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That's real close in terms of having control of it in his glove.

Offense in the system has been quiet tonight.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 2, 2014 -> 01:16 AM) If Beckham threw home there would be a man on first one out and the score would be the same. But why back up on the ball when the infield is in?

QUOTE (winninguglyin83 @ Aug 2, 2014 -> 02:14 AM) worst inning for sale this season, not much command. lots of hard-hit balls. And 2 bad defensive plays and a brain fart by Beckham.

WTF Beckham?

Wow, quite the meltdown for Sale. He keeps overthrowing everything tonight, and has no command. All this after what should have been a double play and no runs scored in the inning.

Well, what should have been a double play has led to a big inning for Twins. Sale is overthrowing big time tonight. Gillaspie not showing much range.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Aug 2, 2014 -> 01:04 AM) Come on Alexi get in front of the ball. Costing the Sox a lot of runs

Alexei's defense hasn't been very good of late.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 1, 2014 -> 11:50 PM) I'd be curious to see what details he has here? Teams? Player? Could this be revisited in the off season? Jason Castro comes to mind

QUOTE (Jake @ Aug 1, 2014 -> 09:22 PM) Dayan getting a much-needed day off. He needs to clear his head and perhaps take one last shot at nuking his swing and/or approach at the plate and trying something new. Maybe Sierra continues pushing for more playing time as well. Would have rather that day off come tomorrow instead of against a LHP, especially given how awful ADA has been against LHP this year.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Aug 1, 2014 -> 03:17 PM) I'm disappointed that Hahn didn't pull some magical s*** out of a hat, but I'm not surprised at all. We didn't have anything good to sell except Alexei, and there aren't any contenders that need a SS. If there's something to be disappointed about, it's that all of the guys that could have been good pieces had horrible seasons. But it's not all bad -- we do have good players, after all, it's just that we've done a good job at locking them up contractually so that they AREN'T trade bait. I forget which podcast I was listening to, but the speaker was making an argument that it was a very weak buyer's market by listing the types of guys that were realistically available, team by team. When he got to the White Sox, he said, "You can have any White Sock (sic) you want -- except the good ones." And I think there's a lot of truth in that. This is all that needs to be said. One thing Theo has had great success with the last few years is getting guys on short-term contracts that played great the first half of the year, and then he turned around and traded them for some strong packages. Unfortunately, Paulino/Downs/Belisario have been busts.

1b- Abreu 2b- Semien (for 3 months until M. Johnson is ready) SS- Alexei 3b- Gillaspie Lf- Viciedo Cf-Eaton Rf- A. Garcia C-J. Castro (Montas and T. Thompson) DH-A. Lind (Sanchez and Beck) SP- Sale, Quintana, Danks, J. Hammel, Noesi (until Rodon is ready)

Marlins got Cosart instead of Danks.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 31, 2014 -> 07:58 PM) The Sox aren't winning anything in 2015 anyway. It makes no difference. By the time the Sox have a chance to win the division, Price will be a highly paid free agent in another town. I wouldn't be surprised if they're able to sign Price to an extension, and then let Scherzer go.

Price, Scherzer, Verlander, Sanchez, Porcello One of the better 5 man rotations in a long time

Not good for the White Sox

Seems impossible the Tigers were able to get Price without giving up either Castellanos or Suarez, but seems like they did.

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ Jul 31, 2014 -> 08:49 PM) Marte dealt by Pittsburgh and they get zobrist, wonder what the whole deal is. This stinks though I can't believe they gave up Marte already.

Well, that absolutely sucks that the Tigers got Price. This has been a very bad trade deadline.

Reports that Tigers might lead for Price. I would prefer they don't get him, as they have the money to bring him back (assuming they'd let Max go then).

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 31, 2014 -> 07:19 PM) Rendon plays 2B. Cabrera makes no sense for them unless Zimmerman will be out for a long time. Zimmerman tore his hamstring, he might not be back this year I believe.

QUOTE (Charlie Haeger's Knuckles @ Jul 31, 2014 -> 08:04 PM) Sad state of affairs for the Sox when the team that needed OF help the most traded for Chris Denorfia instead of De Aza or Viciedo. So it looks like the Sox will have 3 non-tenders this off-season. Beckham and Viciedo have been awful this year, so it's no shock they're not in high demand. ADA hasn't been very good either. It's been a very bad year for the Sox in terms of developing assets at the MLB level outside of the core guys.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jul 31, 2014 -> 03:23 AM) Domingo German only pitched three innings for the Marlins A ball affiliate. He only went three innings in his last start as well, but other than that he's been a starter. I am not saying he was pulled because of an imminent trade, but he's either on an innings limit or something curious is going on. Chris Cotillo @ChrisCotillo · 1h Told #Marlins prospect Domingo German has innings limit and is throwing only 3 innings per game for rest of year. Doesn't appear to be trade

QUOTE (flavum @ Jul 31, 2014 -> 03:01 AM) Mitchell is killing it back in AA, but I don't know if it means anything. I'm all for seeing him get a September call-up and hoping for a miracle