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Bulls has 22 games left, but they probably have most games against tanking teams (bottom 8) out of everybody with 7 games. They also have 1 against Knicks, who might as well be a tanking team after losing Porzingis. I think they just aren't not bad enough and finishes with 24-25 wins.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Feb 27, 2018 -> 06:41 AM) I know we played Brooklyn last night, but at some point the rest of these tanking teams have to play one another. At the Bulls are stepping up their tank game, although I’m a little worried it’s too too late. There are about 20 games left in the season. 5 teams at 18 wins, Mavs are at 19, Bulls and Nets are at 20. Bulls play Mavs this weekend. At this rate I think the worst team record will at 20 wins, which will be shared by a couple of teams. And 2-3 teams will be tied for 21 wins.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Feb 7, 2018 -> 07:24 PM) I think if you dumped 5 million dollars into any one of our laps tomorrow for a one year salary we'd make it last the rest of our lives. There could be extenuating circumstances such as if we didn't have insurance and something horrible happened to us and drained all our money. Now your last sentence is interesting if he's trying to support many many others. I'm just saying complaining about things regarding Avi and players like him may be misguided by me since he's rolling in money and set for life, at least in my opinion set for life. Do you realize how much of that $5.85 mil will go into tax and agent fees? He's probably pocketing at max $3.5 mil after all deductions. Even if he lives the most modest lifestyle for a pro athlete, that will hardly last him for than 20 years, not counting inflation.

Take your time and heal up, Kris. In fact, Lauri should take a few weeks off to enjoy fatherhood.

I think we may be a few years away from GM's and cap specialists making adjustments to newfound spending freedom teams have. Basically every all star, potential all star, or even borderline all star are looking for max or near max deals. To me a guy like Lavine does not do enough to get a even a near max deal. When I think of a max deal player, I think they have to be able to impact the game in more than one way, or if you're a one dimensional player, you gotta be ELITE at your skillset. We all know what Lavine is capable of pre-injury, and he has not had the opportunity to take his game to the next level yet, and there are doubts that he could actually do that, especially after coming back from a torn ACL. Gar has been credited as a strong contract negotiator. Let's hope he can come up with a deal to keep Lavine happy and also find a middle ground between what he is now and what he could become.

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Hey, Alshon Jeffery is in the super bowl!

QUOTE (oldsox @ Feb 4, 2018 -> 06:26 AM) Greg has a point. Face it, the majority of the rebuilding efforts have been through trades, not draft picks. The last two Number 1 picks, Burger and Collins, are hardly the cornerstones of the rebuild. If Sox could find a real major league CF, they have what could be a pretty good lineup. I would like to see them go for it, at least until Trading Deadline, and see what happens. Yea, and half of the the prospects we traded for are still in the minors, the other half barely got their feet wet last year. So what's your point?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Feb 3, 2018 -> 08:42 PM) I don't see why we have to have the worst bullpen in baseball. I mean our division reeks yet we make no attempt to improve the worst part of our team. Nobody's ever said on the record that our goal is to lose all our games. Look, Detroit and KC arguably reek. That leaves Minnie and Cleveland. Cleveland is the cliche. The Indians haven't completed the deal and unless they are like the old Braves may be ready to have a bad year and play closer to .500 than dominating. Minnie isn't for real. They are cheaper than the Sox organization. I contend if we actually had a closer, a setup guy and let either Soria or Nate be the third reliever we might actually win the damn division. No we’re not a closer and a setup man away from competing for the division. That type of thinking is what got us stuck in mediocrity for so long.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Feb 2, 2018 -> 10:59 PM) Waste of money?? Why do we care about Jerry's money for gosh sakes? We need some real bullpen arms. It won't help the confidence of our young players at all if they get us a 6-1 lead and our pen blows it from the fifth inning on every night. If our starters can take a lead into the sixth, how frustrating to have a bullpen thais bad. This bullpen is going to be historically rotten. Nate Jones is an injury waiting to happen and Soria is laughably bad. The other guys? Nobodys on paper. I mean if we're taking all season again, fine, but the worst way to lose is to have the bullpen suck night after night. Makes the games insufferably long and boring and frustrating. This is seriously a cliche at this point. Look, everyone from top to bottom of the organization knows this is still another rebuilding year. The young players will learn, grow and go through rough patches together. You seriously think losses with the bad bullpen blowing the games will break them? In this day and age, wins to a pitchers record is about as meaningless as, well, having a dominate closer on a rebuilding team. If you don't want to watch another long and boring and frustrating season, you should tune away from any Sox games in '18. On the upside? We have stock up both MLB and AAA with hard throwing reclamation projects. With the cost of bullpen arms in the FA market, if we can turn 2-3 of these arms into Kahnle, we will have some cost controlled bullpen arms when we're ready to compete.

Not to wish injury on players, but Davis and Holiday has had trouble staying healthy in the past. If they miss time the prospects of this pick suddenly looks a lot better.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 04:49 PM) Disagree. Everyone knows he's on the market and everyone knows deals are close with teams that want his help this year. They won't do this for more than a couple games; they'd even run afoul of the players association if they did this and then held him for too long. Sitting him only shows they are extra motivated to move him, moreso than before, reducing leverage they have.

This can only hurt his trade value.

QUOTE (Quin @ Jan 30, 2018 -> 03:00 PM) I don't think many good teams have cap space. Getting that first would be gold. Could snag someone like McCoy if you miss on one of the top tier bigs. I think even an up and coming team would be willing to give him 3/$45 mil in the open market, and he's only making $12.5 mil if the TO is picked up next season.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 30, 2018 -> 01:59 PM) Niko wanted the Pelicans to pick up his option. Blocked it when they refused. (Woj) This sucks. A top 20 pick for Niko was a goldmine. Asik had a buyout, too. Wouldn't he be able to get a better contract if a team doesn't pick up his option? He's having a pretty good year for sure, and many teams have/will make cap space in the upcoming free agency.

I am not going to lose sleep over it. I would think they can trade Niko for a mid 1st round pick without taking THAT much future money back.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jan 27, 2018 -> 07:06 AM) Bulls tied for the 7th worst record. If they can trade Niko & Lopez I think they can finish bottom five. A potential top five pick combined with Cousins could actually make this team incredibly dangerous very soon. Cousins most likely will not be the same again, so don't bank on it. The impact from the DMC injury is Niko and Grant may now have a taker.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jan 23, 2018 -> 03:47 PM) An above average starter that puts up 200 innings pretty much IS a TOR starter. No? There is a difference between the two. I am also pretty sure Law is not yet convinced Hansen would pan out as a TOR.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jan 23, 2018 -> 06:40 AM) His top 50 is up now. Eloy at 6, Kopech at 11, Robert at 46 and Hansen at 49. Here is Law's summation about Hansen: Law is really trolling hard here. If Hansen can continue to harness his control, I see the ingredients of a TOR starter.

Surprised to see Curbelo that high. Hard to justify with what he has done so far. On the other hand, Bernardo Flores and Ryan Burr is really flying under the radar here.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jan 22, 2018 -> 11:18 AM) So we’ll probably have the big 4 in this list. We had five in BA’s list. Callis hinted at six in his list. Honestly, it’s a bit concerning that we’re in year 2 of our rebuild and that’s all we got. And I’m fully aware we had three top 50 prospects graduate last year, but sucks to see Cease & Rutherford completely fall off these lists. I am, but I am not. Law has proven wrong many times about Sox prospects in the past. I don't take his rankings to heart. Fact of the matter is we had 6 guys who were infused into our young team last year and all had solid debuts. Then 5 more guys who are locked for Top 100 in most lists. Then you have guys like Cease, Collins, Rutherford, Burdi, and Burger who just missed the 100 on most lists. Oh and by way, we have the 4th pick in the next draft, and payroll savings to make a big splash in the upcoming free agency.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 22, 2018 -> 09:54 AM) Yeah, it is funny to see both Fowler and Mateo still in back end top 100. That’s how teams like Yankees and Astros built their orgs with strong big league team and also a productive farm system. Their prospect evaluators are some of the best in he business. Astros made smart choices about not trading Bergman, Tucker and Whitley, and Yankees sold high on a guy who they lost faith internally on.

Hindsight is 20/20 but it’s not like we didn’t see this one coming. We gave up 3 productive ML’er (one of which had immense trade value) for a guy who was hyped as a Top 30 guy at that point. Some 200 ABs later he fell completely out of Top 100. Not saying he won’t bounce back inside T100 going forward, but I think it will be hard for him to sniff the top 30-40 status again. Return seemed light then, but even more so now.

QUOTE (Dunt @ Jan 22, 2018 -> 08:50 AM) I think Robert's ranking is pretty strictly based on his little exposure to higher level competition. I imagine he will be a top 25 prospect at this time next year. As for Hansen, he was previously unranked, so that jump for him is pretty impressive. I think we should all be pretty happy that the Sox might've landed a #1A or #2 with a 2nd round pick. That said, seeing this kinda gives me similar feelings to what bmags expressed. Hansen is the only player you've drafted in the last 3-4 years that cracked the top 100? I'm not sure that speaks highly to the talent evaluation in our system and that is a little scary. I think Collins, Burger, etc. will be useful MLB pieces, but can't help but be a little irked that the industry isnt a little higher on people the Sox have drafted and developed. Don’t sell yourself short, Moncada debuted at #6 after a pretty good year at A ball at the age of 20 when he was with the Red Sox.

I’d be cool with Sanchez, Fulmer + for Brinson. But man, every time Brinson’s name come up, I couldn’t help but think Rangers resurrected his career from the dead but we failed to do the same with Courtney Hawkins.