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If Johnson could pitch well enough to be a capable 5th starter, I'd be happy.

On the bright side, if Lynn shuts down the Sox that means he will be in the game longer and give Sale more K opportunities when he bats.

I was looking at some stats today, and I noticed that Bryant and LaRoche have basically the same walk and strikeout rates, with LaRoche having a slight advantage in each. Bryant has 2 more extra base hits in 9 more PA, and then the difference is that he has a .380 BABIP to LaRoche's .318. Interesting that LaRoche gets roasted for his performance though, when stastically the two aren't super far apart.

All the Cub fans yesterday were complaining about the Cardinals getting "lucky", as if the Cubs haven't pulled a bunch of wins completely out of their asses this year.

How bad would Danks have to pitch to finally get kicked out of the rotation? At this point part of me wants him to get completely bombed just to speed up the process. Sunk cost, God damnit.

Sanchez gave up just 4 HR last year and 9 the year before. He's already given up 15 this year (a bunch to us too). What happened?

Oakland is playing themselves back into the race. Another seller potentially off the table. The only sellers in the AL right now could be us and the Red Sox. Then in the NL there's the Brewers, Phillies, and maybe the Rockies? Who else will throw in the towel?

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jun 25, 2015 -> 03:45 PM) Lester continues to under perform this year. He was far from ace material in 2013 and 2012 as well, this isn't entirely unexpected.

Yeah Robertson is quickly becoming a bad contract. Since his amazing start he's been very disappointing.

Man as bad as our catchers have been at the plate, I just saw that Seattle has a .471 OPS and Tampa Bay has a .453 OPS from their catchers. Holy s***.

Eaton's OPS is now over .700. Considering he was well under .500 to start May I'll take it. If only his glove could improve with his bat...

I've always thought Sandoval was way overrated, hard pass on him. Meh on Hanley.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 07:16 PM) Will be interesting to see how the Cubs and Astros draft when they are no longer picking inside the top 10. Then we will see just how good their scouting is. The organization that impressed me most is the Cardinals. They have not picked higher than 19th over all since 2008 when they picked 13th and yet here they are still developing major league talent year after year. Bryant is the only big piece of the major league team this year that the Cubs got through the draft and he was a no-brainer. Pretty much all their good players have come through free agency and trades. They're not necessarily a good model for the draft, their scouting is good because they've hit on almost all of their trades over the past few years.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 02:55 PM) Cmon. LaRoche is a D like everybody not named Abreu and maybe Beckham C or C-. He has one of the top walk rates in baseball and has a .750 OPS, and he's really not that far off his career stats for the first half of the season. He's struck out too much and hasn't been great by any means, but overall he's been an above average hitter. It's not really fair to lump him in with the rest of the bums on our team.

He sounds like a major dbag in his responses, what a prick. He really acts like a know-it-all, yet all his proposals in his piece are complete garbage.

The Twins are going to cost Sale the Cy Young this year, just like the Indians possibly did in 2013. He's given up 32 earned runs this year, and 16 to the Twins. They've scored half the runs he's given up this year (more than half if you include unearned runs).

Record still in play I guess, though that 4th inning ruined his consecutive K streak for innings. f*** the Twins.

6 strikeouts already!

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 12:42 PM) Neither guy will be a very good MLB player it seems. Bit early to say that on both of them, especially Micah.

QUOTE (Knackattack @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 12:41 PM) I'm pretty sure Sanchez has been the most useless offensive player in the majors since we've been starting him. At this point, why not see if Micah's bat will translate over an extended period of time and see if he is going to get any better in the field up here? Plus Micah was actually doing OK with the bat when he was up here. But he needs to work on his defense. If it's in Charlotte or up here I don't care.

QUOTE (Condor13 @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 12:31 PM) One of the more unique K,s this year What happened? I'm following on GameDay.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 11:53 AM) Which would you all take if we could only have one? At this point #2.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 01:14 AM) You touched on all the highlights and the weird-light. 15 hits and "only" six runs. No on Soto next year. Happy he is making contact, though. Nice contribution tonight. I find it impossible to believe Sox beat Minnie in Minnie. One win in the series isn't good but it's better than the usual sweep. GO SOX! He obviously wouldn't be my first choice but at this point Soto>>>Flowers.

Twins have gotten to Sale a couple times this year, if there was a start I'd worry about his streak ending, it's this one.

QUOTE (LDF @ Jun 23, 2015 -> 05:41 PM) for eaton, i think that it is that 2yr jinx that always reels its ugly head. It's the defense I'm much more worried about. It's really the horrendous April that's making his offensive numbers look bad. He hasn't been great in May or June necessarily but an OPS of .727 and .750 are a lot closer to what he was last year. However, it doesn't matter if his offense rebounds if his defense continues to be horrible.