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QUOTE (flavum @ May 11, 2012 -> 06:46 PM) What's got into Doyle tonight? 10 k's in 5 innings. You can understand why the Twins couldn't keep him, but do you think they'd like him back now? The Twins have a lot more problems than their 5th starter/last man in the bullpen. Remember, they also gave up on Humber. They probably viewed him the same way many view Dylan Axelrod (well, the way we did too, as we didn't protect him).

Hope they go with Santiago over Stewart here. You have to feel Hector's at least got the potential to straighten things out...some upside down the road.

QUOTE (Jake @ May 11, 2012 -> 09:33 PM) They can have Morel, Lillibridge, the whole gang! I think Middlebrooks is their guy for now though. We don't want to give away Lillibridge at such a low value. He was worth a lot more this past offseason. The way Hosmer's going this year just shows how there's almost NEVER anything such as a sure thing among hitting prospects...at least not to just come up and flat out dominate from the get-go. Bryce Harper's fallen off a bit too in Washington, they've moved him off the 3rd spot in the order down to 5th.

Thornton for Hosmer. Dangerous, dangerous situation, despite Hosmer's low BA.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 11, 2012 -> 09:31 PM) Probably have to include Morel to give them someone with a shot at beig their 3b replacement. Middlebrooks is making some errors there, had a key one tonight. But he's hitting well. 110 pitches for Floyd. Not good...bringing in Thornton here I think.

Jesse Crain and Santiago or Ohman to the Red Sox for Youkilis...Red Sox eat a decent-sized chunk of the contract. Maybe that would work. The Red Sox really need middle/set-up relief help desperately. V. Padilla can't be trusted with a 3 run lead. DeJesus just hit a GS (his first HR of the season) for the Cubs.

Dunn at 1.030 OPS, Konerko at 986. Tough night for Paulie.

Former Sox farmhand Frank Franscisco gives up two runs in the bottom of the 9th for the walkoff victory to MIA. C'mon Adam, no K here. Make contact against a LHP. Breaks the consecutive games with a K string (hopefully). Gotten on base all four times tonight.

DeAza with an 829 OPS now and going almost as good as in 2011. Along with Santos, the best move that KW has made the last 3 years, and even if Humber never recovers again from this tailspin, he was very useful the first half of last year. Darvish will come back after a long rain delay in TEX. CJ Wilson won't return.

QUOTE (Jake @ May 11, 2012 -> 09:07 PM) Yeah, I'm not worried about them yet. They aren't like Morel, who is hitting the lightest .180 I've ever seen. As far as Escobar goes, you might as well let someone different go up there and hack -- Eduardo isn't producing more, but at least he has a little bit of pitch selection, eliminates righty-righty advantage, and swings like he wants to hit something How does he eliminate the R/R advantage if he can't hit, lol? He wants to hit something, he just can't. We had a similar player a long time ago named Esteban Beltre...although Beltre had a very good arm, but similar defense-first players. Well, I'll give him credit for hustling and forcing something to happen there. Marlins escaping another blown save. Tied 5-5 in the bottom of the 9th.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 11, 2012 -> 09:05 PM) Alexei had a good game the other day. Viciedo's had two good at bats tonight as well. Phil Humber definitely should be on the who's not hot list. Reed on the Hot List.

Weird to think our biggest pitching weakness now is a pitcher who threw a perfect game 3 weekends ago.

Okay, triples instead of homers will work, too. At least we're not totally wasting his salary dollars this year, and the fans can again get behind all of our "bad contracts" from last year.

QUOTE (Jake @ May 11, 2012 -> 08:45 PM) Gordon Beckham is POUNDING the ball to right field right now. WOW, this is what I needed to see to believe. I'm in now on the Gordon Beckham gangbang train! I'd prefer to join the bandwagon at some point, but not the Joe Francis gangbang train, lol. Paulino actually was signed as a infielder, moved to OF and then became a pitcher. Sound familiar?

Yay, no strikeouts for Dunn yet. Only one more at-bat in all likelihood for Adam tonight. If he does K, it will tie a record for consecutive games with at least one K dating back to 1918.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 11, 2012 -> 08:32 PM) Paulino's been extremely impressive. Great command the past few innings with that fastball. Arguably we should have at least 3 and as many as 5 runs. On the other hand, the Royals had bases loaded and didn't score, so you feel we should be up at least one more run. Doesn't feel like a comfortable lead at all, but Gavin's been dealing going on 4 starts in a row now. Pretty surprising Houston and Colorado both gave up on Paulino with his stuff. That ends the string of 9 batters in a row...let's hope this isn't one of the walls that Gavin hits where he just falls apart and gives up a crooked number. Okay, an out there after the leadoff single by Dyson.

What's the weather like tonight? Only 19,129 in attendance. You'd have thought with 2 wins in a row, the news about Chris Sale, May's here and college students are getting out now...that we could at least manage 20,000 for a Friday home game.

Alright DeAza, get ready to run again. Why not? If he gets a good read. Should have sent Viciedo there, but oh well, DeAza's not quite the contact hitter that AJ is there. White Sox only averaging 2 runs per game in Floyd starts, second lowest of all ALL American League starters, last year he was among the best-supported. Included in that is 2 times the White Sox offense was shut out with Gavin on the mound. A little like John Danks from 2009-2011.

Ugh, once again Escobar showing he really doesn't belong in the major leagues at this point in his career. And, in other news, the Marlins have blown yet another save in the early season, this time Mujica in the 8th against the Mets. Chisek blew one in his first opportunity but the Marlins ended up winning in extra innings.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 11, 2012 -> 08:22 PM) Isn't Youk a FA after the year? Yep. Or maybe there's a big option for next year that's not guaranteed with a buyout like Peavy's. If they're going to do that, they might as well go after a real impact player in David Wright, but I don't see what pieces they would have to make that work without crippling the major league roster or giving away our few remaining prospects. It would be tempting for KW with a talent like Wright out there, but JR would have to sign off on it and you'd have to think we'd need some sort of attendance uptick.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 11, 2012 -> 08:20 PM) Hawk said tonight that Morel's back was in much better shape today than it had been recently. Johnson has played more games in his major/minor league career at 3B than Lillibridge. Just sayin'. There are no good options, seemingly.

Greg, I've heard of state budgetary desperation, but the State of Missouri selling specialized "Jayhawks" license plates? That really takes the cake.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 11, 2012 -> 08:09 PM) Yeah, that will be never. Well, they have to do SOMETHING about Morel/Escobar. They can't bring up Kuhn or Corey Smith. Lillibridge I guess is the only option, but he hasn't shown much offensively, except for his stolen bases. Someone in Texas royally screwed up. Darvish and CJ Wilson both started and then that game's in danger of being a really long rain delay (in the bottom of the 1st) and both starters scrubbed.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ May 11, 2012 -> 08:07 PM) Fixed Okay, it was hard to tell what happened from the Royals' feed there...Lefebvre was going crazy, surprised he caught it and expecting it to fall in.

Could easily be 5 or 6 to nothing if not for the very good play against Viciedo by Escobar and then Gordon saving two more runs with the leaping grab...plus, he's piled up so many outfield assists and kept baserunners from advancing numerous times. Floyd on cruise control again the last couple of innings. Don't stop now boys. Need to get AJ and Rios going again, as well as the Cubanos.