JUSTgottaBELIEVE

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Aug 9, 2007 -> 08:59 PM) Why is Josh Fields trying to bunt to get on? josh is having himself a rough game

here i thought jumping out to a 3-0 lead early things were looking good to take the series but here comes bad pitching combined with bad defense and now its looking bleak 7-3 in the 5th

QUOTE(JUSTgottaBELIEVE @ Aug 9, 2007 -> 05:49 PM) yes and no from now until sep. 13 the indians schedule is as follows: white sox - 7 games yankees - 3 games detroit - 5 games tampa bay - 3 games KC - 3 games LAA - 4 games Minnesota - 6 games Seattle - 1 game over the course of those 32 games i could easily see them going 15-17 a similar thing can be said about the tigers as they play the yankees a whopping 8 times over their next 32 games and for the twins, they probably have the easiest remaining schedule but if the sox play good enough ball to catch the tigers and indians i would suffice to say that they have played well enough to catch the twins too all this being said, the sox still need to 1. win tonight 2. win roughly 22 of their next 32 easier said than done, that will be no easy task for this team or any team for that matter, but if and i say a big if they are able to accomplish those things over the next month here they could find themselves as little as 3 games out come middle of september yes, it is dreaming, and yes it is far-fetched; however, it is still a possiblity despite the unbalanced schedule looking at this, basically the sox are going to have to get very, very hot (which we already knew) AND we are all going to be big yankees fans for the next month (as they play the tigers 8 times and indians 3)

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Aug 9, 2007 -> 12:23 PM) Um two? There's 3 teams at least 5 games ahead of the Sox right now and if only one of them goes in the tank it just means the other 2 teams will get that many more wins when they go head to head. It's going to be virtually impossible to make any sort of run due to the unbalanced scheduling. yes and no from now until sep. 13 the indians schedule is as follows: white sox - 7 games yankees - 3 games detroit - 5 games tampa bay - 3 games KC - 3 games LAA - 4 games Minnesota - 6 games Seattle - 1 game over the course of those 32 games i could easily see them going 15-17 a similar thing can be said about the tigers as they play the yankees a whopping 8 times over their next 32 games and for the twins, they probably have the easiest remaining schedule but if the sox play good enough ball to catch the tigers and indians i would suffice to say that they have played well enough to catch the twins too all this being said, the sox still need to 1. win tonight 2. win roughly 22 of their next 32 easier said than done, that will be no easy task for this team or any team for that matter, but if and i say a big if they are able to accomplish those things over the next month here they could find themselves as little as 3 games out come middle of september yes, it is dreaming, and yes it is far-fetched; however, it is still a possiblity despite the unbalanced schedule

QUOTE(JUSTgottaBELIEVE @ Aug 9, 2007 -> 11:32 AM) http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/standings?date=20050809 probably the funniest thing about that is the royals with an 11-game losing streak which eventually would end at 19 games! wow

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/standings?date=20050809

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 8, 2007 -> 11:00 AM) What is is OBP with runners in scoring position compared to with no runners on? Can someone help me out with that? i was actually quite surprised with the splits from thome this year better than i had expected with men on late in games By Situation AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB HBP SO SB CS AVG OBP SLG OPS On Second 20 2 4 0 0 1 4 15 0 3 0 0 .200 .543 .350 .893 On Third 7 2 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 5 0 0 .000 .200 .000 .200 First and Second 20 7 8 2 0 2 13 4 0 5 0 0 .400 .500 .800 1.300 First and Third 10 6 3 0 0 3 12 3 0 3 0 0 .300 .400 1.200 1.600 Second and Third 3 8 2 1 0 1 6 1 0 0 0 0 .667 .750 2.000 2.750 Bases Loaded 8 8 2 0 0 0 7 2 0 4 0 0 .250 .400 .250 .650 1B Only 50 9 16 4 0 3 6 18 0 17 0 0 .320 .500 .580 1.080 None On/Out 54 2 19 4 0 2 2 6 0 15 0 0 .352 .417 .537 .954 None On, 1/2 out 103 6 21 2 0 6 6 24 2 39 0 0 .204 .364 .398 .762 Close and Late 38 7 11 2 0 1 9 11 1 15 0 0 .289 .451 .421 .872 None On 157 8 40 6 0 8 8 30 2 54 0 0 .255 .381 .446 .827 Runners On 118 42 35 7 0 10 51 44 1 37 0 0 .297 .482 .610 1.092 Scoring Position 68 33 19 3 0 7 45 26 1 20 0 0 .279 .469 .632 1.101 Scoring Posn, 2 out 16 12 6 1 0 2 14 9 0 3 0 0 .375 .600 .813 1.413 Men On, 2 out 28 15 9 2 0 3 16 15 0 7 0 0 .321 .558 .714 1.272 Man on 3rd, Lead Off Inning 52 0 18 3 0 2 2 5 0 15 0 0 .346 .404 .519 .923 Glossary Groundball - results vs. "groundball pitchers." Groundball pitchers defined as such before the season begins based on the past five year's performance. A groundball/flyball ratio of less than 1.0 classifies one as a flyball pitcher. A ratio of greater than 1.5 classifies one as a groundball pitcher. All others are neutral. Flyball - results vs. flyball pitchers. Average G:F - results vs. a pitcher classifed as neither a groundball or flyball pitcher. Finesse - results vs. "finesse" pitchers. Finesse pitchers defined as such before the season begins based on the past five year's performance. If the pitcher's BB+SO/IP is less than 0.93, he is classified as "finesse." If it's greater than 1.13, he's classified as "power." All others are neutral. Power - results vs. "power" pitchers. Average F:P - results vs. a pitcher classified as neither a finesse or power pitcher. Close And Late - results in the 7th inning or later with the batting team either ahead by one run, tied or with the potential tying run at least on deck.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/standings?date=20050806

QUOTE(JUSTgottaBELIEVE @ Aug 4, 2007 -> 07:10 PM) nobody in this division is playing good ball since the all-star break it's really quite amazing: indians - 10-12 tigers - 9-13 twins - 11-10 royals - 10-11 sox - 11-12 how long can that continue? somebody needs to get hot at some point right? *correction tigers - 9-14 sox - 12-12 (we've gained 2.5 games since the break on detroit by playing .500 ball wow)

QUOTE(Linnwood @ Aug 4, 2007 -> 07:31 PM) So you're saying there's a chance? theres always "a chance" up until the team is mathematically eliminated

javy is just going to have to bear down and get through this one today i have the feeling the sox are going to need more than 6 runs today to win this one 6-3 going to the 4th

this team is scary if this offense keeps clicking and the bullpen finds remnants of success from guys like macD and thornton

BOMBS AWAY!

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Aug 4, 2007 -> 07:14 PM) How many teams did Cleveland have to jump in 05. They just got absolutely pummelled in a 3 game series with the Yanks. We win one game, and have a good start in another and we get silly, the fuse is lit crap. Its one thing to be optimistic, its another to have lost contact with reality. We are talking about near 800 ball for the rest of the year to possibly win. nah .750, either way they would have to get ridiculously hot

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 4, 2007 -> 07:12 PM) Play like they currently are? Their pitching now is worse than it's been all year. I'm still not even sure we want Dye to play well the rest of the year. If he does, it's really going to make it harder to sign him/offer arb. i think he means the fact that they have won 7 of the last 11 but they will have to play at a .750 clip starting today to take this division (that would give them 90 wins)

nobody in this division is playing good ball since the all-star break it's really quite amazing: indians - 10-12 tigers - 9-13 twins - 11-10 royals - 10-11 sox - 11-12 how long can that continue? somebody needs to get hot at some point right?

this team may not have much of a chance of getting back into the playoff hunt but boy they sure could be quite the spoiler for some of these teams particularly the tigers and indians

QUOTE(AirScott @ Aug 4, 2007 -> 03:35 PM) Yeah, and we're in first if he's decent and the bullpen didn't suck ass. And we're the best in baseball if everybody didn't come out of the gate hitting their weight. i know there is a lot of blame to go around but specifically a guy that came into the season something like 20-25 games over .500 its well out of the norm that he would be 5-14 at this point in the year

sox are 45-43 in games that contreras doesnt start, damn, if he was even having a decent year (12-9) the sox are right in it (57-52, 4.5 GB)

and they had only 1 team to catch, not 3 either way it's hard to believe how far back they were and how close they got in a matter of a month and a half

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/standings?date=20050804 that Indians team caught absolute fire the final 53 games until the final weekend that is...

you know whats really pathetic? our pitching is now worse than our offense on the year. the sox ranked 27th in ERA coming into this game (now 28th after giving up 9 runs) and our offense ranked 23rd in runs scored coming into the game. greg walker has taken a lot of heat this year for the lack of offense but i think its don coopers time to take heat for the pitching woes because outside of buehrle, javy, and jenks they are even worse than the offense

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 1, 2007 -> 07:54 PM) Over 5 ouch, dont look now but mr. danks may be passing brandon mccarthy and his 5.18 ERA by the time this game is over and mccarthy got off to a horrible start this year

whats danks' ERA now?

i was at the game today and i have to say that richar turning DPs compared to iguchi is like night and day he gets rid of the ball slightly quicker and his arm strength is head an shoulders above iguchi. i was impressed and hopefully thats one less hole the sox have to fill for next year