Feeky Magee

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Aug 26, 2014 -> 11:00 PM) Because of this loss, the Sox have moved from 10th pick to #8 pick. 1 GB of Twins for 7th pick. If the Rangers come back and win tonight, we will be 7 GB of the #1 pick. #IBelieveThatWeWillLose

In case you want something to go to after this ends, Bumgarner is perfect through 6 on 64 pitches

Man this guy has some kind of power. .300/.358/.608 for the Nats in AAA and then .387/.387/.710 briefly for the Indians in AAA after the trade. And as I'm typing this he hits it way out.

I like Sanchez in general, but I do feel like if Semien is given the chance to win the starting 2B role, he'll win it.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Aug 26, 2014 -> 10:27 PM) That's because Jordan has had very scattered MLB ABs over 3 seasons. De Aza gets far more playing time. Because he's better. He's also hitting .325/.388/.447 since June 1st.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Aug 26, 2014 -> 09:09 PM) Yes, but as a 4th OF, not a starter. We're not that crazy. It's basically because he makes less money, is a more consistent hitter, and a much better fielder. Hooooboy. Also, I'm not sure he's as good a fielder as some seem to think, and De Aza is not as bad as some seem to think too. Certainly it doesn't come close to making up the difference between the bats.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 26, 2014 -> 09:05 PM) He really turned on that pitch. He's not a good hitter, but his streaks make him an interesting hitter. I wonder if he'll ever make it in the league. John Buck lasted a long time and he can't hit. For the record, now 6 for his last 46. Under .200 since April.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Aug 26, 2014 -> 08:57 PM) Ah yes Danks and his extremely large sample size of 306 ABs. You have to remember De Aza is a notoriously streaky hitter. He was awful when he was getting limited At bats. Then with the injury to Garcia he got his ABs and as he usually does later, caught fire. Now if you want to argue that's why we need him when a guy like Eaton goes on his annual 10 DL trips, then fine, I can see your point. I don't wanna label him as injury prone just yet. The dumb plays that cost his team an inning or runs.. that stuff doesn't show up. It's not a large sample-size, but it's not nothing either. That coupled with just looking at how long and slow his swing is would leave me extremely hesitant to dump a relatively productive player for him. And for the thousandth time, that stuff basically all shows up, and even with that stuff, De Aza has been productive.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Aug 26, 2014 -> 09:46 PM) I'm sure Danish is getting tired but he's also probably regressing a bit. The guy was so unbelievable for a while that he was probably going to have a few mediocre starts at some point. It wasn't even that mediocre a start. 5 strikeouts to 1 walk. Only runs on 2 solo homers, they'll happen.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Aug 26, 2014 -> 08:39 PM) How does Guerra have a 2.80 ERA? He's a great example of the folly of looking at single-season/small sample reliever ERA. Last year he struck out 21.8% and walked 10.9%. This year he's struck out 21.7% and walked 10.5%. Last year his ERA was 6.75. This year 2.80.

Speaking of De Aza, not sure why he didn't pinch-hit for Viciedo

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Aug 26, 2014 -> 08:18 PM) If he's the same guy we saw when Eaton went down, then I agree 100%. His superior baseball I.Q. doesn't hurt either and he's making peanuts. Essentially all that happened after he came up different to earlier in the season was a little BABIP correction. F*ck superior baseball IQ if it comes with hitting .190/.270/.278 instead of .250/.318/.363. Or their career lines of .219/.294/.327 versus .269/.332/.399.

Threw 4 straight out of the zone to Abreu, he walked. Threw 5 straight out of the zone to Avi, he struck out.

Marcus is 7 for 11, with 2 homers, 7 walks and 0 strikeouts in his last 5 games

Semien 1-1, double, walk Taylor 1-2, double Wilkins 1-2

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Aug 24, 2014 -> 04:44 PM) I can't believe how MLB-ready Rodon is. Tyler Kolek throws 100? That's nice. Yup. Velo is great but Rodon's slider is at least as good as a 100 MPH fastball, and the latter is a bigger part of what makes Kolek good than the former and Rodon

Alvarez 4-6

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 23, 2014 -> 11:56 AM) Missed it, what happened on error Only caught it out of the corner of my eye but looked like a fairly routine boot ranging to his right

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Aug 23, 2014 -> 11:37 AM) Sanchez looking smooth at second. Knights announcers had said he had GG-calibre defence all year. lol

Sanchez looking smooth at second. Knights announcers had said he had GG-calibre defence all year.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 21, 2014 -> 08:32 AM) To try and put out the fire before it starts, Flowers' current BABIP of .353 isn't entirely unreasonable - 72.8% of the balls he's putting in play right now are line drives or ground balls, which are your highest percentage of balls in play that will result in base hits. It may be a little high, but it's not outrageous. I also think there's probably some room for organic growth within his line - his power numbers are down this year and while some of that may be conscious effort, some of it could also improve as he continues to get more experience. He does have an fWAR of 1.2 this year (for what that's worth to people). Among catchers with 350 plate appearances, that number puts him right in line with offseason darlings Jason Castro (1.5 fWAR), Brian McCann (1.2), and Dioner Navarro (1.1), as well as Alex Avila (1.5). Frankly, I have no problem with what Tyler has done this year. There are better catchers, but I agree with Hahn that he could absolutely be the starting catcher on a winning team. (this also marks the 2nd straight season I was completely wrong about Flowers) Actually a reasonable amount of this is true. His xBABIP, i.e. what his BABIP should be given normal luck, is .332. He has put 201 balls in play this year, for 71 non-HR hits. Regressing for normal luck would give him a line of about .226/.286/.344 as opposed to his current line of .237/.297/.359. The problem is (apart from that not being very good), though xBABIP might show that he deserves a higher BABIP than normal, this is mainly because his line drive rate is higher, and line drive rates tend to regress to career average too. Tyler had LD% of 16.2%, 17.7% and 17.2% before this year's 23.3%. I'd imagine that LD% will look more like the former than the latter next year. One thing I will say though, is that I was using the lesser form of pitch framing, and having moved to the better one, Tyler actually rates very well (which would jive more with his knowledge of the area).

Just to continue the predictability, for both me and him, 4 for his last 36 (.111) with a walk and 13 strikeouts

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 20, 2014 -> 09:13 PM) It was 87-88 for Karkovice, and his BABIP might have been weak but he also fanned 40 times in 95 PA. He hit .130 those years combined. Yeah, horrendous obviously, but he did walk twice as much and hit for a decent amount more power than Leury. A normal or even merely sub-par BABIP and he would have out-produced Leury.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 20, 2014 -> 08:39 PM) Was 2011 that long ago? Adam Dunn 2011 - .159/.292/.277 - wRC+ of 60 Leury Garcia 2014 - .177/.208/.226 - wRC+ of 11 QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 20, 2014 -> 08:40 PM) Karkovice between 1986-1987 was horrid. Ron Karkovice 1986 - .247/.315/.443 - wRC+ of 102 Ron Karkovice 1987 - .071/.160/.141 - wRC+ of -18 (horrendous BABIP luck of .093, career .269, also less than the 100 PA I had unofficially set in my mind as a threshold) Leury Garcia 2014 - .177/.208/.226 - wRC+ of 11 (BABIP of .263, career .279, 133 PA)

Question for the veteran fans here - what's the worst offensive season by a Sox player you can remember? I wanna compare some of the worst statistically to Leury Garcia 2014.