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Who'd have thought this in April?


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Nobody. And very few were "sure" what we'd get out of Sergio. Certainly nobody was predicting 16/18 or 17/19 in saves, whatever he has.

 

On the other hand, if you put up the numbers for Dunn/Rios/Beckham/Jackson/Danks (W-L) (and Thornton) at this point, you'd have to guess we were 6-12 games under .500 and on the verge of breaking the team apart.

 

Say what you will, KW always seems to come up with guys like Humber or Sergio on the cheap...enough to almost offset the "big/bad" moves.

 

And 7-1 in Peavy starts? That's a bit unexpected as well.

 

 

Konerko is most deserving, along with Humber and then Sergio. Alexei would have been on the outside of the conversation about 2-3 weeks ago. Same with Carlos.

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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 2, 2011 -> 06:19 PM)
Nobody. And very few were "sure" what we'd get out of Sergio. Certainly nobody was predicting 16/18 or 17/19 in saves, whatever he has.

 

On the other hand, if you put up the numbers for Dunn/Rios/Beckham/Jackson/Danks (W-L) (and Thornton) at this point, you'd have to guess we were 6-12 games under .500 and on the verge of breaking the team apart.

 

Say what you will, KW always seems to come up with guys like Humber or Sergio on the cheap...enough to almost offset the "big/bad" moves.

 

And 7-1 in Peavy starts? That's a bit unexpected as well.

 

 

Konerko is most deserving, along with Humber and then Sergio. Alexei would have been on the outside of the conversation about 2-3 weeks ago. Same with Carlos.

If you looked at it based on positional value, Alexei is probably the most deserving.

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QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jul 2, 2011 -> 06:18 PM)
Miggy, Tex, and A-Gon will all make it over Paulie, right? Maybe Santos will get a selection, or maybe AJ.

 

Paulie should be in over Tex. With the DH, room for more.

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10 starters usually go to the All-Star game according to a Trib article I read:

 

Automatics

Weaver (Top three pitcher in the AL this year)

Beckett (Ditto)

Verlander (Ditto)

Sabathia (more on reputation than pure numbers this year, but still pitching well)

Haren (great year + name)

Shields (Six CGs, enough said)

 

So there are six guys that are for sure going to go. That leaves four guys to be selected.

 

Last Options

Humber

Gonzalez

Pineda

Ogando

Tomlin

Price

Lester

Felix Hernandez

 

I am not going to put their statistics on there, but Humber is as good as any. Felix probably gets in on name, ditto for Lester and Price. So, IMO, Humber has to beat out Gio and Pineda. Ogando has dropped off a bit and Tomlin has a 3.86 ERA. So we can hope...

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QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jul 2, 2011 -> 06:43 PM)
10 starters usually go to the All-Star game according to a Trib article I read:

 

Automatics

Weaver (Top three pitcher in the AL this year)

Beckett (Ditto)

Verlander (Ditto)

Sabathia (more on reputation than pure numbers this year, but still pitching well)

Haren (great year + name)

Shields (Six CGs, enough said)

 

So there are six guys that are for sure going to go. That leaves four guys to be selected.

 

Last Options

Humber

Gonzalez

Pineda

Ogando

Tomlin

Price

Lester

Felix Hernandez

 

I am not going to put their statistics on there, but Humber is as good as any. Felix probably gets in on name, ditto for Lester and Price. So, IMO, Humber has to beat out Gio and Pineda. Ogando has dropped off a bit and Tomlin has a 3.86 ERA. So we can hope...

If Gio doesn't go, who does from Oakland?

 

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 2, 2011 -> 06:40 PM)
Paulie should be in over Tex. With the DH, room for more.

There is no DH this year.

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QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 3, 2011 -> 02:15 AM)
Humber's performance today was really really impressive.

Is this guy for real??

Man he's a great great story this year.

He's real so far. Might as well ride him as long as you can. He's Estaban Loaisa II. He may totally suck next year, but this year he's one of the best in baseball.

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