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QUOTE (Tony @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 08:53 PM) I don't see why Fowler's contract will be THAT much more than Span, especially with a pick attached. (Span signed for 3/31 for reference). If the Sox miss out on Cespedes, at this point, I'm ready to convince myself that Fowler at 3/40 is fine.

Are we certain that wasn't a timed tweet from Nightengale?

QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 07:58 PM) That would be me Took you a whole 30 seconds to point that out.

QUOTE (LDF @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 07:40 PM) i will play. 4 yr contract. 10 signing bonus 1- 25 mil player has an option 2.-20 mil mutual option 5 mil 3-20 mil mutual option 5 mil 4. 18 mil. That would probably go down as the most bizarre/nonsensical contract in baseball history.

Now Loria flips him.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 12, 2016 -> 07:57 PM) Cardinals for Davis does make a lot of sense. That would actually be real fun.

God, I hate the NFC East.

How do you justify voting for Piazza but not Bagwell?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Dec 29, 2015 -> 10:20 PM) Source: 24 new Sox season ticket packages sold as a result of Twitter news regarding Cespedes and Gordon. Hahn: "KW and I took this information directly to JR and he signed off nearly instantaneously on an additional $15 million payroll increase for 2016." yes.Yes.YES!!!!!! Dude, burn it the f*** down!

Barry McCockiner – ‏@bonerpatrol69 Source: #WhiteSox agree to terms with Cespedes, Latos, Parra, Upton and all remaining free agents. To be officially announced within the next 3 month. 9:44 PM - 29 Dec 2015

Honest question, can someone describe the genesis of some random dude with no followers on Twitter tweeting out bulls*** and having it gain steam? I assume people are just searching Twitter for keywords and stumble upon this s***, right? His few followers start retweeting it like crazy or spamming people with it? Reddit gets ahold of it?

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Dec 22, 2015 -> 03:36 PM) Huh? In what world does Cespedes strike out more than Upton? Look at the numbers (also factor in Upton usually hits the dl every year. Upton's been on the DL a grand total of 1 time in his career, in 2008.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Dec 19, 2015 -> 10:36 PM) Steam Sale starts on the 22nd. STILL waiting on my computer to come in, but I'll be sure to grab some games. Can't wait to buy a bunch of games for $2 that I'll never get around to playing!

QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Dec 20, 2015 -> 09:00 PM) It was fun. More of the same from Tarantino. Reminded me a bit of Reservoir Dogs. Great performances all around. Very Reservoir Dogs-ey. Kurt Russell was great, Walton Goggins goes full on Boyd Crowder and Michael Madsen plays a 7 year old boy, what's not to like?

QUOTE (Brian @ Dec 20, 2015 -> 08:50 PM) I'm sure I'll get a kick out of it. May even make my first trip to the Music a box to see it, but why must he make these 3 hour long movies? I'll say, going in I was turned off by the run time but it didn't really drag. There was a point, maybe with 40 minutes to go that things turned a bit and I checked the time but it picked up again after that. The length wasn't a big issue for me, it moves pretty well.

The Hateful Eight is basically a Tarantino directed version of Clue set in 1800's Wyoming. That said, I enjoyed it.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Dec 19, 2015 -> 05:51 PM) The demasking of Kylo Ren was great. Yes, it humanized him and made him look incredibly weaker, but that was the point. Dude was supposed to be a two-bit, wannabe version of Vader and that proved to be true. Now he goes for more training and we'll see from there. Didn't have a problem with Ray beating him since he took a blast from the most powerful hand blaster we've seen in Star Wars plus a few lightsaber hits at that point. He basically shouldn't have been alive by then. Makes more sense when you consider she likely had some sword training from Luke before. What I did have a problem was with was Finn holding his own vs him. Not force sensitive, no sword training and was mostly used for comic relief. Dude was this movie's version of Jar Jar Binks so that seemed out of place, even with Ren so injured. You say Finn isn't force sensitive and had no sword training yet you're cool with Rey handling a lightsaber like a pro because you assume Luke trained her when she was 6 years old? You're making an awful lot of assumptions here, we know next to nothing about these characters. Finn could easily be force sensitive or have sword training, we see him go toe to toe with another stormtrooper in melee combat, why assume that Finn, over the course of the past 15 years hasn't undergone any melee combat training?

QUOTE (JRL @ Dec 17, 2015 -> 09:51 PM) Was using DWAR from BBREF BBR uses DRS to calculate dWAR so I find it easiest just to use straight DRS when comparing 2 players of the same position defensively as you get a broader spectrum. By dWAR Cespedes was a .8 in 218 chances with Detroit last year and a -0.1 in 130 with the Mets while Upton was a .2 in 247 chances. Holy s*** did Yoenis face a lot more chances last year, 348 to 247, damn. Cespedes had 262 chances in LF last year so it's about the same as Upton, he beat him 15 to 8. Yoenis is hurt by the fact that he was asked to play 312 innings in center, something he's really struggled with, that decreased his DRS by 4 points while Upton played only the same position he's been playing the last 3 years.

QUOTE (JRL @ Dec 17, 2015 -> 08:38 PM) Not really sure how Cespedes is more "dynamic and exciting" and a more "natural companion piece to Abreu in terms of teammates/camaraderie and marketing." Are you just trying to say that they are both Cuban? That would have been easier. Cespedes' defense, even as a corner outfielder (much less the center fielder you suggest he could competently be) has declined in recent seasons and Upton's has improved to the point where the metrics say they're about the same (Upton was actually slightly better in 2015, but only negligibly so). 200 ABs is not a significant sample size, especially when those ABs are randomly dispersed and not on a consistent basis. For any player we can pick out even the best of hitters we could go through all their ABs and find 200 of them over which they hit around 207. I'm not sure why Upton's 2015 performance against the AL should be viewed any differently, especially since he's a career 276 hitter vs the AL. For that matter I'm not sure why anyone's uncharacteristically good or bad performance vs the AL or NL specifically should be viewed differently than the result of randomness. People always cite those numbers, but is there some type of statistic I'm missing showing AL pitching to be, on the whole, substantially more difficult to hit against? Cespedes' clearly outlier 2015 season and his very good rookie year sandwiched 2 pretty unimpressive seasons. I'm an Upton guy but what metrics are you using to grade defense? By Both DRS and UZR Cespedes has actually improved in LF every year: 1, 4, 12, 15. By UZR: -3.6, 8, 10.1, 18.8. Neither DRS nor UZR has Upton anywhere near Cespedes last year with an 8 DRS and 2 UZR.

QUOTE (Knuckles @ Dec 16, 2015 -> 12:02 PM) Ken Rosenthal ‏@Ken_Rosenthal Immediate question: Why didn’t #Reds take #WhiteSox’s package instead of #Dodgers’? Rival execs think LAD did much better than CIN. Funny that the Sox and Dodgers both dealt prospects in the dame deal and what the Sox gave up is considered stronger, especially with 2 being position players.

Upton

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Dec 14, 2015 -> 11:26 PM) And Upton's OBP has been on a slow but steady decline since its peak in 2011 and has been below .350 the last two seasons. If fans want Upton that's fine, I get it but I'm not interested in a long term big money deal with him. I just don't think his performance will live up to the contract he signs which is why I'm open to other options. Can you make this argument without using straight OBP?

He could not sound more full of s***. I've heard a decent amount about this story and I'm curious to see where it'll go, I just can't see how this works out for Bowe.

QUOTE (WBWSF @ Dec 11, 2015 -> 03:56 PM) Am I the only White Sox fan that is glad the White Sox didn't give the type of money and contract length the Cubs did to Heyward, Zobrist and Lackey? I would have LOVED the Sox to have signed Heyward to that deal.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Dec 11, 2015 -> 02:19 PM) The other scenarios where it could a problem is an injury or if he truly enjoys the situation with chicago and maddon and decides he can live with 24 million per year. True, but that's the case with any big contract, those 8 years are guaranteed whether there's an opt out in there or not. The opt out is just an extra win-win for the player and team added to the typical big dollar deal, there's really no downside to it and plenty of upside.