Here's a question

[JUSTgottaBELIEVE]

I know a lot of people are fed up with the offensive production out of thw white sox these days, but here's an honest question, would you rather see the sox play the way they have been playing this year or the way they played the end of last year? No offense, solid pitching OR no piching, solid hitting? I can't make up my mind as to which is more frustrating of the two but I think that last year was quite possibly a bit more frustrating, what do you guys think?

[fathom]

I know a lot of people are fed up with the offensive production out of thw white sox these days, but here's an honest question, would you rather see the sox play the way they have been playing this year or the way they played the end of last year? No offense, solid pitching OR no piching, solid hitting? I can't make up my mind as to which is more frustrating of the two but I think that last year was quite possibly a bit more frustrating, what do you guys think?

 

The Sox's offense was horrible at the end of last season. Do you not recall getting shut down by terrible pitchers like in the Boston series at Fenways, etc. This offensive slump is just a carry over from last year's bad offense in the 2nd half.

[RME JICO]

I know a lot of people are fed up with the offensive production out of thw white sox these days, but here's an honest question, would you rather see the sox play the way they have been playing this year or the way they played the end of last year? No offense, solid pitching OR no piching, solid hitting? I can't make up my mind as to which is more frustrating of the two but I think that last year was quite possibly a bit more frustrating, what do you guys think?

Solid pitching is much better IMO. If you have solid pitching, you are going to win ballgames. Even if that is by getting HRs only, scoring on errors, etc. Solid hitting also doesn't always translate to scoring a lot of runs.

 

If you look at the playoff teams from the Wild Card era, a very high percentage had a top pitching staff, where as the Cleveland Indians in the late 90's were the only good offense/bad pitching to make it deep in the playoffs.

 

Solid pitching >>> Solid hitting

[JUSTgottaBELIEVE]

Solid pitching is much better IMO. If you have solid pitching, you are going to win ballgames. Even if that is by getting HRs only, scoring on errors, etc. Solid hitting also doesn't always translate to scoring a lot of runs.

 

If you look at the playoff teams from the Wild Card era, a very high percentage had a top pitching staff, where as the Cleveland Indians in the late 90's were the only good offense/bad pitching to make it deep in the playoffs.

 

Solid pitching >>> Solid hitting

yea good point and i tend to agree with you

 

The Sox's offense was horrible at the end of last season. Do you not recall getting shut down by terrible pitchers like in the Boston series at Fenways, etc. This offensive slump is just a carry over from last year's bad offense in the 2nd half.

i know the offense wasn't good at the end of last year but it wasn't this bad

 

we averaged 4.48 runs/game in september of 2006

we are averaging 3.85 runs/game so far this season

[BigSqwert]

I prefer poor hitting and poor pitching.

[Jim Spencer]

I'm greedy

 

I perfer Awesome Hitting and Awesome Pitching

[BigSqwert]

On a serious note, I would definitely prefer solid pitching. We know how that worked out 2 seasons ago. And the old saying goes, pitching and defense wins championships. Our defense isn't as bad as I thought it would be and our pitching is much better than I would have expected...even with our occasional shaky bullpen performance. Although I am one of the pessimists on this site I honestly think the hitting will bounce back and we will go on an absolute tear. I have a funny feeling we will be playing in October.

[SoxFan562004]

I think the Sox have answered that for me over the last stretch, I would take solid pitching.

 

the Sox haven't hit at all, but still have put together a nice run.

[Balance]

If I were forced to pick only one, I'd rather have the pitching.

 

Even so, it gets so frustrating to see the Sox offense be so impotent.

[RME JICO]

If I were forced to pick only one, I'd rather have the pitching.

 

Even so, it gets so frustrating to see the Sox offense be so impotent.

Maybe some Viagara would help. It helped Rafael Palmiero.

[Balance]

Walked right into that one....

[CWSOX45]

The answer should be blantantly obvious....PITCHING.

 

Here's an extended answer though, last time I checked baseball was a game of adjustments......since last year our POTENT offense has not made ANY adjustments what-so-ever.

 

If baseball is a game of adjustments....and our hitters are not adjusting.....how does that make Greg Walker look?

 

It's amazing how dangerous our whole team could be if the main focus was base hits, and hitting the ball to the opposite field......however every guy on the team continues to turn and burn and try for the three run homer.

 

The answer is so painfully obvious, it kills me that he is still our hitting coach when we have a league worst .220 average, 24 points below Texas.

[witesoxfan]

I want the offense dammit, because the pitching was good until June last year too. If the pitching keeps this up all year, I guess I have no choice but to take the pitching.

 

People really seemed to have forgotten that the pitching, aside from Garland, was very, very good last year in the first two months of the season. Then Contreras got hurt and Garcia and Vazquez started getting lit up. Come July, Buehrle had joined the act, and Garland was the only consistent starter of the bunch.

 

So yeah, give me the offense until the pitching proves it can put up an ERA of 4.00 throughout the course of the season.