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  1. QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 05:45 PM) I bet Dan is just confirming that Heyman tweeted. Well he is confirming they are talking. That's fairly big news. So maybe this will get done before players start showing up to spring training.
  2. QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 04:17 PM) If we didn't use WAR would we know just how useless Avi was? The other metrics just reinforce what the WAR says about him. His WAR is just a nice little convenient way of packing all the suckage into one number. Ian Desmond would be a nice change from Alexei. Essentially would we save 7 runs by adding him. Plus we would save 1 base while Alexei was -10. People keep repeating the error numbers like that amounted to something. They actually didnt amount to much if anything. He's zeroed out across the board in all defensive categories except for double plays were he is plus 1.
  3. QUOTE (Tony @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 03:58 PM) You would be wrong on that, Jerksticks. Incredibly wrong
  4. QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Feb 10, 2016 -> 05:50 PM) But he does. He might not be the best defender in the world but he's 8 billion times better than Avi. Technically if your comparing what he did in CF and what Avi did in RF that's not the case. He was actually worse in CF than Avi was in RF. He actually gave up more runs by throwing mistakes. Avi was in the positive in that case.
  5. QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Feb 10, 2016 -> 04:16 PM) And they should, honestly. When the market is completely flush with options and prices are lower than they've been in years, you have to make a move that makes as much sense as this one has. I honestly feel bad for Avi...first sign of trouble and he's going to get absolutely roasted. He's going to hear it at the ball park.
  6. Hey maybe we can get some Right Field time out of him if he cant pitch
  7. We have some strong personalities now...should make for an interesting season
  8. Well that's surprising. Didnt expect him to come here.
  9. QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 7, 2016 -> 11:54 AM) Where you see this? https://twitter.com/mlb_nl_al Here People need to post links when they quote tweets
  10. QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Feb 4, 2016 -> 08:40 PM) Any day now well land one. My guess is Fowler. I'm guessing so...I just want this to be over with. We havent been mentioned with Jackson...it has to be Fowler.
  11. QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 1, 2016 -> 04:45 PM) We have Soler, his name is Avi Garcia. Exactly and so far Soler is actually worse on defense
  12. Rogers mentioned Carl Crawford too who the Dodgers are trying to get rid of. He was actually pretty decent in 2014 and 2013. His 2015 campaign dropped off on offense. Both of them arent good on defense and free agents in 2018.
  13. Well it's definitely not going to happen now
  14. QUOTE (oldsox @ Jan 31, 2016 -> 07:56 AM) Not true. I've seen him play a lot of CF with Rockies. Great range, pretty good arm. Hits the cut-off guy, usually. Hustles. If Sox get him, I'm sure Eaton goes to LF, where he belongs and will probably be one of best defensive LF's game. I have not seen him play that much since he left Colorado, but he was good enough then. He makes the team better defensively at least. And faster on the bases. I hope he hits. I've seen him play as well. Houston is only a 3 hour drive. He's awful in center field. The eye test and every single defensive metric proves that correct. He gave up the most runs out of all center fielders the past 2 years. Which was over 30. Most of them were out of position runs and throwing mistake runs.
  15. Give up money plus the draft pick now or prospects midseason when they have to replace Garcia. It's just delaying the inevitable by doing nothing. Just one will hurt much more.
  16. QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Jan 30, 2016 -> 06:03 PM) How is Fowler in CF? Horrible is the correct term I think
  17. Diamondbacks finally got rid of Aaron Hill
  18. QUOTE (flavum @ Jan 29, 2016 -> 08:56 AM) The Hahn/Ventura seminar is tonight 6-6:45. Somebody live tweet that. It's not going to be pretty Sun Times posted this last night. http://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/7/71/12...answers-soxfest
  19. QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 09:40 PM) They are giving us hope by not coming out and saying the roster is set Well he did acknowledge that Hahn is trying to upgrade still...we'll find out more this weekend on this front. But I'm sure Robin knows...he's probably on the hottest seat in MLB right now. They have to come out the gate winning. Hell even after a week of not winning people will be moaning and groaning.
  20. QUOTE (CyAcosta41 @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 09:00 PM) Agreed. We've strengthened many of our weaknesses from last year. Sometimes the effect can be geometric rather than straight arithmetic. Some people call this chemistry. Agreed also ... while I think they are tone deaf for not getting this done immediately before or during SoxFest (and I'll hold out hope that this is still possible), I'd bet any of Greg's remaining houses that there is an OF'er still to come (my preferences in order are Fowler over Jackson, but at least a Raburn type to make sure LaRoche keeps his seat on the bench against ALL LH'ers forever). But dude, DISAGREE ... the Villagers didn't storm the Castle against Count anyone. Count Dracula would have made short work of that. They stormed Baron Frankenstein's castle, and not so much looking for Baron Frankenstein, but Frankenstein's monster.
  21. QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 07:45 PM) He sure isn't going to say that we are still actively trying to replace him, just in case the worst case scenario actually happens. Where did I say he was? None of what he said was surprising. Amusing to hear it come from his mouth yes. Surprising no.
  22. QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 07:35 PM) What else could he say? We spent all winter trying to replace the guy because he sucks, and now we are stuck with him? They arent stuck with him yet
  23. He also said he had to talk to Avi after the rumors and they are "excited" to have him starting in RF.
  24. QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 04:23 PM) That has nothing to do with anything. Hinrich was once an above average NBA player. Avi has never been anything but a bum thus far in his career. Hinrich is now in a bench role. People might want to hate on him, but he's still a bench player and when you look at his career statistics, he will go down as one of the better Bulls (I'm not saying he's currently an above average NBA player by any stretch of the imagination). However, I still think he's a quality player to have off your bench. They are both bums right now. One is old and cant play defense or offense. The other is young and cant play defense or offense. Nobody cares about what Kirk did hell 10 years ago. Most people want him off the roster because his play/salary has overshadowed the good he did many years ago.
  25. QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 04:08 PM) Can't link it but Merkin also tweeted that Ventura knows Hahn is trying to tweak roster Scott Merkin loves to troll people about Garcia...it's getting fairly embarrassing at this point.
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