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QUOTE (oldsox @ Jul 23, 2014 -> 06:50 PM) Question for Mr. Wite: IYO, who is the better prospect today, Davidson or Wilkins? I'm not wite but absolutely Matt Davidson is the better prospect. He's 22 years old and plays 3B.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 23, 2014 -> 06:46 PM) So am I the only one that seems to think Tony Dungy is clearly a homophobe? I've got people all over FB defending him. No he absolutely is.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 23, 2014 -> 10:38 AM) 52 walks in 45 innings? Wow. I can't wait til he's released in a year and a half and then the Sox sign him and he's a useful bullpen piece haha

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 10:02 PM) gmab. Kevin Garnett had mostly crap around him and had to go up against the shaq/kobe lakers, prime duncan spurs, webber/peja/divac kings, dirk/nash mavs, portland was pretty good from what i remember and still made the playoffs every year outside of a couple. I like love a lot. But he's become overrated ever since LeBron went back to cleveland. He's a net-minus defensively and doesn't do anything to make guys better around him. I personally don't give up a potential t-mac on offense, paul george on defense for him. I agree with J4L too. Love is good. I think Wiggins is going to be a superstar though. If he was offered, the deal would be done in my opinion.

Almora going to AA Tennessee. Soler going to AAA Iowa. That Iowa team is loaded.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 02:38 AM) He's done. He has very few home runs this year for a power hitter. I commend him for today's key hit, especially if he was trying to go that way, but he's been an utter disaster on the south side. Dunn would have close to 20 homers if he played more. You are ridiculous man. You come here and spew out nonsense. Just say you hate Adam Dunn. That's okay. It's allowed. Dunn has definitely been a disappointment. What's more disappointing to me is that the White Sox owner strong armed the front office into lowering Adam Dunn's overall value by the insistence of Paul Konerko (who actually is done; finished playing baseball for a living) being on the roster. Now that's a pointless move. But you don't care about that. You would rather sit on your couch in Lawrence and root for PK while dreaming of 2005 instead of having the better player in the lineup.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 01:16 AM) I wish I didn't hate him so much so I could think more objectively. Any positive stat that he has annoys me to the point of wanting to disprove its actual credibility. Like OBP. Getting on base is good. But I don't ever see him get on base so wtf is this stat talking about? At least you are honest, man.

QUOTE (LDF @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 12:42 AM) a question to those who know. how is the competitive balance picks are awarded? Competitive Balance picks will be awarded at the lottery draft on Wednesday at 1 pm. Eligible teams are the Athletics, Brewers, Cardinals, D-backs, Indians, Marlins, Orioles, Padres, Pirates, Rays, Reds, Rockies and Royals. They are awarded to small market teams.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 21, 2014 -> 09:11 PM) Well, that's true....but I read that thread on my Samsung Galaxy chat phone, and here in China I couldn't get the article to open. Recently, google.hk hasn't even been working. The only reason I was able to find all the Aiken articles was because I was in Thailand from the 12th-20th. Haha just giving you a hard time, man. Want me to copy and DM it to you?

The Boras Story was posted in here. Easy to read. A pretty good plan too. LDF and Caulfield both said they did not read the article that was easily posted in here and very clearly readable. Then they both posted information that wasn't in the article and asked questions about things that could have been read. I love Soxtalk.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Jul 21, 2014 -> 07:51 PM) I pretty much agree man. There are some excited fanbases out there for sure. I know you can't measure pressure really but the only evidence, signing with the Sox, points to him wilting under the weight of it. He wilted so bad that it got people fired and changed the direction of this team forever, including s***ting on the end of Konerko's career. All GMs know that AD to the Sox was one of the worst signings in the history of the game. Why would another GM risk that 0-30 that happens a few times per year? The odds of him being the "missing piece" to another team are so small that the risk of him being a giant failure has to outweigh that enough to laugh at the idea. Well, here's to hoping some GM thinks AD's 2-run single tonight is the beginning of a surge. Dunn isn't anywhere near what he was in his prime. He can still do damage against RHP though. He would fit in nicely in Oakland for sure. You will choose to ignore this because you hate Adam Dunn. Just pointing it out though.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Jul 21, 2014 -> 01:01 PM) It is taking the Astros extra pick into account, and I believe that protection does extend to 11 because of that. There is a lot of baseball to shake out and I expect the Sox will probably climb a few more spots as teams like Miami, Boston, Tampa, and the Mets put some wins together. I think it will be hard to climb much higher as most of the teams beyond that are content with tanking. The current order is: 1 Texas 2 Houston (comp) 3 Colorado 4 Cubs 5 Houston 6 Arizona 7 San Diego 8 Philadelphia 9 Minnesota 10 Miami 11 Mets 12 Boston 13 Tampa Bay 14 White Sox 15 Kansas City 16 Cleveland 17 Toronto 18 Yankees 19 Cincinnati 20 Seattle 21 Pittsburgh 22 Milwaukee 23 St. Louis 24 Baltimore 25 Dodgers 26 Atlanta 27 San Francisco 28 Washington 29 Detroit 30 Angels 31 Oakland Supplemental picks will be awarded at the lottery draft on Wednesday at 1 pm. Eligible teams are the Athletics, Brewers, Cardinals, D-backs, Indians, Marlins, Orioles, Padres, Pirates, Rays, Reds, Rockies and Royals. Those are not comp picks. They are called Competitive Balance picks and they can be traded immediately. I would love if the White Sox could acquire a pick or two. Also, Only picks 1-10 are protected regardless. Whoever finishes with the 10th worst record will choose 11th and therefore be screwed. It happened a couple of years ago. The Mets wanted to sign Bourn and couldn't because they would have lost the 11th pick.

I'd do Santos and Deck McGuire for Beckham at this point if Santos wasn't owed $6 million next year. Yikes.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 21, 2014 -> 10:47 AM) He's "capable" of playing the 2. But so is Rose, you can still have a 2 guard lineup with either of the backups I would have preferred. If there is any benefit to pairing rose with an offensively deficient 2 guard who shoots 32% from long range, we would have seen it with Keith Bogans. And it's great Hinrich has better career playoff ppg, but I'm not sure anyone cares what he did 10 years ago. I care about what will have happened with this crap player from years 2012-2016 when we'll have paid him $12 million to offer 9 ppg and 4 assists as the starting, primary ballhandler for 2 of those years. Thibs can hide terrible players defense much easier than he can make Kirk hinrich an average offensive player. Can't really play Rose and Augustin together. Tiny backcourt and both are bad defensively. Bringing back Hinrich was a good move. They replaced Augustin with a minimum player in Aaron Brooks anyway.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Jul 21, 2014 -> 10:39 AM) If there was a team interested in Dunn, I would be super surprised. Even for free, I don't think contending teams are taking him. OBP is not a good measuring stick for AD, and other teams know that. This an extremely uninformed opinion.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 19, 2014 -> 02:57 PM) You are right, for less money, Nate and DJ only offered us more ppg, more assists per game, better FG% and better 3pt FG%, and only slightly less steals and rebounds than Kirk Hinrich the past two years. Also Kirk sucks at free throws. Kirk is the far superior defensive player and those smaller guys get completely wiped out in the playoffs. Bulls also just signed another PG in Aaron Brooks that will be just as good as those other guys.

Why is Sanchez still on the roster?

My favorite one ever is Bryce Harper. Dropped out of HS, got his GED, attended JUCO, and became #1 pick a year early.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 19, 2014 -> 12:45 PM) While true, I'd still take Nate over Hinrich and DJ over Hinrich. The problem is Hinrich. I'll already take Aaron over Hinrich. This is a really bad statement. Hinrich is much more valuable than any of those guys.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 19, 2014 -> 11:57 AM) Because he is buddy buddy with some of the Astros FO. If the regime that dumped him in Toronto was still around and they pulled this, I am sure his take would be a little different. It is funny a guy who thought Chris Sale and Jose Abreu were White Sox mistakes, gets so much respect. He is a clown. You don't read his stuff but you act like he's subjective in his writing about the Astros? What was said in there that isn't true? If you don't like Keith Law that's totally fine and understandable but if you don't think he was objective then you didn't read the piece.

I posted this earlier in the Cuban Escapee thread.. Jesse Sanchez @JesseSanchezMLB · 55m Source: #Cubs, #WhiteSox #Braves #Giants among the teams interested in Cuban OF prospect Rusney Castillo: http://js.mlblogs.com/2014/07/19/rusney-ca...ite-sox-others/

QUOTE (Charlie Haeger's Knuckles @ Jul 19, 2014 -> 12:54 PM) Sounds like Adam Eaton... except Adam Eaton is earning league minimum and Castillo will sign a free agent contract at age 27. Pass. I thought Castillo had plus power? So not Adam Eaton

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 19, 2014 -> 11:01 AM) did he put in a disclaimer that the Astros offered him a job a couple of years ago? Why would that have anything to do with this? He turned down that job. Wanted to be with his family and he has a pretty cake job at ESPN.

Jesse Sanchez @JesseSanchezMLB · 55m Source: #Cubs, #WhiteSox #Braves #Giants among the teams interested in Cuban OF prospect Rusney Castillo: http://js.mlblogs.com/2014/07/19/rusney-ca...ite-sox-others/