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QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 24, 2017 -> 12:37 PM) First off, one of your better run producers should be Moncada. Secondly, he's bunting to move runners along for the Yolmer Sanchez. Thirdly, he is up 2-0 with a crappy bullpen, Swarzak unavailable and Pelfrey with 96 pitches, and isn't playing for the big inning. Lastly, Moncada had never bunted in his life. If he took one off the finger and broke it, that would have just added to the stupidity. Maybe major leaguers should know how to bunt. That's a separate argument. But not all do, and Moncada is one of them. This pretty much sums it up.. top 5 prospect in all of baseball sac bunting for a career 250 hitter... who was about 7-45 for the month.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jul 24, 2017 -> 12:32 PM) Yes, but he is now a major league baseball player and should know how to bunt. Not when you are the guy that's supposed to drive in the runs...

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jul 24, 2017 -> 12:04 PM) I was out in the mountains, did Ricky really ask Moncada to lay down a f***ing bunt? Yes lol....

QUOTE (maxjusttyped @ Jul 22, 2017 -> 09:03 PM) Yolmer is so smooth and graceful on defense. Very similar to Alexei in a lot of ways. Yolmer seems like a nice dude.. but can't wait for him and many of these others to disappear.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 22, 2017 -> 09:31 PM) Reality has been punching Yolmer and Hanson right in the face recently. These are good players to have in your line-up if you are trying to lose... oh wait...

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jul 21, 2017 -> 10:31 AM) You are looking at the run table. What are the odds of scoring 1 run? That's what matters. That's the point of a sacrifice bunt. It says pretty clearly at the end ... a sac bunt lowers your chance of scoring 1 run.

Clippard has James Shields stuff.

Anderson is unimpressive in so many ways right now.... Hopefully he figures out.. because "evidently" he has great talent.

It's time for Shields to find a new profession... Meatball arm with no control. Bring up some minor leaguer and let him get some experience. Pointless to have a guy like shields pitch.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 21, 2017 -> 08:27 PM) So slow out of the box If Tim Anderson has great speed... I've yet to see any real evidence of it.

just some data for people about bunting (some have read similar things, but I'm sure not everyone has) "Sacrifice bunting is giving the defense a free out. Free. No work, no need to make quality pitches. According to ESPN Stats and Info, the sacrifice bunt results in an out just over 96% of the time in major league baseball. According to a 2011 study of high school baseball in Texas, an attempted sacrifice bunt resulted in an out 83% of the time. This out is just about the most sure thing you can give. Attempted sac bunts in the bigs also result in the lead runner being throw out 17% of the time and a double play being turned 8% of the time. It is understood that the out is granted in the situation and an understood part of a sacrifice, but let’s look at other methods of getting to second if you insist on playing for one run. From 2000-2014, base stealers in MLB were successful 72.3% of the time. The success rate is loftier at the high school level (not including the increased likelihood of a wild pitch or passed ball at the amateur level). Would you rather have a 73% chance of having a runner at second with no outs or an 83% chance of having a runner at second with one out? The answer seems obvious. Just how important is it to get that man to second anyway? According to Dan Levitt of baseballanalysts.com, using a study that gathered information over 15 years of professional baseball, the expected run table for an inning sets at .877 in situations where there is a runner at first with no outs. However, if you decide to bunt the runner over, your expected run table for the inning drops to .693 with a runner on second and one out. In essence, you are voluntarily killing your own rally. In addition to the expected run table, basic percentages say that the sac bunt is the wrong play. According to Baseball Prospectus, you have a 24.4 percent better chance of scoring a runner from first with no outs than you have of scoring a runner from second with one out. 24.4 percent! Swing away. In addition, in situations with two base runners, teams stand a 10.4% better chance at scoring one run with runners on first and second with no outs than they do with runners on second and third with one out."

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 20, 2017 -> 07:15 PM) When he does that, he isn't doing it for strategy. I think that is the disconnect here. To me he is trying to ingrain the skill into certain guys skill sets so that when they really do need it, they have the ability and count/situation are not something they are thinking about because they will have done it under all circumstances. I think he is doing it for strategy. He is getting a lot of flack for it, so he can play the "skill development" card. Is it a good skill to have? sure.. but it's not so important that we have more failed sac bunt attempts than half the AL has total sac bunt attempts. I don't really believe him, but it doesn't honestly matter all that much, because I doubt he will be the manager when the team is getting ready to compete. One positive I have about him - I think the players play with more confidence and less tight. However I have to real way of measuring that or knowing if its true. The frenzy of bunt attempts is something I can quantify.

yeah bunting for a hit isn't the same thing because you are not purposefully giving up an out.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jul 20, 2017 -> 11:35 AM) Patrick Nolan‏ @SSS_pnoles The White Sox have 17 failed sacrifice bunt attempts in 2017. Half the remaining American League teams haven't even attempted more than 17. This pretty much says it all here... Maybe Renteria is a solid armchair psychiatrist... and in most ways that way more important. But he has to lose the high school fast pitch softball strategy in MLB baseball. Bunting has been statistically a waste of time in most situations since the end of the dead ball era... in 2017 with the ball flying out of stadiums at a record pace - its exponentially more idiotic.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 19, 2017 -> 07:58 PM) As I said last night, he reminds me of a high school softball coach exactly.. it does remind me of high school girls softball strategy.

Ricky Renteria needs to GTFO

Renteria is bad with most everything.

pretty impossible to rate it at this point.

benetti is a nice guy.. but man he just says some much crap that annoys me. He likes to make a bunch of captain obvious claims,,, he is a horrible jinx (when he was giving us the win at 5-0 I knew we were in trouble). All of those things are pretty picky. But the jokes... the jokes... I enjoy puns and dumb jokes... but 10 an inning is beyond what I can handle.

frazier such a good guy.. big power... But man he just has trouble squaring the baseball.

these back to back offensive performances have been amateur.

I've been kind of hard on Robertson the last two years... this year ( so far) he has been outstanding.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jul 8, 2017 -> 10:11 PM) f*** f*** f***! yet another starting pitcher that can cover many innings... Just a big pile of bad.

and another missed pitch...

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 8, 2017 -> 10:04 PM) That 2nd pitch couldn't have been more of a strike Umpires the last few games have bee missing a lot of pitches.