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Most those players are on the downside of their careers. I agree with Furcal being interesting but lets win it all this year and worry about next after.
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Health for several: Hernandez, Buehrle, Garcia,Thomas, Dye, Everett, and Uribe.
Consistancy from all, especially starting pitching.
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If Frank is ready by June aprox 120 games remain. I would bet closer to 25. If we are in the race, I think he may just go nuts and turn back the clock. Call me an optomist.
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Much has been made of our club record home runs and our power loss for this year. I am wondering if we really might not suffer as much as many expect.
2004 homers lost Lee 31 Valentin 30 Maggs 9 Borchard 9 Harris 2 Olivio 7 Davis 6 total 94
I included Borchard, Harris, and Davis though still on team I expect at bats to drop or vanish(Borchard).
2005 replacements
Pyrzinski as primary catcher I think can handle the 13 of Olivio/Davis
Podsednik and Iguchi (I don't want them swinging for fences) I don't think a combined 15 is unreasonable. That would nearly equal what Maggs, Borchard, and Harris provided.
That leaves 61 from Lee and Valentin. Dye and Everett if both can remain healthy should reach a combined 40-50. These are pretty realistic projection, I think. Net loss is around 15-25. Now I expect some of our regulars may not repeat their numbers of last year but I don't suddenly see us as a Go Go Sox team. We still have pop.
I have intentionally left out Frank. 74 games in 2004 with 18 hr and 434 OBP. I think he can improve on the totals. If he takes a while to get healthy and we only have him for the second half, no team in our division will add as big a presence to the lineup at the trading deadline. When people talk about our power numbers last year they forget Frank and Maggs (our mashers to most general public) only accounted for 27 homers. I don't think 200 -220 is unreachable.
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I have not seen him in action. What allows him to steal so well? Blinding speed, great reads, great acceleration or some combination of the above?
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Willie's problem is not unique. He is only 26 in a sport/profession where he has the potential to make millions if he produces. It is hard to produce from the bench. Our lineup is now pretty well set in the positions he can play. I expect if Iguchi looks okay in spring training, Willie will be moved for prospects or injury coverage. There is a reason most utility guys are older. You need the attitude of being happy to make several hundred thousand and help the team, not I am a star. I liked that he said it would motivate him. If he plays well in the spring it enhances his trade value. I can understand being pissed when told that "we have great plans for you" and then a somewhat (from Willie's standpoint) unproven guy is given millions for your job.
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I had hoped to get him in previous threads as the super utility guy and platoon secondbasman. I agree he doesn't want to retire. I wouldn't be surprised to see him wait through most of spring training or longer to see if a team loses a shortstop. If it was May and we lost Uribe for the year you would probably give someone like him a call.
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If he wins utility job does he bat left or right handed? Could spell Willie vs lefties?
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I became a fan in the 70's. I can't pick one by decade but here goes
70's Bucky Dent and Wilbur Wood hon mention Chet Lemon
80's Fisk, Baines, and Walker
90's McDowell, Thomas, and Ventura
00's Buehrle and Maggs
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I like having options if someone were to get injured and miss significant time. Don't want to HAVE to trade and be forced to overpay.
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Hermanson 2005 2.0 million, 2006 3.0 million, 2007 3.5 million or .5 buyout so two years at 5.5 guaranteed
Schowenweis 2005 2.5 million, 2006 2.75 million. total 5.25
This may be interesting to compare as the year moves forward. I'm a little surprised Schowenweis got that much guaranteed due to his elbow trouble. He is supposed to be a left handed specialist which he would have been unhappy doing here last year.
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24 year old in A ball............Yawn
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Right, he would have to understand that Uribe was the starting ss. I don't know why he intrigues me. If he would come with the player/mentor attitude it could be good. Maybe organizational job post playing but he would probably do that in Cincy.
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QUOTE(Jake @ Jan 9, 2005 -> 08:02 PM)what benefit is there in having a PTBNL in a trade?
They may have him protected on the 40 man roster when the draft occurs(aalows us to protect one more), we may have a pool to select from thus giving us time to reasses etc.
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QUOTE(Chisoxmatt @ Jan 9, 2005 -> 08:07 PM)Thats not a bad idea at all... What were his splits vs. lefties last year? Im to lazy to look them up.
92 at bats .207avg .279obp small enough sample that I bet he has better career numbers.
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QUOTE(Jeckle2000 @ Jan 9, 2005 -> 07:59 PM)It would be funny to have Ozzie calling him kid...
If he's healthy and he can do it and come cheap sure why not...
His splits vs left handed pitching were not great but that was last year. Not sure what his career vs lefties looks like.
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I think Marte and Harris is too much to give up unless they send some young prospects this way.
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I am not sure of many teams that are contenders needing a shortstop. I don't think Larkin could do it everyday anymore. If he is begining to see that his demand has dropped I wonder if he would accept a role including......starting at second vs lefties, spell Uribe once a week, Crede once a week(playing third vs Uribe to third)and some pinch hit opportunities. 4-5 games per week could be great for a vet. Gives us shortstop depth and he can play meaningfully on a contender. Thoughts?
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If it is Marte plus someone for Castillo we add a couple million to the payroll. I would rather keep who we have and use the money on Iguchi, unless Marte has an injury concern or mid winter monitoring shows him out of shape. What about Harris and Grilli/Politte instead?
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Ray was traded because we wouldn't meet his contract demands. Now when we are looking at what he is getting paid we all feel it is too much, so I guess our front office was right to begin with. Just like all my favorite pitchers that we let leave broke down during the long term contracts our front office wouldn't give. At the time I was pissed and said we wouldn't make a commitment to winning. One seriously bad contract like say Magglio at 14 million per could cripple us. Oh well, I guess it is hard to be sentimental when you have to follow a budget.
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Whoever is best at working the count as Pods will need a few pitches to steal. Because of this, the two man needs to be a fastball crusher. Once the base is stolen, bunting or hitting to the right side is needed. Is Uribe pretty much a pull hitter? Rowand is decent at bunting. Willie needs to improve bunting. I think much of the spring will be spent finding out who fits where.
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I like the one year offer. AJ has some questions in the clubhouse, I bet we could get him by meeting halfway. One year two million with a second year at three to three and a half million, but a 500k buyout. This way if we don't like him he is guaranteed 2.5 million and if we do we get a bit of a bargain on the first year. We could structure the second year so as to give him a million "bonus" or exercise the buyout and reduce the salary for year two by the ammount of "bonus".
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I'm sorry, people don't seem to get it. My comment really was about adding Vaz added about 10 to 12 million to our payroll. Contreras made sense in terms of dollars not just talent given up. With that addition I couldn't see doing anything else.
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If we try Contreras plus prospects for Vasquez, we pickup substantial payroll and a player who wants to be on the East coast. I would big time prefer Vas over Contreras but I am afraid Konerko may have to be part of the deal to make the dollars work. We also have offers to the 2B man and Pierzinski at a couple million each. I would love to add all three but I don't see management making that commitment. Come on ownership prove me wrong.
What would you add?
in Pale Hose Talk
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After an off season that addressed most holes on the Sox, What would you upgrade? If we are talking about utility infielder do you realize how far we have come from previous springs? I am still not sold on Contreras as anything but a #5 and I hope he proves me wrong. Health may be the only obvious thing holding us back but if we have a healthy spring I think we have as good a shot as anybody in the division.