You can say ANYTHING you want about K. Rogers but the fact is that this year he is getting the job done PERIOD. What you or the other Sox fan thinks won't change that. He's an accomplished who even has a perfect game in his career. He doesn't have the best stuff and yet he can still get the job done. He approaches the game with his head and not just a million dollar arm. His maturity and experience have and will do him justice. Yes, he will get hit hard at times but he will not lose games by walking alot of batters. There is alot to be said about that. And I'm not really sure how you know the Tigers staff won't be as strong the 2nd half because they've showed no signs of weakening. In my opinion their weakest part of the staff is the closer position. If they solidify that they have good enough pitching to go far this year. Also, Tigers only need 31 wins to hit the 90 win mark and 41 to hit 100 and based on the 1st half stats they have a decent chance assuming they keep up the intensity. Lastly, the Sox pitching hasn't been that great at all as of late if you ask me. The reason they have had to make alot of late inning comebacks is because they're giving up alot of runs. Just look at the standings where it says RS and RA.
As much as I hate the Tigers or the White Sox, I agree with you on this besides the fact of Rogers being mature. Dont you remember when he pushed that camera man down last year and he missed the allstar game due to his mature ways, lol! I do agree he is an awesome pitcher and Detriot has some very talented pitchers, this year anyway. I mean WhiteSox had the same starting 5 last year and were monsters. Besides Contreas the rest of the rotation is struggling and there numbers prove it. If Cleveland dont make it which I can only hope for wishful thinking, then I will pull for Detriot to take out The ChiSox.
They could have used Haffner last night. But then again, he didn't even use Pierzynski, so I doubt he would have used Crede, but still I would have liked to have seen Haffner in the lineup, he can tie the game with one swing.
Good point but I wasn't talking about his "off the field" behavior. I was talking in regards to his pitching career. Besides that, what he did last year was wrong and I will not take his side on that. But what I think is that he REALLY needed a change of pace and out of Texas. Now that he has that change of pace it is really showing to be a GOOD change as you can see it in his numbers and performance.
All speculation and biased BS. But I don't really blame you being a Sox fan I guess.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif
How is it BS? It's normal to see a pitcher like Clemens, Maddux, Martinez, Schmidt, Schilling...etc have a good season. But when an unestablished pitcher has a break out 1st half, you can generally speculate that they won't continue that success the 2nd half. Look at Garland and Buerhle (Buerhle is considered to be a very good pitcher, probably just one step up from the likes of a Schilling and Martinez) they had an awesome first half last year and then dropped off in the 2nd off. Look at Garland this year, 5+ ERA, even Buerhle's ERA is in the 4's. The main thing is regardless of whether you duplicate your 1st half performance in the 2nd half, is that you pitch your best ball in the playoffs, and that's what the white sox did along with a timely hit/play here and there. Before I claim that any pitcher is good/great, I want to see at least 2 good seasons, not necessarily judged by win/loss record, but more by ERA & WHIP. With that said...Verlander looks great, he throws the ball extremely hard, but so does Bobby Jenks and I saw him get hit hard a lot last year and occasionally he still gets hit hard. Takes time to develop, Verlander will still have to make changes and develop certain pitches.
Redman didn't get into the game. Neither did Buerhle, Jenks, or Pierzynski. White sox sent 7 players to the game....Thome, Dye, and Konerko were the only ones to play. Contreras couldn't pitch for obvious reasons. If the game would have been in an AL park, I think Haffner would have been picked by Ozzie.
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