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His career BABIP is .340 so I think .320 is selling him short.

Best command I've ever seen Fulmer have tonight, hope it continues.

He's got command of his offspeed stuff and when he's missed it's not been by much.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Sep 15, 2017 -> 02:56 PM) It also suggests he is better than Mike Trout out there who is at -4 . Although Trout plays the much tougher position.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 15, 2017 -> 02:48 PM) LOL, Lackey and Contreras ejected in the 5th inning today. Anytime you can get both your starting pitcher and catcher ejected in the middle of a September pennant race game, that's impressive. That was a terrible call though, it was right down the middle. Ump probably missed it in part due to Lackey missing his spot and Contreras having to reach for the pitch, but you can't miss that call. Contreras has to stay calm though, he can't get himself suspended right now. EDIT: Actually looking at it again it wasn't so much Lackey missing his spot as it was a terrible framing job by Contreras.

QUOTE (cjgalloway @ Sep 15, 2017 -> 02:40 PM) If Melky Cabrera was 26.. Would you really give him a 5 year 80 million dollar deal? The perfect comp to Avi Garcia is Melky.. period. Nah Melky has rated as a bottom five outfielder defensively the last couple years while Avi has rated out as average/neutral, that's a big difference. Plus Avi is much faster.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 15, 2017 -> 02:17 PM) The interesting bit there is that it rates Avi as completely nuetral. 0. He rated a 0 in 2016 as well. And this data doesn't include the impact of the arm, right? Just catches made/not made.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Sep 15, 2017 -> 12:43 PM) The Indians have the longest winning streak in the history of baseball. People should be making a bigger deal out of this. To be fair the tie during the Giants streak was continued the next day in a doubleheader and the Giants won both games, but it was still recorded as a tie and didn't count. So IMO the Giants still have that record, but then again it was over 100 years ago.

QUOTE (3GamesToLove @ Sep 15, 2017 -> 12:57 PM) wut Wrong thread? He's talking about Abreu, not Moncada

Update on xStats numbers: .296/.346/.493 with a .337 BABIP I still don't think we'd get much for him in the offseason but if the right deal was there I'd absolutely pull the trigger. Extending him seems premature too though so I'd wait and see, even if he has another good year next year he still wouldn't be too expensive. If he puts up somewhere around the line above next year then you can think about extending him, though the number of years would be much more important IMO than the AAV.

Saladino tied the AL LOB record in a 9 inning game with 11.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Sep 14, 2017 -> 03:52 PM) 25 hits? What's the Sox record? http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/cws/histor...ame_records.jsp 29 on April 23rd 1955 against the Royals. That game also has the franchise record for runs (29) and home runs (7).

Engel with the out cycle today: pop out, line out, ground out, fly out, strikeout

QUOTE (cjgalloway @ Sep 14, 2017 -> 03:21 PM) I HATE WINS!! But this game was fun! Have a day Moncada and Avi! I am also of the thought that you try and trade Avi in the offseason and see if you could get lucky to receive a 55+ FV prospect. Top 30ish guy (though thats arbitrary) with maybe another 50 FV guy. It would be hard to let that pass if that offer was there. Given the way the market crashed for corner bat-only types this season that seems way too optimistic. I'm thinking the best we could do is a back-end top 100 prospect and not much else.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 14, 2017 -> 03:05 PM) Since this thread was started, Moncada has gone from a .179 batting average and a .649 OPS to a .230 batting average and .762 OPS. Make that a .765 OPS after that last walk. I'm starting to believe that Ron has actual powers.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 14, 2017 -> 03:16 PM) There is always somebody. 0-6 for Saladino. Naturally the only one without a hit is the DH.

Moncada and Benintendi now have identical wRC+ (107)

Moncada 4-4

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Sep 14, 2017 -> 01:42 PM) The Tigers have had a nice run but alot of us Sox fans have seen the writing on the wall for a while. With those contracts, s***ty farm and under performing, it was inevitable. Where do you think Miggy ends up? I have to assume they try to move him this winter. He's been a negative value player this year, I wonder if they try to move him in the winter or hold and hope he rebounds in the first half of 2018. That contract could become Pujols-esque though.

Warwick Saupold is a great name.

I like the first pitch swinging there.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Sep 14, 2017 -> 12:57 PM) This team isn't going to be competitive The biggest lineup problem is the K:BB ratio we have the fifth most strikeouts as a team and the 3rd least walks Davidson is the biggest problem child, but Engel has this issue as well. Even Abreu, who's been a monster, has had very few walks. The biggest rotation problem is James Shields Second biggest is lack of experience and consistency The biggest bullpen problem is we don't have a proven one If everything went right we would win like 78-84 games, resutling in a worst case scenario for 2019 draft pick I hope we suck next year but trim the fat Considering we'll have a lot of the next competitive team's core pieces on next year's team assuming Eloy and Kopech eventually come up, I wouldn't see a 78-84 record as a worst case scenario, unless it was all due to sequencing/run differential luck or something similar. That's way closer to a best case scenario than a worst case scenario. That means our young guys did well and we can compete in 2019 with a good offseason.

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Sep 14, 2017 -> 12:58 PM) Yoan with a .306/.375/.527/.902 slash and a tolerable 25% k rate so far in September. Can't complain about that. And he hasn't been looking hopeless against LHP

QUOTE (oldsox @ Sep 14, 2017 -> 07:33 AM) I bet Detroit catches White Sox this weekend. This year feels like bizarro 2012 and they might catch us again.

That might have been the most lackluster homerun call I've ever heard from Hawk.