Jake

QUOTE (joeynach @ May 12, 2012 -> 09:33 AM) Hes heated up a little bit Ill concede that, but his K rate is the highest of his career, 22%, his ISO is .121, it was .190 in 2009, his wOBA is .277, even last year it was higher at .284. Even if you look at his regular slash line its .222/.284/.343. Thats terrible, I am not even remotely excited or anywhere near being ready to label him as "back". Clearly something has changed in the last 10-15 games, so the way you are approaching this is off. Saying he is "back" is assuming that Gordon Beckham today is different than the Gordon Beckham at the beginning of the year.

QUOTE (sunofgold @ May 11, 2012 -> 10:20 PM) This is awesome. Boers and Bernstein were making fun of Cooper saying that Sale was healthy and they were just checking things out with the mri. Coop was right. B&B were wrong. they though that you had to be injured to get the MRI. I wouldn't want to be quoted on that until we see him remain effective as a starter for a few outings.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ May 11, 2012 -> 10:21 PM) This might be as good as it gets so I'll post it now: .257/.401/.628/1.030 I love you Adam Dunn. It's all uphill from here!

We played like this against Cleveland and then lost two straight. Gotta stay strong!

AND THIS BALLGAME IS........OVAAAAAA

WOW

Well that first guy was easy, lol

AN OFFSPEED PITCH!!!!!

Tough break, a couple seeing-eye singles this inning

They can have Morel, Lillibridge, the whole gang! I think Middlebrooks is their guy for now though.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 11, 2012 -> 09:26 PM) Jesse Crain and Santiago or Ohman to the Red Sox for Youkilis...Red Sox eat a decent-sized chunk of the contract. Maybe that would work. The Red Sox really need middle/set-up relief help desperately. V. Padilla can't be trusted with a 3 run lead. The main way to get the BoSox to go along with something is offering salary relief for them, I'd think. Allows them flexibility to make subsequent acquisitions.

Paulie looking a bit off, nice to see us able to win when he doesn't contribute

That should be the end of bad press for Adam Dunn.

Gordon just fouled off a shoulder high 100 mph fastball with 1 hand, lol

QUOTE (fathom @ May 11, 2012 -> 09:14 PM) De Aza's nearly hurt himself badly three times this week on slides. His slides are always an adventure.

EE > BM

QUOTE (fathom @ May 11, 2012 -> 09:05 PM) Alexei had a good game the other day. Viciedo's had two good at bats tonight as well. Yeah, I'm not worried about them yet. They aren't like Morel, who is hitting the lightest .180 I've ever seen. As far as Escobar goes, you might as well let someone different go up there and hack -- Eduardo isn't producing more, but at least he has a little bit of pitch selection, eliminates righty-righty advantage, and swings like he wants to hit something

WILL THE REAL ALEX RIOS PLEASE STAND UP TRIPLE

Gordon Beckham is POUNDING the ball to right field right now. WOW, this is what I needed to see to believe. I'm in now on the Gordon Beckham gangbang train!

This rotation = good

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 11, 2012 -> 08:35 PM) What's the weather like tonight? Only 19,129 in attendance. You'd have thought with 2 wins in a row, the news about Chris Sale, May's here and college students are getting out now...that we could at least manage 20,000 for a Friday home game. most casual fans don't know anything about Chris Sale, nor would they have heard "the news" at 5 pm

f***ing MLB.tv...the only thing I can get to work the entire game is the iPhone app

Not a bad start.

That's a fine first inning for Gavin Floyd!

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ May 11, 2012 -> 02:44 PM) Why risk injury by giving him more innings than needed? Unnecessary innings do not help. I don't think running around the outfield presents a significant injury risk. The injury risk is so miniscule that I think there is more to gain by allowing him to sharpen his game there during blowouts, etc.