jphat007

Cmon ump. It's ST. We wnat these things to go quickly

QUOTE(HeGone33 @ Mar 28, 2007 -> 03:02 PM) Sabathia might have a broken arm, got hit with a line drive today. The X rays were negative

QUOTE(BearSox @ Mar 27, 2007 -> 09:35 PM) oh man... I hope Molina has just been saving all of his energy and power just for this season! Don't count on it. And don't count on him being our backup catcher for long if he does break camp with us.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Mar 27, 2007 -> 09:32 PM) I'm predicting a huge year from Uribe, and I think Anderson will be improved, so I think the Sox should be a little better against lefties although they still appear to have a few automatic outs against them. Pablo in LF, Anderson in CF, Dye in RF, Crede 3b, Uribe ss, Iguchi 2b, Konerko 1b, even if Molina is an automatic out catching, and Thome is struggling against the left handers, the offense shouldn't be too pathetic against them. I think they will have a little more success against lefties this year, the problem is they may be required to score even more runs than last season. If thats the case, we are going to lose anyway. The pitching has to be better. Bottom line.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Mar 27, 2007 -> 09:26 PM) While I think Perez could have helped out, I just don't see the Sox splitting time with Thome so I really don't see where Perez was going to get AB's, especially considering we don't need any 1st baseman and he really is a horrendous outfielder who makes Pods look like a freaking gold glover. On a side note, its pretty ridiculous that some of you think Perez is the difference between a potential first place White Sox squad and a 4th place one. The key to this team is the arms and in turn the defense, not the offense. That's pretty much my feeling. We're going to need to beat the good lefties 3-2 like in 05 instead of 7-6. The latter was pretty much not going to happen whether we have Perez and Hall or not. We won 90 games last year and our starters and bullpen was pretty s***ty, and the team is pretty much intact. Bottom line, starters have to pitch more like 05 than 06.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Mar 27, 2007 -> 09:18 PM) ....and Thome, BA/grinderstad like you originally listed. I'd say five ninth's of the lineup isn't "some." Don't hold your breath on that waiting for all 5 of these guys to turn it around against LHP. Have you ever seen him play first? I'm not saying they will. I'm saying we need them to.

QUOTE(fathom @ Mar 27, 2007 -> 09:12 PM) And Iguchi really stunk vs LHP last year. Like I've repeated many times, if we can't beat Santana, Sabathia, and Rogers more than once a piece this year, we have no prayer to make the playoffs. The plan was to give Thome a little more rest this year. Yah, like I said above, more than anything, we need to have some of the regulars start hitting well against lefties again(?). Iguchi, Uribe, Pods. I mean, Uribe kilt lefties in 05.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Mar 27, 2007 -> 09:06 PM) He could have gotten ~150 ABs this season taking a few at bats away from Thome as well as the occasional start in LF. I'm not sure they would have put him in left, but that's impossible to know. It would have been interesting (I guess thats the word), to see how Thome would have reacted to having his ABs cut so drastically.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Mar 27, 2007 -> 08:57 PM) Really freaking ridiculous that Perez doesn't make the roster. Then again, that's what happens when you choose to keep two (relatively useless) sub-750 OPS OFers, one of which is limited to a corner OF spot. It would have been interesting to see how we would have worked Perez into the lineup. I don't think THome would have been happy with being platooned. And thats the only way we would have gotten him ABs for the most part. He's good against righties, but not better than Paulie so you wouldn't have wanted him in his spot. QUOTE(fathom @ Mar 27, 2007 -> 08:59 PM) As things stand right now, we're worse off against LHP than we were last year. Well, we need Uribe to hit like he did in 04 and 05 against lefties. That was a huge dropoff.

QUOTE(RME JICO @ Mar 27, 2007 -> 08:53 PM) At least he made the roster. Too bad about Perez and Terrero. With Hall injured and no Perez, the Sox are going to struggle against LHP again. We need Erstad/BA, Iguchi, Thome, AJ, and Uribe to have better years against lefties. And while Joe was solid against them, we need him to be even a little bit better. I don't mention Pods because I imagine Pablo will be out there in his place against lefties. Though he did have a .404 OBP against lefties in 05. Not sure how that happened. But yah. he had a .348 OBP against righties last year when he sucked. Platoon him.

http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/news/artic...sp&c_id=cws Additionally, and unsurprisingly, Perez was released and Terrero sent down. THe article says KW tried to make several moves to free up a space for PErez, but nothing worked out.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Mar 27, 2007 -> 05:32 PM) Not with the same hate for this organization that is being shown on this board day to day. When you do not like anything about the team anymore, you arent a fan, thats how it is. This place often feels like a baseball prospectus "MLB" message board instead of a white sox fan site. I don't think there is anything wrong with being upset or something, but the vicious way that people on this site hate the players, manager, GM, team is a little out there. There are many times when I forget that I'm on a White Sox fan site. On my college message board, people get pissed at me because I'm pessimistic and negative. Go figure. QUOTE(fathom @ Mar 27, 2007 -> 05:33 PM) Seriously, what's your prediction for this year. 91 or so. But there could be a huge variation. COuld be 10 more or 10 less than that. It'll be interesting to watch, as long as I stay away from these boards as much as possible.

QUOTE(fathom @ Mar 27, 2007 -> 05:28 PM) I've seen some of the most optimistic fans on this site pick this team to have 84 or 85 wins this year. Nope. I picked 71, and possibly 72. If we're lucky.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Mar 27, 2007 -> 05:08 PM) Probably not, that was an exaggeration. But among regular posters, more than half could. LOL

QUOTE(Jenks Heat @ Mar 27, 2007 -> 04:17 PM) Yep and have scored 3 runs or less 11 times. The pop-outs and GIDP's have been a problem for a while and looks like an issue for this season as well. If Spring Training is so irrelevat how did Danks become the number 5? I understad there is a credability issue with looking too deep into the numbers but it is showing a pattern of reouccurence with the same porponents. Danks became the No 5 the same way Boone Logan bacame the Loogy last year. How'd that work out? Spring Training results of any kind don't matter.

QUOTE(TheOcho @ Mar 27, 2007 -> 04:12 PM) Hehe, your number 1 sorta makes #2 useless. Exactly. Spring Training is meaningless all the way around. Good or bad.

QUOTE(Jenks Heat @ Mar 27, 2007 -> 04:00 PM) I am getting the sinking feeling that the offense this year is going to get really ugly. They are just not generating run production and haven't most of the spring. The GIDP's and pop-outs are out of control. 1. Spring training feel, stats, etc. dont matter 2. White Sox lead the AL in runs scored during the spring.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Mar 26, 2007 -> 10:09 PM) I knew he would make the team. haha, you guys were so pissed before. They'll still be pissed. Just about something else.

Interesting. I wonder if they would go with a 10 man staff and put Perez on the team.

QUOTE(fathom @ Mar 26, 2007 -> 09:37 PM) Molina hit around .225 in AA last year. Considering the quality of lefties he'd have to face, I'll predict he wouldn't hit over .140 in the majors. It's times like this I wish we had an extra few million to be able to acquire players when injuries occur (anyone know where we can find a few millions dollars being wasted on our roster?). I'm not saying that one of those two won't get the job, because they very well could, but I surely don't trust what KW says in an article like that right after the thing went down. He's not gonna announce, "our in house options suck, so we are going to make a trade." You can bet he's burning the phone lines tonight though. or will be soon. That's not to say that Molina or Wiki won't be the backup though. They very well could be.

Sox Lose 3-2. Decent pitching. Sisco, Masset and Aardsma all pitched and dint' allow any runs.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Mar 26, 2007 -> 05:06 PM) Even at just two games, that adds up to a whole lot of games throughout the season. And for anyone to shrug this off is retarded. Who would people say is a better back-up C in baseball than Hall was in position to be this year? I was just commenting on how many games Hall was likely to play. That's all.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Mar 26, 2007 -> 04:57 PM) 2 games a week at a minimum. Javy Lopez is a DH and a bad one at that. 2 games is about right. I doubt it would have been much more than that, unless he played at first. AJ wasn't going to put up with playing in half, or slightly more than half of the games in a week.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Mar 26, 2007 -> 04:10 PM) How about we win 45-1 today or something. I'm lacking on the Kool-Aid, I need a reason to be optimistic. Winn with a 2-run triple. Giants up 3-1

Javy Ks Bonds looking and then Durham as well to get out of the 3rd. Cain goes 1-2-3 in teh fourth