fine.

I'm going to just hope that the exit of Ozzie Guillen can keep us from playing down to the level of our opponents like we did so often in the past

Blaming Peavy's poor finish last year to that relief appearance: stupid. Peavy likes to push it, but you really can't attribute any of his problems to that (at least not definitively). The author also completely ignores Chris's pre-professional innings -- while they don't guarantee that he'll be durable this year, he paints a picture of Chris Sale as a lifetime relief pitcher who has never racked up innings...which is not true. He also seems to be overblowing the difference between pitch counts he hasn't criticized (I know he's been at 105) and 115 from yesterday. You don't want to have him average that many pitches by any stretch, but an instance of it in a historically good game is not that big of a deal. Basically, this article is s***. He hand selects facts that make his point look better and then suddenly seems to make no point at all. It lacked focus and brought no new information forward. I want my life back.

10 pitches per K = 115 ???? Only if he struck 11.5 hitters I didn't even want to read the rest, honestly

I looked at the numbers of PK-Thome-Dye in the 2006 season and I can't believe that team didn't make the playoffs. I've reached the conclusion that numbers don't matter.

In the interest of full disclosure, we've had a drop in production at 3B, SS, Danks, Humber, (maybe Floyd) Improvement in those areas or just meeting where they were last year could balance out some of these overperformers or even push us over the top.

As good as Paulie's been playing, his run production isn't unsustainable. He's had a lot of hits that have wound up meaningless, due in part to poor play in the 2 hole for much of the season and Dunn capitalizing on many of the RBI opportunities.

15 games apiece against KC and Minny? That should be a nice buffer for our record. Well everybody....we hold the cards. That is nice.

Can't tell what pitch from that photo. Many pitchers throw fastballs with fingers together, especially those that throw 2 seamers. Not a change though, obviously.

So if this team goes down the s***ter, do we still love KW based on the facts presented in this thread?