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QUOTE (fathom @ May 21, 2015 -> 09:48 PM) Not including LaRoche, the Sox have one player in the top 18 at their position in terms of WAR. I would put this right up there with the Adam Dunn experience as one of those things you literally (and I do mean literally) think could never, ever happen -- and yet here we are. I guess if you roll the dice enough times you'll see about everthing but if this was my OOTP team I'd be rage quitting. It's unfathomable.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 21, 2015 -> 07:58 PM) He has to be one of, if not the worst, pitchers in the AL since he signed his extension Wow you have to pay for the finder on B-Ref? I was going to run a search for it. I'm sure he's right there and could possibly be the worst qualified FIP and xFIP. He's certainly close to the bottom in ERA and ERA+ as well.

I swear to god there's something rotten on the South Side. I have never seen a team field so many players THAT AREN'T EVEN REPLACEMENT. You sign Melky, below replacement 40 games, go figure. You bring up your young exciting 2B, below replacement. His replacement so far? Below replacement. Your SS? Well below replacement. Adam Eaton, below replacement. Catcher? He, don't make me laugh. WTF MAN. I think the Sox may have to redefine their version of raplacement because they can't find any FOR s***.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ May 21, 2015 -> 09:27 PM) I could not agree more. This franchise is sorely in need of that new vision you mentioned, a house cleaning, as you suggested, and an overall new strategy. What Reinsdorf has employed during the last 35 years just hasn't worked, it's left our fan base dormant, and completely wasted the potential of a big market ball club. I think many Bulls fans will tell you the same thing. The org has become stale.

fml

Oh joy a hand issue for Abreu.

how about with a jose abreu 3 run hr?

how will this rally fizzle out?

When the best thing that can be said about a starter is that he'll hang in there after he gives up 3-5 runs in the first inning, well, it's time to put him out to pasture.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 21, 2015 -> 08:56 PM) The other bad aspect of this is pulling the Indians right back into the race. If this score holds up, the Indians will only be two games out of 4th and some badly needed forward momentum. Conversely, if the White Sox had gone 3-1 or 4-0 against them, they would have been 10-12 games under .500 and pretty much out of it. Yea it sucks.

walk the bases loaded please.

Sox should have made a move for Castillo is the price was a nothing special reliever. Flowers is killing them.

Hey look all the problems from the first three weeks are back!

Put in hector seriously it can't be any worse.

This guy has great stuff. After last night they won't have a chance.

hard to win with this level of production from the lineup. Not making enough good contact.

Can only shake your head. Is anyone ever going to address the fact that John Danks is a sunk cost?

Looks like a classic Danks crooked number here.

There is no consistency night to night in the zone.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 21, 2015 -> 07:15 PM) I don't think any of the quotes above were about him throwing harder, rather he feels he has better command and is able to get some more of his pitches to the right spot. He also seems to indicate that he might have some different deception based upon the changes (so guys aren't picking up stuff as well). I am not saying whether that is actually true or not, just stating that looking at velocity from fangraphs won't be able to validate what JD is crediting for his improvement. I looked pretty hard at the numbers, squinted as hard as I could, and came up with this: his cutter has been better so far this year than the past two years. Using the pitch values on Fangraphs, you can't make a case that his fastball is better even though it's the same speed. It's been getting hit hard, as it has post surgery, but his 71% strand rate is keeping his ERA down. Every year struggling or oft injured players make up a mental story as to why this year will be different. I get that, but as a fan, I don't have to make up any story as to why he's going to perform better. Whatever John has to tell himself at night to get to sleep and in the morning to get out of bed -- more power to him. But I'm not seeing anything that correlates to "he's got more stuff". I see a re-arranging of deck chairs.

I went there hopeful, but Danks' Fangraphs page offers nothing exciting or encouraging. His velocity is the exact same it's been post injury, almost two full MPH lower on his heater, down to 88.4, his peripherals are slightly better than last year, but as he was bottom 5 in qualified starters last year in both xFIP and FIP, simply moving up to bottom 1/3 isn't very exciting. If anything he's now pitching like a decent 5th starter instead of an awful one. He is what he is.

LaRoche needs to play more 1B and bat less against LHP. He's not really being used properly imo.

QUOTE (shipps @ May 20, 2015 -> 12:06 PM) What are the odds someone incorrectly calls Rodon, Rondon today? at least 50%.

How is Anderson looking? Christ.

HA!