Aardsma, Sisco make final roster

by The Cheat on Mar 28, 2007 11:07 PM CDT in White Sox News

In an effort not to offend the starting staff, Ozzie Guillen decided against carrying any pitcher with a spring ERA under a half-dozen. Said Guillen, "We liked what we saw from Sisco and Aardsma. They fit right in with our starters."**

But seriously, it's kinda tough to get upset about the final roster decision. The four guys he had to choose from all featured spotty control and seem like fringe guys right now. But if they're going to use Aardsma's improvement, culminating in two consecutive scoreless outings, as a reason to take him north you'd think they would come up with a better excuse to explain away Boone Logan's spotless mark this spring.

I'll just assume that Ozzie got his way with Logan because Kenny got his with Anderson.

I'm not going to get too upset. It's not a Garza vs. Silva situation.

** Guillen may or may not have said these words. That's what I heard in my head when I read the article.

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Guillen growls after 7th loss?????????

I haven't heard bupkus out of Ozzie all spring as the Sox were playing like absolute garbage, accumulating loss after loss after loss. Now he's "worried Sox won't be able to `throw the switch'". Pinella told the cubs after 3 games that they looked like shit and their play was unacceptable.

Last year's spring training for the Sox was very different - they had ended the previous year playing great and won the WS. The Sox ended last year (from the all star break on) 33 - 41, 8 games under .500, 1 GAME BETTER THAN THE "ABSOLUTELY LAUGHABLE" CUBS.

Now Ozzie, 1 day before the end of Arizona training, is afraid the Sox can't `throw the switch' after playing LIKE crap since July.

I'm losing respect for the man.

by ballyb on Mar 29, 2007 6:44 AM CDT reply actions

Not sure how he can

complain. It's him that starts Ozuna and Cintron, and runs PeterP and Ozuna into CS's.

It should be called Bill Veeck Park!

by Chiburb on Mar 29, 2007 8:55 AM CDT reply actions

Repeat after me....

Spring Training means nothing...
Spring Training means nothing....

There have been numerous studies that have looked at spring training records. They have all come to the same conclusion: The Spring training record has no correlation with the regular season record.

Count me in Larry's camp, I'm sitting in my comfy chair awaiting the start of the season.

by bhoov on Mar 29, 2007 9:46 AM CDT reply actions

I'm not being combative

But I came into ST being VERY positive. Now I'm ready to bale on the Sox and devote the next 6 months to my golf game. I would like to see a link to study(ies) that show no correlation. It would lower my blood pressure. Thanks

by ballyb on Mar 29, 2007 10:07 AM CDT up reply actions

don't have a link handy

but guess who the best cactus league team the last decade or so has been? the kansas city royals with about a .570 win percentage. i'm sure you can recall their regular season performance in that span.

by larry on Mar 29, 2007 10:22 AM CDT up reply actions

regarding ST hitting

http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/story/2007/2/28/11030/7931

by larry on Mar 29, 2007 10:52 AM CDT up reply actions

Very little correlation

Just got this of the internet. I'll be VERY HAPPY if we lose only .008 per .100.

http://www.protrade.com/content/DisplayArticle.html?sp=S2fb631c5-d8ae-11db-8683-5577a9d16e8f

by ballyb on Mar 29, 2007 11:14 AM CDT up reply actions

I'm not worried...

about the Spring Training stats, but I am worried about how bad the Sox look on defense. I'm hoping they can throw the switch on Monday, because they've looked ugly this month.

by The Jerry Royster Experience on Mar 29, 2007 10:10 AM CDT up reply actions

It would be nice

to have a gazelle in center. Let's poll the pitchers to see who they want!

by ballyb on Mar 29, 2007 10:17 AM CDT up reply actions

I've mentioned this before...

But two things strike me about the Sox pitching numbers.

1 - Just about every Sox pitcher has struggled this spring to some extent. The few who haven't who haven't (Thornton and Logan) have been able to avoid walking guys entirely and keep the ball out of play (IOW, a very high K/BB ratio).

2 - The opponents' runs are coming on an extremely high BABIP. The opponents aren't walking more than you would expect, or spraying line drives all over the park, or hitting a ton of homers. Their hits are just falling in, the grounders are getting through.

You can draw one of two conclusions from this, as far I can tell. Either the Sox pitchers have been really, really unlucky, or the Sox defense is just bad.

by The Jerry Royster Experience on Mar 29, 2007 10:29 AM CDT up reply actions