The White Sox Reporter
Sunday, April 07, 2019
Why was Matt Davidson Dropped?
Matt Davidson Statistics
In my opinion, the single worst blunder by Rick Hahn during the offseason was getting rid of Matt Davidson.* To be clear, the reason for this is not Davidson's hitting such as his 20 HR's last season, but instead his pitching.
If you click n the above link to Baseball Reference and scroll down to "Standard Pitching" you will find the following:
Davidson pitched 3 innings in 3 games giving up zero hits and only 1 walk. You would think that given all the team's bullpen problems last year, that Hahn would have decided to go about making Davidson a true utility player who could both pitch and hit for the team. Instead of having Davidson pitch 3 innings a season, Hahn could have tried it make it at least an inning a week if not more.* It was pitching that should have given Davidson the edge over Palka in determining just who gets to stay on with the team.
Instead, Hahn opted to drop Davidson while keeping the likes of Palka and Nate Jones on the team and now we are paying the price for that poorly thought out decision.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Aaron Swartz was a Scumbag
Hacking is the same thing as breaking and entering one's home. As Declan McCullough wrote back in the late 1990's, there is no such thing as "hacktivism", only vandalism.
What gets me about this case is the way that his father has been acting. He talks as if MIT committed a great sin by alerting law enforcement to his son's crimes.
He was recently the subject of an article in the Chicago Sun-Times as saying that MIT needed to apologize for its actions and to do what his son wanted them to do: make journal articles and academic journals free of charge. Given the fact that academic journals are pretty expensive to publish, if they were made free, pretty soon there would be no more academic journals around.
Aaron Swartz was a scumbag no different than kidnappers and other kinds of violent hoodlums.
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