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The thing is, there just aren't a lot of guys with a 5:1 K/BB that are ever highly successful. That's too little contact and too much bad pitch swinging. That's something that can and almost certainly will improve, especially from a young player, but something closer to Starling Marte's .282/.343/.443 is probably more likely with those peripherals, especially once he starts actually hitting for power. If he can be the defender and baserunner that Marte is, than a 4-5 WAR player is OK by me.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 5, 2013 -> 12:51 PM) Riley Cooper just might have ushered himself out of the league. He isnt good enough to get away with what he said This photo still reigns supreme http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/08/tim-tebow-...-florida-photo/

Matt Kemp had shoulder surgery over the offseason to repair a torn labrum and frayed rotator cuff. Over his previous 61 games last year, Kemp put up .266/.321/.440/.760. Over his first 45 games of last season, that was a .358/.433/.685/1.118 line. This year in 62 games, he's at .263/.319/.382/.700. Worth considering the effect that this had on Flowers throughout the course of the season. It'll likely slow the shoulder a bit, limit movements, decrease power, and cause general discomfort. And consider that Phegley is at .211/.219/.322/.542 in 159 plate appearances. If the Sox go out and get a catcher next year, that's fine, but if not, Phegley and Flowers better be on equal footing for the full time job.

Cary Williams tried to fight Riley Cooper today.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Sep 5, 2013 -> 11:51 AM) I'm really hoping I get invited to the Reddy-Y2HH wedding with Wite as the flower girl. Despite what Y2HH says, I still have plenty of my flower seed left over. Hopefully I can pollinate something too

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 5, 2013 -> 10:19 AM) Birmingham Barons ‏@BhamBarons 26m Three members of the 2013 Barons made their @MLB debuts last night: Erik Johnson (1st start), Marcus Semien (2-for-4, RBI) and Daniel Webb. Good to see the Knights were on their game too

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 5, 2013 -> 09:04 AM) Well if that's the case, then Jerry deserves some of the blame instead. I do agree with greg though, that you can't put full blame on the manager for a s***ty roster decision, there's the reason why managers don't have full control over everything. Of course, had it been up to Williams, Guillen would have been gone after 2009 too. All signs point to Williams preparing to fire him and Reinsdorf stopped that from happening too.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 4, 2013 -> 06:51 PM) No, no, no, no, no, no, NOOOOOOO! That was a metaphor for your life, not actual crops drying out under the sun. You're the one drying up. You're the Chuck Knoblauch of love...unable to make an easy throw FTW. :/ Sadly, there is nothing I can do for you right now...the only advice I can give you is to give up. Throw in the unused towel. That's fine, I have plenty of socks

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 5, 2013 -> 05:37 AM) I understand the politics involved, but in the end it's the GM's roster. He let the inmates run the asylum and deserves some blame. I think he let the inmate (singular) run the asylum to prove a point. That point led to said inmate getting a job in Miami a year later and the White Sox to end up with one of the most unfairly hated players in franchise history.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 4, 2013 -> 09:59 PM) Johnson threw 4 different pitches tonight, with them ranking IMO 1- slider 2- fastball 3- curve 4- changeup It was nice to see someone who's supposed to throw in the low 90s actually hit that mark and not in the high 80s Regardless of what it is that the Sox do to their minor leaguers to get them to pitch out of their ass and over their heads (Dylan Axelrod putting up a 2.42 ERA over 260 innings between 3 levels), there were great reports of Johnson throughout and his ERA and perhipherals were even better. You're right that it is nice, and hopefully he's better after this. Looks like a good start to Semien's career.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 4, 2013 -> 09:34 PM) Not really. Kotsay is another bust who I disliked greatly. I always was of the opinion KW also was in the organization. He's as much to blame as Ozzie. What was Ozzie going to quit if he didn't get his way on Kotsay? But in answer to your question. Ozzie obviously blew it there. I'm sure after a month he was as sick of Kotsay's lousy at bats as everybody else. But again, that's on Kenny as well as Ozzie. Doesn't Kenny have a say in anything? On that one, no. Williams wanted Thome. He left the decision to Ozzie on that one for any number of reasons.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 4, 2013 -> 10:43 PM) OK, let's say we go 8-20 and we are playing gawd-awful baseball and Detroit is 20-8. Is it over? Do you start the unexplainable rooting for losses in May? No. Jesus this topic has gotten really f'ing stale

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 4, 2013 -> 04:13 PM) he wants the world to end with a Vince Young vs Tim Tebow NFC Championship game. The Packers just arent holding up their end of the bargain The Packers signed the best of both of those worlds with Seneca Wallace anyways

Ramirez has been hitting line drives at an increase rate this year, but it's been at the expense of his power. Still, if he can become a .300 hitter by not looking to hit home runs and just trying to hit singles, I have no problem with that, and it's not a transformation that's without precedent. Since dropping to a season low .246 on May 12th, Ramirez has put up a .297/.316/.391/.707, which is about a 90 wRC+ (give or take). That's perfectly acceptable, even if you'd like to see him walk and slug more.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Sep 4, 2013 -> 03:59 PM) Oh boy. We are not trading Alexei to have Leury Garcia play everday. I want to see him a bit more with the glove, but I wouldn't be completely opposed to the idea. Young guy, decent pop, good glove...if the glove is there and he's good, it would be good to get him playing time. If the glove is only solid, then you play him all over, because Semien is going to be more valuable. Really, at the end of the day, I want to see how everything plays out before I make bold declarations like this. The club obviously likes Garcia, even if there was the added benefit of getting out from Rios' contract as well.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Sep 4, 2013 -> 03:27 PM) The Bears should just sign him. Help the guy out. I'm not sure you want that as a Packers fan. All he does is win.

QUOTE (GreatScott82 @ Sep 3, 2013 -> 06:35 PM) Are there any 3b prospects coming out who will be high on the draft board? We can possibly continue the Kepp/Gillapsie platoon until someone like that is ready... There just really isn't a whole lot of talented 3b out there these days. If they are talented, they are likely locked up for 6-8 years already. You simply don't draft in baseball based on need. It's the one sport you can truly say that, if you draft based on need, you will ultimately fail. Successful teams find a good comfort zone between talent and skill. Take the Cardinals, a team with a guy like Allen Craig playing 1B for them after being an 8th round pick. He's not a sexy player but he's a very good hitter and he's turned himself into a good defender. Meanwhile, you get a guy like Domonic Brown getting drafted in the 20th round as a raw talent, and he's become one of the better young players in the game. The Sox need to draft the best player available to them, and then work on developing that talent. If it's a SS that projects to be a 3B, so be it. If it's a lefty with a big slider, so be it. If it's a high floor college bat who is likely to hit .300/.350/.450 at 2B, so be it. Guys can be moved and traded and whatever, and other guys get hurt and regress and whatever. So you get the best player you can, and you don't look back.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 4, 2013 -> 03:05 PM) Even if he didn't swing at it, it might well have changed his timing enough for him to miss the slider down the middle if that was the following pitch Ha, like I said, it's all a moot point. Don't throw pitches down the middle, and you don't get beat. EDIT: Well, you can. You're just less likely to get beaten

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Sep 4, 2013 -> 02:38 PM) Yep. Soriano was not going to catch up with a 100 MPH fastball up in the zone He might not have swung at it either. Or he may have thrown the fastball down the middle and Soriano could have hit that into the left field stands. He's still got some of the quickest hands in the game. The only thing you say for sure is that he shouldn't have thrown the pitch down the middle.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Sep 4, 2013 -> 10:23 AM) That doesn't prevent the earth from drying up unless you do it outside and very often. Can I just urinate? or turn the sprinklers on? Seems like there has to be a simpler solution in here

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 4, 2013 -> 11:07 AM) A high fastball after 2 straight sliders would have seemed like a smart pitch. Speed his bat up again and then set up to come back with the slider again if he lays off the fastball. A slider low and away is just fine too, because then you come back with a fastball on the 4th pitch up, and he's not going to catch it and it's going to look like a hanging slider anyways, until it doesn't slide. It's kind of a moot point. You can't leave pitches in the middle of the plate to good hitters, no matter what pitch is used.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 4, 2013 -> 10:52 AM) The problem with that pitch call was it was the 3rd slider in a row, IIRC. It drifted back over the middle of the plate and Soriano didn't miss it. Then it was a problem of being reptitive and missing a spot, not necessarily in pitch selection itself. Also worth mentioning is that Soriano, throughout his career, has always been a fastball hitter and, other than really just this year, has never had any success hitting the slider. Criticizing Jones for that pitch is probably wrong, but criticizing location is justifiable.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Sep 4, 2013 -> 10:44 AM) I think it is an issue for not only Hector but a couple of our younger guys plus the catcher. They don't go after the hitter. The don't use their best pitch to blow the hitter out after getting two strikes. They nibble and try to be too cute. To many walks are given up. Last night for example with Nate Jones. He had a NY hitter on 2 strikes and instead of coming back with that 100 MPH heater he tries to be tricky and loses. Stone and Hawk were lamenting the pitch selection also Because Nate Jones's best pitch is his slider. So, if he went up 0-2, threw his slider, and the batter got a hit, then I have no problem wit it.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 4, 2013 -> 10:34 AM) When does the AZL play? Same time as the other short season rookie leagues

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 4, 2013 -> 10:10 AM) No, that advice was not meant for you, just Reddy. The advice I give people is very targeted and very personal. For you, it doesn't matter what you do, as your "dry spell" is soon to become an all out drought, where the earth will bake beneath the sun and become infertile. Sadly, there is nothing you can do to fix this. I masturbate