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QUOTE (ChiSoxJon @ Jul 12, 2014 -> 01:55 PM) Just for the hell of it because I follow Kanny a lot and see them play a good amount, who can we expect in Kanny next year? some names or a roster projection would be nice We have a ton of minor league experts who I'm sure could project at least 15-20 of those guys. Fry's a possibility to start there...although they might be more aggressive and put him in Winston-Salem as a collegiate pitcher. About half of that roster's going to come from this year's June draft, with quite a few from the DSL, AZL, Great Falls. Ayala, the catcher...whose name has been talked about a lot the last couple of years, he SHOULD be there.

Ochoa was also very strong for Mexico. At any rate, Netherlands was clearly offside, but that doesn't excuse the Brazil defense on that second goal....David Luiz didn't clear it well and the keeper was out of position and in no man's land. First goal for Blind, subbing for Sneijder.

QUOTE (ChiSoxJon @ Jul 12, 2014 -> 01:31 PM) Agree with the majority of the list, well done, however Spencer Adams must be Top 10 I'd assume, has a 1st round grade, total steal, one would assume Jace Fry is also top 15ish Based on potential, yes. But until he starts putting up those numbers at Kanny, it's a bit like Micker Adolfo. It's nice to be able to say an Adams doesn't automatically join the Top 10, fwiw. There's finally some depth. For a comparison, Beck has always been talked about like he SHOULD have been drafted in the first round, and that's gotten him the benefit of the doubt without the results to really back it up 100%. But Adams needs to turn that potential into good results next year in Kanny before he's a definite Top 10 inclusion. And Fry doesn't have dominating stuff, so he's going to have to prove himself at every level, ala Mark Buehrle...albeit quite different initial draft positions, obviously.

Prediction. Rodon's first start at Winston-Salem gets a longer game thread than this weekend's Indians/Sox games.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 12, 2014 -> 01:20 PM) Last time out I felt we had a bunch of guys at the top who were clearly there but we were weak in the range around 10. It seems like this time I'm going to have a ton of trouble figuring out that range around 5-15. Especially someone like Montas, who, in many respects, might be our best pitching prospect after Rodon when he comes back from his knee surgery. Then again, nobody knows the effects his surgery will have on him...although it's not a major reconstruction. Beck and Thompson would seem to be the ones going backward the most at the moment. Finally, it will be really hard to place Anderson at the end of the year, especially if he does poorly in the Arizona Fall League. There will be lots of concerns that it will take him until at least the second half of 2015 to be the same player he was before the injury.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 12, 2014 -> 11:18 AM) Ask Dan Hudson and Gavin Floyd about getting TJS just because it's a cinch and you're better off afterwards But it's back to that point, nobody can think of ONE example of a player who's had a partial UCL tear and not had it STILL go out on him eventually, within a season or two. The Wainright example is the only counterexample...pitching in pain with less effectiveness for 1 1/2 or 2 seasons, then going under the knife. In that case, it worked out for the Cardinals, he returned to the same level as before the injury, if not better. That's the best-case scenario for the Yanks. Except we don't know if Tanaka can pitch well enough under those conditions where it will make an appreciable difference to their playoff chances in 2015 and 2016 or not. I guess everyone will find out soon enough...with the main effect being the TJ surgery will be delayed by 6-8 weeks.

May and Ravelo have to be close to making that Top 10, especially Ravelo. Trey M. should be on the move up the board as well.

Why in God's name didn't Alexei just leave the glove in front of the bag? Always afraid of contact and trying to make the fancy play when the simplest one is best. Sigh. On the other hand, odds of Noesi or the Sox bullpen holding the lead while the Sox offense is spring leaks all over and playing on the road is about 10-15% even if they preserve the 1 run lead at the end of the 5th.

http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/yankees/p...ble-with-tanaka Argument for why the Yanks should bite the bullet and do TJ right now...with one of the arguments that nobody with a partial tear has ever been fully-rehabilitated without suffering a full tear eventually (Wainright being the one who claim closest, pitching on for two years until he finally had no choice but to go under the knife)

Argument/s for why Tanaka should just go ahead and have surgery right now... http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/yankees/p...ble-with-tanaka

It would probably be best to come up with a theme that doesn't insult White Sox fans (because you know when it doesn't work well...it will be used to mock the Sox and their fans) or insult the city of Chicago. For example....let's say their were lots of mosquitos in your city because of the heat and humidity, would you make a promotion titled "Mosquito Mondays" for braving the possibility of being bitten to see the Sox play?

Of course, it HAD to be Swisher doing the damage. Oh, well...any chances they had to fight for the WC (and they were SLIM) disappeared in Boston. Even if you argue that the Yankees are out of it, they just don't have the rotation depth, bullpen, enough depth on offense, there's no quick fixes for this year's team to make it a threat, unless you could magically levitate the best catcher in baseball and stick him in our line-up.

More two out runs. Sigh. Had the lead longer than expected today.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jul 11, 2014 -> 10:46 AM) Anybody else notice anything interesting about this photo: I thought the answer was the Ozzie Guillen jersey hanging up behind him, haha.

Thanks everyone!!! Just made it to Bangkok with her for 9 day vacation. One benefit of arriving at 230 am is that there's no traffic on the highways getting to your hotel, haha. Now the question is will I be able to wake up for the White Sox game, and is it a wise idea after the last two nights or will it just lead to further aggravation?

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Jul 11, 2014 -> 01:58 PM) McCarthy has a career 4.19 ERA with a 4.07 FIP, 4.09 xFIP and 4.18 SIERA. There's more of a split with Francis at a 4.95 ERA with a 4.38 FIP, 4.33 xFIP and 4.39 SIERA but it's not so dramatic a split that you can say he's not just at the outside range of bad luck rather than there being a genuine problem that means he will never pitch to his peripherals. Francis has pitched most of his career in Colorado...so that's one reason for the higher ERA.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 10, 2014 -> 07:15 PM) They should just do TJS on him. They've got him for 5 more years... Essentially 4, although you might as well say 3 1/2 because it's going to be the end of the 2015 season or the first half of 2016 before he's back to "normal" after surgery, and even that's iffy. It was nice while it lasted. One more black mark in the book for signing pitchers to $100+ million contracts, no matter how young they are. The only one that's been "okay" so far is Zach Greinke, and you're still talking about a $147 million contract, so it's not ever going to be considered a bargain.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jul 11, 2014 -> 12:20 AM) Love to hear about that experience There are no Applebee's that I've ever seen in S.Korea but you might be able to find a TGI Friday's or Chili's...of all the places you wouldn't expect, I found a Chili's in Jakarta, Indonesia, this past February and had the best country fried steak with white gravy, corn on the cob, mashed potatoes, etc. It had been ages at that point since I had been able to eat any type of "homestyle" food so it was a godsend compared to eating at McDonald's, KFC, Pizza Hut and a few Subway's all the time here in China.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Jul 10, 2014 -> 07:25 PM) Didn't he also strike out Napoli twice previously? Wash. Who would you rather face there, Napoli or Ortiz? Obvious. Don't pitch to their best hitter with 1st open. That isn't a good option. A walk of Napoli, if it gets that far, scores 1 run (he got him out after the Ortiz at bat anyway, quite easily). Then it gets to 3-1. You need to just stand up for ball 4 at that point. Ortiz was "this close" as Harrelson likes to say to three 410' homers over the last two games if they were pulled in just the slightest. Napoli was ice cold (as was the entire team, pretty much) coming into that series.

Of course, so did the Giants and he was obviously a key part of a World Championship the following season. That said, totally different situations now.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jul 10, 2014 -> 05:36 PM) Stop trolling, everyone with an intellect higher than middle school knows that you seperate process from result. You can get a bad process with a good result and vice versa. The point of having a good manager is that he has a good process and stick to it. Robin's approach is to throw s*** at the wall and see what sticks. He consinstantly lowers the margin for error the Sox have to win. Not PH for Kong was a bad process that led to an OK result. Who know however, he PH with Dunn, Dunn walks, Conor homers, Sox win? See how the fantasy thing works? Point is you make a good process you live with the results. Robin doesn't make a good process. Except in that same fantasy, the White Sox bullpen still probably fail to hold the lead against Pedroia/Ortiz/Napoli in the bottom of the 9th. Just because...well, it's the 2014 Sox bullpen. Konerko was 2/6 against Uehara, so that's defensible, since the were 4/33 (current White Sox hitters) against Uehara all-time. But letting Flowers and Garcia both bat was just weird.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jul 10, 2014 -> 05:31 PM) This f***ing ump really cost Sox the game RV needed to come out earlier and got tossed. You don't win many games when you're 0/10 with RISP. Quintana deserved better, but he put himself in that situation in the bottom of the 6th, and the pitch sequence to Ortiz was absolutely befuddling. Along with not caring what happens to Belisario, there's also Flowers and Leury Garcia on the roster. Our "bottom 15-17" players on the 25 man have to be the worst in the majors. Our top 8 or so can compete with any team in the majors.

And that was one of Carp's first at-bats of the season, I think. Oh, well...back to the drawing board. It's pretty clear nobody's going to want to have anything to do with Belisario....unless it's against the Dodgers, he doesn't pitch well under any kind of pressure.

Of course. Perfect and fitting ending for the series. Thanks for making it exciting Conor.

Ventura is going to be second-guessed on this one, too... Isn't it funny how the Red Sox can bring up an inexperienced rookie and he manages to get a bunt down successfully when we always struggle in that area with young players?