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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 18, 2010 -> 11:14 AM) And his first month away from home, in a place where he doesn't speak the language, or understand the culture. I would suspect that the game is played differently in the US than in Cuba as well. All in all there were a LOT of adjustments that he had to make in his transition to the US, and his performance in May-Sept is probably much more indicative of his abilities than his April numbers, especially considering the sample size.

QUOTE (bighurt4life @ Mar 18, 2010 -> 02:41 AM) Close, but the holy grail is a robby alomar authentic or perhaps a lance johnson. Nevermind, I found the real deal right here. Whomever ends up buying this, please let us know. http://cgi.ebay.com/GAME-USED-White-Sox-JO...=item2c538722b2

QUOTE (SnB @ Mar 17, 2010 -> 10:30 AM) I think the holy grail right now would be a darin erstad jersey. Close, but the holy grail is a robby alomar authentic or perhaps a lance johnson.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Mar 14, 2010 -> 02:05 PM) I think he has a pretty nice slider to back up his fastball. I would disagree with this somewhat. He does have a slider but it doesn't really have much movement, although breaking pitches don't move much in AZ b/c of the thin air. We'll probably see what he's got in april but i don't have a lot of hope for him succeeding out of the pen w/o a reliable 2nd pitch.

QUOTE (chisoxfan09 @ Mar 12, 2010 -> 10:04 PM) I am no expert Danman so just askin for anyone´s opinion. If the tendon is artificially reattached does that make it more susecptable to re-injury? This really really bites. The kid has so many tools. no it does not make it more susceptible to re-injury. They will drill into the bone and set a screw into the new tendon fibers that the bone will grow around the screw. It will be in there for sure, a lot of times the replacement ligament is even stronger that the old one but who knows. As far as him getting back to 100% that's a crap shoot, we'll just have to see if he's a good healer or not. Some people heal very quickly and are just fine after an injury and some people are plagued by them the rest of their lives. (i know all this b/c I had to get a new ACL last winter along with several other procedures)

QUOTE (Reddy @ Mar 12, 2010 -> 08:24 PM) you know a tibia is a bone right, and cannot be torn. could be a tibial tendon. If it's torn off at the bone they can probably re anchor it, if not they will have to pull part of his hamstring out or even use a cadaver tendon to re attach it although cadaver parts can be rejected sometimes.

Im not sure if Santos is ready to hold down a spot in the bigs just yet, he does have a great FB but really nothing else. I watched him pitch a couple of innings so far and all he seems to have is a pretty weak slider to go with an explosive FB that he can't control yet. Big time arm or not, he isn't a mlb quality reliever yet.

QUOTE (striker @ Mar 10, 2010 -> 09:10 PM) Makes me want to keep Pierzynski and trade Flowers or move him to 1B. Makes me want Flowers to apprentice behind AJ for a couple of years. We've been quite spoiled for several years with AJ behind the plate, but I remember how much our pitching improved as soon as we signed him.

ugh, that was a good read but it was depressing for a prospect geek like me. i'd be surprised if we don't overdraft some LHP's in the draft this season with how thin our organizational depth is in that area. On a side note, didn't Edwards have tommy john surgery in 08? if so it usually takes more than a full season to come back from that type of procedure and we should see what he's really got this year. maybe something to look forward to.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 26, 2010 -> 06:11 AM) It's not the greatest list ever (They have a lot of guys who are gone still listed as Sox, trades don't seem to have registered with them), but come on, you know you want to look at the top 2000 prospects for 2010 Pretty good list but I think that they should reconsider 1417. Rafael Dolis, P, CHC and, 1418. Maurice Gartrell, OF, CHW. IMO they should at least swap these two guys. Gartrell doesn't have the ceiling but has a lower floor, but good list overall.

QUOTE (flavum @ Feb 26, 2010 -> 09:45 AM) http://twitter.com/Schumouse/status/9687842728 Gee, ya think? as opposed to the 26 games he played for cinci in 98?

I'm very excited about Gonzalez. I've been following him since he played on the DSL teams and was really looking forward to seeing what he could do in the states. He hasn't disappointed so far and could potentially be the first true dual-threat behind the plate for the sox since the days of Fisk.

I think that the key difference b/t the sox and the tigers/royals rotations is that all of our guys are proven commodities at this point more or less. The tigers need to have porcello show that he wasn't a one year wonder who got the benefit of some lucky bounces being that he's a contact pitcher and they need scherzer to show that he can handle the AL ( which i personally don't think he can) the royals need hochevar to do something that he's never done and that is pitch an entire season at a high level. on the other hand, we have buerhle who i don't need to say anything about his ability, and then danks and floyd who have both put together very good back to back seasons and are only getting better. there you have 3 proven starters not including peavy (whose ability i really don't have any concerns about). that's a pretty damn good front 4, and all they need to do to put up good numbers is perform at about their career averages, we don't need any big jumps in performance to have success out of them. I'll take that any day of the week over whatever potential the tigers/royals rotations have.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Feb 7, 2010 -> 07:54 AM) I am sure this has made the rounds to the White Sox front office, and I gotta imagine they are livid. Not the fact that he is drunk but the fact that he is drunk at Soxfest where he is supposed to be representing the Sox in a positive image. I can't think of anything more positive that a Sox player hanging out with the fans, having a good time, taking pictures and saying F*** the cubs.

He's the reason I became a Sox fan in the early 90's and why I still follow them today. When I think about him I'll always have fond memories of my childhood, growing up watching the BIG HURT kill the ball and intimidate opponents. He's my all time and will always be my all time favorite player.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 2, 2010 -> 10:18 AM) More on Hudson by Mr. Law: http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index...;name=law_keith If you scroll down and read the comments Law gets fairly well ripped by a couple of folks for his anti-Sox bias, one guy even says that he's not a Sox fan just can't stand KLaw's bias. The really funny think is that Law starts responding to some of the critical posts and cries like a little girl with a skinned knee. He's not very professional, that's for sure. I find it amazing that after catching tons of s*** for not including Hudson on his top 100 prospects list he puts Hudson on his impact rookies list, then proceeds to say NOTHING positive about him. One last b**** about him, he obviously hasn't seen Hudson pitch or seen any video on him if he thinks that Dan doesn't have any plus pitches. His fastball sits in the low to mid 90's and I've even heard reports of it touching the upper 90's when he's really throwing hard, on top of that, his FB has crazy movement, if that's not a plus pitch then would someone please tell me what is.

It's insider stuff so I won't go into detail but we've only got two guys in the top 100, Flowers at #58 and Mitchell at #95. In his list of top 10's for each organization he actually has Hudson ranked 3rd below Flowers and Mitchell. It's pretty shocking considering he was the voted the best minor league pitcher last year and didn't make it into the top 100. Not really sure what to say about this. I've never really bought all the conspiracy theory stuff about Law and the Sox but I'm starting to believe it. He really just doesn't like us.

QUOTE (IamPabloOzuna @ Dec 27, 2009 -> 09:09 AM) http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-2...,2912624.column Phil Rogers ranks the top 13 rotations in baseball...and lets just say he's not on the same page as TSN. But to be fair he used his very own, super-duper, extra special, top secret formula. The Tigers, Mariners, Rockies, and Cards ahead of the Sox??? That's crazy talk, the Mariners and Cards both have a very good 1-2 but they're pretty weak after that, Tigers have a great #1 and then a bunch of question marks. The Rockies?? they simply don't belong anywhere on this list.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 27, 2009 -> 06:50 AM) This isnt really a big measuring stick for the MLB. Lots of players play there in the offseason and dominate, then come back to the MLB and resume being their normal selves It's just another piece of the puzzle to to consider when scouting a player.

QUOTE (sircaffey @ Dec 24, 2009 -> 05:56 PM) Just to put it on record...I'll say Javy goes 16-9, 3.90 ERA, 195 K. I just don't see that happening. He's moving into the AL, into best division in baseball, in the worst pitchers park in baseball (at least it is on par with coors field) and he's doing all of this coming from one of the biggest parks in all of baseball where his flyballs go to die. In the new Yankee Stadium there's going to be a lot of those flyballs that will fly right out into the stands. Granted he'll have great run support that should inflate his win totals but I'd be shocked to see his ERA anywhere south of 4.00, I really think that 4.5 or higher is what we can expect to see. If for some reason he doesn't get well above average run support a sub .500 win percentage is what we can expect to see from Javy.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Dec 22, 2009 -> 01:41 PM) Javy was also arguably one of the top 5 pitchers in baseball last year. So, yeah. They pass us. He put up good numbers in the NL, in a weak division, in one of the best pitcher's parks in all of baseball. He's going to a loaded AL division and will be pitching half his games in an absolute bandbox. He's in trouble, I promise you that. An ERA of 4.5 or more is just about what we can expect from him although he will still pitch 200 innings and get his 200 K's.

QUOTE (mmmmmbeeer @ Dec 16, 2009 -> 01:45 PM) I think that even having one moment of greatness, like "the catch", is enough to save you from a an easy list of 10 who never even sniffed mediocre. That wasn't a moment of greatness, it was a moment of everlasting, awe inspiring, ethereal beauty. for one second he was a god, and for that I'll always have a spot in my lineup for him. he can do no wrong.

Phegley finished his first season of pro ball as a bit of a disappointment for such a high pick. He had an avg. of just .224 with 40 K's and 11 BB's in 196 AB's. That means his K rate was over 25% and a BB rate of just 5.6%. He did show some good power however slugging 9 HR's in his limited action which actually led the team this year despite the fact that he only played 1/3 of the season. His OPS was just .685 and he also had 7 errors. All in all he did not perform up to the draft hype, however, he did have a very slow start batting only .139 in July with an OPS of just .520 while he upped his average and OPS to .275 and .842 respectively in Aug so clearly there was an adjustment period for him. His performance in the second half of his season gives us hope for the future with him. When he was selected he was expected to progress fairly quickly through the system but I still expect him to start the season in Hi-A W-S next season.

O'Neil had a pretty good second season playing the whole year for Kannapolis. The finished the season 4-1 with a 2.54 ERA. He had 35k's and 36 bb's in 60.1 IP with a 3.41 GO/AO ratio and a .236 BAA. That translates to a whip of about 1.3 which isn't so hot for someone who pitches to contact like he does. HOWEVER, his GO/AO ratio is promising as is the fact that he didn't allow a single HR all season. We'll see if he can develop his control in the coming years, it seems like he needs to keep the BB's down if he's going to be successful in the higher levels.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Dec 13, 2009 -> 03:19 PM) JPN, where did you hear this? I'm assuming you are referring to the MLBTR reference, if so, I also saw this on the MLBTR page earlier today.