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I continue to read the title as "Soxtalk has new hair"

I guess I need to get started on this....feeling left out

QUOTE (winninguglyin83 @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 08:42 PM) With morel being sent down after the game, leaves the Sox a little short in the infield. Gillaspie, ARam, Kepp, Phegley. That's it. Looks good to me

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 09:05 PM) I think I said this earlier, but... would never have guessed during the offseason that Wilkins would be a guy being considered for a job in 2013 or 2014. Probably not Plan A, but, he's getting a look. That is something. He has been a guy, since he was drafted, where nobody would be totally surprised if he succeeds at a given level...but nobody would ever bet on it, either. He doesn't have super impressive tools so with every new challenge, he will have to prove that he is talented enough to be there. Lots of guys can fly through systems putting up worse numbers than Andy and still get a big league look, but those guys have better tools. Andy is making the most of his tools at this point, which means he will rightfully get a look in the bigs (it seems) but he won't be given the benefit of the doubt given to a top prospect. He's sort of like Phegley, where if he doesn't/didn't produce in AAA, nobody would think about him. Phegley produced and now he's here. If Andy continues to produce, he'll be in Chicago too. If he doesn't, we'll forget about him because his tools and draft status don't dictate that we should get disappointed if he fails.

His splits at both levels now say he hits lefties better than righties. A nice little asset for a left-handed hitter - oh and he's 3 for 4 so far in Charlotte's game. Holy crap is he hot right now.

At least we have Phegley!

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20...ws&c_id=cws

Wilkins two hits so far, 1 2B. Single off the wall in right field off of Kevin Gausman, double that one hopped wall in LF against a LHP. Kid is hot.

Saw a Tigers fan on MotownSports say the only guy they should trade Castellanos for is Chris Sale. Good luck with that! Though I'm sure Castellanos for Reed would sound crazy to them, as it rightfully should. They're pretty divided on Avisail Garcia over there FWIW

We need to let this thread die, the other GMs are reading this!!

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?