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QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jul 6, 2015 -> 07:33 PM) Davidson now has 42 walks this season. That is pretty impressive. Equally as unimpressive is his 112 Ks in 83 games. Contact issues are usually exacerbated in the Major Leagues, so I am pretty much resigned to Davidson never reaching the potential the Sox saw in him when they traded for him.

QUOTE (Ozzie Ball @ Jul 3, 2015 -> 03:10 AM) Yosmer Solorzano- 6 IP, 7 H, 2 R, 0 BB, 4 SO, 12 GO/0 FO First three pro starts: 17 IP, 2 BB, 11 SO, 33 GO/4 FO. And he just turned 18 in February. Interesting. Love that number. What kind of stuff does he have?

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Jul 2, 2015 -> 09:21 AM) That's not entirely a bad thing, it's possibly that the Sox have deal(s) in place with the top 2016 guys. I like the optimism, but that's not really the Sox's MO. I would be very surprised to see them all-in on the top guys.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Jul 2, 2015 -> 09:14 AM) Alvarez signed with the Dodgers for $16M If that sets the market for Martinez, you can pretty much count the Sox out.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Jul 2, 2015 -> 08:39 AM) Everyone should follow Jesse Sanchez on twitter to monitor the chaos. @JesseSanchezMlb Bed Badler as well. While it is a fun day, we all need to remember teams are signing the equivalent of high school juniors and a ton will change over the next six years when these guys start making the majors. I know MLB and BA have not been doing the international rankings all that long, but it would be interesting to see how well (or poorly) correlated the rankings are to future success.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Jun 29, 2015 -> 06:57 AM) Sox have two starters rapidly approaching Mendoza Line: Alexi and Gordo. Wonder who gets there first? Our second baseman is already there. Our catcher isn't far behind.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Jun 28, 2015 -> 11:02 AM) That's a ridiculous and stupid thing to say IMO. Screw what the rankings say, it only matters how the Sox view and evaluate a player. Reyes might be ranked #31 but he's signing for $1.5M so there had to be some serious interest from other teams, guys ranked that low by publications don't get typically get bonuses over a million dollars. Reyes might be #31 on the list but none of us know how the Sox or other teams ranked him on their big boards. Its also worth pointing out that you dont know who else the Sox are going to sign, they like to spread their money around. Look in 2013 when they signed Micker for $1.6M and signed (I believe) 3 or 4 more players to bounuses over 300K. Last year's class is a prime example of that too. I wouldn't compare amateur scouting in Latin America to the draft, July 2nd is basically a pissing contest between scouts as they try to out-scout one another. Look around MLB and check out all the quality, contributing Latin players (with the exceptions of the Cuban players) and tell me how many were signed to large bonuses, not very many. Overspending on July 2nd can really set an organization back, as you cant sign a player for over 300K for one or two years, KW said that when he hired Marco Paddy, he wanted to establish a pipeline that would constantly pump talent into the system, you cant really pump talent into the system when you can't sign any of the 'top guys'. I'm going to stop before my pacemaker zaps me. (Mic drop) Do you have confidence in the White Sox evaluating players? I don't. I haven't see anything from this organization over the last decade to believe they are good talent evaluators. Now, a lot of the Latin American evaluation was stunted because of the Wilder Scandal. But I won't give this organization the benefit of the doubt until I see talent emerged from Latin America.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 27, 2015 -> 02:53 PM) Antti Raanta traded to the Rangers for F Ryan Haggerty. I liked Raanta but it was obvious Darling had supplanted him. I wonder who takes the #3 goalie spot now, because you never survive a full season with only 2 goalies. This pretty much guarantees Crawford will not be traded. The chances of him being traded were slim to begin with, but this shuts that door completely IMO. But ya, no real obvious #3 goalie candidate.

Micah for Carlos Kottaras for Flowers Johnson for Danks.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jun 19, 2015 -> 07:27 AM) Feel like I've been watching the same thing for about ten years now. And I use the term "watching" very loosely. THIS. We have been a horribly run franchise for awhile now and have most Sox fans don't even care anymore. We are turning into the pre-Rocky Wirtz Blackhawks: an irrelevant franchise.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jun 17, 2015 -> 05:07 PM) If I were to guess, teams have been calling on Shark, Alexei, Duke, Putnam, Petricka, and Robertson. I honestly cannot think of one reason why any team would be calling about him right now. He is absolutely terrible in all facets of the game.

The Sox aggregate position-player WAR is now -3.0, which would be the second worst in MLB since 1980. PLEASE DO SOMETHING. This "we are all in this together" crap needs to change. Continuing with the status quo obviously will not reverse this trend. At least hold someone accountable.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 16, 2015 -> 09:14 PM) Unless KW is fired nothing will change even with RV gone. KW is head of the snake that needs to be cut off. Agree wholeheartedly. I think Hahn can be a great GM, but I do not know if we will ever know because he doesn't have all the power. We all know KW still imposes his will and ideas into this organization. Sadly, this feels like a Blackhawks situation where this team will never be back on track until ownership changes. KW has been a terrible GM overall. Buddy Bell is a terrible president of player development. And so on and so forth.

QUOTE (oneofthemikes @ Jun 17, 2015 -> 07:38 AM) What does it say about the organization as a whole when there aren't any players that are even close to breaking into the 2nd worst offense in the league? From a hitting standpoint, the organization basically needs rebuilt from the top down. Anyone that currently has anything to do with hitting instruction should most likely be replaced. I'm sure this sounds pretty "sky is falling" of me, but this is a big problem. It is a sad state of affairs when you have to go back nearly a decade to find a hitter that was groomed by this organization that made it to the majors, stayed in the majors, and made an impact while he was with the team. It's not. We haven't developed a single hitter of any substance in forever. It's embarrassing and it's the reason this organization will fail to contend for at least the next few years.

I really hope the Hawks can get rid of Sharp and Bickell. I am not sure how easy that will be without giving up a draft pick.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jun 15, 2015 -> 10:52 PM) It's amazing the similarities between the Hawks and the dynasty Wings teams. Stevie Y and Lindstrom and Toews and Keith. Toews was the 3rd pick in the Draft, Yzerman was the 4th. Keith was the 54th pick in the Draft, Lidstrom was the 53rd. That's pretty neat, too.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 15, 2015 -> 06:40 PM) Hopefully now that he's healthy again, we start to see more extra base hits by Anderson. His slugging pct. is way down from last year. He has taken a sizeable step back this year. It's really a shame. With the shaky defense, his offense was going to carry him, but a .700 OPS season is just brutal from a guy considered an easy top-100 prospect.

The only positive position players we have WAR-wise are: Jose Abreu 0.7 Adam LaRoche 0.6 Avisail Garcia 0.5 Gordon Beckham 0.2 Geovany Soto 0.2

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 9, 2015 -> 07:47 PM) Who's that? You could tell me it's one of four guys and I would believe it That's the aggregate number. Individually: Emilio Bonifacio -0.2 Adam Eaton -0.3 Tyler Flowers -0.3 Micah Johnson -0.3 Carlos Sanchez -0.4 J.B. Shuck -0.4 Conor Gillaspie -0.4 Alexei Ramirez -0.6 Melky Cabrera -1.0

The Sox have a -1.6 position player WAR this year. They really are trying to go for some sort of position-player ineptitude.

Embarrassing. The no runs with bases loaded nobody out. The terrible offense. The complete lack of any worthy replacements in the minors.

After getting Fulmer and not having another pick until the fourth round, I think the Sox have to make a big run at this guy. We save a good chunk of money on the Draft this year from the lack of high picks and are completely bereft of minor league offensive talent. I am not sure there is one guy in the minors that you can comfortably say will be a major leaguer. Martinez would not solve that massive issue, but he would be the only high-end offensive talent in the system that desperately needs one.

Whenever I hear a White Sox front office person comment on a prospect, I barf and take it with a grain of salt.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Jun 8, 2015 -> 07:53 PM) Is it a 99.9999 % chance that he will sign? Seeing how all the top pitchers this year pretty much lost money due to various injuries, he is going sign so long as the Sox offer slot, IMO. Too big a risk to go back to Vandy and have another heavy workload.

He's already pitched A LOT this year. I hope the Sox just give him a couple of token five-inning starts in Winston-Salem sometime this year.