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QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 2, 2015 -> 09:38 PM) But name another team in which he'd be a starter? Are there any? He's actually way worse than DeAza. There are at least 8-10. He's got a guaranteed contract from Hahn for the near future...his OPS has rebounded in May to more or less his normal levels in 2014, the problem was that atrocious start will weigh down his overall stats for another month or two despite how well he plays. There are plenty of problems with his decision-making both defensively (mostly on throwing) and on the basepaths, but he's a Top 8-10 CF in MLB when he's on his game, like he was for most of last season. He also needs to pick up his walk rate...anyway, DeAza's no longer with the Orioles, and the White Sox don't have ANYONE who can play everyday to replace Cabrera, Eaton or Garcia. Most common theory is the new contract caused him to put too much pressure on himself to "be the man" and "stir the drink" instead of staying within himself. http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/batting/_/pos.../OPS/order/true

And he's "The Mayor" for crying out loud. A couple months ago on CyFan they had a legitimate thread started trying to garner enough votes to convince the powers at be in Ames to change the name of the town to Hoiberg, IA. Little did they know it appears he's been looking for a ticket out of that hell hole for quite awhile. #3 is exactly what I was thinking as well when I read Jon's post from earlier. TJ's ability to recruit players to come play for him will be the biggest key to his success. He was able to convince guys to come play for Hoiberg quite well, but he had Fred Hoiberg to sell. Fred's NBA experience both on the court and in the front office. His NBA style of play and his hands off mentality that he takes to coaching his players. Fred is well known for his long distance shooting ability as well so I'm sure that was a big selling point too. Learning from a shooter like Fred is huge. TJ doesn't have Fred to sell anymore, but he did spend a lot of time learning from Fred himself. Whether or not that will be enough to attract good players remains to be seen. It certainly won't be as easy. Sampling of comments at hawkeyenation.com, haha Actually, with a consensus Top 10 team coming into next season...it's both an enviable but also "pressure cooker" situation where the fan base expectation is an Elite 8 appearance right off the bat. If the new coach can do that or something similar, he can leverage it in recruiting. If the players turn on each other or the coach and things don't work out so well, then you're going to have a much harder time rebooting and building a solid foundation from the very ground up.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 2, 2015 -> 09:28 PM) Wow what a blowout tonight. I know Shark's line was pathetic and it probably doesn't matter, but 7-for-35 with no walks tonight for the offense is really a typical night. With Melky and LaRoche appearing average AT BEST, slightly below average at this stage and no Abreu, this really isn't a big-league lineup. Arguably Sanchez, Soto, Gillaspie and Eaton all couldn't start for any other team in baseball. Meanwhile, Beckham is Beckham. You are talking about a very very weak lineup. I would think this is the series we get swept this road trip. This is the one. We simply can't outscore a team like Texas. Eaton should be fine...he's the least of the problems going forward at this point, at least in the bottom 3-5 "problems" that could easily be identified and catalogued.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Jun 2, 2015 -> 09:15 PM) The reviews for Inside Out are absolutely incredible so far and a lot of people have said it was easily the best film at Cannes. Looks like a return to form for Pixar. I'm excited for that movie coming out in a couple of weeks. 20/20 in positive reviews. Seems like the perfect "message" movie for kids these days. Good timing...we've had a lot of "empty" movies recently without many redeeming qualities other than mindless entertainment. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inside_out_2015/#

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/2015-mlb...ck-castellanos/ How the Tigers fixed their defense. This has lots of really interesting graphs and stats on infield defense....and the improvements to "average" that Castellanos has made. Wonder if anyone with the White Sox coaching staff has mapped out a similar strategy with Conor Gillaspie? Amazingly, the Indians are only 2 GB of the Tigers at the moment and have Kluber going trmw. KC has gone from +14 to +9.

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/2015-mlb...ck-castellanos/ How the Tigers fixed their defense. This has lots of really interesting graphs and stats on infield defense....and the improvements to "average" that Castellanos has made. Wonder if anyone with the White Sox coaching staff has mapped out a similar strategy with Conor Gillaspie?

http://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/7/71/65...aster-miss-time back until next week. "4-4 is not bad. I’m not backing off one bit from my prediction. We have a good ballclub and we’re going to be there at the end. The division is so tough and nobody is going to run off. Kansas City hasn’t hit a slump yet and they will. Every team does. And we’re going to be there in September. The only way we don’t win this thing is if we don’t catch the ball.”

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 2, 2015 -> 08:44 PM) Your giddiness about White Sox losses is annoying enough. Kim Kardashian tweets in a gamethread is ridiculous. I can at least be proud of the manager who got us each a South Atlantic League championship ring in 1995...if the White Sox are going to get blown out by 13 runs, what else is there to discuss?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 2, 2015 -> 08:38 PM) I agree. I don't know what happened to Jennings. He was cruising earlier this year, but the wheels have fallen off. Noesi better show he can pitch out of the bullpen or he is going to have to get a real job. If someone suggests he was overused for what his role in the beginning of the season called for...well, we're seemingly good at turning players who have gaudy NL stats into average or bad AL players. That's a talent.

Kim Kardashian West ✔@KimKardashian Can't wait til my website is active! I'm gonna do live video streaming so every time someone talks s*** I can go blast the f--k outta them Kim Kardashian should at least be a mod here. That undoubtedly be more entertaining than this season so far.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 2, 2015 -> 08:29 PM) I'll take the pitching coach at this point. The Red Sox at least got that. You want to give odds on whether that "vote of confidence" will survive a below .500 season? And there's more ego involved here...especially as the Cubs near competitiveness. He and Lucchino can't admit they made a mistake pushing out Epstein....they really have to stick with Cherington to prove it was the "Red Sox System" and not any one particular "God-like" front office executive who led to those three World Series titles.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 2, 2015 -> 08:27 PM) Funny you say that because Henry said both the GM and the Manager were staying put. Still waiting for Reinsdorf to blame himself for the dysfunction in both his baseball and basketball operations, lol. I think we've been on the same wavelength, so you have to blame ownership as much as you can blame the general manager," said Henry. "The strike zone is larger than it used to be, so you can't be as patient as you used to be," said Henry. "The game of baseball has changed a lot. The standings reflect that. You have Houston playing extremely well. You have the Yankees and the Red Sox -- the whole of the American League East, typically the best, for a long time perhaps the best division in baseball, is now, at least of today, it may be the weakest -- so this is a game of adjustments, and that's one adjustment that I believe we probably have to make." I'd love to believe Reinsdorf is paying attention enough to this season's results that he could make some type of analytical comment (that the Moneyball/OBP theory is fading) about what change/s in approach need to be made exactly. source: mlb.com

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Jun 2, 2015 -> 08:21 PM) With two of those minor leaguers currently putting up wRC+s of 118 and 105 in the majors whilst the guys we kept to play in their positions are at 23 and 47. What an absolutely disastrous trade. Obviously the A's aren't doing well this season. Trading Donaldson was all about Beane's ego and showing everyone who's really in charge. But Zobrist will eventually be traded and 2-3 years from now the players they acquired will surely be major contributors.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 2, 2015 -> 08:17 PM) This. Pen. Is. Nails. It never fails. As soon as you get too excited about this team, something will smite the White Sox. Joe Morgan. Carlos Quentin's hamate. Shoeless Joe Jackson and 1919. Jared Mitchell's ankle. Pretty much every high draft pick not a pitcher for the last 20 years. The amazing thing is we can't blame this season on poor health or injuries. It would be nice to have some sort of excuse to rationalize what's going on with this team/organization.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 2, 2015 -> 08:15 PM) And then we can congratulate ourselves on turning 4 upper-level minor leaguers into a $10 million bill, a poor season, and a sandwich pick with a good chance of never making the upper levels of the minors. One of those players whose WAR is higher than the aforementioned Samardzija as a 2nd year player and has at least a 50/50 chance to be a cost-controlled contributor on the middle infield for 4 more seasons (the same exact position where we have the most depth but the least high quality depth in the minors).

RS/RA as of this moment. 27. Red Sox -46 28. White Sox -51 29. Brewers -65 30. Phillies -71

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 2, 2015 -> 08:09 PM) So they will just look at the ERA and trade off that. OK. Hahn will just take the draft pick. Unless he pitches so terribly that it becomes such a risk to give $15+ million for one year that he actually takes it...waiting for a rebound season so that he can re-establish his value for the big 4-6 year deal.

Hahn will have no choice but to trade Samardzija if these keeps up, if for no other reason than payroll relief. And Rick can't think about what a comp pick is going to do in 2020. He needs to save his job, starting next season.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 2, 2015 -> 08:03 PM) All I heard for years from Hawk was Pudge Rodriquez MLB debut against the Sox ...................now Gallo for the next 20 years. Don't forget Delmon Young and Carlos Gomez.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 2, 2015 -> 08:00 PM) So you're saying they could use a 3 month rental right handed starter.... We can give them back Noesi, lol. It's pretty incredible. They're missing Darvish, Neftali Feliz, Ross Detwiler, Harrison, Holland and Martin Perez, yet a playoff-contending team. The White Sox couldn't even lose one of their top four starters and not be 10-15 games under .500.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 2, 2015 -> 07:57 PM) There we go, Samardzija's ERA back to 4.68. If only we could convince other teams to give up two solid pitchers for starters with ERAs near 5. We should/could have traded Humber and Noesi at their peak values and theoretically gotten the same return, lol.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 2, 2015 -> 07:55 PM) Samardzija ERA exploded tonight. Some of the worst stuff I have ever seen him have. Rangers lineup is pretty awesome right now. Then, you add Hamilton, Beltre (where Gallo can play, other than 1B/DH/LF/RF I'm not sure...rotating with Moreland/Fielder)...Jurickson Profar and Odor return and eventually become at least 75-85% of the players they were hyped to be, it's a team to contend with. Of course, the biggest missing element is Yu Darvish...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 2, 2015 -> 07:53 PM) Well 1 more run scores and we max out Samardzija's ERA jump for the day. The most appropriate thing the front office could do as of today would be to put together a marketing video montage of all the runs that showed up on Samardzija's ERA but don't really belong there. Should send it to all 12-15 fellow teams looking for starting pitching upgrades at the ASB.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 2, 2015 -> 07:52 PM) Does it matter Alexi sure is not a everyday SS anymore...................another gift hit from scorer. If he's going to be even worse in 2016 and/or we are unable to trade him this season...the White Sox and Hahn are screwed. Someone like Stephen Drew will end up the starter and we'll be wishing Ramirez was back, lol. Marty might even return to posting to beg for the return of Alexei.

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Jun 2, 2015 -> 07:49 PM) Worth pointing out they've also been insanely, ludicrously lucky Be that as it may, when Buxton, Sano, Berrios and their #1 pick this year come up...the talent will be catching up with the overperformance. Torii Hunter has had just as much of a psychological impact as he has had on the field of play statistically. (Yet another player KW has chased all over the country and never quite been able to get to sign on the dotted line).