Dick Allen

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Mar 29, 2008 -> 04:25 PM) Uribe starting his annual shedding of any resemblance of a patient hitter. He will start to open up, swing for the fences and then the traditional crappy hitting begins. He actually took a couple of pitches. Ignore a couple of other guys whiffed as well. Use that AB as proof positve Uribe will be crappy.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Mar 28, 2008 -> 05:33 PM) Not true at all. Rain delays, a starter having a bad day, getting hit by a line drive. There are TONS of reasons that you may need a long man. Sometimes you want to burn a game so you can be at full strength next game. When you have relievers with a history of injuries, and your pen is full of specialists, you need someone to flat out eat innings. Is Masset the guy? No, but we need someone to do it. I can't believe I actually agree with Rock Raines.

Navarro and Snyder for Eldred and Valentin was a great trade. I don't think Bonilla for DeLeon was that bad. They got Bonilla for nothing and DeLeon turned into the One Dog.

Crede fouled a ball off his foot today and was supposed to have x-rays. The Sox think its nothing, and actually its his ankle.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Mar 27, 2008 -> 05:55 PM) I like that Fields actually hits the ball to the right side without weakly popping it up to the 2nd basemen.l Yeah, that Fields is quite the handler of the bat.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Mar 27, 2008 -> 05:55 PM) Excuse me, but I rather see an undeserving pick not sign than an undeserving pick take money playing time away from the organization. He probably got no bonus, so the money he received is next to nothing, and I'm sure if there was a player down there they thought was better and had a real shot, Oney would be riding the bench. There was zero chance the other 2 would not be wasted picks. Oney is probably 10,000,000 to 1 but as Lloyd Christmas would say,"you're saying there's a chance"

Nick Swisher is the guy I think the Sox could get the most for right now. Jenks could net a lot, but he has arbitration looming.

As far as Oney goes, yeah he blows but at least he signed. Carrie Schueler wasn't going to be signed and KW's son was drafted but not signed. Wasted picks. There were several players drafted after Carre Schueler who played MLB. In fact, the Sox drafted 3 or 4 of them.

QUOTE(daa84 @ Mar 27, 2008 -> 03:13 PM) haha andy gonzalez just hit a grand slam for the indians I think he has 4 or 5 homers this spring and about 8 hits.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 27, 2008 -> 02:34 PM) I can see why they gave him the shot - he has some talent, he's out of options... but ultimately, if they decide the team needs a long reliever / sixth starter type guy, probably better to just bring up Haeger or Broadway anyway. Despite the overall lack of talent in the minor league system, the Charlotte team will have a few decent starting pitchers on it. One or two of them are likely to become something good. I think KW would rather keep those guys in Charlotte to begin with. Maybe Ohka or maybe scouring the waiver wire.

Losing Masset wouldn't be a huge loss. He's basically being handed a job he has yet to earn and he still can't do anything with it.

QUOTE(ptatc @ Mar 27, 2008 -> 02:24 PM) Since Swisher's main quality for getting on base is walking and he doesn't run real well, there will be a lot of double plays from those three. Other than the 30-40 times out of 600 they hit the ball out of the park. Not if "Cabrera does his job.

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QUOTE(fathom @ Mar 27, 2008 -> 09:41 AM) Yet some people are read to annoint Dotel as our bullpen's saviour. Dotel has always been brutal in spring training though.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 27, 2008 -> 09:35 AM) The better solution to that may have been to keep Masset and Wassermann, and send MacDougal down to AAA or trade him (if that was possible). MacDougal hasn't given up a run in over 3 weeks.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 26, 2008 -> 10:14 PM) I think a reasonable idea about why none of these folks appeared in the first book is that the first book was him actually telling the stories he knew and the next few books are him trying to cash in more based on being proven right on the first one. I don't think he's capable of that elaborate of a plan. This guy is a plate head. I bought his first book, but he'll never get another dime from me. He hasn't played MLB since 2001. Its time for him to go away.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Mar 26, 2008 -> 09:25 PM) I just watched a clip of an interview of Canseco on ESPNews, and he said that when he watched Clemens before Congress, he thought that Clemens looked honest and sincere. Was he watching the same press conference I was watching? In Peter Gammons column a month or so ago, he reported the first draft of Canseco's book had a little piece about Clemens at the now infamous party they claim he didn't attend. That got taken out of the book. I wonder how big of a check the Rocket had to write for that. I still wonder why he wouldn't have had something on ARod in his first book. He's the biggest name in the game. Maybe he was still trying to get something from him.

QUOTE(almagest @ Mar 26, 2008 -> 07:51 PM) He's gone from nasty early on to awful lately and it's starting to worry me. Dotel has been horrible in spring training every year since 2003. His ERA combined is 6.80.

QUOTE(scenario @ Mar 26, 2008 -> 09:47 PM) Do you know what strikes me as funny? A month ago nobody would have been surprised if Ozzie chose Swisher to play CF. In fact, it was pretty much a foregone conclusion. KW and Ozzie have been saying it since they acquired him. And a month ago, 99% of posters would have volunteered to drive Brian to the airport to ship his *** out of town. But Brian had a good month in spring training and all of a sudden, Swisher in CF is a horrible idea; and Brian not being handed CF is a travesty. Interesting. I understand Anderson not being handed a regular job even though they handed him one in 2006 under tougher circumstances when he showed less than he has this spring. I just don't understand when he's in the game why he would be in LF and Swisher in CF. That makes zero sense.

If Ozuna starts at 2b on opening day and Quentin plays LF, the 3 hottest hitters in spring training, Uribe, Anderson and Ramirez all will be riding pine. That's pretty strange, but not as strange as seeing Nick Swisher in CF and BA in LF on occassion. That's just ridiculous. I am glad Swisher is leading off though. The more guys on base for Thome and Konerko and Dye, the better.

QUOTE(elrockinMT @ Mar 26, 2008 -> 05:49 PM) I am confused now with the MLB game day stats. The first time around it showed McDougal giving up 4 runs and now it's Dotel? It looks like MacDougal had a good outing now and Dotel roughed up again.

QUOTE(maggsmaggs @ Mar 26, 2008 -> 05:39 PM) Simple as this: MacDougal, Hall and Crede should not be on the opening day roster but the Sox feel the need to keep them. They will lose us games, Hall especially with no bat and no arm. Mac comes in and always gives us baserunners and runs and Crede pops up in the infield more than anyone else. I'm just looking at the box score, but only 1 of the runs off MacDougal today was earned. Errors by Hall, Cabrera and Konerko. Hall was arguably in the top 2 or 3 for worst player in the major leagues last year, and apparently has only regressed.

Some of these spring averages are starting to get real ugly. Hopefully they are just saving their hits for when the season starts. Chi White Sox AB R H RBI BB SO LOB AVG Ozuna, 2B 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 .321 Cabrera, SS 3 2 1 0 1 0 0 .203 Thome, DH 4 2 2 4 0 0 0 .263 Konerko, 1B 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 .294 Swisher, LF 4 0 0 0 0 1 1 .250 Dye, RF 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 .188 Pierzynski, C 3 1 1 1 0 0 2 .245 Hall, C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .071 Crede, 3B 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 .189 Ramirez, CF 3 1 1 4 0 0 0 .344

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 26, 2008 -> 05:31 PM) Hall still playing pretty badly, and MacDougal should still be demoted to allow for Wassermann and Masset to be in the pen. Speaking of playing badly this spring, Orlando Cabrera has been awful, I heard on the telecast the other day that he's waiting for opening day to turn it on. I don't think its that easy.

btw, if anyone still needs opening day tickets, they just became available on ticketmaster.