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He may end up with the worst back half of a hall of fame career ever right?

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Sep 20, 2017 -> 11:46 AM) That .186 BABIP and 90% LOB isn't going to last and I'd like to see him get more Ks (though the swinging strike% seems fine) but obviously it's hard not to be encouraged by him so far. The lack of walks is nice to see, though when he misses his location he seems to miss by a lot. The curveball doesn't look that great but that might not matter because his changeup looks really good. Yeah this is true. When he gets to 3 balls, maybe he goes for locations he knows he can hit. But may leave him tendencies that hitters exploit. Overall, if you'd have told me that this is how giolito would look in the bigs after his April, I'd have obviously been very happy.

I think giolito will be in line for some blowouts if he can't locate his offspeed continously. What gives me hope is he isn't having fine games when he has his stuff, he's having dominant games when he does. His fine games are just working with fastball changeup. I mean, being able to consistently find his curve isn't a small step, but he hasn't lost fastball location throughout an entire game. That's really great.

I don't think harvey will be much of a contract tbh. Will certainly eat crow if he has a healthy 2018 leading up to it, but i would...bet against it.

Yeah, I think I'll take Adam dunn, but it really goes to show that with just more walks Davidson could feasibly hit 2012 adam dunn level.

QUOTE (3GamesToLove @ Sep 20, 2017 -> 09:15 AM) Sam Miller is a god among baseball writers and reading ESPN commenters who just don't *get* it is one of my favorite pastimes. I know, it's brutal.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/2074499...home-run-hitter Fun article. This year is so weird. I think Matt has a lot to be proud of himself for after the career he has had, but for him to be a big leaguer past this season he has to get his walk totals up to what they were in the minors.

And the phillies win

Fine with not bringing Hansen back next year

Haha oh man I'd like a gif of that Hansen swing on Giles

Not a bad game. I'll take this loss.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Sep 19, 2017 -> 09:43 PM) Haha, I figured as much but figured I'd ask. Basically he gets hidden for a few days and you think "he can do it" but any legit pressure and he has come up short a lot.

Lol that Farquhar throw

Did you guys know Giolitos parents were in show business? Haven't heard this every start

moncada 2-2

crap. mixed up the merge. Sorry elrockin

Ugh god. It doesn't matter. The hyperventilating from the left over every dem mailer is nauseating.

Weirdest part has to be these rookies coming up and continously breaking "fastest rate" records for home runs. The top line guys don't seem that out of the ordinary. But yeah, if ANderson was here in 2012 he'd probably have 8 home runs.

the more years go by, the better Krause looks. Who knows how it would affected his roster decisions, but he would have been much harder to vilify had he had today's roster cost certainty.

Good writeup. It seems like these must have been where Bummer made a name for himself last year. Will be interesting to see if anyone gets a boost (from the crop who did not play much this year) from how they perform here

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 19, 2017 -> 12:13 PM) We will see a significant amount of players added to that mix. The White Sox will almost certainly be a major player in the Rule 5 draft. They have two open roster spots as of today and they have a large amount of players who could hit the road after the season is over. The White Sox area always a team who is active in signing everything from minor league free agents to major league free agents who are looking for a second, third, or even final chance at a career turn around. It wouldn't shock me to see the White Sox add around half a dozen pitchers in this category alone, most of whom will fail. Finally the Sox still have Avi Garcia and Jose Abreu on the roster, both of whom could ended up being traded in the off season. I think this is true but here's my guess Rotation Rodon Giolito Lopez Shields Signed 5th that can be cut or Fulmer Bullpen top down Jones Minaya Bummer Beck I feel comfortable saying they'll be the guaranteed holdovers. I can easily see Infante in fact coming back. And I'd expect 2-3 vets signed but maybe only 1-2 breaking camp. I'll place Fry at 50/50. I think he'll absolutely be up at some point next year, just unsure if he breaks camp.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 19, 2017 -> 10:37 AM) They didn't wiretap Trump... they wiretapped everyone! As if that's better. Awesome. Was it bad when they wiretapped blago?

I respect Collins basketball mind, hard to know whether to care just due to the kind of bespoke nature of "Advisor" positions.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 19, 2017 -> 09:15 AM) This was a very good scocca piece. https://medium.com/@tscocca/the-new-york-ti...on-a192c232a4c9 This new wave of countering the counter arguments of the argument you never even really made reminds me of when Asher Roth debuted an album countering the backlash that he was just an eminem clone when nobody even knew he was at that point to make a backlash. Asher Roth foreshadowed politics.

This was a very good scocca piece. https://medium.com/@tscocca/the-new-york-ti...on-a192c232a4c9