Dick Allen

This guy is still young, not many miles, and throws 99. There have been worse taking up 40 man spots, but an ERA over 7.00 is a good time to get him through. Not a bad lottery ticket. Probably will flame out, but so will many of the guys we are excited about.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 18, 2015 -> 06:02 PM) It looks like they took the green light away from Avi on the bases. He did go through a stop sign the other night. One thing I have noticed, is Avi seems to be playing better defense the last week or so. IMO, it would behuge if he could be average with that arm.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 18, 2015 -> 05:43 PM) Injury for Micah? Two straight games he's not played. One of the twitter guys had a photo of him working on defense in the afternoon. Maybe they are just giving him a break.

Unless Oakland acquires a magician to play 1B, if he sticks at SS, Marcus Semien might have 50 errors.

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ May 18, 2015 -> 05:40 PM) Haha, and yes. And since you brought it up, they still haven't achieved a proper level of baserunning aggression. More hesitation/too-timid blunders to come undoubtedly. I disagree. Overly aggressive, trying to make too much happen. It was dumb, but not a lack of urgency. The exact opposite IMO. In fact one of the things Levine mentioned in the new hands on approach was green lights were being taken away from some players. Eaton and Sanchez turned routine singles into doubles yesterday.

QUOTE (ptatc @ May 18, 2015 -> 11:06 AM) He was with Kane County when I worked there in the mid-90's. It's too bad. He is a real good guy. If you manage the Marlins, you are giing to get fired a lot sooner than you would with other teams. And if you are a free agent, don't buy a house in Miami. The good news for Redmond is he gets paid through 2017. That will be at least the 5th season in a row Loria will be paying someone not to manage his team.

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ May 18, 2015 -> 04:19 PM) Recent good play does not excuse the total lack of urgency, preparedness, intelligence and focus, in comparison to our divisional rivals, that the ream exhibited early on, after 40 days of ST.. AND those games count just the same, and may well prevent a playoff appearance in 2015. The ledger has not indicated that Robin is good - and I'm not talking only about W-L. Lack of urgency? Were you watching the games?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 18, 2015 -> 01:40 PM) I don't remember seeing that anywhere. I can't find it, but I didn't make it up. We will find out soon enough. From SSS: *The White Sox outrighted the 40-man roster's mystery man, Raul Fernandez, to Birmingham. There's now an open spot, and it's possible that it might be needed for Javy Guerra, who went on Charlotte's DL after the White Sox outrighted him. If the injury occurred while he was on the 40-man roster, he can't be booted off it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 18, 2015 -> 01:29 PM) The already put him through waivers, cleared the 40 man roster spot, and he has been reassigned to AAA. http://fantasynews.cbssports.com/fantasyba...rra-to-triple-a Yes, but he may have to go back on the 40 due to his injury, and act like that never happened. At least that is what I read.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 18, 2015 -> 01:19 PM) I would also doubt Drabek for the double-header but they did just clear a 40 man spot if something longer-term does open up. Supposedly the spot on the 40 man is for Javy Guerra who is on the DL again, and you can't outright someone on the DL.

Jimmy Butler on DRose: Speaking of people who have been there since Day 1, what kind of impact has Derrick Rose made on you? Derrick is one of the better people that I've come to know because, if you look at what he does in this community — and I'm not even talking about the basketball aspect of it, we all know how great of a basketball player he is, but what he does for the city of Chicago, the passion that he has for kids — I think that is what really shows you who he is. You see him on the billboards and on the commercials, but you take that away from him, he's still a person like everybody else on our roster. And that's what I get from him the most, how much he cares about people other than himself, man. What else can you want in a point guard? I call him my brother. What else can you want in a brother? You ever want to defend him when he's questioned or criticized? Yeah. All the time. But he tells me not even to worry about it. And I don't want to get into detail, so I just don't. I just let it be what it is.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 18, 2015 -> 10:29 AM) To me the question is easy. Would the Sox have had a 9-3 run if Ventura had been fired? The question might be easy but the answer is not. When Hawk fired Tony LaRussa, and replaced him with Jim Fregosi in 1986, the White Sox had a much higher winning percentage under Fregosi. Was he better than LaRussa, or was the team going to win more games anyway? I would go with the latter myself.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ May 18, 2015 -> 10:10 AM) I don't know, I guess I just don't feel like players can just "turn it on" whenever they want and it's just a matter of them being motivated enough to do so. Maybe I'm just easily frustrated by issues where we'll never have an answer. I think it's explained regression toward the mean. They could not sustain that badness. Now, if Ventura was fired when they were 8-14 and they went on a 9-3 run, it would have been explained it was Robin all along, when it was not. Managers don't make as much difference as we would like to think, at least not in Robin's case. The White Sox problem was never a lack of motivation or effort.

Why do some think what Loria is doing is crazy, yet want the White Sox to swap out managers and coaches every few weeks?

This move actually has a little Bill Veeck in it. Back when Ron Schueler couldn't pitch anymore, Veeck made him a pitching coach since he was going to pay him anyway. Jennings, I would imagine, isn't getting any extra cash to manage the Marlins. Loria saves a little bit on hiring a manager, and Jennings' contract is up at the end of this season anyway, so look for a new GM/manager combo in Miami in 2016.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 18, 2015 -> 08:47 AM) Oh god that's right we have to face Raburn this week. We are probably the only fan base in baseball who knows who Raburn is, including the fan bases of the teams for which he has played.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ May 18, 2015 -> 08:38 AM) I'm going to batting practice today. Sox invited me. Anyone gone recently? I was invited last year but couldn't make it. I am going to a Rick Hahn meet and greet tomorrow.

I don't know if he had much of a say in becoming the manager but either way if the team fails, now it is all on him. It doesn't appear he will be continuing GM duties while in uniform. It does put a lot more accountability on the GM. Gar/Pax should take to the bench if they get rid of Thibs. Put your necks on the line.

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ May 17, 2015 -> 07:18 PM) HOW ARE WE .500?!?!?!?!?!!?! simple math I guess. We've won as many as we've lost. But man it seemed almost unobtainable at one time. Heck yeah! 9-3 since Cameron said it was time for the Sox to bail. I guess that is why he is at Fangraphs.

These extra bases are sweet.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 17, 2015 -> 03:11 PM) Not quite sure why Melky's batting 3rd vs LHP. .357 lifetime vs. Kazmir.

The same time all the other teams that use Ticketmaster received a toll free number.

I think Rowand filled in on radio once or twice. IIRC the reviews were not kind.

They also have Keppimger coming off the books and Paulie has a million or so coming off. This idea that they will have no money is a joke. How the hell were they goimg to pay Samardjiza if they extended him? They made $31 million kast year with revenues about as low as they could be.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 13, 2015 -> 03:06 PM) To look at how those are impacting in balance, Alexei has -0.3 fWAR while Semien has 1.2 fWAR. Small picture. Great. Big picture, his hitting isn't sustainable, but his bad defense is. He is about at bad at SS as he was at 3B last season.