fathom

Sox love Severino, was in an article about a scout who watched him and the other Nats guys we got I believe

https://mobile.twitter.com/Isaiah_Thomas/st...849682656796673

Fake account above

Hahn confirmed on Garfien podcast they were close during offseason to a trade on par with Sale/Eaton

QUOTE (flavum @ Feb 17, 2017 -> 07:50 PM) Sox will probably have a dozen different starters this year either way. Holmberg!

Good news assuming it's not fake news https://mobile.twitter.com/scotgregor/statu...675987896668164

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Feb 17, 2017 -> 08:41 PM) And you've made this judgement based on about 30 games(if that). Dude has barely played the position in his life and there's some people who are just so convinced that he'll never be able to do it, it's crazy to me. I think he will be playable out there. Obviously he sucked in the playoffs, but he was so new out there.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Feb 17, 2017 -> 08:38 PM) Why? Fulmer and Lopez should be getting every opportunity to fully start until they prove they can't You're just overreacting for the hell of it now. He's the guy you want to be the ace of the staff come 2019, but if he misses this season, you're going into that year with an "ace" that has never topped 165 innings. Also makes you wonder if his insane slider is something that could be rough on his elbow. This is all a worst case scenario.

Rodon being seriously hurt would be devastating for the rebuild

QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ Feb 17, 2017 -> 08:01 PM) What did it say? I can't access Twitter right now? Gregor saying rodon is not throwing during PFP. I did see another beat writer say Rodon did throw some today but haven't seen confirmation or video

This is getting ominous https://mobile.twitter.com/scotgregor/statu...656597121773568

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Feb 15, 2017 -> 05:23 PM) Meh, not going to get my knickers in a twist because a blogger said " eye popping deal". Without names that bloggers words mean less than zero. Just another asshat spouting off is all. I believe it was KW telling this to Chuck Garfien

QUOTE (shipps @ Feb 15, 2017 -> 03:03 PM) Wasnt this one a few weeks ago though? He said at the end of the off season which was like two days ago. No he didn't say at end of the offseason

On the Garfien podcast, one of the bloggers said KW told him they had an eye-popping deal fall through at the very end of the process during the offseason

On the Chuck Garfien podcast, the Sox bloggers seemed skeptical about the situation. When you listen to Hahn pause when talking about the health of all the players and then saying everyone that threw was fine, it makes you really hope there's nothing more to this.

Don't see Cards as a match at all. Outside of Reyes, they have no top 50 guys. Also can't see them unloading farm after losing their picks

Awesome payoff to the Festival

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 14, 2017 -> 02:18 AM) There is an entire season of teams trying to get a deal done for Q that shows otherwise. Again, I don't buy the conspiracy AT ALL, but all that does is fuel those that think the clubhouse issues is what caused the trades.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 14, 2017 -> 02:43 AM) He said you would know the direction after the first couple of moves. There actually were a couple of moves before the trades, and he clearly has said time and time again they are closer to the beginning than the end of the rebuild, would like to make 4 more of these trades, and has said other teams ownership has nixed 2 deals. The LaRoche connection conspiracy is crazy. It just worked out that the first 2 were Sale and Eaton, could have been Frazier and Q. Like I said, until he makes another trade, that conspiracy will exist. I'm sure it's not true, but there is no proof it's bogus either right now.

It was the worst kept secret in Chicago that many members of the organization wanted Sale traded after the jersey situation. Until someone else gets traded that wasn't considered a clubhouse issue, it's hard to completely rule out why just Sale and Eaton were traded.

Don't think pirates have the money for Q with Bastardo still on roster

Two different trades died at the ownership approval level (other team's) according to Hahn. Have to guess it was Q and Robertson http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2017/02/whit...p;post-id=85363

The more I think about it, the more I think Hahn is making a big blunder keeping Robertson on the roster this year. If you want to maximize Jones' value, you get him experience as a closer. Hard to imagine a contender that needs a closer giving up valuable prospects for Jones if he has no closing experience.

QUOTE (hi8is @ Feb 10, 2017 -> 09:13 PM) So when Levine said that teams uped their offers, what he really meant was "the offers went from horses*** to poop". Too many absolutes by Levine about Q when he admitted yesterday some of his comments have been based on gut feelings

Northwestern gonna play themselves onto the bubble. Tough schedule rest of the way