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QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Apr 9, 2018 -> 11:58 AM) A decent amount of teams would get those: Sox, Cubs, Twins, Tigers, Red Sox, Yankees, Mets, Pirates, Indians, Reds, Rockies, Orioles, Nats. Yes, except no to balt/wash as I will arbitrarily use mason dixon line, also no to colorado because it's usually sunny there.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 9, 2018 -> 12:10 PM) They could also be looking to get an undermarket deal done early, so they can splash some cash later. Detroit has around $12.5 million they can spend. A million saved at the top, could get them essentially an extra first round pick later on. I'd expect them too, just surprised. Twins going lewis, a guy expected top 5, for a deal at 1 saves a million or two. Difference has been smoothed, but between 1 and 10 is about 4 million. But still a bigger jump especially when you don't expect to get a #1 pick again.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Apr 9, 2018 -> 11:55 AM) And yet, teams like the Giants/Dodgers and Angels/Athletics have already played each other twice. Milwaukee opening up in San Diego also seems stupid. At this point it seems more likely they'll move up tomorrows game to tonight for a doubel header and just make one day as miserable as possible rather than smoothing out the issue across later dates.

The White Sox should get a cold weather compensation draft pick. It would be as arbitrary and unfair as the competitive balance picks, which is exactly why they should exist.

This situation makes me irrationally annoyed.

That Kelenic stuff has been interesting. Still, I file it under "misinformation", I will be skeptical until it's announced/deal is announced there.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 9, 2018 -> 09:30 AM) I'd take the under. The Cubs home opener at the same time, I have no idea who would actually look forward to attending the Sox game today. I love going. I have zero interest. If they play 2 on Wednesday, I will go for sure. This may compete with Sox/Baltimore from 2 years ago.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 9, 2018 -> 09:24 AM) Yep Gavin had a great curve. So far in the majors, Giolito has had a well below average curve. As they mentioned, he only got two swing and misses on it last year It's frustrating because I haven't seen him have it in a pro game. Last year I believe him on how the ball was different in majors and he lacked a feel for it, then he showed it in spring. Now I guess we blame the cold (sox pitchers seem to be only ones in league who were hurt by cold weather). But you saw how much it helped Fulmer to actually have it in his start. I don't know if the curve will be his out pitch, but starting a hitter off on that for 0-1 is a really nice weapon to set up his high 4-seam and low change-ups.

If they do play I can't imagine more than like 4k are there.

Not the start Yurchak envisioned I’m sure. Still hit less, a lotta ks

Good article btw.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 7, 2018 -> 12:11 PM) Disappointed with the talent level of this team. The lack of high school picks and the failures to develop our LatAm signings is painfully obvious when looking at this roster. Maybe a few guys from extended spring training (Curbelo, Destino, Zangari, etc) will join the club in the coming months and make this team more interesting. I actually think Kanny is an interesting bellwether for seeing if our drafting has changed. These are a lot of the “good power, low k, good obp” guys picked in round three through like 30 last year. Will they fare differently?

Does banged mean postponed?

I think they talked about it but his BR page is showing just 25 innings in 22 games last year.

https://twitter.com/darenw/status/982323596516315136/photo/1 Moncada sixth in average exit velocity.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 08:39 PM) Surprised that neither Solorzano or Johnson is in the Kannapolis rotation (based on their relief appearances tonight). Who else down there would be in the rotation over those two? Tyler Johnson? He’s in the pen. I think hes fast tracked as a reliever.

Yrizzari with a homer and Blackman now has 2 homers in two games. Actually pretty decent night for hitters outside Cordell. There were nights just 2 years ago where you struggled to find any decent prospect with a good game.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 01:24 PM) Maybe it’s already helping. Tim has 3 BB’s in 26 plate appearances this season vs. 13 in 606 last year. Right exactly. I have no idea I'm not a coach and have not talked to anderson. But I could see a young player not quite embracing trying to take more walks when its frame could be seen as trying to change who he is as a hitter. He can say "well I like to be aggressive". But when it's instead "look how great you are on the bases, you gotta get on to wreak havoc", it might click with him how he just needs to get on base. I have no idea, sports are fun, and Tim seems to be having a lot of fun right now.

I'm hoping Anderson stealing more will underscore the value to him of getting on base. Krate needs to come down or BB rate needs to go up. He's just too good on the bases.

When Mayo talks about prospects its clear the guy knows a lot but the mlb pipeline lists always strike me as just a "average' of all the other big pub lists like fangraphs, law and BA. With Law I know I"m getting a select group of scouts opinions that usually previews guys that are about to rise/fall a lot sooner than the others. With Fangraphs, I know I'm getting Kiley/ELs own analysis influenced by industry analysis, but feels more their own. BA the same, but they always seem much more conservative and always higher on high-level-program college performers. This might be wrong, but Callis just seems to seem like he summarizes everyones arguments together. There's value in that but I like the variance in the other 3 groups.

Everyone throws around the line "you need to be more than AGAINST TRUMP" but I haven't seen a campaign yet that actually has done that. Pritzker is probably the worst at it but even he tamped it down as it got closer.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 11:25 AM) Those same qualities are why many whites voted for him...and the same reason that (many) men overlooked his marital infidelities. It’s the mirror image of Trump’s success in many ways. They were different versions of con artists. Reread Primary Colors. Clinton went out of his way to execute a disproportionate number of blacks in ARK because of Willie Horton/Mike Dukakis. “Super predators.” Fighting with Sista Souljah. Complete political calculation. The trick was using the Clinton Foundation AIDS/Africa work to cover up the reality of policies from 1978-2000. And hobnobbing with the most famous celebrities like Oprah, Michael Jordan and Tiger (unsurprisingly, they secretly loathed each other) No man. I think the reality is you misinterpret the fact that Clinton's manuerisms, language, and style was relatably southern (black and white) to people with the traits you identified of infidelity, back stabbing and obesity for some reason. So when people say they relate to bill clinton, you think they are saying they are relating to the worst parts of him. It's not that crazy to understand the support he had from southern black voters after 12 years of Reagan/Bush. He didn't keep black leaders at arms length, he was visible in black communities and churches. He had black members of his leadership, he was visibly close friends with Vernon Jordan and golfed with him. He talked about black communities and his plans for them in speeches after years of neglect in national discussion (aside from moral terms of why they were failing). These were advances at the time though they are table stakes now. It doesn't mean his policies actually served those ends, to the contrary. But it built a lot of equity to bring many of those leaders with a bigger seat at the table than they had before when others weren't and he didn't have to. ALl you are doing is plopping 2016 view on bill clinton and knowledge of his presidency, placing it in the 90s without any context and then drawing caricatures about huge groups of people with that viewpoint.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 11:07 AM) I taught in an inner city school from 2002-2007 and my students almost universally related to Clinton for many of those reasons. They always said he was the first black president. How can you explain that nearly universal sentiment prior in the 2008 South Carolina primary? No, no you first. Your connection that he's the first black president is because black voters identified with the characteristics you described? The origins of that quote are around something far different.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 11:02 AM) But you can say the same about the Parkland activists...because black on black violence is peripheral to limiting all gun violence, and not the central unifying message. Go back to RFK’s 1968 campaign. Would that message today work against Trump effectively? The parkland activists actually made sure to include victims of daily gun violence in black and impoverished neighborhoods, including making it a large part of the Chicago march, and meeting with students from Chicago high schools plagued by gun violence. Knowing the value of those perspectives goes a long way.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 10:42 AM) Flip their home states. Make Sanders the guy who loves binging on McDonalds, struggles with his weight, can play the sax, talk about his underwear and cheats on his wife/is equally comfortable on Howard Stern or Davos platform...and a 50% better public speaker who can talk foreign policy articulately and sounds more Sunday Baptist churchl sermonizer than macroeconomics professor with a funny Seinfeld accent. (Or convince black voters he’s Larry David from the last 2-3 years of Curb Your Enthusiasm.) Voila...Sanders has universal black support. What do you think you are saying with this post. It is incredibly condescending. Basically to sum-up: - The monolithic black vote is more comfortable with looser morals, intimidated by education, struggles with weight gain and distrusts jews The southern black political bloc has reasons for backing certain candidates that aren't because they are brainwashed by propoganda.