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I was watching on MLBN and it wasn't really too awful. Trout hit a changeup about 400 ft after fouling off some good FB. Sale shouldn't have even come out for the 8th. He was just shy of 100 pitches and had given up a couple solid hits to end the 7th. He was surprisingly mostly calm about it. There was silence on the GS, so much so that Stone had to jump in and talk. Hawk did complain about the error by Ramirez a bunch of times (forgetting the Angels had two themselves, one leading to an unearned run). Hawk also made a point of stating that the 6th, and winning run cam after a couple of weak hits. He just refuses to give credit where credit is due. Pretty shameful IMO.

The comment about Vitters mentions his "shot at the Bigs" not yet being over. I posted because I thought the slideshow was interesting. Brien Taylor has to be the biggest of the busts mentioned in that group, if for nothing more than he was a Yankee's pick.

The Cubs have two on the list: Ty Griffin and Josh Vitters Link

Was getting tired of the whole, "X number of starts without a win" for Shark. Hopefully this is the start of him stringing together a few wins.

If the Cubs could only bat for one inning but were allowed 27 outs in that one inning, how many runs do you think they'd score for Samardzija?

Louie with the "suck" to start the inning. Louie with the "leather" to end the inning.

What's with the two-fingers peace sign to the eye after a hit the players have been doing this year??

"Hey, the jerk store called and they're running out of you!" said Len Casper as Gyorko struck out to end the inning. Now that's some comedy gold!!!!

Does Bryant stay in AA all season or does he get a bump to AAA later in the summer (assuming he continues hitting like he has)?

The attempted ball-bash is funny! :lol:

Can we just fast forward to Wednesday.

Every hit I keep hoping is the one that starts him on a hot streak.

Thanks CR and Tim and everyone else. I'm a "novice" minor league fan, and still learning who's who. But the older I get, the more intrigued I am at the whole minor league process. It's actually really neat to follow some of these youngsters through to the Majors. Hopefully there's plenty of that in the near future! :beg:

Makes sense, thanks. I'll still keep an eye on him. If he keeps hitting, he should be up to AA sometime this year, right?

Admittedly, I don't know too, too much about the minors and its players. I've brought his name up before, but why is Bijan Rademacher not thought of as a more highly touted prospect? He's hit at all three levels he's played so far and he's not yet 23.

Twenty six pitches thru 2 innings. That's usually the first inning. :good:

Would love to see EJax go 7 or so.

"One thing that this lineup has to be aware of, and I'm talking about the Sox lineup, is the fact that Edwin Jackson can't field his position very well and he also doesn't hold base runners closely." -Steve Stone May 6th, 2014 First Inning About 7:10p :lol: While his assessment was correct, the timing was sensational.

Russell isn't gonna have to pitch, will he?

Probably will need elbow/shoulder surgery after next star.....so you may be right.

Sure, but it's not even close to the two points he completely inflated.

So I'm watching the White Sox game yesterday, and they're losing....which is the best time to watch a White Sox game. And the game is in the 3rd inning or so and Hawk is lamenting about what a different team the Sox are without Adam Eaton in the lineup, and how they just don't seem to have the same energy. He's only missed one full game to that point, right?? Anyway, I assume he's laying the foundation as to why they aren't scoring runs in the event they lose. So Steve chimes in about one of the great things about Eaton is he makes the pitcher work, that in a 4 AB game, Eaton is gonna see 24-25 pitches. Well that just didn't seem right to me. I watch plenty of Sox games and I hadn't noticed him being so selective at the plate. Of course, I'm no sabermetrician either. So I looked to see if I could find the # of pitches Eaton sees per AB. And low and behold, right there on the interweb, I found out that Eaton is averaging 4 pitches per plate appearance, and that's the highest in his short career so far. Well, before I could get too wound up about it, Hawk breaks in with some story about a discussion he had with the late Dwight Eisenhower, John D. Rockefeller and the Living Jesus Christ himself over a round of golf back in his KC Royals days. So I forgot about Stone's comment. Fast forward to this morning, and I'm listening to the Score on the radio, and who comes on - the Stone Pony. And sure enough, the topic of Adam Eaton comes up. This time Stone is again discussing his importance concerning the number of pitches he sees each at bat and how this not only helps his teammates, but tires the pitcher. Stone stated that it's not uncommon for Eaton to "see 7 or 8, 9, even sometimes 10 pitches to start a game". Now c'mon Steve. Is it really necessary to make sh!t up?!?! Whatever happened to the days of actually giving insightful commentary that was actually relevant and true?? I always thought Stone was better than that. I guess I answered my own statement - he was better than that.....and then he teamed up with that talentless hack next to him. MAybe I'm nitpicking, but if he can arbitrarily throw out that statement, what else does he say that's just flat out wrong???

Generally speaking, is there an age a minor leaguer hits that he's considered "past his mark" as far as being a viable major leaguer? Is it different for a player drafted out go college versus HS or Internationally?

Poor AB by Rizzo, too aggressive on pitch #1, especially after three BBs.

Where was Coughlan before the call up? I didn't see him on the 40-man roster.