With any luck at all, the 2008 baseball season will end for Chicago today. The Cubs, out in three straight, have done their part and now it's time for the White Sox to roll over and play dead.
The White Sox are sending John Danks out to the mound today to stop a sweep from [...]
Danks vs. Light Rail
Danks is 11th in K/G amongst qualified AL pitchers, but Baker still has a marginally better strikeout rate. Baker also has a better walk rate. Danks gets more ground balls by a fairly substantial margin (48% to 33%.) So xFIP likes Danks more than Baker, but not by a [...]
Glen Perkins vs. John Danks
Looking at his fangraphs page, it would appear that Danks has starting throwing a cutter this year, using his fastball less (down from ~60% to ~50%) and mixing in a slider, too. Throw that all in a blender, and Danks has gone from a fairly extreme fly ball pitcher to [...]
Kevin Slowey vs. John Danks
The phrase "numbers can't tell you (something that numbers can probably tell you" gets thrown a lot in baseball coverage. Well, I'm here to tell you that numbers can't tell you whether or not Kevin Slowey's bicep is pain-free, or whether his bicep is fully healed. But I sure [...]
Just another game at Target Center tonight.
Respond: 22 LTEs
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