f*** the Cubs, and their toilet of a stadium! The rooftop owners that get blocked by the scoreboards are the lucky ones who don't have to watch that s*** for another century

So I guess we have to pitch around their catchers?

Wells CF

Ramirez SS

Rios RF

Konerko 1B

Viciedo LF

Gillaspie 3B

Keppinger 2B

Flowers C

Peavy P

 

That should be the line up today.

Edited May 30, 201312 yr by pettie4sox

Somebody asked yesterday what the Sox record is when they give up 4 or more runs. It's 4-18.

 

When they give up 5 or more, it's 0-17.

 

Sad offense. Leaking bullpen.

Edited May 30, 201312 yr by flavum

Like the Wells for DeAza move

 

I'd go with this:

 

DeAza 8

Ramirez 6

Rios 9

Viciedo 7

Konerko 3

Flowers 2

Peavy 1

Gillaspie 5

Keppinger 4

Let's do this! WGN so see you behind the big screen

Is this game even gonna get played? When does the rain start?

I'd go with this:

 

DeAza 8

Ramirez 6

Rios 9

Viciedo 7

Konerko 3

Flowers 2

Peavy 1

Gillaspie 5

Keppinger 4

 

LMAOOOOOO

Is this game even gonna get played? When does the rain start?

 

They'll be fine. Rain later tonight.

https://twitter.com/ESPNChiSox/status/34012...9591168/photo/1

looks good.. would have liked to see Wells in for De Aza.. altho as long as Dunn is not in the lineup I am happy

Konerko, Viciedo, and Keppinger are all going deep today

looks good.. would have liked to see Wells in for De Aza.. altho as long as Dunn is not in the lineup I am happy

It would be nice to see Wells get a shot against LHP. He has done pretty well against them in the past, and it's not as if De Aza and Dunn are rolling.

It would be nice to see Wells get a shot against LHP. He has done pretty well against them in the past, and it's not as if De Aza and Dunn are rolling.

Oh they're rolling...steadily downhill.

I have no idea why Travis Wood has had so much success this year. He just keeps batters off the bases and gets contacts out.

 

Fastball sits at 88-90, change up is lagging and slider/cutter is average.

 

Because

 

1) He's stranding 5% more runners than he generally has at any point in his career

2) Only 6% of the flyballs he allows are leaving the ballpark (compared to 8.6% for his career and the typical league average of 10%)

3) He's getting more ground balls (which is an indication of a maturing pitcher and is a factor in him improving)

4) His LD% is down by 5% from previous years (which is likely not sustainable)

5) His BABIP is an absurdly low .211 (the league average is .292 and has been the 4 years he's been in the majors).

 

Your primary areas of regression within these numbers are your LD% and your BABIP. As teams make adjustments, those numbers will start creeping towards league and career averages, and that ERA of like 1.03 will start to normalize.

I'd go with this:

 

DeAza 8

Ramirez 6

Rios 9

Viciedo 7

Konerko 3

Flowers 2

Peavy 1

Gillaspie 5

Keppinger 4

 

Is there some Beautiful Mind logic to having Peavy bat 7th? Or Flowers anywhere but 8th?

Ventura said lineup changes in the near future are not out of the question. He seemed receptive to the idea of making Alexei leadoff hitter and moving ADA down. I assume that would open up the 2 spot for Conor

Is there some Beautiful Mind logic to having Peavy bat 7th? Or Flowers anywhere but 8th?

 

My ultimate lineup for the Sox

 

De Aza - CF

Ramirez - SS

Viciedo - LF

Gillaspie - 3B

Konerko - 1B

Dunn - DH

Rios - RF

Flowers - C

Keppinger - 2B

 

this is better known as the "Tommy Tutone Lineup"

 

8

6

7

5

3

0

9

2

4

The palehose should stick whoever is the statistically worst Sox hitter in the 5-hole.

 

212/277/344 (621 OPS - second worst OPS in lineup)

 

Somebody asked yesterday what the Sox record is when they give up 4 or more runs. It's 4-18.

 

When they give up 5 or more, it's 0-17.

 

Sad offense. Leaking bullpen.

wow

wow

 

 

Wow.

 

No Flavum numerical projections on what we have to do to run down the Tigers, haha.

 

Guess he's past the denial stage on this year's Sox squad.

wow

 

 

Wow.

 

No Flavum numerical projections on what we have to do to run down the Tigers, haha.

 

Guess he's past the denial stage on this year's Sox squad.

wow

 

The 2005 White Sox were 13-44 when they gave up 5 or more runs. Typically, when you have a weak offense and a strong pitching staff, you are going to lose a lot of games where you give up a lot of runs. These sorts of results shouldn't be surprising.

 

Perhaps a good sign is that the 2013 White Sox are actually outpacing the 2005 White Sox in percentage of games allowing 5 or more runs, if barely (35.2% to 34%).

Wow.

 

No Flavum numerical projections on what we have to do to run down the Tigers, haha.

 

Guess he's past the denial stage on this year's Sox squad.

 

Yeah, there will be no Road to 89 Wins this year. Tigers are still getting to 93-95, maybe higher.

 

Sox just don't have the bats this year. Hopefully they make smart moves going forward.