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I'm sure if that's his final offer from the Sox we might not get him. We'll see what he gets . I just think it'll be $10M/yr . He's a good choice though. Maybe he won't get busted for substance abuse like Castillo did. Hahn still has the magic touch on FA signings so he'd probably end up hurt half the year.

Apparently we have so many good young players on the Sox who need to play that we can't possibly want to add anyone of value even when FA prices were lower than ever last season and might also be this off season. So I've been told. Shoot for the moon add Machado or Harper and hope they sign a stupid deal with no options and surround them with crap. Works for me.

And yet somehow the dumb Milwaukee front office rather have Moustaskas .Go figure .I mean everyone would rather have a complete player than 2 incomplete players. Davidson useless to Milwaukee and Sanchez no power. Moose plays an important position competently and hits for power. I checked bWar and Moose is 2.8 this year same as Yolmer and Davidson is 1.6 and again as a DH/!B/3B is redundant on the Sox and useless to the future . As a light hitting 3rd base option Yolmer is also useless to the Sox but as a utility guy he is not. Those asssesments are the same as last year. They haven't changed at all. Moose OPS+near 110 . Yolmer 90. Maybe if you combined Yolmer and Davidson you get a 3rd baseman as good as Moose but alas you can't do that. Neither one of them traded individually gets you as much as 1 Moustakas would've got you. If you want to rely sole;y on one stat from one source to make an argument go right ahead . You won't ever say you were wrong even though it's clear a minor investment by the Royal a division rival netted them 2 possible future pieces while the Sox dwiddled their thumbs.

You can only go by what any competent GM would've done with an asset that needed to be traded. Your assumption is Hahn is not competent which is more tenuous that what I said. You cannot compare the Frazier , Robertson Kahnle deal to one player like Moustakas, The Sox still owed around $23M for Frazier and Robertson, They got salary relief and minor leaguers and more cash later for Clippard. It was also about more tanking . It was earlier in the rebuild and the Sox were still stockpiling young talent and dumping salary. Rutherford might turn out to be very good. Moose wasn't a salary dump. It would've been one good starting player with a lot of power at 3rd base for the best offer at a time in the rebuild where we need more close to ML ready (AA/AAA ) players than more lower level players. You can't keep bringing up one deadline trade you weren't happy with. Those players were useless to the Sox . The money and players they got were not and half the board would probably disagree on if Hahn really messed up that trade.

This didn't age well. It's called getting runners into position to score rather than risk a DP with Palka and Avi coming up. Turns out it was a great move.

3 runs in bottom of the 9th gives Sox a walk off victory ! Palka with 2 run single for the W.

I was told over and over it was a bad idea to add Moustaskas the previous off season because he cost a draft pick and Yolmer and others needed a chance to play even though Moose was dirt cheap at the time. So instead KC resigned him traded him at the deadline and they got 2 AAA players (one who hit .300 in AAA and has a great arm and the other came close to a perfect game after a few starts in the majors while the Sox saved $6M and drafted yet another OF with the pick we would have lost. Hell I still get told it was a bad idea.

Is it fair to take out Bauer and replace him with Carrasco ?

Cooper doesn't like cutters does he ? Seems like no one on the Sox throws a cutter.

Wow he rose through the ranks at lightning speed .

He did good but this lineup isn't too fierce that Cleveland threw out there today. But good is good considering they are all ML hitters.

Nice job Covey .I hope that's it for him. Starting to get some pitches up along with pitch count at 93 I'd take him out before someone hits one out.

Ball 2 to Alonso clearly a strike. This ump sucks on curve balls.

The Indians lineup tonight is bad though. Hardly any of their good players.

Considering the 7 k and only 1 walk that's not too bad though. Kluber I assume getting calls ? I saw the one post about a strike being called that was in the other batters box on Avi.

Weird gameday has all 1st 3 pitches to Rosales in the strike zone and all 3 called balls. Pitch 1 clearly a strike the other 2 on the edge.

Was this really necessary ?

Nobody did it better. I will sorely miss my old friend.

Best part of the broadcast is with AJ.

Davidson didn't keep the 'stache very long. I never got the chance to cll him Ned Flanders. Nice hit Ned

Never mind this ump is blind. He missed 2 pitches with Baez batting ,1 for 1 against.

They see fine. What it boils down to on a close pitch is Lester and Cubs = somebodies . Smith and White Sox = nobodies.

In Lopez last five starts, he has a 0.79 ERA, and his season mark has dropped from 4.66 to 3.94.

Might not be as far fetched as you think. Davidson really wants to pitch. No indication on how the Sox feel about it.

When the Sox win lately no one has been doing the post win thread . I made it just to see what you said but didn't want to say myself.