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Big spot for Kahnle here

QUOTE (ptatc @ Apr 26, 2017 -> 03:02 PM) He should go one more inning, no? He's at 99 pitches, he's probably done.

Nice comeback for the K there but Q needs to get his control back.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Apr 26, 2017 -> 02:25 PM) PUT HIM AT DH What happened?

QUOTE (Chris Sale @ Apr 26, 2017 -> 01:49 PM) In some of his starts, he seemed to be reverting to old habits (nibbling) and sacrificing some of his strengths (fewer first pitch strikes). He wasn't locating his changeup or slider. It would certainly be sad if this KC lineup hit Quintana, but so far his command has been good and I've liked his aggressiveness. Up to six strikeouts. Q is good because of his nibbling, not in spite of it.

Has K'd 7 of the 10 hitters he's faced, 6 of them going down swinging. Awesome.

Do we have the most games with 10+ runs?

Eric Thames with yet another home run, he now has as many as the Red Sox do collectively.

Nice hit by Anderson. He's got his K rate all the way down to league average now.

That was a great AB

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 25, 2017 -> 12:17 PM) Out of curiosity, does anyone have R/L splits for Davidson from the minors? Are they extreme? Here are the last 5 years 2016: vs RHP: .251/.332/.411 vs LHP: .312/.393/.532 2015: vs RHP: .196/.288/.349 vs LHP: .217/.304/.435 2014: vs RHP: .208/.279/.374 vs LHP: .176/.292/.331 2013: vs RHP: .296/.355/.534 vs LHP: .225/.333/.304 2012: vs RHP: .234/.339/.437 vs LHP: .339/.444/.559

I think the difference is that Albers wasn't striking anyone out, and his stuff was mediocre. That hasn't applied to Swarzak (or Kahnle) this year so far.

QUOTE (Sox-35th @ Apr 25, 2017 -> 07:47 AM) With increased draft emphasis, the race for the bottom is worse than ever. Not sure what the league can do about it, though. Eh I think that's overblown. The only true tanking teams are us, maybe the Twins, the Reds, Brewers, Padres, and maybe the Braves (though I think they're trying to be somewhat competitive in the first year of their new stadium). That's not any more tanking than usual.

In the last 10 games Anderson's strikeout rate is under 16%, nice to see.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 24, 2017 -> 01:23 PM) In that case, it makes my point even more surprising, if he is getting more protection from the fanbase than MB or PK ever got. I've really only seen the protection of him happen in the two Ron threads though. I've seen Abreu get routinely trashed in gamethreads and he rarely gets the same defensive treatment there.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 22, 2017 -> 08:49 PM) This is one thing that I still haven't figured out. People get so defensive over him like his name was Konerko or Buehrle. I don't get that. But he is a very solid hitter. He was figured out in that he's not the monster he was in 2014, but he is still nice to have in the lineup despite his slow starts. I think it's more that Ron seems to get a boner whenever Abreu struggles, as if he'd prefer to be "right" rather than have Abreu do well.

QUOTE (ron883 @ Apr 22, 2017 -> 12:16 PM) Wow that's pretty crazy lol. But yes, I have been saying it since last year. People tore into me for saying it, but it turns out I was right. Jose isn't the same as he was. The league has adjusted to him, and his age has something to do with it in sure. The dude just has no pop in his bat anymore. Huge disappointment. Reminds me of gordo's great start and disappointing finish. But you weren't right last year, Abreu was a top 20 hitter in baseball in the 2nd half, so it wasn't clear that the "league adjusted to him". He's been bad to start this season, but if the league has adjusted to him then prove it. From a quick look he's being attacked exactly the same way to start this season as he was in the 2nd half of 2016 when he had a 142 wRC+ - lots of pitches down and in. He's had a dramatic spike in strikeouts and a big fall in walks, but it looks flukey to me because he's seeing the same percentage of pitches in the zone as always, and his O-swing rate is actually down a couple percentage points from last season and he has a career-high contact rate, so he's actually improved his plate discipline. What seems to be the problem is that his line drive rate is extremely low and his flyball rate is sky-high, though none of those flyballs have cleared the fence. None of those things are likely to continue. The main issue seems to be he just isn't making as hard contact as he used to (though he does have a career low soft-hit percentage), but whether that's just a bad stretch or because he's lost some bat speed remains to be seen. Either way there's no evidence pointing to the league "figuring him out", because pitchers have not changed their approach this season.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 21, 2017 -> 01:15 PM) I don't know, I could go either way on that. Galarraga - 4.78 ERA, 5.43 FIP Humber - 5.31 ERA, 4.60 FIP By fWAR, Humber has it, by bWAR, Galarraga has it. They were both pretty terrible pitchers outside of a season or so either way. You're right, it's basically a coin flip.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Apr 21, 2017 -> 01:02 PM) Worst pitcher to ever throw a perfect game in history? Looks like it, though if that call wasn't blown for Galarraga he wouldn't be.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Apr 21, 2017 -> 11:17 AM) Is this compared to his minor or MLB numbers from previous years? MLB numbers

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 21, 2017 -> 10:34 AM) Small sample and all, but if Kahnle has indeed improved his command, he's a good pitcher. Pitch f/x says he's not throwing more pitches in the zone, but instead he's almost doubled the swings on pitches outside the zone. However his velocity is up a couple ticks and he's doubled his swinging strike rate, so this is definitely an encouraging start.

Matt Cooper made Fangraphs' list of "Baseball's Most Compelling Fringe Prospects" http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-fringe-...e-prospects-84/

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 20, 2017 -> 01:18 PM) Chris Sale ERA at 1.01 and falling unless he was just jinxed...since no longer on ST banner, should be okay. He's been completely filthy to start the year. I can't believe we ever tried to make him into a pitch to contact pitcher, the strikeout-machine Sale is just simply better.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Apr 20, 2017 -> 08:07 AM) Some posters are too infatuated with strikeouts. I guarantee if Giolito had 10 K's instead of 8, we wouldn't be hearing nearly as much regardless of the 3 runs he gave up. It's probably the biggest indicator of future success for minor league pitchers, so the infatuation makes sense. Compared to what we have at the MLB level, there's far less reliable data on minor league park factors, batted ball data/exit velocity, and the quality of defenses, so I pretty much take everything beyond peripherals with a massive grain of salt.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 19, 2017 -> 03:16 PM) How's that data look on the Indians side or the past Champions/Runner ups in the Series? I legit have no idea and it'd be interesting to see if that whole extra month really hurts in that regard. Kluber, Tomlin and Bauer are where they usually are in April. From 2015-2016, on the Mets Thor's velocity went up, Colon remained the same and DeGrom and Harvey saw similar dropoffs to the Cubs' SP. For the Royals, Ventura and Volquez stayed the same, Young's went up, while Cueto was down about 1 mph. So it seems like there's a mixed bag of results. I'll probably look at some of the other past Champions/Runner ups later. It's just weird to see Hendricks throw 84 mph fastballs out there today.