Feeky Magee

Kiermaier's defensive statistics are completely insane. Wow. Means he's already put up a 2 WAR season even hitting below league average.

It scares me how totally confident everyone in the org is about Avi becoming, not just an average player, but a monster.

Guerra has some nasty stuff. Not hard to see why his strikeout rate at AA and AAA was so good.

Missed the start of this inning. My boy Guerra not do good or was it more the defence?

Alexei is guessing for about 90% of pitches nowadays

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 12, 2015 -> 07:13 PM) I would not have made those moves and thought the Samardzija for Semien move was exactly the opposite of what this franchise should have been doing before it was made. I talked myself into not being too angry afterwards and regret that I wasn't more pissed. An underrated bad part of it was trading Phegley. I hate this 4A crap. Hitters that hit at AAA more often than not end up hitting at MLB.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jun 12, 2015 -> 07:19 PM) Then who starts in Rodon's place? Guerra, if he shows he can handle major league hitting in a few outings. Otherwise, Erik Johnson.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 12, 2015 -> 07:18 PM) Eaton has gone from a top quartile to borderline bottom quartile CF. How??? His BABIP has dropped nearly 90 points which hasn't helped. I'd guess a lot of this is because he's making more contact on swings on pitches outside the zone and less contact on swings on pitches in the zone. Eaton contact on swings on pitches in strike zone %: 2012: 98.0 2013: 95.1 2014: 96.2 2015: 87.7 And his defence is rating really, really poorly.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jun 12, 2015 -> 07:12 PM) Webb has done well so far this season as well. QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 12, 2015 -> 07:15 PM) He's been good with Sox this year. In about 6 innings, chaps. In almost 100 innings between MLB and AAA between 2014 and 2015 he struck out a little over 7.5 per 9 and walked nearly 5.5 per 9. That's super not good.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 12, 2015 -> 07:11 PM) Was this a high-leverage situation? Yes 1 run but 6th inning? Reasonably so I would say. Rays win % chances were at about 80% 3-2 up with men at second and third. Probably goes to about 70% if they get out of it conceding no runs. It's now 97%.

Reminder that Webb was completely lousy at AAA this year

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 12, 2015 -> 07:08 PM) Not sure why Danks started this inning. If only they had a guy who is stretched for multiple innings and is striking the world out this year

Might as well keep rolling with my call that putting Daniel Webb in high-leverage situations is eventually gonna bite us in the ass

Is there any significant evidence that offence decreases with a move from 1B to DH? Seems crazy we have the much better defender DHing.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Jun 12, 2015 -> 06:57 PM) I agree with you here but you are looking at it with a bit of hindsight. Rodriguez is 36 and hasn't pitched more than 100 innings since 2012. Hammel pitched significantly worse than Samardzija when they were both on the A's. If we had picked up both those guys instead of Jeff before the season people wouldn't have been nearly as happy. Also McCarthy has been a big injury risk for a while now, but we do have a track record of keeping pitchers healthy. I said at the time I would have made those moves. I don't care if people wouldn't have been happy, I'm just saying what I would have done. And I didn't expect Hammel to outpitch Samardzija but I thought a few years of Hammel + Semien + Phegley + Bassitt + Ravelo > one year of Samardzija during a year where the team had holes.

Just saw Hector Santiago has a 2.55 ERA through 11 starts with the Angels. Peripherals are meh but that's still annoying.

I want Junior Guerra and I want him now

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jun 10, 2015 -> 10:59 PM) Yea but the stock right now is "buy". He's 22 and pitching in MLB, he was put in some really horse s*** spots early on. He's been lucky on HR rate no doubt but for the most part he's held his own and lately he's been turning it on. Also, the raw stuff is there. Those concerns about his fastball falling to 90-93 seem laughable at this point. I still can't believe in my lifetime the Sox drafted the #1 overall player in the draft by a huge margin and they somehow got him at #3. Thank god for the f***ing rules changes a couple years ago on bonuses. Whatever about Houston, Miami completely messed up. There's no way you should be taking Kolek over Rodon.

QUOTE (LDF @ Jun 12, 2015 -> 07:41 AM) i can see that you thought long and hard on this, but Hammels and Brandon..... you lost me. now you do not go that Robertson. nah... no offense. Hammel is pitching wonderfully with the Cubs and is a bargain. McCarthy was pitching excellently before he was injured bar a freaky HR/FB rate and who's to say he gets injured if he comes here. QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 12, 2015 -> 10:16 AM) We'd be in a lot worse position for both now and the future with this rotation. I don't see how you can possibly make that argument. With the rotation we started the year with, we had Danks and Noesi as number 4 and 5, with their SIERAs of 4.46 and 5.06. My rotation has Hammel and Rodriguez as the 4 and 5s, with SIERAs of 2.86 and 3.99. Again, McCarthy mightn't go down if he's here and his SIERA was 2.48 to Samardzija's was 3.91, not to mention the cost given up to get him. And even if you say he still probably gets injured, I have Rodon to come up, and I give Junior Guerra spot starts. As for the future, I have years of control on my pitchers that Samardzija doesn't and you don't want with Danks.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jun 11, 2015 -> 08:08 PM) Still don't understand the year too early comments. I know it's your opinion and all but is Sox management supposed to sit on its hands with an ideal situation in front of them ? They needed help and got help . With the rarity of Sox playoff appearances what's wrong with wanting to make the playoffs ? You can't fill every hole in one off season . They filled a few and who's to say they won't add even more next year or at the trade deadline. Maybe it's time you explained what you would've done this past off season with all the room to add salary and not having to give up a 1st rounder while also keeping in mind they have to put butts in the seats . What the Sox did was fine and it also stimulated the prospective season ticket buyers. If you think the Samardzija or other moves weren't good what should've the Sox added ? How much should the player payroll have been ? Hahn has repeatedly said they are trying to build a sustained winner . Were his moves contradictory to that sentiment ? He didn't sign anyone over 3 years except Robertson and it's quite possible that some of the Sox pitching prospects will come of age in that 1-3 year period adding to the sustainability. Well it was certainly a summer that money needed to be spent. I simply think we went the wrong way about it, buying players who have less long-term upside with little resale value if things go south. I would have spent money, just not in the same way. I've said I would not have made the Samardzija trade, so I now have Semien who I start at second, and Phegley who can platoon catch (as well as Ravelo who I believe can be a major league first baseman). I said I would have gone after Miguel Montero, who was picked up for a 40 future value rated prospect as well as a prospect not rated yet by Fangraphs, so I give up a little more than that, something like Hawkins/Thompson. I said I would have picked up Wandy Rodriguez off waivers. I would have outbid the Giants for Nori Aoki. I would have gone after Brandon McCarthy. I would have gone after Jason Hammel. Danks to the pen. I would have gone after Luke Hochevar. I would have seriously considered Headley, but apparently he only wanted the Yankees, so I would have gone for Jung-ho Kang and platooned him with Gillaspie. I go after Seth Smith and give up a little more than Maurer to do it. I DH Avi. Rotation: Sale Quintana McCarthy (blew out his arm, but maybe that doesn't happen here, if it does I'd promote from within) Hammel Rodriguez That's to start the year, and I have big depth (I love starting pitching depth) with Rodon, Junior Guerra, E.Johnson and my boy Surkamp as next in line to come up. Starting: Eaton CF Semien 2B Abreu 1B Smith LF Garcia DH Kang/Gillaspie platoon 3B Aoki RF Montero/Phegley platoon C Ramirez SS Bullpen: Danks Petricka Putnam Whichever 2 of Rodon/Guerra/Surkamp that are not in rotation Hochevar I believe I spend about 100 million in this scenario, accounting for overbidding other team, as well as assuming the remaining 40 million on Montero's contact. I think it results in a much better team (bar the bullpen) with players that can more easily be flipped if things go south.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jun 11, 2015 -> 05:54 PM) I think it has more to do with the experience. He is probably going to play for a little while so he sees what it's like and what the other ballplayers are like. Then he will transition out of the playing side and into a front office or scouting. Oh okay. This makes sense.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 11, 2015 -> 05:36 PM) Its like winning a Dundy, but in baseball. I personally think its silly too, though other teams do it. And its not a huge deal, as long as its at the very back end of the draft. The KW Jr pick in the 6th round years back, now that was just assinine and I hated that one. Winning a dundy? And no, it's not a huge deal, I just don't get where the advantage is even for the kid.

What is the point of the Reinsdorf draft? Like he's not signing and surely everyone knows it's a nepotism pick, so what gain is there? Is it the hope that some college sees "draft pick by the White Sox" on his CV and doesn't recognise the name? It might be a 0.001% chance that your 40th round pick does anything for you in the majors, maybe unlikely you even want to sign anyone at that point because of numbers, but I'm not seeing the advantage even for the Reinsdorf kid in the pick.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jun 11, 2015 -> 02:19 PM) He's barely in that range with a ~.370 BABIP. He gets HBP 1% of the time which is .1% above league average. Not nearly enough to make an argument for his OBP being in that level. Yup. I think his true talent is about .320ish.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jun 11, 2015 -> 01:52 PM) He was at .7 yesterday. Really? He was at .3 when I checked a couple of days ago. Well I guess he was dinged because his line of .000/.500/.000 decreased his wRC+ a little, he was caught stealing twice and they probably decided he could have done better on one of the hits to right, probably the Springer single in the first.