Feeky Magee

QUOTE (Señor Ding-Dong @ Jul 20, 2015 -> 06:39 PM) As one of our many toolsy OFs, he might still have a chance to be a 4th OF type, which is more than what can be said of the departed Jared Mitchell. He's hitting .225 /.287 /.270 as an almost 25-year-old at AA, a year on from hitting .155/.231/.236. I don't see him having any chance.

QUOTE (BrianAnderson @ Jul 23, 2015 -> 11:52 AM) When the Sox lose this board gets fun! De Aza would be the savior to this team?? The same one that got DFA'ed?? The same player I've watched over the past 3-4 years?? He was the epitome of this team -- bad defense, bad base running, selfish hitter who went for power and struck out a ton, was very hot and cold at the plate ... am I missing something? He's an older version of what Viciedo and Garcia are. The only difference is Garcia is cheaper, younger, and hopefully, with some right direction may be able to turn himself into something good. Or may turn into Viciedo or De Aza. This is literally different to the facts. De Aza is a career positive-rated baserunner and defender. To believe he is bad at those things, you have to believe that the stats get it badly wrong on him every single year. Alternatively, you, and others, have evaluated those things based on a few memorable incidents that stuck in your mind but weren't really a good summary of his skills at those things. I prefer the latter explanation. A selfish hitter who struck out a ton? I mean, they're just words. What do they even mean? He's a career .268/.329/.407, exactly major league average. If you believe the defence of De Aza and the defence of Garcia are equivalent then I don't even know what to say to you. And nobody is saying De Aza would be the saviour here or anything. I just posted it as he was completely unfairly maligned as a White Sox player and we have a much worse player who has managed to trick the franchise into believing he has a bright future who gets about a tenth of the criticism.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 23, 2015 -> 11:27 AM) The thing you ignore, which is odd since you seem to be very concerned with JR's bank account, is De Aza also makes $4.5 million more than Avi. But let's revisit when Avi is hot and De Aza is cold. Price of a win on the open market is about $7m, making him fine value. Avi on the other hand is not even good value at the league minimum. QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 23, 2015 -> 11:27 AM) It is the typical De Aza pattern. He performs when he moves on to the new team, and then slowly slides back into his garbage self. The guy already got DFA'd once this year. He did the same thing when he came to the Sox, and when he went to Baltimore. He'll soon fall apart. Again. Garbage:

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 23, 2015 -> 10:58 AM) Maybe, but this was bumped when De Aza was on a hot streak and at the peak of his value. Feeky likes to mention BABIP, yet, he isn't even looking at De Aza's. I'll use a line he used for Avi, he is going to crash, and crash hard. He loves to bump threads the second he supposedly looks good, like second Flowers dipped below .200, and when Semien had an .850 OPS. He remains silent when the tide turns the other way. De Aza was underappreciated, but to really think the White Sox would be a better team with him and not Avi is so beyond laughable. What are you even talking about? De Aza's BABIP this year is .331. De Aza's career BABIP is.......... .330. And Semien has cooled off big time but is still a valuable player, and would be more valuable at 2B. Meanwhile Phegley is mashing, Ravelo is killing it at AA and Bassitt is contributing at MLB, although I'm not sure if he'll keep that up. My prediction about that was about the whole trade, not just Semien. It's like the least laughable thing ever to think the White Sox would be better off with career 10 WAR player De Aza than career -1.6 WAR Garcia. Albeit De Aza is not as good as he used to be.

Hitting .263/.317/.450 this year with almost average defence, worth 1.0 WAR so far. Meanwhile, Avisail Garcia is hitting .269/.319/.377 with completely horrendous defence, good for a -0.7 WAR. But please, tell me more about how Alejandro is just a bad baseball player and Avi is the future of the franchise.

Avi by fWAR: 2013: -0.5 2014: -0.4 2015: -0.6 He is a historically bad defender, a bad baserunner and limited with the bat because of his awful pitch recognition skills. Prior to this season, his statistics at the same age looked much like Dayan Viciedo's. Now? They're actually worse, because the power isn't showing up. If you're still convinced there's a chance it does, stick him at DH. But everything to me suggests he is just not a valuable baseball player and I wouldn't be looking to have him on the roster in 2016.

Samardzija should have a perfecto going as he'd struck out Goins before he walked

QUOTE (SCCWS @ Jul 8, 2015 -> 10:49 AM) Things could change over the next few weeks. Davidson and especially Thompson are struggling the last few weeks so I think they will not come up until the fall. Johnson is pretty hot so I could see him come back. Kotteras has stuggled( .215 avg) at the majors his whole career. I could see Erik Johnson up to replace Shark. Teams rarely bring up struggling players from the minors although White Sox did w Sanchez and we see the results. Kottaras is exactly a major league average hitter for his career, .215/.326/.411, 100 wRC+.

Junior Guerra absolutely mowing them down in AAA. Has to be in our starting rotation before the end of the year, let's see what he's got.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 27, 2015 -> 09:35 AM) Guerra and Carroll moving out are givens. Why Guerra?

I'd be very wary about Marin. Dude has struck out just 11% of the batters he's faced at AAA. He'll have to improve mightily on that to be anything approaching a prospect in my book.

I'd consider Hanley if they sent a boatload of cash with it and move him back to shortstop. As a shortstop he was a 5 win player in half a season in 2013 and a 3 win player in 2014.

QUOTE (LDF @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 05:58 PM) the post of the week. i am in total agreement with you. in a normal situation, esp if the parent team is working on all cylinders, then yeah the team can sacrifice the defense for his bat. excellent thought process. It's not. .270/.333/.297 over .159/.207/.204 is a much larger gap than the difference in their defence.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 23, 2015 -> 07:02 PM) What about his 2014 in AAA? And why would you be anti Tyker Flowers? His AAA are oretty good. It was decent but the BABIP was on the high side and I needed to see it sustained more after an awful 2013. And I say to trust AAA numbers more often than not, there's always gonna be exceptions that largely come from players incapable of making adjustments. And one big thing to look out for at AAA beyond the mere triple slash is strikeout levels, Tyler's was always huge and that usually leads to big problems in the majors.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 23, 2015 -> 06:53 PM) Didn't you say we have to trust the AAA numbers? You trust them when they're sustained and not short-term and inflated by a crazy BABIP. I trust that a AAA walk rate of 3% and strikeout rate of 20% combined with a lack of power is probably not going to transition well to the majors

White Sox have the worst hitting, worst baserunning and second worst defence in the majors. -3.4 WAR is the team's batting WAR. Second worst is the Phillies at 1.3. #FeekysFunFacts

wRC+ for batters with over 110 PA: 200+: Bryce Harper 100-200: 254 guys 50-100: 126 guys 40-50: 9 guys 30-40: Jose Ramirez, Rene Rivera 20-30: Nobody 10-20: Nobody 0-10: Carlos Sanchez

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jun 22, 2015 -> 08:57 PM) Feeky has been on the Junior train all year. Just wait. You simply don't strike out that many guys out in the minors without being good. I've liked his stuff so far. s*** happens in small sample sizes.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jun 22, 2015 -> 08:55 PM) Well so much for Junior Settle down, a grounder and a homer. He's good.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jun 22, 2015 -> 08:48 PM) I'd rather have given Phegly 500 PA than Flowers. Everyone here was completely dismissive of Phegley because he was bad in a cup of coffee. I say it often enough, trust the AAA numbers. Oakland does and they're being rewarded for it.

Pretty cool how we have a catcher who has been an above average major league hitter each of his last 4 years hitting .333/.486/.648 at AAA and we're not even starting him... at AAA. I understand developing Kevan Smith but they're using a rotating DH just to get at-bats for non-prospect infielders.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 22, 2015 -> 08:07 PM) When? No one here saw anything about that. If I recall correctly the Knights put him on the DL with shoulder fatigue

Why Scott Carroll over Junior Guerra? What are we learning pitching Carroll?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 22, 2015 -> 07:58 PM) Then he will still be one at the All Star Break and maybe he'll have 8 straight great starts instead of 3. He'll still get a real solid look in the big leagues. As I said, I'm happy leaving him down there for now, but if Hahn actually believes this team even has a shred of a chance of turning it around as he says he does, Guerra/Johnson should be in the rotation ahead of Danks 5 days from now, they're unambiguously better options. I'm with you that the org needs to show more patience in general but we're not talking about a randomer who's had a few good starts, Johnson was an excellent prospect who put up great numbers all the way up and then had a crappy year when his velocity vanished. As soon as I heard Johnson's velocity was back I expected the results to follow and they have. 10.15 K/9 and 3.00 BB/9.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 22, 2015 -> 07:53 PM) In May he had 2 different games where he walked 4 people in 5 innings. 16 walks in 32 innings in May, 1.61 WHIP. He's been in a good groove for 4 starts and in the first of those he gave up 9 hits. Calling him up right now is such a completely normal, classic White Sox panic move that I can't believe people think it makes sense. Alternatively, instead of cherrypicking starts, he's walked 8% of batters he's faced all season, which is completely fine. Hell I'm happy with him down there for now and Danks sucking it up because I said all along this wasn't a good team and I want a high draft pick/pool, but he's easily a major league pitcher right now.