shysocks

QUOTE (flavum @ May 6, 2015 -> 11:08 AM) By my count, the Sox haven't hit a homer in 91 hitting innings. Not letting that get to 100 would be nice. Hopefully they don't even get to the 100th inning tonight. Keep it at 99. This homerless streak doesn't concern me if they win going forward. Didn't the 8-game streak in 2010 happen amidst a 7-1 record or something?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 6, 2015 -> 09:52 AM) Does Webb count when he was added as 26th man for one game? I wouldn't think so, since he didn't make an appearance.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 6, 2015 -> 09:28 AM) We can quantify and assess players in a multitude of ways, why not coaches, too? There are a lot of ways they're trying, but my belief is they'll never be as thorough/accurate/annoying (depending on your point of view, as we saw in the game thread last night) as what we have for players. I don't see how you can quantify how much of Matt Thonrton's success Don Cooper deserves credit for or Josh Fields' failure falls on Greg Walker. I just don't see how you can do it. And that's why all the "fire this guy" arguments are impossible to resolve. We will never have concrete proof of anything, so they're all just based on emotion and whether it's "time for a change" or not. Coaches absolutely deserve to be fired sometimes but God knows when that is.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 6, 2015 -> 08:31 AM) 30 days into the season, 916 players have appeared in a major league game. The average team has used 5.5 players above the 25 they started with on opening day. That total is 29 for the Sox, for the record. The four "extras" are Rodon, Carroll, Sale, and Petricka if I'm not mistaken.

Smart move by Jeff to groove something for a hobbling VMart knowing he couldn't hit it out. I'm gonna assume it was on purpose.

We must be stealing signs.

Hell, I'll expand. The hitting "might get a little bit better" is a gross distortion of what I was getting at. To continue the thing with the last 15 seasons, the Sox are on pace for the lowest ISO and the lowest HR total. I'm saying the hitting will get significantly better. If it doesn't, then I don't know anybody anywhere who could have done anything to fix it or predict it.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 5, 2015 -> 01:28 PM) So in other words, the White Sox's hitting might get a little bit better because the power is missing but not by a whole lot unless they can cut down on the strikeouts, the starting pitching should get better, and the bullpen should get worse. things normalize.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 5, 2015 -> 12:41 PM) The White Sox's team BABIP is .298, the league average is .292. I'm not just talking about BABIP, I'm talking about all the statistical junk that happens 22 games at a time. The Sox also have a 76 wRC+. The number of teams that have finished a season that low since the year 2000 is TWO. So maybe the Sox will continue to hit worse than all but 0.4% of the last fifteen years' worth of teams. The starting pitchers have an ERA- of of 132; 5 teams since 2000 did worse than that. So maybe we also have a rotation that is historically terrible. We're on pace to lose 54.5 baseruns, which would nearly double the total of the next worst team of the last 15 years. We're not breaking records in the other two facets but we're goin' for it here. But hey, the bullpen's ERA- is 69 though! Only 11 teams equaled that. And five other teams in 2015 are on pace to do the same! Maybe this is truly a year for unbelievably great relief pitching. OR... 22 games.

QUOTE (raBBit @ May 5, 2015 -> 10:48 AM) He's also hitting .291 with a .444 BABIP and 26.8% strike out rate. Testimonial, but I have yet to see Bryant hit it hard when I am watching. And just to expand on this, Bryant has a 52.8% flyball rate. Look at the BABIPs of the other guys around there. 9 of the 30 on that page are below .200. You should not have a .444 BABIP ever, but least of all when you hit that many fly balls and also pop up 15% of the time. This is the type of noise you see after 25 games and it's another reason people need to chill out a little on the Sox.

QUOTE (raBBit @ May 5, 2015 -> 10:48 AM) He's also hitting .291 with a .444 BABIP and 26.8% strike out rate. Testimonial, but I have yet to see Bryant hit it hard when I am watching. I haven't watched much at all so I'm in the same boat and I get your point. In fact, I'll even boldly predict that Bryant won't have as good a career as Ted Williams. But any time you can be mentioned in a sentence with him, you're doing okay.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ May 5, 2015 -> 10:44 AM) I think it's just "Fire Robin; Hire Ozzie" Yeah, my Robin/Oriole confusion is well documented, DON'T RUB IT IN.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 5, 2015 -> 09:41 AM) And for all the Madison Bumgarner away from a WS, they were also an unlikely 4 run come back in the 8th inning of the wild card game from us ever having to hear how a team that had not made the playoffs for 30 years is now the model all teams should follow. The Royals haven't won squat. Sig-worthy.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 5, 2015 -> 09:39 AM) Did anyone read Woj's article?

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ May 5, 2015 -> 12:39 AM) Bryant not hitting for power but has 16 walks already, which is 33% of the Sox team total. Rany Jazayerli ‏@jazayerli 3m3 minutes ago Kris Bryant has a .458 OBP. The all-time record for OBP by a qualifying player in his debut season is .436, by Ted Williams. Rany Jazayerli ‏@jazayerli 2m2 minutes ago Williams also holds the modern record for walks by a rookie, with 107. Bryant is on pace for 108-even though he was the minors for 12 days.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 5, 2015 -> 09:36 AM) What I don't get is that he can drive on every single play and its a 95% chance he either gets to the rim or gets fouled. If he would just do it 10 trips in a row, they'd win all the time. But he doesn't do that. Maybe i'm being unrealistic and don't appreciate the physical toll that would take, but it seems like he will have a 2-3 trip stretch where he dominates and then he just stops. He starts taking jumpshots instead. And that's exactly what defenses want him to do. When he takes the ball to the hoop and gets in the post he's basically unstoppable. I'm guessing there's your answer. Taking it to the hoop on every possession is too much for a guy that age, even with a freak like him.

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ May 5, 2015 -> 09:27 AM) It should be a robin, otherwise, the google has let me down. This is a helpful resource. Okay, my deepest apologies. I didn't realize robins and orioles were so similar and I will brush up on my avian biology.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 5, 2015 -> 08:38 AM) If you went back to the predictions thread and averaged it out, I'm sure you would come up with something like 83-79 or 84-78 as the mean or median number. Very few were picking over 86, but there were just as many in the 86-89 range as 76-79. Here's the thread for the curious. If you go by the poll, there's a very tight distribution between 80 and 94. If you go by responses in the thread, the lowest is 74, the highest is 99 (excluding your typical jokey 162-0 type guesses), average is about 86 and the median is 86. 30 out of 41 posts with honest-to-god answers had us in the 80's.

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ May 5, 2015 -> 07:54 AM) Shane Greene, RHP (3-1, 4.60 ERA) at Shamuljaja, RHP (1-2, ∞ ERA) 7:10, CSN It all burned down when we played the Orioles... hire Ozzie and a hooker. Did I get that right?

Dub Dub City! Assuming Rose is okay. Not expecting any bad news.

JIMMY

LBJ has a couple very creative turnovers in the last minute or so.

I feel like a HS team would have figured out this pick and roll before the Cavs.

Charge haaaaaaa...