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Did peavy44 confirm anything yet?

I’m the guy who’s trollishly dubious of Robert ever amounting to anything, and I still feel perfectly non-ironic in calling this the dumbest post I’ve ever seen.

Dreaming of the day Kopech and Cease are both in the rotation...rain or shine

At Hahn taking $9 million dollars of bad money off their payroll.

That guy doesn't know shit.

Nice how our pen kept us not in the game.

The Sox have used 4 pitchers in this game: Nova: 5.92 ERA Osich: 5.33 ERA Fulmer: 6.14 ERA Ruiz: 6.86 ERA

Dude just stop man... Seriously

Pathetic inning for the Knights

2-0 count and takes fastball right down the plate. His patient approach will never work at this level given his awful bat speed.

David Ross

Definitely worth the #4 pick IMO.

I just want to point out that Jose’s total WAR over 5.5 seasons is now 19.5. Paul Konerko doesn’t have any 6 consecutive seasons where his WAR surpasses Jose’s current total. Also, the Red Sox only had 5 players above 2 WAR offensively during their 2018. I don’t know where this myth comes from that we need to have 3+ WAR players at every single position. It’s perfectly fine if Jose Abreu costs 9-10 million and delivers 2 WAR at DH. He doesn’t have to be the best player on this team anymore.

Not being obtuse, nice word by the way. Just pointing out that be went out of to criticize a player that struggled who was a recent acquisition but didn't praise the player who played well who was also a recent acquisition. Whose to say that next year when they will be trying to win that Herrera wint be better. Bullpen pieces are fickle. Dont penalize him for next year when it hasn't happened yet. Anxiety is living in the future. Depression is living in the past Peace is found by living in the present. Lao Tsu

Men have PMS too. Perpetually Mad Syndrome.

Exactly. Hahn freed up $9 million for the Indians and got a nice .576 OPS DH out of it, good for a -1 WAR. He basically paid $9 million to make the team worse.

He's still tracking down his facebook source

This makes me feel joy.

Big crowd or not, I'm very excited about an MLB Cease day!!!

Cease is more than ready. I've been saying it for 2 weeks. I'm with you, @WBWSF. Let him come up and take his bumps. If he loses his confidence and never recovers, then he's mentally weak and he was never going to make it as a big contributor anyhow. Let's get to work!

Covey will be back soon. Or maybe TJS.

Hansen 1 IP, 0 H, 0 BB, 2 SO..

When the White Sox brought up Chris Sale, he was in the bullpen for awhile before he was in the starting rotation. If Cease is brought up and they put him in the bullpen to get his feet wet up here, so be it.

Robert single. Now 2-4, 2B, R, SB EDIT: make that 2 SB.

Yesterday Jim Margalus answered a question of mine about this entire farce situation, here is what he said: "In this case, I think Alonso is more the case of coming up short on an NBA-style recruitment strategy over pro scouting issues. I don't think they'd have had any interest in Alonso without Machado ties." "That said, they painted themselves into a corner by having to pretend it was for baseball reasons, because it looks no different from so many moves made with earnest intent to solve roster issues that flopped hard."

I hate getting spanked by the Twins. Plus they have a front office that knows what they are doing. They score a shit ton of runs and have a good farm system they can use to supplement themselves by calling up prospects and/or use them as trade bait. Sorry but I rarely get to sit down and watch a whole game and when it's an ass kicking like 4 out of 5 of the Twins games have been it's disheartening. The good news is that I can't watch tomorrow so Giolito should be lights out.

If true, it's past time.

Clinton Cole is also saying on Twitter that Cease will make his debut next week.

Robert double

The simple fact is that most days the White Sox provide no competition against the Twins. Another lopsided score. Another game with double digits in strike outs. What is really amazing is the Sox are as close to .500 as they are because there are times they don't even look like a major league team.

1000% agree

I don’t think Fulmer is gonna make it, guys.

Collins needs to play more than once every 6 days to actually get a rhythm.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Major_League_Baseball_draft Look at this list of names. Includes former Sox greats Jacob Turner and Matt Purke

21 front offices passed on Trout. Relax

Dude you ain't kidding

People hate everything here. We would have had dozens of Mike Trout is a bust threads if he was on the Sox.

Hate on jay all you want but he's a decent player. People just hate him cause of the machado thing

I think Adam Engel and Ryan Cordell are the same person. Prove me wrong. You can‘t.

Same crap he did in the minors, to be honest

That sound you hear is Cleveland FO laughing their ass off.

I don’t think that to be a possibility. Without James aiding in our suckitude - I don’t believe we rebuild

I think it’s a stretch to say Hamilton will automatically be in the pen next year. He may compete for a spot, but he never got fully right from the car accident and now he has this face injury that only adds further complexion. A ton of things have gone right at the major league level this year, but none of RH relief prospects have really stepped up and established themselves which kind of forces us to add some veteran help if we’re serious about competing next year.

Got to put it in this thread NO YONDER NO CRY

Right on. It's easy to see why he's polarizing. At some point, the production has to match the talent. I wouldn't be surprised if he finishes this year over .300, starts next year at AAA, tears it up and is knocking on the door by '21. I still think his floor is 4th OF. He just looks like a kid that's going to make it to me.

Every contract carries with it the risk of a player getting injured, or having diminished productivity. It's the challenge of the front office to assess the likelihood of any player's future level of performance. McCann was considered a pretty good prospect, out of college, and has made some significant adjustments to his hitting approach, this season. Some of us wanted to extend him earlier. Every month that he continues to excel, establishes his bonafides. Now he has been selected to the All Star team. It would probably cost more to extend him now, than it would have just a month ago. In the final analysis, perhaps the Sox just need to determine if they think they would like to have him continue as a key member of their future core. If so, then they should be trying to extend him beyond next year. I'm sure that Hahn would point to his unsustainable BABIP, as part of his negotiating tactics. If the front office deems the cost too high, they may not be able to sign him. I personally don't think that it's too early to try. For my part, it's his catching ability and leadership qualities, that intrigue me the most. He doesn't have to be the team's highest average hitter to be a solid part of the anticipated contending roster. If he can hit around .280, with a .350 OBP and respectable power, that would be enough to plug the hole, at one the most important key positions. Again, as a fan, I consider him a "keeper" and I'd love to have him be the primary catcher to handle the Sox young pitching staff. When Kopech, Cease, Giolito, Lopez and whomever else they add to the rotation, are on the mound, McCann is the guy I want to be calling the pitches. Collins may develop into a good catcher, and having McCann as his mentor, probably increases the prospect of that happening. However, I would be very surprised if Zack will be able to provide what James does, any time soon. And remember, that window of contention should be opening soon, in fact just about the same time that McCann will become a free agent.

I know, and it's not wrong to do this. In this case it seems like a waste. Best hitter in college in a long time. 21 years old. He should be asked to do more than 19 year old Bryce Bush.

Please take the Cubs talk to a Cubs board. K, thx.

Dirty: I'll make it even easier for you: Roll call: Fulmer-bust Hansen- mental bust Burdi - bust Burger - bust (because the guy can't stay healthy) That's a great track record by the "brilliant" Sox drafting / scouting people. Sorry when guys keep getting hammered or can't stay healthy that's BUST in my book until they prove otherwise, if they ever do. Burger has already lost 18 goddamn months of developmental time and there were some questions about his athletic ability even before he got hurt. Hey I hope the guy completely turns it around, makes it to the show and blasts 35 home runs a season. But I'm not holding my breath and neither should you. Carry on soldier. ?

PNoles is the worst account on twitter, including the fake spam accounts and lunatic political people. At least those accounts don't constantly tweet about losing Kevin Smith.