Jose Abreu

Dan Hayes ‏@DanHayesCSN 2m Chris Sale on if he was frustrated losing shutout: "W/ all the cacophony going on in ballpark, emotions get best of you sometimes."

Eaton with stolen base #8. He's on 2nd with 2 out for Abreu

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 4, 2014 -> 06:45 PM) Have lefties gotten a hit off Chris yet this year? 2 or 3. Mariners are 20-11 VS LH-starters.

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Konerko and Conor blew that inning

He had a nice outfield assist and a sharp single tonight. Good start.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 4, 2014 -> 06:14 PM) Sale touching 97. Odd, that brings me back to his reliever days

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Jul 4, 2014 -> 05:55 PM) Hoping for a big series from Viciedo Well there's a great start. Peg from LF and a sharp single

Bloomquist Jones Cano Hart Seager Zunino Morrison Saunders Ackley ------------- Elias

Eaton Beckham Abreu Viciedo Ramirez Konerko Gillaspie Sierra Flowers ------------- Sale

I didn't realize how many good defensive plays Abreu has had this season.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 3, 2014 -> 05:25 PM) Go look at their numbers this year. There is absolutely no way you can make a case that Sale is more deserving than Felix. Both advanced and regular stats agree on this one, he's been ridiculous. The other guys are earning it too. I retract the "maybe Felix" part. But Sale's definitely more deserving than Price and Lester. It's pretty close with Kazmir.

How are all of these pitchers more deserving than Sale? I think he'd be a better pick than Lester, Kazmir, Richards, and Price. Maybe Felix, too.

The Bleacher Report list also left Sale off (but included Abreu and Alexei [ESPN predicts Abreu won't make it]), so I was about to write a "Sale should be here" comment. Then I looked at the top three comments, all of which called for Sale's inclusion and talked about how underrated he is. These were non-Sox fans, too.

It came down to management, I guess. Leaving Danks in and having a righty face our lefties.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jul 2, 2014 -> 07:36 PM) I hate Hawk's "If you just get 15 bunt hits a year, that will add 30 points to your average." saying. Because that assumes that all 15 of those bunt singles would have been outs if the guy had just swung normally. It would really add about 22 points per 650 at-bats. And that's true, 2-6 of them would likely be hits.

Skaggs with a 7 pitch inning

Great inning for Danks

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 30, 2014 -> 07:38 PM) And June ends at 11-15. One game thread tomorrow, or two? The first one probably won't get many pages... so maybe 1

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 27, 2014 -> 10:25 PM) It's great to watch, but bittersweet with the offense around him. I had Abreu with 26 homers in 140 games this year. He has 25 homers in 66 starts. After the season, I want to take a look at that "Expectations: Jose Abreu" thread I made and just laugh at all of the "27/85"ish replies (I admit I was one of them).

No mention of Zach Putnam in here?

cmon Petricka

In Charlotte, Davidson is hitting .196 with 13 HR and 27 RBI. Last year he was .280/17/74... wow. I knew he was struggling but I didn't know it was this bad.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 04:51 PM) And because someone decided to post something they read in a comment section of an article Guilty. To make it worse, it was a B/R article.

Earlier in the season, all of the Abreu comments here were "I can't wait until he hits in warm weather". I was one of these people. Is it me or is he keeping the same pace as April/beginning of May?