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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 7, 2014 -> 09:46 PM) It's what happens when you move players all over the diamond at his age, instead of letting them get comfortable at one position. Different reactions at 3B than the middle of the infield. yep.

As someone said earlier today "never thought I'd say it, but we need Conor back in the worst way". Maybe not tonight, but Semian is a butcher at 3B.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 7, 2014 -> 08:29 PM) Why is Beckham leading off? God is he bad and Ventura dumb. Just DFA him. God I want to live in your world. "Hey I just hit green on the roulette well everyone that said it wouldn't hit is dumb".

once again we have some of the worst fundamental base running I've ever seen. That's on the manager.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 7, 2014 -> 08:08 PM) Got a nice change and getting a lot of swings and misses and soft contact. There has been one ball hit hard in 3 innings. Yea it's not like the Cubs didn't put up huge numbers against DFA bait Hector Noesi last night. Oh wait.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 7, 2014 -> 07:55 PM) Funny you put such a premium on velocity considering your screen name. Is this the real Dick Allen? Sure act like him.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 7, 2014 -> 07:49 PM) He is fine. They have hit 1 ball hard. You don't have to throw 95 to be effective. Luckily he's facing the Cubs.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ May 7, 2014 -> 07:47 PM) Nice job by Abreu! He really messes with Hawk. Usually it's "stretch" when the ball is 20 rows back in the seats. Now it's "souvenir...no!"

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 7, 2014 -> 07:43 PM) So Danks still hasn't given up a hit, yet we have several posts saying he has nothing and one poster saying he can hit him. dude, do you watch the games are just react to what people say on the game thread? He's throwing meat at 87 and can't control his off speed stuff. He just got lit up for a double after a walk to a s***, s*** lineup. He came in to the day bb/9 of over 5. Do you think he looks good?

well, if he can throw that change consistently he has a chance, but we haven't seen it.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ May 7, 2014 -> 07:38 PM) He really doesn't have much control over his pitches... I couldn't even tell you if he has thrown a cutter well It's great the one time the Sox actually gamble on a long term contract for a starter this happens.

seriously, john danks has f***ing nothing. If the Cubs can't hit him, they should probably cancel the rest of their MLB season.' lol, and a swing through a grooved 87mph fastball. Man, I could hit that.

man Konerko's bat is so slow now. He would have nailed that pitch down the line in his prime 9 times out of 10.

Viciedo is a different guy, it's amazing. He works counts, doesn't chase, knows what he's doing up there. Crazy.

dayan should be able to tee off on this guy.

who is this dayan viciedo? he can keep the "real" viciedo hidden the rest of his career however.

Damn that was a good pitch to hit.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ May 7, 2014 -> 07:16 PM) Danks really doesn't have good stuff anymore.. It just looks soft and he can't control it very well. Yep see my post as well.

wtf has happened to his velocity? He's basically Buehrle at this point. His average FB velocity this year is 88. That's down from even 89.6 last year after the injury. And that's down from 91.5 from before the injury. He's going to have a helluva time succeeding throwing 88 mph fastballs.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ May 7, 2014 -> 04:21 PM) You have to be kidding me. You're really finding a correlation between recreational drugs and athletic performance? That's pretty absurd. I'm sure Lebron is smoking blunts at half time. Do you actually think the entire league was blowing rails on the bench 82 nights a year? Maybe it's improved defense and rule changes. Yea, amps were big in the 70's in MLB and that was one of the lowest offense eras in the history of the game. As for the NBA, a scout was quoted in ESPN last week saying Mitch McGary's positive test at Michigan wasn't a big deal because "half the league smokes".

QUOTE (ptatc @ May 7, 2014 -> 02:19 PM) True as I stated earlier. However, this is the way the game is played. You MUST rely on other players in the lineup. Even the stats can't isolate everything. Your example is an extreme case that will not happen in a game. The more likely is that some of the players will strikeout and sometimes there will be people on base ahead of you. You cannot predict this or isolate it with any of the stats. So both of them have some predictive factor. So the advanced stats really didn't tell me much different. In the example someone used earlier where Phillips looked better than Trout, a GM would be stupid to offer Phillips more than Trout. However we knew that before the numbers anyway. I can't remember where I saw it now, but there was a saber study that looked at super high ISOs like, players that had ISO above .280 and I believe the conclusion was that wRC+ underestimates the value of players with extreme power, such as Abreu. Frankly I don't care if his OBP is around 330 in his time with the Sox, yea it would be great if it was higher, but I will take 250/330/530 every single year he's with the Sox and not think twice. UZR likes his defense so far as well, that's a bonus.

QUOTE (raBBit @ May 7, 2014 -> 01:55 PM) LOL, anyone who thinks Lincecum's short time as an elite pitcher ended because of weed, rather than his body, is silly. Best player on my DIII college team was our ace pitcher who could throw 85 and had a nasty breaking ball, pretty damn good for DIII. He used to smoke a huge bowl before every start he made and he was lights out. Weed really doesn't harm your body like cocaine or even amps.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 7, 2014 -> 01:39 PM) How many wins is Semien responsible for? He's a breath of fresh air this season for this team. I dunno maybe if he had an OPS over 600 we wouldn't need some many late heroics. He's hardly tearing it up to the point where you can't send him down. His defense isn't exactly lights out either. Abreu bailed him out last night.

I very rarely get upset enough watching a baseball game to react physically. Well that pickoff got me to throw the pen I was holding. Between De Aza, the Dunn scratch and that awful pickoff it was a lot of maddening things at one time.

QUOTE (ptatc @ May 6, 2014 -> 01:43 PM) If they even suspected a partial tear, he would have been shut down for at least 4 weeks. They believe it is a muscles strain and are progressing accordingly. The unknown factor is how bad the strain is and how long before the inflammation goes down. Once this happens it's a strengthening and motor control process. This is why how long between throwing sessions is important. It's based on how the muscle is recovering. Yea, it's very hard, even with modern imaging software and sports science, to determine how quickly a muscle strain will respond to rest and treatment. It seems like they were hoping for a very mild strain when in fact, given how slowly it's responding, that it's a bit more than that. That said, if he doesn't improve soon, something else is wrong, and no amount of spin will matter. It's mildy discouraging that he hasn't progressed enough to make a rehab start. It sounds like the bullpen session wasn't 100% smooth.