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Eh, I guess we needed to give him 3. Whatever. Now our offense is set.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Dec 8, 2010 -> 03:20 AM) What's your machine's wOBA? Haha, I don't know. But it does render cool ass images. Like this one... And this... Cool result, but god damn the work sucked. And no, I don't know what the hell the first image is.

Just finished my last machine problem. I do hate computer engineering...

Jim Hendry just had to ruin the 1B market didn't he? Ugh.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Dec 7, 2010 -> 04:18 PM) He's on the Score right now basically saying that half an hour ago KW was ready to announce the signing then something went horribly wrong and it's quite possibly 100% over, as in KW has already said goodbye. He says the sticking point is likely that Konerko wants that $15M a year to be a higher paid player than Dunn, KW expected this number to come down but it did not. This is probably for the best: $15M a year is a joke, I have a huge problem with paying a guy based on what he's done and not what he's going to do. There's no way in hell Konerko is a $15M a year deal over the next 3 seasons. Cowley says D Lee's name is picking up steam and I say hell yeah. Yup.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Dec 7, 2010 -> 11:37 AM) Yep. He didn't earn the $60 million over the life of the deal. He also failed to earn his yearly salary in 3 of the 5 years of the contract, according to fangraphs' value measurements. Now he is 5 years older and he wants a pay raise? Well, the baseball economics of 5 years ago aren't the same as they are now. Players are getting paid more for their power and Konerko had 39 homers last year. If Paulie hit 9 less home runs and 9 more doubles, I don't think he'd be asking for $15 million a year.

QUOTE (MurcieOne @ Dec 7, 2010 -> 02:50 AM) I like Lovie Smith the man. I don't like Lovie Smith the football coach. I don't care that his personality is as interesting as wallpaper. The issues that I have Lovie Smith come from odd personnel decisions, poor clock management, poor replay challenge decisions, stubbornness and the lack of development of our draft picks. I guess my question is. . . what makes Lovie a good coach? What does he do (doesn't call plays)? What is his stamp on this team (takeaways?)? The only players that I feel have really developed under his tenure are Lance Briggs, Charles Tillman and maybe Daniel Manning. I know that Angelo is ultimately responsible for acquiring talent, but some blame for draft failures belongs on the coaching staff too (which Lovie is responsible for). Anyone remember Zachary Bowman? Lovie was on his jock all summer long and even named him the #1 CB during training camp. Bowman hasn't substantively played since being benched in favor of Tim Jennings week 3 against the Packers. Again, what makes him a good coach? Does he influence the offense? I suppose its possible he told Martz to rein things in. Has he helped Dave Toub make the Bears a consistent force on special teams? I don't really know, nut it doesn't really seem like it. Does he help Rod Marinelli call the defense? Maybe, but it doesn't really appear that he does. I guess that leads me to: If he isn't calling plays, and he has trouble developing talent . . . then what is his stamp on this team? If I had to argue on his behalf, I'd say that he is a good leader of men. The players seem to genuinely love him. They play hard for him. That is an admirable quality but a good coach should get his team to play hard regardless of their feelings for him. I'd rather have a head coach who was truly an expert at something. Like Rex Ryan on Defense (ignoring tonight), BB on Defense, or Andy Reid on the Offensive side. It follows that I do not believe that Lovie Smith is an expert on defense. Still, if the Bears make the playoffs I believe he deserves to fulfill the final year of his contract regardless of the result. A playoff berth this year would be no small feat and earns Smith a chance to develop this offense under Martz (hoping that he stays) and add to this rag-tag defensive secondary. The Bears should not, however, rush into extending his contract. I still don't believe that this is an elite football team and this team needs to show that it can compete in all phases of the game. /end diatribe. +1.

Quentin's degrading fielding skills are definitely the results of injuries.

Screw Konerko, we got our plan Zs!

QUOTE (Pale Sox @ Dec 7, 2010 -> 12:48 AM) I'm not a big Quentin guy. I'm not holding my breath on another 2008. Even in 2008 I was a little skeptical. He had some no-doubters, but he also had a good share of wall-skimmers. In 2008 I had my choice of a signed Quentin ball or a signed Floyd ball, and I took the Floyd ball without hesitation - even knowing his peripherals. After last year, I've had enough of Quentin too. If he wasn't so bad on defense, I'd like him a lot more. He's adequate enough offensively to be a corner outfielder, even if half of it came in the span of a week and a half.

Pence and Quentin actually aren't far apart offensively. Pence is the much better fielder though. Quentin has the higher ceiling with the bat (Pence's ceiling wOBA might be .360ish) though.

QUOTE (Pale Sox @ Dec 6, 2010 -> 11:54 PM) Bourn isn't mediocre speed. He's had two straight 4+ WAR seasons. He might be the best defensive CF in baseball. We have enough range in the OF as is. As long as our RF isn't a -20-30 defender, we should be okay. I'd give Viciedo and Quentin for Pence right now.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Dec 6, 2010 -> 11:52 PM) The Sox have enough mediocre speed. Pence would be a bigger coup. Maybe Wade would be stupid enough to do Quentin + prospect for Pence.

QUOTE (Pale Sox @ Dec 6, 2010 -> 11:18 PM) Kevin Correia signed for 2Y/$8MM.......yikes. If I'm Freddy, I'm looking for at least that. Correia was brutal last year pitching in effing Petco. That's awful. Yeah, Freddy will get 2 and $12 if Correia gets that.

If the Pats did this to the Jets, I don't want to know what's going to happen this Sunday.

Very good win. Boozer absolutely dominated and made up for whatever Rose did not provide on offense. That's going to be the major difference between this year and last year. We finally have a legit second option on the inside.

Lol, they T'd Sefalosha and Boozer for basically nothing.

Rose is having an awful shooting night right now. Also turning the ball over more than normal. Still beating the Thunder by 17 though. I'll take it.

SI_JonHeyman Putz gets $10 mil guaranteed, 2 years from arizona I don't think the Sox wanted to give him two years.

QUOTE (knightni @ Dec 6, 2010 -> 06:44 PM) Ryan Madson please. I would heavily doubt that.

Putz has agreed to sign with the Diamondbacks. Per Rosenthal.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Dec 6, 2010 -> 03:40 PM) His linedrive rate didn't see a significant jump between 08 and 09 although there was a 2 year period where his line drive rate was quite low. His K/9 increased this past season and his ground ball rate increased as well. I'm not disagreeing that Jenks threw some meatballs, but I also believe his numbers were inflated because a higher percentage of his mistakes were taken advantage of than is the "norm". I.e., the luck aspect. And I'm not one to throw out these advanced stats too often, but for 2M a year, I think the Sox would be fools not to bring him back. His LD rate stabilized at the end of the year. I think it was around 25% for a good portion of the season, which is pretty bad.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Dec 6, 2010 -> 03:35 PM) Unlucky? It was that high because he was routinely getting hammered. Lots of fastballs down the middle will give you a .370 BABIP alright.

QUOTE (Pale Sox @ Dec 6, 2010 -> 03:07 PM) I wonder what it would take to get Broxton.... is Colletti dumb enough to sell low on him? He lost his closer's job, so maybe?

Wow, I just found out that Marcum got traded for Lawrie. I'm late to the party...