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QUOTE (fredmanrique @ Jan 15, 2018 -> 07:30 PM) I bet they'd love to move that pence contract. Avi and shedding the pence contract, which has one year left for heliot Ramos. sounds like he's a legit top 50 guy in the next rankings... and a top 50 guy is fairly great for 2 years of Avi Fred, are you really advocating trading Avi for 17 year old Heliot Ramos, who has one year of Rookie Ball under his belt? After the year Avi just had?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jan 14, 2018 -> 11:39 AM) Nestor Molina...haha. It is strange that we have Moncada, Jimenez, Robert and Lopez (four Top 50 guys)...along with Abreu, but 90% of that can be attributed to KW, Hahn and Renteria. Unless Paddy was somehow involved in the Avi Garcia deal? Yolmer? Scouting Leury Garcia? Minaya? Omar Narvaez? Who was the one who scouted Quintana with the Yankees again? "Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while"...... I think that sums up how we got Quintana. Just got lucky.

He also did Monday Night Baseball for a couple of years.

Blackmon got $14mm from Rockies, which is in line with Abreu's number, but Donaldson got $23mm, which is not.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 12, 2018 -> 05:49 PM) JD Martinez is a uniquely terrible fit unless Garcia is moved because Garcia and Martinez at the corner OF spots means we have no where to play the mutant at AA when it gets called up later this summer. LOL

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jan 11, 2018 -> 02:45 PM) If he hadn't done the PEDs he might not have had the stats. I remember him with the Cubs as an onbase/doubles guy. The Cubs didn't think he would ever develop power that's why he was available. They had an identical skill set player, Mark Grace, coming up who had even better on base skills. I wish I knew more about Palmeiro and his steroid usage. When did he start using and for how long? The guy could hit.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jan 12, 2018 -> 07:39 AM) That’s absolutely nuts IMO. Isn’t the Cuban League considered to be the equivalent of High A? I think Robert should start in Kannapolis and move up after a month or so. There’s no good reason to be overly conservative with his development. Right on. Robert really has not played a lot of baseball the last two seasons; he does not need to sit around until late June waiting for the Rookie League to start. He needs playing time.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 11, 2018 -> 08:09 PM) I totally get where you are coming from. I sort of feel similarly about Abreu. Dude sucks. Yet everyone seems to think he provides some kind of value. Guy strikes out in all the big time plate appearances that I can remember. Cmon, man. 100 ribbies/yr.

You have a point. Post #1 had six outfielders listed, but Micker is already on the 40 man roster. Sox have to try pushing him along.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 9, 2018 -> 06:34 AM) Peripherals lie just like the eye test. It is hard for some to believe it but it's true. Look at the peripherals, Javy Vazquez was a far superior major league pitcher to Mark Buerhle . I don't know why people defend these peripheral kings to the death when you say they suck. Who is invested in Joakim Soria. I got the same crap you are getting a few years ago when the White Sox signed a pitcher from KC who I said sucked, but evidently the peripherals didn't agree, therefore I was a stooge. Felipe Paulino, how you doin? Zach Duke, same thing. Luckily for White Sox fans, Soria's stay will be closer in length to Paulino.. I said it first.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 8, 2018 -> 07:57 PM) Declaring that you're a competitive team even when you're not, and desperate to prove to the world you really are competitive no matter the price, because you told the world you would be. Thank you.

QUOTE (GenericUserName @ Jan 8, 2018 -> 04:27 PM) He was one strikeout away from setting the college single season record, so its not like this was an anomaly. How many?

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jan 8, 2018 -> 05:28 PM) It was a calculated risk and Verlander performed beyond even what my most homer Tigers fans from Michigan predicted. So in that sense they got lucky. If he was just mediocre for them or blew a couple playoff starts the risk look worse. My position is that this is why GMs get paid well and don't sleep much. It's hard to say WHEN exactly you need to start taking risks like this and when it's time to simply do nothing. I think the clubhouse reacting how it did to the lack of movement at the deadline spurred them somewhat to action. How amazingly well that action played out certainly had an element of luck. lol. Tragically we have the 2010-2016 Sox to remind us of our own domboing -- or perhaps Williamsing. GM's get plenty of sleep.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jan 8, 2018 -> 05:38 PM) An obvious example is the James Shields trade. We never, ever want to be a position to do that again. What position was that? The trade was between two teams at the bottom of their division. It was just a bad trade for White Sox.

ESPN has lots of other flaws.

Ryan Cordell has a good chance of making the team this year.

In a perfect world he would have been at Kanny in 2017 instead of the DR.

I think Sox in '18 will be very close to .500. Maybe better, if they don't trade out two big boys.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 4, 2018 -> 05:06 PM) Yelich is arguably better than Adam Eaton and is signed to an even friendlier deal than him. Eaton netted Giolito, Lopez, and Dunning. What do you think Yelich is going to cost? A lot less than Eaton cost, with Jeter pulling the strings.

QUOTE (pablo @ Jan 4, 2018 -> 01:24 PM) I've seen it mentioned that if Moustakas doesn't like the market now, he might sign a 1 year 17-18M deal and try again next offseason. If that's the case, no draft pick would be forfeited right? Still forfeit the draft pick, IIRC. There was another a couple years ago, can't remember who.

QUOTE (Dunt @ Jan 3, 2018 -> 04:41 PM) Really good article Don't know why Zavala is not on the White Sox Top 30 list, not that it makes any difference at this stage of the game. I remember that Northsider had him at # 15 or so a few weeks ago.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jan 1, 2018 -> 10:59 AM) This will be the interesting part. With some fan bases willing to allow teams to tank and be bad for a few years, the middle level players may be in trouble. I don't think so. Maybe their agents will have to work a little harder or longer, but they will always outsmart the GMs/owners.

QUOTE (Tex @ Dec 31, 2017 -> 07:45 PM) Not to sound like the old guy who thinks everything new sucks, but as we lose these guys an era in sports is ending. Listening to guys like him, Scully, etc was such a treat. I wish there was more room for a few of those guys instead of the over the top yellers and big time homers. Now most of the announcers are ex players instead of professional announcers. Sign of the times. I always like Enberg, even though he was a young guy.

QUOTE (Jack Parkman @ Dec 31, 2017 -> 01:47 PM) When it comes to velocity and spin rate, 95-96 with above average spin>98-99 with below average spin. High spin makes it harder to pick up the ball to the eye of the hitter, and 96 with above average spin might as well be 100, and 99 with below average spin might as well be 94. You have to use both data points together. Have you ever seen guys throw upper 90s and still get destroyed by hitters? I have, and now we have found that the reason why is they had below average spin. How does Giolito's spin rate compare with others?

QUOTE (Jack Parkman @ Dec 30, 2017 -> 09:16 PM) I don't want to trade Giolito under any circumstances this offseason because I have a sneaky suspicion that he's going to come into spring training throwing 95+ again. He had to rebuild his delivery from scratch after the Nationals messed with it, and I'd imagine that most of the kid's performance in AAA/loss of velocity was due to gaining new muscle memory and repeating his delivery. I find it hard to believe that he has just magically lost 5 mph off his fastball with no injury reported, therefore I think that after a season of the kid gaining comfort with his delivery again, the velocity will return. If it does, he's right there with Kopech and Hansen for stud ace potential. Ditto. I have thought the same thing, but you expressed it perfectly.