JorgeFabregas

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I wonder what Wilma Eckert thinks.

BA HR is up on Gameday now.

I ride one of these for suburban commuting: http://www.bikepedia.com/QuickBike/BikeSpe...0&Type=bike I don't know much about bikes. I just bought the tallest one I could find at the store.

Danks might already be the Sox' best pitcher. Edit: Well, second-best. Behind Javy.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 7, 2008 -> 01:12 PM) I don't think the question here really is whether Gavin can be successful with a poor K rate. It's just that teams will eventually start getting hits off of him and that, in turn, will lead to potentially disastrous outings. Seeing him pitch last night, I'd imagine his K rate will begin to improve...some of those pitches were absolutely filthy, especially later in the game. And even though his fastball was 89-92, it had some nice movement on it down and in towards righties. Complimenting that his solid change piece and a filthy curve ball and I think Gavin has #2 potential but more likelihood of being a solid 3-4 starter in the future. And that is why he is my fav. That curve that he got the K on in the 9th was nasty. He wasn't getting his curve over early in the game. QUOTE (WCSox @ May 7, 2008 -> 01:34 PM) So, in other words, it sounds like he'll be another Jon Garland: A solid, middle-of-the rotation guy who will be really good at times and not so good at others. And he's not even eligible for arbitration until 2010. I'll take it. Jon Garland is what I was thinking as well.

QUOTE (SpringfieldFan @ May 7, 2008 -> 10:43 AM) The talk about Gavin needing more strikeouts reminded me of something I was going to show in a previous thread about the correlation of ERA and strikeouts. Bear with me in the explanation here. This graph is based on the final 2007 stats for every pitcher with at least 100 innings worked. In it, each pitcher is represented from left to right by a dot in order of his strikeout per inning rank. In other words, the dot on the farthest left represents Eric Bedard, who had the highest strikeouts per inning. Now, the vertical axis represents each of these pitcher's ERA. For example, Bedards was 3.16. So, is there a correlation between K's and ERA? If so you should see the line connecting the dots increase (higher ERA) as you move from left to right (lower K rates). As I look at it I can see a *slight* average slope up, but really it is not very regular. There seems very little correlation to me; that you cannot predict ERA based on strikeout ability. What do you all think? By the way, I did a similar graph plotting strikeouts vs. win percentage and it yielded similar (lack of) correlation. Unfortunately, the tables I had to work with did not have WHIP stats, so I could not test that. SFF Try making a graph correlating K:BB with ERA. That's the issue. You can be a good/great pitcher without a lot of strikeouts (Buehrle), but you better walk very few. Gavin's K:BB is one.

QUOTE (rangercal @ May 6, 2008 -> 09:00 PM) s*** dude. f*** the K/BB when his whip is under 1! His WHIP is under 1 because his BABIP is INSANE. You think that's in any way sustainable?

Floyd has been really good, but also really lucky. He has to get that K/BB ratio up (which I think he can do). Heh.

Well, that was annoying. At work.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 12:53 PM) I really doubt they do that. Masset is clearly overhyped, no way he did it intentionally. Twins' announcers were b****ing about their pitcher not protecting their hitters BEFORE the hbp.

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QUOTE (joesaiditstrue @ Apr 27, 2008 -> 02:48 PM) tonight, it didn't. are you watching the game? it has more to do with his decision to not drop to the ground or try to avoid a ball sailing towards him than anything to do with his stance or his back turned towards the pitcher. I'm not saying that ALL his hbps have to do with his stance. Everyone gets hit once in a while. I'm saying the fact that he's going to lead the league in HBPs DOES have to do with his stance.

Craig Biggio - one hbp per 43.8 plate apperances, career Carlos Quentin - one hbp per 22.7 plate apperances, mlb career. Plus he led the minors in hbp for two years in a row. I'm sure his stance (elbow close to the plate, gigantic back turned towards pitcher) has NOTHING to do with it.

How many HBP RBIs does Carlos have? 3? 4?

QUOTE (north side chi sox fan @ Apr 27, 2008 -> 03:04 PM) Hawk said BA got an rbi... gameday has him without an rbi It was scored as a fielders choice with an error. Farmer said that Fahey had no angle at home and no shot at first. Farmer said it shold've been an infield hit with two errors.

MacDougal HAS been bad. 1.7 WHIP and a 1:1 K:BB ratio. That's just asking for trouble. Ehren has been excellent this year in Charlotte and last year in the majors he had a 1.17 WHIP and a 2:1 K:BB ratio.

Jermaine is suppose to be back tomorrow. Don't expect BA to play.

I can't believe that Steve Trachsel has an American league rotation spot.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Apr 26, 2008 -> 02:38 PM) lets see. Ramirez in CF over Anderson. Uribe is basically cemented at 2b. Maybe that report of Ozzie playing favorites to latin players is true... Are you saying that Ozuna, Richar, and Ramirez aren't latin enough to play 2b for Ozzie, but Uribe is?

QUOTE (ChiSox35 @ Apr 22, 2008 -> 01:11 PM) Thought I heard on the Score that A-Rod wasn't in today, but I was half asleep so it could have also been something else. Just printed my ticket out (damn I miss my 27-gamer...). There's talk of rain today? Yup... http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20...sp&c_id=mlb

QUOTE (soxwon @ Apr 21, 2008 -> 10:20 PM) done deal, you fools, i guess you think the sox dont have a chance huh? That's right, kids. If you don't like Da Rev, then it must mean you think the White Sox are bad.

I think a banner in the outfield with an artist's rendition of his mustache would be more appropriate.