LDF

who mention homerun and DR ..... who jinx this team???

QUOTE (southside hitman @ May 10, 2015 -> 05:48 PM) He is definitely a legit prospect because of his defense but I am not convinced he will ever hit enough. The one thing that might save his offense is if he gives up switch hitting, I assume the Sox are holding out hope it improves because of his age. In 2014 he hit .226/.287/.251 as a LHB and .273/.350/.438 as a RHB and thus far in 2015 he has hit .200/.300/.200 as a LHB and .333/.360/.667 as a RHB. Those are some very dramatic splits and I'd be interested to see how his offense would improve as a full time RHB. i agree, i still think he will make the majors, but as a defensive specialist. too bad.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ May 10, 2015 -> 05:08 PM) No way in hell Carroll should be in the rotation. His value comes as a long reliever/spot starter. Rely on him for six or seven innings on a regular basis and he'll get beat up just as badly as Danks & Noesi. you are right. the question will or should be, who will give better results. Hector or Danks.

QUOTE (thxfrthmmrs @ May 10, 2015 -> 04:33 PM) Poor Alvarez. He might need to learn a new position if he wants to move up anytime soon. Rondon/Peter and Anderson/DeMichele are firmly entrenched at higher levels. i wonder if he can hit enuf to be a 3b, ummm i wonder if he can catch??

ok fellas lets keep this going.

going into the the double header yesterday, i / we knew and hope for a better sox season, better than the one we all saw in the beginning of the season. i came to terms that the sox may be nothing better than a 80 win season. that is close to winning 50% of the games from here on. so why the harsh critique and anger of the team? is this a great team, well i am not going to fool you, but this can be a great beginning. baby steps, this should also include patience for the coaches and upper management and this is coming from me, who has the most hardest of opinions on upper management. this yr, so far, we as fans have had, a such a demoralizing test for our like of everything sox in baseball. it is hard to accept anything less than what was expected. for me, i have my interest in the draft and prospects of the sox. who know, maybe this team can still pull something out of the fire. so this is my rant.

5-9 cincy - lost - Ian Happ . batting - cf/ss, #3, 4 ab, 3 run, 3 hit, 2 rbi, 2 bb, 1 k's north fl - won - Donnie DeWees - cf/rf. batting #2, 6 ab, 3 run, 3 hit, 1 rbi, 0 bb, 1 k's lsu - won - Alex Bregman - ss. batting #3, 4 ab, 0 run, 1 hit, 0 rbi, 0 bb, 1 k's Miami - won - David Thompson - 3b, batting #5, 4 ab, 0 run, 0 hit, 1 rbi, 1 bb, 0 k's

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ May 10, 2015 -> 01:00 AM) As always, I'm intrigued by your access to the Sox's financial projections. If your assumptions are solely based on Forbes, apparently we made $32M last year in OP and barely increased the payroll this year. So that right there gives you a decent amount of money to play with. That also assumes there are no new revenue streams for 2016, which is definitely a possibility but something you'd have no knowledge of. We also don't know yet if any internal candidates will be available to fill some of our holes. Sanchez, Davidson, Thompson, hell maybe even Kevan Smith could be pushing for jobs by the end of the season. Way too early to tell at this point, which is exactly why none of us should be jumping to conclusions just yet. Too much baseball left to know exactly what we have in place for next year. and where are you getting this number??

yeah the teams been struggling, but where is the faith. the game hasn't started yet.

QUOTE (bulokis @ May 10, 2015 -> 12:02 AM) I will take a Rondon like player at SS over Alexei anytime now. If Rodon can be close to Iglesias then that will solve one defensive position we need to address. that is your opinion and i respect that. let me throw in this. it appears fans are not happy with just a defensive player. they want that player to be both. so let me ask this question, if you don't mind. is that ok with you, a player who is a defensive specialist?

QUOTE (StRoostifer @ May 10, 2015 -> 12:54 AM) Just checked again, Winston lost 3-2 in the 10th Engel went 0-2 2BB CS Wheeler up for game 2. either way, while i do hope the teams do great, i also look at the prospects and how they are doing.

QUOTE (LDF @ May 9, 2015 -> 11:53 PM) well time to kill 30 mins. i know this been said, who is pitching for the sox in the second game? i just found out. sorry

well time to kill 30 mins. i know this been said, who is pitching for the sox in the second game?

QUOTE (Dam8610 @ May 10, 2015 -> 12:14 AM) Isn't this the guy who is trying to be a switch hitter and has terrible lefty splits? He might develop a legitimate bat if he starts hitting right handed full time. Defense being equal, I'll take a .250-275 right handed SS over a .200-.220 switch hitting SS. nice post, but let me ask you this, do you really see Rondon as a 250-275 as a rightly?

QUOTE (StRoostifer @ May 9, 2015 -> 11:26 PM) Winston tied 2-2 in the 7th. Fry 6ip 5H 2er 5K 0BB thanks for the updates. 2014 draft keeps paying off. Adams had a very good outing and so has Fry. future looks very good, if they continue with their development.

QUOTE (joegraz @ May 9, 2015 -> 11:29 PM) Doesn't bother JR and fellow shareholders. Another year with no rent. no offense, but no rent?? can you explain.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 9, 2015 -> 11:32 PM) What has he done to deserve to keep being a GM with this team? This is a big payroll for an awful team. you bring up a good question, and i am going to stay in the blaming part. is coop to blame as well?? why coop and hahn?

Hahn has single handedly brought excitement to this team thru his draft picks and trades, and yes, thru his fa acquisitions. maybe i am being bias but i don't blame Hahn as much as i blame the others in the FO.

QUOTE (SCCWS @ May 9, 2015 -> 10:30 PM) I see this "message" as a sign to the fans that Robin has been warned. My gut says Robin is here for the season but if improvement doesn't happen, he is gone. Management will then say that we asked RV to be more hands-on, it didn't help so we have no choice but to make a change. this is the dilemma i am having. is this the reason, the sox are not winnin? should the blame be laid on RV? is it the mix of players?? how to jump start this team? i really do wish to know. i guess that will be the 1 million dollar question. i guess to ride this out, and hope for the best.

i can deal with the catcher being a black hole, if his defense it really good. also if the other players are hitting as well.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 9, 2015 -> 09:01 PM) He really doesn't have a large enough number of pitches to keep batters off balance 3 times through the order. 3-4 innings where he only sees the lineup 2x or less he can manage it pretty well. that is a great definition of a long reliever. excellent.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ May 9, 2015 -> 08:59 PM) I don't get why they couldn't pitch both or why they wouldn't only be allowed to pitch this game since this is the make up game. good question, i always thought of who was on the roster at the time the game was postpone.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 9, 2015 -> 09:53 PM) They will continue to force feed Danks/Noesi...........Rodon to pen again wait and see. hope Hector can fix what is wrong, in other words, come back like he did last yr.

i would be extremely happy if he continues to develop to make the majors. another prospect to play in the majors and hopefully can contribute as well.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 7, 2015 -> 11:56 AM) That's the first time I've seen Jonathan spelled "Yonathan." Cool name. this may come out really racial, but to me, this sound and looks like the old european baltic way of doing it. now i see a lot in the jewish was of pronouncing it. a great movie, entebbe with charle bronson. true story the main character is yonni which is short for Yonathan or johning or jonathan.