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QUOTE (knightni @ Dec 16, 2010 -> 12:26 AM) Does he have an outside shot at the Big Leagues in '11 as the LOOGy? Doubt it, we've already got two dynamite lefties in Sale and Thornton. My guess is they will give him every chance to be a starter before moving him to the pen.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Dec 8, 2010 -> 09:29 AM) Sale Thornton Santos Pena In house options: Carter, Infante, Dolsi, Cofield, Harrell, Jones (Nathan), Marquez, Nunez. Can any of these guys break the camp with the team? If two of them do, then we are one signing away from a successful offseason. Players mentioned: Byrdak, Accardo. What's your idea for next year's bullpen? Also we have Clevelan Santeliz and Brian Omogrosso. Santeliz has the best shot at making the team along with Infante because they both throw very hard and we all know how kenny likes power relievers.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Dec 9, 2010 -> 07:29 PM) I see what I see, I pass it along. Mollenhauer will also be losing his hair soon. Chris Getz sounds like Barry White. Oneli Perez has 12 fingers. Aaron Poreda was shy. Miguel Negron has naturally orange hair, he's Puerto Rican. Greg Paiml is stupid. Tim Bittner and Cole Armstrong have serious phlegm problems. Tyler Kuhn is actually about 5'7". C.J. Retherford has one leg that is shorter than the other. Gio Gonzalez helped people in the parking lot jump start their car. Cory Aldridge has to have been on steroids. I could go on... Im a bit interested in why you feel Paiml is so intellectually challenged.

Sox passed in AA phase. Pretty boring, we lost 3 guys and brought back none and they're cheap too, only 12,500 for a guy in the minor league phase. Maybe KW was serious when he said the team was tapped out as far as spending on players.

Baltimore selected RHP Jacob Rasner from us, I think he played in Winston Salem.

Mets selected RHP Richard Brooks off the Birmingham roster.

Sox pass in AAA phase

Baltimore took Dale Mollenhauer 2B from our AA team.

Sox pass in the MLB portion. I missed the first few picks so not sure who was taken by other teams. Josh Rodriguez a SS from the Indians AAA team was taken first by the Pirates.

K Law did writeups on the Crawford signing and the Konerko signing. http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/blog?name=l...&id=5901522 http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/blog?name=l...&id=5899670 If you don't have insider I'll paraphrase for you. Boston made a great signing (Law gave it an A+) and Crawford will age very well and be worth every penny, Chicago overpaid and Konerko sucks. Boston has Crawford signed though his age 35 season, unless he turns out to have the body of Ricky Henderson he will start slowing down very soon and probably be worth only 15-20 steals the last couple years of his contract, combine that with marginal power for a corner OF and a bad walk rate/OBP and you have a 35yo LF with an OPS around 700-750 getting paid 20 million. I think that they are going to be seriously disappointed in this deal a few years down the road, it won't be as bad as Vernon Wells or Soriano but close.

If we don't re-sign him we are really going to miss his glove at first base, i promise that. However I won't miss him if it takes 3ys and 39mil to bring him back. His numbers will regress to his career averages this next season and he'll be worth about 8-9mil give or take.

QUOTE (IChaseBlackWood @ Sep 15, 2010 -> 05:13 PM) HAHAHAHAHAHA LMFAO!! This cracks me up. Chase is the opposite ..he gets embarrassed if we go anywhere and people know who he is. He really doesn't like to be known for playing baseball && especially dislikes the people who crawl out of the wood works and are like "Oh yeah, Chase Blackwood, I know him ..we're real good friends." when in reality he may have stood next to them in line at a movie one time or something! lol ive been bragging that i know someone from an online forum who knows blackwood

Jenks no but definitely PK, Putz, Jones, hopefully we can work out a 2 year deal with AJ, if not we need to offer him arb b/c we don't have a viable replacement for him yet.

QUOTE (since56 @ Sep 13, 2010 -> 04:50 PM) The Dybber shall live in infamy................Wonder what former White Sox Jose Canseco is up to now that he been blackballed by MLB, even though he was right along. I'd guess that whatever it is it involves lots of flexing, mirrors, some baby oil and probably a couple of hookers too.

Cardinals

He's slumping right now, the sky isn't falling.

QUOTE (scenario @ Sep 12, 2010 -> 07:37 AM) Not picking on you J4L, but once in a while people post similar things... and it drives me crazy... I'm going to use your post as an example to make a point. If all the Sox minor league teams finished in last place, no doubt people would comment on it as validation for their impression that our system sucks. But if a team plays well enough to make the playoffs, it's not worth commenting on? Except to announce your lack of interest as a post in the minor league forum... and question why people are interested??? The point of a forum is that it provides a place for people who ARE interested in a subject to talk about it, isn't it? So why show up just to piss in the pool and call the swimmers stupid? Plus... I would think that if you are interested in player development, that you would find this thread interesting. Successful MLB player development systems typically have minor league teams in the playoffs on a regular basis. Not only is their an obvious correlation between good players and good teams... Player development includes teaching people how to win under playoff pressure too. +1 Well put.

PK, has anyone seen his wife? ... talent. I know everyone will say that Kotsay's wife is hotter, BUT, then you'd have to be Mark Kotsay and be a crap baseball player.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Aug 30, 2010 -> 04:01 PM) This Robert Young, our 31st RD pick this year is putting together a solid rookie season so far.... 2.92 ERA, 61 1/3 IP, 52 H, 1 HR, 12 BB, 43 K, 1.70 GB/FB And he attended Dartmouth, so he has a massive brain. He's just your typical Ivy League meathead jock.

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/st...ox&did=milb Charlotte- Dolsi http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/st...;did=milb\ Birmingham- Leesman http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/st...ox&did=milb Winston-Salem- Jones http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/st...ox&did=milb Kannapolis- Collop http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/st...orerok_grfrok_1 Great Falls- Schatz http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/st...ox&did=milb Bristol- Casey

QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 09:19 PM) Another solid outing for Leesman. What the hell is his problem?? He was getting rocked in Winston-Salem all year and now that he's been promoted his K rate is up BB rate is down and so is his ERA.

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Aug 22, 2010 -> 01:27 AM) what was the Rios story Frank told? He mentioned their time together in Toronto and how Rios used to have a bad temper and would break batting helmets by ripping them apart. I think he said that his nickname was splitter.

KAAAHHHNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/st...ox&did=milb Charlotte- Marquez BHam off W-S in a weather delay http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/st...ox&did=milb Kannapolis- Rienzo http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/st...ox&did=milb Great Falls- Burnside Bristol Game Cancelled

QUOTE (danman31 @ Aug 13, 2010 -> 07:22 PM) Yikes. At least it's not a shoulder problem. There's a good chance he bounces back fine, but this is why small market teams hesitate to spend on the draft. They can't afford to miss. Way more risk in signing a 16yo dominican than a kid from the states though.