September 17, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, caulfield12 said: 32 homers 72 RBIs go ahead bomb against Braves in must win game late line drive missile to RCF off Kirby Yates Exit Velocity 113 mph Distance 411 ft Launch Angle 17 deg DJ Jazzy Jeff Chisholm followed with GS It's refreshing to see how well the Marlins have played against the cream of the NL when people thought they'd be buried by now when they started playing who has it been the Phillies, Brewers, Dodgers and Braves in the last 2 weeks ?
September 17, 20232 yr 5 minutes ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said: It's refreshing to see how well the Marlins have played against the cream of the NL when people thought they'd be buried by now when they started playing who has it been the Phillies, Brewers, Dodgers and Braves in the last 2 weeks ? Amazing how tight that race is with so many twists and turns already...two more weeks to go. Not to mention Marlins without Alcantara and Robertson lost the closer's job too.
September 17, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, caulfield12 said: Amazing how tight that race is with so many twists and turns already...two more weeks to go. Not to mention Marlins without Alcantara and Robertson lost the closer's job too. Whats amazing to me is when I reread the tradewinds thread is that so many people considered Burger a DH or 1st baseman. It just goes to show you how damaging early negative results are. It didn't even matter to people that he had played a decent if not good 3rd base with the Sox. Every little dribbler he couldnt make a play on or every hard hit ball that got by him just reinforced those thoughts . It's why we always have to remember that development isn't linear. There are so many examples of poor hitters and poor fielders getting better that we as fans fall into a trap of thinking players are worthless and overvaluing guys like Eder without checking their full body of work going back as far as you can. Sure Burger has a bad injury history but Ng needed a guy who could hit HR's and probably saw enough and heard enough from her talent evaluators that he could play a serviceable 3rd base and hit the ball really hard when he did hit it. So far with the Marlins that has paid dividends and he's making more contact. How well he holds up and manages to reproduce the results with the Marlins is anyone's guess but so far so good and people keep waiting for the other shoe to drop like with Rodon. The Sox didn't even think Rodon was worth a draft pick and he ended up with a great year with the Giants. Not so much after that . Giants must have sent a thank you gift to Hahn for that. Thanks for helping us out there Rick and Jerry for not costing us a draft pick I'm sure your farm system is overloaded with studs ! Edited September 17, 20232 yr by CaliSoxFanViaSWside
September 17, 20232 yr 33/75 837 ops Ahe rate he's going, he might even catch Robert in OPS and he actually wants to play baseball every single day, too. Genuinely seems to enjoy being part of a playoff push and is responding to the opportunity well. Heart and character traits the Sox are less familiar with since they aren't measurable. https://www.mlb.com/gameday/716546/play/69 Exit Velocity 111 mph Distance 446 ft Launch Angle 20 deg Edited September 17, 20232 yr by caulfield12
September 19, 20232 yr July was a bad month for the Old Administration. They drafted Gonzalez and traded Burger for nothing.
September 20, 20232 yr https://www.mlb.com/gameday/mets-vs-marlins/2023/09/19/716523/final/wrap 4th career walk off hit in his relatively short career 42 career homers in 668 at bats for Jake Burger 91 career homers for Moncada in 2733 at bats Moncada wins batting average for career .254 to .250 Edited September 20, 20232 yr by caulfield12
September 20, 20232 yr 22 hours ago, oldsox said: July was a bad month for the Old Administration. They drafted Gonzalez and traded Burger for nothing. We will be lucky if Eder can even get us 2 WAR in his career
September 20, 20232 yr On 9/17/2023 at 1:12 PM, fathom said: Trade keeps getting worse Trade should be a forbidden word for Sox fans. There's logic and then there's history. History is ignored and always points to bad.
September 20, 20232 yr 14 hours ago, fathom said: Another walk off. He’s so good now Look at what Bell is doing. Marlins are fun to watch. They are an underdog to make it to the post season. I'm glad he was traded so I don't have to tempt myself watching the shitty White Sox.
September 20, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, reiks12 said: We will be lucky if Eder can even get us 2 WAR in his career Maybe they forgot Herm and Cooper are no longer around.
September 21, 20232 yr Looks like he just made his 9th error at third and also got pulled from the game for Edwards/Berti combo.
September 21, 20232 yr Dealing with quad tightness Burger left Wednesday's game against the Mets early due to right quad tightness, Jordan McPherson of the Miami Herald reports. Advice: Burger was pulled after making an error on a throw home during the third inning. No details regarding the severity of Burger's injury were provided, but with an extra day between games for Miami, there's a chance Burger returns without missing any time.
September 23, 20232 yr Jake the Rake 34, 79 RBIs Three run bomb the only scoring in the game so far against MIL.
September 30, 20232 yr Game tying hit and diving play to end the game Still pissed we traded him away
September 30, 20232 yr I hate to defend Burger so much since I was so against drafting a then-pudgy bad fielding third baseman out of Mo. State. But he is amazing. And trading him was so wrong. You dump Moncada and keep Burger. Geez that was a bad trade. He actually was one guy we could have penciled in at 3B for the next 10 years. Instead, he gawn. Ridiculous.
September 30, 20232 yr 11 hours ago, greg775 said: I hate to defend Burger so much since I was so against drafting a then-pudgy bad fielding third baseman out of Mo. State. But he is amazing. And trading him was so wrong. You dump Moncada and keep Burger. Geez that was a bad trade. He actually was one guy we could have penciled in at 3B for the next 10 years. Instead, he gawn. Ridiculous. The drawback many miss is the team getting worse in team speed. You don't want to be the 2006 Sox were HR are the main source or certain guys can't help score on the bases.
September 30, 20232 yr 15 minutes ago, kitekrazy said: The drawback many miss is the team getting worse in team speed. You don't want to be the 2006 Sox were HR are the main source or certain guys can't help score on the bases. Except Burger has consistently been running faster on the bases than Yoan for the majority of this season and was a top 1/3rd-ish runner overall...2006 team ultimately failed due to pitching. And they still won 90 with two even better teams in the same division.
October 1, 20232 yr 7 hours ago, kitekrazy said: The drawback many miss is the team getting worse in team speed. You don't want to be the 2006 Sox were HR are the main source or certain guys can't help score on the bases. Lol team speed. We had like 2 good players and he was one of them ?
October 1, 20232 yr And, they got nothing for Burger. Just an old pitcher who couldn't pitch in AA who now is going to the Arizona Fall League as a 25 year old. The trade is so stupid. I'm still shaking my head in confusion and disgust.
October 1, 20232 yr 12 hours ago, kitekrazy said: That was the only theory I could possibly come up with for such a stupid trade. Kenny did it because he knew Rick and he would be fired. Kenny decided to f*** over Jerry after the decades Jerry screwed over Kenny, White Sox fans across the globe, and Chicago taxpayers, culminating in the La Russa hire and the implosion of any hope to accomplish anything since 2005. I really can't blame Kenny. Jerry deserves every slice of misfortune he gets. I hope they have 100 loss seasons through Jerry's final breath.
October 1, 20232 yr 4 hours ago, South Side Hit Men said: Kenny did it because he knew Rick and he would be fired. Kenny decided to f*** over Jerry after the decades Jerry screwed over Kenny, White Sox fans across the globe, and Chicago taxpayers, culminating in the La Russa hire and the implosion of any hope to accomplish anything since 2005. I really can't blame Kenny. Jerry deserves every slice of misfortune he gets. I hope they have 100 loss seasons through Jerry's final breath. Who knows. I'm thinking it was to improve the farm. Trade is such a bad word for Sox fans to throw around. The latest example is cutting Zavala coming off from injury to be replaced by a guy in AAA coming off injury. This organization is beyond stupid and will remain so.
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