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  1. SouthSideRyan
    I'm guessing we see at least 3 second basemen in the lineup tonight. Is it even possible for us not to?
  2. SouthSideRyan
    I almost never jump at these stupid conspiracies. But I think it's almost too coincidental that Brenly brought up during the game last night the possibility of a versatile guy being brought up, and then the Comcast post game cuts away from Lou's postgame press conference right when the name Matt Murton comes up. They knew how pissed the general public would be that the lovable red-head wouldn't be called up, and to have it be a Patterson instead!!!?? The spin machine got started before out 27 last night.
  3. SouthSideRyan
    I'm not so sure. They could always promote Kroeger as the extra OF and play Derosa in LF with Fontenot and Cedeno splitting time at 2nd depending on match ups. promoting kroeger would make no sense. If they traded Murton for someone that didn't need to be on the 40 man that would open a space for Kroeger. Promoting him makes sense if they feel that Soriano will be back soon and the call up will only be a placeholder anyway. I expect to see Derosa in LF on a regular basis with Ward maybe getting a start or 2. Maybe promoting Patterson is a sign that a trade is already in the works. If I had to guess, we'll wind up with a Murton/Crisp trade so that we can get a lefty compliment to Reed Johnson in CF. It'll be the beginning June-ish and Pie will have about 70 PAs by that point.
  4. SouthSideRyan
    Theriot Johnson Lee Ramirez Fukudome DeRosa Soto Fontenot
  5. SouthSideRyan
    Do I win a Luis Montanez autographed 8x10 for thinking we'd call up Eric Patterson?
  6. SouthSideRyan
    Soriano's skills haven't diminished. Well then he has no baseball acumen. How about a diminished stats clause? 130 million just doesn't buy much anymore. Someone tell Soriano that just because the dollar buys a whole lot less doesn't mean that his play has to diminish in kind. It hasn't diminished, though. He's coming off one of the best years of his career. Hendry got exactly the player that he paid for. It's not Soriano's fault that Hendry was out of his mind. I'm glad they didn't call up Murton. He wasn't going to play, anyways. And we all know that middle infielders make the best outfielders. Middle infielders make the best EVERYTHING!!
  7. SouthSideRyan
    According to the mentally ill people running this organization he is at best a 7th outfielder, and probably 8th behind Fuld.
  8. SouthSideRyan
    Really really really really hate to say I told you so. It does make sense though, we need to be prepared in case 4 of our 2nd baseman get hurt, or 5 of our corner OFs.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    Anecdotal for sure, but we seem to do well against phenoms.
  10. SouthSideRyan
    I'm not so sure. They could always promote Kroeger as the extra OF and play Derosa in LF with Fontenot and Cedeno splitting time at 2nd depending on match ups. promoting kroeger would make no sense. Neither would promoting Patterson, but the only reason they might not is because they already decided they hate him.
  11. SouthSideRyan
    We woulda been the wild card though.
  12. SouthSideRyan
    As I've said already, I wouldn't be shocked to see Murton staying in Iowa.
  13. SouthSideRyan
    Fine I'm getting a sig.
  14. SouthSideRyan
    You won't find many bigger Von Joshua fans around here than me. But what exactly do you tell a guy as a hitting coach while he's stroking the ball to a line of a 900+ OPS? Get that average up over 400? Hit 35 HRs?(Nah, strike that, then he'd be just another Corey Patterson, black CFs should just slap the ball)
  15. SouthSideRyan
    Derrek Lee is so not getting traded in the offseason. Felix had his chance, he started 5 games, banish him to hell.
  16. SouthSideRyan
    I hope your not trying to be serious Take it to the extreme: Would you rather have Manny Ramirez on your team leading off or Scott Podsednik '05 on your team leading off?
  17. SouthSideRyan
    The Podsednik trade helped the White Sox because it freed money up for Iguchi and Pierzynski. As far as Lee vs Podsednik straight up, batting order be damned, that Sox team woulda been better with Lee hitting leadoff.
  18. SouthSideRyan
    Podsednik certainly has more HR power than Pierre, fact is Pierre outslugged him when comparing his '06 to Podsednik's '05. The point is if Podsednik had even more SBs in those additional games, he'd also have more CS to go along with it negating the gain in steals. The category of runs is largely useless because it relies so heavily on your teammates to bring you in. You could get on base 100% of the time, and you won't score a run unless your teammates' can bring you home.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    Oh and this is Juan Pierre's line for us in '06: .292/.330/.388 We're kicking Pie to the curb against righties so that we can get a slower Juan Pierre into the lineup instead.
  20. SouthSideRyan
    I'd move DeRosa to 2, Soto to 5, Murton to 6.
  21. SouthSideRyan
    Reed Johnson career vs. righties: .267/.328/.382 You just can't keep a bat like that out of the lineup.
  22. SouthSideRyan
    I think we do something stupid like bring up Eric Patterson and start Fontenot/Cedeno at a 2B platoon with DeRosa in LF every game. And I'm not even that opposed to Cedeno/DeRosa against lefties, just the absurd idea that me call up someone for their versa-effin-tility becuase Jim Hendry lives in fear of games where our first 5 2nd basemen all get hurt. Much better to have that 5th string 2nd basemen/6th string corner OF rather than a guy who's actually proven he can hit the ball at the major league level.
  23. SouthSideRyan
    How can you possibly use Pedroia as an argument in your favor? So if the Red Sox weren't as good as they were, they would've been better served using Alex Cora as their full-time 2B. Despite the fact that Pedroia clearly turned out to be the better player. It seems like people are viewing this Pie situation as he's going to hit 200 the whole year and strike out 200 times. Nobody in the pro-Pie camp is pushing to give him that this season. We are pushing to give him more than 20 flippin ABs, preferrably with more than 5 of those coming in the same week.
  24. SouthSideRyan
    So Pierre was more durable and didn't have to allow dreck(I guess drecker?) like Timo Perez start in his place. And thrown out 3 more times. Pierre had 57 more hits. Pierre was on a team whose collective line was .268/.319/.422 Podsednik's team was .262/.322/.425 A small difference, but may make a difference of a few runs, at best a marginal advantage for Podsednik, in a largley useless category. I'm not saying Pierre is anything but complete garbage,(as are many of these comparison categories) but if you can squint and make another player the same as him, then that player is likely trash as well.
  25. SouthSideRyan
    Pedroia hit 182/308/236 in the month of April last year. Chris Young through May 3rd: .202 .255 .383 Tulowitzki through April 25th: .185 .274 .246 Josh Fields through 23 games: .218 .274 .333 Each of these guys had cups of coffees (~80 PAS)the year before and were bad then as well. That's just from guys who got rookie of the year votes last year. The only ones to start well were Braun, Delmon Young, and Reggie Willits. Pie hit .362 .410 .563 in AAA last year. I'd say he has a clue.
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