But if this is pay content it’s a clear fair use violation. If it’s not, well sweet.

Infielder Pablo Ozuna was released Wednesday by the White Sox after he cleared waivers and rejected an outright assignment to Triple-A Charlotte.

Ozuna was designated for assignment last week. Toronto had inquired about Ozuna to a staff member during the Sox’s series in Kansas City.

and will always suck because they’re the SUX!

is there a better show currently on TV than Unbeatable Banzuke? I think not.

thanks for the post, fuck the other whining bitches ;-)

in the context of this year, it appears that the biggest vulnerability the sox have is lack of depth in starting pitching within the system (AAA), where we can’t easily replace a starter if one of them should go down. no? perhaps i’m more optimistic about 1B which the authors defines as the gaping hole.

kudos to KW and JR for being ranked first in this week’s SI for getting the most player for their payroll dollar.

Dick Allen – 3B
Claim(s) to fame: ’64 NL ROY, ’72 AL MVP, 351 career home runs, .534 slugging percentage. Probably should have been the first Dick elected to the Hall of Fame, but he smoked a cigarette for the cover of Sports Illustrated, and the BBWAA hates smokers. ...

Bud Selig would not talk about the possibility of a tie in Tuesday’s All-Star game:

“It will not happen again,” Selig said of a tie. “We’ve added players to the roster. We’ve done things. There have been a lot of questions about all that, but I really believe that the things that we did [helped]. I mean, if we hadn’t done them, tonight there’s no question there would have been a problem. But we did. And, look, it worked out.

“We were going to play the game to the end. That was the contingency, we were playing to the end.”

added players to the roster? where?

it worked out? bud has a feature in washington…

Alyssa Milano has sworn off dating baseball players, because they are too childish. The actress admits she is a huge fan of the sport, and even dreams of being a star slugger. But, after dating San Francisco Giants pitcher Barry Zito, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Brad Penny and Atlanta Braves star Tom Glavine, she’s determined to court more mature men, like her current mystery beau, known only as "David." Milano says, "They are grown men playing a little boy’s sport. That makes them childish."

White Sox closer Bobby Jenks has been on the disabled list with a sore left shoulder, and now he’s had his rehab assignment transferred from Class A Winston-Salem to Double-A Birmingham. ...

colin has a tumor, and rhythm likes to sleep with men named Wheaties.

I don’t feel comfortable having more than a couple paragraphs up there

You’re welcome for the free preview though

Thanks, Larry. Glad I got to read it all.

By virtue of having high expectations and falling well short, these ten players are all expected to have better to much better second halves of the season. Here is their projected second-half OPS, followed by their updated seasonal count:

Miguel Cabrera: .936, .879
Ryan Howard: .932, .873
Paul Konerko: .825, .757
Robinson Cano: .797, .708
Ryan Zimmerman: .810, .771
Ryan Garko: .776, .716
Todd Helton: .854, .816
Derek Jeter: .804, .766
Alexis Rios: .798, .764
Nick Swisher: .808, .777

Of these ten players, the only one whose updated seasonal OPS would come within 50 points of his pre-season projection is Nick Swisher; his OPS was projected to be .826 and is updated to .777. Cano, Garko, and Konerko (is Konerko what you get if you combine the names Cano and Garko?) are all updated to have an OPS over 100 points lower than they were prior to the season. Cabrera, Howard, and Helton should all have very good second halves and they are the only three on this list whose updated seasonal OPS would clock in at over .800. All ten of these players should perform better than they did in the first half but they are also very likely to finish the season worse than we thought they would.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/bubbly-second-halves