White Sox ZiPS projections are out: http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/...cago_white_sox/

Im confused, why does he have Escobar getting over 600 ABs, or am I not reading this projection in the right context. He also has Jon Adkins pitching for us, did we really sign him?

Im confused, why does he have Escobar getting over 600 ABs, or am I not reading this projection in the right context. He also has Jon Adkins pitching for us, did we really sign him?

 

He also has McPherson getting a lot of ABs. I just tend to ignore those.

White Sox ZiPS projections are out: http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/...cago_white_sox/

 

Uh-oh! Kotsay is back and he is getting nearly 300 AB!

Line up every team last year according to OPS by lefthanded hitters. Draw a line after a dozen teams. Eight of the top 12 teams went to the playoffs, including teams ranked 1, 2, 3, 4.

 

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writ...l#ixzz1CN4kh7b3

Dunn helps that a lot, but this means that the Sox are still lacking.

Dunn helps that a lot, but this means that the Sox are still lacking.

 

Especially when Pierre and Pierzynski are your two other left-handed regulars.

Anyone watching these "Right Now" lists on the MLB Network? I'm sorry but Alexei is not the 7th best SS in baseball. Jimmy Rollins? Derek Jeter? Elvis Andrus? Come on! Al Leiter actually said that he needed to improve his defense to move up the list.

Especially when Pierre and Pierzynski are your two other left-handed regulars.

Unless Teahen takes the 3B job in ST and hits at a .800 OPS clip.

 

 

 

 

 

That's an interesting tidbit and all, but more research would have to be done to prove any relation at all.

 

Consider the teams that made it to the postseason. The Yankees have Teixeira and Cano and about a million other good hitters as well as a good pitching staff. The Twins had Mauer, Morneau, and Thome, who put up a combined OPS of about a million as well as a good pitching staff. I imagine the Rays were lower on that list, but they had a good offense and a good pitching staff. The Rangers traded for Cliff Lee halfway through the season, which stabilized their rotation, had the MVP of the league hitting from the left side, and had a good offense surrounding him as well. The Phillies entire offense is composed of left handed hitters, and they had a great pitching staff as well. The Braves had Chipper for most of the year, Heyward, and McCann hitting from the left side (and yes, I realize that Chipper is a switch hitter, but he's a better hitter from the left side), and oh, mind you, a good pitching staff. The Reds again had the league MVP hitting from the left side of the plate, a good offense, and a solid, but not necessarily good, pitching staff. The Giants, who I also imagine were lower, still had Aubrey Huff who had a great year and one of the best pitching staffs in recent memory.

 

There is a trend.

 

If you have a good team, you will make the playoffs. It's necessary to have some type of left handed power in your lineup to be a successful team because most pitchers are right handed and it has been proven that left handed hitters hit them better than right handed hitters do.

 

 

The White Sox won a World Series with Carl Everett as our main source of pop from the left side. I think we'll be ok with just Adam Dunn.

The White Sox won a World Series with Carl Everett as our main source of pop from the left side. I think we'll be ok with just Adam Dunn.

 

Podsednik was definitely a power hitter as well.

Podsednik was definitely a power hitter as well.

Ahh good point. I was in attendance for both of his postseason home runs, how could I forget the monster power hitter that man was?

The White Sox won a World Series with Carl Everett as our main source of pop from the left side. I think we'll be ok with just Adam Dunn.

It's possible that with the increase in dominant pitching and the decrease in steroids-aided power, the importance of LH power has increased since 2005.

Ahh good point. I was in attendance for both of his postseason home runs, how could I forget the monster power hitter that man was?

 

Wasn't one of his postseason HR's in Boston? You were there for that?

 

EDIT: Apparently it was in Chicago. For some reason I've always thought we won that blowout game in Boston.

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Wasn't one of his postseason HR's in Boston? You were there for that?

No, that was in game 1 in Chicago. He hit it in the Game 1 rout, just to make that rout even funnier.

No, that was in game 1 in Chicago. He hit it in the Game 1 rout, just to make that rout even funnier.

Game 1 of the that playoff series was great, not to get off topic with the thread, but the Iguchi throw to third was a classic as well.

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Wasn't one of his postseason HR's in Boston? You were there for that?

 

EDIT: Apparently it was in Chicago. For some reason I've always thought we won that blowout game in Boston.

Haha, I was at games 1 and 2 of the ALDS and game 2 of the World Series. Talk about amazing games to be at...

Haha, I was at games 1 and 2 of the ALDS and game 2 of the World Series. Talk about amazing games to be at...

 

I was at game 2 of the ALDS. Graffinino!

When Matt Clement was taken out of the game that was the loudest, "Hey, hey, hey...goodbye!" I had ever personally been in attendance for.

Hardball Times named 2005 the most exciting 4 game World Series ever,

 

http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/...sics-countdown/

When Matt Clement was taken out of the game that was the loudest, "Hey, hey, hey...goodbye!" I had ever personally been in attendance for.

I was there too, it was incredible!

Hardball Times named 2005 the most exciting 4 game World Series ever,

 

http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/...sics-countdown/

Certainly was for me! :headbang

Two winters ago, Pierzynski shed 20 pounds by sustaining a healthy diet. But he was batting only .231 last season before hitting .364 from Aug. 12 to the end of the season to raise his overall average to .270.

 

That was the first of three reprieves for Pierzynski. Reinsdorf told him just before the winter meetings in December in Orlando to call the Sox before accepting an offer from another team.

 

A few days later, as Pierzynski was waiting for Dodgers owner Frank McCourt to approve language in a contract proposal, Sox assistant general manager Rick Hahn and agent Steve Hilliard reached agreement on a two-year, $8 million deal before Pierzynski could tell the Dodgers he would accept their offer.

 

That allowed the Sox to turn from Olivo, who had them on his short list. He ended up with a two-year, $7 million contract with the Mariners less than a week after Pierzynski returned to the Sox.

 

"It all came together in a 15-minute span," Pierzynski said. "I was pretty much resigned to the fact I wasn't coming back.

 

"This was the place I wanted to be. It was just a weird negotiating progress."

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I would have been fine with either AJ or Miguel. I kind of actually wish we had signed Miguel, now that I think about it.