Rowand44

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Aug 16, 2017 -> 08:32 PM) $1 million is nothing in baseball terms. While nothing special, he was the only guy on the roster who showed any competence in the pen - a pen that has to support a starting staff that has trouble finishing the 6th inning. So why give him up for a pittance? Do they have to have THE number 1 pick to make a good pick? You find the weirdest s*** to complain about.

QUOTE (Tony @ Aug 16, 2017 -> 08:35 PM) I honestly didn't really factor in his MLB performance thus far. I just don't know if Moncada has ever had a run like this at any stage of the minors. Eloy has just been incredible. Eloy just got out so you're wrong.

QUOTE (Tony @ Aug 16, 2017 -> 07:55 PM) I think he's a better prospect right now than Moncada ever has been. There, I said it. It's not crazy, just depends what you're looking for I think. Eloy has the chance to be one of the best bats in baseball while Yoan has a chance to be a very good bat with above average defense and elite speed. I don't know, they both have a chance to be special.

Way to not homer Eloy.

No reason for Alec to be in WS anymore.

Lotta hits off Gio but no walks and lots of k's too.

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Aug 16, 2017 -> 07:30 PM) Man. Eloy. I'm in love. Dude is a rockstar.

lol Eloy.

QUOTE (flavum @ Aug 16, 2017 -> 07:12 PM) Alec Hansen is good. The curve ball that Josh Nelson tweeted is straight up filthy.

QUOTE (iWin4Ron @ Aug 16, 2017 -> 02:20 PM) I agree with you Rowand44. I've only read about it (not watched). Initially, I was very upset that they'd waste the MITB cash in like this, but in the end, it accomplishes a lot of goals: -Makes SD feel like 'must watch' TV -Adds fuel to the Cena feud -Makes Naka's title win at SS feel greater (since no threat of cash in) -Takes the MITB case off of Corbin who simply wasn't ready Although it does beg the question of why give it to Corbin in the first place... so f*** these guys. If anything I'd like them to have the briefcase winners lose their cash ins more often. Adds more suspense, can't have them winning 95 percent of the time or whatever. It's just one gimmick, doesn't need to be a winner all the time.

This doesn't surprise me at all.

I've soured on Corbin a decent amount. He's still decent on the mic but he was more fun with that stuff in nxt. Still pretty green in the ring. Just hasn't improved at all for a little while now. That said, still 8 trillion times better than Jinder. Anywho, I'm cool with the ending last night. Actually adds a bit to the Cena feud and now Nak might actually leave SS with the belt.

QUOTE (Brian @ Aug 16, 2017 -> 06:08 AM) That challenge was awesome. Do it every year. Looked like it'd be a fun one to do. Happy Jenna is back.

He quit on us once, he'd do it again.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Aug 15, 2017 -> 06:23 PM) I cannot for the life of me reconcile the scouting opinion of Lopez -- will struggle to start, is a 3rd starter type -- with the results and actual stuff. I don't want to start a "saber verse scouting" war but in this case the old school scouting worries seem absurd to me. To play devil's advocate here he was hanging a lot of offspeed stuff as the game went on. Does that mean he was wearing down because he's a smaller body type? I guess you can make that argument. I personally think he was over throwing a bit the first few innings for obvious reasons(I highly doubt you'll see him throwing 99 and 100 in a lot of starts) and that might have wore him down a bit. Dude definitely has the stuff to be a real quality major league starter.

His right side swing(at the moment) eerily reminds me of Jose Valentin's. He's also 22 and can obviously improve that a ton. We'll see.

QUOTE (Dam8610 @ Aug 15, 2017 -> 02:26 PM) Why is it so hard for some here to understand greg's argument? He is rating the rebuild process entirely by the on field results of the White Sox. It's extremely short sighted and easy to disagree with (as I do), but it's not that hard to understand that he's rating the rebuild a 2 right now because the 2016 White Sox are 45-70. Everyone "understands" greg's argument. Everyone is just saying it makes no sense.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 15, 2017 -> 11:46 AM) Why are you guys so pro front office and pro management? I mean you're the one who thinks Hahn has put together the best team of all time for 2020 already.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 15, 2017 -> 11:16 AM) Taking my kids to see their first baseball game! Hopefully they see a White Sox no-hitter. Have fun!

Very cool.

I always support pushing prospects. I would have been fine with him or Seby going to Bham.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Aug 14, 2017 -> 09:03 PM) Yea Danish seems more like the guy who the Sox make a pitching coach in Great Falls or something. I was really excited for him when we drafted him but maybe it's just not meant to be. Foulke 2.0 Man that would be awesome.

flavum got his thread in first so I'm going to use this one. Collins has his ops back over .800.

Is there any other thing besides the one rumor connecting Kemp and the Sox?

QUOTE (steveno89 @ Aug 14, 2017 -> 08:01 AM) Do really really need another 25 year old AAAA outfielder to throw in the mix in Kemp? We currently have a ton of those guys in Garcia, Engel, Liriano, Tilsen, Polo, Cordell, Delmonico, Polo, etc. I don't think it's fair to say any of those guys are AAAA players just yet. Could they all be? Absolutely but the idea with some of these lesser trades might be to acquire these type of guys because one of them might actually hit.