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QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Dec 28, 2007 -> 01:55 PM) Just trying to make an argument for the sake of it I guess. Go to any database site for baseball stats, and see if there is a simple option to sort stats from one time period to another. I honestly don't know of too many, but I know plenty that do monthly splits. Monthly splits are certainly not "random." EDIT: September 1st is also a significant date because that is when teams can expand their rosters and players who normally do not get much exposure get more playing time thus making the competition at a completely different level. Baseball Musings has a great database, here is Owens link: http://www.baseballmusings.com/cgi-bin/Pla...y?PlayerID=6002 That is why I did not use September 1st exclusively. The other dates had a much larger sample size after an initial adjustment period.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Dec 27, 2007 -> 10:33 PM) Give me a f***ing break. Why did you pick 7/28 as a starting point? Did you just throw a dart? How exactly did he improve starting in late July if he actually experienced a dip in August as evident by his pathetic line of .229/.302/.295/.597? Again, the White Sox's great 2005 was due to the starting pitching. Podsednik did have an affect on this team, but it was in the first half when he had a line of .294/.369/.344 Give me a f*** break? It is just my opinion. If you watched the games, I thought the game on 7/28 is where he started to play better. He hit his only HR of the season, which ended up being the only scoring for the Sox that game. From there he had a 9 game hitting streak, and had a hit in 13 out of his next 14 games with 5 multi-hit games. He was a freakin rookie, what do you expect, a straight line of improvement? Of course he is going to go into slumps. The last time I checked every MLB'er goes thru them. I could direct you to his September line: .340/.396/.371/.767, but it is too small of a sample size, just like August. If I threw a dart I would pick July 6th: AB 298, BA .285 and OBP .343

$1 Million for Erstad as a bench player. Thats not too bad.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 27, 2007 -> 01:46 PM) Which is why signing Pods, for more money and more injury risk, would be silly. Correct.

Owens wasn't that bad last season. Everyone looks to his September stats as a positive sign, but he seemed to show improvement starting in late July. Since 7-28-07: 52 G, 214 AB, 20 BB, 20 SB .290/.350/.701 If he had that line for a season, that would be a decent leadoff hitter. Also, projecting his other stats, he would have around 60+ SB as well. What is ironic is Podsednik had almost an identical line in 2005: .291/.351/.700 with 59 SB

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/7603924 From Robo:

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/7603924 From Robo:

3 choices for fired, and only one for giving him more time? I would've chose something along the lines of: KW is mediocre, give him one more year.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Dec 23, 2007 -> 06:20 AM) Ron Schueler's teams were 78 games over .500 in 10 years with the White Sox. If there was no strike in 1994, chances are they would have played out the string that year better than .500 which means that 78 is low. KW's teams are 54 games over .500 in 7 seasons as GM. Schueler's teams made the postseason twice, and perhaps would have made it 3 times if not for a strike. KW's teams have made it once. KW does have the only title, but really its a GMs job to get the team to be good enough over the 6 month season and hope they get the breaks in the playoffs ie you could hardly call Walt Jocketty Executive of the Year in 2006 for putting together a team that won 83 games made the playoffs and won the WS. What I'm getting at is Schueler's record as a GM as far as results and condition of the organization is just as good as KW's. Schueler quit because he wanted to be a scout. JR did proclaim Schueler was the White Sox GM as long as he wanted to be the White Sox GM. JR has a lot of influence around baseball. Schueler has tried but cannot get another GM job. SS2K5 has a quote about the "defeatist attitude" in his signature. Its a quote from KW. Saying a year is successful because the White Sox finish 8 games above .500 and come in second or third is exactly what even he is talking about. There really is no reason the White Sox should not have dominated the Central Division the past 6 or 7 years. NONE. They had as many or more resources as any team in their division. Cleveland and Detroit and if you think about it even Minnesota went through almost total rebuilds. KC is KC but 1 playoff appearance in 7 years for KW. Its really not that impressive, and if someday he decides to quit his current job, I think he'll probably have the same results as Schueler if a year or so later, he wants back in. KW is a blowhard and some still buy his act. He still talks down to everyone like he has all the answers. Last week he went to the " if we did what the public wanted" routine again. He needs to look in the mirror. He has a team that lost 90 games. Still drew one of the highest attendance figures in team history, and he only has $.50. Looks like the fans weren't the only ones wrong about where to throw money. Nice post. Also, if the season was played out in 1994, the Sox could've very well made the postseason as well, since they ended up in first when the strike started. Also, after last season, the winning percentages are in favor of Schueler: Sox with RS .527 Sox with KW .524

QUOTE(BureauEmployee171 @ Dec 22, 2007 -> 10:54 AM) Cunningham - Tool - Current/Future Hit - 50/60 Power - 40/50 Run - 60/60 Field - 50/55 Throw - 45/50 OFP current - 49, OFP future - 55 would translate to an above-avg. MLB OF with All-Star potential in peak seasons. A starter on most teams with a solid well-above avg. hit tool - .300+ avg. Cunningham projects similarly to Eric Byrnes. Bureau, for comparison, how about Richar's either now or at the time of the deal? He is not going anywhere.

He is going to announce that Ramirez was the last piece of the puzzle. OR he has made another trade (McCarthy - Danks Dec 23rd, 2006)

QUOTE(PHAT ALBERT @ Dec 22, 2007 -> 08:32 AM) I do not think that the Scouting Buereau gets reports turned in by all 30 teams. Why would they do that? Why would they share proprietary, subjective evaluations with their competitors? No offense, but I think this is kind of bogus. That's why you don't let external information influence your decisions as much as your internal info. I am sure some of the info is tailored to benefit the organization that it is coming from, and since it is subjective, there is a ton of bias involved. Bureau's info (the person, not the organization) has been very solid since he has arrived here.

QUOTE(G&T @ Dec 22, 2007 -> 08:04 AM) I think he's being realistic. This isn't PK we're talking about. Fields isn't privy to the moves...at least not yet.I was thinking maybe they informed him that moving him was a possibility or something along those lines.

QUOTE(iamshack @ Dec 21, 2007 -> 05:54 PM) Nice article on Fields and Quentin on whitesox.com http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/news/artic...sp&c_id=cws What is with this comment by Fields: Still with the Sox? Does he know something, or is he just being realistic due to the Crede situation?

From BA: http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/prospects/?p=597 Video:

http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/r...ses/?id=3572600 They tried to add a positive spin to his brutal stats:

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Dec 21, 2007 -> 09:59 AM) I actually disagree. The way the Sox are set right now, they could certainly be in the bidding for a high priced guy 2 years from now. They've added a bunch of young guys to their roster to fill holes, and in 2 years, Thome and Contreras will have their contracts cleared, along with Cabrera and some amount of inflation. With one or two more young guys coming along in the rotation or maybe in the OF, and some amount of revenue inflation, we'll be more than in a position to go after a big guy 2 years from now...as long as we don't do something horrendously stupid like blowing $18 million a year on a 33 year old CF.I just don't see the Tigers letting him walk to a Division rival. At that point they would probably overpay to keep him.

QUOTE(sircaffey @ Dec 21, 2007 -> 12:35 PM) I don't know about that. If I remember correctly, this deal just buys out Dontrelle's first year of free agency. He'll make $12 mil in the final year of the contract, so he won't be greatly underpaid at that time.I didn't know the contract details at the time, so $12 mil is not as bad as I thought orginally.

QUOTE(Soxbadger @ Dec 21, 2007 -> 12:21 PM) In 2004 the payroll was $65mil. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1778397 In 3 years the White Sox increased their payroll by $40mil (almost 200%) and yet fans are still not happy. They still want to say that the Sox dont spend the money. I call bulls***. Going from $65 to $105 is not 200%, it is more like a 61% increase. 200% from $65 would be $195. The only issue with the Sox payroll now is they have too many post-Arb players, which makes a few guys have most of the money. That ratio needs to decrease.

QUOTE(GreatScott82 @ Dec 21, 2007 -> 06:31 AM) As long as Miguel Cabrera doesn't sign an extension im fine... The Sox better make a HUGE push for him in a couple years. MCab will never play in a Sox uniform. His next contract is going to be A-Rod like.

Willis has been declining for two years now. I could see one year as a fluke/bad luck/injury year, but not two straight. He has declined in every major statistical category since 2005. Then you add the NL to AL factor, and things will get interesting. W-L IP CG H ER BB K ERA WHIP BAA 2005 22-10 236.1 7 213 69 55 170 2.63 1.13 .243 2006 12-12 223.1 4 234 96 83 160 3.87 1.42 .274 2007 10-15 205.1 0 241 118 87 146 5.17 1.60 .294 Obviously he and his agent only felt like he was worth that much, which doesn't seem like a vote of confidence.

QUOTE(Shadows @ Dec 18, 2007 -> 09:59 AM) Man this s*** is getting so lame.. First of all, if Roberts injected steroids ONCE and then said "This is wrong" and never did it again he would get zero benefit from it. You cant just squirt one needle into yourself and turn into a stud you have to take cycles of it. So if he really did only do it once and never again he doesnt even need to be on this list, he didnt do anything to enhance his performance via steroids. With the competitive nature of the sport, it is very hard to believe anyone did anything once. Of course he is going to say that. Just like he didn't inhale. Maybe Roberts just stuck the needle in, and didn't inject the fluid.

and that .900 OPS and 18 HRs in 2005 was not aided in anyway by PEDs.

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Dec 17, 2007 -> 06:36 PM) 2007 Quality Start %'s Floyd 6 out of 10 (60.0%) Garland 21 out of 32 (65.62%) So the drop-off from Garland to Floyd won't be that big.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AjjJ...p&type=lgns