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Albers had a lot of " I don't know how you are doing it but keep it going" Moreso than Swarzak. But when fatigue sets in first we will know.

I honestly only think it's the padres. I think phils / brewers / reds / twins are fine just letting season play out. I would say we are more in the latter than the former. Prioritizing development but not necessarily draftnposition.

Not sure Mizzou should be worried about better programs, Illini fans have established he is only seeking a better offer so as long as we keep that up.

QUOTE (GermanSock @ Apr 25, 2017 -> 05:45 AM) Some of the supposed bad teams have started rather well maybe one or two of them decide against selling more. Who could still sell at the headline? Yeah but unfortunately some supposedly good teams have started like garbage.

Unlike last year where our bullpen was great but had questionable sustainability with no k machines like Albers, I think Swarzak and Kahnle are for real. Edit: I should say last April.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Apr 24, 2017 -> 08:21 PM) I'm about ready to say he's good. He's just impressive to watch pitch. Please keep him off banner k thx

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Apr 24, 2017 -> 07:58 PM) Sort of project the Sox should be after. Brewers have done an exceptional rebuild. Wladimir Balentien could be the same sort of thing. Dude looked incredible at the WBC. Would be fun.

2 more homers for Eric Thames. Incredible.

Brett Austin has had a nice start. Don't know about "prospect" but if our catchers are as terrible as they have been last several years I'd bet both him and Gonzalez have a shot at seeing the majors for some amount of games.

If Canaan starts I wouldn't even want him to handle the ball, since he has no handles. Just let Jimmy/Wade do primary ballhandling and have Canaan sit from outside for spacing/shooting.

Sure. It is very difficult for a move to not at least just be a lateral move from Jacob May so may as well plug in whomever for a little bit.

QUOTE (shipps @ Apr 24, 2017 -> 11:18 AM) Eaton playing well helps but the fact that Lopez and Dunning are crushing it as well when they were the secondary and third pieces to the trade it may still be lopsided. We wont know for some time though. I just think the previous trade with them does play a role in how they approach making a trade for Robertson and it wouldnt be in a good way for the Sox. Is that not fair to think? I guess I just think the Nats getting killed for that trade was overblown, but especially when Eaton is providing exactly what they wanted on a team that will be in a penant race. They moved Turner to his preferred position, and replaced that poor SS production with a high OBP offensive force. I still think that trade was even and exactly what I expected for 5 years of cheap eaton.

QUOTE (shipps @ Apr 24, 2017 -> 11:01 AM) I am not sure I would even seriously consider the Nats after what happened publicly on the last trade. I really think they would be gun shy with giving up the talent that Hahn will ask for considering the Eaton trade. Whether that turns out to be a heavily favored trade for the Sox or not has yet to be seen but I still think it hinders the Nats on going all out for Robertson. Whether it was a good trade for them or not they looked really unsure of themselves after it went down which gave the feel like they realized they made a huge mistake. It may have been far from the truth but that sure as hell what it looked like. They dont anything like that to happen again. Eaton has a near .400 OBP and has been hitting a lot of doubles. I think they have whatever cover they needed for that deal, especially with Giolito's struggles.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 24, 2017 -> 10:49 AM) I am not sure that this would happen even if we picked up all salary. Take a soxtalk trade proposal, cut it in half, you are closer to a realistic trade.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Apr 24, 2017 -> 09:57 AM) Kieboom, Soto and Severino. This is not realistic.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 24, 2017 -> 09:51 AM) I havent seen that. Most of the under 24 year old kids I know seem to be trying to specialize in some niche occupation, including going to grad school for additional qualification only to find out that there are no openings because its such a niche. I feel you need to get general experience in something like sales before you specialize in any sort of business. Even banking jobs start out in some type of sales. But thats just my opinion. Yeah, I really think this is on schools. What could you possibly know other than school after going K-12, then undergrad? The schools have found a moneygrab of 4+1 and direct to masters that they market to their current undergrad students. And I sort of remember in school it seeming like grad school was much more inevitable than it was, so why not "save some money" and go straight to grad. And that sucks. Really wish they set expectations that at least MBAs and others are more applicable after several years in business. Seems like the opposite though, that they are trying to change it so that is not the norm.

Sometimes Tex speaks like Dumbledore, I would not be surprised if he is framing it as success of American institutions to endure holding back someone like Trump.

I think Jerian Grant could be a decent backup point guard but this team especially has seen what happens to backup point guards getting overexposed in the playoffs. We just have a crap ton of really bad guards. That was the thing with the regular season bulls: really really terrible guard play.

Still haven't been after opening day debacle. Weather like this I just wanna get there ASAP.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 21, 2017 -> 11:55 AM) Not sure how much the velocity uptick is due to him throwing harder versus how they're measuring velocity this year, but the overall stuff and command look better. If he's looking at pitch f/x data this wouldn't matter. Only statcast updated.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Apr 23, 2017 -> 12:40 AM) The majority of people I talk to are fine with the rebuild. They aren't idiots though. We need to know the idiot contingents thoughts though

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-fringe-...e-prospects-84/ Matt Cooper on Cistulis fringe 5

"I knew the Sox were rebuilding but I didn't know it meant I'd have to watch bad players play baseball!"

QUOTE (ptatc @ Apr 21, 2017 -> 09:29 PM) Well that's not correct. If he's out of the boot, it doesn't take another month to get ready. He's one that i thought they would want to really see this year. Wouldn't it be retroactive though

Very forgettable game