chitownsportsfan

jose, take this walk they are gonna give you.

poor eaton nasty 1-1 pitch.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 14, 2015 -> 07:58 PM) I think his train of thought is this..."I can't hit it or lay off it, then that means they can't either right?!?!" i loled

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Apr 14, 2015 -> 07:58 PM) Flowers really loves that high fastball lol. 1-2-3 in the batting order. Let's try to make the pitcher actually work if they walk AND don't get a TOOTBLAN in the same half inning -- slam your drink. If they get one or the other take 2 drinks.

Soto is a joke behind the plate as well but if Flowers is going to be this brutal you might as well start giving each 2-3 starts a week and see if anyone improves. Not like Flowers is some vet that has a history of great performance. He's been mediocre at best and Soto has talent left in his bat IMO.

cost the sox a run good job flowers.

speaking of the devil, ffs block the ball.

nasty pitch for "Santana". Cle broadcast barely above Hawk level.

Flowers is just very sloppy for a starting MLB catcher. Drops way too many balls, footwork gets messy, oh well. Is what it is at this point.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 14, 2015 -> 07:44 PM) Bonifacio has zero plate discipline. He didn't get a strike that entire AB. considering he's basically been on the bench 10 days straight I'm willing to cut him some slack. Robin needs to find him more PA keep him into the season.

that's a pretty damn obnoxious ticker that the Cleveland channel has on the bottom. Takes up 1/8 of the screen.

holy s*** he got hit in the face? Damn. Sorry to hear that.

what happened to Carrasco?

lol where does Flowers buy his April BABIP dust?

dad gumit.

good thing they brought in Vince Coleman. How about we make COMMON SENSE par for the course on the base paths. Goodness I don't give two f***s if Jose and Laroche are station to station. Get the guys that can run running. Get the guys that can't to stop getting thrown out at 3rd.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 14, 2015 -> 02:59 PM) It's a classic. He's bashing Robin for playing him, yet saying he would play him tonight in CF. Finally the post that puts you on my ignore. Took you long enough. You're the master of strawman arguments and I'm tired of knocking them down. If you can't see the difference between using a super sub with platoon advantages to give regulars days off over the course of the season verse starting him over your promising rookie (with no platoon advantage as well) in game 7 after an off day -- well f*** off.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Apr 14, 2015 -> 02:39 PM) That is clear to you through 3.7% of the season? Yes.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 14, 2015 -> 01:58 PM) Since you posted this: what a luxury having a guy like Bonafacio is. Can play almost every position and hits well enough to where if you had to plug him in for a month it wouldn't be a complete black hole in the lineup. Seriously the difference between him and the guys they trotted out last year (Leury mostly) is probably 2 WAR. Can't say enough what an amazing job Hahn did fixing pretty much every weakness, including bench utility guy. This post has been edited by chitownsportsfan: Mar 13, 2015 -> 03:33 PM have you changed your mind? Now you don't think he should play against 80% of MLB pitching. His value is in giving every day guys a day off all over the diamond. In fact, I probably would have started him today in CF. Given Adam another day to clear his head. Clearly Ventura doesn't know how to use him and yea, it's frustrating.

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Apr 14, 2015 -> 02:41 PM) He is, but didn't play against Milone or Duffy. Don't get me started. Sometimes I wonder WTH is with the relationship between the manager and FO of this club. It's like, they spent good money on Bonifacio and he's a valuable tool used correctly -- has anyone mentioned it to Robin?

QUOTE (Bigsoxhurt35 @ Apr 14, 2015 -> 12:23 PM) Let's start a winning streak and take it to Detroit. This is a break out game for Abreu (2HRs 5 RBIs and 4 hits). Just a little tidbit about Avi: his updated ZIPS is now for over 1.1 WAR and he's already been worth .2 fWAR in 6 games. Most of that is baserunning and hitting but some of it his defense just being "bad" instead of "brutal". Keep it up kid. I love me some Avi hope he starts on the South Site for the next 5+ years.

It's an imperfect metaphor at best given that most successful lawyers are great showmen. I'm not a fan of Robin the manager but it's not because of a lack of table pounding.

QUOTE (LDF @ Apr 13, 2015 -> 06:08 PM) anyone who is seeing this and really thinking about it, should see this to be the case. yes the org spent a lot on players to make this team what it is. but, unless this org has the unlimited funds of the LAD or BOS, the sox has to keep an eye on the overall budget. they can not upset the subtle status-quo of the salary. this is seen if and when some salary will come up to either resign them or to replace them. Eh, the Sox aren't really in a position (and many teams aren't) where you're gonna have a ton of arb eligible guys coming through the system and thus rising costs of your core roster have to get big raises. They bought out Jose, Sale, Eaton, Q's arb years already and those are the guys that could have gotten quite pricey. You've got Rodon up for super 2 what else? Avi might get pricey but if he plays that well they will probably sign him long term anyways. Danks will be coming off the books, possibly Ramirez as well. I'm not really seeing much of a budget problem and in fact there should be money available to replace those guys if they so choose. The real key will be if Anderson can replace Ramirez in house. If he can, that lifts the entire roster's outlook. MLB 2.0-4.0 WAR SSs certainly don't grow on trees.

SSS had a nice writeup on his early struggles. Basically pitchers have just been really damn good against him attacking the zone. Plus yea, as mentioned his BABIP is .086. A lot of soft contact but he's also had some bad luck. If he's still sucking ass in June, yea, it's a problem.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 13, 2015 -> 05:31 PM) They should whenever possible. Keeping payroll under control is exactly what allowed the spending spree this winter. Yea but what's the highest super 2 ever paid out? We're talking like 3-5 million in arb verse what the 512k min? Might as well trade Bonificio to make up the difference Robin ain't gonna use him anyways!