Jose Abreu

Despite his tweeting "My future will NOT be in Phoenix!", the Suns do not plan on trading PF Markieff Morris.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 07:54 AM) Anyone got some guesses on the type of contracts the big four OFs get this offseason? Really think we got to snag one of these guys. I know we'd have to give up a draft pick to sign all of them but Cespedes, but this team isn't take a big step forward without adding some legit bats. I think they will get incredibly large contracts. 8/200 type deals for some.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 01:52 AM) Guys, Nate Jones is not elite. He just isn't. Nobody said he was. But a full year of him would undoubtedly improve our pitching.

bump it's sad to see how wrong we were

QUOTE (CWSpalehoseCWS @ Sep 10, 2015 -> 07:33 PM) Call me crazy, but I wouldn't mind seeing the Sox go after Fowler if he leaves the Cubs. Not sure they could get him or Eaton to move to RF, but he's the type of OBP the team needs at the top of the lineup. Eaton, Fowler, Abreu is a pretty nice 1, 2, 3. Plus that allows Melky to move further down in the order where he belongs. Cabrera doesn't bat 1-3 anymore, anyway. At least not often. And Fowler's OBP is .350. Nothing special.

Me neither, the red lines were cool.

The iPhone 6s, to me, is definitely not worth the upgrade. They barely changed anything.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Sep 10, 2015 -> 03:01 PM) Avi still has a chance to be a really good player. This is his first complete season of ML ball. He'll get better next year (I hope). He already looks better than he did 4-5 months ago; power is increasing, too. Of course, I don't have any stats to back this up, just my perception. He started the season very well, then had a major power outage from the end of May until mid August, if I remember correctly. I think he'll improve slightly next year- just gain some consistency.

Sorry, but I think it may be a scam. For the reasons other posters listed above

You can't just make someone a third baseman lol

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 10, 2015 -> 10:12 AM) I miss baseball every winter. Even in seasons where we have good hockey and/or basketball, baseball is still always king. That's the point I'm trying to make. I'm trying to generate interest in our current games, because they'll be gone soon.

QUOTE (Lillian @ Sep 10, 2015 -> 09:27 AM) If the front office is not willing to accept that they made a serious mistake in acquiring LaRoche, and recognize his salary as a sunken cost, they can forget about fixing this team, for next season. They are not going to compete with him in the middle of their lineup. That has been apparent since very early in the season, and is now irrefutable. I don't care what they do with him, they have to be willing to move on. I was referring to what the Rockies would do with LaRoche in a hypothetical trade. However, I agree with your analysis.

Don't Believe The Trayce Thompson Hype

The person sitting to my right at the moment is wearing a Jeff Samardzija Sox jersey. Why... just why.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 11:31 PM) I'll go in more detail later but I would love to see the Sox take a chance on Kyle Kendrick of the Rockies. I've always thought of him as a right-handed John Danks, in terms of his career numbers.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 02:39 PM) Agreed, part of me just wants to get into the offseason with the main starting pitchers healthy. I see your point (not just yours, but everyone who is respectfully disagreeing with me), but I find it unlikely that you guys won't miss baseball this winter.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 10:13 AM) Coming off a nice win which improved my 2015 game thread record to something like 2-9, the Sox look to score 5+ runs in order to have the slightest chance of winning with Samardzija on the mound. Well I was close.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 08:36 PM) Melky has sucked. If we're going by BA as the metric than Garcia is a whopping 2 points lower. They both have sucked. Right there is fugging 4-6 WAR that the team really f***ing needed and did not get. Instead they got negative WAR. Hard to figure how hard some of these guys suck. Yeah, but Garcia has been terrible all around. We didn't think he'd be the worst defensive outfielder in baseball, or whatever he is. Whereas we knew Melky would be poor defensively. I guess it has to do with expectations. QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 08:37 PM) Melky is 144 out of 153 in fWAR. Avi 145th. Melky has a worse offensive rating than Avi as well. I stand by my statement that they both suck. I refer you to my above comment about expectations and what we knew about their defense. They do both suck, but I guess my argument is that Melky sucks less. It may be a personal thing, though, as perhaps some of you expected Melky to come in as an average or good defender.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 08:33 PM) They both have massively sucked this year Garcia has massively sucked this year. But with Melky, we knew what we were getting defensively. Offensively, has he underperformed? Yes. But has he massively sucked? No. He has been excellent with RISP and his .271 batting average is at least respectable.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 08:29 PM) ERA approaching 5. At this point I'm rooting for him to sit on the bench the rest of the year. Let Johnson get his innings. Hell, give them to Frankie. Just bench this guy. Agreed. Why start him? RV said they're gonna try and get Montas some starts. I don't think we'd have a 7-man rotation, obviously, so someone's sitting, and I think it should be Samardzija.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 08:28 PM) Melky was an awful signing. His career numbers were nothing special anyway and a decline is no surprise. What I don't understand is why Ventura coddles him and DHs Garcia, the younger player who needs the work. Ventura probably thinks Melky is the better player. Melky is better than Garcia...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 08:27 PM) I've just been on the kick all year of saying "that huge drop in K rate from last year is really going to hurt him eventually" and then August hit. That's one of the several big parts of why he's so bad this year, so an improvement in K rate, to me, would mean you'd expect him to pitch better. But anyway. Well, I wouldn't say his bad pitching this year is entirely due to strikeouts. I think it's mostly his command. Anyway, it wouldn't be a drastic spike in his K/9. It would still be subpar by his (former) standards.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 08:12 PM) You've predicted that when he picks up his QO that he'll improve his K-rate. That's surprisingly positive out of those numbers. Well, from 7 to 7.75 K/9. Just means he'd strike out more batters but still have an almost identical ERA.

Samardzija next year if he signs with us: 8-12, 5.00 ERA, 4.25 FIP, 195 IP, 168 K If he signs elsewhere: 16-7, 3.34 ERA, 3.05 FIP, 214 IP, 200 K

Dan Hayes ‏@CSNHayes 9s9 seconds ago Extremely limited sample size but so far Trayce Thompson is 7-for-13 against right-handed pitchers.