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Comparing 2005 to 2010


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QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Mar 4, 2010 -> 12:16 AM)
One midget is significantly taller and better at baseball then the other. Rios hit a wall last year, he'll recover. The last guy we gave up on over one bad year was Swish, how'd that work out for us?

Oops, lost track of the quotes. Thought we were talking about Rowand. Rios is significantly better at baseball than wise -- he's actually relatively tall, if that metaphor hasn't died yet. Carry on.

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QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Mar 4, 2010 -> 01:16 AM)
A guy with gold glove defense who averages 16 bombs and 77 RBI's playing CF for the Chicago White Sox, a team that started Dewayne Wise on opening day last year, is plenty helpful
Last year with the Sox Alex Rios .199/ .229 /.301/ .530.

Dewayne Wise .225/ .262/ .366/ .628

 

Rios has given me at least plenty of reasons to be concerned. He looked awful last year. I hope it was just a real long and bad slump.

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QUOTE (SI1020 @ Mar 4, 2010 -> 12:49 PM)
Last year with the Sox Alex Rios .199/ .229 /.301/ .530.

Dewayne Wise .225/ .262/ .366/ .628

 

Rios has given me at least plenty of reasons to be concerned. He looked awful last year. I hope it was just a real long and bad slump.

 

He just turned 29 and has had a couple all-star seasons already. He wasn't even that bad last year. Just when he was with us, which was a whole 40 some games. With Toronto he had decent, albeit far from spectacular, numbers. I'd expect him to bounce back and am really not too worried about it.

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QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Mar 4, 2010 -> 08:32 AM)
If Rios hits like he did last year we'll be comparing him to Andruw Jones not Aaron Rowand.

 

And if he hits like he has every other single year of his career, he will better than anyone we have had out there in a pretty long time.

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It all comes down to the intangibles. Clutch hitting and pitching, great defense, great team chemistry, great play down the stretch, and so on. I'm taking the 2005 team for sure. Yeah it's easy to say that because they won it all, but that was just a magical year. Who knows if we'll ever witness another year like that again.

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In additon to obviously being a GREAT baseball team, the 2005 White Sox had the best intangibles of any baseball team I've ever seen. They also had about as many things go well for them as any baseball team I've ever seen. With those two things in mind, I don't think I'll ever compare another baseball team to them beforehand simply because it's impossible to predict things like that.

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