Jose Abreu

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 11:31 PM) I'll go in more detail later but I would love to see the Sox take a chance on Kyle Kendrick of the Rockies. I've always thought of him as a right-handed John Danks, in terms of his career numbers.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 02:39 PM) Agreed, part of me just wants to get into the offseason with the main starting pitchers healthy. I see your point (not just yours, but everyone who is respectfully disagreeing with me), but I find it unlikely that you guys won't miss baseball this winter.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 10:13 AM) Coming off a nice win which improved my 2015 game thread record to something like 2-9, the Sox look to score 5+ runs in order to have the slightest chance of winning with Samardzija on the mound. Well I was close.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 08:36 PM) Melky has sucked. If we're going by BA as the metric than Garcia is a whopping 2 points lower. They both have sucked. Right there is fugging 4-6 WAR that the team really f***ing needed and did not get. Instead they got negative WAR. Hard to figure how hard some of these guys suck. Yeah, but Garcia has been terrible all around. We didn't think he'd be the worst defensive outfielder in baseball, or whatever he is. Whereas we knew Melky would be poor defensively. I guess it has to do with expectations. QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 08:37 PM) Melky is 144 out of 153 in fWAR. Avi 145th. Melky has a worse offensive rating than Avi as well. I stand by my statement that they both suck. I refer you to my above comment about expectations and what we knew about their defense. They do both suck, but I guess my argument is that Melky sucks less. It may be a personal thing, though, as perhaps some of you expected Melky to come in as an average or good defender.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 08:33 PM) They both have massively sucked this year Garcia has massively sucked this year. But with Melky, we knew what we were getting defensively. Offensively, has he underperformed? Yes. But has he massively sucked? No. He has been excellent with RISP and his .271 batting average is at least respectable.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 08:29 PM) ERA approaching 5. At this point I'm rooting for him to sit on the bench the rest of the year. Let Johnson get his innings. Hell, give them to Frankie. Just bench this guy. Agreed. Why start him? RV said they're gonna try and get Montas some starts. I don't think we'd have a 7-man rotation, obviously, so someone's sitting, and I think it should be Samardzija.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 08:28 PM) Melky was an awful signing. His career numbers were nothing special anyway and a decline is no surprise. What I don't understand is why Ventura coddles him and DHs Garcia, the younger player who needs the work. Ventura probably thinks Melky is the better player. Melky is better than Garcia...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 08:27 PM) I've just been on the kick all year of saying "that huge drop in K rate from last year is really going to hurt him eventually" and then August hit. That's one of the several big parts of why he's so bad this year, so an improvement in K rate, to me, would mean you'd expect him to pitch better. But anyway. Well, I wouldn't say his bad pitching this year is entirely due to strikeouts. I think it's mostly his command. Anyway, it wouldn't be a drastic spike in his K/9. It would still be subpar by his (former) standards.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 08:12 PM) You've predicted that when he picks up his QO that he'll improve his K-rate. That's surprisingly positive out of those numbers. Well, from 7 to 7.75 K/9. Just means he'd strike out more batters but still have an almost identical ERA.

Samardzija next year if he signs with us: 8-12, 5.00 ERA, 4.25 FIP, 195 IP, 168 K If he signs elsewhere: 16-7, 3.34 ERA, 3.05 FIP, 214 IP, 200 K

Dan Hayes ‏@CSNHayes 9s9 seconds ago Extremely limited sample size but so far Trayce Thompson is 7-for-13 against right-handed pitchers.

Dan Hayes ‏@CSNHayes 9s9 seconds ago Extremely limited sample size but so far Trayce Thompson is 7-for-13 against right-handed pitchers.

Abreu's on a little hot streak

Saying they would be under .500 in the AL is a bit of a stretch, but I do think their record would be worse.

Our run differential is extremely skewed. We have had many losses of the 10-1, 7-0 variety, while most of our wins have been rather close. Our run differential is so bad because when we lose, we tend to lose by a lot.

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 04:02 PM) So it's the actual jersey that affects players hitting is your theory? The players play great for all the other teams but my favorite team is CURSED just to punish only me?!? No. I'm just saying that in recent history, us signing old hitters has not gone well.

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 03:56 PM) Is this from some article? Or is this more insider-isn knowledge? Insider-ish knowledge

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 03:54 PM) 2015 wRC+ Jose Abreu 135 Ben Zobrist 131 Adam Eaton 112 (Sox 2nd best hitter this year) Sox 3rd basmen 65 (approx.) I know how he's doing in 2015. Remember how Adam LaRoche did in 2014? And you didn't answer my question. Maybe he'll go to the Yankees and do great. But if he comes here, I don't see him doing well.

If there's one player we need to be healthy the most this season, it's Jeffery. Toss-up with Forte, I suppose.

Dan Hayes ‏@CSNHayes 2m2 minutes ago #WhiteSox for 9/9: Eaton 8, Saladino 5, Abreu 3, Cabrera 7, Garcia DH, Thompson 9, Ramirez 6, Sanchez 4, Flowers 2. Samardzija vs. Tomlin.

What's so bad about Jon Jay?

Signing Zobrist to be our starting 3B would not be a smart move. He'll be 35, he's declining, and when's the last time a signing of a 35+ year old for us hit over .250 in his first season?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 10:25 AM) What's different about it? New font, bigger center court logo, removed the basketball from the center logo, added Chicago stars to baseline, changed the wood color, changed the color of the foul line, 3-point line, etc.

Not sure if it has been discussed here, but the Bulls completely redesigned their court. Not the best picture, but I can't find a better one.

Coming off a nice win which improved my 2015 game thread record to something like 2-9, the Sox look to score 5+ runs in order to have the slightest chance of winning with Samardzija on the mound.