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What a joke.

Even just going 1-3 on those runner on third less than 2 outs situations would look pretty huge right now.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jul 4, 2015 -> 03:07 PM) Baltimore is going to score runs at some point. Yeah next week.

Man we are bad with runners on third and less than two outs. Just pathetic.

How good is Baltimore's pen? Tillman should be about done.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jul 4, 2015 -> 02:34 PM) Your post was the first time I even thought about the umpire so I'd say he's doing a pretty good job. JMO though. It's Gameday so who knows how accurate it is anyway, but I've noticed it for both sides, so at least he's consistent.

Following the game on Gameday and it seems like the ump has a tight zone. Lots of pitches thrown clearly hitting the corners being called balls.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 4, 2015 -> 02:22 PM) John Danks pitched a shutout yesterday. He's fixed! Bad comparison. Danks has been one of the worst starters in baseball for a few years now since his injury. You really think after a few bad months Melky is now on that same level?

This game should be 4-0 right now

Betts is untouchable, no way the Red Sox move him.

How many more "trade Sale" threads can we make?

Mets are the Cubs' b**** this year. I don't trust the Giants to hold up, they have some guys playing over their heads. Cubs have a pretty easy path to the playoffs at this point.

I mean Alexei's defense has evaporated this year but he's been pretty great overall in his time here.

Ventura is not a great manager, but if I had to pick I'd much rather see Williams go or Reinsdorf sell before him.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Jul 2, 2015 -> 10:43 AM) It would surprise me a great deal. They're terrible. The Twins will end up with less than 80 wins. Their hot start was totally inflated by an out of this world batting average with RISP. It was, and has been, totally unsustainable. Unless Sano comes up mashes 25 homers and hits .300, and Santana comes back as an ace, and Buxton comes back in August and looks much better than he did in his 40 at bats, this is still a very bad team. I'd be less surprised to see the Sox pass the Twins than the Twins win the division. And this is coming from someone who lives in Minneapolis and has watched a sizable number of Twins games. Their run differential in games not against the White Sox is pretty bad too. We've made them look better than they are.

Considering there's 30 teams, getting two of the top 30 isn't bad, even though would have liked to get someone higher than #27. Then again, how reliable are rankings of 16 year olds anyway?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 2, 2015 -> 07:19 AM) It's official. The 05 Sox are now the 85 Bears. That's why this franchise can't have nice things. I really, really hope in 20 years we're not saying the same thing.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jul 2, 2015 -> 08:57 AM) That link shows me that as meh as Flowers is, he's basically equal to these catchers for which people want to load the wagon with prospects to obtain (just looking at offense; I distrust the defensive metrics). Yep, his OPS is now middle of the pack among AL catchers, and it's higher than Jason Castro's, a guy many wanted to pick up. This isn't so much praising Flowers but an indication as to how awful most catchers around baseball are these days.

7 runs for Q and it comes on the road against the Cardinals.

This would put us at 6-6 against the NL despite the 4-game catastrophe against the Pirates.

Flowers OPS: .665 AL catcher average: .670 He's brought himself up to league average for the position, who would have thought?

Flowers hits his second HR off the best pitching staff in baseball, of course. Offense!

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 2, 2015 -> 12:17 AM) There was a time when such a thing didn't seem possible. There were 398 players picked before Carpenter in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft. He received a $1,000 signing bonus. That's because Carpenter had just finished his fifth year at TCU. He went undrafted as a junior after blowing out his elbow and undergoing Tommy John surgery. There were other issues as well. Some wondered about Carpenter's work ethic and commitment, a notion that seems hilarious now because, as La Russa learned, his will to be great is relentless, his demeanor serious. Back then, though, scouts had watched as Carpenter's weight ballooned to around 240 pounds at one point during his career at TCU, seemingly not all that serious about the whole thing. Looking back on it now, Carpenter simply was a college kid trying to balance school work, baseball and a social life. Just goes to show not every All-Star player comes from the first 10 picks of the first round... From Richard Justice at mlb.com You mean like Buehrle?

Q with a great outing tonight.

Has a team ever won 2 straight 1-0 games?