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Well, he is in the top 5 of the AL in terms of exit velocity as the ball leaves his bat, so Garcia does have that going for him at least. He's looked absolutely terrible the last month or so, though.

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QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 3, 2015 -> 04:21 AM) Amazimg Esconar has a .696 sluggling pct when his OPS is .670. Santiago has an fWAR of 0.9 right in line with the 1.2 fWAR he pit up with the Sox, and which would make him 5th compared to White Sox starters. And if last years stats are what was important, why are you ripping Alexei? Check again... http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/stats/_/id/3...eduardo-escobar Escobar and Semien are both outperforming Ramirez....in the meantime, we have no SS next season. You do realize that war is a cumulative stat over a season, right? Are you taking all of his time as an Angel and comparing to his White Sox career? Are you willing to state for the record the Angels would be better off with John Danks than Hector Santiago, as I see you moved the bar again....? And are u also saying he pitched just as well for the White Sox as the Angels this season? Sigh.

Alexei was projected to be a utility player in the Ramon Santiago range, and some had him as a CFer. Can the White Sox take credit for his defense? More than Omar Vizquel as player coach? Once again, let's just try for players who were projected to be well-above average defenders...Joe Crede evolved into one, so the White Sox should get some credit for him and Rowand, although Aaron's defense ended up a bit overrated. Brian Anderson would be another. Jordan Danks as well. But there aren't many.

QUOTE (woods of ypres @ Jul 2, 2015 -> 02:07 PM) Ken Macha, Ron Washington, Bud Black, Ron Roenicke, Dave Martinez or the bench coach of a team that's been successful lately like the Pirates, or the A's. Jeff Bannister was the Pirates' bench coach last season.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 2, 2015 -> 08:21 PM) Alexei's D has been dropping off from year to year, so you can't just say this is some unexplainable act of God. Melky and Samardizija both had similar rough seasons just in 2013, so I don't see how this completely out of a standard deviation for them. Either way, those two players aren't the only thing keeping this team from being a contender. I mention Flowers & Beckham because they are on the roster and have to start the majority of the time. That's not Robin's fault, he didn't make up the roster. Then who's fault is it? Maybe the people who put together the roster? The people who acquired both years ago and are too stubborn to give up on them? Fire the organist...Nancy Faust leaving jinxed the Sox.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 2, 2015 -> 06:53 PM) Escobar has a .281 OBP with Minnesota, and Semien's OPS which was .673 with the White Sox is all the way up to .701 with 25 errors. John Danks xFIP. 4.53 Hector Santiago xFIP 4.46 And what did Escobar do last season? You've solved the whole mess with one stat...we can just trade Danks and get Santiago back from Stoneman, who's very old and might not be thinking soundly. Could be senile. Santiago is 11th in the majors in ERA...Danks is 11th on the White Sox roster probably. Whip of 1.13, war of 2.1 and top 30 for k/ip in the entire major leagues. He's also 11th in the majors in batting average against. http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/pitching/_/so...ing/order/false There's not a single pitcher on that list ahead of Santiago that it wouldn't require half of our minor league system to acquire. Scherzer, Liriano, Keuchel, Cueto, Archer, Greinke, Felix Hernandez, Sonny Gray, Chris Sale and Shelby Miller. Yeah, Danks belongs on that same list, lmao. Marcus Semien 11th out of 23 qualified SS. A bit younger and cheaper. They thought enough of him to bring in Ron Washington to work with him. Alexei, well....he should be thankful for Jimmy Rollins. http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/batting/_/pos.../qualified/true Finally, Eduardo Escobar has a 696 slg percentage in a non hitter friendly park, yet you focus only on his on base percentage. Weird. 721 ops and 1.1 war last season is something the White Sox would die to have about now. You also forgot to mention that you're not correcting for Semien's ops at O.com vs. USCF...as obviously those stadiums are identical for offense. "0%."

The place Pujols used to own in St. Charles was like that on game days, too. Ozzie Smith had a restaurant, broadcaster Mike Shannon too...McGee, McGwire, Lou Brock, Bob Gibson, Jack Buck and Whitey Herzog are like gods there...along with Stan the Man, of course. McGee even had his own brand of cookies.

4. With Correa gone, we can't help but take note of the so-called Brain Drain in the Cardinals' scouting-analytics department over the past few years. When Luhnow left St. Louis, he hired Sig Mejdal, the Cards' director of draft analytics. Other Cardinals employees followed Luhnow, including Mike Elias, Oz Ocampo, Charlie Gonzalez and Brett Strom. (And I'm probably forgetting others who jumped to Houston.) That's quite the turnover. Some of the ideas, concepts and methodology that made the Cardinals so astute in scouting, drafting and player development are now being administered in other MLB organizations (my add, another top guy went to OAK before Correa took his job). 5. One way or another, Mozeliak should disassemble much of what's left of the baseball ops to start fresh. The shameful cyber spying has sullied the franchise's reputation, and unless Mozeliak conducts a major sweeping, doubts about the Cardinals' integrity will fester. http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/ber...3631c7e6f0.html

Uh oh.

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/ber...3631c7e6f0.html "Mr. Correa denies any illegal conduct," Williams said. "The relevant inquiry should be what information did former St. Louis Cardinals employees steal from the St. Louis Cardinals organization prior to joining the Houston Astros, and who in the Houston Astros organization authorized, consented to, or benefitted from that roguish behavior." Wow. Just hand Correa a Louisville Slugger already. He's going on the attack in an attempt to portray Luhnow and the Astros as the true criminals and villains here. I'd call this the Revenge of the Nerd, but I've already used that motif and it's too easy. Besides, I'm confused here.Who are the Alpha Betas in this plot, anyway? The Astros or the Cardinals? Yeah, that's going to work well for him!

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jul 2, 2015 -> 06:43 PM) Everybody wants a catcher but seriously there's nothing there that says future all star to me. Think he'll end up being your typical ML catcher. Cecchini is a rough fielder and doesn't have much pop. Give me Betts and Holt . You just know an overachieving utility guy from Boston or TB will absolutely tank with us. Betts is off the table right now, along with Moncada. Eddie Rodriguez would be another name sure to come up...although some of the bloom is off that flower.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 2, 2015 -> 06:40 PM) So, like I said, the point of the hack was not to steal draft info in order to draft better and steal scout info. But please go on Of course, anyone who has watched an episode of Silicon Valley would know that's what you have to say legally...protection of a proprietary database/work-related product, etc. If it was that simple, though, we never would have heard a thing about it. And it was multiple hacks from 4-5 different employees whose supervisors may or may not have known what they were doing.

Swihart and LHP Brian Johnson...and one more piece. Rusney Castillo and cash back subsidy.

They wanted to make Luhnow look bad by dumping that information into public view and nearly every detailed article written on the situation mentions many front office members were extremely upset that Luhnow was getting so much attention and credit for the results on the field (while still with the Cards), vis a vis Mozeliak/LaRussa and the players themselves, etc. Not unlike the KW/Ozzie squabble, or Scioscia/DiPoto. Controlling the narrative...and, if they couldn't do that, make him look like an ass. Infinity %.

LHP Marco Gonzales as well....not sure they are willing to deal Wong, now.

How many position players have improved in the 2012-2015 time frame? Throwing out all the guys who are older (Dunn, LaRoche, Cabrera, Bonifacio, Soto, Keppinger, DeAza, Ramirez, etc.) You have Viciedo and Eaton for sure who showed the ability to be contributors and play soundly on both sides of the ball...before falling off mentally/focus/concentration-wise. Avi, comparing his past efforts with this season? Beckham's probably not a fair example, but what about Flowers and Gillaspie? Either we're scouting and bringing in players who don't improve (or get exposed by scouting and dont/cant readjust) ot there's a flaw somewhere in development at the major or minor league levels, or both. Matt Davidson also comes to mind here. Eduardo Escobar, Semien and Phegley have become more valuable contributors than they were for us...the complement to that. Hector Santiago is a 50/50 All-Star with the Angels. Is Vince Coleman the worst baserunning coach in the league, or the players are the worst at following his advice/instructions? Just a case of being great at something (Ted Williams and hitting) doesn't make it easier for you to coach that same skill in others with lesser talent/ability? Most players of Ventura's ability (or above) haven't been great managers, with Joe Torre being one of the main exceptions. And, since all veterans essentially "are what they are...only they will get worse or fall off a cliff eventually" shouldn't we do more to find players on the other side of that curve?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 2, 2015 -> 05:55 PM) Yea that wasn't the point of the hack Maybe 25%, since the engineer also came over from there. To see how they had changed or improved the system that they themselves (Luhnow, Mejdal) had helped to create there in St. Louis does make some sense, along with the competitiveness and the jealousy/revenge elements. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...unless the imitation was far superior and they couldn't handle it knowing Luhnow had surpassed them.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jul 2, 2015 -> 10:47 AM) That's fine but it probably won't help. All types of managers win, calm, fiery, screamers, micromanagers. Just because it's different from the current one doesn't make it better. Just because it's what the fans want doesn't make it better. And one thing we know about fiery managers/coaches is that they have a strict shelf life. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/gm-jerry-dipo...-215115777.html According to Passan, Scioscia is the last "all encompassing power" manager left in the game today, with LaRussa gone.

Let me ask this then.... When is the last time we signed or traded for someone and trade evaluators commented "he has the ability to be a Gold Glove-level defender"? Rondon? Trayce Thompson...? When's the last time we've taken an average or below average fielder and he became close to great? Robin Ventura?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 2, 2015 -> 11:06 AM) How is it Alexei Ramirez's fault that he'd old? And it's arguable whether or not Adam Eaton has the capability to succeed, I tend to think he overachieves based on his effort. Do you also blame Tyler Flowers, Gordon Beckham, and Conor Gillaspie for being bad at baseball? Are we allowed to place any blame at the feet of the people who brought these players in? Last night, there was miscommunication between him and Cabrera. Before that, Eaton and Alexei. I think he even got confused with the count, too. For all of his abundant energy, it's not nearly as focused or properly-directed this season. And, as far as Mike Matheny goes, I haven't seen scouts consistently describing their level of play as lackadaisical or embarrassing this year.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jul 2, 2015 -> 11:48 AM) How do anyone of those teams continue to have money to sign all these international guys With the Dodgers, they have almost Yankees-like resources due to that regional t.v. rights deal, attendance and ratings/advertising and promotions that aren't tied into the aforementioned tv rights deal. With the Cubs, who knows? For the last 2-3 years, the stories have been about how financially-strapped they were...with ballpark renovations and buying out/lawyering up with the rooftops.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Jul 2, 2015 -> 08:06 AM) I think that they're going to announce more players today since they haven't issued a press release yet and I imagine that both Hahn and Paddy are in the DR and are going to introduce the players to the local media Not Buddy Bell? Does Hahn really have time to jet down there? Did he when we signed Adolfo? KW? Can't remember....

Great, more defensively-challenged players that will live and die based on instruction. Would be nice to hit on one of these "off the charts power" guys. Sounds like Adolfo's getting some competition to push him from below at least. The more talent injected into the lower levels....some of it has to pay off eventually.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/02/politics/con...ride/index.html Opinions on the Confederate flag....southern pride vs. racist symbol havent changed/evolved much over the years