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In Motion: Center fielder WAR Graphs
(Click to enlarge) For my next installment of In Motion, I thought it would be interesting to see what WAR Graphs might look like in this context. The screen shot above depicts center fielders and their cumulative WAR over time (the x-axis shows age, but you can also change it to account for...
White Sox Should Opt for Center Field-less Lineup
A majority of this post was written while watching the Texas Finale Sunday night So I'm not exactly able to recap Sunday's game in a timely manner. But as I'm sitting here watching John Danks struggle with his location and lamenting a lineup full of 2007-esque roster-fodder, I wonder if trying...
White Sox Settle Center Field, Leadoff Mess... for now
The unceremonious dismal of Jerry Owens (along with a few others) has made the White Sox opening day roster all-but-official. But the Owens news is the longest-running, most headline-grabbing battle of futility, so we'll start there first. "I was disappointed," Guillen said of Owens,...
White Sox Still Riddled with Roster Questions
While the beat writers start to ring the alarm bell on the health of Mark Buehrle, Ozzie Guillen seems concerned (with good reason) about the backend of his rotation. The Sox will send Bartolo Colon to the mound in a Cactus League game Wednesday, and the Sox will be closely monitoring his velocity....
White Sox Searching for Leadoff Man
Real Need is a Major League Center Fielder There's no denying that Jerry Owens is well on his way to playing himself off the White Sox opening day roster with his predictably lackluster spring performance. Earlier in the week Ozzie said Owens was "fighting for his job," and Wednesday Kenny...
Can Chris Getz Help Rid Us of Jerry Owens?
Earlier this off-season, I posed the question Which Newcomer's Performance Will Be The Most Key To The Sox '09 Campaign? At the time, I expected the winner of the accompany poll would be Jerry Owens. After all, the key to the Sox season has to be the lack of a leadoff hitter, right? But you...
Who's Left?: Center field and Shortstop
Today, we'll finally be wrapping up the 'Who's Left' series when we cover the remaining free agents at the positions of center field and shortstop. You can read the first three parts to the series, here: C/1B, 2B/3B, and LF/RF. Isolated Power vs. On-base Percentage: 2009 Free Agent Center...
Nick Swisher Is No Longer The White Sox' Center Fielder
Buried among the usual White-Sox-Need-More-Speed and Vazquez-On-The-Market notes which will no doubt plague our off-season until the Willy Taveras Era begins, Dave Van Dyck finds a noteworthy quote from Kenny Williams. "No." That was Williams' answer when (seemingly) asked if Nick...
Best Center Fielders of 2008
Other positions: 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | DH | LF | RF | CA Like I did last year, I'm going to spend the few two weeks discussing the top ten players at each position based on 2008 performances. This year I'm using Justin's stats, which have all the nice features of the home-brewed stats I calculated...
Kenny Williams Is A Colossal Failure
I said last night that I'd likely end up penning a mea culpa in apology of my earlier write-up of the Griffey trade. Well, reading it again, I still like what I wrote. In the comments at the time (though annoyingly not in the post), I said there should be about a two week cushion at which point...
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