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QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Apr 9, 2018 -> 04:16 PM) Benintendi has been a stud? He was a barely league average hitter last year in a corner outfield spot with not great defense and has been terrible to start this season. Personally I think he's been one of the more overrated players since he came up. Honestly I think that defense stuff is some really messed up green monster issue. Saw him live a few times and it's hard to believe he'd be that bad.

Holy crap did adding HTML make that unusable. had to delete all of the quotes to make it readable, but I think he's using James Fegan who tweeted this: <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8">

At least we have hector for games like this.

QUOTE (Scoots @ Apr 9, 2018 -> 01:34 PM) What do you think runs through the players' heads when they see there is like absolutely zero fan support at the park I mean come on, this was supposed to be a night game. It's not opening game which people plan formonths ahead of time. School is also not out. What would YOU do if you had tickets to tonights game last friday, it got moved to daytime because it looked like it would be freezing and saw snow was on the way? Would you call work and say "Hey, I need a day off on short notice, game I don't want to miss".

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.