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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 12, 2013 -> 08:45 PM) Irrelevant, but OK. So your best reason for keeping Buddy Bell is that we can't prove he's the reason for our bad minor league system conclusively? The entire blame lies with the scouting staff? Then why are we SO SUCCESSFUL picking up players from other teams (Jenks, Loaiza, Santos, Contreras, DeAza, Quintana, Humber, etc.) BUT NOT DRAFTING/SIGNING/DEVELOPING our own players? http://www.southsidesox.com/2013/2/21/4013...ourtney-hawkins If you read this article, you would think we had a ton of interesting prospects. So either they're really not good players, they're ALL not developing simultaneously this year, they're going through extremely bad luck....SOMETHING is amiss. But all of those guys...Hawkins, DeMichele, Thompson, Walker, Mitchell (especially glowing reports from Bell), Sanchez, etc., were struggling out of the gate for various reasons. It's pretty difficult to project Hawkins, for example, to AA by the end of this season without a remarkable turnaround. Mitchell's been demoted. DeMichele has struggled as much as the rest, and Sanchez is still struggling to put a 600 OPS. About the only bright spots were pitching Johnson, Bassitt, Jaye, Beck, etc., relievers like Taylor Thompson and Phegley/Semien/Black (sort of a prospect, but not really).

Why would we need Sanchez? He's a 29 year old "non prospect" who has a career .610 OPS. Adios. The best thing you can say about him is he might be a BIT better than Ray Olmedo.

DeAza only good for solo homers to lead off games, lol.

SIGH.

Is it really possible they don't score here? C'mon, dammit, we need BOTH runs for some cushion. We can't expect the pitching staff to deal with this stress all season long.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ May 12, 2013 -> 07:14 PM) Horrible swing by De Aza What new? Except for his HR/AB ratio improving, every single aspect of his game offensively and defensively has gone downhill from the 2011 and 2012 version/s. Of course, in an ideal world, he wouldn't even be facing tough lefties.

1/5 with RISP. That's better than our average. Where's FATHOM???

QUOTE (jeffro2525 @ May 12, 2013 -> 06:53 PM) Wilson is such a laborer out there. Always falls behind. Goes deep in the counts. The fact that he's sitting on 33 pitches at this point is pathetic. I've seen three different starts where he had 33 pitches in the first inning. Verlander had 110 in 5 innings yesterday against the Tribe, the same team that gave Sale the most trouble this year.

QUOTE (jeffro2525 @ May 12, 2013 -> 06:53 PM) Wilson is such a laborer out there. Always falls behind. Goes deep in the counts. The fact that he's sitting on 33 pitches at this point is pathetic. I've seen three different starts where he had 33 pitches in the first inning. Verlander had 110 in 5 innings yesterday against the Tribe, the same team that gave Sale the most trouble this year.

Why pitch to Viciedo? His OBP will 350 by the end of the next road trip if these keeps up.

Unfortunately, we still have to score A RUN to win, lol.

QUOTE (winninguglyin83 @ May 12, 2013 -> 06:45 PM) Kruk didn't even make it until the end of the season. And they said nothing meaningful about Dunn. just said that he and Konerko have to produce for the Sox to be better, How about analyzing what is wrong with Dunn -- and whether he might not be able to fix it? I think we're expecting way too much out of ESPN. Kruk, as a fellow lefty, SHOULD have more to say about the topic, but he's probably going soft on Dunn because fellow and ex-players have a lot of sympathy for guys in that situation, being careful not to criticize. The same thing happens on the PGA Tour when someone completely disappears, like, say, David Duval.

QUOTE (winninguglyin83 @ May 12, 2013 -> 06:45 PM) Kruk didn't even make it until the end of the season. And they said nothing meaningful about Dunn. just said that he and Konerko have to produce for the Sox to be better, How about analyzing what is wrong with Dunn -- and whether he might not be able to fix it? I think we're expecting way too much out of ESPN. Kruk, as a fellow lefty, SHOULD have more to say about the topic, but he's probably going soft on Dunn because fellow and ex-players have a lot of sympathy for guys in that situation, being careful not to criticize. The same thing happens on the PGA Tour when someone completely disappears, like, say, David Duval.

I can't remember if Dale Sveum also played briefly for the Sox that year...1995. At any rate, back to our old offense again. Chris Sale National ESPN Showcase. There's that to be proud of, at least, for Sox fans.

I can't remember if Dale Sveum also played briefly for the Sox that year...1995. At any rate, back to our old offense again. Chris Sale National ESPN Showcase. There's that to be proud of, at least, for Sox fans.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 12, 2013 -> 06:18 PM) If the argument is that Kenny Williams has been giving him awful players to work with, what exactly is he supposed to be doing? Miracle working? That's just silly. If Kenny is that bad, we have no idea how good of a job Buddy Bell is really doing. Then if Hahn was trained under and is KW's protege, what reason is there to believe he's the right man for the job? Just his education/background/resume and negotiating contracts/working with agents? The Gillaspie for Soptic deal? Because going with Flowers (with no veteran back-up) and "buying high" on Keppinger don't exactly build much confidence. Right now, how can we tell any difference between Buddy Bell, Chris Rongey and Scott Merkin, in terms of being a cheerleader for the team and giving our prospects glowing "puff piece" endorsements on blogger calls? We definitely know Teahen and Keppinger (until now) haven't worked out so well. Those were 2 specific recommendations that he has made in terms of player evaluation HIMSELF PERSONALLY.

QUOTE (jeffro2525 @ May 12, 2013 -> 06:36 PM) Kruk talking about sucking it up in the 95 season with the Sox. I remember that...that team was no fun. They also had ageless wonder Julio Franco.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ May 12, 2013 -> 06:30 PM) That was one of the worst send calls I have ever seen. Everything is mushrooming/snowballing. The team's so desperate for runs, it's causing McEwing to get way too aggressive, knowing the odds of putting together 3 hits in an inning is about 5% at best. And it's not like Greene hasn't been able to hit this year. It's his fielding that is causing the most problems.

1/3 with RISP but still no runs. How many hits with RISP haven't actually scored run this year? Seems like 30-40%.

Wonder how long it's going to take for Dayan to start pressing and trying too hard to make things happen with Keppinger batting behind him...?

QUOTE (jeffro2525 @ May 12, 2013 -> 06:20 PM) If we're gonna see the Dunn from 2011 all season then we are going to sit him sit vs. Lefties more and more. Regardless of it being a national tv game. Just hasn't happened many times yet this season. Maybe once or twice? I'm sure Ventura/Hahn want to take the focus off Dunn's struggles, though. To shield him as much as possible...especially from widespread booing when everyone who watches Sunday Night baseball is tuning in. Sale getting back to his more customary ERA territory. 3.28. Take away the CLE start where he got rocked, he's been very good, just not quite as dominating as the start of 2012. Plus, our offense sucks, so that's hurting his opportunities to pick up wins, or the bullpen recently.

More excellent hitting with RISP. By the way, Happy Mother's Day!...well, if there are a few mothers here.

Very interesting that Dunn all of a sudden mysteriously is benched against a LHP when a Sunday Night ESPN game shows up on the schedule. BTW, can someone post whatever interesting/insightful comments the ESPN crew makes, since there's no way for me to access it...probably the story will be 95% about "what's wrong with the Angels?"

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 12, 2013 -> 05:55 PM) Here we go again indeed. At least have some consistency in your irrational rants. So, your position is that Laumann should be fired? Or no? And that Buddy Bell's doing a swell job? Name at least three (I'm not going to ask for five) things that Buddy Bell has done well since coming to the White Sox.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 12, 2013 -> 05:11 PM) So he is bad because he can't turn bad draft picks into good players? lol. Here we go again. The reverse/corollary is that there's not even a reason to have any coaching or try to develop players. Guess teams like the Angels who are spending $5 million on Mike Scioscia are wasting their time, too...because there's nothing to do with players once they reach the majors. They are what they are. (I seem to remember arguing for 2-3 years that Brian Anderson was NOT being mistreated/mismanaged by everyone from KW and Ozzie Guillen on down...with the theory being that everyone was holding him back from realizing his full potential, that they shouldn't have promoted him to Chicago when he was getting by on raw physical ability and didn't have a refined/technically smooth swing plane from the time he was drafted until his promotion to the Sox...sounds like there SHOULD have been some development/coaching there.) There's no reason for Spring Training, they're professionals who know what they need to do to prepare. Last year, Ventura was credited with working wonders and raising the morale of the organazation. Yay, no Guillens. More professionalism, more chemistry, etc. Now, with essential the same exact team except for Flowers/Keppinger, we've gone from the best defense to the worst. How is that possible?