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QUOTE (JLarucci23 @ Jun 3, 2016 -> 10:51 AM) Seems like nobody knows whats going to happen outside of the first couple picks. Id bet thrilled with Ray! Welcome to Soxtalk!

I love the hat that went with the originally.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Jun 3, 2016 -> 11:44 AM) I believe the democratic machine in Illinois needs to be eliminated with extreme prejudice but Rauner is not helping matters by what he is doing. If he continues on this destructive path it will not end well for him. The government has a few basic jobs and one of the most important ones is education. You can try to fight the rest of the pork spending that Illinois has but education and transportation are ones that should absolutely not be f***ed with. Get money to those organizations with compromise and continue the f***ing fight, it's not rocket science unless you're Rauner who is underneath his exterior is a racist and oligarch looking to push the standard republican agenda. The problem in Illinois is that education, transportation and public safety are in huge trouble spots because of the pension disasters attached to them. At some point someone is going to have to get costs under control, or push through a LOT more taxes to pay for them. Every year this gets pushed down the road, the worst the problem is going to get. Chicago has already seen this start to happen locally, and you can see the costs through all of the insane taxes and fees they have pushed through to try to balance things from the decades of Daley just borrowing money for everything. The day of reckoning is coming for Illinois. They might be able to keep kicking the can down the timeline for number of years more, but it is coming.

This team won a lot of games it had no business winning in April, and lost a lot of games it has no business losing in May. I think the truth is that our record is about where it should be, but we had a weird way of getting to it. Most predictions centered around the mid to high 80's for a seasonal win total, which is what we are on pace for. It still makes sense to me when I look at where the different facets of our game are ranked ( offense, defense, and fielding all have improved this year).

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 3, 2016 -> 11:10 AM) It doesn't look like what you expect. When I ran a sea base for the Boy Scouts we used a similar video to make people aware. Living on Lake Michigan we get a lot of this associated with rip tides and people walking on the pier when there are 10+ foot waves going on. Just know that if you see a red flag on Lake Michigan or in the ocean, don't go past your ankles. Typically the victims are very healthy adults who don't think they will have a problem. When you get rip tides there isn't a person on this earth who can beat it. The thing that throws everyone off is you are never supposed to swim towards the shore because the current is flowing against you. Swim parallel to the shore until you feel the pull of the tide stop working against you. Then swim in. People die literally all summer long from this stuff.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Jun 3, 2016 -> 07:39 AM) That team has really thrived off their free agent signings. Everyone talked about their internal young guys, but outside of Bryant that team has thrived off of FA signees. On top of that many of those signees are well over performing their career norms - including the entire starting rotation, zobrist, fowler, Ross. How hammel and Hendricks are doing what they are is beyond me. Even Lester has been way better than career norms Everyone talks about the rebuild, but this team has spent a ton of money too. That gets lost in the narrative.

QUOTE (captain54 @ Jun 2, 2016 -> 05:38 PM) I didn't come here to start an argument or a troll war, just a simple entry on a fan forum, relaying my point of view. It's not a right vs wrong thing. Sorry if you can't handle that. That's unfortunate Woe and angst would more relate to human injustice, inequality, the fact that people can't support their families or that young people are being killed in Chicago, almost daily. Not whether the Sox can right the ship and fix the pen, whether Abreu can start hitting, or whether or not they can make at least the 2nd WC in October. Hi Trump.

QUOTE (captain54 @ Jun 2, 2016 -> 04:39 PM) I wish people would stop with "the Sox are above .500 and in 2nd place on June 1st. Everybody would have been happy with that pre-season" That's not the point. During the course of the first 1/3 of the season, the Sox lost a 6 game lead and then dropped 2 games back. That's a pretty alarming swing. Despite that, the season proceeds as is and the status quo remains Hahn's recent comment on the state of the Sox seemed to infer that the same bunch got the club 13 games over at some point, so it's certainly capable of doing it again. Yea Rick. But the same bunch also was capable of a 7 game losing streak and some historically horrific loses. So equally, they are capable of that as well And I wish people would stop pissing into every thread that isn't full of woe and angst.

Scott Merkin Verified account ‏@scottmerkin Rich Hill named AL Pitcher of the Month for May. Chris Sale also received votes. Clayton Kershaw wins for the NL

Christopher Kamka ‏@ckamka 2h2 hours ago 2016 HR/9IP leaders this season (entering today) 0.25 Jose Quintana 0.28 Rich Hill 0.33 Kyle Hendricks 0.33 Johnny Cueto 0.36 Jake Arrieta

QUOTE (oldsox @ Jun 2, 2016 -> 03:08 PM) No, you continue making an invalid comparison. My original post never mentioned Anderson. He has nothing to do with that post. Leave him out of it. I said that Coats, a low round draft pick who is in his 4th year of pro ball, has put up big numbers (in AAA). I think he should be called up. He is an outfielder who can play multiple positions. Hawkins, a # 1 pick who is in his 5th year of pro ball, has put up mediocre numbers. All I said was that if the situation were reversed, that is, if Hawkins had the big numbers, he would have been called up. lol, ok. Except that the White Sox are in the exact situation you just described with Anderson, and he is still at AAA. That is my point. You might think what you are saying is true, but it hasn't born out in reality.

Bat Albers makes it to Topps. http://www.csnchicago.com/chicago-white-so...d-baseball-card

QUOTE (oldsox @ Jun 2, 2016 -> 02:52 PM) Nope. Totally different situation, and you know it. First of all, they can bring up Anderson anytime as far as I'm concerned. DFA Rollins, or whatever. That is a stand alone decision. That has nothing to do with Coats, and you know it. All I said, or implied, was that if Hawkins had Coats' numbers, he would be called up amid great fanfare. But it is Coats who has the big numbers, and he was a low round draft choice, so he stays at AAA. It isn't really different at all. Anderson is a former top draft pick putting up big numbers. The implication was that this would be enough to get Hawkins called up, but it hasn't been enough to get Anderson called up. You are implying something that hasn't really happened in reality.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 2, 2016 -> 02:36 PM) This doesn't come up often but I seem to remember some trades that went down right after the draft that were prearranged. Draft this guy and we'll trade this for that kind of thing. A PTBNL can not be a draft pick anymore. The new rules dictate that draft picks can't be traded until after the World Series, and that any PTBNL cannot include a player that would have been ineligible to be traded before that point.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Jun 2, 2016 -> 02:30 PM) If Coats' name were Courtney Hawkins, he would have been called up. Just like Tim Anderson was called up because of his name...

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 2, 2016 -> 01:44 PM) Melky was hitting 3 fwiw. It's possible it's happened in a standard way, but also perhaps with an injured player ending up there or somehow a pitcher. For #3 hitters, they have attempted a sac bunt 7 times this year across MLB.

The Sox sit at 29-25 at the 1/3 mark of the season. The team is sitting in 2nd place two games behind KC, and a half game ahead of Cleveland. Extrapolate that over the course of 162 games, and it comes out to 87 wins, or one game higher than the 86 it took to make the 2nd wild card last year. Currently they are 1.5 games behind Baltimore for the #2 wild card spot. So far the pitching has been a bit better than expected, sitting #5 in all of baseball with a 3.40 team era. Starters rank 8th with a 3.56 team era. Despite the disastrous stretch of May, the White Sox are still #6 overall in bullpen era at 3.10. The offense has moved up to #22 in team OPS (.697) and #19 in runs scored this season. Team OBP is up to 20th at .314. Last year they were 28th in OBP (.306), 27th in OPS (.686), and 28th in runs scored. In terms of team fielding the White Sox have the 2nd fewest errors in all of baseball at 23, and are tied for 2nd in team fielding percentage at .989. They are 10th in overall chances, an improvement from #24 last year.

QUOTE (harkness @ Jun 2, 2016 -> 12:58 PM) that's certainly higher than I would have guessed. 2015- 12 2014- 18 2013- 11

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Jun 2, 2016 -> 12:33 PM) I prefer Jose Wintana myself Except it is more like Jose Nodecisiontana

QUOTE (harkness @ Jun 2, 2016 -> 11:34 AM) Have you seriously seen other teams bunt with their clean-up hitters? I think it's kind of been overblown...but I just can't remember ever seeing that. The answer is that it has happened 5 times in MLB this season, so far.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 2, 2016 -> 10:59 AM) In 2016, White Sox are 3rd in major leagues with 10 sacrifice bunts. In 2015 we were slightly above average in AL with 30. He has been increasing in usage as a manager. I think he should stop that. Baseball reference tells it a bit differently. We have attempted 17 Sac bunts which is 18th in all of baseball. Realistically the NL is hard to count because of the pitcher hitting, which is why I only looked at the AL in my numbers. This season only we are 3rd in the AL behind Anaheim (20) and Minnesota (18), and tied with Houston. KC is right behind us at 16. Not sure if this link will work, but here is the run. http://www.baseball-reference.com/play-ind...amp;submitter=1

Searching for the numbers on Baseball Reference... Sac Bunt attempts from 2012 to 2016 (Ventura's time at MGR) Kansas City 218 Cleveland 209 Minnesota 202 Detroit 191 White Sox 161 Including all of the AL Texas 265 Houston 245 (partial as an NL team) Anahiem 242 Toronto 233 Seattle 222 Kansas City 218 Tampa 212 Cleveland 209 Minnesota 202 New York Yankees 193 Baltimore 184 Detroit 191 Boston 163 White Sox 161 Oakland 154 The idea that Ventura bunts too much is completely busted myth. It simply is not true.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jun 2, 2016 -> 09:15 AM) Do you just have like three or four posts saved as drafts that you can reuse over and over again? [Control-V]

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jun 2, 2016 -> 12:17 AM) The love of mediocre declining veterans is endless. But I have little doubt that ace evaluator Williams will grant all wishes. Stop me if you have posted this one before... No really.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 2, 2016 -> 09:14 AM) But, those odds couldn't possibly take into account in any more than a general way: 1) The fact that the White Sox bullpen was a complete mess and hardly a sure bet to hold a 1 run game at the time...along with the feeling that we were playing not to win but being a bit conservative/tentative. Sox typical aren't a contact or execution-oriented team. 2) The fact that Frazier would feel even more pressure to get the job done and expand his strike zone because of who was following him in the line-up. 3) The general vibe of the team with sac bunting over the last 3-4 years, which is that it has more often than not led to frustration rather than success. 4) The odds AFTER an event still don't account for the odds before the bunt of Cabrera actually being able to successfully pull it off, which definitely weren't that much better than 50/50 at best. If you are going to argue feelings over stats, a manager has the best view of these situations. A fan is never going to have all of the between the ears type information.