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QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Mar 30, 2016 -> 10:35 PM) Teams always carry a 3rd catcher right up until the final cuts. I'm pretty sure everybody, includes Hector, knows that he's not really in the running for the last spot. Robin also said that the OD roster is not going to have 13 pitchers, so Aumont is in the same boat. It's really down to Ishikawa, Sands and May, and I really doubt it's May. The thing with Aumont is that he has impressed and given up nothing in spring and could force out someone like Putnam who could get optioned to Charlotte in favour of Aumont. Hector and May should get sent down, although the speed of May must give them pause for thought for having that late inning baserunning threat. I have this suspicion that Ishikawa is going to get the job due to him being left-handed but I would rather see Sands getting it.

My Prediction Rotation Sale Quintana Rodon Latos Danks Pen Robertson Jones Albers Duke Jennings Petricka Putnam Line up Eaton RF Jackson CF Cabrera LF Abreu 1B Frazier 3B Rollins SS Garcia DH Navarro C Lawrie 2B Bench Avila C Shuck OF Saladino 2B/SS Davidson 1B/3B

103 wins. La Roche to have a career year. Cabrera to win MVP. Quintana to win the CY Young. Royals to get more suspensions after trying to throw at Lawrie. Cubs to go 82-82. Now who wants to drink my Coolade?

It ends a 5-5 tie after the Hector Sanchez 2 run single.

Jacob May hit a nice double to Right Centre

Adam La Dunn with a wham dinger to Right Field.

Langer does a Melton, he just referred to Beck as Chad Beck

QUOTE (almagest @ Mar 4, 2016 -> 08:46 PM) Beck having some control issues. That and Lawrie's defensive issues.

Jason Coats with a dinger. Watch out Avi, the back ups smell blood

Turner with another scoreless inning. 1 walk, 1 hit which was a dribbler. A good variety of speeds in and around the strikezone.

Lawrie just went yard in the 1st. Boom

Turner with a 1-2-3 inning to start the game. Nice start

It's Spring Training, so it's all taken with a pinch of salt. What was good to see was Lawrie's baserunning, Frazier's ability to drive in a run and Sands defense. Early days but Jerry Sands just sent Avi a message. Nice relief appearances from Albers, Petricka and Webb Negatives (and they are negatives not concerns) Danks start wasn't great Putnam struggled in his relief appearance. Concerns Hawkins Defense. Hawkins looked lost in Right Field whenever a ball was hit over there. He looked worse than Avi.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Mar 3, 2016 -> 08:42 AM) Or best of all, you can watch the game LIVE for FREE on whitesox.com. 1st of 10 free webcasts. Or you can watch it live on MLBTV with the Dodgers Broadcast.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Mar 2, 2016 -> 03:09 PM) Where is this coming from??? Everybody, PLEASE STOP SAYING THIS. 6.0% walk rate last year. Sox as a team, 6.7%. MLB position players, 7.8%. 101st out of 141 qualified hitters in walk rate. By what standard are we honestly assessing that "Avi take walks?" By the Dayan Viciedo standard of course......

All this Avi hype reminds me of the spin they tried to put on Gordon Beckham year after year. My real concern is that Eaton still can't play centre field and is hitting DH, we have little options in Centre Field if he is not good to go out there on Opening Day.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Feb 26, 2016 -> 12:48 AM) Robertson, Melky, Rollins, and Latos are all recent examples of players taking less money to come here. Cespedes, Gordon, Upton and Fowler are all recent examples of players who wouldn't come here for less money

QUOTE (WhiteSoxLifer @ Feb 16, 2016 -> 04:28 AM) Just throwing it out there for the sox to say put up 90 wins then just averaging it out over 6 months would be 15 wins a month. If they have a losing month then they would have to a better winning total in another month. Basically first month should be a tell if they are going to do something since they kinda fall flat in April for the past couple years. If they are .500 or better then might be a good chance. I think the 1st 16 games is generally a good indicator of whether the Sox will have a winning season or not. Lets look at what has happened since 2005 - Record in the 1st 16 games 2005 - 12-4 - Winning Season 2006 - 11-5 - Winning Season 2007 - 9-7 - Losing Season 2008 - 10-6 - Winning Season 2009 - 8-8 - Losing Season 2010 - 5-11 - Winning Season 2011 - 7-9 - Losing Season 2012 - 10-6 - Winning Season 2013 - 7-9 - Losing Season 2014 - 8-8 - Losing Season 2015 - 7-9 - Losing Season If you look at the above, apart from the anomaly of the 2010 season, if we have not went at least 10-6 in the opening 16 games, then we've went on to have a losing season. This season our opening 16 games are:- Oakland (road) 4 games. Cleveland (Home) 3 games. Minnesota (road) 3 games. Rays (road) 3 games. Angels (home) 3 games. So for these 16 games to start the season, where do you see us getting 10 wins or more?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 08:40 PM) Scot Gregor ‏@scotgregor 1h1 hour ago 2016 win totals from Atlantis sports book (Reno) are out. AL Central: Royals 87, Tigers 85, Indians 84, #WhiteSox 80.5, Twins 77.5 The Tigers are the most overrated team in baseball this year. 74 wins last year. According to Atlanta sports book, losing Cespedes, Price, Avila, Albaquirque, Simon, Rajai Davis, Ian Kroll, and Feliz and replacing them with Cespedes, Zimmerman, K-Rod, Justin Wilson, Mark Lowe, Saltamacchia, Mike Friggin Avila, Cameron Maybin and Mike Pelfrey That is not worth 11 wins. Cespedes is replaced like for like by Upton Zimmerman is not as good as Price Salty is not as good as Avila Pelfry and Simon are both as bad as each other Maybin is not as good as Davis (you lose speed on the bases) Lowe and Wilson are better than Al Albaquerque and Ian Kroll but then again La Roche and Leury Garcia pitched better than that pair. K-Rod is better than Feliz but not much. I would have said 3-4 wins better off due to the improved pen but not 11 wins. As for the Indians, they have them 3 wins better off, having Lindor for the season probably accounts for that. They have the Twins declining by 5.5 wins despite the emergence of Sano and Buxton They have the Royals declining by 6 wins, they believe that the loss of Cueto, Zobrist, Gallardo, Rios, Madsen and Holland. They feel that the addition of Kennedy and Soria accounts for the 6 win differential. I think that differential could be more. They have our Sox up by 4.5 wins which is possibly conservative when you think that Latos is replacing the Shark (who was awful) Frazier replaces a non-existant third base from last year and Lawrie replaces Sanchez at Second. It could be argued that that could read 82 wins.

I'll take 1937 Joe Di Maggio with his 8.2 WAR, .346 BA and 46 Homers, I'd have him play Right Field. I would also take a souped up 1998 Mark McGwire with his .299 BA, 70 homers, and 7.5 WAR. I'd play him DH and get Lance Armstrong's dealer to supply the masking agent. My Lineup would read Eaton CF Cabrera LF Abreu 1B McGwire DH Di Maggio RF Frazier 3B Lawrie 2B Navarro C Saladino SS If it was White Sox alone, I'd have '94 Frank Thomas and '54 Minnie Minoso. Big Frank at 1B with Abreu to DH and Minoso in LF and move Melky to RF

QUOTE (MuckFinnesota @ Feb 10, 2016 -> 01:42 AM) I did find this, which I know is just speculation. It would be great if they got Jackson instead of Fowler and keep the pick. It seems like all they are looking for is a low risk, short term deal anyway, so he makes more sense than Fowler in terms of payroll flexibility. Plus they wouldn't lose a draft pick. I think the signing of Jackson would fit with the overall Free Agent policy this season. Latos, signed on a 1 year cheap deal. Avila - 1 year cheap deal Navarro - 1 year cheap deal Low risk potential high reward type players. I'd also be shocked if we signed Desmond, I could see us picking up someone like Clint Barmes or Jimmy Rollins if they don't decide to stick with a combination of Saladino and Sanchez.

Robertson would be the trade that makes sense. The Dodgers are after a quality reliever, we are looking for an outfielder. We have Jones to take up the closing role..... Although something in the back of my mind tells me that Robertson has a restricted no-trade list and the Dodgers are on it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 2, 2016 -> 03:37 PM) Yeah the Dodgers would rather eat money and get a better player if you look at their spending habits. $9 million and Leury for Ethier.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Feb 1, 2016 -> 02:08 PM) You still can't bank on using only using 5-6 guys throughout a 162-game season. Agreed That is why he's brought in Turner. He has Carroll who has started before, Beck who had a spot start last year, Danish who is on the fringes and Fullmer who he is looking to get some experience in Spring Training. I'm not worried about our rotation, I'm more worried about our outfield.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 1, 2016 -> 11:48 AM) The 2005 White Sox used 6 which was the fewest any team had used in many years. Just a spot start here or even a minor injury there adds up. Beck was a spot start. Montas was a spot start and part of the September call-ups. Noesi was released and replaced by Rodon. Sale had a minor injury but we went to a 4 man rotation due to the schedule. I suspect if we were in contention, you probably wouldn't have seen EJ starting in September (unless there was an injury or double header) That would have still meant 8 pitchers which I suspect was less than most teams out there, see Dodgers, Blue Jays and Yankees for examples. I thought that apart from Sale at the start, our rotation was relatively injury-free and it was scheduling issues due to rain-outs and the Baltimore riots which caused more chaos to our rotation than injuries.