Dick Allen

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Apr 26, 2016 -> 12:46 PM) Look I shouldn't have quoted them over the sample size of a game, I was just making the point that to say he got lucky was silly. Danks was hit hard in his last start but they got 2 runs. Grounders found infielders and liners found outfielders. You can give up a lot of hard hits and still not deserve an ERA over 8. Danks got lucky he gave up only 2. If you give up rockets, you are the lucky one if they are hit right at someone. It isn't lucky your shot finds a place to land. Quoting a 3.94 SIERRA after last night's game, isn't a great endorsement for SIERRA.

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Apr 26, 2016 -> 12:43 PM) Of course it could have been worse. But it also could have been better. For two of the dingers there were men on base from ground ball hits, which are often quite random. As I've said, even line drives can be quite random and find fielders. No matter how many meatballs you're throwing, you're normally not gonna deserve to have over half the balls in play fall for hits. If you or I or any random Soxtalk poster hit the mound, we would get hit hard, not because of luck, but because we sucked.

So according to FIP,xFIP and SIERRA, the pitches he threw should have resulted in 2.60 runs, 2.68 runs, and 2.33 runs allowed respectively. That's pretty silly. If they want to give him another shot fine, but call a spade a spade. He was awful. And thinking he could pitch like that and not allow 5 runs in 9 innings with just regular "luck" is crazy. Thankfully they won. The bullpen has been brilliant, and its is very likely after being up 5-1 with Stroman cruising, the Blue Jays took their feet off the gas.

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Apr 26, 2016 -> 12:18 PM) I'm fully aware of that, but not when they're under twice his ERA. If he throws like that again he probably doesn't give up 5 runs in 5.1 innings. You think if he throws the exact same pitches to that exact same lineup again, they still produce a .526 BABIP? It's not like everything was smoked either, Fangraphs has it at a 45% hard hit rate and 15% soft hit rate as opposed to his career averages of 30% and 18%. 4 of the 11 hits were groundball hits. The BABIP might be lower because some of those off the wall would go over.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Apr 26, 2016 -> 12:04 PM) If you're using FIP and the like as measurements of a single start, you're doing it wrong. They're models, and models lose accuracy with fewer inputs. He was terrible. He was BABIPed because everything came off the bat at 200 miles an hour. Yes, when people are lining the ball off the wall, that isn't BABIP luck.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Apr 26, 2016 -> 11:51 AM) DA here is your new avatar. Change immediately! You post this about Chris Sale: This. He has a tendency to start chucking wildly and getting into a lot of trouble. And think someone else is a troll?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 26, 2016 -> 10:24 AM) Stop baiting threads. We all get it, your posts are infallible and you never say a bad thing about the sox in fear of it being thrown back in your face like you love to do to everyone else. I am not baiting anything. If anything he was baiting me after he b****ed about the hot head Chris Sale, and I posted numbers showing he was full of s***.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Apr 26, 2016 -> 08:48 AM) You're soooooooo smart DA. Why do you even grace us with your presence on this board? Chris Sale is one of the best pitchers in baseball. What he really "tends" to do is pitch really well. Maybe someday you will see that. But by all means, make up something he tends to do so you can be pessimistic about any game he pitches. Facts suck.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 26, 2016 -> 09:15 AM) Gonzalez gave up 13 base runners in 5 1/3 innings. It isn't that he gave up 5 runs, it is that it could have been worse! Eaton doesn't throw the guy out at 3B, that would have been another run. The spin that he wasn't so bad is the "he's not John Danks" argument. The guy was bad. I'm with you, it probably should have been worse.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Apr 26, 2016 -> 08:16 AM) This. He has a tendency to start chucking wildly and getting into a lot of trouble. Yes, his career 2.88 ERA, 10.2 strikeouts per 9. 7.4 hits per 9, and the Blue Jays collective .196/.284/.320 split suggest this. They really need to trade him before it's too late.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Apr 26, 2016 -> 08:08 AM) Avi looked genuinely afraid of that maniac. I'd be afraid if that runaway train was moving in my direction.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 25, 2016 -> 10:26 PM) Maybe some entertainment dollars just became available for the Sox. Sox may be 14-6, but they got outdrawn by Cleveland last week, and attendance is down 13%, so no reason to be happy. Just ask Caulfield. It is nice how little he posts when things are going well. All he had was the attendance card.

Robertson had issues in Toromto last year.

Professional AB by Frazier.

I am pretty sure the Sox had no steals of 3B last year.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Apr 25, 2016 -> 07:33 PM) True........... I do not want to see him this year. Depending on the situation maybe later on, but right now calling him up would just be setting up the Sox rush their prospects complaints. He isn't ready at all.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Apr 25, 2016 -> 02:19 PM) Well now they said officially a grade 1 sprain out 2 weeks so there's that. And they seemed to have gotten that from Woj. So confirmed I guess. That's a shame. On the other hand, it does put some more intrigue into the NBA playoffs. There is no way that team is getting beat 4 times out of 7 if they are at full strength.

I just love Hawk's emotion. As I have stated before, he does give it to the umpires too much, but he is great especially with wins. Yes, he doesn't see as well as he used to, but if I am smart enough to know he didn't see something correctly, I am also smart enough to really not need someone telling me a ball is hit to the shortstop when I can see it on the screen. I like Jason. I think he is fine and will be fine, but his is a different type of broadcast. People hate Joe Buck. I like Joe Buck. His is a "professional" broadcast. IMO, they call baseball games very much the same.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Apr 24, 2016 -> 05:13 PM) A good percentage of ticket sales are full and partial season ticket packages, so attendance is going to be low all year. It will pick up some after Memorial Day if the Sox are still in or near first, but even if this team wins 95 games the attendance will not move accordingly. It will have quite the effect on next year's attendance though. Didn't work in 2008/2009. I am pretty sure the only way to get a huge bump would be a WS trip. People will commit to a season for WS tickets at cost.

In the 8th inning they showed highlights on the scoreboard from that 120 Sports. They opened with Cubs highlights, and a very loud chorus of boos. I was very proud.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Apr 24, 2016 -> 05:08 PM) Don't look now, but Sands has a .754 OPS. Until they go outside for an upgrade, he is the obvious in house answer.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Apr 24, 2016 -> 05:02 PM) Kenny Williams got Laroche to retire. Does that give him a leg up for executive of the year? Depends what they do withe the money.. Right now the position hasn't been upgraded.

I can see how Hawk during a bad season or bad games would bug some Sox fans, but the wins? He is tremendous.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Apr 24, 2016 -> 04:40 PM) You don't hear or see much of that "Robin is a dumbass" stuff these days except of course in the gamethreads where negativity rules. But if they would have replaced him and they played exactly like they have, it would have been pointed out as proof positive he was an idiot. I just can't wait until,the offense actually starts firing. There have been signs the last few days.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Apr 24, 2016 -> 04:27 PM) He was released and signed to a minors deal by Sox though, not claimed. Not sure he gets an option back, doubt it, just wanted to confirm. Nope.