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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 6, 2015 -> 01:14 PM) Sale's problem is that his April was worse than all of the other contenders, so he needs to offset that clearly (especially when he's pitching for a team at the bottom of the league with no pressure games down the stretch). He needs to be clearly better than everyone else for most of the season to offset that. In June he was, but that pace is ridiculous. If he keeps this up for the next couple months, even if the K-streak is broken, he'll earn it easily. But, he was in about that position last year - Chris was getting close but Sale could have thrown one or two more great starts and made it clear, esp. by having an ERA come in under the magic 2.0 line, then Sale gave up 5 runs in his 2nd to last start and that probably knocked him out. Last year Felix had a decent lead in ERA over Kluber and still didn't win it. I don't think Sale is as far off the other contenders as you make it seem. If he continues to strike the world out then all he needs is to get within 0.40-0.50 or so in ERA and he could win it. He's already the leader in fWAR right now.

QUOTE (WBWSF @ Jul 5, 2015 -> 08:39 AM) I was at the game and it was certainly a good game to watch and win. Still, Adam Eaton has to be the biggest disappointment this 2015 White Sox season. He looks terrible at the plate. He hit .300 in 2014 and I think everybody was expecting big things from him in 2015. I don't know why he hasn't been good this season but this team would have alot more success if he was performing better this year. He looks lost at the plate. He's had a rough couple last games but overall since April he's been much improved. In May he hit .262/.325/.402 and in June he hit .276/.355/.459 for an OPS of over .800. His bat will be fine. Melky and Alexei are far bigger disappointments, easily.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jul 4, 2015 -> 04:07 PM) They just brought the wrong guy in. Putman gives up HRs but he gets Ks too...use him in a real jam - runner on 3rd less than 2 outs. They also waste a spot with Carroll instead of trying some guys from AAA and see if they can become a real contributor. I wanted Ventura to pull Shark after the 7th. Yeah Putnam gives up too many HRs but his pitches do not scream "hit me". He's something like 5th in K% among all pitchers in the MLB this year. He's been nasty most of the time, unfortunately he's given up a few untimely bombs.

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!