Vance Law
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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 10, 2014 -> 06:58 PM) So you have Leury run for Gillaspie when Abreu is on 2nd base? Is Gillaspie that slow? You want him to score on a double. You want the fastest guy you have.
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QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 10, 2014 -> 04:50 PM) Abreu is flying open on the fastball. I hope he's not taking pointers from Viciedo.
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Abreu is swinging at 100% of pitches and missing 100% of pitches.
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JorDanks > Viciedo
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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 10, 2014 -> 05:03 AM) Finally, Jordan Danks just turned 28. Dayan is 25 and put up a 744 WAR rookie season at age 23 in the big leagues. That's going to get him the benefit of the doubt, and he's likely to finish with over 20 homers as well, which will help his case a bit when you look at the lack of pop we're getting out of 3B, 2B, CF, DeAza and Flowers (well, who knows who the REAL Tyler is?). Tank did do that his rookie year, and has been worse every year since. He's a 1B/DH hurting you on defense in LF, and he hasn't been able to be a league average hitter in any of his seasons. Keep him as a platoon DH/insurance plan I suppose, but he'll never hit enough to justify playing any position in the field. In 1238 career PAs against righties, he has a .676 OPS (.677 this year). We face right handed starters in 7 out of every 10 games.
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Is Ventura the worst manager in the history of MLB?
Vance Law replied to sin city sox fan's topic in Pale Hose Talk
Pretty genius move by Ventura to call up Danks from AAA and pinch hit him in the 10th and have him steal 2nd and score the winning run and have Guerra and Petricka not give up any runs. -
QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 9, 2014 -> 07:26 PM) I feel like it's a repeat of the same thing we heard about Brian Anderson over and over again... If only he hits .240 with 15-20 homers, he'll be like Tori Hunter-Lite. Likewise, I am confident in saying that Jordan Danks being anything other than a 4th/5th outfielder is a sign we're farther away from being a competitive baseball team, not CLOSER. 1) He's not being made into a regular player for the future on this team. He's a 4/5 OF if he remains here. 2) He's never been given the regular at bats that Anderson got, but I bet he could outhit him. His .682 OPS last year in his most regular playing time along with being a plus on the base paths and on defense in CF made him at least a positive WAR player, which is more than can be said for Dayan Viciedo.
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Danish hasn't given up more than 1 run in any of his last 8 starts. Give him a start or 2 at AA before the season ends.
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QUOTE (BaconOnAStick @ Aug 9, 2014 -> 05:24 PM) I wouldn't go that far. Dayan is going to be a very good bat someday, I just doubt it'll ever happen in Chicago. I know Dayan has potential. I don't think he'll ever hit enough.
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QUOTE (BaconOnAStick @ Aug 9, 2014 -> 04:40 PM) If Jordan Danks can ever be even replacement level with the bat he is a damn fine backup OF. No problem with the Sox giving him multiple chances this year. I think he's pretty close to that if he doesn't face lefties. Either way, he is a better, more valuable baseball player than Dayan Viciedo.
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QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Aug 9, 2014 -> 04:42 PM) He can play LF while De Aza or Leury Garcia slide to CF. In 2013, he hit .244 with 7/30 in 81 games for Detroit. In 79 games that same season, JorDanks hit .231 with 5/12. These are their best seasons. It is kind of silly to point to those as important distinctions over such a small sample size. You're talking about a couple of hits and walks as making up the difference in those numbers. Add in that Danks plays plus defense in centerfield and is left handed. Even if Viciedo went down, I assume the decision on who to bring up would be between Michael Taylor and Danks (again, because he's left handed and plays the best defense)
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QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Aug 9, 2014 -> 01:48 PM) Unfortunately, I think you're right. And I think this is foolishly chasing scraps, when we should be learning about our assets or lack thereof. Perhaps JR doesn't want to eat any more contracts after Keppy, but this is getting more aggravating daily. Whatever the case, I bet Hahn has way more information on we do such as offers he may have already received, a timeline/deadline for when he plans to waive/trade/DFA players. I would assume it very unlikely that Reinsdorf is unwilling to eat salary considering having them play out a losing season is the same thing as eating salary. The team is rebuilding. There are veterans on expiring contracts and ones who won't be here next year. If they are here for the rest of the season (not including Konk, here) we should complain then. But I think we all know that won't be the case.
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This ribcage deal has to be related to the ribs-first wall smash from a few days ago right? Bruised back did not make any sense as the injury from that. Maybe jammed back.
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I believe Avi can only stay in AAA for 21 days max, so he's up Aug 22 at the latest. His impressive start down there and the fact that they've begun playing him in the outfield makes me think he'll be up sooner, perhaps a week from now. So one/some of Dunn, Beckham, De Aza, Viciedo gotta go soon.
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It's about that time of the year again...
Vance Law replied to ChiliIrishHammock24's topic in Pale Hose Talk
I'd like them to stay where they are so that they can make a FA signing and keep their 1st round pick. -
In fact, I believe it's at 41 if you include Avisail. Someone needs to go in order to activate him from the 60 man within the next week and a half. Candidates?
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Yep, Danks. What is the difference between Sierra and Taylor? Anyone?
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I like this De Aza/ Sierra platoon concept
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QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Aug 8, 2014 -> 10:38 PM) His future is at 2B or a contact-hitting DH Why would you think he could handle 2B?
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QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Aug 8, 2014 -> 10:15 PM) That's #16 for Tank. He's been on a roll recently A couple more of those and he'll have rebuilt some value and we can leave him in Seattle.
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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 8, 2014 -> 05:38 PM) Over two years??? one http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2151334...deadline/page/8
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QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 8, 2014 -> 04:44 PM) If Dunn gets $12.5 mill, I might genuinely eat a hat. I agree, he won't get that.
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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 8, 2014 -> 02:43 PM) DeAza HAS to be living on borrowed time, one would think. De Aza's batting .283 with a .765 OPS against righties on the season. You would think some NL team could use that platoon bat.
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QUOTE (Soxfest @ Aug 8, 2014 -> 01:07 PM) Baltimore would be another place Dunn would fit in. Bleacher Report predicted that's where he'll sign in the offseason on a one year $12.5 million deal.
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Is Ventura the worst manager in the history of MLB?
Vance Law replied to sin city sox fan's topic in Pale Hose Talk
QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Aug 7, 2014 -> 10:13 PM) Leury Garcia is leading off in a major league baseball game. And it led to one of the Sox 3 runs in the game.