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QUOTE (peavy44 @ Jan 21, 2016 -> 04:49 PM) I'm wondering if he got 5 year deal from the NATS, if he does why don't he sign it already. Posturing from his agents. If this was the best deal after months of negotiations with all of MLB, he would take the deal and sign. I have seen absolutely zero reason they would want Cespedes considering the players they currently have in the OF. This is a move to get the Sox to up the dollars or years.

QUOTE (SoCalSox @ Dec 14, 2014 -> 04:05 PM) Hypothetical: What happens if Rodon comes out and absolutely tears it up this spring? You still send him down? What if Danks can eliminate half of the 6 games where he got blown up and gave up 6+ runs? If you look at his game log, he wasn't all bad last year. 22 of his 32 starts he gave up 3 runs or less. That isn't all that bad. He won't dazzle in WHIP or K/BB and he certainly isn't as good as the money he makes, but I think he can bounce back. If he can keep the game in 22-25 of his 32 starts, that is not too horrible.

QUOTE (Andy the Clown @ Dec 9, 2014 -> 01:04 AM) Looks great! You need to flip Danks and Noesit, though. ; ) One more bullpen arm to replace Surkamp would be nice... With Rodon coming over in mid season to take a rotation spot or pull a Sale and be a lights out bullpen guy his first year.

I would pitch my traditional closer in the 1st inning against the best hitters, 1-4. Then your usual 7th inning guy in the 2nd or 3rd and then 8th inning in the 3rd or 4th to again face the 1-4 guys, etc and then bring in the traditional starter around the 4th or 5th and have them close it out. Now if you are down big early, maybe you don't bring in the good starter later and just give him the day off and go with a usual long reliever guy. By having your SP type guy get skipped on those occasions you are losing, it allows for your best 4 usual SP to get the bulk of the work and the usual 5th SP type often would probably get skipped which would lead to better pitchers out there typically. If your traditional closer needs a day off, you just bump everyone up an inning to get your typical bullpen guys their rest.

I have always wondered why they don't flip flop the order in which pitchers pitch. RP type guys starting a game and going a few innings and letting the SP type guys finish out ball games. It does seem like the bullpen's of today really get rocked at the time when they have the most pressure and most on the line in terms of having a shot to finish out and win a game. I suppose you can argue that a RP just isn't as good typically as a starter, but often times, I think the pressure is their largest detriment to them being successful. Perhaps SP would be able to handle the pressure better at the end of the game than most RP's.

Terry Bevington just read your post and took great offense.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jan 3, 2014 -> 05:54 AM) The first few innings of the last night game at Comiskey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zduJfQWKxA Thanks for that link. I was at that game with my Uncle who had partial season tickets. Bringing back some great memories from that old park. My first game I went to was in 1984 and I was 6 years old and fell in love with the game. The thing I loved most from this was seeing Big Frank as a rookie. He was so massive even back then. There was no way he was a juicer. He was the best I ever saw in a White Sox uniform.

I love the deal. If his glove can be adequate and he puts up numbers similar to what Joe Crede had with the bat, the deal is an absolute steal. Closers are made every week in MLB it seems, they can fix the closer, there was no fix for 3B.

Frank is a no doubter for the HOF and clearly one of the most dominant baseball players not just of his generation, but also of all time. I think his percentage will be closer to the 75-80 % mark as many voters will have to spread their votes around to keep certain guys on the ballot still. A guy like Schilling who I personally think is a HOF, probably doesn't crack the top 10 on this years ballot, but enough voters will leave others off to make sure he can get in later.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 31, 2013 -> 09:19 PM) If any team wants to claim Ramirez or Dunn, you let them take those guys and their contracts. Agreed and same goes for John Danks. He is not worth what the $14+ million he is owed per season.

There aren't a ton of good FA options out there but I assume you can spend the $25 million a year Cano would command and fill multiple holes. They could get McCann on a 4 or 5 year deal I think at $12-15 million and fulfill 1B with a guy like Hart/Morales/Morse for $5-10 million and maybe trade Rios or De Aza in the off season for a real 3B and opening a spot for Garcia everyday. That would help out the team just as much. It is never the White Sox way to just go and dump a season so they will make some moves to try and remain competitive but I severely doubt this team gets in a bidding war of years or dollars for Cano.

QUOTE (thxfrthmmrs @ Jul 30, 2013 -> 10:14 PM) I am just hoping Garcia can turn into a slightly lesser version of Carlos Lee. Ultimately, we got a lot lesser than what the Cubs got for Garza, when trading arguably the more talented pitcher. Garza was owed peanuts compared to what Peavy had coming the rest of the way. We still got a top prospect in Garcia, shed $20 million and if 1 of the 3 BOS prospects work out in a few years, we will have easily won the deal.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 30, 2013 -> 08:48 PM) Castellanos, Ranuado, and Iglesias. Book it. Not really. castellanos would be great

The Danks contract was structured as such as they imagine Peavy would be gone in 2013 and Danks would be basically collecting Peavy's salary more or less. There was probably a 20% chance that Peavy was going to rebound to his 2012 season in their eyes. Luckily Peavy liked Chicago and gave them a sweetheart deal by only taking 2 years at a reasonable salary and the Sox couldn't pass that up, especially with Danks shoulder issues. Danks will probably rebound but be overpaid through the duration of the deal I assume but still be a slightly above average starter.

The deal is probably for 3 yrs/12-15 million range. Just my guess. He isn't a bench player either, he will start or be a super sub in year 3 and a good one at that.

Looks like a decent #2 hitter to me

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My buddy put it together right after Robin was hired. It has been linked in Bleacher Report and a few other websites recently. I love when they call the video creator "Moosebog is probably a whiney jew". Very funny if you knew the guy....not a jew at all. haha

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 1, 2012 -> 01:04 PM) There doesn't seem to be much "value". The 22 year old has been terrible and the other kid the Sox passed on drafting 17 times. I don't necessarily think this is a bad trade, it may enable the Sox to sign the Cuban or bring someone else on board, but the current return is really nothing and considering they could have let him walk for nothing, it makes picking up his option a curious decision. Frasor is a solid bullben guy, picking up the option was fine. Any team would have traded for him.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Jan 1, 2012 -> 12:54 PM) Imagine the pitiful haul KW would get if he actually traded Konerko. He would probably end up getting Brandon Wood and we would hear...Manto will fix em.

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Jan 1, 2012 -> 12:49 PM) Meh. White Sox Baseball....Meh. Call Brooks, I found the new slogan for 2012.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 1, 2012 -> 12:44 PM) THis is not a "Bigtime salary dump". It's clearing out a guy who was slightly overpaid. When you trade a proven, reliable bullpen guy for nothing it is a salary dump. That is OK though, the team needs to shed payroll and I understand that.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 7, 2011 -> 12:40 PM) I hate that Cowley has turned himself into the story. AGAIN. This is his dying breath as a White Sox columnist in this town. His gravy-train is in Miami, and the only stories he'll have to tell will be stories of the Ozzie-days, including this one that he "broke" today. Either way, this organization is becoming more of a joke by the day. We all knew the Ozzie divorce wouldn't be pretty, but really, the house should have been cleaned, Hahn should have been promoted, and Hahn should have made the hiring decision. This becomes more clear by the nanosecond. Another thing about Cowardley that bothers me most is he isn't even the White Sox beat guy, Van Schouwen is. Cowardley was supposed to be the Cubs guy this year but I am sure once the CST realized Cowardley has no actual journalistic qualities to get a good story, they had him working the Guillen kids all year for info and basically became a White Sox beat guy again.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Sep 27, 2011 -> 07:55 PM) Alomar is bad news if you want this organization to embrace a new way of thinking. How so? Former catcher's have gone on to have great success managing as they are a huge part of the game plan as player's and that carries over very well. Sandy has always been a good guy and I know Hawk always said he had manager material written all over him. I would be fine with him, especiallyf he can prove he understands advance baseball metrics, unlike Ozzie.