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I'm more worried about Floyd, Buehrle and Jackson than I am Humber. Those are guys we have higher expectations for and none of them are guarantees either.

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Great signing for one of the best bullpen arms in baseball

All In, except Spring Training.

I'm anxious to see how he does.

The community projection group has been setup. 1. http://www.fan-exchange.com 2. Register/Login 3. Click on Communities -> View 4. Click on Add Existing Community 5. ID = 15, Password = Peavy 6. Select White Sox as your team 7. Go add your predictions Predictions -> Stats (on left menu) Let me know if you find any issues.

QUOTE (striker @ Jan 31, 2011 -> 08:17 PM) Where are you? I'm in Richland just outside Kalamazoo. Just had dinner with my neighbor from a few houses down. He's a south sider and Sox fan too. So there's two just on my street. Duh, I just looked at your profile.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jan 31, 2011 -> 07:42 PM) I try to help that number out. Where are you? I'm in Richland just outside Kalamazoo. Just had dinner with my neighbor from a few houses down. He's a south sider and Sox fan too. So there's two just on my street.

I can have it look however you want. Give me a week to update rosters and I'll get back to you.

We should use my site www.fan-exchange.com. I store all of the info in a database and at the end of the year I use data from www.baseball-databank.org to score each individuals accuracy. I also upload zips, Bill James, cairo, chone, etc. so we can compare. Here are 2010 http://www.fan-exchange.com/mlb/predictionsteams.asp I have group competitions so it keeps soxtalk projections together. All I have to do is update rosters and we are good to go.

This would have made sense if we were sending Teahen back in the trade. Then we are only adding $7m to the books and actually saving money in the long run.

Nice write up. I think Rios should be moved to #2 in the lineup or #5, but that's just my opinion. I'd rather have a higher OBP at #3.

Does anyone else think the Sox will still be .500 against the Royals?

Levine reporting $13m http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/news/story?id=5924567

http://mlb.mlb.com/search/media.jsp?query=jesse+crain His highlights are either striking out White Sox batters or getting homers hit off him. Not encouraging.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Dec 10, 2010 -> 04:08 PM) You obviously can't trade Mitchell with his value down and Pierre leaving after 2011. It does leave quite a conundrum...the only pieces would have to be Quentin (but you can't replace his POTENTIAL production very easily, and I'm thinking with his plantar fasciitis healed he could have another great season), Viciedo and Danks/Floyd/Jackson. The Brandon Shorts of the world are nice throw-ins, but they're not primary puzzle pieces to a trade. And CJ Retherford went from the next Aaron Miles to oblivion. Teahen's got to reestablish himself as well. Seems they'll try to hope that Carter and Santos Rodriguez can contribute as well. Maybe someone will have another Boone Logan/Scott Radinsky ST and jump from A ball to the bigs. If you traded Quentin couldn't you replace him with Andruw Jones? Jones had a higher WAR than Quentin in 2010.

Alex, I'll take Derek Lee for $7m.

Viciedo + Teahen for Carlos Beltran + $7m

I hear a lot of talk about KC's farm system. Is it stronger on the offensive side or pitching?

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Nov 17, 2010 -> 10:36 PM) Jason Churchill now going in on this rumor too. Wonders is the Phillies would try and get rid of Ibanez. Maybe Ibanez + Cash for Quentin and someone else. Interesting idea but we'd have to be getting at least $6m from the Phillies to break even with cash and a low end prospect.

I just moved back to the midwest from CO. I've never been to Soxfest. I'm thinking about going and taking my 2.5 year old. Thoughts? Anyone here have kids that young and have gone?

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Chris Davis - Rangers

QUOTE (3E8 @ Oct 27, 2010 -> 04:32 PM) Unless we move one of our higher paid players in a trade, this isn't really the case. The Sox policy is well-known, put into the team what was gained the previous year. We should expect '11 salary to remain similar to '10 ($103M) after a decline in attendance. I'll fill in the '11 roster as of today with salaries SP - Peavy 16 SP - Buehrle 14 SP - Jackson 8.75 SP - Danks 6.5 (arb estimate) SP - Floyd 5 C - empty 1B - empty 2B - Beckham 0.5 SS - Ramirez 1.225 3B - Morel 0.3 LF - Pierre 5 (after cash from LA) CF - Rios 12.5 RF - empty DH - empty BP - Thornton 3 BP - Santos 0.4 BP - Sale 0.3 BP - Linebrink 5.5 BP - empty BP - emtpy BP - empty BN - Castro 1.2 BN - Teahen 4.75 BN - empty BN - empty 2.25 commitment to Viciedo Total = $87M This leaves us less than $20M to fill starting catcher, 1B, DH, RF, three pen spots, and two bench spots. That's an average of $2M/year per remaining roster spot. If you tender a contract to Quentin, who get $5M in his 2nd-year arbitration raise, then you have less than $15M for 8 remaining spots, or less than $2M/year per remaining roster spot. KW is definitely in a tough spot this offseason given how many roster spots we have to fill and our budget constraints. We do not have plenty of money to spend, we have plenty of spots to fill He could back load contracts. Buehrle is coming off the books next year and Peavy the following. That's about 1/3 of our payroll. This is the approach the government would make

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Oct 14, 2010 -> 03:13 PM) This post is spot on. Most of us seem to forget that we were right in the middle of a race with the twins for the AL Central crown and a trip to the playoffs when Jackson was acquired. I for one, felt a lot better with a proven veteran like Jackson going in a big game than I would have felt about an unproven youngster that could have poo pooed on the mound in that big game. Plus Coop has probably forgotten more about pitching than any of us could ever know, and HE wanted Jackson. In Coop I trust. Agreed. People also forget that Kenny wasn't just planning to acquire Jackson, that he intended to flip him and that didn't happen. It is what it is. I'm looking forward to him pitching in 2011.