Rough season for Hawk talk

i always loved the first pitch. Its a fastball more times than not, and its usually a strike as the pitcher is going to try and get ahead of you. the more you stood up there the better the chance you were going to see breaking pitches. Unless it was hung like tommy lee, i wasn’t hitting a breaking pitch.

Thanks, Jim. I liked to take a pitch, ala Wade Boggs (though not as anal as Wade about it). If you see more of what the pitcher can throw, you can read him better, I would guess is the reason he says it. It’s why theoretically you might hit a pitcher the 3rd time through the lineup (though that may be as a result of fatigue). I’m sure Tom Tango or someone has done work on this.

its going to be a sad sad day when he calls it quits and there is some random 40 year old white dude doing the play by play like every other team. hawk is a legend.

When running the Play Index for all plate appearances with seven or more plate appearances, the White Sox’s resulting triple-slash line was well below the league average:

I assume you meant pitches seen not plate appearances there.

Nice analysis as usual, though.

Was off since monday… so much to catch up on

Why I never…….
Nice to see the facts Jim. Nice piece.

he has seen more than four pitches in a plate appearance 120 times. that is 33.9% of his plate appearances. in those plate appearances he has 16.67% of his extra base hits. (2 homers and 5 doubles, but one of those doubles really should have been an out. on april 25th granderson butchered a fly to center and turned an out into a double. if he had caught it only 14.6% of quentin’s extra base hits would have come on the 5th pitch or after.)

but generally speaking, I’m fine with his homerisms. Recently Fox had the Sox on & frankly it was boring as hell to me. I like the home announcer feel. I love it when Hawk & Stone talk baseball strategies even when I might not agree with them.

I may be in the minority, but I like Farmer. I like the way he adds color to radio broadcasts. I listen to games on the radio more times than not (Honestly, it’s because I don’t get as pissed when watching). DJ is just weird.

I like hawk- he is candid, true to his warped sense of self-aggrandizement, entertaining, loves the game and the sox, and makes bad games better, and great games memorable. He is Foghorn Leghorn in living flesh.

Whadday’all think of the Hawk on Facebook? Seems a bit over-the-top to me… but I loved his road trip to Dollywood with Stone, Jackson and Farmer.

God forbid we ever got someone like Len Kaspar, what an utter bore that man is.

Francisco Rodriguez’s recent change of agents helped hasten his trade to the Milwaukee Brewers, a critical deal that at least marginally enhances the Mets’ ability to re-sign Jose Reyes.

Rodriguez hired Scott Boras to represent him this month, which for the Mets was a signal to trade Rodriguez as soon as possible before any constraints arose. Once the deal was made late Tuesday night, the Mets could more realistically think about re-signing Reyes, who can be a free agent after the season.

The contract Rodriguez signed with the Mets before the 2009 season includes a limited no-trade clause, meaning he could list 10 teams to which he could veto a deal. But according to two baseball officials with direct knowledge of the situation, Rodriguez’s previous agent, Paul Kinzer, never submitted the list of 10 teams.

The Mets thought that once Boras assumed representation, he would scrutinize Rodriguez’s contract and either try to submit a list or perhaps file a grievance that might allow him to do so.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/sports/baseball/mets-traded-rodriguez-because-of-money-not-manpower.html?_r=1&ref=sports

or, for kenwo.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/brandon-allen-freed/

link

Chicago White Sox (44-48, -17)

What needs to be fixed or accomplished in the second half?
The Sox have suffered from incredibly disappointing offensive showings by Gordon Beckham, Brent Morel, Juan Pierre, Alex Rios and Adam Dunn, none of whom have an OPS+ over 82. They need to find their bats, and fast, or get out of the way because, despite being four games under .500, the Sox are still just five games back in the terrible AL Central.

Top item on shopping list?
It sounds like the Sox are getting ready to move Edwin Jackson, if they can find a taker. And why not? He’s frustratingly inconsistent, and the team has five other pitchers who can start. It’s unclear, however, whether there’s any interest around the game for Jackson, who is making more than $8 million. He’s not likely to bring back the kind of outfield help that this club needs, and the club doesn’t have the elite prospects to land an impact bat, either. The best they can probably do is to improve around the margins, by picking up a player like Coco Crisp from the A’s.

Player to watch.
Cuban import Dayan Viciedo, 22, is killing the ball at Charlotte (.325/.374/.535 with 16 homers). He could be a big help if he takes over for Pierre in left field, or the Sox could take a defensive hit by playing him at third over the atrocious Morel. But Ozzie is on record saying he does not want to move any of his veterans to accommodate the youngster.
— The Common Man, The Platoon Advantage

Two Braves scouts watched the Sox in Minnesota on June 15-16 and in Colorado on June 29-30, and Phillies representatives have watched the Sox throughout this season, including last week against the Royals.

Gonzalez: Decision time approaching for Sox (via)

fuck you tony pena

was also the idea that you’ll be able to hit the pitchers better in the later at-bats having already seen their full repertoire.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/a-tough-few-years-for-alex-rios/

glaring problems all the time

jeter just did the jump throw, bautista was safe by 5 steps. woo!

because when a pitch count is high:

1. the pitcher has one pitch he’s sticking to(thats obviously working) and plays around in the strike zone to get the guy out otherwise he’s:

2. struggling with his command and is tossing meatballs more than a few occassions which in that case you should be lighting him up without deep pitch counts or keep plate discipline and take the BB’s which you wouldnt be able to do if:

3. the pticher has an array of pitches and is confusing the hitters every inning and they are fending off K’s every at bat.

if he’s walking you and has no command it doesnt matter. if he’s striking you out and you cant guess his pitches by the 6th inning then it doesnt matter.

it only matters if you go up there first-pitch swinging and have 1 or 2 pitch outs. I know hawk is trying to say work the count and work his arm but if you cant guess his money pitch at the right time and get on base it really doesnt matter

for me if i saw too many pitches then i get nervous because then its like i have to try and look for a pattern in my next at bat for the NEXT at bat after that. and if i just fouled everything off its not like i did a good job reading his pitches because i am just hoping it stays in the zone for me to make contact

Gives you something more to talk about with your friends or family while watching the game. I also like that he’s a homer.

with the passion we all put into this team. we all deserve a break too.

Colon got LIT UP yesterday. Awesome.