Jake

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 04:05 PM) Maybe...I think a healthy Crain brings a B prospect or 2. Not as much as we'd like. I think Nate Jones is getting close to Reed, and may surpass him. Koji Uehara was traded for Chris Davis and Tommy Hanson

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 03:53 PM) I guess he is, based on how teams value elite prospects...higher than above average major leaguers. We could throw in another player...hell throw in Crain, although they'd probably have to add something on their side. It would be nice to get an elite prospect somwhere, instead of all Bs. You'd have to add a LOT more to make "throwing in" Crain make sense. Lindstrom might be closer to somebody that could be called a throw in.

Suck it Braves!

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 03:14 PM) That seems like all he does, in a good way. What are some scouting reports on his pitches? Monster fastball? The most optimistic thing I've read is "can reach mid-90s" though it was speculated he (like anyone else) might gain some velo in a relief role. He's now at 3.2 IP, 0 H, 1 BB, 8 K

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 03:36 PM) The reason Wells isn't an everyday starter is due to his stance. It just seems to give him too many pitches he can't get the barrel to. He's a guy, if we are to sell, I don't mind giving a lot of ABs to. I would prefer him over Jordan Danks because Casper has actually had some nice runs of hitting in the MLB QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 03:36 PM) Wasn't that after he fell though? lol pshhh...details details

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 03:34 PM) Now that Wells has done his one good thing this year lets get rid of him He caught that one ball while sitting on his fannie earlier this year

Sox love to play up to the level of their competition

Not demoting Nate Jones was a very good call by Sox coaching/management that was, at one point, not a decision every team would have made.

Trayce Thompson 5 for his last 11. Andy Wilkins with 5 HR in his last 4 games. There's your White Sox farm update

lol Gattis + Jones' slider = disaster

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 03:07 PM) It's funny, at first the guy I really didn't like was Farmio. That really changed in the last couple of years when I listened more and more on Gameday audio. I don't really like Farmer but that broadcast is oftentimes hilarious...mostly because of how inept and awkward they are. I mean that in the best way

Braves look very Sox-ish to me

Brad Goldberg - 1.2 IP, 0 H, 0 BB, 4 K

Phegley's MiLB splits suggests he hits righties and lefties equally well. Flowers would get most of his starts against lefties

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 02:44 PM) If everyone is making $16/hr in there the profit motive for the dollar menu goes away. So does the dollar menu. The better ones are pretty quickly promoted to management positions and eventually find themselves in the corporate side of the company. You read about these McDonalds success stories a lot, and they're really quite common. Besides, lets say McDonalds fires all their bad employees (I laughed writing that)... where do those people go? I mean once fast-food has dried up there's not much lower you can sink. You could work for the government I guess, but you typically need to know somebody to make that happen and if you had those connections you wouldn't have been working at McDonalds in the first place. So now you've put those people into essentially state care, sentencing all of us to a lifetime of taxes just to subsidize their meaningless lives. I'm sure the government just takes care of them? Isn't that the way the right views the world?

Morel is just not making the plays on defense

I don't think Hawk ever meant for a complete disavowal of advanced statistics, but merely what he said: "they are the most overrated thing in baseball." They probably are, at least in some circles.

UZR > all

Viciedo has a 113 wRC+ in July

Yep, those buttholes are living the good life. Thanks a lot, government. Meanwhile, everyone is trying to give out good jobs but there is nobody to take them. Tragic.

Regardless of Hawk's fate, I hope we see the last of Stone soon.

lol I love when Hawk trashes the haters

Rios = clutch

ADA kicking some ass lately

Anderson keeps chugging along.