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QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 30, 2013 -> 10:13 PM) Agreed, especially coming from someone that knows their system so well More lottery tickets.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 30, 2013 -> 10:07 PM) Bernie Pleskoff ‏@BerniePleskoff 52s It appears that's the entire deal: Peavy to #RedSox, Garcia to #WhiteSox and #Iglesias to #Tigers. Imagine Peavy in #RedSox rotation. Solid. On its face, MAJOR FAIL. 2.5 years of Peavy possiblly for the Red Sox and they only have to give up a mediocre SS who they have no use for because their top prospect plays the same position. Makes you think we took the lesser package in order to get out of paying part of Peavy's salary.

Rios + Cash to Pirates for top prospect. Alexei to Cards for Carlos Martinez. Let's call it a trading deadline.

With Boston being the partner, may not get much else because I am assuming they are willing to absorb all of Peavy's salary.

QUOTE (NCsoxfan @ Jul 28, 2013 -> 03:11 PM) @ChrisCotillo: Source: #WhiteSox have discussed Carlos Martinez, Kolten Wong, and Michael Wacha with the #Cardinals in potential Peavy/Ramirez deals. I have a hard time fathoming the Cardinals are willing to give up three of their top five prospects in any deal. Just not Cardinals' MO. They promote from within and utilize young players' cheap contracts.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jul 28, 2013 -> 12:46 PM) If that is what happen, guys like Micah Johnson, Semien, and Sanchez will have nowhere to play. Although Semien has been playing 3B lately Just add talent, positions will sort themselves out.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 28, 2013 -> 12:39 PM) ...why would we do that? Hahn being a sabermetric guy probably values Semien way more than KW did. I highly doubt the Sox would trade an on-base machine like Semien who can play a premium position well defensively.

It would be nice if Semien and M. Johnson continue to progress. They would be an ideal 1-2 punch at the top of the Sox lineup.

QUOTE (Dunt @ Jul 27, 2013 -> 03:11 PM) Starting to get a bad feeling that nothing of consequence is going to happen here and Hahn has been overplaying his hand. Atleast they are a game away from being the second overall pick. Deadline isn't til Wednesday at 4 ET. That's four days away. No reason to panic.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 15, 2013 -> 06:50 PM) Hawkins with the whiff....now has fanned 14 times his last 18 AB. The fact that this is not improving has to be a concern to the White Sox. Also a strong indictment of the Sox player development, at least offensively. How many raw prospects do we have that strike out at horrible rates?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 1, 2013 -> 05:37 PM) If Ramirez Rios and Peavy are gone with Crain, Thornton, Konerko, there is a good chance the Sox are going to be bad for quite a while unless somehow they do spectacularly well on the return. What is left and what is coming up? Who in the world is going to play SS? I have never been a vpbig Ramirez fan, but he is all the Sox have, and SS aren't easy to find unless they are bad. The Sox would be one Chris Sale elbow blowout from being a 100+ loss team. The Sox are on pace to lose 96 games as is. So what's four more?

So how many players will be moved by weekend's end? Draft is Sunday, and have to imagine the Hawks will be looking to reload with draft picks.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jun 20, 2013 -> 02:23 PM) A: I dunno I was really drunk, I couldnt even operate my security system. I thought he had gone home with some girl and that hed text me in the morning. Its always better to seem suspicious then have physical evidence connecting you to a crime. Even if they can show you bleached your entire house, its still 100% better than them finding blood of a dead guy. DNA evidence like that does not lend itself easily to reasonable doubt. At least, you have a shot with those explanation, albeit pretty unbelievable.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Jun 16, 2013 -> 09:41 AM) He also inherited Chris Sale & Jake Peavy, his only 2 positive moves outside of the low budget Lindstrom signing & picking up Gillaspie for Soptic. Plus he inherited Gavin Floyd, Matt Thornton, Jesse Crain all in the last years of their deals & so far has dealt none of them. He could have sold on other pieces too, like DeAza, what's he done? Nothing. He inherited Rios too, which was a really bad KW move supposedly but if you need some talent you put him on the block. Rios on the block? Doesn't look like it. Hahn is sleeping. What is Hahn supposed to do? It's mid June, teams are still seeing what they have and where they are. KW was notorious for making a deal to make a deal, often giving up far too much when trading for a Major Leaguer or getting back too little when trading a Major Leaguer. Hahn is not like KW. He sees the big picture not the small picture. We are going to trade pieces, there is no doubt. But you also have to make sure you trade at the player's peak value, which probably has not happened yet.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Jun 16, 2013 -> 07:53 AM) Yes. This is Hahn's disaster. Robin & his staff were brought in to work with young players. Where are the good young players? Sox haven't brought enough pieces in here to work with. Not Robin's fault. Robin's game decisions can be horrible but that shouldn't matter so much right now because we need him more to focus on fundamentals (again, vets f***iung up aren't his fault) and handle a losing clubhouse so that even though they're losing the players still put forth an effort. The vets are dragging this thing down. Hahn Hahn Hahn it's all your fault stop being so damn lazy already. This is KW's disaster. Rick inherited a awful baseball team.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 10, 2013 -> 07:19 PM) There are some holes in his stats, but who cares? Like Caulfield says, at age 19 in A ball if you are the best at ONE thing, that is huge. To me what is worrisome is that his approach at the plate may be to swing for the fences. I understand a kid may be raw and hopefully that is why he is only hitting HRs, but I think it could also be a very poor approach at the plate. The power is terrific and all, but unless he cuts down his strikeouts significantly (like huge huge huge), he will never be anything special. Sadly, the minors has been littered with supreme power hitters who can't make consistent contact.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 8, 2013 -> 05:25 PM) We've got 2 months until the deadline and today was among the best starts we've seen from Danks since 08. That's pretty much what I said.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 8, 2013 -> 04:25 PM) 3 years at $14.25 per isn't much at all in this day and age. For a guy coming off major shoulder surgery, it is. Today is nice, but he has to string together a few solid starts and get his stuff back.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 8, 2013 -> 11:33 AM) This post would not exist if a ball was hit 2 inches farther. Conor Gillaspie is not the first person to hit a ball to the fence and have it caught.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 31, 2013 -> 01:09 PM) I hope they never go into a full rebuild, and everyone that wants that probably will hate it. Just for fun I went back to my 2010 Baseball Prospectus and took a look at their top 100 prospects. They listed 101 that year. Strasburg was #1, Mike Trout #52. If you traded your entire organization for those 101 players, while you would have a couple of studs, I don't think you have a playoff team. Considering the state of the Sox farm system, getting rid of productive players for prospects will probably mean at least 6 years of being really bad. But you will gladly take finishing in second or third every year just because it means being competitive for most of the year?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 31, 2013 -> 12:49 PM) I don't buy this for a moment. Despite this sweep, the Cubs are playing IMO about right where they should be, while the White Sox are vastly below where they should be and look like a bunch of unfocused fools who forgot to do fielding practice in the spring. Cubs have a +6 run differential, and the Sox are -29. I think the talent is close and probably can be argued either way.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ May 31, 2013 -> 09:55 AM) My analysis is that we got our butts whipped. Now this team needs to move on and do something about it on the field. I like steve's posts but it still kind of amazes me of the analysis on some of our players. Beckham is bad? The guy is probbaly the best fielding secondbaseman in the league and can handle the bat. It just seems that if our folks don't hit .400 with 75 homers they get no love from our own fans I don't understand this misperception. Beckham is really nothing special. Since 2010, his WARs are: 0.4, 1.0, 0.3 and 0.1 (this year). You can find Gordon Beckham in any farm system basically. His defense is also overrated, primarily because of Hawk's blabbering. Defensively, he is solid but not spectacular. Beckham gets no love because he isn't that good and as a first-round pick, he has basically been a bust.

I actually would take Barney over Beckham. Similar offensively and actually I disagree about Beckham being better defensively. Barney is widely recognized as the best at his position defensively. His 4.7 WAR last year is way better than anything Beckham has done.

Gillaspie certainly isn't a guy that should be hitting in the middle of your order, but he can take a walk, hits line drives and plays good defense at a tough position. Gillaspie has been worth 1 WAR this year, Richar was in the negatives. I think the jury is still clearly out on him, but a 25-year-old 3B giving you a 1.0 WAR through 1/3 of a season do not grow on trees. Plus, he was a high draft pick and produced in the minors. There is definite reason for optimism with him. And this is coming from a pessimist. Personally, I think he could be a nice #2 hitter. He is not a guy that is going to win you a Championship, but he is a guy that won't hurt you especially if you have solid pieces around him. EDIT: I looked at his minor league stats and they were nothing special. So scratch that prior production point.

I am not sure how much he helps. Numbers are going in the wrong direction and will be 33 years old when the 2014 season starts. But I would give him no more than 2 years at $16 million, which would force him to sign elsewhere, with which I am fine.