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QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Mar 8, 2013 -> 08:15 AM) I personally think if Trayce Thompson shows that he's ready this year, then you trade De Aza in the offseason and go with Thompson in CF. All the scouting reports rave about his defense in CF and his bat would more valuable there. Obviously you'd be down another left-handed bat and a leadoff hitter, but you could try to address those needs at other positions. I just think at some point we'll need to make room for some of these young OFs and De Aza is a guy who get you a nice return if he has another solid year. Thompson is nowhere close to ready . Mitchell is the only one who looks like he can be ready but that's if he puts together a solid season at AAA where he improves his average somewhere above .280 which he hasn't even come close to doing for a full season yet. The Sox will be lucky if any of the prospects in the outfield can even come close to being how good De Aza is.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 8, 2013 -> 04:23 AM) He's only important for the 19 games vs. Detroit to face Prince, and those don't start til the second half, so he has time to heal. Veal

De Aza contributing to DR 9-3 win over Venezuela , 2-4 with a double and 2 RBI from the 9 hole.

OTOH SOX pitching looked good. Floyd ,Santiago, Thornton, And Jones all held Team USA regulars scoreless. Sox also substituted minor leaguer's much earlier and Snodgress gave up the last 2 Team USA runs in the 8th inning.

Sox collected 13 hits against Team USA and should have won. Squandered quite a few men on 1st and 3rd and 2nd and 3rd with less then 2 outs possibilities in every way imaginable. There was a pop out , a line out, a K, a GiDP and a FODP. Beckham came through with a 2 out base hit after one of those situations but Viciedo was thrown out at home.

Rienzo didn't look bad against Cuban though he got the lose. Gave up only one hit through 4+ innings but 4 walks and 1 K. He looked kind of mouthy with the home plate ump too.

It seems the bigger point is the Sox pitching is consistently unrated for a hitters ballpark. Article on Quintana's off season http://www.csnchicago.com/blog/white-sox-t...esses-white-sox

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 22, 2013 -> 02:08 PM) I wouldn't say Morel plays more positions any more than I'd say this guy has. Neither one has done so in a number of y ears. You'll see Morel at different positions this spring . 2nd base surely, SS maybe just so u can't auto put Angel Sanchez on the 25 .

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 22, 2013 -> 01:17 PM) If they were just "Hedging their bets" they wouldn't have traded something useful for a guy out of options. He's on the roster and Morel is in AAA until further notice. Hedging their bets because they want competition. Morel is more versatile. Plays more positions but has history of back problems. Keppinger coming off broken leg now has sore shoulder. If neither able to play Sox have at least a AAAA replacement.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 22, 2013 -> 10:30 AM) It also has a lot to do with what they think of Brent Morel if you ask me. It's just hedging their bets is all. You just can't count on a back being stable though Morel feels good now. How he holds up is key.

Morel RBI double, Tekotte RBI triple , Rienzo K's Viciedo and Flowers are pretty much the only details I can find but i haven't searched twitter.

QUOTE (balfanman @ Feb 21, 2013 -> 09:04 AM) No one wants to just hand Morel the 3rd base job; and spring stats, while a factor, don't have as much to do with it as how his back is feeling. Personaly, I'll let Rick Hahn, Robin Ventura, Herm Schneider and the rest of the Sox brain trust decide who plays 3rd base, mainly because they know a lot more than any of us here do. Even though it is a small chance, I hope that Morels back is completely healed and he becomes a solid 3rd baseman, offensively & defensively for years to come. I'm just happy there's an actual baseball discussion going on. This place has been dead. Morel actually sounds delirious when talking about how good he feels right now. I hope it continues and he can show us the real Morel for better or worse.

QUOTE (Special K @ Feb 20, 2013 -> 08:49 PM) Morel is horrible. I think this board has amnesia. It's far from amnesia. Our memories are too good . The power he flashed at the end of the season 2 years ago gave a lot of us hope the Sox might have a diamond in the rough, a real power hitting , good glove 3rd sacker , which is becoming a rarity in baseball. And if I recall correctly those HR's were not just garden variety. The distance they traveled were on average longer than Dunn's HR's.

Just voted about 50 times between periods of the Hawks/Ducks game.

QUOTE (MEANS @ Feb 4, 2013 -> 01:13 PM) Nope I hate them too. Winning Ugly applied to the way the Sox won games and to their uniforms .

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 10, 2013 -> 05:26 PM) I forgot about the Anderson claim. I'd rather have Casey Kotchman , he's still waiting for a phone call.

looks like no one wants to count down

QUOTE (chw42 @ Feb 7, 2013 -> 11:24 AM) Don't you know that stealing bandwidth is a crime on the internet?!?! God that site is so backwards. lol i don't even know what stealing bandwidth means . all i know is here it asked for the url of the photo so i gave it .

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Feb 7, 2013 -> 02:02 AM) Ken (the Bandiit) Berry one of my all time favorite Sox . Was technical advisor on Eight Men Out and even had a line of dialog, which I didn't know, but learned that and a few more tidbits reading http://www.whitesoxinteractive.com/rwas/in...=11&id=2961 I'm not allowed to use a pic from WSI ?

Ken (the Bandiit) Berry one of my all time favorite Sox . Was technical advisor on Eight Men Out and even had a line of dialog, which I didn't know, but learned that and a few more tidbits reading http://www.whitesoxinteractive.com/rwas/in...=11&id=2961

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Feb 3, 2013 -> 10:23 AM) The thing is, the price of free-agents only goes up. Lohse contract may look pretty good next year even if his ERA is 4+. A top 3 of Sale, Peavy, and Lohse over the next three years is a nice building block. The term "buildng block(s)" usually refers to younger players who are cost controlled, therefore, neither Lohse or Peavy would apply , however it applies perfectly to Santiago and Quintana.

Send Dunn to the Yankees please ! Then go out and get Kubel for DH . Pipe dream I know Yanks must be looking for cheap option or they could trade for Kubel . But Dunn with that right field porch match made in heaven.

Vote , refresh , vote refresh , vote refresh, rinse and repeat ! U go Marcus !

QUOTE (TomSeaverFan @ Jan 30, 2013 -> 09:34 PM) I love reading Jake Peavy's comments. Glad to see him point to an intangible - fading under pressure (choking may be the right word, but is kind of harsh)- down the stretch. I hope the Sox can be in the same situation heading into late August this season and see how they fare the final month this time. This team IMO has what it takes to be a maximum of 10 over .500 beginning in September. That's if everything goes well. I'd say the team will be anywhere between .500 and 10 over on Sept. 1. If the team is .500 it won't be contending. 10 over will be good enough to be right there with Detroit and Kansas City. If everything goes well and that's really well Sox could be 40 above .500 .Imagine Sale 20-7 , Peavy 18-9 , Floyd 16 -8 , Danks 15-9, Fifth Starters 15- 11 Viciedo .280 35 HR 95 RBI, PK, .290 30, 100 , Dunn .240, 40, 100 , Beckham breaks out, Alexei out producing his rookie year, Keppinger .300 10, 70 , DeAza .295, 10, 60 Rios .310 25 95.

I always have a hard time understanding why a Sox fan would argue so vehemently against the Sox , Wilbur Wilhelm ,though I do like the references to Wilbur and Hoyt the famed Sox knuckleballers. I mean it's all well and good if you don't want to drink the Kool-aid but the way you talk, it seems like you can't enjoy Sox baseball unless you think they have a chance.