Dick Allen

Ever since the debacle Friday night, after 2 games they couldn't buy a run, this team has looked invincible.

Gonzalez is speculating Kroger will be brought up. He's been wrong before, but he's probably right this time.

Lillibridge's 1-6 is an improvement from the leadoff spot. Now 2-27 on the year.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 03:07 PM) Fields is due for a long ball He's really been focused on RF, something I've never seen from him before. Maybe he's working on keeping his head on the ball longer, then maybe start airing it out.

Maybe BA takes this opportunity and runs with it. Last year, Owens got hurt and it was a blessing for the Sox. Hopefully, deja vu.

QUOTE (soxfan3530 @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 02:59 PM) hopefully kroger. Nice Matt! He's still looking for his first hit of the season. I wish, and I know it will not happen, they call up Beckham and moved Ramirez to CF.

BTW, the Knights pitching has been awful so far: Individual Stats (Pitching) (click column headers to sort) Player W L ERA G GS CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR HB BB SO WHIP HLD GF Wes Whisler 1 0 4.50 1 1 0 0 0 6.0 9 3 3 0 0 1 2 1.67 0 0 Lance Broadway 0 1 5.40 1 1 0 0 0 5.0 5 4 3 1 1 2 4 1.40 0 0 John Van Benschoten 0 1 5.40 1 1 0 0 0 5.0 2 3 3 1 1 2 6 0.80 0 0 Adam Russell 0 0 0.00 2 0 0 0 1 4.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 5 0.00 0 1 Jack Egbert 0 0 10.12 2 0 0 0 0 2.2 4 3 3 1 0 1 3 1.88 0 1 Kelvin Jimenez 0 0 15.43 1 0 0 0 0 2.1 4 4 4 1 1 2 2 2.57 0 0 Jon Link 0 0 7.71 2 0 0 0 0 2.1 1 2 2 0 0 2 5 1.29 0 1 Randy Williams 0 0 4.50 2 0 0 0 0 2.0 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 1.00 0 1 Ehren Wassermann 0 0 18.00 1 0 0 0 0 2.0 6 5 4 0 0 1 2 3.50 0 0 Jeffrey Marquez 0 1 32.40 1 1 0 0 0 1.2 6 6 6 0 0 1 0 4.20 0 0 Jimmy Gobble 0 0 36.00 1 0 0 0 0 1.0 3 4 4 0 0 2 2 5.00 0 Although the sample size is small, outside of Russell, everyone else has been below average to horrid.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 02:50 PM) But im talking about the 7th. Come on, were you comfortable seeing him out there after the Tiggers loaded the bases with 1 out the previous inning off him? They had a 4 run lead, I'm sure if a guy or 2 got on, they would have removed him. You cannot blow out your bullpen by the end of April.

If Paulie gets on, he will have a shrug-free day.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 02:40 PM) Here is the problem with Carrasco, IMO. Not that he is on the team, but that he get's used by Ozzie like this. He's the long man. I would imagine Dotel is unavailable today, so they may be why they had him go an extra inning. He's not that great, but the 11th or 12 man on any staff isn't going to be. He's fine for his role.

QUOTE (tommy @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 02:41 PM) 1-2-3 for DJ. Not bad for a guy who should be replaced by a guy who has an ERA over 30.00 in AAA.

QUOTE (soxfan3530 @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 02:36 PM) A bad career outside of last season's fluke. And Marquez and Egbert sucked in the minors last year and have sucked in the minors this year. Your argument has no merit. But continue.

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 02:35 PM) i have always wondered...is it possible that minnesotas pen was full of ped users? look who was in their pen..hawkins, guardado, rincon, and jc romero. romero and rincon were busted and look whats happend to guardado and hawkins..who knows.. I'm pretty sure everyone's bullpen was full of PED users. I would bet the percentage of pitchers using was higher than the percentage of position players. A couple of years ago, everyone was throwing 90. Not anymore.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 02:34 PM) Sample size And what's the sample size for Carrasco's struggles?

QUOTE (soxfan3530 @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 02:28 PM) I would take Egbert for sure and maybe even Marquez over him. LOL. 2 guys which AAA ERAs over 10.00 so far this season.Marquez gave up 6 runs in less than 2 innings in his AAA outing. I think you're overreacting.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 02:26 PM) Agreed. Give me Egbert or someone. This is somewhere that we have options. Be careful what you wish for. Egbert has a 10.00+ ERA in AAA.

QUOTE (Soxpranos @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 02:06 PM) LOL, the experts are scratching their heads right now.. got to love this board. I just don't think people on this board remember its really hard to hit when its 35 degrees against good pitchers. The ball doesn't carry as well and they have been in Phoenix the last month and a half where its been 80 something and sunny every day, so there is going to be an adjustment period. In Tucson, there were some crisper days. Phoenix is better for the travel and to get work in, its not as good to get you ready for the cold. White Sox opponents haven't exactly been ripping the ball.

Its going to take Quentin another 6 months to get some bat speed.

QUOTE (qwerty @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 02:00 PM) Getting floyd the win was not worth those two runs, ozzie. A lot of times when a manager leaves a guy in for a win, he gets his team a loss.

Quentin won't be able to do anything this year because his wrist is screwed up.

Porn queen Marilyn Chambers found dead.

Harry Kalas collapsed and died today in Philadelphia.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 13, 2009 -> 11:23 AM) Career splits don't matter, all that matters is which side of the plate you hit from. Everyone wanted Thome benched against CC last year. He had been horrible against him previously. He took him deep twice. If Thome is swinging well, I also would pretty much ignore his historic splits. He hits homers in bunches and has a couple early, so let him rip, especially if we are talking 11 AB as far as his history vs. Miner.

The #1 spot in the White Sox line-up is 1-21 this year. 3-3 isn't bad considering that.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Apr 11, 2009 -> 09:26 AM) The Sox also got rid of a much better player in Tim Raines, Jr. to let him hack in Charlotte. I cannot even begin to understand such unbelievable favoritism to such a crappy baseball player. I still have worries that if the Sox finally realize Wise doesn't need to be in CF they'll respond by having him swap places with Owens. I can't believe I'm defending Jerry Owens in any way but to say Tim Raines Jr. is a much better player is ill-informed. Raines has not played in the major leagues for 5 years and has a career OPS 100 points lower than Owens. He may be a much better AAA player, a level he's probably been at for 7 or 8 years, but unless you live in Charlotte and go to Knights games regularly, who really cares? Neither would help much at the major league level, but Owens would be the better bet. I remember when Raines Jr. was just a kid and Raines Sr. was a White Sox. There was talk that Jr. was going to be a star. He obviously didn't get enough of his dad's genes.