but any person who plays for the bitches up north is nothing more than a twatwaffle to me

Crede on the Twins is gonna hurt. But it’ll only be temporary.

They were probably a better team than the Sox without him. With him, they’re clearly better, until May when he goes on the DL again.

Seriously though, he’ll either play well enough to hurt the Sox and price himself outside of the Twins’ means in the future. Or he’ll get hurt, and be a baseball vagabond for the rest of his career.

The difference in the greetings Crede receives at USCF as a Twin compared to that which AJ receives in the Terrordome will be stark.

Chicago White Sox (25-to-1) – It’s kind of odd to see a team that played as well as the White Sox did last year in the third tier. Obviously the oddsmakers don’t think that the Sox’s psyche will hold up for a full season to defend their Central title. I don’t know if I agree with them. I think this could be a really strong value play.

http://www.docsports.com/2009/mlb-futures-betting-638.html

http://deadspin.com/5157114/hugo-chavez-loves-his-dawgs

still hard to believe a guy who took days off when they played on turf is going to a team that plays on turf…no way he makes it into may.

I thought I had given up on Joe last year, when we all thought he was gone sometime before or during the season. So I didn’t expect this news, even this team, to hurt. But it does.

Oh well. Life, and the Sox, will go on.

Let’s chip in! Are u with me?

“What I could tell you, without getting Carlos mad or ruining his tough guy image, is that the media has a misconception or the wrong perception of what he’s really like,” said White Sox center fielder Brian Anderson, who played against Quentin while at the University of Arizona. “Carlos is so intense, and takes baseball very seriously, which is good. But honestly, Carlos is just a goofball.”

Anderson gave an example of the latter through “verbal joking battles” between Quentin and Joe Crede on the team plane last year, where both parties “had the maturity level of seventh graders when they got into it.” Fields added that Quentin has a dry sense of humor that most people don’t see, a wit that Fields is getting an up-close look at presently.

http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090221&content_id=3860040&vkey=news_cws&fext=.jsp&c_id=cws

3rd row behind 3rd base for the Sox-Twins game on the 10th

Carrasco just took a comebacker near the forearm from Alexei Ramirez, but seems to be OK. Taken off the field, however. 47 minutes ago

A day after taking the quiz, Thome sought out the PR rep who interviewed him. He had left one answer blank. It obviously had stuck with him and he had thought about it all night.

“Affordable healthcare for everyone,” he said. That’s what he would do if he was President.

http://whitesoxpride.mlblogs.com/archives/2009/02/sunny_saturday_1.html

From talking to Kelly Thesier, our intrepid Twins’ beat reporter, it sounds as if Crede’s afternoon press conference in Florida is going to be delayed a bit. So, I decided to take some time to come up with three of the top clutch plays made by one of the most clutch players in the White Sox organization. See if you agree.

1) October 12, 2005: A.J. Pierzynski gets the lion’s share of attention for his dash to first base after an apparent dropped third strike called against Angels catcher Josh Paul. But it was Crede’s two-out double off of reliever Kelvim Escobar that scored pinch-runner Pablo Ozuna with the game-winner, evening the American League Championship Series at one game apiece. Crede didn’t receive any postseason awards, but he was as valuable as anyone on the roster from the start of the playoffs right on through the sweep of the Astros in the World Series.

2) September 20, 2005: The Indians had shaved a 15-game-deficit on Aug. 1 in the AL Central to 2 1/2 games on Sept. 20. Crede made sure it got no closer on this night, launching a walk-off home run against David Riske leading off the bottom of the 10th.

3) April 18, 2007: Mark Buehrle’s no-hitter against the Rangers was punctuated by Crede’s defensive gem on Gerald Laird’s slow-roller to end the game. It was one of the countless tough plays Crede made look easy.

http://scottmerkin.mlblogs.com/archives/2009/02/more_on_crede.html

His clutch popups will hit the roof.

I love this film, makes me laugh.

When I first discussed the rumors of Crede to the Twins back in late December on The Score 670, the talk in the Twin Cities was he would play third more often on the road, while at home he would see some time in the DH spot.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/whitesox/2009/02/oh_no_its_crede.html

Crede going to the Twins does nothing for me. I hope he falls on his ass, but only so that Sox have a better shot at the division.

Thanks for your time here Joe.

I don’t have much to add to what’s already been posted, but they really seem to like Flowers a good deal — I think there’s a quote saying that his bat will, in fact, play at first. If it works out where he is able to stick behind the plate for even a couple of years, the Sox should have quite the luxury of a plus-plus offensive catcher.

And the Jerry Owens projection! Tough not to LOL at the projected ~.560 OPS.

Houston Astros catcher Toby Hall will miss at least a month after an MRI revealed a torn labrum in his right shoulder.

Hall was expected to compete for the two catcher spots on the major league roster, but the injury serves a major setback for the 33-year-old.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/scorecard/mlbnews.asp?articleID=253459

‘Exploring contact quality’ by Dan Turkenkopf
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/exploring-contact-quality/

‘Using Z-Scores to Rank Pitchers’ By Rich Lederer
http://baseballanalysts.com/archives/2009/02/using_zscores_t.php

‘BABIP Projection, Batted Ball Types, and Interaction Terms’
http://statspeak.net/2009/02/babip-projection-batted-ball-types-and-interaction-terms.html