shysocks

Re Hawk, you can be a nice guy and still think extremely highly of yourself. Ballgame ovah. Shove it, Twinkies.

Josh Willingham auditioning for his next employer. 9-5 Sox. C'mon new guy, let's nail this down.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jul 25, 2014 -> 08:00 PM) Flowers had a chance to deliver a knockout blow. 3-for-20 career with the bases loaded now. Frustrating.

Some near-TOOTBLANs instead result in a two-out threat. You know you're meat when two people independently describe you as meat.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jul 25, 2014 -> 07:48 PM) Cuban home runs! That was a monster shot. Correia is meat tonight.

QUOTE (GreatScott82 @ Jul 25, 2014 -> 06:28 PM) If that's the case, I can see Hahn trying to include him in a deal centered around Danks at the deadline. The Sox are too stubborn to let him walk. Don't agree. With the state of that position in the org, I really have a feeling 2014 is Bacon's last season with the Sox.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jul 25, 2014 -> 07:37 PM) Eaton was safe were are you RV? Maybe he figured the play wasn't high-leverage enough. I don't know, it's hard to defend him most of the time. Danks running into some trouble here.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jul 25, 2014 -> 03:55 PM) Their "machine" which has supposedly been meticulously programmed to determine the game's best pitcher. It's buggy.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jul 25, 2014 -> 03:50 PM) Funny you say this, MLB Network just did their top ten pitchers. Sale was 7, Richards was 4. By what measure? Because I can't find one that says Richards is better.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jul 25, 2014 -> 09:30 AM) 3.7 percent chance of making the playoffs. Seems about right.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 23, 2014 -> 02:46 PM) http://www.csnchicago.com/white-sox/flower...-time-birth-son More work ahead for Garcia Robin Ventura said Avisail Garcia continues to impress in his recovery from a torn left labrum. But the White Sox manager doesn’t have any more information about when the young outfielder might take the next step. “How close is he to a rehab assignment, I don’t know,” Ventura said. “I’m not a doctor so I’m not going to be able to clear him. But when you watch him do things, you’re excited about the recovery. “Him swinging the bat, running around, catching fly balls. More of the concern is going to be sliding, NOT diving, things like that. When the doctors clear him he’s going to be 100 percent, go play. There’s not going to be any restrictions on him.” Fixed Robin's quote.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 21, 2014 -> 12:41 PM) I hope the M's realize that Dunns numbers probably get worse in Seattle, and that is kind of scary. wRC+ is park-adjusted and Dunn's is 119 this year. Seattle DH's are at 78. I think, probably, that they realize it. I also think he would still be better than what they have.

Abreu is 10 on the Fangraphs trade value rankings, directly ahead of Sale. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/2014-trade-value-the-top-10/

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 18, 2014 -> 10:40 AM) Hard to say 2 months is a "glitch" where as 1.5 months is indicative. But he is certainly now doing more like what we all expected, so that's encouraging. That's true, but when the 1.5 months look more like the last two years it becomes a little easier. When Miguel Cabrera did nothing for the first three weeks of the season and then followed it up with three monster weeks, we all probably assumed the struggles had just been a glitch. Basically what I'm saying is that Matt Davidson is the same as Miguel Cabrera.

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Jul 18, 2014 -> 10:25 AM) If Buehrle can pitch 5 or 6 more seasons at somewhere near his career averages, and with his style I believe he can, here would be his all time ranks in some key categories: Wins: 260 - 280 (41st - 32nd) Innings Pitched: 4000 - 4300 (41st - 34th) Strikeouts: 2300 - 2500 (48th - 41st) bWAR: 70 - 80 (30th - 27th) While his rate stats aren't the greatest, part of that can be attested to pitching at the Cell most of his career. Believe it or not, Buehrle has a better WHIP and ERA+ than Tom Glavine who was a shoe-in this year. Voters also like a player to have his memorable moments and Buehrle has those in spades. A perfect game, a no hitter, the consecutive batters retired record, being part of the 4 consecutive complete games in the ALCS, the relief appearance and save a day after starting in the World Series and others. Those things stick in the minds of voters. He also never had any off the field issues to hurt him. When you combine all that with his 4+ Gold Gloves, 5+ All-Star appearances, the World Series ring, the 13+ consecutive seasons of 200 IP, and the 14+ consecutive seasons of 10+ wins, there is an argument to made for him being in the Hall of Fame. Now I personally don't think he gets there unless he hangs on long enough to make a serious run at 300, but I do think that anybody that immediateyl scoffs at the idea of Buehrle as a HOFer really needs to take another look at his resume. This is exactly what I wanted to say but I didn't have the time to write it all up. A Hall resume needs peak and longevity. He'll never have the peak but when he retires, he could have some longevity accomplishments that just don't happen.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jul 18, 2014 -> 10:08 AM) He honestly could be a right handed Adam Dunn in his prime. 240-260 hitter with 30-40 HR potential. I read a lot of comps to Mark Reynolds when the trade happened, which seemed lazy because the D-Backs were involved but were actually fitting for their playing styles. If what we get out of Davidson looks anything like Reynolds' four years in Arizona, it wouldn't be the end of the world.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 08:41 PM) Davidson with a HR Davidson 2013 AAA: 115 G, .280/.350/.481, 32 2B, 17 HR, 9.2 BB%, 26.8 K%, 117 wRC+ Davidson since Jun 1: 39 G, .250/.323/.534, 6 2B, 12 HR, 8.5 BB%, 24.2 K%, 133 wRC+ Safe to say the slow start was just a glitch in the Matrix.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 18, 2014 -> 09:30 AM) Not to be confused with Walt or Al Weiss. Wasn't that Buehrle World Series start the one with the terrible cold and rain that the Astros got out to the early advantage and he battled all night long to keep them in it...? It was definitely a crappy night - I can picture all the ponchos in the shot of Scotty Pods' homer landing - but I don't think Buehrle coughed up a lead until a bit later in the game. Nevermind. B-ref confirms he did give up one apiece in the 2nd and 3rd, then two in the 5th. He didn't have his best stuff but it wasn't too bad an outing.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jul 18, 2014 -> 08:31 AM) People always think of Buehrle winning a World Series game due to the Konerko granny giving him a 6-4 lead and leaving the game to the best bullpen in Sox history. The problem is that Jenks gave up the lead and Cotts had to come in to bail him out. Buehrle never won a game in the World Series. He did save game 3 though, you are correct on that. That's right. Damaso Marte has a World Series win, but Mark doesn't. Baseball isn't fair. Buehrle's game against the Angels - the first of the four complete games - was perhaps the best of any pitching performance that postseason. 9 innings, 5 hits, 1 run, 0 walks, 4 K's, and 99 pitches thrown. One stupid Robb Quinlan homer kept him from qualifying for a Maddux. And does anybody doubt that he would have come out to pitch the 10th if we hadn't scored that infamous run to walk off?

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 02:07 PM) Only White Sox players ever in the top 10 were: Jason Bere - #8 - 1993 James Baldwin - #8 - 1994 Jon Rauch - #4 - 2001 Well that's encouraging.

QUOTE (Andy the Clown @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 01:11 PM) I guess it depends on how you define "pure hitter". To me, a pure hitter is someone with elite pitch recognition skills, and Semien is the only one in our system with that talent. Rangel Ravelo comes to mind. He hasn't reached the level of Semien in Birmingham last year, but something has obviously clicked with him.

Do we have proof that Gillaspie actually likes anyone?

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 10:25 AM) If the Sox could actually get Victor Sanchez for Viciedo I would love that move. Agree with that. A 19-year-old pitching admirably in AA as well as a righty who "could serve as a No. 4 starter as early as mid-2015" according to a preseason scouting report. Seems like that might be stretching Tank's value to the max.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 09:59 AM) Ryan Howard's another interesting name, depending on how much the Phillies eat...and it would have to be around $35 of the remaining $60 million on his contract. What that would cost the White Sox, no idea...but he's been terrible this year. To the point where he's better against lefties than righties bad. Oof, no thank you. They'd have to eat way more than $35M. He has been legitimately terrible three years running now. He's worse than Adam Dunn, who everyone hates rabidly. 2012-2014 wRC+ Howard: 95 Dunn: 113 I left out 2011 because Dunn's season was an absurd outlier, but if you throw it in, Howard wins 106-100. Not enough to outweigh that contract.

QUOTE (southside hitman @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 09:59 AM) Also surprised he ranked five 2014 draft picks in the top 50....seems high to me considering most have a extremely small sample size or none at all in professional baseball. I guess he believes it's an excellent draft class? I have no data to back this up, but I feel like that's not uncommon. Seems as though the top few picks in a just-finished draft always rank highly on the lists just by virtue of being top picks.