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I really want to hear some recent scouting report on Moncada's hitting. It's seems when he makes contact with the ball, good things happen. But he was described by Red Sox fans as blindly swinging at off speed pitches, which is not going to cut it at the big league level. Perhaps the silver lining here is many of his K's so far were looking, not swinging.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 26, 2017 -> 10:17 AM) Dunning has that 09 Daniel Hudson feel. Hudson in 09- Kannapolis 4 GS/ 22 inn Winston Salem 8/45 Birmingham 9/ 56.1 Charlotte 5/24 Then he got called up. This isn't a year for Dunning to get called up, but I can see him flying through the system. I prefer '12 Dylan Bundy QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 26, 2017 -> 07:46 PM) Collins now sporting a .387 obp with a .182 batting average, ha. 3 outcome, can you say?

Last season when KC swept the Sox in May, our season went to s***. May this sweep pave the way for us to get back to playoffs?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 26, 2017 -> 01:58 PM) 8 homers vs. the Reds and it's still April. Looks like he's having a Jose Bautista / Carlos Pena type of breakout. If he has a career year, it could open doors for more KBO players to come in.

Thames is killing Reds pitching this season, it's kind of fun to see.

QUOTE (credezcrew24 @ Apr 25, 2017 -> 04:28 PM) It seems like there has been a ridiculous amount of postponements with the White Sox MILB affiliates thus far. Is it mostly just a drainage, grounds crew, facility, funds thing or just really, really bad weather. That's just spring weather in the east coast for you. I'm sure other teams in the same leagues are getting rained out, not much you can do about it.

Comparing Hawkins to Lewis Brinson, who was drafted 29th overall by Rangers in the same draft as Hawkins, you just have to wonder if this organization is really that bad in teaching prospects how to hit. Hawkins and Brinson are both toolsy outfielders drafted out of high school. You can argue that Brinson had the same or rougher start to his career as Hawkins, but eventually developed into very good hitter and on the verge of making his big league debut. Brinson: 2012 (Rookie) 27.9% K/.283 BA 2013 (A) 37.9% K/.237 BA 2014 (A-A+) 24.9% K/.288 2015 (A+-AAA) 21.5%K/.332 BA 2016 (AA-AAA) 20%K/.268 BA 2017 (AAA) 20%K/.370 BA Hawkins 2012 (Rookie-A+) 22.5% K/.284 BA 2013 (A+) 37.6% K/.178 BA 2014 (A+) 27.8% K/.249 BA 2015 (AA) 30.3% K/.243 BA 2016 (AA) 30.1% K/.203 BA 2017 (AA) 53%% K/.143 BA

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 24, 2017 -> 09:44 AM) Matt Davidson strikes out half the time, had 2 years in Charlotte he hit about .200, and we have people now complaining he isn't getting enough playing time at the big league level, and have 1 poster actually believe he isn't playing against top of the rotation right handers to keep the win total down. Yeah, Hawkins sucks and is 99.9% a bust, but maybe he finds something somehow. Starting to pitch now vs. maybe having spend a winter preparing for the transition is negligible IMO. You might as well be really sure. Plus, you have to know how he feels about it. Davidson had 3 quality years in the minors as was a top prospect at the Triple A level before slipping for 2 years. Even with the struggles he had, I think Davidson had far better hit tools than Hawkins ever developed, and that's saying something. Hawkins somehow managed to get worse and worse every year, and you have to factor in how much that affects him mentally as a young professional athlete.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 24, 2017 -> 08:03 AM) It said on the board Sunday he lead the league in HR. I would give him this season to hit. If it doesn't get better, and probably won't, then maybe have him become a pitcher if he's up for it. I don't think there is any rush. He could hit 30 HR's (highly unlikely) and still would not survive in AAA let alone the major leagues with his current BA and K%. I don't think there is any hope of him making improving his hit tool at this point. I am not a pro ball player, but I think it would be easier to make the transition now (at a younger age) rather than later.

If we are up 2-0 and still manages to lose 4-2 in the first round, there should be pressure fire Gar or Garpax as if we had missed playoffs. Rondo or not, last two games were embarrassing and really displayed the flaws of the roster outside of Butler.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Apr 21, 2017 -> 01:35 AM) Moncada is BLAZING hot at the plate. He was actually cooling off. 4 for last 20 with 9k's. Having a multi-hit game last night was nice to see.

Game 2 tonight, Celtics don't scare me.

Fulmer has his hands full tonight vs that Red Sox lineup.

Have a game Dane! (He was my pick for breakout prospect btw I see him as a Erik Johnson type of prospect, too. Above average stuff, and chance to be solid back of rotation starter

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 13, 2017 -> 11:03 AM) I agree with everyone but Zipser. His play got considerably better once he got playing time. Oh and Payne can do a mean high five in the middle of a game while riding the bench I like the way Zipser plays, I think he could be a pretty good role player given time. But when he's your 7 or 8th man off the bench in a playoff series, it speaks volume for the terrible roster that's GarPax put together.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 13, 2017 -> 10:27 AM) Probably stupid on my part but I gained respect for Hoiberg post Taj trade. He tried to make those awful point guards work, then said screw GarPax, and pushed hard on Mirotic/Rondo/Grant to pretty good results. I think you could look at Pacers and Heat and think we should be better with Butler being best player across those teams, but our second unit is filled with garbage. No kidding. MCW, Valentine, Zipser, Payne, Canaan, Morrow all shoots under 40% and has PER under 10. I don't know if there are any teams out there who could match that.

The thing is, the parity of talent between the 7 East teams in the playoffs (besides Cleveland) isn't huge, if the Bulls had a better coach and made a couple of trades to solidify their bench, they could realistically get past Boston and Washington to meet Cleveland in the conference finals. As it stands now, I think even though we have the best 1 or even 2 players in this series, we will go down 4-1 or 4-2.

Ok guys, last night of regular season. I am conflicted on if I am rooting for the Bulls to make the playoffs (though they have no reason not to at home vs. Net's who's setting their best players). Here are the scenarios: - an L and Miami W - Bulls out (better pick, and puts more pressure to make changes to the FO, we can dream) - a W and Pacers W - Bulls 8th seed (likely face Celtics in the first round, whom they were 2-2 in the regular season against) - a W and Pacers L - Bulls 7ths seed (likely face Cavs, and no chance in hell against Lebron)

I'm just happy Sami is now on SD. I predict a world title reign before the next WM.

Because K% is calculated using PA's, not AB's.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 11, 2017 -> 08:53 AM) Moncada won't have an average below .260 with that speed and power combination. http://thebaseballcube.com/players/profile...P=Michael-Trout Trout in the minors, 211/1117=19% I doubt Moncada finishes higher than 25% in AAA. We'll see. Tim Anderson's 193/673 at the major league level, that's closing in on 30%. I don't get the Trout comparison, they are both great athletes, but will each impact the game differently, plays the different positions. FWIW Trout was a far more advanced hitter in the minors compared to Moncada at present. Your numbers on Anderson is also incorrect. His minor league K% was 22.5%, but bumped up to 27.3% (124/453) with the Sox. I am hoping Moncada limits K% to 25% in AAA, but that's going to take some work, primarily in learning to hit offspeed pitche. The K% is worth monitoring.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 11, 2017 -> 01:12 AM) Moncada has a 29% strikeout rate in 731 minor league at-bats, 213/731. But a 395 OBP. I'm pretty sure everyone could live with a 30-35% K rate his first year or two in the majors as long as his OPS was over 800 and his OBP was over 350. That's not even taking into consideration the damage he can do with his speed on the basepaths. Since 2014, there are only 9 times a qualified player finished with K rate above 30%, and the highest was 33%. Chris Carter, Chris Davis, Adam Dunn, and one Michael Taylor made up for most of those 9 finishes, and they are perennial .210, .220 hitters. If Moncada comes up and hits .230 and strikes out 35% of the time in the first year, I'm sure most people here will panic instead of "being able to live with it", and wants him sent back to the minors to get more seasoning.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Apr 10, 2017 -> 11:24 PM) He walks a ton though. The strikeouts aren't ideal but I don't believe he strikes out "too much". Even if it's like a 25% clip, what else is he doing? Is he on base like almsot 40% of the time? I expect to him to always be a pretty high strikeout guy. What makes you think he'd only K 25% in the majors right now? If he ends up only striking out 25% in the majors, I have no problem with that, but he's far from even that level right now. Call him up now (or even in the remote future) he's a safe bet to K around 35% of the time.

Goal this year is to let the kids develop, let's not let 2 months of results change that. Moncada has a lot of work to do in terms of learning to hit the offspeed stuff. I wouldn't mind if he takes the full year in Charlotte doing that.

.364/.588/.818, you're almost at Babe Ruth territory Zack!