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There is beating a dead horse, and there is bringing up the Buehrle/Danks situation. Pretty much every GM makes the same move at the time. Plus Buehrle alone doesn't suddenly make us contenders the last two years.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 04:09 PM) I think that's wrong. I don't know that the pitching would be that much worse (prior to today, Smarj was a 4.5 era pitcher, hardly production we could not replace). And, for hypotheticals sake, assume same from Donaldson. I was being tongue-in-cheek with that post mostly.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 04:05 PM) A fun hypothetical i've been thinking about... trading for Donaldson instead of samardjiza. Assume all pieces from major league club gone (obviously may have taken some prospects, but this only concerns this year), remove smarj from rotation, assume noesi: What do you think our record would be? Better/Same/Worse? Do same hypothetical and you can assume healthy McCarthy (for kicks). Knowing our luck with position players from other teams, Donaldson hits .220/.300/.375 with us and the pitching is much worse, and we're 35-48 at this point.

QUOTE (Dunt @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 03:48 PM) Schwarber is in the minors, so I imagine he will stay there. Soto should start friday and sunday. Soto should start against the lefty, he's one of our few competent hitters against LHP this year.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 03:46 PM) Average bats wouldn't cost that much, unless you're lousy at negotiating trades. But I wouldn't do it anyway. If the Sox were in the East- maybe. But the only chance, and it's flailing, is at a WC. As for pitching in playoffs - sometimes it wins, and sometimes it doesn't. Hitting is at a premium these days though, average hitters might cost more than you think.

QUOTE (shipps @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 03:34 PM) The Sox still have to worst record in the AL right? I cant talk about Wild Card until they keep this up for another month and even then its just too late to decide you are going to play some baseball and make it to the playoffs. Better than Seattle and Oakland, but yeah unless we get back above .500 this Wild Card talk is crazy. I also hope this little run doesn't make them hesitate to trade Jeff if they get a good offer.

Hell yeah. Outscored the team with the best run-differential in the league in a 4-game series. I'll take it.

Have a bad feeling about this.

Offense still sucks.

Let him finish it.

Nice work Jeff, would have liked to see a few more Ks for the scouts, but impressive nonetheless.

Melky's OPS up to .650. Baby steps!

Well that's one way to do it.

Eaton!

QUOTE (BrianAnderson @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 02:28 PM) Does anybody have the stats of run support for each pitcher? Seems like Danks gets more than anybody -- and that Sale, Q, and Shark get the least. Just hard to watch us shut down such a hot offense and always be down 0-1. Samardzija: 4.34 runs/game Sale: 4.175 runs/game Danks: 3.454 runs/game Quintana: 2.605 runs/game (Kluber and Hamels are the only two to get worse)

In his last 30 games Beckham is batting .132/.193/.211 In his last 7 he's at .067/.125/.133 and that doesn't include his 0-2 performance so far today.

So predictable.

Jeff looking good so far, I've been impressed with our pitching against this lineup this series.

We have three inflelders getting major playing time with an OPS under .600

We hit into so many double plays, where does the offense rank in that?

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 01:48 PM) The way Samardzija has pitched today I am sure the Jays are ready to give up their top three prospects for Samardzija. Just get the Blue Jays GM really drunk after the game, that ought to do it.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 01:33 PM) Didn't face Dickey earlier this year and did well? Yeah, we scored 5 runs in 5 innings. 8 hits, 2 walks and a HR.

QUOTE (Chris Sale @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 01:24 PM) He was way better with the Cubs than the A's Samardzija with the Cubs last year: 2.83 ERA, 3.09 FIP Samardzija with the A's last year: 3.14 ERA, 3.30 FIP I wouldn't call that way better, especially when you factor in the jump from the NL to AL, where pitchers generally always see their ERAs increase.

QUOTE (Chris Sale @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 01:19 PM) Guess Jeff knows how to turn it on before the trade deadline. I really hope we don't sign him to a long-term contract, my guess is he'll be awful immediately after he has a good deal (if he even gets one). What is the evidence to suggest this? It's not like he only pitched well at the trade deadline last year, and this year his peripherals have been pretty solid the whole season. He's 26th in WAR among starting pitchers in the MLB this season, hardly what I'd call anything close to "awful".

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 01:11 PM) With the notably large exceptions of the 2013 and 2014 first rounds. Can you imagine if they had Bryant, Correa and Rodon on their team right now? Holy s***.