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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?

They have put Stoney in charge of the pitch trax and thus he is now usually the only one to comment on the ball and strike calls.

ptatc is awesome. His knowledge is so far beyond par for the course in his profession...I've worked with several PT/ATC that just don't know anything about baseball and it made everyone's time far less productive. It's clear that ptatc does a great deal of research on his own on baseball and connects it with his schooling. Sorry for the nut-hugging, but everyone deserves to know that our ptatc is the most knowledgeable about baseball of any I've known in his profession.

I stopped after "Meaghann"

Imagine how his numbers would have looked if he wasn't being robbed at least once a game throughout this stretch

That bit with Hawk blowing up the Metrodome was Emmy-worthy.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ May 28, 2012 -> 03:03 PM) What are these said numbers? I'm curious. >.300 batting average

Great win.

Interesting call here

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 28, 2012 -> 04:29 PM) How's this then...I need him to be legitimately back to hitting at Charlotte before we call him back up, and if that means burning an option, I'd rather have that happen than see him up again until he can resume tearing the cover off the ball in AAA? I think most of us would agree with that.

@ Morel talk but what explains an entire season of (at best) mediocrity?

Morel has swung defensively throughout his entire MLB career. The difference this year was contact. Last year he would hit it softly to second base...this year he misses entirely.

He can fist pump like Tiger, but can he pull tail like Tiger? Only Beckham knows