chw42

The White Sox have no idea how to pitch to J.J. Hardy.

Morel has 20 HR power at best.

Guillen is overmannaging the bullpen like Tony LaRussa. But I can't complain about the Santos/Sale thing at all. Although if I'm Chris Sale, I wouldn't be so pleased that Ozzie is deliberately letting Santos vulture saves away from me.

The next 5 games are all winnable. Win all of them and you're definitely back in this thing.

QUOTE (Whitewashed in '05 @ Aug 9, 2011 -> 05:57 PM) It makes me mad to think he just now started making adjustments. He made them in June and started hitting better. Then he went back to sucking. I'm not going to buy into him being a good hitter again until he proves to me he can have more than a couple of good games in a row.

I was hoping for a walk in that PA, but the HR is way better.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 9, 2011 -> 12:54 PM) I believe that we can all recall last year how Pierre wasn't a terribly below average player because he played excellent defense in LF. The problem with Morel is that he's about 50 points behind Juan Pierre's wOBA from last year.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 9, 2011 -> 09:52 AM) And Tim Collins on the Royals was part of that deal too, with Pastornicky. Hmmmm.... Still not too confident that Yunel Escobar will anything remotely resembling a star, will just have to wait and see. Now back to the Blue Jays, oops White Sox game thread. Yunel Escobar's had one bad year. He may not be a superstar, but he's easily one of the better SS in baseball.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 9, 2011 -> 09:50 AM) Anthopoulos served as an advanced scout for the Greek National Baseball Team for the 2004 Summer Olympics. The Greek team finished in 7th place. Nobody plays baseball in Greece. It's hard to scout in North America to begin with, now imagine scouting in a country where maybe a thousand people play the sport.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Aug 8, 2011 -> 02:27 PM) Unless your name is Alex Anthopoulos. He can't spell mistake. I doubt he even knows how to spell his name (I don't)

When did Jo-Jo Reyes get traded to the Orioles?

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Aug 8, 2011 -> 03:09 PM) Yeah, I'm really sick of evaluating every single aspect of a baseball player based on OPS. I don't care if he's the best defensive 3B in the world, even that wouldn't make him a good player since his offense is so damn bad. Morel has so little power that his ISO is the same as Juan Pierre's! Yes, you read that correctly. Did I mention his SLG is lower than Pierre's as well? And did I also mention that his Batting Runs (based on wOBA) is 5 runs lower than Pierre's? You see everybody (mostly J4L) b****ing about Pierre's horrid offense and then you have...Brent Morel...who is even worse! Whoever told Morel to change his approach to a slappy singles hitter with no patience needs to get whacked with a bat. Because he would have been a lot more productive if he hit like he did in the short stint he was up here last season. To add on to this barrage of amazing Brent Morel facts... Morel is second to last in wOBA by a 3B in the AL with at least 250 PAs (3rd to last in all of baseball). He has the second worst wRC+ of any 3B in baseball. In both of those cases, he is only beaten by the one and only Chone Figgins. Morel's .252 wOBA (which is lower than his BA, something I've rarely seen) is 4th worst in all of baseball among players with at least 250 PAs, and his wRC+ is third worst in all of baseball. So...Morel needs to take some walks and stop hitting like Juan Pierre.

Reyes who?

Phew...

FINALLY!

TAKE HIM OUT!

TAKE HIM OUT! He should have been out of the game to start the inning.

Crainwreck #2 coming up...because of our manager.

WHY IS CRAIN STILL IN THE GAME?!?!

QUOTE (daa84 @ Aug 8, 2011 -> 07:56 PM) why in the world have we continued to pitch hardy inside Crain missed his spot.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 8, 2011 -> 07:52 PM) A Crainwreck is upon us. Always expect the worst. Two guys have killed the Sox today.

A Crainwreck is upon us.

QUOTE (JoshPR @ Aug 8, 2011 -> 07:48 PM) No bueno danks today? He was good until the third inning.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 8, 2011 -> 07:45 PM) Hawk said tonight that Walker tried to get him to move his hands back up early in the season and Rios resisted. Finally he moved them up and started hitting well. He then moved them back down again and struggled again. Now he's moved them back up again. lol I guess nobody outside of Konerko listens to Walker.

Maybe Danks should just hit Wieters next time. He's probably gonna get a hit off of him anyways.