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http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/splits/_/id/...3/chris-coghlan Coghlan's close to an 800 OPSer against RHP over a long time frame, has positional versatility and, most importantly, is struggling so badly he shouldn't cost much. The problem is that he's SO bad right now you wonder if a trade will bring him out of it or if he's just cooked mentally this year. Theoretically, leaving the A's for a contending team...especially being in Chicago again, that SHOULD help to motivate him to prove himself and rebuild his value for 2017. But that's if we go SMALL in terms of setting our sights. Should be a solid move, and could be a great one but just as easily it results in disappointment based on his 522 OPS overall mark this year. That's beyond woeful. Does Steverson have a fix? How much of it is attributable to O.co stadium vs. Wrigley, etc.?

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Jun 2, 2016 -> 02:16 PM) Huh? His proposals weren't that farfetched.... I too think Kelly Johnson would be nice addition to the bench. Hope we shoot higher than Carlos Beltran for the big bat acquisition though. How many experienced AL hitters are going to give you a return of an 850+ OPS against RHP and not cost something significant? Beltran is one of the better choices out there, because of his age, playoff experience and contract. Kelly Johnson only has a 548 OPS against RHP this year and ONLY 715 over the much more indicative three year timeframe. Not sure how that clearly makes us better. http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/splits/_/id/...ing3/aaron-hill Aaron Hill would seem to be the better choice, based on this season. Otoh, coming from NL to AL, he's not LH, he plays a position we don't have a pressing need at, so unless he could put up current 812 OPS for the White Sox at DH and not his close to 700 splits (they're basically even over 2013-2015), then it's not a big improvement either. They would be better off with Rollins against LHP and then ANYONE NOT NAMED AVI GARCIA against RHP. http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/splits/_/id/30867/jerry-sands LOL. Career-wise, Jerry Sands has 549 and 551 splits against LH/RH pitching, about what you'd expect. WOEFUL. However, if you go by his minor league numbers, he's been at over 800 the last couple of seasons against RHP...especially for Columbus, where he was at 940 against RHP and 970 against LHP. But how much stock do you want to put in AAA numbers?

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/18161...98194-658620023 The rare article where the author really seems to know about the teams involved and not just speculating. For the White Sox, that telling statistic is 2nd from the bottom in OPS against RHP...at only .688. So, no matter what you want to say about the 4/5 spots, whether Albers is "real" or not, whether Petricka will be serviceable again, about Saladino/Rollins/Anderson or the catchers....the FIRST priority needs to be hitters who can rake against RHP, and they're preferably switch hitters or lefties. The other problem with the starting pitching market is that everyone's out there looking for improvements. Bullpen and hitting help should be a bit cheaper to come by. Beltran, with his 833 OPS against RHP for 2013-2015 (868 this season), would be a good/experienced solution (and would of course drive GreenSox crazy). Of course, the Indians and Royals (if Morales doesn't recover and/or they can get away with him in the OF occasionally) are also going to have an interest, and the Indians have more trade chips to work with. The question for them is of course salary affordability. Andrew Miller being included in that trade, though....blows it up from a talent surrendered perspective. Miller would be a huge get and cover the Duke disappointment, but at what cost?

Neighbors 2.....2.5/4 kind of a disappointment, even though the reviews were so-so, expected more truly funny scenes and the spirit of the first movie was taken over by an overbearing political correctness Money Monster....2.75/4, really enjoyed the first 50-60 minutes, then it kind of devolved from there into a traditional action/thriller with a convenient or pat conclusion, on the plus side, I found a new actress, Catriona Balfe, who plays on the tv series OUTLANDER (just started watching and think it's a darned good show, especially her performance) Not anywhere close to being as good as THE BIG SHORT, although they are different movies...anything to do with business/stock market/economics kind of gets lumped together, eg., sports-themed movies Did enjoy seeing Clooney and Julia Roberts working together yet again.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Jun 2, 2016 -> 09:32 AM) That "ace talent evaluator" helped bring the Sox their first WS in 90 years. Probably the same reason JR hired Jerry Krause to unearth Latin American talent for the White Sox...especially in Central/South America. That one didn't last very long. Loyalty over logic. All that said, KW has a superior eye for talent than Hahn if that was the ONLY qualification to be the GM.

Except playing for a tie game (the likeliest occurrence in that situation) instead of a big inning on the road is pretty questionable, especially with the shape psychologically that the White Sox bullpen was in. Now you can argue we won road/away games at Texas (Monday) and last night in completely improbable fashion when we were able to tie them up (3-1 now in extras) and had the BABIP "luck" of some quite fortunate DP plays, but you're not going to continue to beat those odds of more frequently losing a tie game on the road on a consistent basis unless you have the Yankees' or Royals' pens...and even those pens only go 3-4 deep in terms of really dependable guys, not 6-8. Let's not forget that key number, the BAA for Harvey his third time through the batting order was .509. 509! It's the reason the NY Post thanked Ventura for "doing his former team a solid" the next day.

There's one compelling argument for Coats and even Hayes. It's if that you do survive and gauntlet of aggressive promotion through our system, you'll be rewarded with an opportunity. We saw that happen with the prolifically slugging 1B that most scouts had pegged as a AAAA player and the fans were clamoring for him to play in Chicago for some time...that one went to the scouts. The organization's to the point where they need at least one of Saladino and Anderson to be regular players, hopefully both if Tyler's bat can hold up over time. Sands might be the "veteran journeyman" like Shuck that Ventura feels more comfortable with, however. At some point, they need to try something else (DH-wise), and that's probably going to come before the July 4th holidays when the trade market starts to really take form. And, if nothing else, those players like a Kahnle get a sense of the increased pace and skill level of the game at the highest level, and can use their successes and more often failures as motivation to get back there. Same with Purke if he loses out in the numbers game.

The bigger question, do you buy more Under Armour stock, lol? Nike has really been getting beaten up by Adidas and the price point on the Curry shoes.

Is there any scout or talent evaluator recently on the record projecting Coats to now POTENTIALLY be a big league regular? Callis, BP, Fan Graphs, etc.? Just curious...if there's something he is doing different, adjustments, mechanical....psychologist, etc., that accounts for his greater level of success this year? Next, it means Hahn has to come to terms with the Avi Garcia trade not being as successful as originally thought...although it gave us Montas, who was a key part of the Frazier acquisition. Same thing with Hayes, whose numbers aren't quite as eye-popping as Coats'. AAAA player or hidden gem everyone overlooked? If you asked 10 scouts to say who would have the best career WAR of the 3, wouldn't many of them choose a 3rd option in Delmonico based on his original pedigree compared to Coats/Hayes?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 2, 2016 -> 08:06 AM) The question is are the odds greater of one guy getting a single with one outs or getting either multiple hits or an XBH with no outs. Going off of the win expetancy earlier, the odds of winning actually went up with the successful sacrifice, so it was a statistically sound move. But, those odds couldn't possibly take into account in any more than a general way: 1) The fact that the White Sox bullpen was a complete mess and hardly a sure bet to hold a 1 run game at the time...along with the feeling that we were playing not to win but being a bit conservative/tentative. Sox typical aren't a contact or execution-oriented team. 2) The fact that Frazier would feel even more pressure to get the job done and expand his strike zone because of who was following him in the line-up. 3) The general vibe of the team with sac bunting over the last 3-4 years, which is that it has more often than not led to frustration rather than success. 4) The odds AFTER an event still don't account for the odds before the bunt of Cabrera actually being able to successfully pull it off, which definitely weren't that much better than 50/50 at best.

That and the hitter following Frazier on this particular occasion wasn't someone anyone was expecting to come through in the clutch. Plus, Cabrera has always been a much better hitter against RHP with the Sox and was still our best hitter for AVG at the time. Finally, higher probability of an extra base hit than anyone but Frazier and Eaton.

QUOTE (shipps @ Jun 2, 2016 -> 07:17 AM) I am with you on this logic but I think the Sox are in a position to only get guys like Shields. We dont have the talent to trade for anything better and the couple guys we do have that may be able to get something bigger done would leave the farm empty. Now I am not sure that is something the Sox are afraid to do either actually. I think they realize what they are in evaluating talent through the draft and they are overall better at what they believe in selling high on their minor league guys for major league talent then they are at drafting and developing guys that help them down the road. Ervin Santana or Phil Hughes might be the best options from a team that knows those guys aren't going to be around any longer when their team is ready to compete (that was SUPPOSED to be THIS year) and would be looking more for salary relief...similar to the Liriano for Escobar/Hernandez trade in 2012. Andrew Cashner's name has come up now and again, his performance hasn't been that good this season but it's one of those does Cooper see a mechanical fix...or Clay Buchholz, for example. Chatwood in Colorado, Tanaka if the Yankees fall out of it (no thanks!), Rich Hill, Marco Estrada, Drew Pomeranz in SD (stay away from those Petco pitchers), Teheran (they're asking for the MLB hitting equivalent of their pitcher, so no go), JA Happ, Dan Straily, Jimmy Nelson in MIL. Those are basically some of the best pitchers this season in terms of WAR that MIGHT be available, and none of them would cause Sox fans to be a little bit excited other than maybe Tanaka (and they'd be just as worried about his contract and arm/shoulder/elbow failing). Simon, Wily Peralta, Anibal Sanchez, Jorge De La Rosa (needs desperately to get away from COL), Shelby Miller, Clay Buchholz, Peavy, Ubaldo Jimenez, Pineda and Severino would be among the ten worst. Nolasco from the Twins also has to be on that market, and the first one the Twins want to dump. And Sonny Gray isn't going anywhere with a 6.19 ERA.

http://www.cleveland.com/budshaw/index.ssf...art_maj-story-1 Cleveland writer lays into Byrd... They're also waiting on Abraham Almonte to return from his 80 day suspension...has about 30 more days left to go.

If Bernie is from another planet, why does he often poll better head-to-head against Trump than Ms. Clinton?

Detroit has shuffled their rotation a bit with Boyd joining and Sanchez banished to the pen. FRI Rodon vs. Zimmerman SAT Sale vs. Pelfrey SUN Quintana vs. Justin Verlander

http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/splits/_/id/...atting3/jon-jay 711 OPS over the last 3 years against RHP, 672 vs. LHP. The question is whether you want to give 2/3rd's of the playing time to him over Jackson? When he's not as all familiar with the AL? And then how steep is the defensive falloff? It would be better to find a split/platoon guy who has a clear track record of mashing RHP. Bringing in Jay would have been fine/good/dandy, about the same reaction most would have had to a David Freese signing to play 3B for the Sox. In only 54 opportunities, is hitting quite a bit better against LHP than RHP so far this season, fwiw.

The Tigers' bullpen was more of a dumpster fire 3-4 weeks ago than ours ever was...well, let's just say even Bill James wouldn't have been able to separate them. Logically, the next four games we should be cheering for the Royals because every statistical model has CLE coming out on top in the division. In reality, I guess a 3-1 split in favor of the Indians would be the most desired result.

So let's do it. McCain/Dole vs. Wellstone/Tsongas

Greg, you keep saying you want "young blood/charisma/dynamic/energetic." McCain and Biden, REALLY????? We all know how this works. We don't have to watch MONEY MONSTER. Trump is insulated at the top...his surrogates will be the ones to take the fall. Surely when you have fashion designers and artists teaching $35,000 courses about flipping houses, you're going to have fraud at some level and a settlement. I actually think all the beatings that Hillary has taken from the Conservative Right since the 1992 election cycle through today has made her less egotistical (Bill has always taken up all the air in the space he occupies) but it's definitely made her a warrior...a survivor...someone who is at times a bit bitter and comes across as caustic and especially impatient with the younger generation. I wouldn't say it's as much about ego though as just the general polarization of the electorate over the last 20-30 years.

The funny thing is that Albers actually was more effective when he was tired, seemingly. It caused him not to overthrow his sinking two-seam fastball, which had more downward movement as a result.

Seems like it. Waiting for Jason Bourgeois to be recalled. Seems a better option than Leury in terms of having a little offense to his game and similar versatility and speed. Finally, Hayes and (especially) Coats keep hitting though, you have to give 'em that.

Even with Soria being pretty consistently shaky, that Sox series and the one against the Red Sox where they took 2/3 really really rejuvenated their team. The crazy thing is how all these "2000's era Twins' scrubs/Piranhas" keep coming out of nowhere and contributing. They missed really big on Bubba Starling, it's also looking doubtful with Kyle Zimmer due to injuries and they've traded away Manaea, Finnegan, Lamb, Montgomery and Odorizzi from their pitching depth but are still hanging in there. They can beat up on each other for four days in CLE. Should be a really interesting series, Bauer just pitched tonight so it's the top four pitchers for the Indians going.

http://www.yardbarker.com/mlb/articles/thr..._10144_21020854 Articles still out there pushing the idea of Cubs, Red Sox and White Sox as best fits.

Eibner to 15 day DL Peter Moylan back up Gee to AAA and out of the rotation Chris Young starting on Sunday against CLE Reymond Fuentes up as 5th outfielder

All of the "villains" of recent weeks coming through today/tonight. Carroll, Albers and Abreu. What's the latest with Tim Anderson? Cold streak started finally?