CaliSoxFanViaSWside

QUOTE (ScottyDo @ May 1, 2014 -> 06:19 PM) Keeping draft picks, using them well, signing international FAs, investing in your scouting/development team, analyzing potentially undervalued assets using advanced metrics and scouting, signing low-risk high-reward guys, signing the occasional and very targeted FA acquisition, and saving your bullets until you can make them count. EDIT: Totally agree, the above is the extremely hard part. But Marty's wish for a blank check is a pipe dream. Only two teams have really made it work, and they're two of the richest teams in baseball. Even LAD has 0 recent championships to boast about. That's all well and good and a sound way to do things ,but the young core, our young core, if it proves to have staying power , we coud've competed this year and next year . There comes a point where you're either very serious about fielding a contender, not just a competitve team, or you're not.They're going to either roll with the big boys in the free agent market or if they continue doing business the way they always have, get very lucky rolling the dice on undervalued int'l. FA's, low risk, high reward guys because the rest of the things take much longer and then you start losing key pieces to the core or you have to trade a key piece to that core. The best thing for the Sox going forward is selling high on Viciedo if he can maintain what he's doing now all year. We are too right handed and maybe the Sox can swing a trade for someone fairly equal to Viciedo who is LH who can also catch the ball. Even someone older . The core won't stay the core very long. The path to more immediate success is trade from the core, the prospects or actually have a $100M contract on the Sox somewhere or perhaps a few Abreu like contracts unless you think you can imitate the Tampa Bays and Oaklands out there , which we shouldn't have to do.

QUOTE (BaconOnAStick @ May 1, 2014 -> 07:51 PM) We really have to kick Cleveland while they're down here and put them on a nine game losing streak. Which will have to coincide with playing better on the road.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ May 1, 2014 -> 03:20 PM) How much does it pay? Words may be cheap but I am not “A right judgement draws us a profit from all things we see.”

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 1, 2014 -> 07:21 AM) For specific guy, absolutely. Some take that as if he is willing to spend money on Tanaka, he has to have a spare $100 million in his pocket to spend now, having no idea if that is true or not. The Tanaka stuff could mean a lot of things. Honestly I think in that case they viewed Tanaka as a money generator that pretty much any other player wouldn't be. He would single handedly open a revenue stream back to Japan, and in this country, which no other player on the market really could have. I think they also viewed the guy as a game changer, much in the line of Abreu's batting ability, and didn't see that in the other pitchers on the market. This is right. For the rebuild Hahn wanted young impact now guys, Eaton, Abreu, A. Garcia, and Davidson. And he gave up the pitching to get bats. So of course he went for Tanaka, who is young and impactful right now. Hahn saw this as a chance at sustained sucess, just not one and done playoff appearances. But Hahn should also know it's very difficult to get a full young talented roster. Every sucessful team has high priced vets wether they come from free agency or the team developed and resigned or extended them. With Tanaka the Sox probably had their fingers crossed that if he and Abreu both were better than advertised they had a shot this year and if not that, surely next year with Eaton, A. Garcia , Viciedo and others with another year under their belts. But now without Tanaka the Sox will be in scramble mode for high end starters and not just young ones. The questions the Sox have to ask now if the young lineup proves to have staying power what do they do to get pitching ? Is it back in "all in" mode ? Do they give up prospects, look internationally, free agency ? The easy part is now over. Hahn gave up the high priced talent and a young starter and young closer with value for young position talent. Now Dunn is the only hold over high priced vet and the Sox might end up with nothing for him except a few million saved. How do you now get the starting pitching you need right now or next year to start this run of competing every year ? Even going after guys is no guarantee you get them. How big is the window , how long do you wait before it becomes " we desperately need another really good starting pitcher" ?

Rienzo settled in nicely. Pitched different this time, more cut fastballs and sliders as opposed to the curve . Only went to the curve late. Sox continuing to hit wel with RISP. Eaton, Semien, De Aza ,Alexei and Abreu all with big hits.

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ Apr 27, 2014 -> 01:43 PM) Get's it and throws it. Throws a lot of ground balls. Pretty good movement on pitches. You'll always have this one Scott.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jan 13, 2014 -> 06:17 PM) .301/ .360 OBP/ .910 OPS 37 HR/ 108 RBI I still like my prediction . Optimistic about when the weather heats up tempered with the length of the season compared to the Cuban league.

QUOTE (Bigsoxhurt35 @ Apr 25, 2014 -> 05:00 PM) @JJStankevitz: Hector Noesi will throw for Don Cooper tomorrow and the Sox will make a decision on him after. Rick Hahn says they like his upside. This article says Noesi will be on the 25 on Saturday and the Sox see 2 specific things of things want to work on with him. http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/white-sox/...sox-on-saturday

Jose Abreu "You're Unbelievable "

Jose, Jose, Jose Jose, .. Jose Jose !!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Sit on the fastball PK.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 25, 2014 -> 08:27 PM) Pito or Jose Daniel I've seen Daniel used a few times but his name is Jose Dariel .

Flowers already with almost as many singles as he had all of last year.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 25, 2014 -> 06:33 PM) I'd like to amend my 27 homer prediction for Abreu. Man, that guy is good. Not sure what I predicted . I think 39.

Good job. His stance is more closed now too. His foot foot was pointed more toward left field last year in the videos and now in the new videos he's square to the pitcher , front foot towards CF.

Thanks for taking the bat out of our most dangerous hitter's hands ump.

QUOTE (johndyce @ Apr 24, 2014 -> 11:22 AM) You guys remember this time last year PK was putting up more MVP numbers? Man it would be nice to have some of that back this year. A fully functional PK and this is a LOADED lineup. What's with the inability to realize PK is a part time player by his own choice ?

Dunn !!!!!!!!

QUOTE (BaconOnAStick @ Apr 23, 2014 -> 02:02 PM) Did anyone read that NYT article on shifts this summer? It was really good. Said the sox weren't shifting as much compared to other teams. I think they picked up on it this year. That shift where Semien plays right up the middle has saved some singles from going through. I think I started a thread on the lack of shifts last year and if anyone thought that was going to change. Maybe it was in spring training .

Sox win good.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 23, 2014 -> 05:21 PM) 6 for last 58 Someone needs to make DeAza an honorary Cuban.

Sox lineup now featuring 3 guys in the .360's batting average.

Sox win quickly overshadowed by 15 day DL stint for Sale.

Oh man say goodbye for any chance at staying .500 or above for a month.