Feeky Magee

Imagine the reaction on here if that was De Aza

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/11493214/v323...e-sox-with-slam Love the Spanish commentary guy. Sayonara baby!

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 25, 2014 -> 10:56 PM) Jesus doesn't have the stuff to be a closer, man. He's a middle reliever all the way. Jesus saves

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 25, 2014 -> 01:05 PM) Nate Jones walked 26 people in 78 innings last year. Addison Reed, who you believe would save this season, walked 23 people in 71.1 innings last year. If each of them pitched 100 innings, that is a difference of...1 walk. Yeah but what if that player that walked tripped on his way to first base and Jose Abreu tore his ACL trying to avoid him and the White Sox injected him with horse placenta to try to cure him and he had an allergic reaction and died. Are you trying to tell me that you don't care about Nate Jones inevitably murdering Jose Abreu?

Using the "useless stats for middle relievers" argument, Nate Jones was 8-0 in 2012. Kid's a born winner. Should be our no.1 starter.

Micah Johnson has doubled and homered within the first 2 innings

QUOTE (SCCWS @ Apr 24, 2014 -> 05:09 PM) Possibly better???? Reed had 40 saves last year on one of the worst teams in basball. Those 40 saves ranked him 7th overall in saves. You are dreaming if you expected Jones to be better. Jones , healthy might get 20 saves. I have no problem with the trade since the Sox needed to rebuild, but Reed will be very difficult to replace. 2013 Nate Jones: FIP - 2.64 xFIP - 2.77 SIERA - 2.56 2013 Addison Reed: FIP - 3.17 xFIP - 3.77 SIERA - 3.19 Why couldn't he get a similar amount of saves?

Jose seems to be struggling on sliders away

I guess Eaton is still hurting

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 24, 2014 -> 01:56 PM) He's still has final approval, and if an ESPN story is correct, he vetoed Hahn last year on a Middlebrooks for Peavy deal. , If you don't think Cooper is the most powerful pitching coach in baseball and only responsible for the good, and every think you think is wrong is Ventura's idea, you're more than a little off. Do you have a link to the Middlebrooks thing?

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Apr 24, 2014 -> 01:47 PM) No, it was a not a slight. I was saying for someone who came in with little or no knowledge of the game, that was a very astute comment you made about Cleto, and I feel the exact same way. They need to hone his control in situations that won't hurt the team. Don't give up on his arm, but don't put him in situations where he is likely to fail either. Build him up for it. Sorry, I misinterpreted. Thanks!

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Apr 24, 2014 -> 01:39 PM) Are you the guy from Ireland who doesn't know anything about baseball? I'm from Ireland, yes. I feel like I've learned a lot about baseball but I accept that others will inevitably know more. I think Cleto is a fairly easy case to analyse though, he just can't throw strikes. Until he learns how to, I would say it's a fairly uncontroversial opinion to say the Sox should stop putting him in for high-leverage situations, no?

Yeah, can we stop doing this now?

I just don't get it. If you want to gamble on Cleto's stuff and have him work on it, then you should be hiding him at the back of the bullpen. We won a game by 14 runs the other day and he wasn't put in. Yet he's continuously getting put in in high-leverage situations when the only good stat he has this year is a fluky ERA. (Granted he's been a touch unlucky today but he's been very lucky other days)

We should definitely keep putting the guy who walked 53 batters in 53.1 AAA innings last year in for 1-run games. It's solid as heck planning.

That's a joke. Not even remotely close.

Worse right-field defence - Garcia or Viciedo?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 24, 2014 -> 10:07 AM) Almost exactly, yes. Thanks!

This is in an hour yes?

QUOTE (danman31 @ Apr 23, 2014 -> 11:02 PM) It's easy to say it's not about the trophies when they flow in regularly. FC United haven't won a trophy for 3 years

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Apr 23, 2014 -> 09:41 PM) Good win I was 30 feet behind semien's homer. Good thing you weren't 30 feet behind Abreu's homer, you would've been in the Cell.

QUOTE (Ozzie Ball @ Apr 22, 2014 -> 09:13 PM) I really think it was the right decision. Even factoring in that it's a transitional period for the club, and that they had an awful summer with Ed Woodward overseeing his first transfer window, and an aging squad, that's no excuse for going from 1st to 7th. Even worse is the performance. You can forgive some poor results if there are signs of positive performances. But that just hasn't been the case. Last year Liverpool were disappointing under Brendan Rogers, but you could see exactly what his strategy was, and exactly what he was trying to do with that team. I cannot say the same about Moyes. He seems very defensive, more concerned with stopping opponents than trying to win games, it feels. Perhaps naive tactically too, no power, pace or creativity to United's game, they simply bang some crosses into the box and hope someone gets on the end of them, very one-dimensional and therefore easy to play against. And that's been the case more or less from his first game to his last. No signs of progression or improvement. As for a successor, I really like Jurgen Klopp. Love the way he has set up his Dortmund teams. Exciting attacking sides full of creativity and purpose. Spot on, all of this. This notion of giving manager's time is the most overrated notion in football. Stability for stability's sake is a fool's errand. Stability should be earned. As you point out, Rodgers is a great example of when a manager should be given time despite results not being that good. Would they be in the same position if they simply gave Roy Hodgson time? No, because Hodgson was out of his depth, just like Moyes.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Apr 22, 2014 -> 08:26 PM) Didn't know Moyes was that hated outside of overly entitled and spoiled United fans. Moyes was utterly dreadful. Just the antithesis of everything United was supposed to be about. United have won enough that I'd gladly take years of no trophies, as long as the club wasn't actively hurting itself and the football was watchable. Hell, you're almost as likely to find me at 7th-tier FC United as you are to find me at Old Trafford, so it's not all about the trophies to me. But he was awful. His footballing philosophy resulted in turgid football, completely unsuited to the players at the club. His media statements were laughable at the best of times. His substitutions were terrible. His dithering in the transfer market renowned. His selection policy bizarre. His man-management was risible. He just didn't have it in him. Completely out of his depth. If it was any other club than United, with all the fairy-dust bollocks about not being a "sacking club", he would have been gone a long time ago. The squad absolutely needs strengthening to compete at the highest level, but anyone even attempting to argue that Moyes did anything less than an appalling job just wasn't paying close enough attention.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Apr 23, 2014 -> 08:47 PM) Really? Not Courtney Hawkins? I'm talking from a purely aesthetic point of view. I love watching great defensive shortstops. (If it helps, assume for the scenario that whomever you pick, they will have the same value.)

If I could pick one guy in the system and the baseball gods would let him make it, it'd be him