Jake

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 6, 2013 -> 12:34 PM) The sox can't afford to pick a Borass guy who currently is waiting to under go surgery. They would be butchered for it. Obviously, Boras affects whether or not you want to pick him. To me, a fixable hip injury does not really affect my decision-making to any significant extent. Isn't Hahn our Boras-whisperer? FWIW, I'm not really thrilled with any of the guys likely to be around when we select.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 6, 2013 -> 12:16 PM) It depends on his demands. The new rules make it a lot tougher to take guys and pay them way over slot. Right. You'd basically have to take a second round type guy in the first to afford a first round type in the second. Hard to game this system.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 6, 2013 -> 01:18 PM) He'd still have been on the roster if the game had ended in 13 last night. This. He'd been looking better, pitching well two outings in a row. He isn't anything special at this point, but he didn't deserve a demotion. Just a casualty to the dead bullpen. Savvy move. I wanted us to bring up Johnson for today, give him all the relief innings, and then send him back down tomorrow and bring Troncoso.

Omogrosso a victim of having pitched too much. He'll be back up eventually, but they wanted two fresh arms for today's game. Tough break for him. No surprises on the callups.

A torn labrum in the hip sure wouldn't stop me from picking Manaea. That isn't that big of a deal.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 6, 2013 -> 10:20 AM) Hey look. Jake Peavy, yet again, gets hurt trying to be a tough guy. Heaven forbid he ever once fess up that he doesn't feel right. He did. He had already seen a doctor, they told him he could pitch if he felt okay.

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Jun 5, 2013 -> 03:09 PM) In my opinion, an Adam Dunn type player needs to have an OPS close to .900. If they do that, I really don't care what the batting average is. Will Dunn ever do that again? Who knows. At this point I would just be happy to see him back around the .800 mark he was at last year. When a player starts a season like that, throw out the full season stats. We just have to think about how he is going to be, not how his April was.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 5, 2013 -> 08:16 PM) Finally on his way to the HoF. Took him awhile.

QUOTE (sammy esposito @ Jun 5, 2013 -> 07:19 PM) Who are we going to get to replace Peavey? We have to bring someone up. Is there anything left at Charlotte? We'll put Hector back in the rotation and call up a reliever from Charlotte and none of those seem like an obvious choice. For tomorrow, I would personally bring up Erik Johnson so you have someone to cover our ass if Quintana goes out early. I'd piggy back the start, with Johnson planning to get all the relief innings.

The weird thing is I'm not sure if I've ever seen a more dominant inning from Addison

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 5, 2013 -> 08:16 PM) IMO the most amazing part of this game is 3 intentional walks to this version of Adam Dunn They're trying to dick up his hit streak

Quintana should be the guy, but it seems like they're going to try to squeeze out another inning from Reed. If Q goes, Erik Johnson will start tomorrow with Peavy going to DL. Then we would send Johnson down and bring up a reliever by the next day.

Who is due to start tomorrow in AA, AAA?

I know we love hating on Dunn, but Konerko has been worse this year and is far worse to watch. He doesn't even look like he's trying.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 5, 2013 -> 03:34 PM) I don't think Dan refuses to have a serious conversation, I just don't think it's possible to have a serious conversation with Karl Malone Well those are Karl's reasons, not mine

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 5, 2013 -> 03:38 PM) Again, I think they started this year. I see what they are doing now -- link -- they will keep the T/E data from each test, so variances from the average cause a red flag rather than only a certain minimum value. That's a significant improvement. Doesn't appear that they are keeping the physical samples, though. The T/E baseline data is a big step, though.

There was a point in time when it looked like Retherford was a good ST and/or injury away from being a MLB ballplayer.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 5, 2013 -> 03:31 PM) And they also do long-term monitoring so that it's not just the ratio but also the abundances that could trigger a more detailed look. I know the Olympics reserve the right use CIR, but does MLB even keep unflagged samples?

Malone came back on the Dan Patrick show this morning and said he was messing around with Dan because he knew that Dan has a "man-crush" on MJ. He said MJ would definitely be in his starting five, but he won't say who he'd take out because Dan refuses to have a serious conversation.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 5, 2013 -> 01:57 PM) That might have been the case with the previous policy I'll grant, but MLB was supposedly basically switching to the olympic testing model this year. AFAIK both MLB and the Olympics use T/E ratio as basis for further testing.

He'll be crying all the way to the bank, I'm sure.

If you're not a moron, it would be fairly easy to get around this testing policy. It will restrict which steroids you can use and it will take quite a bit of micromanagement, but it is totally possible to manipulate that T:E ratio to evade the red flag. You should follow Victor Conte on twitter, he talks about this stuff fairly often...he is a consultant for some testing organizations and he said it would be extremely easy to beat the program right now too. I believe at least a portion of the players are even exempt from offseason testing. Many steroids become undetectable in days, if not hours. I noticed that they actually now allow for nandrolone at a certain level to appear on a test because of Michael Morse who continued to re-test positive because nandrolone is detectable for years. If you had someone smart advising you and no one found the records of your purchase, I'd say the odds of getting caught are on the order of 1 in 1000.

His stats are confusing. More confusing than Adam Dunn's right now.

Good stuff, I really liked what bbilek posted up.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 5, 2013 -> 12:47 PM) Is he seriously going to be good enough to get back draft compensation? He might have under the old CBA but he'd have to be ridiculous this year to get it under the new one. That's what I was thinking