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Based on your recent posts, I would say this is accurate.

We are all going to need rehab once he re-takes the mound for the White Sox.

At least we can’t trade him for James Shields if we end up signing him.

If they got Shields, they'd still have a pitching need.

It is, and thanks for mentioning it. I will be the bigger person and walk away.

The only thing more consistent than your irrational Abreu hate is Abreu proving you wrong each and every time.

^ The dude responded to me 4 times within an hour in 1 thread last night and he's living in my head. I'm going to have to evict him and get a restraining order on him.

Here you go: https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160418/armour-square/whos-guy-yellow-mms-jacket-behind-home-plate-at-sox-games/

I’m not sure if it’s been discussed before on here, but I was wondering why minor league affiliates aren’t located closer to where the major league team is? I know the “other” team in the city has Iowa and South Bend as a couple locations that are within reasonable driving distance, so the actual team fans can go see them. Maybe it’s because the Sox Minor League teams are more interesting than our big league team that makes me want to watch them develop in person. Being in Carolina and Alabama make it hard to plan a trip. It takes me 40 minutes to get to Kane County Park, but I have no interest in watching the Diamondbacks low A team. I’d assume that there’s others on here that would go to a few games to watch a Kopech or Jimenez, or Hansen, Cease, and Dunning (pre injury) if they were in a drivable location. Is there any other reason than financially that makes sense why the teams are so far away from there major league teams?

One of the few bright spots of our season at the Major League level has been Tim Anderson. Coming off what was a rough 2017 for him in many ways, he has made huge strides defensively, increased his walk rate, decreased his strikeout rate, become more of a stolen base threat, more of a menace on the bases, more of a home run threat, and still has a very low BABIP (.276, was .328 last year) which suggests better looking offensive numbers by the end of the season. Defensively, he still botches a routine play here and there, but he also makes rangey, flashy plays and has gotten better as the season has progressed. It's been fun to watch him grow and I'm confident we have our shortstop of the future. That said, looking at where he was at the end of last season, it would probably have been considered a surprise to learn that he has likely been our most valuable player through 75 games. While he still has room for improvement, it is clear that he has begun to iron out irritating mistakes and has become a more complete hitter offensively. I'm sure more improvements will come. Watching him improve has given me more faith in improvements from Moncada, and even in the rebuild as a whole. Yoan is similar to Anderson in the sense that he's young, uber talented, and sometimes frustrating to watch. But seeing Anderson slowly but surely put his main concerns to rest with time has made me feel a lot better about Moncada doing the same, perhaps to an even greater extent.

You still didn't disprove what I said. Your hero worshipping of Abreu is disturbing. He could be batting .100 and you would sign him for 50m a year.

He was hit in the foot for what it's worth.

So, Nia Jax is a face again? She's turning into the big show with how many turns she has. By the way, I hate her character and her wrestling.

Interesting. That would kind of be like Covey no?

Players are going harder than ever. Instead of throwing at 80% for 120 pitches, they go at 100% for 95 pitches. The latter is more prone to injury than the former.

If one were human, then ripping kids away from their parents and shipping them across the country and having them sleeping on the floor beneath plastic emergency blankets would be considered sub-human behavior, but it's pretty clear you're ok with that.

It really is just to avoid the situation where the Astros were a couple of years ago with the Aiken situation. Imagine a situation where Nick Madrigal is set to sign a slightly under cap (say $1m) deal upon the completion of the CWS, and that money is going to Pilkington and Walker in some form. Walker and Pilkington combine to sign deals that put the Sox $1.1m over the caps, taking money from both Madrigal and some other savings. Tonight Nick Madrigal suffers a grotesque Jared Mitchell or Robin Ventura type of injury that has a really high chance of altering his career trajectory. The Sox decide he is no longer worth the risk at his former number, and instead offer him the minimum they can offer him and still get a comp pick the next year. Madrigal refuses to sign the deal, and instead decides to go back to school. At this point the Sox either have to void either the Pilkington and/or Walker deals, or give up a first round AND second round draft pick in 2019 (which current sits at #3 and about #46 overall) to pay them. So while the odds are small of this type of scenario happening, they aren't zero. Do you take THAT much risk, just to get Steele Walker into camp early, especially since he has been hurt anyway, or do you just wait out the CWS and see what happens?

I think this is pretty spot on. I look at a guy like Mike Trout and it's ridiculous to me how little traction he has with casual sports fans. Market your superstars, even if they are kind of quiet guys who play on the West Coast on a team that has only made the playoffs once in his career.

The weekly White Sox Minor League News and Notes is up, with a whopping 43 transactions and the other usual good stuff. But it opens with a little vignette about recently-promoted and red-hot Joel Booker, including quotes from him. You should definitely check it out.

This seems petty

This argument to just bash those who don't appreciate it is just pure nonsense. Don't even get me started on this. Okay, so it is realistic to expect the majority of fans watching a game to be in awe because strikeouts are up because statistical analysis indicates that it is worth the risk of striking out more to increase a HR ratio by X%. Or that a pitcher has identified through statistical data that this is the exact perfect way to pitch the batter and thus his probability of striking out is up 5%. 10 years ago a lot went to each and every pitch as well. The actual action into the game has declined materially and the trend is negative. This is coming from someone who played the game for a long time and who at one point had an offer to be a major league scout and who deals with statistics and financial information on a daily basis as part of his career. Not someone who has on idea as to what goes into the game or no inclination to math/stats.

Baseball only suffers from a "lack of action" if the viewer has no idea how much goes into each and every pitch. If that's not interesting, I don't know, go play video games or something.

I'm just surprised that someone who's made a habit of criticizing and analyzing every word in every post, seemingly looking for errors or intentionally missing obvious sarcasm or exaggerations in order to have material to use against other posters in the future would post something like that when the post just a few spots above theirs has said poster responding to them. That's all.

Eviction notice coming soon

Where should I drop off the rent check for living in your head?

EDIT: NVM i don't know how to link pictures. It was of monty burns brain and nerve tonic that made ken griffey jr limbs to grow

I wouldn't be okay with that. I think the time length of a game is one thing...but the lack of action during the game is another. So much stuff ends with zero fielders having to do anything, no bat on ball contact, etc. Its just lousy. Baseball will need to implement rules to fix it. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if at some point the shift is banned (or limited) as a way to spur more balls in play.

I've said it many times on this site, but it is absolutely true. The lack of action in baseball will ultimately be the death of it (not really the death but will send it into a major downhill spiral). People can argue me all they want but it is 100% factual. I don't want to watch a game where everything is going to be a walk, strikeout, or homerun. Yes, I'm exaggerating but my enjoyment of baseball has declined over the past 5-7 years (and it isn't because the White Sox stink). The lack of action is a major problem. For those of you using football as an analogy...it would be as if football you either had a 3 and out or a long touchdown and like 85% of the time it was just a 3 and out with minimal action.

Can't wait to read 900 op-ed pieces by centrists about how the left are being mean to people who are locking children in cages and people who wan to make sure someone with a pre- existing condition can't get healthcare. Instead read this. Politics have real world consequences. This Is Just the Beginning

Need another 8 game losing streak.

in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king.

Sexuality is a protected class, political beliefs are not. It's not hard Greg.

I wouldn't bet the house on that comment myself.

Fascist pigs are not a protected class.

It's not a blow.....as long as no other starting pitcher experiences any significant setback.

This sounds a lot like Moncada as well unfortunately.

I’ve seen enough from him to know that I no longer want him in a game that isn’t a White Sox affiliate.

I’ll take that from the Sox lead off hitter for the next 10+ years every day!

ANYone on the farm could have come up and contributed at least as much as Thompson did. All he ended up doing was making Engle look slightly better for a few weeks.

The exit velos of balls hitting off Palka's glove are insane.

Let's hope Frank is half as good at scouting as he was with hitting.

You were a big proponent of drafting Madrigal right? Even though they already have Anderson and Moncada. Couldn't they hypothetically have the same problem in the middle infield? Not enough ABs to go around. And what about the OF? What if Eloy, Robert, Rutherford, Adolfo, Basabe, Call, Booker, Gonzalez, Walker, Dedelow etc all develop well? It would suck to trade Call, only to have him become good somewhere else. It doesn't matter because you stockpile talent. When you are rebuilding, you stockpile talent in the minors. You can never have enough. I think the Sox would be pretty lucky to get 1 good MLB pitcher out of: Lopez, Covey, Giolito and 1 from Kopech, Fulmer, Stephens, Adams and 1 from Dunning, Hansen, Cease. Why on Earth would you worry about having too much pitching talent in the organization?

I think we agree that this is a subjective thing to quantify [rushing vs. not rushing prospects]. I also think we agree that the prospects in question are indeed talented, based on their mode/cost of acquisition, and the viewpoint on these players within the industry prior to their arrival here. So take the opposite viewpoint of mine, and ask yourself if it is the simplest explanation for these talented prospects to fail. Consider the following: Was Moncada's performance in AAA [when broken down into it's components of splits, Home/away, and the Volume of PA] sufficient for him to EARN a promotion, yes or no? Was Carson Fulmer's 16 IP in AAA in 2016 enough of an "internship" for him to be ready to perform in MLB? AND, did he perform well enough to warrant promotion, yes or no? Was Carlos Rodon's 22 IP in AAA between 2014 and 2015 enough of an "internship" for him to be ready to perform in MLB? I'm not asking for the reasons why they were brought up, just a straight-up question of whether or not they learned enough, and performed well enough in their "internships" to be ready or not. I happen to look at the cavalcade of failure to develop prospects for YEARS by this FO as prologue to what has happened to youngsters in this org today. YMMV.

While I agree with you in general about Kaplan, the point about Moncada's Ks, and him moronically being rushed up holds true. Look at Moncada's splits, AWAY from the Charlotte bandbox last season. [OPS: .941 in Charlotte, .696 AWAY]. He OPS'ed .741 vs LHP/as a RHB in Charlotte, while he OPS'ed .856 as a LHB. Moncada 2017 MiLB Splits Is anyone REALLY surprised that Moncada is now worthless as a RHB? 28 WRC+ as a RHB this year. His K rate as a RHB is a vomit-inducing 40%. Moncada 2018 Splits I'm NOT saying that "he's a bust," or "I hate Moncada," or any other lazy takes on this. What I AM saying is that it was stupid, idiotic, moronic, and dumb to rush him up last season, and now we're seeing the results of that dumb decision. BTW, he's burning an option year and his controllable time while he's hitting worse than many fat slobs on these boards as a RHB. Here's hoping that this stupid decision doesn't scupper this rebuild.

Well, let's apply Occam's Razor to all of this: All of these prospects' development was supposed to be finished by this Org, but this Org has been utterly incompetent and stupid in developing prospects. Hence: 1. This org has had the "good enough" approach to rushing prospects up, BEFORE they fully finish their development. Moncada not having learned to hit as a RHB, Fulmer's utter inability to locate his FB, and Rodon's incomplete control over his FB are all reflective of rushing prospects. 2. The cavalcade of walks from Fulmer, and Lopez, and Rodon, and Giolito, and Kopech makes me question exactly what are they teaching the SP prospects, and exactly how does Cooper supposedly "fix pitchers." [Has he "fixed" Fulmer, despite YEARS of exposure to him? Has he "fixed" Giolito?] On balance, this is why I had wanted everyone in the FO fired seconds after the stupid trade for Shields. They screwed up this org, and now we're supposed to trust them to rebuild it? I simply hope that this this Org can learn something, instead of constantly doing the same stupid things over and over again.

We all have to be patient. Right now things may look a bit grim, but that’s what happens when young talent is developing at the major league level. In all honesty, the only guy I’m really worried about at the moment is Giolito. Without his velocity to returning to some extent, the command issues don’t even really matter. I’m not giving up on him just yet because I believe the cause has to be mechanical, but he’s quickly moving to the bust group. Moncada & Lopez have both flashed significant potential and even if they don’t reach their ceilings, I’m confident they’ll both become good players. I have zero concerns about Kopech and Fulmer was already a bust before this season so no worries there.

An awful lot of work in writing up what amounts to a stupid question.

Believe me, it has been a learning process for us too.

And why are they a trophy, a confused face, a heart, and a laughing guy? There should be more variety. Why should someone get a positive rating for posting something confusing, anyway?