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QUOTE (robinventura23 @ Jun 5, 2015 -> 07:13 AM) He's turned into Scott Downs. I'm still wondering why Robertson or Putnam weren't pitching in the 11th. Putnam dealing with hand/wrist injury and unavailable.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jun 5, 2015 -> 08:21 AM) Feliz, McCullers, Stassi, and Moran probably gets it done but Houston would never give that up. Yeah, they have to get a catcher. Tucker and Santana would be overkill. Moran, Stassi and a minor league pitcher wouldn't be enough...unless you could also get Tucker or Santana. Tucker could play of, dh or 1b next season. But Quintana hasn't been so dominant this year to necessitate giving up so much when they can also get Hamels or Cueto for a lot less talent. Or Samardzija.

Appel, Domingo Santana, Tucker, Moran....that would get it started. The problem is you've just blown another expensive hole in your rotation, and you can't count on another instant impact college pitcher at #8. There's no way Correa is going anywhere. The Cardinals are way ahead in their division and Garcia's recently returned.....they've got a prospect in lhp Marco Gonzales they're really high on, too. With Wacha, Lynn, Lackey, Martinez and Garcia...no need for Q really. They would offer Grichuk or Piscotty but they're not going to trade Martinez and outfielder for Quintana because it doesn't make either team clearly better. On the other hand, Hamels and money coming back for prospects makes more sense....as long as they hold onto Wacha and Martinez. Finally, the Heyward deal hasn't worked so that is going to causethem to be even more hesitant.

http://pro.boxoffice.com/featured_stories/...forecast-pixels Taking a big risk these days with Sandler anywhere near a project...but he probably has some Kevin James teflon left.

119 ab's and 43 gp for Montero so far....hasn't he also been on the DL? 762 ops the most productive numbers on the board since 2012.

The funny thing about that inning is that DeShields, Jr., hit .236 in AA last year (with a 700ish ops), basically skipped AAA and has the middle name Diaab. That's a whole lotta respect considering who Ventura had Jennings facing instead. http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/pro...ino-deshieldsjr.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Jun 4, 2015 -> 10:29 PM) FWIW there is plenty Ventura can do to improve this team. First, stack all your decent/good hitters in a row. Eaton, Avi, Beck, Gillaspie, Abreu and maybe sprinke in some LaRoche. Melky Sanchez and Flowers should all see less at bats. I don't care how much you paid a motherf***er, this team needs to be shook up and bad. This is why Ventura should be fired. He has no idea how to make adjustments. Just the idea of calling Gillaspie and Beckham "good hitters" right now says all you need to about this season. Gordon, despite how good things look right now....is just an 0/12 away from .250. That said, he's definitely been one of the top 3 hitters on the team over the road trip, if not #1.

He would have needed a lot more than the "minor surgical procedure" he was undergoing Thursday in all likelihood...probably coronary bypass.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 4, 2015 -> 10:23 PM) It's just a very bad team. Starting pitching has looked much better, but they are so bad in every other area of the game. When you have a lineup with 3-4 guys who should be batting 9th, it's going to be hard to score. http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/standings/wildcard.jsp On paper, it doesn't look so bad...at least fans can keep telling themselves that (especially those not subjected to all the bad White Sox games already this season). In reality, the odds of beating out 10 other teams for that 2nd wild card spot is about 1/1000. Any regression to mean from the offense is going to be cancelled out by the back end of our rotation, our "luck" of having four huge comeback victories already in the books, the dearth of quality relievers in the bullpen, the defense, fundamentals/execution and baserunning.

Duke coming into this game really early. That's probably going to come back to bite Ventura, unless they simply misidentified Jennings.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 4, 2015 -> 08:32 PM) This is one of those 1-1 games you don't feel good about if you've watched a lot of Sox games the last 7-8 years. Even those tie games on the road we always seemed to struggle with Jenks, Linebrink and Dotel (when we last had a really good bullpen, the first half of 2008). White Sox traditions.

Some very solid defense the last couple of innings out of Alexei Ramirez. Petricka, 23 hits in 16.6 IP.... .328 BAA isn't very good, lol.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 4, 2015 -> 08:29 PM) Garbage season for Melky. He's definitely becoming the Dunn 2011 signing equivalent for Hahn. 4/47 now against lefties, .085. That's even hard for pitchers not named Jon Lester to do.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 4, 2015 -> 08:25 PM) I believe rodon took a start off for personal issues, correct me if I'm wrong. Or were they just trying to limit his innings pitched this season? I didn't read anything about the personal issues.

Cabrera 4/46 vs. LHP. (.087, 4 measly singles) Pablo Sandoval even went to swinging lefty today against LHP against the Twins. 3 steals for Eaton on the season. Ramirez leads the Sox with 7.

QUOTE (Mike F. @ Jun 4, 2015 -> 08:18 PM) I love Rodon. You could tell that he didn't have his best stuff out there but he battled and kept the Sox in the game. He's going to be a hell of a pitcher in a few years. He was actually throwing his hardest in the last two innings, which is always a good sign to get stronger as the game goes on. Very rare quality seen in guys like Bartolo Colon or Justin Verlander in their primes.

34.6 IP, 35 hits, 35 K's, 22 BB, 3.12 ERA.....1.64 WHIP needs to come down (mostly the walks). Realistically, he's outpitched those numbers by quite a bit because of the poor defense behind him.

Petricka warming up. Uh-oh. This doesn't bode well.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 4, 2015 -> 08:02 PM) Gallardo didn't have his best command tonight, but it's still surprising he went 6 and didn't give up an earned run. And he threw 88-90 MPH the whole night on their slow gun...so not dominating stuff by any stretch of the imagination.

LaRoche would have had an easy steal there....3 steps running head start and a curveball to boot.

Gallardo's not long for this game. Has only been over 100 pitches three times this season, 118 is his high. "Garcia isn't a fast baserunner." Way to not do your homework, Eric Nadal.

10 swinging strikeouts, 9 coming on sliders. None called strike 3's.

Wow....10 K's in 15 outs. Impressive. Not unlike what he did to the heart of the Royals' line-up in spring training.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jun 4, 2015 -> 07:49 PM) Carlos is throwing a change. Is that new? Him having the confidence to use it in big league games more than a couple of times is... 25th multi-hit game for Fielder....leads the AL and maybe the majors (if not, probably Dee Gordon).

Career and season high in K's for Rodon... "We are beginning to think we have a cold (radar) gun." Really? Helped him out there a bit...but that slider's hard to lay off even for major league hitters. Btw, Sanchez seems to have more confidence going to his left (glove hand) than to his right side...fwiw.