Fangraphs breaks down PK

 

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/p...nd-father-time/

So when does the first voting update come out so we can all have a simultaneous conniption?

Thanks, Admins!

Thanks, Admins!

 

Fan voting needs to go. F*cking Japanese will have Ichiro's terrible ass starting, you can count on that. Stupid New York global love always has old/bad players. I bet Texeira gets more votes than Paulie. Albert will clearly get more votes despite sucking balls, same as Prince.

First Base Ballot If there is No God:

 

Pujols

Fielder

Gonzalez

Konerko

Teixeira

Chicago White Sox ‏@whitesox

 

In 6 games, PK hit .583 with 4 doubles, 3 HR & 10 RBI and led the Major Leagues in batting average, slugging % and on-base %.

 

This marks PK's second AL Player of the Week award this season (also week ending 4/30) and his sixth career award. #VoteKonerko #ASG @MLB

Looking at the best candidates for the starting 9, it looks like an early conspiracy with Texas Rangers fans may benefit the Sox, if they are game.

 

-They promise to vote Konerko and either AJ and/or Dunn

-We promise to vote Hamilton (no brainer) along with Beltre and Kinsler.

 

The pitch being, why vote for those overrated/overspending bastards in NYC/Boston/LAA.? Maybe Cano is a little better than Kinsler and the Trumbo better than Beltre, but not so much so that they deserve it over the Rangers players.

 

So, who has the phone number for their fan representative?

From ESPNChicago's White Sox report:

 

There are a couple of things in this surge that are improbable.

 

Konerko is 9-for-10 against pitches that our pitch classification system classifies as “middle-middle” (in other words, pitches that are over both the middle-third of the plate height-wise and width-wise).

 

The typical major league hitter hits about .330 against pitches to that location. Konerko has historically been above average, but not quite to this level. From 2009 to 2011, he had a .405 batting average against middle-middle pitches.

 

 

ESPN Stats & Information

Konerko has five home runs. But on the other 11 fly balls that he’s hit, he’s 7-for-11.

 

The average major leaguer gets hits on about 16 percent of his fly balls that stay in the yard, so 2-for-11 would be the sort of performance that would be expected. Over the past two seasons, Konerko has gotten hits on about 15 percent of the fly balls that stayed in the park.

 

Konerko has managed to sneak a few bloops in the right spots. This image shows the approximate locations for his fly ball hits in this stretch. It would be fair to describe six of them as “shallow fly balls.”

 

Konerko is 7-for-12 (.583) with four home runs with two strikes. The average major leaguer is hitting .176 in two-strike situations. Konerko was better than that, though not otherworldly, with a .218 batting average in such spots from 2009 to 2011. He had six two-strike home runs in all of 2011.

From ESPNChicago's White Sox report:

ESPN just blazing trails today. Konerko won't hit .399 this year. Way to go, guys! You just blew my mind with that analysis.

Looking at the best candidates for the starting 9, it looks like an early conspiracy with Texas Rangers fans may benefit the Sox, if they are game.

 

-They promise to vote Konerko and either AJ and/or Dunn

-We promise to vote Hamilton (no brainer) along with Beltre and Kinsler.

 

The pitch being, why vote for those overrated/overspending bastards in NYC/Boston/LAA.? Maybe Cano is a little better than Kinsler and the Trumbo better than Beltre, but not so much so that they deserve it over the Rangers players.

 

So, who has the phone number for their fan representative?

 

I'd say Beltre's still a much better player than Trumbo. Trumbo will regress.

0-4 today. Worthless.

Vote early and often!

Meet baseball's least appreciated star.

 

(Currently featured on CNN.com's home page, right below an article about a rant by a MLB sportscaster from yesterday).

Meet baseball's least appreciated star.

 

(Currently featured on CNN.com's home page, right below an article about a rant by a MLB sportscaster from yesterday).

I voted the max # of times. Which also means Morel now has 25 votes, all from me.

 

Paul Konerko's batting average is higher than the Twins' and Cubs' winning percentage.

Well, I have 3 email addresses... so I did my 75 votes.

 

I remember in 03 when we were worried about his degenerative hip condition.

Fielder is leading after the first totals. Konerko in 3rd. It's not close. Dunn isn't even in the top 5 for DH. Aggravating.

 

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20...lb&c_id=mlb

 

AJ is 5th in Catchers.

Fielder is leading after the first totals. Konerko in 3rd. It's not close. Dunn isn't even in the top 5 for DH. Aggravating.

 

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20...lb&c_id=mlb

 

I hate the world. I voted 75 goddamn times for them and nothing?

 

f*** Fielder.

Fielder is leading after the first totals. Konerko in 3rd. It's not close. Dunn isn't even in the top 5 for DH. Aggravating.

 

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20...lb&c_id=mlb

 

HUGE SHOCK.

 

So AL is all Rangers/Red Sox/Yankees.

 

At least the NL is repped by 7 different teams so far haha.

 

Paulie has a ZERO percent chance to make it. 400,000 votes behind....

 

 

Other than Tigers/Yanks/Red Sox/Rangers, The only other team that even cracks the top 2 is the Orioles for Weiters...