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Speculating about an injury like this is pretty much a giant waste of time. There's no way to have any useful amount of info about the day to day pains of Abreu's ankle. As far as possible lineup refiguring if Abreu misses time, I'm guessing Viciedo goes to DH for the most part and we have an Eaton/ADA/Sierra outfield for the most part.

Let's extend this Noesi kid, he looks great.

Hawkins is said to have a very strong arm. Could throw 90 as a pitcher.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ May 16, 2014 -> 04:44 PM) Sale's wasn't stellar coming out either. He had to develop that change up. Sale was all fastball slider coming out. Sale's slider was his worst pitch coming out. Changeup was more polished. Didn't learn to harness the slider until we put him in the 'pen

I'd like them to do that, then once its approved in a few months immediately move to reclassify. This way, as it is being disputed in court, there are SOME rules to fall back on

I think the Sox liked Hector, but he couldn't pitch in a worse ballpark for him than the Cell. The Cell is hitter friendly ONLY on fly balls and Hector was one of the most extreme flyball pitchers in the game. Given the kind of superior talent we could get in return, it was a no-brainer. I say that as a big Hector backer.

I went to a game last year that ended around 10:30PM and had parked at least 4 or 5 blocks away, albeit among other Sox fans in a private lot that was actually just some guy using his convenience store's lot for baseball parking. There were police on every block on my walk back to the car. Later, I went to the Cleveland DH debacle and just parked in the stadium lot. As cheap as anywhere else and no worries about walking around.

Nieto must be having the time of his life. Good for him.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 14, 2014 -> 09:08 PM) IMO you do the opposite. If you're going to move a guy, start moving him early so that he has time to learn the position. He's still learning 2B and there's nobody really blocking him there, at least not yet. You're lowering the player's value by moving him to OF

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ May 14, 2014 -> 11:26 PM) gillaspie has a wRC+ of 134 verse RHB and a wRC+ of 40 against LHP. He and Semian should be in a strict platoon. Semien's future might well be as a utility player so I see no harm in getting him innings at 3B as much as possible, even if it hurts this year's team a bit. You're practically guaranteeing his future as a bench player if you restrict him to occasional starts against LHP

For f***'s sake Davidson. I'm a pretty optimistic guy, but can you please not be like every other promising offensive player the White Sox get who always play worse than they ever have?

If nothing else, it puts a player on the field who is worth watching just due to his talent level. Eaton, Abreu, Viciedo, Semien, (at one point Avisail Garcia) are all guys that make you tune in just because you want to watch their development.

I'm not going to bother moving Thibs unless he's forcing my hand

I love Trea Turner. He'd make sense as a "save money" pick, but I'd rather he fall to the second round by some miracle. He's had a great finish to the year, now leads his team in homers. Jose Reyes ceiling

The alarms were sounding is because things have to happen right now or else we won't be able to deal with the consequences much later. This is a great test of one of humanity's greatest weaknesses. We suck at making short-term sacrifices for long-term gains, even when we are perfectly capable of understanding how dumb the thing we're doing is. It's like the classic study where they tell the kid that if they don't eat the marshmallow in front of them for 15 minutes, they'll get to eat two marshallows. Those motherf***ers always eat the marshmallow before 15 minutes passes

For all we know, it's Hahn that is in love with Ventura and JR who doesn't give a s*** who manages

ADA has certainly not made it easy to like him. I also have a feeling that L Garcia was playing CF because ADA doesn't like it, too. I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that ADA was a better hitter than Leury yesterday, either

FWIW, I worked for about 10 years with a House disciple in the Chicago area and he didn't teach a "wrist/elbow snap" slider. For the most part, he didn't teach sliders. He'd teach circle changeup as first offspeed pitch, then curveball, and then reluctantly would teach slider as essentially a variant of the curveball (which is basically what it is). He was a big fan of the knuckle curve, but I never worked with him on that. He started working with that a lot right as I was going out the door.

A lot of managers believe (and, apparently, players too) that guys get out of whack when their batting order position is changed. Given how little the batting order matters to game outcomes, who cares if you put a bad player higher in the order for a few games while you wait for the normal guy to come back? Parent had just said to the media yesterday that ADA felt very uncomfortable hitting leadoff.

Danish was often clocked in the 94-95 range before being drafted. Perfect Game has recorded his velocity in tournaments way back in 2012 where he sat 90-93. I'm going to assume that, over time, we'll see Tyler get back to that. It seems that we have asked him to consciously back it off a little bit.

Johnson and Danish have extremely high ceilings. Johnson has plus speed, good contact rates, high walk rates, a lot of glove potential, and has pretty nice power production thus far for a non-HR hitter. His ceiling is borderline first-tier 2B. Danish has an ace ceiling. There's a reason they said he has Jake Peavy stuff. Those players just happen to have pretty low floors, too.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 12, 2014 -> 11:46 AM) In true Mr. Pessimism form, this has been a bad year for Sox prospects. Two shocking busts so far this year in Davidson and E. Johnson. Use of the word "bust" is debatable. Being bad for a month and some change isn't quite "bust" level, especially given their ages and experience levels. Johnson, in particular, has had a mysterious loss of velocity that I hope is resolved sooner rather than later, even if that means diagnosing him with an injury.

KW is probably our best GM. Himes had one hell of a run, though: Drafted Jack McDowell, Robin Ventura, Frank Thomas, and Alex Fernandez in consecutive first rounds. Got us Wilson Alvarez, Scott Fletcher, Sammy Sosa, and Lance Johnson for old Harold Baines and Jose de Leon. Also drafted James Baldwin, Ray Durham, Jason Bere, Bob Wickman, Joe Borowski.

So Eaton missed 5 games with an ankle and will miss something like 2 to 4 weeks with a hamstring injury. This is pretty typical stuff. Not a great start to his White Sox run, but I don't see evidence of an injury prone player. He averaged over 120 games a year in the minors, where not many players get that many games played. While people have wondered if his playing style would cause him injury, his arm injury was throwing-related and what he's dealing with now is somewhere between random occurrence and wear and tear.

QUOTE (scs787 @ May 10, 2014 -> 03:19 PM) A punter!!! Ole! Damn, dude has 4.6 speed and benched 225 23 times as a punter. Thought it was funny that one scouting report knocked him for average athleticism after I saw those combine numbers. That's about as good as it gets for a punter. Not a high bar to clear to improve our punting game. I'm not going to pretend to know whether he'll be any good.