Jake

Also, I believe Love and Derrick are friends - Rose would still be a draw for Love. Noah, too, for just about everyone I'd imagine

Bulls haven't signed top tier FAs in anyone's lifetime because they always draft them. MJ and Scottie? No top tier FAs to sign when they're on your team. Rose and Noah? Again, they're on your team. There was a small window where we could have done it and we turned it into a nice little core for several years through the draft instead.

He acts like that's something new. Yeah, they are going to keep taking a look at it to make sure it's okay. Yeah, when he arrives in Chicago he's going to see the doctors again. Yeah, when the only way to heal the injury is to keep you off your foot, he's going to wear a walking boot.

Go big or go home Bulls. Love AND Melo or nothing!

I have no feeling about Danish's outing. It's just a sorta bad day, but not really that bad of a day. It happens. It's neither good nor bad.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 18, 2014 -> 03:39 PM) Now you know why most info is shared via pm. Sign me up then.

Yeah, Rock's always been..."rock" solid. I hope people being dicks doesn't dissuade him from posting

That's brutal. Could cost us the game

Rock, can you explain the thought process behind "planned" DL trip? It would make perfect sense if they anticipated it but were keeping him out there in hopes that it might resolve itself. Simply pre-planning it would have to have some kind of personnel-related reasoning...ie, wanting to wait for Eaton's return or something

If you thought the worst case was 15-day DL but there was some chance it could get better without 15-day DL, the only insane thing to do would have been to send him straight to DL

I'm guessing this means Dayan to DH

I believe the argument is that we saw him get better over several days and then today got back to where he used to be. Therefore, we didn't see him get worse. We saw him return to baseline hurt.

It's a calculated risk, but really not much of a risk at all. They decided that making the injury worse was basically a non-possibility, which tends to be the case with ankles like this. So there were two choices: -Play him at DH and hope you can rehab it away while he still helps the team. If it doesn't work, he misses [some amount of] days. -Immediately rest him for [some amount of] days. Why not try number one, with nothing to lose and plenty to gain? We've seen this with Cabrera, except they kept playing him in the field too.

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.