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QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Jul 9, 2013 -> 08:47 PM) I don't even know what UZR is. I've seen Peralta play defense for years and he sucks. UZR is an advanced fielding metric compiled by humans using objective measures on film to rate each and every defensive play. UZR suggests (as you might remember) that he was horrible and one of the worst defensive shortstops in baseball during pretty much his entire stint in Cleveland. He became average over the next year or two in Detroit and rates as excellent in the past two seasons and pretty good so far this year.

Peralta has been wow-good this season and in recent seasons if you like UZR

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 9, 2013 -> 08:29 PM) Didn't they try this same philosophy with Nick Masset to mixed (at best) results? They turned him into Ken Griffey Jr. Worked really well!

I'd say Tank made use of that off day

You can look it up on Baseball America. If it's behind the pay wall, I'll look later

Anheuser-Busch thanks you

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jul 9, 2013 -> 07:25 PM) Who wouldn't though? I don't know, he's hitting worse than Dayan this year and also has less track record. He does have defense going for him, though, which explains 100% of his value last season

Twitter suggests they were talking about trades. Robin said something to the effect that he has mixed feelings about whether he wants advanced notice on trades

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 9, 2013 -> 06:52 PM) He was 23 when he first appeared in AAA. That isn't out of line at all. I'm talking about production. My whole post was about how they move guys at appropriate age over appropriate production

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 9, 2013 -> 06:54 PM) Because they're probably showcasing Alexei for a trade right now. ^^ can't rock the boat and make it seem like you want to get rid of anyone, even though you clearly want to. You also wouldn't want to cast any doubt on their playing ability by benching them

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jul 9, 2013 -> 05:12 PM) Get a big boner and grind on her, I've heard girls absolutely go crazy over this

Walker has been too aggressively promoted. Sometimes the White Sox push guys to age appropriate levels while (I assume) fully knowing that they don't have the track record to warrant being there. There is some chance that Walker catches up age-wise and becomes a contributor, but it will wind up being more like Jordan Danks, who needed to repeat AAA until he became a hair on the older side for that level. Danks is another guy where you can look at his year-by-year stats and find yourself thinking, "huh? why did they send him to AAA so fast?"

I would trade Dayan for Mike Moustakas

If Phegley becomes a productive hitter for the big league club, this is a banner year for the system. That will be pretty much one more productive hitter than it's given us the past five years

Jon Heyman ‏@JonHeymanCBS 5m mark appel has been promoted from Tri-City to Quad Cities. so at the very least, he has gained a city.

There is an oft-told story where Bonds approaches Griffey at Griffey's home (they were having dinner) frustrated about 'roiders getting all the notoriety. Bonds says he's going to join the juicer club as he's been overlooked...but things get awkward. Griffey has just won an MVP and is quite happy with his current reputation and thinks the juicers will eventually be caught, ruining their reputations. Hard to say whether this exchange happened or if it happened that way, but some Bonds biographers say it did. I think Griffey was clean. He was pretty much useless after age 30, which makes sense for a guy that played the 9 years prior on AstroTurf and lacked the drugs to make himself better. The Big Hurt will always get a bit more speculation because he's huge, but the way he acted was about as anti-steroid as you can be. He was basically breaking the oath of silence during his playing days because he didn't like losing the limelight to 'roiders either. Big Frank also has the positive of being a huge SOB his entire life, not a mid-20s suddenly-become-gigantic transformation. Frank and Griffey had similar body trajectories where they continually got fatter and slower as time went on, especially as injuries piled up (though we know Frank was quite a bit healthier than Griffey)

Delaying these suspensions is going to dick up the trade market for us!!!!

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 7, 2013 -> 11:18 AM) Nice way to start your career as a Star That reeks of "my friend got on my twitter"

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 9, 2013 -> 04:00 PM) There is literally zero excuse remaining for Jay Cutler not to have an all pro season this year. If he can't do it this year, he can't do it. Excuse me, learning an offense takes 2-3 years. Therefore, we have "what if's" until Cutler year number 8.

Whenever you're trading pre-arbitration players as part of a rebuild, you're doing it wrong.

Has there been any detailed comment or update on PK's injury? It seems to me that this is a sham.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jul 9, 2013 -> 04:30 PM) Or it could be Hahn simply telling Ventura to stop abusing Sale's arm. I think a text would suffice Stop it w/ Sale re: pitches k thx bye

I'd imagine it's nothing big. Probably letting Robin know what's going on in terms of player movement on the horizon. Maybe seeking his opinion on certain players. I'm sure it's difficult for them to find a time and place to talk during the season

Are we really THAT shallow at 3B? Michalczweski in low minors, Morel in high minors, Gillaspie/Keppinger in MLB. None of these guys are world-beaters but it seems like we are far better off at the position than we were 12 months ago