chw42

When I saw the Bulls lead by like 30ish, I immediately thought of last year and that game against Sacramento...don't know why.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Dec 22, 2010 -> 09:48 AM) And that would effectively end my time as a Sox fan. That would be a terrible swap. You just said that would be a huge haul on the last page...lol. I was talking about them being part of the deal, not just those two. Romine would obviously be in it as well as Betances.

If we can get Joba and Nova back for Danks, I'd be all for that trade.

lol @ Rex Ryan's profile page description.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Dec 21, 2010 -> 03:55 PM) Rotoworld thinks Jenks is a relative bargain compared to the rest of the free agent deals handed out to relievers this offseason. Perhaps they don't have time to be objective when they are fellating all things Red Sox. Even in a good season WAR-wise in 2010, he was only worth about $6 million. And those numbers aren't even sustainable considering his FIP was that low because he didn't allow that many home runs. Yet, that was because his FB% was an incredibly low 20.8%. Bobby's probably going to have a better ERA next year, but his FIP isn't going to be under 3 again.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Dec 21, 2010 -> 03:31 PM) Compared to chw42? I don't think so. I once asked him for his phone number and he said wOBA .815-456 and gave me a Win Probability added of 1.43 of guessing the other 4 numbers. I love playing hard to get, you're not the only one.

A Yankees fan from another forum brought up a possible deal for Edwin Jackson. Sox would get: David Robertson, Manny Banuelos, PTBNL That's one pretty good pitching prospect, a good bullpen arm, and $8.75 million of salary relief. Might not make a whole ton of sense for our rotation, but in terms of the entire team, it might not be the worst thing.

That broadcast yesterday was just horrible in general. They sucked off Favre for the entire first quarter, it was just awful.

That's definitely game. Cutler with 20 TDs on the year now. Awesome.

Favre clearly fumbled that ball and they blew the play dead...

Thome hit a lot of opposite field home runs with the White Sox. I don't know why everybody thought he always pulled the ball. 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Thome hit at least 1/3 of his home runs to the opposite field and at least half of them weren't pulled from 2006 to 2010. You can tell by just staring at the charts. Part of this was probably because his bat speed was declining, but I don't think you can say he was selfish by saying he always pulled the ball. Especially when a good amount of home runs he hit were to the opposite field, more so in the past few years.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Dec 20, 2010 -> 04:47 PM) Nice work. And lol at CQ's UZR and DR projections. What's sad is that would be a substantial improvement over the debacle that was his 2010 defense. I just took his UZR/150 from LF. I did that with the hope that his foot injuries are now healed somehow.

Well, AP being out just screwed my fantasy team. But who cares about that. Bears have a much better chance to win now.

Oh what the hell. They could have avoided all of this in the first place by playing in Detroit. So stupid. This totally f***s with the Bears.

Since I was bored on my first day of my winter internship... Name Pos. PA wOBA UZR BR DR RR PR RAR WAR A.J. Pierzynski C 517 0.312 0 -8.1 0 17.2 10.6 19.7 2 Ramon Castro C 125 0.325 0 -0.5 0 4.2 2.7 6.4 0.6 Paul Konerko 1B 626 0.372 -4.2 22.9 -4.2 20.9 -11.7 27.9 2.8 Dayan Viciedo 1B 125 0.324 -2.9 -0.7 -2.9 4.2 -4 -3.4 -0.3 Gordon Beckham 2B 605 0.338 1.2 4.2 1.2 20.2 2.3 27.9 2.8 Brent Morel 3B 544 0.339 4.4 4.3 4.4 18.1 2.2 29 2.9 Omar Vizquel 3B 248 0.279 3.1 -11 3.1 8.3 1.4 1.8 0.2 Alexei Ramirez SS 614 0.327 8.3 -1.6 8.3 20.5 7.2 34.4 3.4 Juan Pierre LF 677 0.304 7.7 -11.3 7.7 22.6 -7.3 11.7 1.2 Alex Rios CF 607 0.343 5.8 6.9 5.8 20.2 2.2 35.1 3.5 Carlos Quentin RF 562 0.362 -12.8 15.6 -12.8 18.1 -6.3 14.6 1.5 Mark Teahen RF 244 0.328 -3.1 -0.42 -3.1 8.1 -2.9 2.5 0.3 Adam Dunn DH 674 0.383 0 31.1 0 22.5 -17.3 36.3 3.6 Total N/A 6168 0.333 7.5 51.38 7.5 205.1 -20.9 243.9 24.5 Last year, the White Sox position players combined for about 18.1 WAR. This is a 6.4 win improvement. All offensive stats were taken from Bill James' Handbook. The defensive stuff was mostly done by me based on career UZR/150 values at said position. If the pitching holds up, the Sox could win 95ish games with this offense. I know the Morel projections are overly optimistic, but that's not exactly my doing.

Kearns signs with Indians for $1.3 million. I've wanted Kearns on this team since the start of the off-season. Oh well. At that price, he would have been a nice 4th outfielder.

Wow, two straight weeks of playing in harsh weather. This totally sucks.

lol @ Freddy as the second best free agent pitcher remaining. I'd take Jeremy Bonderman or Brad Penny before I give Freddy any kind of good money. The risk you take by signing any of those three is about equal and both Bonderman and Penny have much more talent than Freddy at this point.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Dec 19, 2010 -> 10:29 PM) Well the Bucs havent totally drowned yet. If the Packers can beat the Giants and then the Bears can beat the Packers, then Tampa still has a chance. That's assuming that the Giants would also lose their last game and the Bucs win out. I believe the Giants have the best in-conference record right now and the Packers and Bucs are both 6-4. It's a long shot, but it's possible.

Well, that was very bad clock management. Bears can clinch with a win tomorrow.

Come on Pats D, stop the Pack here.

Home runs aren't used in calculating BABIP. So those doubles that turn into homers aren't accounted for at all when BABIP is calculated. Plus, since the fences are in closer, outfielders tend to play closer to the infield, meaning less squib hits and duck snorts and maybe even less line drives for hits. That, or it's because our hitters love to hit fly balls due to the park, which I can say is somewhat true.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 19, 2010 -> 01:44 PM) Do the Brewers have anyone at the back end of their bullpen? John Axford, LaTroy Hawkins, Todd Coffey, and Carlos Villanueva? Axford was pretty good last year, but the rest I listed were meh at best. The Brewers haven't had a good bullpen for a while.

Brewers should have a pretty good shot at the Central if everyone stays healthy (especially Marcum). A rotation of Greinke, Gallardo, Marcum, Narveson, Wolf/Parra is pretty good.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Dec 19, 2010 -> 11:22 AM) Cubs fans are dumber than I ever imagined. Apparently if you take 2009 away Greinke is Ryan Dempster. Not realizing the undeniable fact that Greinke will be even better in the NL. Then a couple other idiots claim the Royals got "fleeced." Pathetic. lol, who said the Royals got fleeced? This is a great deal for them.