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This board has some great baseball minds regarding the Sox that's for sure. You guys that said Bob Horner and Pete Incaviglia are genuises. That's Jake if we are lucky. I love the Horner comparison.

If Eloy gets off to an amazing start ... look out. Sox will dominate talk shows and headlines in April. THAT'S why I wanted to compete this year. If the team blows, the Eloy mania will have to die down. Right now, Cubs are old news. Nothing compelling til the playoffs begin. Everybody likes a phenom and that's Eloy, baby. p.s. If Eloy is Dave Winfield personified times three, that only makes Moncada, Tim, Abreu better. They'll want to excel as well. Let the Eloy era begin. Let's just hope we can SOMEHOW sniff .500.

That is hyperbole. I thought Moustakas was worth signing.

Didn't Escobar make serious money with KCR? He absolutely is no good so I do not know why we want him.

Correct. This is a cut and dried move. Madrigal at second, Tim at SS and now Moncada at third.

That's neat he's with us Opening Day now that he's signed up. Not so sure it's smart to pay guys who have yet to reach the bigs but it's not my money. Hope he's as good a hitter as I think he'll be.

Not to be an alarmist, but this is not a White Sox problem. Pitchers arms on the whole can't handle modern day baseball or any kind of baseball. There's just way too many arm surgeries. I wonder what the percentage is now for pitchers who pitched in college, the minor leagues and/or the major leagues. Do studies show a SIGNIFICANT percentage are having surgery at 23 or 24? Seems like between the last pitch in college and 2nd year in the bigs there's a huge percentage undergoing surgery. If I'm mistaken, so be it. PTATC if you want to write an essay on your theories and what you know in terms of percentages and why, why why this is happening, I'd read it and be grateful and someday buy you a beer or soft drink at a game.

Don't understand the need to sign him this early. Let him have 200 at bats or so.

I would never ignore caulfield. He is one of my idols.

Chitown: I don't think you have to drag bunt it. You have so much time, just completely shift your body and give away the fact you are bunting. There's so much open space you'll still beat out the bunt try. No need to drag it. Just plop it out there. One guy can't cover the whole left side of the diamond when a lefty is batting.

Get ready for some Greg anger: Avi!! Avi!! Avi!! The guy is a hard worker and just hit a bomb. Makes absolutely no sense to give up on Avi when he's blocking nobody. Thanks Mr. Hahn. https://www.tampabay.com/sports/2019/03/11/rays-journal-avisail-garcia-goes-deepest-on-6-homer-day-tommy-pham-scratched-from-lineup/

I am anti tank, ron883, but as you know I love Abreu. Because of my love of certain players, I don't get mad regarding their deficiencies too often. I do despise the opener. It sickens me. But I love Abreu and Avi. I don't mind seeing Avi/Abreu butcher some plays since we are tanking/gonna finish last, etc. I am anti tank but I "accept the tank" is happening. (I need to look up and see how Avi is faring this preseason).

You have interesting posts, Jack, but they are kind of wild IMO.

I got a feeling we're going to be big free agent players (for the non whales) starting this offseason. They better be better than Alonso, Jay, McCann types!!!

Geez. Another one (probably) bites the dust, at least for a while. Ugh.

It makes absolutely no sense except the ol' tanking thing.

Geez, I know people think I care about unimportant things sometimes but geez ... who cares? Our team is going to stink. Let Abreu play first this season. There's absolutely no reason to play Yonder there. Accidents happen. He got hurt. Big deal. He'll be back.

Please baseball, outlaw the shift. The shifting must stop since baseball players for the most part refuse to bunt the ball where there's a lot of open space to combat the shift. Is it against baseball's unwritten rules to bunt to break the shift? Or is it simply not manly? Left handed pull hitters try to pull the ball no matter the fact there are three players on the right side including a second baseman in right field. Sad. All they gotta do is shift their body completely and bunt it to third.

Rock bottom is still coming at some point this season. I disagree with those who think we'll win more games this year than we did last year. The team is noticeably weaker unless Eloy's excellence matters THAT much to this year's W/L record. Let's hope our prospects stay healthy. However I am convinced rock bottom is not here yet. Let's hope our lineup isn't SO bad and our starters SO bad that we go 5-25 in April or something. That would be rock bottom.

I'm still waiting for an apology to Greg for the God remark by somebody. I didn't understand caulfield's response. I don't think he was blasting me.

You know, I don't really understand the Sox letting Avi go when he's still not blocking anybody. The way things turned out they coulda given him his 5-10 million for this year and let him hit cause a.) the front office has money to burn and b.) the replacements blow chunks. Not to beat a dead horse, but John Jay may wind up our worst regular since Erstad (not hyperbole I don't think). I do think Jay will be booed this season and that's sad because i'm sure he's probably a nice guy, etc. But cmon. It's insulting to let that guy have 450 at bats when Avi baby coulda had them. Fans know Avi and give him another year to see if he can repeat 2 years ago. Even if he sucked Sox again had money to burn. Pay Avi, not Jay and Alonso and McCann.

To be candid, I like any criticism on here of the front office cause i'm so sick of bad baseball on the south side. I will eternally be grateful for 05 but this is disgusting stuff going on.

Avi's not getting a lot of love on here, mostly love from greg.

i love the new balta who gets mad at the front office. I agree with this post but I'd never punch anybody. I always think we can compete in this crap division with some EFFORT from the front office.

why offend Greg during lent?