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Let's flip this around a bit. How about a trade involving Peavy and Middlebrooks as the centerpieces?

He's finally living up to the $48 million the Sox have paid him!

May as well put Viciedo at 3rd

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 19, 2012 -> 08:11 PM) Is there a meltdown on here tonight? We losing to the s***ty Cubs again? Amazing. Who is the goat tonight so far? The batters

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 19, 2012 -> 12:52 PM) would you stop it already. its not nearly as insane as your defense of him. He sucks. who cares if he has options, skipped triple A, whatever. His stuff is meat. criminally insane my ass Let's just execute him then.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 19, 2012 -> 12:18 PM) The Jays obviously thought enough of him to give him a handful of starts last season when they were still in the division race. That said, he's mysteriously lost 3-4 MPH on his fastball. And Molina's lost the ability to strike out opposing hitters or record a sub 4.5 ERA in a pitcher's haven. Go away, Marco Paddy! It's not just the Jays. Stewart was rated the #1 prospect in the BlueJays system by Baseball America in 2010.

I looked at his innings pitched: 2006- 5.1 2008- 55.0 2009- 50.1 2010- 38.2 2011- 102.0 2012- 84.0 (48.2 in AA, 35.1 in MLB) I can sort of see why he's getting the kid's gloves treatment. Also, pretty good story in the Trib on everybody's favorite lefty.

And to think Stewart was once the BlueJay's #1 prospect

I think if anything should be questioned it's why does Quintana get the kids glove treatment? If the closer can't close, that's a roster issue not a tactical problem.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 17, 2012 -> 05:29 PM) Why change what is working beautifully? What if Reed comes in and doesn't have s*** today? What if Q blew it in the ninth? Questions we'll never have answers for.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 17, 2012 -> 05:26 PM) Yeah, Q looked like he was done...hanging his ams over the railing. I don't like it. I also hate when the closer is called upon to his role.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 10:28 AM) Going into yesterday, I said 13-9 to the break. Now it's 13-8. @LA 1-1 Chi 2-1 Mil 2-1 @Min 2-1 @NY 2-2 Tex 2-1 Tor 2-1 That's very doable for a "good" team. So do it. They can't afford to make a bad stretch a longer bad stretch. I feel like other than the winning streak we've been in a long bad stretch.

QUOTE (59th street @ Jun 12, 2012 -> 10:12 PM) Agree! Sox are better than the team(s) we are competing with. 1st place is there for the Sox to take and maintain for the season, barring injuries. Very fun season with lot's of great player development; let's enjoy it. I think it will come down to whether the Tigers put together a great half season or not. I think their rotation, defense, and bullpen is bad enough to hold them back, however.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jun 12, 2012 -> 08:36 PM) I think he has the rare ability to be a .300, 30 & 100 RBI guy. Every year or just one year? I think he can put together a season, maybe two like that but I don't think he'll consistently put up those types of seasons without a lot more plate discipline.

Sorry if already posted, but from Phil Rogers' MLB power rankings today:

Seems like Humber's status as a starter is in question. From the Trib article on yesterday's game:

Let's put it this way, Youkalis has been scuffling by his standards this year: .245/.322/.402/.724 with an OPS+ of 95. But contrast that to the production we're getting at 3B: Morel: .177/.225/.195/.420, OPS+: 16 Hudson: .184/.295/.289/.585, OPS+: 60 Escobar: .178/.275/.244/.519, OPS+: 43 Even a scuffling Youkalis is an enormous upgrade. And if Youkalis can get healthy enough to replicate his worst, non-rookie season (2006), you'd get .279/.381/.429/.810, OPS+: 106. You're talking about shoring up our only real hole with a guy who in bad years is an all star bat and in good years is a fringe MVP candidate. If the rotation stays healthy, adding Youkalis makes this team a real WS contender.

SWEEP THE LEG

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ May 16, 2012 -> 01:12 PM) With that in mind, is anyone on this site qualified to criticize, well, anything? The line of reasoning that it takes experience to comment on experience invalidates virtually all conversation here. I have no experience hitting a baseball at a major league level. I have no experience fielding a ball at the major league level. I have no experience broadcasting on a major cable network. I have no experience umpiring a game. Ventura has no experience managing and had made some seemingly big errors thus far that might be due to a lack of experience. It would seem appropriate to discuss that. Using Ohman against righties, at all, when others seemed available seems to be a glaring one. Does it seem that way to you, or not? Perhaps now we could get to the actual discussion? I think it's pretty fair to criticize roster construction. Going into a season with 2 great relievers (Crain, Thornton), 4 unknowns (Stewart, Reed, Santiago, Jones) and Will Ohman is a pretty awful bullpen plan if you expect your team to contend. When it comes to in game decision making though, it's all hypotheticals on top of hypotheticals. If somebody else had been brought in instead of Ohman, maybe we would have won yesterday. Maybe not. Maybe bringing in a tired releiver would have led to an injury. Maybe doing it your way would have won yesterday, but lost two other games we won doing it Cooper/Guillen/Ventura's way. The likeliest case (in my view) is doing it your way just means that Ohman has to go out and pitch against righties (which a MLB reliever HAS to do at some point during a 162 game season) and lose some other winnable game down the line.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 16, 2012 -> 09:44 AM) I do suppose you can make an argument that if you put him in a game, he's being misused. But the fact is no other manager in his career has him facing a larger percentage of LH hitters than Ventura. So basically the issue is simply that Ohman is a s***ty relief pitcher. Seems like Ventura is running into similar problems that Guillen ran into: a half full bullpen and two or three holes in the lineup. Tough for anyone to manage around that.

QUOTE (sin city sox fan @ May 10, 2012 -> 12:02 AM) Come on Kenny! Give us something positive and secure JFP to a long term deal now. Offer 8 years / $220 million and be prepared to go up to 10 years / $285 million. The Jakemeister is back and we can't have his time in a White Sox uniform dominated by the struggles of previous seasons. He has to go into the Hall in 2027 wearing a White Sox hat!

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 24, 2012 -> 10:29 PM) So, what is the longest consecutive scoreless inning streak by a pitching staff? This will be my jinx question of the gamethread. 56- Pittsburgh (06-01-1903 to 06-09-1903) AL record is 54 for Baltimore

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 24, 2012 -> 09:32 AM) Historically, no you aren't going to find a better one since the black sox. But is Ozzie the best manager today? That is what matters in 2012. Very true. Sometime in 2009 it became impossible for Guillen to operate as manager. Likely that was his falling out with Williams and the Peavy and Rios (and much later Dunn) aquisitions. Hoping for the best with Robin. Seems like he's doing a good job so far. Maybe not the manager we deserve, but the manager we need.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Apr 24, 2012 -> 06:57 AM) just effing stop, greg. we know how you feel about ozzie and this is not the place to discuss it again. he's no longer here. get the f*** over it. Name a better White Sox manager. The only candidates after World War II (hilariously, apparently the White Sox had a manager named "Pants") with tenures to compete with Guillen would be LaRussa Lamont Jerry Manual Al Lopez So yeah, Guillen is definitely one of the best White Sox managers. If you consider the World Series and subsequent 2008 division win I think you can make a good argument that he's the best in history. At the least, he's the most accomplished.

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Apr 9, 2012 -> 10:30 PM) Santos - 2 blown saves in 2 chances You better watch out for the Alex Anthopoulos mafia... Nobody better mention Colby Rasmus, either!