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Hey look, our only RHH to face Frieri walks....and our two lefties? Easy strikeouts. Again, thanks for checking the splits, Robin.

I guess Robin didn't feel like checking the splits on Frieri. LH are hitting like .085 against him. RH are hitting .261. THANKS FOR DOING YOUR HOMEWORK, ROBIN.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 10, 2013 -> 11:35 PM) If Toronto would make up the difference, maybe it would be a wise trade. Mark would return to form in an easy division like the Sox's. And Rios is good, but if the team is not a contender it'd be nice to have Mark back as sort of a player/coach. I'll politely just say..... no.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 10, 2013 -> 11:30 PM) Serious question. Would Toronto take a Rios for Mark trade man for man right now? In a heartbeat. Buehrle is older, worse, and has $37M left on his contract. Rios is younger, better, and has only $13.5M left.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 10, 2013 -> 11:26 PM) Not to make excuses for my favorite Sox, but what was Toronto thinking putting him in THAT division. Not a good match. They were just taking whatever Miami was giving away.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 10, 2013 -> 10:42 PM) To me, I think taking an outfielder would be a huge mistake with the first pick the Sox have. If Hawkins, Mitchell, Thompson and Walker all don't work out, then I don't want this organization trying to develop another outfielder when there is likely to be some good arms available. Same. I don't want to see a OF picked until we take a few LHPs, 3B, and SS's.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 10, 2013 -> 11:23 PM) Whatever the WAR is on espn's site. Right now, Sox have two hitters over .254 in the lineup. Yeah, ESPN uses bWAR for whatever reason. Most Sabr-heads fWAR.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 10, 2013 -> 11:10 PM) By the way, Keppinger and Dunn are now 1 and 2 in terms of worst WAR in all of baseball. Good thing they're batting 2nd and 4th. bWAR maybe. According to fWAR they are 1st (Kepp) and 5th (Dunn) worst hitters. Also, Konerko is 8th worst. Worst pitcher in baseball this year? Mark Buehrle.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 10, 2013 -> 11:09 PM) How cold is it at the Cell. 40s or 50s? It's warming up in KC so maybe your winter will end starting this weekend as it has here. High 30's.

Gillaspie is very good on those short picks off to his left.

QUOTE (DirtySox @ May 10, 2013 -> 10:36 PM) I'd love Stanek. He was considered a top 5 pick early this year. Stuff has been down a bit and some command issues, but he probably has the highest upside of the college arms that might be available at 17. Similar things could be said about Manaea if he fell that far. Rogers reiterated today that the Sox would love for Trey Ball to fall to them. I'd echo that sentiment, but kid has some major helium lately. Trey Ball or Moran are guys I was hoping for.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 10, 2013 -> 10:29 PM) I thought that was why we wanted Kepp. A contact hitter who walks a lot. Kepp has never walked "a lot". A career 6.4% walk rate, 5.7% last year w/ the Rays. The contact part they definitely wanted, and need to get more of, as his 10% K rate is good, but higher than his career norms. However, he has a horrid .210 BABIP. Keppinger is getting some bad luck.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 10, 2013 -> 10:22 PM) Tank's first walk! Alexei's really slumping though, and his slugging pct. is way down Alexei's power has fallen steadily since his career began. He's almost no threat to go deep anymore. 2008 - 21 HR, .475 SLG, .185 ISO 2010 - 18 HR, .431 SLG, .149 ISO 2011 - 15 HR, .399 SLG, .130 ISO 2012 - 9 HR, .364 SLG, .099 ISO 2013 - 1 HR, .339 SLG, .078 ISO

Andy Wilkins continuing his nice season in BIR. Hitting .305, OBP around .400, has 4 HR, .830-.840 OPS. Caulfield, I'm not sure where you got that Bassit line from, but my boxscore says 5 IP, 7 H, 0 ER, 3 BB, 5 K. Lowers his ERA to 1.71. Flavum, that was MICHAEL Johnson that got picked off, not Micah. Micah ends his night 2/4 with 1 BB, 2 SB. Hitting .310 now.

How much, if any, have you gotten to interact and learn from one of the best pitching coaches in baseball, Don Cooper?

Are there any pitches you are working on to add to your arsenal in the future?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 10, 2013 -> 02:47 PM) Pitchers were using PEDs probably more frequently than position players. Also, many of the guys who you might think or the stadium gun shows throw in the low 90s, aren't really. They are juiced up a bit. Also, if it were a HS pitcher throwing in the high 80s, they would probably project him to get into the 90s, and finally, yes, back 30 years ago or so, there were only a few guys on a staff that threw 90+. Now it's just the opposite. Guys are throwing harder these days, no question about it. Well, he was 22, drafted in the 5th RD, and as his scouting report accurately stated, he may die in A-Ball if he doesn't get a good coach. And he was right, he never made it out of A-Ball. Another guy on that same scouting report is listed as throwing his fastball at 83. Yikes.

Also, kind of funny that another report I saw on some no name pitcher, the scout says "Has above average velocity (88-89 mph)". Lol, back in 1985, high-80's was above average?

1985 - Randy Johnson - Montreal Expos scout.... "ML fastball, but curve-slider pitch is too big. Doesn't have enough consistency to be a major leaguer, although he has the arm"

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 10, 2013 -> 08:00 AM) I was going more for nationally, especially with a second homer call being blown the very next day. As soon as the one happened Wednesday night, a few national baseball writers brought up that he also blew a HR call on Monday, except none of them mentioned it was the Sox or Alexei, just that a HR call was blown 2 days prior.

QUOTE (danman31 @ May 10, 2013 -> 01:15 AM) Promoting a guy based on stolen bases seems like a bad idea. He needs to get on base to steal those bases at higher levels. He's doing well, but no need to rush him. But the Sox do love to rush their young guys. Either way, I really hope he comes up aces because I am not a Carlos Sanchez fan, so it'd be great if he could keep the seat warm for Micah if he continues to get on-base at the higher levels.

I was hoping Micah Johnson could reach W-S sometime in June, now I am thinking he could get there before May is even over. He clearly is not being challenged in Low-A ball. .303/.389/.477/.866, 6 2B, 5 3B (leads league), 29 SB (leads the world), 1 HR, 16 RBI, 14 BB, 27 K I guess you could argue hitting .303 in Low-A really isn't worthy of a promotion, but that OBP and SB is really exactly what we could use in a couple years.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 9, 2013 -> 11:50 PM) Do the Dodgers or Angels have anything great to give up for Konerko, Rios and Peavy or any combinations of those 3? It seems to me they have the money and might need a leader like Konerko, an athlete like Rios or a bulldog like Peavy. Can we rob them? What use do the Dodgers or Angels have for Konerko? You are talking about Adrian Gonzalez and Albert Pujols/Trumbo in those spots right now.

Minnesota was a nice warm-up for the playoffs. Hopefully we get the Dead Wings.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 9, 2013 -> 08:22 PM) Paradise Lost was one that I really struggled with in College. It was odd though, I really liked parts of it. But I would just get so bored at other parts and wanted to put it down and walk away Any relation to the story of the West Memphis Three?