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LA Angels on the verge of falling to 11-21 and losing to the DisAstros.

Viciedo 0 for 6 with 2 K's tonight. Well, we knew he was going to be rusty...no surprise there.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ May 7, 2013 -> 07:52 PM) Here's my question. Say we hold on to Sale, Peavy, Danks, Quintana, & Santiago peg them for our rotation next year. What moves can be made to fix this offense between now and opening day 2014 if you're actually trying to compete? Trade Axelrod. Trade Ramirez and give SS to Sanchez and hope he can put up a 625-650 OPS. Decide who they'd rather keep between Crain and Lindstrom and deal the other. Trade Thornton. The big argument's going to be about trading Peavy...can what they would get in return offensively offset the falloff from going to Axelrod or Johnson to replace him? Then if you take Konerko's money off the books, Peavy, Ramirez, Crain and Thornton...you have created quite a bit of money to play around with and fix the offensive holes. It could obviously not work. But they have to do something. They also might need to go out and find a starting catcher....so they need to audition Phegley in the 2nd half to make sure he's not the answer for 2014. Going with Sanchez is a huge risk which can obviously backfire, but at this point, they're better off getting out from under Alexei's contract if they can pull it off. The return will be fairly marginal, though. (And maybe, just maybe, Semien or Saladino can play their way into the picture). You have to keep Rios because we don't have anyone ready to step in offensively from the minors. You might even have to keep DeAza.

http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.jsp?s...mp;ymd=20130507 Birmingham with a 16 run offensive explosion in a rain-shortened game. Arroyo didn't give up a run, but peripherals are not astouding. Wilkins (2), Saladino and Black, who's probably been the top hitter of all the affiliates, all homered. Walker's still struggling. Thompson manages to put up RBI's but he needs to get his BA at least into the 240's or 250's to be a viable candidate for future promotion.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 7, 2013 -> 07:42 PM) Loved and hated it. Loved it in context of the film, hated it in context of handling the source material. All in all, it's not stopping me from loving that movie. I rewatched Iron Man last night and 3 trumped it. IM3 right now trumps all the films but Avengers and MAYBE Captain America. Chris Evans just doesn't have a strong enough personality. In some respects, it's the part or role. He's supposed to represent "everyman" and be a character that guys like Downey and Ruffalo would play off against, the "straight guy." OTOH, when he's trying to carry the movie all by himself...it can drag...Tommie Lee Jones, to me, was a more poignant presence in that film, of even the scene-stealing Hugo Weaving overacting as the villain.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 7, 2013 -> 08:06 PM) The Sox can't put together a bullpen that's good enough to win a division. It's not an easything to do, but look since 2005, the years with good pens are few and far between. Do you really believe they came up short in 2006, 2010 and 2012 because of their bullpens? There are 10-15 other areas you could pinpoint before casting blame in that direction. You can say that 2007, KW went "on the cheap" and it led to a disastrous season and he overcompensated by paying a ton to Dotel and Linebrink, and later Crain. But that bullpen in the first half of 2008 was the main reason we ended up surviving and winning the division...even though Linebrink was never the same pitcher after returning from injury in the 2nd half.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 7, 2013 -> 07:58 PM) Cy Wood He's their early season version of Santiago.

QUOTE (danman31 @ May 7, 2013 -> 06:34 PM) As I clearly and simply said above you're rewarding positive stats and punishing negative ones so the ranking is correct, but the math that went into it is random. The actually numbers don't have proper context. Why would you divide by ERA? You could subtract ERA and that would do the same thing in terms of the relative number. Dividing by ERA will make a pitcher without gaudy stats but a low ERA look comparatively better. Someone like Beck for example, who's not putting up a ton of amazing stats but has pitched very well, overall.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 7, 2013 -> 07:58 PM) No. It was pretty good, with exception of Veal, until the last couple of weeks. The cracks are starting to show without Santiago to rely on. Plus, when you only have starters going through the 5th inning, forcing the bullpen to go 4 innings simply isn't going to work on a consistent basis.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 7, 2013 -> 07:55 PM) Sox are a botched play by Getz away from getting shutout for 3rd time in 4 games. They're the worst offense in the AL, and it's not even close. Which is a recipe for disaster playing 81 homes games at USCF. Worse, it's horrible for business.

Well, it figures after Jones got all those "vulture" wins last year in relief that he would be 0-3 this year.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ May 7, 2013 -> 07:11 PM) Let's get him. Anyone making Walker look competent for even a limited time should be good. If nothing else, it would make for an interesting soap opera if Gordon broke up with her or vice-versa and Fletcher was still his hitting coach. Would give new meaning to the word "flips." She definitely deserves a spot on the "hot babe" thread, that's for sure.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 7, 2013 -> 07:11 PM) Scapegoat all the way The fans aren't going to care about this hitting coach change...they'll be lucky to get an article in the TRIB. Maybe they can get "guest" columns by Rongey, Merkin or Dan McNeil preaching more patience with our hitters.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 7, 2013 -> 07:10 PM) Getting rid of Manto isn't going to make the Sox hit better. It's going to have to be Jesus and Lazarus to do any good with our hitting.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ May 7, 2013 -> 07:09 PM) They allow two now. Scooter Fletcher (his daughter is dating Beckham) is Walker's in ATL.

Flowers, Keppinger and Dunn....the "Sub Mendoza Line Cold Cut Trio," coming to a Subway in your neighborhood.

5 walks is going to get him killed pitching for Chicago. It's the new "obvious" stat of the day. 80% of the time when your pitchers give up more walks than your team's hitters compile, you lose.

Wow, Harvey only had 79 pitches coming into this inning. Sheesh.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 7, 2013 -> 07:04 PM) The current Sox team is a collection of misfit toys and they are going nowhere this season. I remember keeping track of the 85-88 offenses from box scores in the newspaper when I was in high school....and this offense is even worse than some of those teams, at least without Beckham and Viciedo.

QUOTE (Knuckles @ May 7, 2013 -> 07:01 PM) Which makes you wonder, is there something we don't know? Is the coaching staff blind? No, just stubborn. Clearly, at this time, Santiago has the second best stuff in the rotation, and he's looked better than Sale this year with the exception of getting battered around by the Indians when he came into the game on short notice to replace Floyd. Other than that, he's been like 2011 first half Sergio Santos or 2012 Donnie Veal.

111 pitches. Chicago White Sox baseball. Being carried by two 30th round draft picks nobody had even heard about 2 years ago at this time, except for those who watched Axelrod in the College World Series playing for UC-Irvine (Go Anteaters!)

QUOTE (fathom @ May 7, 2013 -> 06:27 PM) Here's a question: did they flat out miss the tears last year when he had similar pain? Quite possible. Or we're not giving him nearly enough credit for "manning up" and pitching in pain as we should have. (Not that it's advisable from the club's point of view, but it is respected by his teammates, like Konerko trying to play through last season).

Santiago entering the bottom of the 7th near the brink. Already at 99 pitches.

The amazing thing is that Jordan Danks, with his long, "sweeping" swing, took out a 99 MPH fastball yesterday.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 7, 2013 -> 06:53 PM) The signing was fine as long as they didn't have to overexpose him. The Beckham injury has been a killer with this. Although they would have probably been just as well off with paying Eduardo Escobar the minimum to do the exact same thing. Looks like Santiago has done an amazing job stranding runners throughout this game.