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QUOTE (shysocks @ Apr 30, 2015 -> 01:14 PM) Well, I'll tell ya Stonepony... it's got a lot to do with Bo Porter. Before they got rid of 'im, he planted the seeds in those young players and taught them the right mindset. So much of baseball is between the ears. And that team's lucky they had a guy around who understood that. #mindset #approach

I just wanted to point out that the Astros are 14-7. I had no idea. Huh.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 30, 2015 -> 11:35 AM) Keith Law really doesn't think Fulmer can be a starter. I have similar concerns from the games I've seen the last month or so. Ryan (Nashville) Given that Carson Fulmer holds his stuff late into games and has, knock on wood, never had injury problems, is there a non-zero chance he can be a starter? It seems like sometimes there are just funky guys that it works for (Sale, Lincecum), so could you see a team in the top 15 take a chance on him thinking he can start? Klaw (1:27 PM) Two questions. Do I think he can start? Absolutely not. Incredibly violent, max-effort delivery that currently has him with 40 fastball command. Yes, he holds his stuff and hasn't been hurt, but he also pitches every seventh day, and Vandy handles their arms as well as any program in the country. Do I think someone will take him in the top 15? I'd give you even money on that. FWIW, McDaniel seems to have the exact opposite view. He admits to being high on Fulmer specifically because he believe he CAN start.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 29, 2015 -> 08:55 PM) Three days ago, the White Sox were on top of the world, best bullpen on earth, etc. Now we're back in the doldrums, Samardzija needs to be traded before the deadline, Ventura sucks because his team came out flat and the offense is in a malaise, Eaton's not the same player he was in 2014, Abreu can't field and LaRoche should be at 1B, etc. Total 180 degree change. Look, we've established that gamethreads are how we vent emotions. If you watched yesterday, you'd understand that it was a huge piece of s*** and so we all felt like s***. You don't have to read them if you don't want to.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 29, 2015 -> 01:33 PM) Obviously, but is he really a 9 figure pitcher? Ultimately, I think he probably he is, but he sure as hell pitched like s*** today and it didn't even look like he was trying, so I'm angry at him and so f*** him today.

I don't see much of any reason to believe that Davidson has become ML ready. He's hitting a little better, overall, but it's much of the same as last year -- plenty of power but not nearly enough to make up for way too many strikeouts. Sure, those numbers applied directly would be better than Conor right now, but they're going to get worse against better competition.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 29, 2015 -> 12:55 PM) Actually his second half in 2013 was pretty awesome. I don't know why he upsets you so much. His second half was so good, it propelled him to 0.4 fWAR for the year. The 0.1 fWAR he's earned this year by starting off awesome is sitting on the back of a FIP almost exactly two runs higher than his ERA, a 68% (!) GB rate, and a 90% (!!!) strand rate. That isn't just unsustainable, that's impossible. No man, it's still a terrible contract that we should be thrilled not to have. It's ok to be wrong about a guy. I'll eat crow on clamoring for Saltalamacchia all day, for example.

The best thing to do at this point is forfeit the game and do some I/O.

Alright well I'm done. Have fun guys.

Samardzija just throwing 90 mph meatballs letter high every pitch.

f*** baseball

Wow. Embarrassing. Nice showing guys

First good pitch of the night for Shark

Abreu has been a complete defensive liability so far this year.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Apr 29, 2015 -> 10:39 AM) Almost. Move the [ / color] to the end of your post. Most appropriate post for your username, ever.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 29, 2015 -> 08:24 AM) For future reference, it's HIPAA. *HIPPO

QUOTE (Hawkfan @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 11:12 PM) It is too late now, but 8m a year sure seems cheap looking back at the crap we went through. AJ4L. If it wasn't for the recent awareness of personal attcks I'd tell all the sabermetrics fans to suck a dick. Yep, if not for all those warnings, I'd tell you to go f*** yourself. But I'm not saying that, because of the warnings. So this doesn't count as a personal attack.

The thing about AJ that everyone forgets is that his defense is terrible. By all the things we can count, we know he's among the absolute worst at pitch framing, pitch blocking, and throwing out runners. The only reason we "think" he's good at calling a game is because Hawk says it all the time and we don't actually know enough to argue otherwise.

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Apr 29, 2015 -> 07:25 AM) I think Flowers gets a little too much hate around here and AJ maybe a little bit too much love by certain posters. I'm not going to say that Flowers is as good as AJ was/is, but Flowers had a 1.6 fWAR last year. AJ's average in his 8 years with the Sox was also 1.6 and that's pretty heavily skewed by his 3.5 fWAR season in 2012 where he somehow hit 27 homers. His average fWAR in his other 7 seasons was 1.3. Yeah I think we all agreed that Flowers had a lucky and non-repeatable year to get that 1.6 fWAR. AJ's lucky and unrepeatable year was the 3.5 fWAR. This year, Flowers has managed -0.1 fWAR and, sadly, his BABIP is still inflated. I'm not advocating that we get AJ at all, but Flowers is terrible.

QUOTE (Tex @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 03:16 PM) They probably will for the TV cameras. I'm thinking this may be the highest viewed game of the year that doesn't feature the Yankmees of the Red Sox It's also the free game of the day on mlb.tv

QUOTE (Tex @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 10:36 AM) Just thinking about tickets. If you have tickets for Section 201 Row D Seats 15 and 16 and those seats do not exist in the other park, or are substantially different, where do people sit? Do you exchange tickets at the gate? How long would that process take? It seems like it would take more than a day for logistics. Parking, etc etc. Exchanging tickets would be a complete disaster. The box office just can't take that kind of volume. Unless no one showed up, I guess, which would be possible. They'd have to find a way to scan the existing tickets in, IMO. Which would be simple if both parks use the same ticketing vendor (i.e. TicketMaster/Archtics), but virtually impossible if they didn't, unless there would be some way to utilize existing hardware/infrastructure.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 10:23 AM) They've had ample time since 5pm yesterday, in my opinion. Call up a company of 200-300 employees at 5PM and try to get them to come in the next day when they're scheduled to be off. Honestly, I'm sure the front office staff could work it with no issue, but the vast majority of the "Gameday" staff (concessions, ticket takers, ushers, guest relations, janitorial) are hourly, non-full time, and unionized in separate unions. Possible? Certainly, but a tall, tall order, indeed. And it would involve several frantic, desperate people making a bunch of phone calls all night. And, perhaps most importantly, the organization that would be required to pull the miracle off has no skin in the game at all (Nationals).

QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 10:22 AM) You guys are all a part of that WSI groupthink. Trading for a guy who's out for over a year, will have had two TJ surgeries and is owed almost 90 million IS the right move. Wait, Bailey is gonna be on his second? Yeah, sorry caulfield, I think there might be literally NO precedent for someone being a successful starter after two TJs. Some relievers, sure.

Dumping a problem for another problem is bound to be a wash. Danks for anything that would be worth Danks would be like that, whether for Bailey, Hamilton, etc.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 27, 2015 -> 09:33 PM) Quite the bomb dropping right after returning from paternity leave. He'll get over it by counting his millions.