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QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Mar 13, 2014 -> 10:29 PM) Agree. I'd much rather not have to hate the guy anymore. Here, good riddance. On any other team, good luck. The signing made great sense at the time. Given his career accomplishments the pay wasn't at all out of sight. The draft pick cost wasn't even worth talking about. Knowing his game it was reasonable to assume a regression during the contract at some point, probably Year 4, but not a severe one. Didn't work out, too bad so sad, cut the cord, send him elsewhere and play the younger controllable types, because even if they are not seen by the FO as being part of the 2016 team and beyond, they could at least bring back something that hopefully will be assuming they have quality seasons. And betting on Dunn for a quality season, salary relief, anything at all is completely foolish. Even the Cubs understand this, dumping off Zambrano and Soriano just to get them out of the clubhouse and off the field taking up playing time and out of the minds of the fanbase. Turn the f***ing page already. I can almost hear Bob Seger singing it now as we all wave tearful goodbyes full of joy watching that gigantic unfortunate mistake finally GTFO of here. Wait, do you want Adam Dunn gone? Can you elaborate on your position?

QUOTE (MEANS @ Mar 13, 2014 -> 05:19 PM) the A's? Short for the A'ngels

It's on MLB.tv (Angels feed) for subscribers. Saw that Avi K coming from his first swing haha.

Sounds like you enjoy laughing at Melton's ridiculous incompetence as much as the rest of us do I have no desire to see him replaced on Sox webcasts. He's hilariously terrible, what more could you ask for in a Spring Training game?

I don't usually post to add anything this unproductive (unless it's a joke). However, I think this deserves an exception: No.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 6, 2014 -> 06:55 PM) New study on the value of "Framing pitches" for strike calls finds that catchers who are good at framing pitches is the equivalent fo ~2 WAR per year. Jose Molina, Brian McCann, Jonathan Lucroy, Russell Martin come out as about that good. Not sure if this question makes sense or not but: In terms of runs saved accounting, would those ~2 WAR come out of their pitchers' WAR? I mean, their teams didn't suddenly get roughly 2 wins better by virtue of the fact that someone studied framing, and pitch framing isn't built into the catcher's WAR statistic at all. Basically, I guess what I'm asking is do you think there will be an effort to kind of "pull out" these undeserved strikes from the pitcher's stats so they're not getting credit for their catchers' talents?

I think there's information to be gleaned about a player's style and mechanics since several of them are completely new to the system. But yeah, numbers are close to useless.

Beckham again! He's winning the grinder battle!

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Mar 5, 2014 -> 10:22 AM) #1) Paul Konerko's career average in Spring Training hovers around .400. He hit about .380 last year. Then he bombed during the season. #2) Paul Konerko HIMSELF has said he's a part time player, primarily against left handed pitching. I don't have to wait and see anything, he's a bench player at this point in his career, no different than Eric Karros at the end of his career but with a far more storied and celebrated career. #3) Hahn said he'd ideally get ~200 PAs link

QUOTE (Reddy @ Feb 28, 2014 -> 07:29 PM) Eaton is not an issue. This I promise you. Just a little devil's advocate here, but how is it that you consider Eaton not to be an issue but Avisail to have limited power if we're going based on their current developmental status? Eaton did not have a successful year last year.

I can't remember the last time Levine was right about trade speculation. With all the crap he throws against the wall, you'd think SOMETHING would stick. He's the kid who put all Cs on his scantron and still got

QUOTE (raBBit @ Feb 27, 2014 -> 06:05 PM) I like that there was a poster named "israel4ever" and all of his posts were in caps. :lol:

I'm cool with him batting in the 2-hole as long as Ventura/Hahn are not asking him to do ANYTHING aside from his usual approach. No bunting guys over, no sacrificing ABs. Just hit. If he does that, I think the 2-hole is just fine for him. He should (theoretically) have plenty of opportunities to knock Eaton in and flash plenty of power. The contrived 2-hole hitter thing seems like it's more likely to hamper production than help it.

QUOTE (maxjusttyped @ Feb 25, 2014 -> 10:42 PM) I'm aware of all that, but when pitchers lose velocity, it's typically gone for good. Although, according to this article, Beck was actually working in the low to mid 90's in High-A, which makes his inept strikeout rate even more concerning. His K rate in an admittedly-short AA stint was not all that inept. I wouldn't read too much into his WS numbers. He may have been working on inducing grounders or something, as evidenced by his stellar GO/FO ratio

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Feb 21, 2014 -> 04:32 PM) That makes intuitive sense, but research has shown no significant year-to-year correlation between LD rates at all. GB rate is less reliable than you'd think, but is more consistent -- the problem is that it cannot be considered an inherently good or bad thing because it doesn't fit into the equation of linear weights. In other words, it is a class of event, but it isn't a final outcome. Therefore, it cannot hold a run value. A GB can become one of several types of hits or outs, and the odds of each event occurring are entirely dependent on defense, chance, and the ability of the hitter -- all context-dependent and infinitely variable. Are there any attempts to use velocity of the ball off the bat, or vector somehow? Ball-off-bat speeds are available data, right? I have to imagine they would correlate negatively with offensive production somehow.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 03:29 PM) I actually don't know that a very lightweight GPS tag would be accurate enough to do this effectively, not with the amount of movement done by most humans. If you're jogging/biking/driving you can average things out, but over a distance of 30 meters and times of a few seconds, I don't think you'd get accurate enough data. Yeah, I'm pretty sure you could do it better with RF transmitters and sensors triangulating signals. I can't imagine that would be all that costly either.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 17, 2014 -> 10:49 PM) Bait hath been taken. Shame on you, scottydo ...you're right, I am the worst. Temporary Marty blockade is the only solution as I seem to have no self control.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Feb 17, 2014 -> 10:17 PM) Sure, but as we have gone over before, next year the price goes up for a similar asset. It doesn't matter anyway because there will be another excuse not to spend money next offseason. Hey, did you hear about this guy called Jose Abreu? No? You should frequent a Sox message board.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Feb 16, 2014 -> 06:25 PM) Crain's dubious usage cost them perhaps their best trade chip, but that's besides the point. The point is whether through injury or not the Sox got little (other than salary relief) in return for their best trading chips sans Sale at the end of the 2012 season. I don't see how you can say "I don't care about injury" when that obviously limits the trade value of a player. It's not like they could have waited till later, he was a FA at the end of the season. That's...dude, Marty, you gotta stop tilting at windmills. And call Sancho "TUC" Panza off, too.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Feb 16, 2014 -> 06:08 PM) I don't care if they were injured or not. They don't need salary relief, they need players. WTF are you talking about? Crain was injured so he didn't get much in trade, but had to be sold off anyway. What is your point? Also, Alex Rios was once as despised as Adam Dunn. Not to call anyone in particular out, but: http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=82553 Yet they eventually traded him along with his salary for a replacement-level youngster. How is that bad asset management?

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Feb 16, 2014 -> 05:46 PM) The Sox turned Gavin Floyd, Jake Peavy, Alex Rios, Jessie Crain, and Matt Thornton into Leury and Avisail Garcia. That was a bad job of asset management. They can't afford to devalue their tradable players in order to save money. Thornton netted Jacobs who was part of the Eaton trade. Alex Rios was a complete goat for multiple seasons and was somewhat overpaid, so you can't expect to get a lot for him. Crain was injured. This is a bad post, but I'll pretend your premise is right. Can the Sox afford to trade their tradeable players? Because all accounts are that they are attempting to do just that.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Feb 16, 2014 -> 04:09 PM) Hahn is quoted in an article on the Sox website that they probably won't sign a player who costs a pick, and points to the bonus pool as the main reason for it. So that says 3 things here: 1) that there probably is something to the rumors of the Sox looking for additional starter depth, 2) sadly that starter will not be Santana (or Ubaldo), and 3) that the Sox are probably thinking about a lot of underslot high picks and overslot picks later on the in the draft. Personally, if the choice is Santana + cash OR draft pick in a vacuum then I go Santana. But if the choice is basically 1 legit prospect underslot in the high 2nd plus another couple guys in the 6-10 round range then that changes things quite a bit, and I think this decision is a lot wiser. Oh and Hahn also says (re: trades to come): "We've had some exchanges going back to the last 10 days or two weeks," Hahn said. "But they were a lot more about, 'Let's get to camp and see how everyone is doing. See where we are at and sort of re-evaluate.'" What that tells me is basically, "Yeah we still want to get that giant f***ing oaf off the team but still nobody is interested in giving us jack squat even if we eat that whole thing so we're just going to run him out there, shag him some balls, and hope he either motivates some team to offer a marginal prospect or, preferably, gets hurt so we don't have to carry his dead weight ass." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

Butt strain will probably only keep Jones out for 3-4 days. Whew!

http://www.csnchicago.com/white-sox/white-...ut-glute-strain Fun offseason for Nate Jones. Nobody asked him how he strained his butt, but I bet it was a good time. According to Jones, he strained it 7-10 days ago. Out indefinitely, though there is no indication from the story that it's anything too serious.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Feb 15, 2014 -> 08:05 PM) What you are doing is ignoring large sample sizes of real on-field events just to fit an absolutely terrible argument which you refuse to drop or cede points on. You're being obtuse. Dunn's numbers are what they are. BTW DeAza missed time because of his injury and spent all that time recovering in Triple A. Meaning he was healthy when he put up those numbers and the only asterisk you would be put next to DeAza's 2011 numbers would say "fully healthy and motivated." But I guess that shouldn't be counted whereas Dunn's 2011 shouldn't count because his appendix had to be taken out in Spring & he wasn't happy about some stuff. WTF. It's pointless arguing with you. I used to think you were a quality poster, now I just think you're a troll. That's sad, Mr. Balta. Very very sad.