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For most of the Pitch F/X data, the changes are pretty much meaningless. A fastball being less than a mile per hour worse is nothing to worry about, as that will usually come back as the season progresses. The .406 BABIP is completely unsustainable and is mostly unpredictable. The main culprit is his control, as chw alluded to. He's walked 6 already and getting behind in counts will either lead to walks or balls being hit really hard, which would explain why his LD% is at 30%. I'm not worried about Sale at all. He needs to improve his control a bit, but he's throwing more strikes, is striking guys out, and is throwing a ton of ground balls. He's allowed a couple homers, which he won't do as much into the future, and a few of the base hits that have been finding holes will be finding gloves into the future. Really, the bullpen has gone back to not being a concern. They've been getting the job done quite a bit more recently. It would be nice if Tony Pena hit the road soon, because he is really, really bad.

They need about 85 more of these

QUOTE (danman31 @ May 2, 2011 -> 08:27 PM) Haha only 1 K. I gotta admit, I'm reading his numbers the same way. "Ooo he didn't strike out today," or "Nice, Danks didn't K a lot today." Sadly 1 is still bad, but seems good. LOL, that was part of the joke. He has played better recently, but I think we are going to have to see this for quite a while before he can regain any projectability to the major leagues.

Joaquin Benoit has given up 10 ER in 11 IP this year. He gave up 9 ER in 60.1 IP last year. This is Exhibit T-439 as to why you don't give a big multi year contract to a middle reliever, especially one that is coming off his first fully healthy year in 3 years.

Why did the Cubs deal Gorzelanny again?

Danks went deep too. 2-3 with a homer and only 1 K.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 2, 2011 -> 05:56 PM) Agreed Jenksy, watching Jenks pitch was electric. Still remember that 1-0 win over Cardinals in 2006 when he was throwing 99mph to Juan Encarnacion. On the bright side, it's getting pretty damn fun watching Santos. It's pretty damn fun to watch Jenks pitch again too, especially now that he's doing it for the Red Sox.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ May 2, 2011 -> 03:39 PM) Poor Quentin. He would be upset if I were happy with him.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 2, 2011 -> 02:02 AM) I don't care what his OPS is. He has had the chance to win us games and failed repeatedly in RBI situations. My eyes tell me that. I watched those f***ing games. There are about 17 other guys that had a chance to win some games for the White Sox too. Looking at a team that has lost 12 of 15 games and singling out the poor performance of one player is stupid. There are about 5 guys I'm pretty happy with thus far - Konerko, Lillibridge, Ramirez, Humber, and Santos.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 1, 2011 -> 08:30 PM) 10th in the AL in batting average, 9th in runs scored, 12th in ERA and dead last in runs allowed. You can't blame Peavy's injury. His replacement has been nails. If Walker is so terrible, Don Cooper isn't exactly the pitching guru he's made out to be. The Sox will be awful if they allow more runs than all the other teams. If hitters swinging at bad pitches is the hitting coach's fault, then pitchers making bad pitches shoud be the pitching coach's fault. Dead last in runs allowed and 11th in ERA - they have already allowed 18 unearned runs - so that's not all on the pitching staff. Beyond that, the White Sox pitching staff has been really good over the past few years. It was only the 8th best in the league last year, but was 4.09 overall. In 2009, it was 4.14, which was 2nd best; 4.06 in 2008, good for 6th. It was really bad in 2007 but they didn't have a lot of talent on that staff either. It struggled in 2006 but much of that is thought to be due to the deep World Series run the year before, where they were tied for the best ERA in the league. The offense consistently does what it is currently doing, where it goes completely dead for an extended period of time before waking up a bit for the summer months, only to fall by the wayside again late in the year. Young players continue to struggle upon arriving with the Sox too, which is not a good sign. It just doesn't seem that he is properly preparing these hitters for each game. I've seen where he works really hard at his job, but at some point hard work has to be met with results, and it hasn't. A change wouldn't be a bad thing, but I honestly don't care either way. I do think Coop has earned some slack, especially for the work he's done with young pitchers

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 1, 2011 -> 09:42 PM) Would I be a bad fan if I blamed many of our offensive problems on high-paid, low-producing Dunn? If he had had a decent April, just a f***ing decent April, we wouldn't be 10 out already. He has had plenty of key RBI situations and FAILED. Oh I forgot, he's all screwed up because of the appendectomy. Maybe I'm cruel for blaming him when he had that problem. All I know is he's sucked and the team offense also has sucked. If he was hurt I'd rather have had him sit out all the games or do a minor-league rehab rather than him resemble a big dung pile. Dunn's .623 OPS is the 4th highest among White Sox starters.

Suck it Osama

Unless the Heat have finally started running consistent offensive sets, I don't think they have a shot in hell at beating the Bulls. Their 1st unit is easily the most talented in the league, but their second unit is garbage and Thibodeau will coach circles around Spoelstra.

I would have just suggested pitching around Konerko to get to Rios.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 1, 2011 -> 04:00 PM) If he is traded the option is 100% in effect he gets it all next year that is how MB wanted the contract. No, that was a preventative measure to assure that he'd get his 10/5 rights. That option is no longer in effect.

Goddamn, they almost have a chance to win this game now.

QUOTE (hi8is @ Apr 30, 2011 -> 04:30 PM) What makes you say that? I'd love to see some support to your very very very opinionated post No one uses a 6 man rotation because it's extremely inefficient. As is, there are 4 players out of 25 that will not be used barring some sort of emergency...adding one more to that either leaves you down a bullpen pitcher or down a bench player. From there, you will have conditioned the starters to throw every 6 days, so when one of those guys inevitably goes down with an injury, you have to replace them with another pitcher from the minor leagues - you can't just suddenly decide to go back to a 5 man rotation. Considering the state of the White Sox system, whoever would be used would be a very bad pitcher, quite literally replacement level. I applaud Humber for pitching as well as he has, but there will be some regression. He's probably not the 5.50 ERA pitcher I thought he was coming into the season, but I do think he is still about a 4.50-5.00 guy, which has its value but is not something you would use a 6 man rotation for.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 30, 2011 -> 10:25 PM) Adam Dunn again had a chance to save the Sox tonight. Bases loaded with nobody out I believe. Close game. He again strikes out. How many times can this guy fail? I didn't notice on TV how many boos he got for that stellar at bat. He should have been booed off the field. I mean guys ... how long are we going to wait before we deem this guy an utter failure?? He is as bad a hitter as I've ever seen. A hell of a lot longer than 1 month.

Oh joy, Gray throwing in the bullpen. Thornton was getting squeezed a bit too, which never helps. This entire game is a joke right now.

Pierzynski is an embarrassment right now.

Rios is f***ing garbage. Fastball with a little bit of run away from him on the outside half of the plate? SURE I CAN PULL THAT AND HIT IT 450 FEET. f*** dude, just flip it into right. brb, pr0n break

QUOTE (hi8is @ Apr 30, 2011 -> 12:51 PM) Hopefully he keeps pitching great and we use a 6 man rotation when peavy returns. Not ever, ever, ever going to happen.

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Apr 29, 2011 -> 11:17 PM) Uh, not thank you. Lillibridge hit a HR tonight and made a running catch that Rios never would have made. I don't want the most talented player starting, I want the midget with a cute goatee because he's easier to root for!

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Apr 30, 2011 -> 03:43 PM) What did we win last year? "We" didn't win a goddamn thing. The White Sox won more games than 18 teams with Mark Kotsay as the primary DH for most of the year and without Jake Peavy for the second half of the year. They are a better team this year. Wait until atleast June.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Apr 29, 2011 -> 11:30 PM) Love this board and I take no pleasure in being right predicting this as a mediocre team (at best) during this offseason, but what were optimists thinking? Oh for f***'s sake, shut the f*** up. You DO take pleasure in saying "this is a mediocre team," because otherwise, you wouldn't say "I told you so." And BTW, I'm going to take a ton of pleasure when this team takes first place around the time summer rolls around.