Greg Hibbard

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Jul 29, 2005 -> 11:37 AM) Our starting LF also has a superior OBP and has 50+ steals to compensate for his SLG. Ozuna has the most steals/game played on the team after Podsednik. If he played every day, he'd have 20+ steals by now. I'd take a speedy on-base guy over a swing-at-anything occasional slugger any day. What's Uribe's slugging....I'll bet it's less than .400. My point is, what the hell does Uribe do to make up for everything he doesn't do? Not much. Also, I misread Pablo's error chart...that was my bad.

Our starting LF has a slugging of .356...I suppose we should bench him

btw, Pablo hasn't committed an error at shortstop

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Jul 29, 2005 -> 10:44 AM) You are the s***tiest thread starter on the site. If I say anything in retort, I know this thread will be locked down or deleted so what's the point

I just came up with the stats to prove Uribe is totally mediocre defensively, awful offensively, and all you can do is accuse me of trolling. LMAO indeed. Clayton is having a better season defensively and offensively. At least he has a friggin' OBA above .300! To me, that's surprising that Uribe is this bad. Hell, almost any other shortstop in the league is having a much better season. How is looking at these stats and gleaning the most apparent truths from them trolling? Uribe needs to be upgraded. That much is obvious.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jul 29, 2005 -> 10:24 AM) Juan Uribe is vital to this team. Period. Ozuna doesn't make half of the plays that Uribe does. Pointing to him being 7th in errors is so incredibly lame, as we are talking about 14 teams in the league, so essentially he is middle of the pack in errors, but how is range, how is his arm, how many plays does he make that go under most SSs gloves? We have already seen that defensively Pablo Ozuna can't carry Uribe's jock in a suitcase. If you want to point to offense you are talking about a guy in Ozuna with absolute zero power. But keep nitpicking stats until something sticks. I just proved how Uribe is the worst offensive player in the AL. Let's look at his defense. 7th out of 10 shortstops in qualified fielding percentage at .972. Don't like fielding percentage, you say? Fine. Let's look at range factor, something you seem to be insinuating is great about him. 5th out of 10 qualified AL shortstops, 14th in the entire majors at 4.5. Zone Rating? 11th out of 25 qualified MLB shortstops. What about his defense is remarkable? Even if Ozuna's not the answer, anyone other than Uribe clearly is. Even Royce Clayton.

In terms of qualified plate appearances on ESPN.com's mlb stats page, Juan Uribe is 87th out of 87 players in AL OBP. 86th (Aaron Boone) has an OBP of .284.

a .272 OBA for a major leaguer is inexcusably bad.

Uribe has a BA of .236 and an OBP of .272....and 11 errors at shortstop, 7th most in the league. Since he's not necessarily stellar defensively, don't you guys think it's time for Pablo to see more tick at SS? Is Uribe's power potential that much more vital over Pablo's speed?

QUOTE(retro1983hat @ Jul 29, 2005 -> 09:23 AM) My guess is that we stand pat. If that happens, that really sucks.

QUOTE(Wong & Owens @ Jul 29, 2005 -> 08:28 AM) Wasn't Foulke one of the guys we got in the Alvarez-Hernandez deal? If so, he's hardly a nobody: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedi.../content.9.html Bob Howry, Keith Foulke, Mike Caruso and Lorenzo Barcelo were all part of that deal, and all four spent a season + at the ML level and one's an allstar and another (Howry) is still in the majors eight years later. The other two, Ken Vining and Brian Manning, never made it.

QUOTE(Leonard Zelig @ Jul 28, 2005 -> 10:10 AM) Two games against Cleveland are all I see scheduled in Octoer. I'm talking about the playoffs

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jul 28, 2005 -> 09:57 AM) This team also hasn't had an off day since the AS break until today. All of our pitchers have been on 4 days rest for quite some time...some less (buehrle) with the AS Game. I think the extra day of rest will do these guys, especially on the mound, some good. At least I hope so. There have been a couple times this season where I've been worried that we were going into a slump, that we were just treading water, that we'd been stuck at x games over .500 for what seemed like forever, and every time I have started thinking that, this team fired off another 8 game winning streak. I think they know they looked bad in their last few series, and hopefully some of them will start to pick it up. There was really only one other comparable poor stretch this season, and it's when we went 6-8 from May 14th-May 29th. The difference is that that stretch was maybe one of the toughest all season. It was the last two games against Baltimore when they were still in first, Texas at home when they were at or near first, at the Cubs, at the first place Angels, and then at Texas when they AGAIN took the division lead (and NOBODY was beating them). The stretch now? We lost 2/3 against 4th place detroit? Lose 2/3 at 5th place KC? It's not comparable, sorry. Those two in particular are inexcusable, as is giving away a game vs. Boston who is playing poorly right now. It's one thing to run up against teams that are buzzsawing through the entire league, but it's quite another to be playing poorly and losing to teams that have no business being competitive against the Sox. I hope you're right about them rattling off another big winning streak, but honestly, with the way this team is playing right now, with the injury to big Frank and the dog days and brutal August schedule approaching, I don't see it happening.

Thomas might be done for this season. If he is, we need another slugger/obp guy.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Jul 28, 2005 -> 08:53 AM) It's July, not September. We're playing like crap right now and we've still managed an above .500 month thus far. Unfortunately every team goes through a tough stretch and right now this is ours. I hear you, but next month is BRUTAL schedule-wise, and I'm afraid we'll be under .500 and people will say "well, that was just a tough month on the schedule" October is a pretty tough month on the schedule too, and one that we can't afford to be under .500 in...

I think these last three weeks have proven that this team CANNOT stand pat. We need to address several things.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jul 28, 2005 -> 08:43 AM) Remember when everyone was fawning over Gload and talking about how we had to get him up here? Some of us argued that he wouldn't make that much of a difference because he wouldn't be playing very often, and that could be a problem? Well this is Gload after the game yesterday. I know he is pissed, but I don't like seeing guys who are the 26th man on a 25 man roster complain about playing time. If it wasn't for Frank's injury, he wouldn't be here in the first place. He is lucky to be on this team. It is his job as a bench player to stay fresh by taking grounders in BP if that's what it takes to keep him sharp. But him playing 1B only every couple of weeks is what we need him to do. Konerko is going to be the everyday starter, and if Gload can't handle what we ask of him, by the words out of his very own mouth, then we need to find someone who can. I saw that quote too, and my initial reaction was the same...but then I thought I was taking it out of context. I now think it was more of a "christ, they put me in once every two weeks and I screw up the one time I'm in....I suck"

12-11 in July... treading water? Isn't this exactly what happened in the second half of 2000? If we lose this Baltimore series we could be just .500 for July...or worse, if we get swept we'd be under .500 And July wasn't even a tough month....

leave him in KC.

I'm officially volunteering to kidnap vizcaino and drive his ass to a remote nebraskan cornfield and leave him tied to a tractor

PLUNK HIM

K is for Crede and it's not good enough for me

why have your biggest pull hitter and worst runner hit in this spot? Even though he's IBB'd it's still a questionable play...

PLUNK HIM

JUST PLUNK SWEENEY NEXT TIME SEND A f***ING MESSAGE, OZZIE.