Jose Abreu

Either way, Shuck's defense is good enough where if he's starting, it should be in the field, not as DH. If we were really going to bench LaRoche, then Shuck should have been RF or LF, moving Avi or Melky to DH.

QUOTE (whitesoxjr27 @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 10:12 AM) Does putting him in left field make more sense? I need to stop listening to radio rumors lol. Not really, because isn't that where Schwarber will go?

My point is, if he's going all-offense, why take out the second best hitter on the team?

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 12:42 AM) But I'm conpletely in the camp of packaging Avi in a bigger trade. I don't think he'll ever see the baseball out of the pitcher's hand and understand the zone against high velocity. Gotta upgrade Avi. What players are on the list of young bad ass defense and 25-30 HRs? Quintana & Davidson for Harper? Oh god, how has nobody responded to this? Please tell me you just forgot the green text.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 09:40 AM) A name I haven't heard much is Colby Rasmus. He could provide us with some much-needed power, he was a plus defender in RF this year according to DRS (43 games at +3), and he'd be a hell of a lot cheaper than Heyward. Sign him to play RF, move Eaton to LF, move Thompson to CF? At the very least that could be the OF on days we face LHP (with Melky moving to DH on those days). That OF has OK power potential, and is significantly better defensively than this year. What would it take to sign Rasmus? He's a guy who hits for low average and strikes out at a high rate. Pass. Also, why would you want Rasmus to face only LHP? I think you have it backwards.

Lmao, I doubt he benches Bryant

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 05:24 AM) My last ticket I was going 35 in a 25, cop pulled me over and said he and his partner saw me talking on my cellphone which is why I was pulled over. I tell him my car has blue tooth and what you guys saw was me eating a bagel, he decided to give me a speeding ticket instead. Sorry, that's rough. How does one mistake eating a bagel for talking on a cell phone, though?

Alright, good, NY is gone. Now let's go Pittsburgh!!

McDermott came alive in the 3rd. Nice buzzer beating 3 too

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 08:09 PM) We made a big deal about Quintana being top 10 in fWAR. Just to use the easy comparison, Sale is 4th over the last 3 years, Scherzer and Price are also ahead of him, Kluber and Felix are pretty close, and over that time he's been 8th, 8th, and 5th out of pitchers in baseball (hence, he's a top 15 player, but top 5?) That's pretty darn good. But the same f***ing guy has been "1, 1, and 1". That's where you can use the phrase once in a lifetime and I'll buy it. Do you think Max Scherzer is a "once in a lifetime" pitcher? I don't. Because he's solidly outpitched Sale the last 3 years in those #s. And hell, if he's once in a lifetime, the Tigers have had 2 lifetimes since 2006. No, because Scherzer struggled early in his career. He's dominant now, but the 4.5 years of mediocrity strips him of consideration for that title. And to reply to the top 5 player thing... (no order) Trout, Kershaw, Harper, Goldy... Sale. Cutch, Cabrera, and Posey follow. But that's just my opinion.

Desmond strikes out a lot, doesn't get on base at a good clip, and commits lots of bonehead errors. I can picture Soxtalk absolutely hating him if we signed him.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 08:01 PM) As far as Desmond goes, there have been plenty of short stops that have moved over to 3B so its quite possible he could play third. As long as Desmond has the arm strength he could end up being a better 3B than SS after some time to adjust. I'm not so concerned about Desmond's ability to play 3B as I am about his asking price, QO status and willingness to move to 3B. I feel like regardless of where you put him in the infield, he would bring very poor defense.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 07:58 PM) Do you expect Chris Sale to take the kind of jump at age 29 that Randy Johnson did? Because that would make him a once in a lifetime pitcher. Right now there's ~5 comparable pitchers in baseball and several better. Sale doesn't need to make nearly as big of a jump as Johnson did because his stats are already markedly better, especially in the walks department, as Sale's K:BB is simply ridiculous, whereas Johnson struggled and walked many batters- even after he turned 29 (in comparison to Sale). Who are these 5 comparable pitchers/several better pitchers? IMO, there's Kershaw, and that's it. I'm not just talking about one successful season, I mean 3+ in a row.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 07:48 PM) Um, no? Just wondering, do you consider Randy Johnson a once-in-a-lifetime pitcher?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 07:38 PM) Of course you "Can" win with these guys. That's not what people are saying. People keep saying "we can't afford to waste this chance with this core!!" as though it's some incredible, once in a lifetime event. We have a core that is within error of "what you'd have if you distributed the top 120 players randomly amongst 30 teams" and yet "We can't afford to wait we have to win with this core right now" keeps coming out. This isn't bad. You can win with it. But it's not some "once in a lifetime, unbelievable, never will see again" set of players. If you don't win the world series with this group...you're just like 10-20 other teams in the big leagues that have comparable cores. Well, at least it wouldn't be for a decent franchise. Our core sure is better than you make it sound. You're only using fWAR to evaluate them. Look at it this way- we have a once-in-a-lifetime pitcher who is a top-5 player in baseball, another top-15 starting pitcher in baseball, and one of the most dynamic, consistent hitters in baseball. Rodon could very well join this list after next season, too.

Bulls getting open 3 after open 3 and can't stop missing

Mountain At My Gates is such a good song.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 03:42 PM) Were there actually substantial rumors of the Sox going after Frazier, or just fan conjecture? I like the idea of Frazier, but he is going to be expensive to acquire. Plus he is only under control for 2 more years. If the Sox acquire him, they better plug some other holes and go for it, otherwise its not worth it and they should focus on pieces with more control. I could also totally see Todd Frazier coming over to the Sox and being a butcher at 3B and hitting .220 with about 15 homers. A poster here said that someone close to the organization told him Hahn is going to push for Frazier. I can see that too.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 07:51 AM) Seahawks get the benefit of calls/non-calls more than any other team in the league Like that punt last week that clearly bounced off a Seattle player's leg and was recovered by the Bears.

Do you guys not realize how bad Soto got?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 5, 2015 -> 09:55 PM) It's like I've been saying, in 20 years it will be a whole different America. People are going to be scared to go anywhere. I mean now it's dipping down to kids shooting kids. I always think of the parents (assuming they are good ones). So mom gives birth to a boy one day at the hospital. Can you imagine if you could look into the future and told her, "Your boy will commit murder at the age of 11. He will blow away a neightbor girl with a gun." She'd have told you you were insane. Can you imaging a mom giving birth to a little girl at the hospital one day. If you told her, "Your daughter will be shot and killed at the age of 8 by an 11-year old boy." She'd have said, "How the hell is that going to happen? That's just not possible." Our country is in the toilet and it is only going to get worse. Folks who read my posts know that I'm predicting the end of sports as we know them once one of our big stadiums/arenas has its first massacre. I'd still rather live here than anywhere, but America is a warzone, no doubt about it. Be safe, people, be safe. And like the guy said in another article somewhere, if you are ever in a situation some madman brandishes a gun, by all means fight back with your car keys and charge the gunman. Not a fair battle, though, car keys vs. semiautomatic weapon. With all of the new security precautions, how could there be a "massacre" at a major sports arena?

Logic is coming out with his second album this fall, and he released the first song last week. It's decent.

I said hi to Stephen A last year at a Bulls/Cavs game. Literally "what's up stephen A"- he was less than three feet away from me (walking past) and didn't look/acknowledge me. Ever since then I've disliked him even more And yes, this whole KD thing is ridiculous.

To reply more to the thread title and not the article: The country isn't "off the rails". With our shockingly increasing population, there are more and more people (obviously), and not all of those people are sane. Higher population = higher volume of mentally unstable people

QUOTE (raBBit @ Oct 5, 2015 -> 06:28 PM) It's silly to think MLB player X will suck because he switched teams to the Sox. Again, you're just using what has happened recently as a basis to justify your thoughts on the future. It's not that we think any given player will suck because we acquire him. It is that a player who hits for a lower average than people think (Frazier) or is due to decline because of his age (Zobrist) will not play nearly as well as he used to if he came here. That's not to say it would only happen here. I believe that Zobrist will no longer produce at his current level on any team, and Frazier would be a right-handed Adam Dunn on any AL team. While what happened recently with us and old/NL acquisitions is hopefully an anomaly, I do think that it, at the very least, should teach us to be very skeptical of potential moves for players who have baggage or warning signs.