Jose Abreu

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

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 7, 2015 -> 07:54 PM) I don't care how this game turns out, etc., but it is obvious Danks is a f***ing good pitcher. I don't care what anybody tells me contrary to that. Anybody who can't admit this ... I don't know what else to say. Oh god...

QUOTE (SCCWS @ Aug 7, 2015 -> 04:25 PM) You should have clarified. This is their top ten lefties this season based on performance through 8/1/15 Doesn't make a difference. It's still ridiculous. Sale's FIP is 2.50.

Random, but this is Bleacher Report's top ten lefty starters Hector Santiago over Sale any day!

melky

a. garcia

eaton

8/07/15 Sox @ Royals Eaton (3 pts): Abreu (1 pts): Condor13 Avi/ Schuck(3 pts): Melky (4 pts): LaRoche (2 pts): Alexei/Bacon (4 pts): Flowers/Soto (3 pts): Sanchez/Emilio (6 pts): Jose Abreu Sladino/Bacon (5 pts): Bench (8 pts): Noone ( 1,000,000 pts ): hi8is

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 7, 2015 -> 01:17 PM) I made my DD create a player Chris Sale. I swear to god, I made a better face in 20 minutes than Sony did. I believe you. Simply not giving him black hair like Sony is probably most of it.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 7, 2015 -> 12:34 PM) Ventura is really bad too. True. He looks like a sloth.

QUOTE (flavum @ Aug 7, 2015 -> 03:18 PM) Both lineups https://twitter.com/Royals/status/629732511573086208 Umpire crew looks bad too. The Marquez/Bellino umpiring group always gives us problems.