White Sox Josh

I honestly think the Sox should trade Marte. His value is still very high considering teams will look at his era and think he is still good. You can get a whole lot for marte and if you put him through waivers a lot of teams will claim him. The marlins would claim him and the Sox could work out a deal.

Let's just hope Marte isn't called in to face Ichiro. :puke

QUOTE(VAfan @ Aug 5, 2005 -> 03:02 PM) This what I thought too. The best news out of our pen is that Vizcaino is reliable for the first time this year, and he loves work. So Ozzie should use him and save Cotts/Politte/Hermanson as much as he can. The bad news is the Marte appears lost. But is it fatigue or underuse that is his problem? He was great the last time he came off the DL, but only for a game or two. Should we rest him or use him? I don't know. All I know is we need to rehab him by October because when he's on, he's unhittable. Otherwise, bringing Jenks along is the other key thing. No i sort of think that hitters have figured out Marte. The thing with Marte is just be patient and don't swing at the slurve and if you do that he will either walk you or have to put one right down the middle. His fastball is very average. The one other thing that Marte has done is that he has bad mechanics. Farmer has mentioned this a couple times and after watching him closely i've seen it to. Marte throws across his body which is not a good thing. THat puts a lot of stress on his arm and it's also one of the reasons that he walks a lot of guys because when he is doing this he uses his arm so much that he basiclly is pitching with his arm and anyone who has pitched before knows that you have to use your legs to. Marte has gotten away with it in 02 and 03 however he it is starting to really hurt him now.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Aug 5, 2005 -> 02:54 PM) Are you sure? If I remember correctly, Shingo said although they played in Japan, they played at different times or something to that end. I remember it being a pretty big deal when they met last year because I thought it was a first. no because i believe that when Shingo first came over here he talked about having dinner with Ichiro and when they played the mariners earlier this year their were some articles about how Shingo and Ichiro knew each other and were friends. This was from an article when during ST of 04.Link

I do know that Shingo and Ichiro were friends.

here is a pic of konerko's wife:

Konerko's wife is pregnant i believe. I think Farmer said something that they were expecting a baby in the off-season.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Aug 5, 2005 -> 10:32 AM) that's 400gs too many. what? Ah come on. That movie was great.

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Aug 4, 2005 -> 07:04 PM) Well the first one was supposed to be straight to video... yeah an That, Barbershop, and Blair Witch have to be one of the most succesful profits made from a film that was made under $15 million in the last 10 years.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Aug 4, 2005 -> 07:28 PM) The problem is we don't have many relievers who can get lefties out. Cotts is better against righties. Viz has been hammered against lefties (which was supposed to be his strength). Jenks has been wonderful against lefties, but they're not going to bring him in just to get 1 lefty out. They need to give Marte work to find his groove again against lefties, and there's gonna be some speed bumps along the way, but the potential reward is there for everyone to see. A healthy and dominant Marte equals one of the top 5 LH relievers in baseball. but lefties are still hitting only .219 against cotts. I think last year Vizcaino was very good against lefties and brutal against righties. Politte has gotten everybody out. Marte has been brutal this year. .379 OBP against him. he has been the Sox worst reliever with the exception of Walker. He has also been the sox luckiest reliever.

Does Ozzie actually look at the stat sheets in. Because if he did he would realize that marte can't get lefties out.

Why did Minnesota Sox Fan get suspended?

that was actually ruled as "rollins stealing home". At least that's what it said on sportsline.com

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Aug 4, 2005 -> 04:25 PM) I'm talking lights out closer. Unhittable. usually the closer makes things interesting.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Aug 4, 2005 -> 04:09 PM) THE Ohio State well how badly do you think THE ohio state will be beat this year against michigan. Seriously have you ever tried a one of those Buckeye candies. They are f***in awesome.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Aug 4, 2005 -> 04:06 PM) In an effort to not totally agree with a lowly Michigan fan. Yes I have thought marte is the worst arm in the bullpen, mostly because of his WHIP. But at the same time, Marte does have flashes of dominance. Ohio State fan?

IGUCHI YES!!!!!!!!!!

Who else besides me has more faith in Vizcaino than Marte? I guess Vizcaino is one of those pitchers that you need to give a lot of work to in order for him to pitch well.

memo to Ozzie: STOP USING MARTE AGAINST LEFTIES! HE CAN'T GET THEM OUT! And that's another win down the tube for Jose.

stealing bases is like something you have to master and a lot of times guys will go into slumps where they can't steal a base for a week or two and than they all of a sudden steal 10 in a week.

Shcoenweiss is making a ton of money for a situational lefty.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Aug 4, 2005 -> 03:39 PM) Marte has the most misleading ERA in baseball. If the defense didn't make extremely tough plays for him, or he didn't have better relievers coming in to clean up his messes, his ERA would probably be in the 5's. also i think like 70% of his runner inherited have scored this year.

QUOTE(CYGarland @ Aug 4, 2005 -> 03:38 PM) Who pitches the 8th?? Vizcaino?? Jenks?? or does Hermie do double duty?? or leave MArte in there Have you seen Marte's WHIP? Make ya wanna :puke