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Erstad, OPS+ last 7 seasons 74 137 78 88 75 95 89 Qwerty is right, he had one good season and his been living very well off of it. I don't think Erstad is the answer, and Cintron isn't either. It's BA all the way for me. It's not like I think he's a great player, but I think, over the course of a season he'll be average offense and good defense. That's the book on him, and I take stock in his hundreds of AAA at bats more than a few weeks into his first MLB season for the world champs. He's feeling a lot of pressure no doubt, and while that is no excuse, I think he'll settle into a 240/300/410 line by the All-Star break and play good defense--that's all I think this team needs from CF.

Sounds like an abdominal area muscle strain. I think he'll be fine with a little rest.

Good win, I can't blame FG for giving up those walks in horrible conditions.

LOL, here, let me give it a shot: WTF was Ozzie thinking with Mackowiak in the lineup at CF again...that should open me up to some shots! I'm just riding the wave of the Bull's improbably winning 12-14 to make the playoffs with room to spare. I probably won't find much to complain about today.

call the game. No reason to keep playing. It's not the season opener on national TV, just a sunday afternooner that should go into the books.

Growing up and playing ball in N. Michigan for my HS and then in college, I stood on the mound in in the field a number of times in the rain. It's no good for anyone, baseball was not meant to be played in the rain at all. Everything goes to hell. One think that often gets overlooked is how the dirt on the mound gets clumpy and it's really easy to get your cleats caught on the way to home. That is the worst, an injury waiting to happen, and it's impossible to throw strikes. Another game thread turned into "personal attack" day--I'm just amazed I stayed out of it for once

Ok cool. I didn't know how bad the weather was. Yea, screw it, lets get 5 innings in.

Huh?

Congrats to Luol and the Bulls. On his 21st he leads them into the playoffs with 26 points and 6 boards--time for some baseball and playoff basketball!

Why all the Frank hate on this thread? The man may some outrageous things, but when healthy, he's a beast. I think the production race between him and Thome will be fun to watch this year.

Nothing like Buehrle to stop any momentum the Blue Jays have. Him and Count might have to carry the team this season.

Good to hear! A more patient lineup is much more deadly.

What would another season at AAA have done for BA? He's proven he can hit AAA pitching, and based on that the Sox brought him up.

Yea Griffey still hits OK. I just looked it up, 128 OPS+ last year, pretty good for a CF. My other points stand, and I edited my post. I'm not sold on BA, but the Sox have lots of jalopies laying around the outfield, except BA might turn into something better, the rest of them are known junkers.

Man, the Anderson hate is unreal around here. Give the dude half a season at least. If he's battling the mendoza line in July, fine, make a trade, demote him, whatever. But to say he's toast the 2nd week of the season seems pretty rediculous to me. If KW had your attitude he would have dumped Jermaine Dye last May. Have some patience. Griffey? I too hope that is a joke. Not only does he have no range in CF anymore--possibly the worst "every day" defensive CF in the bigs. In the last 4 seasons he's play more than 90 games once. ONCE! The most games he played was last year at 128. He's already been taken out of game this year with a knee injury. He's 36 years old, and makes way too much money. I'll pass.

Good, rough up their bullpen and have them gassed for the rest of the series.

Detroit has just defeated Cleveland 5-1. Sox can tie first place with a win.

Maybe it's no so much the drafting and teaching, but the willingness of KW to trade the best prospects for estabilished major leaguers? The Reed trade has been a "win" for the Sox every year, and probably will be this year. 2007 and beyond though I think the Mariners will have the upper hand. Not a bad deal for either club IMO.

Uh, over the course of his MLB career Pablo has managed an OPS+ of 67! That is Neif Perez territory. It was a pretty reasonable comment if you ask me. Even a blind squirrel...

One thing Ozzie could be thinking--although I doubt it--is that he'll give Uribe the day off with the strikeout pitcher Vasquez on the mound and try and ride the hot hand of Cintron at the plate. That's the only reason I can wrap my mind around this one. Uribe is a streaky hitter and isn't going to get hot sitting on the bench. His streaks will even out to his career average 730 OPS by the end of the season at the worst. I just shake my head at him being on the bench two games in a row. Nothing like having those slap hitters at the top of the lineup!

At this point yes, I'd have to agree. As for the Sweeney/Owens call-up idea--no way Jose. Sure, we'll burn an option year on two talented young players just so they can rot on the bench 6 days a week--that is a terrible idea. Young players need minor league AB's, not pine riding in the majors. I don't know what the answer is here. I'd probably have to say just keep Gload, have KW scan the waiver wire like he does so well, and dump Ozuna in Charlotte if he finds someone.

Yes, for now--I like him as well. Although I'm halfway to drunk drinking the Thornton spiked Kool-Aid from KW and Cooper.

I've also been to Comerica, my dad and I had seats about 10 feet from where (at the time) newly signed big contract Juan Gonzalez was playing RF. Needless to say we heckled him quite a bit about the contract and him sucking. The seats were 2nd row down the 1st base line--really close to the field, good seats. Parking wasn't a problem as we were able to park for free about 2 blocks from the stadium. Overall I thought it was a good park. Detroit is still pretty barren outside of a few blocks downtown, but at least sports wise, the city is doing a good job. Good sports town IMO.

Yea, the Tiger radio guys are a good bunch IMO. I listen to them quite a bit here in MI, and they are always very complimentary towards the White Sox, even saying that the Tigers aren't in same class as the Sox, and until they take a series, have no grounds to stand on. They mentioned time and time again what a great approach Iguchi, Thome, Konerko, and Dye have at the plate, and weren't afraid to rip into their own players if they saw something they didn't like. Furthermore, they seemed quite knowledgable about the Sox, mentioning the surprising spring of Logan as a factor in his making the team, and they even were familiar with the stories that came out of the Thornton signing--i.e. Williams and Cooper's thinking that he had a few mechanical flaws they could figure out. In general, they praised the job KW has done finding waiver wire guys (or in Thornton's case, about to be) like Jenks and Thornton that were low risk high reward types. I'm not sure either of the guys' names that do the broadcasts, but evidently one of them is an ex-player, and unlike Singleton, he brings a good deal of knowledge to the table. It was a pleasure listening to them today.