Sox Fan In Husker Land

Nice. C'mon Avi! 2/6 off Holland in his career make it 3/7

LOL at the dude with no shirt on, on the homer

In his last 12 starts Sale has the following stats: 92 IP 56 H 13 BB 131 K 18 ER WHIP 0.75 ERA 1.76 K/9 12.81 BB/9 1.27 K:BB 10.07 The Sox are 8-4 in those starts.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 07:16 PM) Will be interesting to see how the Cubs and Astros draft when they are no longer picking inside the top 10. Then we will see just how good their scouting is. The organization that impressed me most is the Cardinals. They have not picked higher than 19th over all since 2008 when they picked 13th and yet here they are still developing major league talent year after year. The Cardinals also have had 5 of the top 59 picks in the 2012 draft, 3 of the top 57 picks in the 2013 draft, 2 of the top 34 picks in the 2014 draft, and 2 of the top 39 in the 2015 draft. The Sox in that time frame had 2 of the top 48 picks in the 2012 draft (Hawkins and Barnum), 2 of the top 55 in 2013 (Anderson and Danish), 2 of the top 44 in 2014 (Rodon and Adams), and 1 pick in the 1st 3 rounds of the 2015 draft in Fulmer. Since 2012 the Cardinals have had 12 picks in the top 60 of MLB drafts, the Sox have had 7 in that same time frame. That also helps the Cardinals quite a bit, not to mention their scouting and development are good. St. Louis is 106 games over .500 since 2011, the Sox are 56 games under .500 in that time.

Why isn't Kottaras with Soto on the big league club? I know it is a small sample size but 313/470/569 1.039 OPS this year. 16 BB to 18 K.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jun 20, 2015 -> 08:51 AM) Why is Hoffman a ridiculous return for a quality major league starter at the deadline? QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jun 20, 2015 -> 08:58 AM) I think Hoffman is a future ace. The White Sox might have taken Hoffman over Rodon had he been healthy last year. They were big fans of his. He's going to be a front of the rotation starter. Would be a great return. Jeff Hoffman 1st start after Tommy John

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 14, 2015 -> 01:26 PM) Crede for me I'd go with Rowand from the 98 draft as the last good one.

Is Flowers going to do anything other than K here to end the game?

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 12, 2015 -> 08:53 PM) Nothing that is my point Sox think Flowers is just fine. How can they think he is fine? He is beyond awful.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 12, 2015 -> 08:48 PM) Flowers is LOVED by Sox management they do not think they have ANY issue at Catcher That frankly scares the hell out of me as a fan. QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jun 12, 2015 -> 08:49 PM) Honestly, I think if Hahn can acquire a starting catcher he'll keep Soto as the backup over Flowers. What exactly does Flowers do to deserve a job? Why not bring up George Kottaras and DFA Flowers? Platoon Soto and Kottaras.

Chris Sale last 6 starts: 46 2/3 IP, 24 H, 7 BB, 7 ER, 67 K. 12.92 K/9. 9.57 K:BB. 0.66 WHIP.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jun 8, 2015 -> 06:18 PM) Soooo who do we want? BPA

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 5, 2015 -> 08:22 PM) Flowers homer time hopefully I know you are joking, but look at his splits coming into the game tonight (currently 0-2): Tie Game: 172/273/207 480 OPS 1 Run Game: 200/246/292 539 OPS 2 Run Game: 188/235/263 498 OPS 3 Run Game: 196/237/283 520 OPS 4 Run Game: 196/235/278 514 OPS Margin > 4 : 263/300/632 932 OPS

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Jun 4, 2015 -> 11:04 PM) Seems like he has only pitched in three games this trip. Robertson last pitched May 29th. Why would you want him to pitch in a pressure situation with the game on the line?

Wouldn't you want to put in Robertson here?

Counting tonight's 7 IP 3 H 2 BB 13 K 0 R performance in Sale's last 5 starts he has done this: 38 2/3 IP 19 H 6 BB 53 K 6 ER. 0.65 WHIP 12.34 K/9. 8.83 K:BB.1.40 ERA.

HR!

Hopefully he gives Sale that call all night. If so I really like our chances up 4-0 already.

That's a nice start!

Spencer Adams last 3 starts: 17 2/3 IP, 14 H, 4 BB, 13 K, 2 R, 1 HR. 1.02 ERA, 1.02 WHIP. Not bad for a 19 year old in A ball.

Nice pick LaRoche

Sale last 4 games: 31 2/3 IP 16 H 4 BB 6 ER 40 Ks. Edited to include 2 batters faced in 8th.

Everyone on this team should be available to be traded. If the Sox traded Sale or Quintana, for some great non-pitcher prospects do you think they could develop them into anything good? Who is the last good non-pitcher that we have drafted, went through the minors with, and had be a good major league player, Rowand? Since Aaron Rowand was drafted in 1998 here is a list of all the White Sox Hitters, drafted and signed by the Sox, that have a positive career WAR: 2000: Mike Morse 4.3 2001: Chris Young 15.8 2001: Chris Stewart 3.2 2002: Jeremy Reed 2.0 2003: Ryan Sweeney 6.5 2004: Dony Lucy 0.2 2005: Chris Getz 1.7 2005: Chris Carter 1.7 2008: Gordon Beckham 7.0 2008: Brent Morel 0.5 2011: Marcus Semien 2.3

QUOTE (flavum @ May 10, 2015 -> 02:51 PM) Danish 1 run, 4 k's thru 2. Pitched over some garbage. So far for the season Danish is at 31.33 IP 33 K 8 BB. Not bad for a 20 year old in AA.

QUOTE (HBaines03 @ Jan 28, 2015 -> 04:40 PM) Long time follower.....1st time poster. I think the best improvement for this team was improving the bullpen with back end talent and getting added depth. I saw a comment earlier that "Cleto sucks". Early last season I would agree but when he was brought back late last season when rosters expanded he pitched much better with the addition of the change up. He had a 13-15mph difference between his fastball and change. Pretty devastating.....hopefully he can continue that. I looked last year at how the White Sox were in late inning situations and this is what I found. We lost 28 games last year where we lead or were tied going into the 7th inning. Here is the breakdown of those games by division: AL East - 8 games AL Central - 15 games AL West - 3 games NL East - 0 games NL Central - 0 games NL West 2 games That is a lot of games and if you take half of those games and produce wins that gives the Sox a 87-75 record. There were numerous games where we gave up more than 3 runs in one inning in those losses. If we clean that up in late game situations we can improve significantly. Thank you for that stat. Do you know how many games the Sox won last year in that same situation?