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Somehow, "How much rope do Wise/Danks/Tekotte have?" isn't going to be much of a thread... Other than another examination of our lack of minor league production in this area.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 28, 2013 -> 10:33 AM) More Flowers. Great. Well, at least he has a shot at a lefty, theoretically. Gimenez against Price? We're reaching the bottom of the barrel if we're hoping to eke out offense from either one of these guys...or Wise/Danks/Tekotte.

Ventura said it's more of a muscle issue with Floyd...similar to last season, 15 day DL, will miss 2-3 starts. Probably going to DL. Heath back up to take Hector's spot....Santiago to the rotation.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Apr 27, 2013 -> 08:50 PM) You cannot have 2 guys hitting under .230 in Dunn and Flowers and expect to win many games. Unless you have Konerko/Thome/Dye/AJ, etc., in the middle of the order. Our complementary players like DeAza, Keppinger, Danks/Wise/Tekotte, etc., just aren't getting it done, either. Gillaspie's about the only one you can't criticize, and Rios. And even Rios was due to come back down to earth. Greene has been a bit of a surprise, too.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Apr 27, 2013 -> 08:49 PM) Micah Johnson, 1/2, 3B, 2 BB, 20th SB of the year. Helium alert officially announced. He'll get a lot of attention for those stolen bases, just like Billy Hamilton, but it's not like he's suddenly even one of our Top 5 prospects. If he can repeat that success in High A, that's something to get excited about. Low A to High A is a big jump...and college/university hitters should do well until they hit a wall in Advanced A/AA.

"My theory, if you're going to play this long, win." Farmer "The White Sox just fell off the wagon tonight." DJ

It's fine if he hits .230, but he needs to better than his current level of an absolutely abysmal hitter with RISP.

The Blue Jays aren't exactly world-beaters this year, and they took the best remaining players from the Marlins, other than Stanton and Fernandez.

Not sure what winning the pennant in 2007 has to do with passing on Longoria and taking Greg Reynolds. Stewart was in minors when that draft occurred, and O'Dowd said that he did not want to upset him, or words to that effect, making O'Dowd dumber than a rock. There's a million bad decisions Epstein has made, but most baseball fans believe he's a very good GM because of the two World Series titles. Reaching a World Series at least buys you another 2-3 years, no matter how bad your drafting history is.

This RISP issue is going from a blip or anomaly to a 2 1/2 month long trend carrying over from 2012. That, and our hitters just suck or aren't talented enough, lol, or don't have "the will to win" anymore.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 27, 2013 -> 07:47 PM) Flowers with the worst at bat you'll ever see. He's in another one of his slumps where it looks like Jim Parque could still get him out easily. Maybe even Arnie Munoz or Josh Stewart. Paniagua? Farmer raving about Moneyball, about his "good friend" Billy Beane and how Brad Pitt did such a good job portraying him. Of course, Farmer's friends with George Bush and half the celebrities in America, from Michael Milken to anyone associated with Notre Dame to the Cog Hill groundskeeper. DJ, amazingly, hasn't seen it. Not sure if he's read the book...

They drafted Greg Reynolds instead. But if you remember, that was right around the time the Rockies were in the World Series, 2007, against Boston. Our hitting with RISP isn't exactly improving tonight.

Willie Loman is sad.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 27, 2013 -> 07:37 PM) Johnson's line: 6 innings, 4 hits, 3 r, 2 er, 4 bb, 7 k 82 pitches, 53 strikes. Rough 6th inning probably the reason for coming out with a low pitch count Or is it? They might have pulled him just to have Johnson as ANOTHER option to go with to replace Floyd. It's either Santiago, Castro, Johnson or Berken, arguably.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 27, 2013 -> 07:40 PM) They're good enough to compete for a WC spot, but still think it's the Tigers division to lose. KC is so much deeper this year than they were last year though. Depends on Moustakas, Hosmer and the back end of the rotation. So far, so good. They've stood up in the face of some good competition and held their own til this point.

Yay, yet MORE bad baseball. "This isn't White Sox baseball." Farmer "It is when they're playing as bad as they have been recently." DJ At least the Indians are still worse than us, haha.

"Don't tell me about the will to win. Tell me about the will to prepare." So many mental/physical/baserunning mistakes this year. We've gone from Top 1-2-3 defense to near the bottom of the league. We can't throw out anyone on the basepaths (how many runners have Sox catchers thrown out?). Hitting with RISP. Bunting. Hitting cutoff men and anticipating the "smart" baseball player...so many runners carelessly getting into 2B. Bad chemistry in the infield now with Beckham out and Keppinger exposed. It's a perfect tsunami of bad-ness.

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Apr 27, 2013 -> 07:31 PM) Which is probably the right decision. I'd like Johnson to get more minor league seasoning. He's only pitched 31.0 innings at AA thus far. But Quintana didn't need more than one month of AA and no AAA, haha. Wouldn't mind seeing Simon Castro (aka Felix Diaz) get a shot, but it will probably be Santiago. Veal has to be getting REALLY close to DFA/Charlotte time. Who's the best option from the LH side? Purcey? Moskos, the kid we picked up from Pitt who was a 1st rounder?

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 27, 2013 -> 07:29 PM) I'm afraid you're right. Rather see Johnson. Johnson's not ready yet. If they're really out of the division in the middle of the summer and the games are no longer as meaningful, then you can bring him up and given him starts the finally 2-3 months and set up things for 2013. Granted, it would be more FUN for us to watch anyone not named Floyd in the rotation, but that's not the criteria Hahn and Bell will choose to go with.

DiMichele at .163, Hawkins at .169. Part of the Adam Dunn 100's club in the minors.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 27, 2013 -> 07:25 PM) does the Erik Johnson era begin? Knowing the Sox, it will be someone like Jason Berken.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 27, 2013 -> 07:23 PM) Rios 2 for last 22...Sox need him to get back on track to salvage some of these games coming up. I know we just won 3 in a row, but this has the makings of a very long season... It's just as likely we'll be right back at five games under facing Price and Darvish the next two.

More hitting there with RISP. Just what we needed...for Alex Rios to come back to earth. Dunn might be hitting, but Rios and Konerko aren't threats right now, so there's always something going awry with this line-up. Too many holes up and down to get runs consistently. Certainly not against elite pitchers.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2013 -> 07:09 PM) 3 innings, 9 hits for Santiago so far. If Axelrod goes out and beats David Price tomorrow, then fans might START to believe in him a bit.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2013 -> 07:16 PM) We're now on to player #30 on the roster, and that's with 2 guys day to day as well. The best way to help this bench would be to hire Jesus and have him wave some hands over people. You're saying Ozzie's Santeria animal sacrifices didn't work?