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Webb is striking out 6.8 per 9 and walking 6.1 per 9. He's getting by on an unsustainably low homer rate. I see the potential as everyone else does, but the best way to ruin the kid is to put him in at closer when he's very obviously not ready for it. My order of closer candidates: 1. Belisario 2. Putnam 3. Petricka 4. Webb Though I could see Guerra climbing up there given his considerable MLB closing experience. Belisario has a few more outings to get back to his dominant self. Putnam could be overtaken by Petricka if he continues to look shaky. Webb has the most to prove of those four IMO

We act like a guy who sits low 90s and reaches back regularly for 95-96 while getting a lot of swing and misses with a slider is bad from a LH starter while we all watch Chris Sale in awe

Sierra is the only clear replacement and he does a lot of the same things ADA does while improving upon some of ADA's weakness like D and arm. With that said, ADA has similar walk rate, K rate, LD rate, GB rate, FB rate, and HR/FB this year compared to his past. That suggests some horrendous luck. The only change of significance is that he is popping up a lot more often, but that doesn't explain .60-.100 loss of batting average

If I'm going to take away time from ADA, I'm giving it to Sierra. He's earned it.

I know it gets political in a hot hurry, but that line - "you don't think it'll happen to your child until it does" - it's hard not to feel something when you hear that from an anguished parent

FWIW, I never understand the relevance of pointing out whether a given crime was gang related. It's as if those don't count

I'd have no problem putting Rodon in the MLB bullpen pretty quickly - takes load off arm, starts arb clock (Boras), valuable experience in controlled setting

lmao that is not a base hit

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 24, 2014 -> 09:27 PM) Well, we saw the return for Alex Rios. Not pretty. Right, but that was all future salary-related

I'm really not sure how the league views Dunn at this point nor how they would view after a good season this year

Webb is pitching the fourth best of the active pitchers in our bullpen. I'd like him to prove a little more first

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ May 24, 2014 -> 01:04 AM) 1st time in 40+ years we beat the Yanks 8 in a row at home. Hawk was really selling that inane stat

I'm really not sold on moving Dayan to DH and if this is a throwaway season, there's even more of a reason to continue trying to make it work in the OF

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ May 23, 2014 -> 10:09 AM) Yeah, I remember that. That was a Jeff Sullivan article, right? I'll have to try to find that again. Yes. He was most interested in whether this "good lack of discipline" applied to Abreu. It didn't.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 23, 2014 -> 09:23 AM) Um, how about a day at a time like the vast majority of the population? Why do teachers get some special treatment just because they're teachers? I could walk into work tomorrow and they could say see you later, regardless of how long i've been there. Well, in part, it's the nature of the job. While teachers can be dismissed immediately for certain extreme things, it's hard to measure job performance in any setting, let alone without a year's worth of work to evaluate. There's also a cost to the students, for whom this is all for. Whether it's an elementary school teacher who is a group of children's only teacher or a high school teacher who is running a series of classes, it's a significant disruption to install a new teacher in there midstream. The only way you could ever manage that kind of switching effectively is to really, really homogenize the syllabi, something most people aren't big fans of doing.

Earlier this year, FanGraphs looked at O-Swing% and compared it to the same basic thing, excepted they added an arbitrary amount to the strike zone size to see if there were a bunch of hitters who only swung at near-miss pitches. Except for just a handful of guys, you basically saw that if guys swing at some non-strikes, they swing at all of them.

Something to think about re: college pitcher pitch counts - they throw every 7th day, the majority of the time. We've seen durability from Japanese pitchers who threw a lot of pitches on a similarly long-rested schedule

While not necessarily inaccurate, they couldn't have painted a more negative picture of Reinsdorf. Makes it look like he's been a big baby demanding power, as if that's all he does or nobody else is interested in the same things

When I saw the thread title, I thought I was about to read the dumbest post ever. In reality, that was pretty interesting

No f***ing clue why Belisario was throwing a bunch of offspeed stuff to Tex. Use your gift, Ronald. It's called a mid-90s fastball that breaks like a left-handed curveball

Belisario's fastball is so nasty it's like catching a knuckler

Beckham will have to be much better than his normal self to be in consideration for next year's team. He hasn't done anything that makes me think he could outplay Semien in 2015 at this point

Hulu does not play ball with CBS IIRC. I think there are a handful of shows that you have to wait longer than a day if you don't have a cable subscription now, too.

I wouldn't be pissed off about Nola - he's Wacha-esque to me in that nobody sees the upside in him because of how high his floor is.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 22, 2014 -> 06:41 PM) Sure, buddy. Why don't you go watch some old Blackhawks games from back in the day. Oh that's right. You weren't a fan back then. #blackhawksSinceBirth Unfortunately, they weren't on TV #scarsofwirtz