Jose Abreu

QUOTE (HuskyCaucasian @ Aug 11, 2015 -> 04:13 PM) ‏@AlbertBreer According to a source, the Geno Smith/IK Enemkpali fight in the Jets locker room was indeed over money. Yeah, Geno owed him a lot (apparently) and was refusing to pay.

Surprised we don't have one of these yet. Schedule released tomorrow at 5 PM Central. Bulls play @ OKC on Christmas, also open season 10/27 vs Cavs.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Aug 11, 2015 -> 03:57 PM) If Hector is pulled then with that many pitches hopefully we're ahead 5-2 and Rodon is throwing strikes and there's no need for The Rock to pinch hit. Santiago is a good kid. I couldn't blame him if he had a mental f u to the coaching staff who didn't believe in him . But not many fans did either. Santiago was like Avi is now, a few people see(saw) the upside but most see the flaws as a sign of permanent suckage. I hope so. My joke was that Santiago (like Rodon) would always be at 100+ pitches in the 5th inning, sometimes with no runs allowed.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 11, 2015 -> 03:51 PM) Who gets to 100 first - Hector or Carlos? I think they'll both get there in the 5th.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Aug 11, 2015 -> 03:38 PM) No LaRoche as a starter against a LH again. Hallelujah , they have seen the light. Took 'em long enough. Don't worry, when Hector is pulled after 5 shutout innings with 109 pitches, LaRoche will be used as a pinch-hitter.

Also, 33% of our lineup was in AAA in April.

Flowers 8th, Thompson 9th? C'mon

Good old Hector Santiago

Sale, Avi, and Nate Jones were the bright spots today.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Aug 10, 2015 -> 09:59 PM) On post game, home run to right was 425. What was the bomb to left? 428 actual, 454 projected

He also said that he doesn't consider us out of the Wild Card race yet, so I don't know about this.

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 10, 2015 -> 03:27 PM) Boston just has a worse record. The WSox have the worst run differential in the AL (second worst in MLB) and have less talent overall. Run differential is irrelevant. We have lost many games 10-1, 9-2, etc. Our wins tend to be more of the 5-2 variety. Our run differential is very skewed due to our blowout losses.

Nate Jones looks very good

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Aug 10, 2015 -> 09:42 PM) nah, you look fine. He cherry picked his best stats from his best season. How about his .300 OBA or his wRC+ of of 98? His best season at the dish and he was worth exactly ZERO fWAR. Remember, even 3 years ago .744 OPS was poor for an OF, now it's solid. Viciedo was never half the prospect Avi was. At best Viciedo was talked about as a poor man's El Caballo -- a two tool player at most. To be fair, you said that Viciedo never showed flashes over a season, so "cherry picking stats from his best season" was appropriate.

Nice to see Jones back at home

Eaton

He's not going anywhere with that contract.

I miss the days when this thread was relevant.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 8, 2015 -> 04:01 PM) I didn't advocate hurting Cain, just hitting him. Our team needs to wake up ... again. This would incite their sellout crowd. They won't hit Abreu in the face. They've already started fights with various other teams. My wrath about Paulie was them hitting him in the face. It's OK to plunk a guy on the butt or back him off the plate. Why sit back and not try to fight the sweep? The fact that they've been in fights with various other teams (including us) makes them more likely to retaliate, not less likely. Not to mention, in their most recent incident with Toronto, they threw at guys' faces.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 8, 2015 -> 02:42 PM) This one will be the ugliest of the 3. Saturday night. Shark a good but not great pitcher. Royals fans wanting blood on Shark with a full house again. If I were Shark I'd hit Cain. All hell would break loose and it might wake up our boys. Shark's the kind of guy who might do it. He plays for such a noncompetitive team it'd put him in the headlines and really would shake up the s***ty frontrunning KC fans. Gonna be hot with game starting at 6 and stadium baking in 90s. KC 10, Chicago 4. That's a great plan if you want Samardzija suspended for a few weeks and Abreu out for the season after taking a fastball to the face.

0-9 risp

Very, very encouraging work from Nate Jones tonight.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 7, 2015 -> 10:10 PM) I will say that having Bonifacio and Beckham on the bench to go with Leury is a complete joke. The reluctance of the Sox to cut ties with Bonifacio at this point of the season is crazy to me. Our bench is currently Beckham, Soto, L. Garcia, and Thompson.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 7, 2015 -> 10:10 PM) Bonifacio is on the DL still right? yes