Will I ever see this lineup?

 

LF - Pierre

SS - A-Ram

CF - Rios

1B - Konerko

RF - Quentin

C - AJP

DH - Viciedo

2B - Beckham

3B - Vizquel

 

I am with you on this 100%

Jones has an OPS+ of 98 on the season and a .753 OPS. Against LH pitchers in particular, he has an .853 OPS. Furthermore, he's been a plus fielder in both CF and RF, despite limited time there (he's been a negative fielder in LF, but he's played a total of 10 games there, as opposed to 35 in RF).

 

Yes, he's all or nothing, but he's pretty much been exactly the kind of guy you'd want on your bench and rotating through the DH as the right-handed partner. Strong on defense, and especially against LHP, not a liability with the bats.

 

The issue is that Kotsay's getting almost all the PAs as the DH.

Jones has an OPS+ of 98 on the season and a .753 OPS. Against LH pitchers in particular, he has an .853 OPS. Furthermore, he's been a plus fielder in both CF and RF, despite limited time there (he's been a negative fielder in LF, but he's played a total of 10 games there, as opposed to 35 in RF).

 

Yes, he's all or nothing, but he's pretty much been exactly the kind of guy you'd want on your bench and rotating through the DH as the right-handed partner. Strong on defense, and especially against LHP, not a liability with the bats.

 

Yet he has 58 AB vs. LHP and 152 vs. RHP. I understand you see a lot more RHP in a season, but that difference should not be that high.

The issue is that Kotsay's getting almost all the PAs as the DH.

You're not going to hear me defending that. I can defend Jones as doing an excellent job in his role as 4th OF/part time DH. I can't defend anything Kotsay has done this year.

You're not going to hear me defending that. I can defend Jones as doing an excellent job in his role as 4th OF/part time DH. I can't defend anything Kotsay has done this year.

 

What's worse is that Kotsay only plays 1B. You can play Viciedo at 1B to give Paulie a day off if need be.

 

I see absolutely zero things that Mark Kotsay does better than Thome except run slightly faster and the ability to play 1B.

 

Those two things don't even come close to the .280 gap in their OPS or the near .100 gap in their wOBA.

 

Jones has an OPS+ of 98 on the season and a .753 OPS. Against LH pitchers in particular, he has an .853 OPS. Furthermore, he's been a plus fielder in both CF and RF, despite limited time there (he's been a negative fielder in LF, but he's played a total of 10 games there, as opposed to 35 in RF).

 

Yes, he's all or nothing, but he's pretty much been exactly the kind of guy you'd want on your bench and rotating through the DH as the right-handed partner. Strong on defense, and especially against LHP, not a liability with the bats.

 

The amazing thing is that Viciedos OPS is .755 because of his zero walks.

The amazing thing is that Viciedos OPS is .755 because of his zero walks.

 

Which is the one thing about him that bothers me.

Which is the one thing about him that bothers me.

 

I think he is jumpy and wanting to hit because he is getting such irregular playing time. He probably is pressing to swing at anything that looks remotely hittable instead of drawing walks

I hope you're right. I'm not looking for Ted Williams or Joe Morgan here, just an occasional walk. Even if he just walks enough to get a 30 or 40 point split in the BA and OBP like Alexei does, it'll work IMO due to what I think should be very good power and solid ability to hit for average.

It's worth noting that he typically took 3-4 walks a month in the minors, except for June of last year, where he took 9. The guy who runs his AAP page kept up to date with most of his running monthly totals last year. He finished up last year with a total of 23.

Vargas road splits consist of a 3.99 ERA and a 1.19 WHIP over 8 starts. It would probably be good if he left with an ERA well over 3 and well over 4 on the road.

Vargas road splits consist of a 3.99 ERA and a 1.19 WHIP over 8 starts. It would probably be good if he left with an ERA well over 3 and well over 4 on the road.

 

What's weird about Vargas is that he's given up more home runs at home this year, 4 more in fact.

 

Nice article about how his stats look a lot like Washburn's last year: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/j...arrod-washburn/

 

Vargas pitched against us in the series where we swept them. Gave up 2 runs in 6.2.

It's only a good plan if you have capable offensive players, which we really don't have in Kotsay and Jones.

 

That wasn't the question. The question was why was Rios at DH. and Jones in CF. And I agree with Balta, Jones has done a good job.

 

Another question: could the resting of Konerko, Rios and TCQ allow them to be more fresh and have a better overall season as opposed to the lineup with someone like Thome full time at DH? If nothing else to probably has allowed TCQ to play more without lower extremity injuries.

 

There is no way to know for sure just a question that popped into my ADHD mind.

That wasn't the question. The question was why was Rios at DH. and Jones in CF. And I agree with Balta, Jones has done a good job.

 

Another question: could the resting of Konerko, Rios and TCQ allow them to be more fresh and have a better overall season as opposed to the lineup with someone like Thome full time at DH? If nothing else to probably has allowed TCQ to play more without lower extremity injuries.

 

There is no way to know for sure just a question that popped into my ADHD mind.

I think it's entirely possible that with Konerko and Quentin it's the case. Rios though...really hasn't sat all that much.

That wasn't the question. The question was why was Rios at DH. and Jones in CF. And I agree with Balta, Jones has done a good job.

 

Another question: could the resting of Konerko, Rios and TCQ allow them to be more fresh and have a better overall season as opposed to the lineup with someone like Thome full time at DH? If nothing else to probably has allowed TCQ to play more without lower extremity injuries.

 

There is no way to know for sure just a question that popped into my ADHD mind.

 

I'm sure Thome would have shared platoon duties with with Jones at DH since Andruw was already on the team. The thing is, Ozzie could have made Thome part of his rotating DH platoon, that's what Thome's doing in Minnesota right now and it's working extremely well. With a guy like Thome, you don't want to give him an excess amount of at bats anyhow. He's getting old and you need to keep him fresh too.

the angels are snake bit

Will I ever see this lineup?

 

LF - Pierre

SS - A-Ram

CF - Rios

1B - Konerko

RF - Quentin

C - AJP

DH - Viciedo

2B - Beckham

3B - Vizquel

send it to ozzie's hotmail - he admits that he likes it and has even used suggestions.

63 games to go, wild card unlikely what's gonna happen? Looks like we need to win our division to make the playoffs. The east has teams with more wins than our division and will probably have the wild card. Wonder how many games it will take to win our division? We'd only have to go 35-28 to get 90 wins. Is that enough?

63 games to go, wild card unlikely what's gonna happen? Looks like we need to win our division to make the playoffs. The east has teams with more wins than our division and will probably have the wild card. Wonder how many games it will take to win our division? We'd only have to go 35-28 to get 90 wins. Is that enough?

 

90 should be enough.

63 games to go, wild card unlikely what's gonna happen? Looks like we need to win our division to make the playoffs. The east has teams with more wins than our division and will probably have the wild card. Wonder how many games it will take to win our division? We'd only have to go 35-28 to get 90 wins. Is that enough?

 

The WC went out the window back in April. The 4 best teams in baseball are the Yankees, Rangers, Rays and Red Sox (not necessarily in that order). It's been win the division or else.

Sometimes I wonder how far ahead the Sox would be of the Twins if we signed Hudson/Thome instead of Kotsay/Nix.

Viciedo is really clueless how to play the 3rd base position. 1st and 2nd, no outs for Seattle.

Viciedo is really clueless how to play the 3rd base position. 1st and 2nd, no outs for Seattle.

At least the White Sox realize it and had him playing 1B in the minors.

Can we have a mulligan?

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