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So much for the good Peavy. It was nice while it lasted.

Another misplay by Viciedo...this time it results in a lucky double because Fielder should have been out by 15 feet at second base.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ May 15, 2012 -> 03:01 PM) Beckham does with his glove. Inge would look good but one of Lillibridge or Morel need to go somewhere. I think you mean Escobar. Lillibridge is our primary back-up for the infield, a great pinch-runner, and Fukudome's given us nothing in the OF, so we need him. Not to mention he can also play 1B in a pinch. But if Ventura's not going to use him at all, maybe he would be better off hitting everyday in Charlotte to get some type of offensive rhythm going. Whereas Escobar is never going to be a starter in the big leagues.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ May 15, 2012 -> 02:57 PM) You're last two posts have been nothing but complains, enjoy the damn game homie. Fine, go ahead, praise Brent Morel and Gordon Beckham all you like. If we want to compete this year, one of them needs to contribute something. And how is pointing out that Adam Dunn had 3 great swings complaining? I am enjoying the game, but thanks for your concern, at any rate. And the reason for NOT adding a veteran 3B or taking on additional payroll is going to be attendance and KW saying he can't spend $1.00 when he only has 25 or 50 cents crap. So it is very relevant, whether you choose to acknowledge it or not.

Seems like AJ was stuck on 21 RBI's for like two weeks. 3 now today, 24 already this season.

Dunn went entire months last season without having three liners like he's had today... 98 pitches and still only 12 outs for Scherzer. Ballester? 21,473 on one of the nicest days for baseball all season? Yeah, yeah, school's not out.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 15, 2012 -> 02:48 PM) Twins just got shut out by Derek Lowe's corpse Tristan H. Cockcroft ‏ @SultanofStat Derek Lowe is the first player in more than a decade to throw a shutout without recording a strikeout. (Scott Erickson, 4/28/02.) Ironic then that he did it against the team that Erickson pitched for most of his career.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 15, 2012 -> 01:34 PM) Rios is a better CF'er than De Aza, switch them. Did you watch Rios play CF at all last season? Seriously? Did you get tired of picking on Viciedo so the new target is DeAza? Why not Morel or Nestor Molina? Shouldn't Dave Dombrowski get fired if the Tigers don't win the AL Central this season?

QUOTE (fathom @ May 15, 2012 -> 01:41 PM) At least Crain is back For awhile, it looked like Santiago was on the way out but Ventura seems to be confident enough to stick with him...hopefully his patience will be rewarded, and Hector has stabilized a bit the last 10 days or so.

37th K for Morel this season. 105 AB's. 5 walks. Beckham about to go back down under .200 after getting his average up close to the .220 mark.

Very good baserunning from Beckham for a change there.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 15, 2012 -> 12:20 PM) It's clear that you are ok with him in CF. I am not. And you want Josh Hamilton, Kemp, Granderson, Austin Jackson, Adam Jones, McCutchen, Jay or Michael Bourn? And which one of those CFers are realistically available to the White Sox?

Good throw and then the relay by Alexei Ramirez. Nice to have two "plus" arms out there to make up for misplays. Pierre out there, forget about it. Easily could have given up 2 runs there. Nice to see the game start the opposite of yesterday, when everything was going wrong with Danks and the defense.

QUOTE (Jake @ May 15, 2012 -> 12:16 PM) Cabrera gets SO many cheap singles Frank Thomas got a lot of shanks the same way...everyone in the OF playing way back except in RF.

Another example of a ball falling in front of DeAza. DJ's theory is that the circular winds at USCF are really playing havoc with Alejandro's confidence, and causing him to play back so far.

Peavy really has a knack of getting timely double play balls this season. Austin Jackson totally shocked he went to 2B for the out there, should have slid and probably would have been safe.

QUOTE (Reddy @ May 15, 2012 -> 08:06 AM) so in the history of the show we should have had, what, one black and maybe one hispanic? how longs the show been running? I remember a Hispanic woman being one of the final two or three women on Bachelor, and getting rejected by the guy and being torn up about it (I think she was a single mother). I can't recall off the top of my head if they ended up taking her as the Bachelorette or not...

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 15, 2012 -> 12:51 PM) He plays so deep many times his first step or two is in that's how he got burned last night. 90% of our outfielders are better coming in rather than playing shallow and going back for anything hit over their heads. (See Edmonds, Jim). Rios was atrocious at that. Hopefully it's something he can improve on over time. For right now, he's our best option. And it's not like it's 100% automatic he would put up such good numbers against RHP if he sat against all LHP. There's something about playing everyday, the confidence of knowing your name will be in the line-up when you get to the ballpark no matter what, which you can't underestimate. Would Dunn be hitting so well overall if RV had benched him from the beginning of the season against all LHP and given those at-bats to Lillibridge? I think not. Sometimes statistics do not just exist in a vacuum. And you can't assume Brent Lillibridge will hit 12 homers again in limited at-bats just because he did it one season, which looks like it might turn out to be something of an anomaly in his career stat line.

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ May 15, 2012 -> 12:42 AM) Actually, according to espn, right now its a 37.9% chance at making the playoffs, which is the 5th highest % in the AL and 5 teams make the playoffs... My "position" is that if your team is built to compete, and with a good Rios and Dunn, they are then by god you compete.... If Danks, Lexi, and Tank are still shaky and they're out of it in the standings come time for the trade deadline then yes trade away....but on MAY 15th when they're right in the thick of things its not time to talk about trades, like you smarks are doin already. Unless youre getting someone like Dylan Bundy, Trevor Bauer, or Bryce Harper there are no sure things as far as prospects go. So there's no guarantee that a "fire sale" or whatever you "fans" on here want is gonna mean you're gonna be be any better off in the future. If they're competing as the season goes on more fans are gonna come out, there's zero doubt there IMO whereas if you sell off the team no ones gonna wanna come out and watch that team. Look this team is a year removed from being "all in" and what failed about that team?? Dunn and Rios being historically bad...From the looks of it so far this year were getting what we expected last year out of them this year...What has changed from this year to last year?? They lost MB, okkkk but this year we have a healthy CY Peavy. They lost Juan Pierre, okkkk ADA is one of the best lead odd hitters in the game right now. They lost Sergio Santos, okkkkk well before yesterday Addison Reed had an era of 0.00. They lost CQ, ok well the books still open on Tank but it was long believed that he can equal the production of Carlos....Am I missing something here on why this team CANT compete and I should be talking about trades on MAY 15! You're forgetting replacing Mark Buehrle and the fact that John Danks except for one start has been one of the worst starting pitchers in all of baseball. Talking trades and actually consummating one are two quite different things. I'm sure if someone made an amazing offer for Matt Thornton or Jesse Crain that KW would pack their bags for them. As Balta kept on saying all offseason, we had/have to replace 8 wins just to get back to a 79-83 team. That was predicated on getting positive contributions out of Dunn/Rios/Peavy (check, check and check) but also Viciedo, Morel and Beckham. If you take the steady contributions of Buehrle out of the equation and add in Danks as one of the worst and Humber continues to look more like a 5th starter than he did in the first half of 2011...as well as figuring in Sale in all likelihood can't withstand pitching anything above 125 or max 150 innings, and you're going to be shutting down Sale or putting him in the bullpen in the heat of the pennant race, well, everything that can go right almost has to go right, and that means we also have to rely on DET to falter for almost the entire season. Finally, add in the mysterious disappearing bat of Alexei Ramirez. Even in the rosiest point of view, we're an 84-85-86 win team as currently constructed. Is DET likely to finish that low? Second, we KNOW Detroit and Illitch will be willing to go "all out" in June/July to make improvements to their bullpen, 2B, DH abd RF positions. We're certainly not in a position to add payroll this season, either. And we have almost nothing in the minor leagues to work with in terms of commodities that could get something useful back for the major league roster. Best case scenario, we find a veteran 3B ala Herb Perry in 2000 and he catches fire. I suppose that's possible. But it's also trusting KW when he hasn't shown any reason for us to trust him since the end of the 2008 season.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 14, 2012 -> 06:05 PM) De Aza is a LF'er playing CF. He covers the gaps at the expense of letting balls drop in front of him. He's a stopgap who's best position would be a 400 AB corner OF. How many "pure/stellar" defenders are there in CF who put up an OPS in the 800+ range? http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/batting/_/pos.../OPS/order/true There are 24 "qualified" players right now in MLB. DeAza's OPS is 9th. I would think we should worry FIRST about the positions where we are getting below average production, relative to that position. Clearly, that's Morel, Viciedo (LF, there are 3 qualified players under 600), Alexei Ramirez (24/25) and Beckham. Morel's LAST in all of the majors, and he's 71 OPS points behind Danny Valencia, who has been sent down already. You go from 423 to 542 to get the NEXT (2nd to worst) player above Brent, and that's Scott Rolen. Then you have Gordon Beckham, 20th out of 24 at a 600 OPS (and you live with him because of his upward trend until recently offensively and his D). Worrying about limiting DeAza to 400 at-bats when we need to get him 600+ and limiting Dunn's AB's because of his defense in LF. We just don't have those luxuries. If it comes down to it, they almost have to move Viciedo or Dan Johnson to 3B and play the other in LF to mask Morel's overall ineptitude, unless they trade for another 3B as a stop-gap (assuming they're ready to give up on Morel for 2012 and perhaps beyond). We all kind of expect Alexei Ramirez and probably Viciedo to turn it around. We can't win with four black holes and Rios/AJ both trending downwards. We've got to get at least average or solid contributions from 7 places in the line-up.

Sounds like the Bachelor lawsuit...for never having a "non-white" Bachelor or Bachelorette in the history of the show. Statistically, there should be a Hispanic one 14-15% of the time, African American 11-12% and Asian about 7% of the time. Instead, we get America's Sweetheart, Emily Maynard (granted, she is pretty hot, but I understand the point of those frustrated with ALWAYS having white contestants and the few minority ones getting wiped out quickly). This has never happened with Survivor casts, FWIW.

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ May 14, 2012 -> 10:07 PM) Sox are now the only team in the AL central with a positive run differential at +1, a half game behind the Tigers, and 2.5 behid the indians who aren't supposed to contend...and everyone here is talking about trading off parts at the deadline lol smh what a loyal fan base we have here So is your position different than Marty's? We're not rebuilding, but we're trying to compete this season and KW very well might get fired if we don't make the playoffs or finish below 1.6 million for attendance? I get it, we're only 2 1/2 behind first place and only 1/2 game behind our primary competitors. The problem is that we do have players with value to other teams (Thornton, Crain, Peavy, Floyd and AJ, not to mention Dunn, Konerko and Ramirez) and that if you subtract away that first group, how realistic is it that we can come close to competing in 2013 and 2014? Then you get in that "wait it out" situation for the fourth year in a row where the team is stuck in-between and has no clear direction or strategy for the future. That's not much fun, either. It's like being in purgatory. Despite the momentary ups and downs (2-4 game streaks either way), the path to be competitive in 2013 and 2014 is just as important as this year. We can't keep mortgaging the future for a 10-15% chance at making the playoffs.

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ May 14, 2012 -> 09:48 PM) Great to see Viciedo have a big game - hopefully a breakout game for him. Nice pitching by Stewart and Reed. Danks was bad - yet again. Santiago is hard to watch. Let's hope they can sweep 'em tomorrow! What did Santiago do wrong this time? He only had one walk. Seems Ventura trusts him a bit more than Ohman, fwiw. Or he just trusts Ohman too much against RHB'ers in the face of all contrary evidence.

Pujols 0/2, still mired under Mendoza Line at .193.

Can't believe Saladino and Mitchell are only 0.08 points apart for batting average now. Hernandez didn't have a quality start, but he's now 5-1 and has been our most consistent starting pitcher in AA/AAA.