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QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 17, 2008 -> 05:09 PM) Egbert's always been hot.

Charlie Haeger was promoted.

Charlie Haeger last five starts after some arm issues: 32.2 IP 1.93 era 41 baserunner (32 H 13 BB) 35 K's He's coming around QUOTE(BearSox @ Jul 5, 2007 -> 12:21 AM) Charlotte won 7-3. Richar went 1-4 and walked, with a 2 run homer to left. Sweeney went 3 for 5 with 3 singles. Anderson finally back in centerfield and looking healthy as he has now homered in two straight nights. Haeger went 6 strong, with 3 runs (2 earned) with 4 K's and a walk. Please trade Iguchi and call up Richar already. Owens has no reason for being on an major league team and Sweeney should just be given the LF job already. I know Anderson has had his falling out with this team, but it wouldn't hurt to call him up if he continues to hit and see what he's got. I'm no Brian Anderson fan, but the man can play some good D and if he can put up decent numbers and maybe improve close to a non-career year Torii Hunter type of player, we might have something. At the very least, we can increase some of his trade value. someone else can fill in the rest...

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Feb 16, 2007 -> 07:23 PM) no, he really didn't. There were people forgiving him - me included - but he didn't do a good job at all. You can't give up that many homers out of the bullpen and be considered good. I tell you what, look at the other mid/long guys in the AL. Find me two that did a better job than McCarthy. Homeruns, doubles, singles walks, who cares. A run is a run. I don't see any difference in a homerun versus two hits and walk mixed in. It's about eating up innings and giving the very good offense a chance to battle back. Sure, McCarthy gave up a high percentage of bombs/IP. If you want to argue the end of the season was poor, you're right, his ERA jumped over the 4.5 mark and he struggled. Then at least give me that until September he was perhaps the best in the AL when his ERA was at or under 4. All in all, the sox were way ahead of the game compared to the rest of the AL.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Feb 16, 2007 -> 06:42 PM) i don't like the idea of having a knuckleballer as a pen guy. too many walks late in games. Take look at his stats after the september callup. 14 innings 14 baserunners allowed (7 bb's, 7 h's), 17 k's, 1 ER. He would not be in after the 7th in most games, the GM did a nice job adding the desired late inning power arms like Detroit. I think with a starter like MB who's had a up and down career, the real age of Contreras and whoever the fifth starter is makes a mid/long reliever very important to this team. Sorry about the Masset spelling, that was bad....at least sisco was close

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Feb 16, 2007 -> 06:06 PM) Aside for the "Mallet" and "Sisko" spellings, I am interested in how a long man that will probably get 40-50 innings is more valuable than a 5th starter that could get 140+ McCarthy, remember him, 53 app's two starts, threw 83 innings last year. You're right about a fifth starter being more important than a middle guy. My point was, the fifth starter out of ST will not be the same throughout the year. They will replace and replace and probably even skip the spot until somebody wins it over. I'm not a huge Whitesox fan, but those who are should realize the importance of McCarthy last year and what role he served, he did a great job.

Let's face it, a minor league pitcher is a minor league pitcher and a guy that can't get outs is just that. Some of these guys (Danks, Broadway, Gio, and even Mallet) have not thrown a pitch in the majors or even had time at AAA. What makes people think they can gets outs in the major leagues now. Sisko and Floyd have struggled to this point in their careers. Haeger has been pretty good at AAA and showed some success in mop up time last year. Whoever the management decides to put into the role early on will be keeping the seat warm for one of the youngsters who developes later in the year at AAA. The fifth spot in this rotation is not nearly as important as the longman in the bullpen, particularly with MB throwing once every 5 days. With the loss of McCarthy, this is the real interesting battle.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Apr 25, 2006 -> 03:48 PM) ChiSox.com 1 ER in 8 IP works out to an ERA of 1.13. Haeger actually raised his ERA .2 with that outing. He has allowed a bunch of unearned runs, however. I think we should start keeping track of that more than anything. I understand that crazy things happen when the knuckleballer is on the mound, but Haeger is responsible for a lot of those happenings. He has given up 4 unearned runs this year to date due to passed balls ( 2 at columbus, 2 vs toledo). It's touch to fault a pitcher.....