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That's a rebuild, not a contender. Just sayin'

Derek "Pastadiving" Jeter is just too good defensively.

Screw Kemp, I want Ethier.

There's zero chance we get Crawford. He's going to go for $17m+ over 5 years. The Angels and Yankees will outbid us by a landslide. And Beane LOVES Barton, no way he is available for Quentin. And you don't stick one of the best defensive LF in the game in RF so Juan Pierre can play there. It's more likely Rios goes back to RF and Crawford to CF, but that isn;t ideal either. It's not a fit for what it would cost.

I covet Napoli, despite subpar defense

BEAUTIFUL sequence against Mauer.

Wow, that was lucky. Let's hope Johnny doesn't put us in THAT position anymore.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 02:14 PM) But how will Paulie be able steal if Rios is only on second and not third? TOUCHE!

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Aug 10, 2010 -> 10:34 PM) Ozzie Ball is shaping up to be one of the most disastrous offensive experiments in recent memory. At least the basecloggers are gone . It's like half of our roster is being used to kill the other half of the rosters rallies. Thank you, sir, for providing me with my first signature.

Thank you for making this thread. Fire Ozzie, he is losing games for us.

This is a big game.

ADAM LAROCHE!

This is a good backup pickup but only if he give up ZERO of our top 5 prospects.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 25, 2010 -> 07:28 PM) One of the interesting things mentioned by Phil Rogers in the Trib was that he could see Bobby Jenks getting moved for the prospects to acquire a Dunn or Fielder. Thats a great point. The relief market is very publicly and frustratingly thin this year with so many teams contending -- teams are knocking down the door for Scott Downs and Craig Breslow. Oh man, that would be a KW GEM. Putz moves in as closer, Fielder/Dunn becomes the new Kotsay, Jones rests Quentin when he gets hurt every 9 days. Brilliant.

What a steal. If this was a fantasy league that trade would have been VETO'D That PTBNL is probably going to be huge. Otherwise no one would ever do that.

I'm thinking Flowers goes. I think he's the dark horse guy. Almost everybody needs a near-ML ready hitting catcher. Flowers/Viciedo/Santeliz+?

We need a hitter!

No way man. Below average all around. The plate discipline of Vlad Guerrero without the ability to make contact.

#$&*ing bums

Dunn would be great, but he isn't worth all of our few good prospects. I'm a huge Haren fan, but we need a LH power hitter WAY more than we need an upgrade over Hudson, and Haren will cost all of our prospects, too. I think LaRoche is a very significant upgrade over Kotsay, and can be had for a couple BS prospects, so I say go for LaRoche.

I just think we need a big hitter WAY more than we need to replace Hudson

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jul 13, 2010 -> 12:56 PM) Jorge Cantu at his absolute best has been a slightly above average hitter, and he's been bad this year. He shouldn't even be a fallback option for the White Sox. I'd sure love to have half of his 2008 season.

I hope you guys are right about Freddy -- I was just trying to illustrate that we could look at free agency in the case of a pitching emergency. Also, now Jorge Cantu is available. What do you think about him?

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2010/07/marl...rd-dodgers.html This is now my vote for relatively affordable pickup.

QUOTE (balfanman @ Jul 10, 2010 -> 07:30 AM) Why is Freddys' arm due to fall off? I've heard several people say that they can't trust Freddy to stay healthy, Why not? He's well over 2 years (almost 3 I think)removed from his surgery and other than that I don't believe that he's ever missed significant time. I don't understand why they think Freddy is going to get hurt. That said, any pitcher, no matter how healthy, is one pitch away from being done. I would think that the way they're trying to handle Buehrle with kid gloves and Gavins hip, that those two are much more likely to go down than Freddy. Before this year, he hasn't made more than 11 starts in a season since 2006.