Balta1701

Excellent 1b for M-56.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ May 15, 2011 -> 04:19 PM) Somebody seriously needs to go Tanya Harding on him. I'm pretty sure that already happened. That's the only plausible explanation for stealing at a 40% clip.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 15, 2011 -> 04:18 PM) No way. The only way it doesn't happen is if Ozzie is no longer the manager. You know I'm right.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ May 15, 2011 -> 04:16 PM) Juan Pierre has a .316 OBP and is our leadoff hitter. He is also 6/14 on stolen bases. I think most smart GMs/managers would realize that dude is not a leadoff hitter anymore. 6/15

QUOTE (fathom @ May 15, 2011 -> 04:16 PM) Times this like, I'm just very grateful this is the last year he has a contract with the Sox. He'll get resigned in the offseason.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 15, 2011 -> 04:13 PM) JP needs to go away. He's going away. All the time. Every time he gets to 1b in fact. He rapidly goes away.

That counts as a caught stealing right? He's now 6/15.

Juan Pierre picked off yet again.

I think you know.

Alexei genuinely just missed that one.

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ May 15, 2011 -> 04:07 PM) Jose Bautista has 3 homers against the Twins and it's in the 6th inning. 11-3 Blue Jays. He hit anohther? yeesh.

Hey, a hit and run attempt!

Btw, this is the kind of situation where if Pierre can't steal, he's not helping...

Juan Pierre with a leadoff single!

Gosh, check again. That's my ass.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 15, 2011 -> 03:57 PM) Call up time. He'll play 2, maybe 3 times a week again if we're lucky.

QUOTE (coco1997 @ May 15, 2011 -> 03:51 PM) Kenny wouldn't have been so desperate to trade for the albatross that is Jake Peavy if the Sox had still had Gonzalez at the time. Really? The 5.75 ERA in 98 innings that Gio put up in 2009 would have been the thing that kept KW from trading for Jake Peavy? You wanna rethink that? Gio probably would have been traded for Peavy if we'd had him.

QUOTE (Cali @ May 15, 2011 -> 03:43 PM) Hey, I'll take a 5-4 road trip to the West Coast. Especially when most of us were predicting 2-7, 1-8... Like it or not...with ground to make up like we have, we need 6-3 road trips. "I'll take it" works fine when you start the season .500, not 10 games below.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 15, 2011 -> 03:40 PM) Is the weather really that bad in Chicago today? To me, seems like Cubs had quick trigger on postponing the game due to facing Lincecum.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 15, 2011 -> 03:36 PM) I'm watching the Jays/Twins game right now. Does Brandon Morrow have the best 'stuff' in the game? Fangraphs was talking about this a few days ago. I'm really starting to wonder. I really truly think he has the best stuff in the game (until Strasburg comes back) right now. I wouldn't take too much from a game against the Twins right now. A lot of guys look good against them.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 15, 2011 -> 03:31 PM) What he knows that we don't is what Ozzie thinks of Pierre. I think I'd guess that Ozzie thinks he's the most important, irreplaceable player in his lineup.

Chip Caray just referred to Hank Aaron as "Baseball's True Home Run King". With Aaron in the booth.

QUOTE (Tex @ May 15, 2011 -> 03:19 PM) I don't think he knows anything we don't, how could he? He watches the same games we do. He has to know something, because if you gave any of us the power to act on Pierre, we'd at least be treating him like how Ozzie is treating Morel right now; playing him sparingly, yet KW has chosen not to force that issue.

24 minutes after I wrote that last post, Jose Bautista hit another. I'm glad I tuned in to this game. That's 15 on the year for him.

What a cluster****.