Dick Allen

Moustakis has to be one of the bigger dissapointments of the last few years. He was supposed to be a stud hitter.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ May 20, 2014 -> 10:02 PM) I'm pretty confident he will be tonight or after the series. Who are they going to bring up? Things are pretty bare in Charlotte.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ May 20, 2014 -> 09:57 PM) Damn, you will literally defend any decision (or lack of one) Robin makes. This board will complain about everything he does. He yanked pitchers the game Oeury had to come in, and it was foolosh. Now, he puts aa guy in for 3 batters and he is a fool. And you should know, Cooper makes the pitching decisions.

QUOTE (Bigsoxhurt35 @ May 20, 2014 -> 09:57 PM) Yup this game will be blown. If Francisco isn't released after tonight I'll be f***ing mad You are going to be mad.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 20, 2014 -> 09:54 PM) Nobody up in pen. Because Ventura. Doesn't he have to manage like the game will go at least 14 innings? He was criticized for yanking pitchers earlier this year.

There was a reason Francisco was avaiable after the season started on a minor league deal. He blows.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 20, 2014 -> 09:50 PM) Downs has been a huge disappointment. For the most part, but he had been pretty effective recently.

As a White Sox fan, if it isn't at least a 7 or 8 run lead, Frankie Francisco in the game doesn't bring me joy.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 20, 2014 -> 09:40 PM) Coming into 2014 .249 career hitter, .253 pre ASG and .244 post ASG .............Months of August and September/October career average .234. He falls apart every year after ASG, simple as that. No. Last year he was hurt. 2010 he was on fire the second half but got hurt and didn't play much. 2011 and 2012 were bad. As I have stated before, if he can stay healthy, and so far he hasn't really proven he can, he will still be a very good player. Much to the chagrin of many on this board who love to hate for some reason.

Jared Mitchell is a 2 outcome hitter.

Adam Dunn makes Jose Abreu look like a jockey.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ May 20, 2014 -> 09:30 PM) If Sox win this and it's sure looking that way , they will have won 9 of the last 12 in KC I believe. Up until 2006 or 2007, the Sox used to beat up the Royals. Then it just stopped.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 20, 2014 -> 09:29 PM) Glad we released Dunn in the preseason... Should have released Dunn, gave Alexei's contract away for a bag of balls. Dumped Tank and Beckham for nothing. Then this team would really be clicking.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 20, 2014 -> 09:27 PM) When he has a good season not a couple months every year after ASG he has been really bad. Not every year.

When are people going to admit Beckham is looking good.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ May 20, 2014 -> 08:27 PM) Which toolsy picks are you referring to that he professed this love for? Mitchell? Borchard? I don't remember him particularly going crazy talking about either of them, but I could be wrong. Hawk has been on the draft a baseball player kick for a while now. I think watching all these football players strikeout all the time got to him.

When Hawk was the GM he damn near traded for Andre Dawson. It was so close to happening Dawson took BP with a Sox cap on.

Dunn always hustles down the line.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 20, 2014 -> 07:52 PM) Shields or Masterson seems more likely. Why would anyone want to pay Masterson what you have to pay him? In seasons he has stsrted at least 10 games he has had an ERA under 4.50 only 2 times.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ May 20, 2014 -> 05:25 PM) This timetable seems very bizarre. He was sore after his rehab start which Stone said is very normal when you haven't pitched in a while. They probably want to see how he feels after this before committing .

QUOTE (raBBit @ May 20, 2014 -> 11:01 AM) Good bit there, Dick. I wonder how much the FO and certain players sweat this throughout baseball. I think if it's close, most teams try to help the players out. I know the Sox activated Jerry Hairston in 1990 even though he didn't play for the sole purpose of him hitting the full benefit service time.

I was reading that to qualify for a major league pension, you only need 43 days service time for the minimum $34,000 a year once you hit 55. Scott Carroll needs only about 3 more weeks.

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ May 20, 2014 -> 09:24 AM) How is it that the Cubs have "home and home" series with the Yankees this year? I don't ever recalling seeing that in interleague play, apart from the so-called geographic rivalries (CHW v. CHC; NYY v. NYM; STL v. KC). Did this start when Houston moved to the AL and they started scheduling Interleague series every day? Do other teams do this? That was new last year. I think the Sox have one with SF.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 20, 2014 -> 09:10 AM) Yeah, well they signed Brian Scalabrine And Ron Mercer, and Ben Wallace and Cornell David.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 20, 2014 -> 03:19 AM) Jason Vargas, Salvador Perez and a changeup that wasn’t working May 20 BY LEE JUDGE The Kansas City Star According to Fangraphs, Jason Vargas throws a fastball, a slider, a cutter, a curve and a changeup. So if one of his pitches isn’t working, it seems like Jason’s got some alternatives. Monday night it looked like Jason Vargas’ changeup wasn’t working. Alexei Ramirez hit a third-inning home run on a changeup, Dayan Viciedo hit a fourth-inning home run on a changeup and Paul Konerko hit a fifth-inning home run on a changeup. That’s over a thousand feet of home runs on changeups. After I noticed all the home runs had been hit on changeups, I checked the other hits Vargas gave up; four of them were on changeups. When six of the eight hits you give up come on changeups, maybe you need to throw something else. After the game both Ned Yost and Jason Vargas said the changeups were up in the zone. Some nights that happens—you just don’t have command of a pitch. But when a pitcher doesn’t have a pitch, you’ve got to figure out a way around it. Throw something else, or throw it in a spot where it won’t hurt you. Salvador Perez and Jason Vargas didn’t do that; they continued to throw changeups and paid the price—and so did their team. A slider-speed bat I wrote this way back on Opening Day when the Royals got beat by an Alex Gonzalez walk-off single. Gonzalez is 37-years-old and the pitch he hit that day was a slider. I’ve been waiting for another older hitter to beat the Royals on an off-speed pitch and the 38-year-old Paul Konerko did that on Monday night. "He’s got a slider-speed bat." That’s that they say about a guy who can’t get around on a good fastball anymore. Ask if there are any hitters in their late thirties who still have good bat speed and the list is short—heck, there may not be enough old hitters with good bat speed to make anything resembling a list. That being the case, if a guy is getting older you probably don’t want to give him anything off-speed in the strike zone. You can show it to him, that might keep him from cheating on a fastball, but keep it out of the zone—beat the older hitter with fastballs. Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2014/05/20/50340...l#storylink=cpy If Konerko has a slider speed bat, and that is still debatable, the problem is Vargas has a slider speed fastball. 86.8 average fastball. Change ups are good pitches, but if they are up, they are bad pitches.