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QUOTE (SCCWS @ Jun 9, 2016 -> 06:19 PM)
So he is out till after the All Star game. Then he will need at least a couple weeks in Charlotte seeing live pitching which means around August 1st. Can he manage the team until he is ready???

 

 

NO. He's heading out on a rehab soon. Should be playing for Sox after ASB

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This move pretty much guarantees we'll be trading for Lucroy IMO. Don't have the trade trips for two offensive upgrades (which we need), so we're rolling the dice on Morneau filling the DH role cheaply. Allows us the following lineup:

 

1. Eaton, RF

2. Jackson, CF

3. Abreu, 1B

4. Cabrera, LF

5. Frazier, 3B

6. Lucroy, C

7. Lawrie, 2B

8. Morneau, DH

9. Anderson, SS

 

Print those World Series tickets fellas.

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QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Jun 9, 2016 -> 01:12 PM)
Take your Sox hatred blinders off. This is absolutely the right move to make. The guy won a batting title two years ago and was hitting over .300 last year before he was hurt. $1 million is chump change in MLB. If he sucks you cut him loose, no big loss.

 

THIS x 1000000000 . In his last 782 AB's covering 2014 and 2015 he hit about .315 . OBP around .364 and OPS around .850

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QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Jun 9, 2016 -> 03:12 PM)
Take your Sox hatred blinders off. This is absolutely the right move to make. The guy won a batting title two years ago and was hitting over .300 last year before he was hurt. $1 million is chump change in MLB. If he sucks you cut him loose, no big loss.

How were his home/road splits in Colorado? That's always a concern with Rockies players.

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QUOTE (Deadpool @ Jun 9, 2016 -> 06:39 PM)
How were his home/road splits in Colorado? That's always a concern with Rockies players.

 

Batting average , SLG. OPS all higher in CO. but not significantly. HR's almost doubled in Coors but OBP the same all for 2014

 

2015 much better at Coors but had a lot less AB's since he missed a big chunk of the season.

 

He is also not a stiff against lefties but really mashes righties. Almost all of his HR's will come of off RH's.

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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 9, 2016 -> 04:20 PM)
Jimmy Rollins, Jim Thome (who was actually productive based on what we paid him after the subsidy), Omar Vizquel, Tom Seaver, Griffey,Jr., Roberto and Sandy Alomar, Steve Carlton....seems like we're back in the late 80's when we routinely would bring in aging veterans on their very last legs, then again in the mid to late 90's.

 

Morneau seems to fit right in with this scenario.

 

Former MVP's/All-Stars, etc.. Carl Crawford must be next.

 

Seaver won 15 games both seasons with an ERA if I remember of under 3.5 and he pitched a ton of innings.

 

There was nothing broken down about him at all with the Sox.

 

Mark

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QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Jun 10, 2016 -> 04:56 AM)
Seaver won 15 games both seasons with an ERA if I remember of under 3.5 and he pitched a ton of innings.

 

There was nothing broken down about him at all with the Sox.

 

Mark

Seaver was effective. He just lost it after six, seven innings some times. I think he had several six inning no hitters, then boom. But he was good as a White Sox. I think they traded him to a contender for his final hurrah.

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QUOTE (sammy esposito @ Jun 14, 2016 -> 02:55 AM)
june 24th ends his 15 day dl Will he get in a few rehab games at Charlotte? before then?

He can stay on the DL indefinitely. He is traveling with the team,and taking soft tosses. When he goes for a rehab, who knows. If he will be any good, who knows?

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QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 22, 2016 -> 03:30 AM)
He can stay on the DL indefinitely. He is traveling with the team,and taking soft tosses. When he goes for a rehab, who knows. If he will be any good, who knows?

Since Thome we have not had an effective left handed hitter who could play the designated hitter role effectively if Morneau could play first base even better. Thome did receive the comebackplayer of the year award.

 

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QUOTE (sammy esposito @ Jun 22, 2016 -> 05:41 AM)
Since Thome we have not had an effective left handed hitter who could play the designated hitter role effectively if Morneau could play first base even better. Thome did receive the comebackplayer of the year award.

 

Dunn's second year with the Sox was pretty good.

 

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