ChiSoxFanMike

I'm not sure what the holdup is but I want something to happen god dammit.

QUOTE (hi8is @ Dec 9, 2015 -> 08:58 AM) So - trade Avi and Engle for Lawrie and then sign Upton seems to be the big plan? Supplemental moves to follow. A lineup of Eaton Melky Abreu Upton Lawrie LaRoche Navarro Saladino Sanchez doesn't seem that bad and is much improved over the 2015 version. I just don't know if it would make the Sox a playoff caliber team though.

Bruce Levine is an idiot that cannot even type a complete sentence without making a grammatical mistake. I cannot believe that he has a job in baseball if he cannot even formulate a sentence. That is all.

I feel like the Sox should sell high on Engel now. He was a nobody before the AFL, and now he's on the radar. It's time to capitalize on his value.

Avi would struggle to hit 5 homers in Oakland lol. For a big dude, he literally has no pull power whatsoever.

I truly think that Lawrie could be a 20 homer guy on the South Side...that would be amazing.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Dec 9, 2015 -> 08:07 AM) I do. You just don't like what I throw out there. Acquire young talent. Don't trade for rents, career years and mediocre veterans. What the Sox are doing has a 100% failure rate. I have no interest in the average Lawrie, except on the cheap. This team is not competing in 2016, no matter how much fawning Williams and Hahn do at the feet of Billy Beane. No matter how many of our young players we hand over to him. And if the price I heard is correct, it's an outrage. You're the guy that wants to trade Eaton and Melky but keep Avi... That plan seems like it'd have a 100% failure rate as well.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Dec 9, 2015 -> 08:08 AM) Eh..it's his shtick. Whatever. I like coming up with different ideas, crazy ideas and have fun in the offseason. Some people on here take it way too serious. I like the Sox and this is an awesome board. I'm on it because it's the best on the Internet. I like the posters on here too. 100% agree. This place is also why I don't discuss Sox baseball on Twitter anymore. There are way too many nitwits on there. I love this forum.

QUOTE (ewokpelts @ Dec 9, 2015 -> 08:11 AM) Laroche is a born again idiot that said he's not here to play the game,but to spread the gospel. No dickf***, you are getting paid 25 million to hit a f***ing baseball. Once he said that crap, I wanted him gone in a flash. umadbro?

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Dec 9, 2015 -> 08:10 AM) Garcia and Lawrie put up very similar power numbers last year. .257/13/59 for Garcia, .260/16/60 for Lawrie The difference is that Lawrie played half his games at a pitchers park and he also plays a more important position on the field.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Dec 9, 2015 -> 07:59 AM) Which is why they shouldn't get Reddick. Another rent? Lord help us. Yea, yea, they'll extend him, they'll flip him...and they never do either. The clown gming has got to stop. See how the Cubs did it -they actually had a deal worked out for Castro before submitting the bid for Zobrist. Why do you always criticize other people's ideas, yet you never throw anything out there yourself? I don't get it.

I wouldn't mind picking up Josh Reddick either, assuming they can extend him relatively cheaply.

I don't see Danish/May/Beck/Guerrero having any future in the big leagues so I'm fine if they're the ones that will be traded.

I would be so happy if Avi was somehow involved in this.

QUOTE (Real @ Dec 9, 2015 -> 06:06 AM) I hope not I'm not really going to be opposed to the deal unless the Sox give up something substantial. Lawrie will be an upgrade at third base no matter how he plays next year so it's hard for me to be mad at this deal.

Is this official yet?

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Dec 8, 2015 -> 08:35 PM) Holy s*** AZ gave up some serious talent! I did not think Miller could bring that type of a haul. Wow. This is exactly why Q should be placed on the block. The return for him could change the direction of the franchise.

Q for Seager and Barnes. What would y'all say to that?

As much as I hate to say it, Quintana needs to be put on the block now. The return for Miller (who isn't even as good as Q IMO) is amazing.

f***...I wanted Inciarte on the Sox.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Dec 8, 2015 -> 07:15 PM) I don't think they had a backup infielder. Ryan is a solid backup with plus defense. Baez? Alcantara? Coghlan? Am I missing something?

That trade literally makes no sense for the Cubs... Cahill is better than Warren, so Warren is useless, and why would they acquire another infielder if they just traded one away and signed another one? I don't get it.

Cubs got robbed...I love it.

Please please please go to the Cubs!!!

QUOTE (fathom @ Dec 8, 2015 -> 03:11 PM) Not going to freak out if Upton goes elsewhere. Cespedes still makes the most sense due to the lack of pick attached to him. This. If the Sox insist on going after a guy with a QO attached, I hope that it's Heyward.