Thad Bosley

Just keep on truckin', Jose!

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Sep 10, 2017 -> 04:39 PM) I wonder if Carson threw 3 good starts in a row would posters still be upset about draft position. I am fairly convinced that most posters would rather be right about Fulmer being a reliever or bust than admit some good starts will go a long way towards changing their minds. I would 100% rather have Carson Fulmer be a decent 4th or 5 starter than have the 2nd over the 3rd pick or 3rd over the 4th. Carson Fulmer was a first round, top ten draft pick selected in between Andrew Benintendi and Ian Happ. I, for one, would very much like to see him develop into something far more than just a reliever. Today's performance was encouraging in that respect.

Trading Melky created an opening in left that Leury slid over from center to fill. But with the emergence of Delmonico, doesn't Leury then slide right back over to center, given that his overall game is better than Engel's? Leury is no slouch defensively, but I think he proved this year that he has a MLB-caliber bat, and therefore I think he's the better option to start next year in center over Engel, at least at this point.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Sep 5, 2017 -> 08:39 AM) Agree. And please stop with the "more money in JR's pocket" bull. The Sox are rebuilding not to put money in the owner's pocket but to get ready to put the team in a position to compete and win in the future. They will spend money when the time is right. No doubt they will. The questions then how much money and on whom? The time to spend money was "right" in the four years preceding this clunker of a season, when we had the last solid, cost-controlled set of "core" players. Yet the amount of money the Sox spent was in line with the amount of money small market teams like Minnesota and Kansas City were expending in payroll, and it was spent across a bunch of mid-tier to scrap heap types of talent. So when you say they will "spend money when the time is right", will the spending strategy be different than the one that failed so miserably from '13-'16?

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Sep 1, 2017 -> 08:20 PM) How many times have we heard not to slide into first? Since little league? One would presume a lot!

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Sep 1, 2017 -> 06:55 PM) That was a bizarre attempt by Hanson. Yeah, I look at that one as someone who doesn't play the lines in our ballpark that often taking a very cautious approach racing towards those low walls in the stands.

Are headfirst slides into first base part of the Sox' organizational philosophy? We seem to do quite a bit of it.

Kevan Smith has been a pleasant and interesting development this season.

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ Aug 30, 2017 -> 09:01 PM) Why does everyone annoint this guy as a starter. Leury Garcia is a better defensive SS, has shown improvement at the plate, and is still young. Why not give him a shot at being the starting SS? Anderson has earned nothing. Make him earn a spot. Amen, Bro! My thoughts exactly. I think we've had a nice, sneak preview of what Leury's overall game can be at the Major League level this year, and it's nothing to sneeze at.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 30, 2017 -> 08:09 PM) Atrocious hands. Just not an infielder IMO Thoughts on flip flopping he and Leury? Maybe with TA's speed and arm he could be more effective in the outfield, while the Sox gain the benefit of Garcia's superior defense at the most important defensive position on the diamond.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 29, 2017 -> 10:22 PM) I would love to see the examples of fan doubt during Franks early years. "ExampleS"? Plural? Show us one example, even one, of "fan doubt during Frank's early years". It doesn't exist, at least anything representing credible analysis.

QUOTE (Quin @ Aug 29, 2017 -> 09:20 PM) I think you're half as close as half as you would like; and I think less than half of you is right as well as you deserve. And we both know I am 100% right on how the astute Sox fan base has treated young players throughout the years.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Aug 29, 2017 -> 09:09 PM) Kitekrazy is closer to the truth than you give him credit for I think I'm closer to the truth than you give Sox fans credit for.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Aug 29, 2017 -> 08:35 PM) Everyone but Frank Thomas. Nah, I don't agree with that. Our beleaguered fan base has usually been pretty welcoming to young players being brought in. The young infusion of players in the early 90s and then again in the early 00s seemed to be received well by the base. I think the same sort of reception is happening as we speak as this first wave of young players are now arriving.

You gotta be bleepin' me with the play at second! Way to go, Jose!

Benetti dusting off the 30 year old Duane Kuiper-home-run-off-of-Stone joke started by Harry Caray in the '80s.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Aug 29, 2017 -> 07:59 PM) You just start listing names. And don't leave someone out because you,me or a few others supported them. There have been some wantng Avi gone, Saladino and Leury gone, same for Sanchez and Anderson Its natural for fans to be impatient, especially if certain guys come tagged with certain hype (e.g., Avi in 2013 being billed as "Little Miggy"). More importantly, our fans are no different than other fans. Twins fans were just as cynical of Buxton up until this season as our fans were on the guys you listed.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Aug 29, 2017 -> 07:45 PM) I agree with you but I wish Sox fans would give our young players the same benefit of a chance to develop.it seemed at first Buxton was never going to hit. Which players have Sox fans not given this benefit to?

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 29, 2017 -> 07:41 PM) Engel is a terrible hitter. Big league glove, A ball bat He's going to need to go back down next season and improve that bat at least a little to justify even being a backup outfielder in the Majors, no matter how elite his defense is.

The Mark Buehrle bobblehead doll looks like a repurposed G. I. Joe action figure.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 29, 2017 -> 06:43 PM) Another great example of the fact that guys who are raw can take some time to develop. That's baseball.

Where b Hawkeroo?

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Aug 16, 2017 -> 05:26 AM) That should pay a big chunk of Luis Robert's bonus. The massive revenue the team takes in from its current TV and radio contracts, along with the guaranteed profits courtesy of the sweetheart lease deal, paid for Robert's bonus long before this windfall came along.

Beautiful catch by Engel, and much needed given the circumstances.

Benetti is in serious need of a broadcast coach.