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QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Jul 18, 2013 -> 12:30 PM) Met Sale & Crain. Kept missing Southpaw . Did you see Frank at all?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 18, 2013 -> 12:01 PM) Perhaps. Viciedo's struggles throughout this season have already been enough, as is. Puig is better than Viciedo. Better balance plus better plate coverage. He's definitely going to be prone to streaks though.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 18, 2013 -> 12:04 PM) Easy on the name calling Ain't nothing wrong with a judge advocate general. Plus, best TV show in the history of the earth

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 18, 2013 -> 11:50 AM) http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/pro...Travis-Ishikawa His major league OPS total is 721, that's not going to work at 1B. Signed for $965,000. Will be 30 at the end of this year. He's a JAG. If he plays in the majors, it's to essentially "eat innings" or to act as a bat on the bench. More likely is that he is playing 1B in AAA to help the Knights win ball games. Also, where are you getting that monetary figure? All I see is that it's a minor league deal.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 18, 2013 -> 10:38 AM) I think we found a comp. Both these guys have power arms in the outfield, and look at their numbers after their first 38 games played: Yasel Puig: .391/.422/.616 1.038 OPS Jeff Francoeur: .350/.372/.664 1.037 OPS That would suck.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Jul 18, 2013 -> 11:12 AM) Good thing I don't like sweets haha. My guilty pleasure is probably fruit snacks. I know I know, don't ask. Don't ask because there's no need, fruit snacks are the f***ing s***.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 18, 2013 -> 11:07 AM) Ozzie was the manager in 2006. That team legitimately ran out of gas and there was also an unexpectedly hot Detroit team to compete with, it wasn't Ozzie's fault. In 2007 they were legitimately bad, there were injuries, a laughably bad bullpen, so Ozzie wasn't blamed for it. By 2011 we'd seen a few consecutive years of Ozzie's antics where he was sandbagging it or otherwise undermining the team, to the point where he outright quit on the team. That's the difference. I don't even think anyone's under the illusion that Robin is a great manager (how could he be?) but he doesn't have much to work with either. A+++

Save yourself a cheat day. A popular choice is Saturday so then you can be good all week and get all the evil out at once. I generally try to eat healthy during the week and then do all my binging (drinking, eating, lazy, video games) on Saturday as much as possible.

You guys should live in a red state. Bet you didn't know that the government is going to come take your guns away if you don't share this photo.

The Asiana plane crash is a terrible moment, but flights are meant to be safe and no one killed this people with ill will. The Tsarnaev's killed and injured with intention, which is a frightening experience and the idea of it - both specifically and in general - is what makes people uneasy. I have no problem with it. Osama Bin Laden was on the cover of Time magazine, Hitler was the Time man of the year in 1938, and newspapers all over the country had the WTC's ablaze on the front page of newspapers on 9/12/01. This is far, far, far milder than any of those. I think people b**** and complain just to b**** and complain, and frankly, that's their right as an American.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 18, 2013 -> 09:15 AM) Beck: 7 IP, 6 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 0 K On the season so far... in 94.2 IP: 2.95 ERA, 1.32 WHIP, .257 AvgA, 3.2 BB/9, 4.4 K/9, 1.77 GO/AO Beck has a fastball with a lot of sink, to go with the slider/curve and change. His ground ball rate is very good, the average-against is fine, the ERA shows he handles his games well at least, and the control is good. But that K rate is very low, especially for a guy who supposedly throws low-mid 90's. He doesn't need to strike out a guy an inning to be successful (he's getting ground balls), but that is a lower K/9 rate than any of his rotation partners in W-S. Far less than most of them. In fact it is hard to find a starter anywhere in the Sox org, all the way up and down, with a lower rate. Not that I'm saying it is the end of the world. He is still developmentally (and in age) very young, and he skipped A ball. He also made some dramatic physical changes prior to the season. But it is a little worrisome. A number that would be interesting to see (and a number that would be subjective) would be soft hit balls vs hard hit balls for Beck. At some point, he is going to need to increase his strikeouts because better players will square the ball up more often, but it's possible he's so advanced or his stuff so good that the guys aren't seeing and hitting the ball very well. He is a guy I am very intrigued by but we absolutely need to see more strikeouts.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 18, 2013 -> 09:08 AM) Dude, Harper was known as an incessant little prick long-before he ever debuted. Of course, he's awesome and has matured, so now he's cool. That's a clown question, bro

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QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jul 17, 2013 -> 05:31 PM) Can we expect anything from this kid in the long run? What was his scouting report? It's impossible to know. He's 19, weighs, 160, and hits line drives. That's about all there is to know. It's good to see him hitting well early on as that's a sign of a player who, at the very least, has a chance to advance.

They may like Lars' talent, but a .553 OPS after 266 PAs is Andy Gonzalez in the majors bad. That's my guess.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 17, 2013 -> 11:53 PM) See, we'll never know. I was told by a respected poster that last year's collapse was cause the Sox ran out of gas and were injured. How the heck do we know that? We blame running out of gas because Robin is liked. How do we know Oz's antics affected the team in any way? You still have to hit the ball and pitch the ball and field it. Why does Oz get blamed and not Robin? It's impossible to know exactly what would have happened in 2010 had the Sox signed Thome instead of the Twins, but it's safe to say that he was the deciding factor between the Sox and Twins that season.

That makes me want to vomit.

Regarding catchers, there is work being done to figure out pitch framing. There's a great article on Grantland regarding the topic and why Jose Molina is such a stud and Ryan Doumit sucks balls. http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/927575...e-molina-others It's interesting, and could very easily be the next big breakthrough regarding advanced fielding stats for catchers.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jul 17, 2013 -> 04:04 PM) That one's a close call. Rowand was going to cost us money, and we got Gio back in a great Williams trade of Garcia for Floyd and Gio. Swisher 1, and Edwin Jackson 1, all set us back. Swisher 2, Vasquez 1, Vasquez 2, and Jackson 2 set us back in terms of opportunity cost - lost opportunity to get some talent in here or keep what we had. Jackson 2 was perfectly fine. Jackson was a sunk cost at that point, so they dealt him, got rid of Teahen's mini-albatross of a contract, pick up good pitching prospect (Stewart busted) and a reliever who was then dealt back to the Jays for Myles Jaye (solid prospect) and Daniel Webb (top 10 prospect). Also, Vazquez 1? They gave up Chris Young, El Duque, and Luis Vizcaino. He was an OK centerfielder, but didn't make contact, struck out a lot, and hit a few homers. Haven't heard that in a while. Vazquez 2 looked just fine. Vazquez was coming off a poor year, Flowers a great year, Lillibridge looked like an OK player, Gilmore had big upside, and Santos Rodriguez had a big arm from the left side. Only two are still in the system, but they got quite a bit in return there too.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 17, 2013 -> 04:19 PM) Penus pubus Steve's most common search phrase

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 17, 2013 -> 04:08 PM) When will the NFL do this is the better question. The NCAA is in enough hot water right now with accusations of fraudulent activity by profiting off of amateur athletes. That has everything to do with why they are getting out of this. The NFL? They don't give a s***. They get a cut and all they have to do is say "yeah you can use our name and logos."

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jul 17, 2013 -> 04:05 PM) Correct. Or, more precisely, the things that Ellsbury has done on offense would typically result in one third more win. The critical difference in this number and actual wins is the presence of context. So obviously it's possible that most of Ellsbury's hits came in crucial situations (bases loaded, bottom of the 9th, etc.) and resulted in many more wins, or vice versa for Adam Dunn, but in order to control for game situation and let us compare players on an even field, each event is given a run value based on what it produces on average. For example, a HR can obviously be worth anywhere between one run and four runs, but this year, it's been worth 2.081 runs on average, so both players get credit for 2.081 runs for every homerun they hit. So when I say Ells has contributed 10.5 runs above average, those runs are assuming all of his contributions produced average results. Ceteris paribus.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Jul 17, 2013 -> 03:43 PM) But if you have to go to your pen and use your LOOGY to get Dunn out, it's almost a positive contribution. Then you bring in said LOOGY, pinch hit with Steven Pearce, and boom goes the dynamite.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 17, 2013 -> 03:13 PM) This number just doesn't mean anything to me. I don't know what "league average run production" is off the top of my head and I don't know how it scales. The numbers will vary from year to year, which is when using wOBA (always measured as a straight number) will be nicer. For comparison's sake, an average to slightly above average hitter was putting up .800 OPS's in the early 2000s. Now a days, an above average to good hitter is putting up .800 OPS's. In the raw sense, they are both an .800 OPS, but using OPs+, you see that an .800 OPS in 2000 is a 105 OPS+ while an .800 OPS is, say, 120, depending upon home parks. For instance, Jacoby Ellsbury is at .790 with an OPS+ of 113 while Kendrys Morales is at .800 with an OPS+ of 127. Morales is 14% higher because of the park he plays in.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jul 17, 2013 -> 03:00 PM) He still has better offensive numbers than anyone on the team currently (not including average) This is irrelevant because the team is not going to win anything of significance this year and will be selling pieces off. Wins and losses no longer matter.