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QUOTE (flavum @ Jul 7, 2015 -> 01:26 PM) Hitting 100 in a sim game. Good for him. I saw him running into the dugout from the bullpen on Sunday. He looks bigger to me now. The key with him is control. Good to see he can still dial it up.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 7, 2015 -> 01:09 PM) Yeah, but their crappy offense is miles better than the Sox crappy offense. Miles? In their last 13 games, they have scored more than 2 runs twice.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 7, 2015 -> 12:00 PM) Daryl Van Schouwen ‏@CST_soxvan 30m30 minutes ago White Sox must stay hot or else. Jose Quintana (4-7, 3.81) has made 7 straight quality starts w 2.78 ERA. Has 2.99 ERA over last 13 starts. Quick, trade him for prospects who look good in AA and AAA and can't hit in the majors.

QUOTE (GreatScott82 @ Jul 7, 2015 -> 08:35 AM) More than half of the starting lineup is hitting below .228. What a sad state for this offense. Worst in the league in multiple offensive categories. 5. Adam LaRoche .228 6. Alexei Ramirez .226 7. Gordon Beckham .203 8. Tyler Flowers .224 9. Carlos Sanchez .162 This is the bottom half of the lineup. I think it's safe to say this is the worst offensive White Sox team of my lifetime. The defense is pretty bad also. They haven't scored 5 runs in a home game in 23 straight. That is their longest streak ever. It's really incredible as they do have some should be decent hitters on the team.

23rd consecutive home game the White Sox have scored 4 runs or less. A team record. Viciedo for Melky please. Melky is only hitting .558 vs. Buehrle lifetime accordimg to our Chuck. The game definitely lived up to the hype. Not enough ks for Sale but I am sure he would rather have the win.

Buehrle looks a bit heavy.

QUOTE (Mike F. @ Jul 6, 2015 -> 03:04 PM) So you want to see his streak end because of the weather? Ok, then. Sale is pretty much the only thing for us Sox fans to root for this year so I want this streak to be as long as possible. No, but if it is, so be it. I think the more interesting question is if Sale was at 125 pitches with 9 strikeouts, would you be mad if he were lifted, or would it be worth the possible damage in order to get this "record" most likely no one but Red Sox fans even knew Pedro owned up until now?

QUOTE (Mike F. @ Jul 6, 2015 -> 02:55 PM) I know it's not the norm, but you can't ruin Sale's streak because of the weather. You just can't. Yes, because Chris Sale should be put ahead of the team, and the Sox should throw Jose Quintana out there with short rest, risking injury among other things, so Sale gets a shot at the record. T

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 6, 2015 -> 11:24 AM) So here's one that drives me nuts yesterday. When commenting on the defense, people will note that the White Sox simply don't have good defenders and nothing the manager or coaching staff can do will change that. Here's an example of where this hits the coaching staff and organization. First inning yesterday, ground ball to the left side, Gillaspie has to move a good distance to get to the ball and he misses it. It wasn't an impossible play, it wasn't an easy play, but he was given an error on it. He's not a great defender so he might make that play some fraction of the time and miss that play some fraction of the time, maybe 50/50, 75/25, who knows. Even if he practiced it every single day there's so many little differences in every hop that he's still going to miss that one sometimes. Fine. He's not a great defender and that's not on the coaching staff. Gillaspie then becomes an idiot. After missing the ball, he picks it up and rifles it as fast and as hard as he can in the direction of 1b without setting. Even if he made a perfect throw he wasn't going to get the runner. This was a completely stupid throw. There were probably 5 year olds in the stadium who have seen enough baseball to know that ball was ticketed for the dugout, and of course, the runner goes to 2nd on the play. Gillaspie gets the 2nd error on the play, runner scores a few batters later. The first one? Fine, Gillaspie just physically could not make that play every time and the coaching staff can't change that. The 2nd part? How on Earth can a player not know to stick that ball in their pocket and take the error rather than making things worse? That's what I mean when I say there's a difference between being weak defensively and what we see with this team: sloppy, stupid, poorly coached, and poorly prepared. We could be weak defensively, have weak defenders, guys who don't have good range, but we could at least be smart about it. Instead we have the guy who decides that he needs to be the hero and make an inhuman play and it ends up giving up a free run. Jones doubled the next AB, then Davis walked, then a flyball to CF. The runner being on 2nd or 1B, didn't really matter much as if the same things occurred, would have scored anyway. The BP write up on Conor before he was acquired ripped on his throwing from 3B to 1B. Considering he came up through the SF Giant organization, and they supposedly know what they are doing and couldn't put a halt to it shows something. The throw was ill advised because the runner would have been safe to begin with, however, I bet you given the exact same conditions, every 3B in the major leagues makes the throw. It wasn't like he would have been safe by 2 or 3 steps.

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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 6, 2015 -> 12:03 PM) Oh Gage, of all people, you should know better then equity=cash. If Forbes is to believed, the White Sox have cash in the 9 figures stashed away somewhere if you add all their profits the past 20 years and deduct taxes. Boras said the other day every team has at least $120 million to play with before they sell a ticket. It probably is at least slightly overstated, but not any more than the White Sox break even every year line they used for years. Do the math. Even if Forbes is correct and they make $20 million in year X, even if they raise the payroll $20 million the next year and make $15 million, they still have a pre-tax income of $35 million. And the only year Forbes has shown them losing money recently was 2013 when they lost 99 games and lost $3 million. Of course those figures included the $10 million bonus they gave Abreu after the season ended.

BP has Anderson #22 on their top 50 midseason prospects. Montas made the just missed list.

QUOTE (Dunt @ Jul 6, 2015 -> 09:59 AM) But the Vice President stated it's the window in both those articles getting back to my point that he seems indecisive if it's a rebuild or a compete now situation. If they felt that their prospects were still a couple years away from making them a competitive organization, then it was really stupid to burn 2 picks this year on guys that probably wont be here when they are competing. What was the point of rushing Rodon up to the majors if he didnt have decent control or a third pitch? 3 year window with these players. Melky, LaRoche, Alexei, even before the season started, you had to figure in 3 years, all these guys would be ex-White Sox. The 3 year probably only included Micah and Rodon as contributing prospects. Maybe Sanchez. They know they have to start producing their own talent. I think the 3 year window was a term to buy them time to do just that. We will see, but it is apparent they aren't blowing the entire thing up.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Jul 6, 2015 -> 08:56 AM) Justin Verlander, who the Tigers extended two years before his deal expired and who is still owed at least $112M over four seasons after this one, looks like he might be completely toast. He has a 6.75 ERA, a 7.05 FIP, and a 1.2 K/BB. In his one quality start of four appearances this season, he allowed 6 hits and 5 walks in six innings with 3 K's. He's their John Danks.

QUOTE (Dunt @ Jul 6, 2015 -> 09:31 AM) Your quote is almost entirely what they quoted in the MLBTR piece and it still doesn't answer many of the questions I proposed. Why is there a 3 year plan starting this year when theyve been downright awful for 2 seasons now? Why is it only 3 years when their core is locked up for more? Why on Earth are they still holding out believing they can compete this year? It is pretty hard to plan a baseball team for 10 years from now. In 2 or 3 years, they probably felt they would have a better handle on their prospects. I wouldn't take this 3 year plan as their window for trying to win. I think they probably thought it was their window before they really started producing prospects who could contribute. Not counting Rodon and now Fulmer, most of their guys are a couple of years away from being players you could count on, if not more.

Big Papi made a rare start at 1B yesterday. His first in Fenway since 2005. It also was the first time the Red Sox went an entire game without a putout from their 1B (over 17,000 games). There were just 2 ground ball outs. One was at the Big Papi who flipped to the pitcher covering, the other was a bunt attempt with batter interference.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 5, 2015 -> 03:06 PM) One good thing about Abreu being so tall is that when the infielders don't pay any attention to each other and all call for the ball, Abreu can just catch the thing and everyone else will just bounce off of him. On that play the infield fly rule was in effect. Sometime I would like to see the Sox drop one in that situation to see if the runners know the rule or take off.

QUOTE (Lillian @ Jul 4, 2015 -> 09:25 PM) Let's just hope that the front office is not going to delude themselves into thinking that they still have a realistic chance for this year's playoffs. It's not impossible, but a bad bet. They need to get something to prepare for next season. If they really want Shark, they can always try to sign him in the offseason. I'd rather see them try to fill another hole. They still have the comp pick, so if teams offer crap, they have leverage.

Keenyn Walker is hitting .118. Wow.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jul 4, 2015 -> 04:01 PM) Avi jumped like a little kid after he found out he caught it lol I was at the game and we were commenting he reacted like a Little Leaguer would have reacted, and how awesome that was.

Adam Jones 1-30 lifetime vs. Danks.

Addison Russell had a couple of,dropped pop ups today. White Sox material.

How many people here have ever hired someone who turned out to be crappy at their job? Or managed someone who turned out to be bad enough he or she needed to be fired? Did you ever consider their failure was grounds for you to lose your job? In some cases it is, but in sports, many seem to think it ALWAYS is.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 3, 2015 -> 10:50 AM) Check again... http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/stats/_/id/3...eduardo-escobar Escobar and Semien are both outperforming Ramirez....in the meantime, we have no SS next season. You do realize that war is a cumulative stat over a season, right? Are you taking all of his time as an Angel and comparing to his White Sox career? Are you willing to state for the record the Angels would be better off with John Danks than Hector Santiago, as I see you moved the bar again....? And are u also saying he pitched just as well for the White Sox as the Angels this season? Sigh. I went with innings with Santiago. He was a 1.2 WAR in 140 innings with the White Sox, and a 0.9 in about 94 this year. A cumulative stat would mean that is pretty equal. I have no doubt Escobar and Semien are outperforming Alexei. But since you are all about the advanced stats, why not take a look at Fangraphs. If you are using last year's stats for Escobar, shouldn't you use them for Alexei? The A's bringing in Ron Washington just shows Semien isn't anywhere near what he needs to be defensively. I know you love Santiago, but advanced stats, and that's what you claim the White Sox never use, and only enlightened people use, will show you Santiago is not an All Star. Besides, if these guys were as great as you claim, how in the world would you constantly rip Buddy Bell? Semien has been a negative WAR player the last 2 months. He actually had a higher walk rate with the White Sox last year. You should expect most rookies to improve a little bit. Other than Phegley, a catcher who cannot catch the ball, but is hitting decently in a very small sample size, these guys aren't doing anything more than they would have done if they hadn't been traded. Their performances aren't head and shoulders better than they were with the White Sox.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 2, 2015 -> 10:14 PM) And what did Escobar do last season? You've solved the whole mess with one stat...we can just trade Danks and get Santiago back from Stoneman, who's very old and might not be thinking soundly. Could be senile. Santiago is 11th in the majors in ERA...Danks is 11th on the White Sox roster probably. Whip of 1.13, war of 2.1 and top 30 for k/ip in the entire major leagues. He's also 11th in the majors in batting average against. http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/pitching/_/so...ing/order/false There's not a single pitcher on that list ahead of Santiago that it wouldn't require half of our minor league system to acquire. Scherzer, Liriano, Keuchel, Cueto, Archer, Greinke, Felix Hernandez, Sonny Gray, Chris Sale and Shelby Miller. Yeah, Danks belongs on that same list, lmao. Marcus Semien 11th out of 23 qualified SS. A bit younger and cheaper. They thought enough of him to bring in Ron Washington to work with him. Alexei, well....he should be thankful for Jimmy Rollins. http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/batting/_/pos.../qualified/true Finally, Eduardo Escobar has a 696 slg percentage in a non hitter friendly park, yet you focus only on his on base percentage. Weird. 721 ops and 1.1 war last season is something the White Sox would die to have about now. You also forgot to mention that you're not correcting for Semien's ops at O.com vs. USCF...as obviously those stadiums are identical for offense. "0%." Amazimg Esconar has a .696 sluggling pct when his OPS is .670. Santiago has an fWAR of 0.9 right in line with the 1.2 fWAR he pit up with the Sox, and which would make him 5th compared to White Sox starters. And if last years stats are what was important, why are you ripping Alexei?