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    Trade Rumors Catch-all

    in Pale Hose Talk

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    Just now, Rowand44 said:

    Once again what’s the end game here?  Like what future does this team have?  The next wave of semi ok prospects we have isn’t going to mesh with this current core anyways.   It’s just all a mess.

    Well at least you still have pieces... don’t give those up for this year which is going no where

     

    Backup Catcher (update 3/29 - Lucroy won't make team, asked for release)

    in Pale Hose Talk

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    40 minutes ago, raBBit said:

    I am not overly opinionated on the back up catcher spot. Didn't say anything about Lucroy being some savior. I think Mercedes is absolutely awful at receiving. I think Collins lacks a lot of athleticism and fluidity back there. I have been arguing for Collins to make the team all spring though - but that's because of his bat.

    As for the bolded/italicized, you have to be kidding. Ever since he was drafted every major publication's top writers have discounted the possibility of him being a capable MLB catcher. I am not sure what has occured since 2019 (when he last caught consistently in games) that leads you to believe he's all of a sudden not a liability at catcher. I would absolutely love to be wrong, but the people who have confidence in his ability to stay behind the plate all have one thing in common - they work for the White Sox.

     

    Man I have posted this on here time and time again... Keith Law said just a couple years ago that he calls a good game and controls the base paths but is a below average receiver. He is definitely not the butcher the board makes him out to be. 

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    I thought We Were Stockpiling Talent In The Minors??? To Avoid This Problem

    in Pale Hose Talk

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    1 minute ago, Soxsi75 said:

    I'm not asking for ALL of it. But are you going to argue that MOST of it hasn't? When one injury like this happens and so the result is we have NO realistic options?

    Most teams when they have an injury to a top player have to go outside their org to get realistic replacements. Not very many teams have major league starters ready to contribute to a playoff team just sitting in the minors. We have Luery and Engel we is pretty decent for back up OFs.

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    I thought We Were Stockpiling Talent In The Minors??? To Avoid This Problem

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    11 minutes ago, Soxsi75 said:

    Oh........disappointments. So we "gave" all we did to NY for Rutherford who's been a "disappoinment." Well, forget anyone saying the Sosa/Bell trade was the worst trade in franchise history. At least we got a proven major league player in that one and could be explained. We "gave" NY 3 pieces to win for total complete garbage. 

    You realize how bad our team was right? Having an accomplished major league hitter did nothing for us. I guess we should’ve kept all our major league players and tried to win but kept losing... they are called prospects for a reason. We gave them a bunch of meh that weren’t doing anything for anything for us and leave soon and we got players who had a chance of being good when we would be good. Don’t be dense about the rebuild...

    More of Manfred's Bullshit

    in Pale Hose Talk

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    I might be the only person who thinks this but don’t believe it is length of the game but dead time that is the problem. It is hard for young people, in my opinion to be interested in players standing around all the time. I get frustrated when there is ssssoooooo much time between pitches and nothing is happening. If this drives me nuts as a baseball fan in my 30s I can’t imagine how teens who are meh about baseball feel about it. I’ve never cared about how long any sports games have been to me it’s about the dead that makes it boring.

    Spring Training thread

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    Ok I am not saying we should be worried. Just that things that make me pause and wonder if we should be paying attention to it. I know people are working on things and I am not worried. But if things continue as they have I might start to worry a little.

    Fans at opening day? Fans at Opening Day! (confirmed)

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    3 minutes ago, The Grinder said:

    I have seen Facebook posts from cub fans stating we been social distancing for years and at 25% capacity since the 70's.

    Their obsession with us and the attendance issues continues 

     

     

    Haha haha “their obsession” I’m from Montana so I have nothing against the Cubs. But this board and our fans in general are just as obsessed. I roll my eyes daily at posts here about the Cubs and the inferiority complex a lot of fans seem to have with them. But sure it’s them that have issues.

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    Spring Training thread

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    8 minutes ago, Quin said:

    Well, we won't be pitching Mike Wright in the regular season.

    While pre-season scores and stats don’t matter there have been some things that have made me nervous. How many innings did we go without scoring a run? And that’s with starters and against a lot of lefties. And it seems a lot of our pitchers seem to be walking a bunch of hitters. Thankfully it is spring training and we have time to figure it out. But there is reason to be concerned.

    Backup Catcher (update 3/29 - Lucroy won't make team, asked for release)

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    Why do people keep saying Collins can’t catch? Everything I have heard from people who know what they are talking about  is he is below average. I get it if people don’t want a below average catcher as the backup but he is not a butcher back there. He can catch. People should really stop claiming he can’t do it. From a couple years ago I think it was Keith Law who said he called a good game and controlled the base runners well and his problems were with receiving. So if they go to an electronic strike zone soon he will be better than average.

    Andrew Vaughn Hype Thread

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    5 minutes ago, South Side Hit Men said:

    Moneyball and the emergence of baseball analytics media coverage shifted fan mindset from wanting their favorite team to acquire the best players and team, to wanting their favorite team to tank, screw over players for as long as possible, and delay the arrival of the best prospects, pretending they are GMs paying homage to the actual GMs.

    The top government propaganda ministers and consumer marketers in the world couldn’t concoct a better scheme to convert customers to DEMAND and PRAISE a lower quality product, at ever higher prices.

    “They give you this, but you pay for that.”

    - Neil Young

    Watching 6 years of a player is better than watching 5. And if that player is good that gives you a better product for a whole extra year. Remember when our team tried to be good every year? Cuz I do and it sucked.  By being bad they actually became good and have given us a better product. I know that doesn’t fit with whatever narrative you are trying to push but this is how you get a better product.

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    TLR publicity train

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    14 minutes ago, manbearpuig said:

    Anyone else see the NSC tweet stating that LaRussa said Robert has to hit his way out of the lower third of the order? I'm guessing that means Eaton in 2-hole *sigh*.

    Most everybody I have seen has projected Robert batting about 7... has nothing to do with who bats 2nd. It should be Yoan but we will see.

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    MLB Pipeline Top 100

    in FutureSox Board

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    37 minutes ago, Squirmin' for Yermin said:

    Our boy Dane Dunning at 91

    So the industry sees a guy come up and is successful in the bigs and decides he has more potential but Sox fans decide he can’t be more than he currently is...

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    Tony LaRussa to plead guilty to lesser charge

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    3 minutes ago, Balta1701 said:

    Well the problem is they were never going to give me the statement that would actually satisfy me, because that's not how it went down. If they put Tony LaRussa out there to apologize publicly, admit what he did wrong, apologize to the police officer, apologize to Kaepernick (For saying he wasn't sincere when LaRussa's "it'll never happen again" was a truly insincere statement), apologize to the people of Arizona, say that he had completed a treatment program, and that he was honored by the chance to redeem himself with the White Sox, take questions, and even show that he knows the names of his future players...I'd consider that a very strong start. 

    But they can't make that statement, because neither laRussa nor the org believes he should apologize or complete a treatment program. 

    This... except I don’t need to hear about knowing the players or the sincerity stuff. I would’ve really tried to move on if this had happened. Instead we get an it’s not ok but we will look past cuz we think he is really good... 

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