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QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 27, 2014 -> 08:20 PM) PK rolling wrist weak groundout, multiple games and PK not going together very well. Honestly I'd rather play Sierra in RF and DH Viciedo. That improves the defense and the offense. Not sure why Kong continues to start EVER against RHP.

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ May 27, 2014 -> 08:11 PM) Wanna hear the scary thing about Chris Sale? His FIP says that he's been unlucky to have a 1.83 ERA to be fair his xFIP is 2.48, cold weather has prolly kept some fly balls in the park against him.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ May 27, 2014 -> 08:14 PM) Eaton is a damn good CF even with a bad hamstring He's totally cromulent, which we haven't seen in awhile. Imagine how could Mike Cameron would look to our starved eyes.

I don't like how Dunn let's the ball all the way into his body on the routine grounders, one time he's going to freaking drop one playing it like that. I guess whatever works for the big fella.

QUOTE (beautox @ May 27, 2014 -> 08:09 PM) Robin "because f*** you thats why; I didn't even want to be the manger" I love Robin's thinking it's like "I'll do the opposite of what the numbers say!" Other times it's a strict adherence to a Lefty verse Righty matchup. Either go with your gut or not! Pick one dude!

thank god Eaton is in the lineup.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ May 27, 2014 -> 09:23 AM) Today, I'm still more confident that De Aza will hit than Danks when they're at the plate. When Jordan Danks produces back to back 2 WAR seasons in MLB get back to me. There is a reason they are giving De Aza a long rope -- he's been pretty damn good as a Sox. Yea he's sucking ass this year but it's not like they have some stud in AAA he's blocking.

QUOTE (scs787 @ May 27, 2014 -> 12:07 PM) Using ERA to appeal to the back of the baseball card guys, and FIP to appeal to the saber guys.....(I know neither are the end all measuring stick but you get the point). Addison Reed-4.18 ERA/4.62 FIP Daniel Webb- 2.39/4.19 Jake Petricka- 1.57/4.06 Zach Putnam- 1.64/3.14 Then there's Lindstrom who sabermetrically is only slightly worse than Reed @ 3.32/4.68. Saying Reed would be the 4th or 5th best reliever is not that crazy to say. Reed's had a weird start to the year and if we hadn't all seen him pitch the last few years it would be hard to explain. He has a 4.62 FIP, as you mentioned, but his xFIP (with a league average HR/FB%) is only 3.14. Basically xFIP is sayin ghe's been extremely unlucky on HRs -- however, we've seen Reed pitch and we know this version of him. It's the version that has a 96MPH heater and not much else. When that version comes on teams sit on the fastball and when he grooves one (he's not exactly Greg Maddux with his command) it gets hit hard. Now, he also has a K/BB ratio over 3/1 and is striking out over a batter an inning, so his stuff is still there. But his season is pretty much exactly why Chicago traded him -- he's a good reliever but far, far, far from a "dominant closer". He was about to get way overpaid for being "a closer" and the time was ripe to trade him. Now, Davidson might not pan out, but getting a top 100 prospect that has a 50/50 chance to develop into a solid everday 3B is way more valuable than a 1-2 WAR reliever, ESPECIALLY on a team that has Don Cooper as the pitching coach. The Sox turn turds into gold quite often with Cooper, but they don't have much success with infield prospects. Getting a guy that was near MLB ready was a no brainer for Reed. tl:dr Reed is only a good reliever, not elite, Sox produce those guys on the reg and he was about to get way overpaid, getting Davidson was a fine return, even if it doesn't pan out the thought process was good.

QUOTE (JoshPR @ May 26, 2014 -> 06:32 PM) AMEN LOL, you know who doesn't do very well in defensive metrics? Bacon.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 26, 2014 -> 03:41 PM) Sierra looking like a star. One out. Classic toolsy outfielder, maybe the Sox will get lucky on one of those guys for once and he'll turn into a solid starter. Not a lot of one thing, but a little of everything (defense, hitting, baserunning).

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 23, 2014 -> 02:33 PM) And a shoulder injury is the last thing you want to see with any pitcher. See Webb, Santana, Danks, etc. Oh for sure, but Sale's motion puts a tremendous amount of strain on his elbow, more than the shoulder, if somehow he manages not to injure the elbow maybe it means he's just stronger built ligament wise then your average MLB pitcher. Now that won't help with a shoulder injury, but it's one less thing to worry about. This is just a hairbrained theory anyways. TINSNAAPP and all that applies.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ May 23, 2014 -> 07:37 PM) Hey Mr Baseball Police, how about you police those balls getting past you? Punk. f*** Brian McCann. No kidding, would it kill you to you know, slide over on your knees and be a catcher? Couple of pretty lazy backhand attempts with a man on.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 23, 2014 -> 07:30 PM) Save us Rodon That kid they got in the Peavy kid looks legit, although he's 2 years away at best.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 23, 2014 -> 07:22 PM) I wonder where his ERA and W/L record rank among the worst in baseball history over 200 innings Messing around on play finder on BRef found like 20 guys in history that had given up 35 or more HR in between 200 and 220 innings. He's historically bad. Almost all the other guys were guys that had a bad year but otherwise were solid MLB pitchers.

God I'm f***ing SICK of seeing Noesi and Carroll in the rotation. f*** this s***. Bring Johnson backup I don't care if he's getting lit up in AAA, let him learn on the job at least he's young. Start stretching Webb out and try and make him a starter, try something else.

At this point the fact that sales elbow hasn't blown up with that motion perhaps is evidence that he has top percentile ligament strength and that if he does have problems it won't be the elbow, maybe shoulder. I hope that's the case.

QUOTE (sin city sox fan @ May 22, 2014 -> 09:39 PM) Do you think Robin is secretly hoping the Yankees get a two out single next inning? Otherwise, he's in a position very soon where he gets criticized no matter what he does Robin has only one job and that's to make his boss happy. Leaving Sale in past 100 pitches is going to result in a trip to the principle's office. As it should.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ May 22, 2014 -> 08:18 PM) They HAVE to leave him in at that point. Jesus, you people...

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ May 22, 2014 -> 08:17 PM) Of course not are you kidding me? Are we trying to get no hitters or protect our most important asset in a throwaway year. If Robin leaves him past 110 because "no hitter bro" he should be fired before he walks in his office after the game.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ May 22, 2014 -> 08:14 PM) Wow, Sale... maybe we keep you over that 100 pitch limit let's not.

I love Chris Sale.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 22, 2014 -> 07:52 PM) Extremely long swing tonight His bat is so slow I don't know what happened his rookie year that allowed him to hit so well. I also like that "a hot streak" for Gordon is a 700 OPS. Hopefully dude continues to produce enough to get someone to bite on a trade for him.

QUOTE (Jake @ May 22, 2014 -> 03:57 PM) FWIW, Davidson over past 10 games: 12/38, 1 BB, 11 K, 2 HR, 2 2B, 5 RBI, .860 OPS. That isn't far off what I'd expect from him if he succeeds in MLB. He'll hit for a little lower average but walk a few more times if his past serves as a guide. I think a good version of him will strike out in about 25% of his at bats and walk in 8-10%. His average and his inability to hit more than 25-30 HR over a 160 game season would keep his OPS south of .900. It wouldn't shock me if his power stroke developed a little more as he certainly has the talent for it, but that is really difficult to project. As I posted a minute ago 3B is a wasteland right now in MLB. Davidson only "needs" like a 240/320/440 line to be a 2-3 WAR player at 3B, assuming "good enough" defense.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 22, 2014 -> 11:46 AM) Gillaspie has played 28 out of 48 games, and hasn't homered yet from a power position. They got time to figure this out. 3B isn't really a power position anymore. In 2013 MLB 3B had a wRC+ of 97and an ISO of only .142. In 2014 those numbers are down even further wRC+ of only 93 this year with an ISO of .141 As a 3B that can maybe hit 300/350/400 against RHP, Conor is very, very valuable, even without much power. Players like him don't grow on trees and thinking that he's "blocking" Davidson is insane. If anything, Davidson needs to prove he can even be the other side of that platoon with Conor. If Davidson is some stud then re-evaluate.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 21, 2014 -> 08:35 PM) 60 MPH eephus pitch. Eaton's hitting 887 against fastballs and under 700 now against anything else. Gotta make some adjustments. He needs to stay healthy gotta be hard to find a rhythm when you're injured every two weeks. I really have little doubt he'll be a consistant 280/350/380 leadoff guy and CF -- IF he can stay healthy, and that's a big if. His MiLB stats are too good not to translate as is his speed out of the box from the left side.