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QUOTE (Alexeihyeess @ Oct 23, 2015 -> 05:25 PM) Exercise Alexei Ramirez $10m option Sign C Matt Wieters 2y $26m Sign 3B Jae-Gyun Hwang for 3y $12m + $3m posting Sign RP Antonio Bastardo for 1y $5m Trade SP Erik Johnson to Cincinnati Reds for CF Billy Hamilton 1 Adam Eaton L LF 2 Jose Abreu R 1B 3 Matt Wieters S C 4 Jae-Gyun Hwang R 3B 5 Melky Cabrera S DH 6 Trayce Thompson R RF 7 Micah Johnson L 2B 8 Alexei Ramirez R SS 9 Billy Hamilton S CF BENCH: Tyler Flowers R C, Adam LaRoche L 1B/DH, Avisail Garcia R OF, Tyler Saladino R INF 1 Chris Sale L 2 Jose Quintana L 3 Carlos Rodon L 4 Frank Montas R 5 John Danks L 6/LR: Scott Carroll R Relievers: Zach Duke L, Dan Jennings L, Nate Jones R, Jake Petricka R SU: Antonio Bastardo L CL: David Robertson R --- I dont know. The Sox seem to lose value on that trade. I mean, at that point, why not just keep EJ and let Trayce start in CF? The only thing Hamilton seems to have is speed. At least Trayce has speed, power, and defense, even if his hit tool isn't that great. Also, EJ will likely be much better as a 4th starter than Montas in 2016, with potentially both having available slots in 2017, when Montas is likely to be more ready for starting in the majors.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 21, 2015 -> 10:18 PM) I don't think people who have him on their fantasy team wold agree. They have a bottom 5 coaching staff and a bad GM. The coaching staff (save for Pep Hamilton) isn't the problem, it's Grigson. Grigson put Pep Hamilton in place, Grigson bought terrible free agents like Landry and Jean-Francois, and Grigson hasn't upgraded the talent on the offensive line. Hamilton, Grigson's guy, can't call a game to save his life and has never heard of this strange "hot route" concept to combat the blitz. For the offense to struggle enough to be the reason that the Colts are 0-2 and the defense has been the side of the ball doing its job despite the consistently high investment in the offense since the arrival of Luck tells you all you need to know about where the problem lies.

So I noticed a lot of "extend QO to Shark for the pick" on this thread, but what if he takes the QO? That's a distinct possibility at this point given how much he's damaged his value this season.

Why does everyone want to trade Quintana? It doesn't make sense unless you're getting a guy like Frazier our Arenado in return, and even then, Q should be pretty much the entire package. His value is insane, and a package that was suggested earlier in this thread for just Arenado (which included Montas, Micah Johnson, and Adams) should, in addition to someone like Arenado, net the team a young, proven 125+ wRC+ catcher with great defense. If we're not getting something worth 5+ WAR and cost controlled for Q, then why not keep the trio of cost controlled lefties that are likely to produce 15-18 WAR at the top of the rotation for the next 4+ years? You get two decent starters behind that, and you have the potential for a 20-25 WAR rotation, which is a playoff rotation with even a decent bullpen and offense.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 12:55 AM) Considering that Hamels is on the Rangers, I would say not feasible. Did that just happen?

Here's a fun fill in the blank game: LAD gets: Cole Hamels CHW gets: Yasiel Puig PHI gets: ????? Excluded from options to fill in the blank: Sale, Quintana, Rodon, Robertson, Eaton, Abreu, Adams, Anderson, Fulmer I don't think this is feasible, is it?

I think they should start him and send Danks to the pen. What do you think?

QUOTE (winninguglyin83 @ May 10, 2015 -> 05:36 PM) I thought Anderson was supposed to be the SS. Can't have too many good shortstops.

The marketing team should really latch on to this "stir it up" thing, especially if they can string together some wins/series wins.

Good pitching day, hoping for good starts from EJ and Danish.

If he is at least a wash for Gillaspie defensively, could they move him there permanently? It would solve a problem moving forward and would allow the White Sox to look for the best pure hitter to replace the DH slot.

QUOTE (LDF @ May 9, 2015 -> 06:46 PM) nice post, but let me ask you this, do you really see Rondon as a 250-275 as a rightly? He has a close to. 400 split as a right handed batter. Now, part of that is probably that he's good against left-handed pitching, but he might bat better against right-handed pitching as a right handed batter, especially since I think his left-handed batting split is sub-.200.

Isn't this the guy who is trying to be a switch hitter and has terrible lefty splits? He might develop a legitimate bat if he starts hitting right handed full time. Defense being equal, I'll take a .250-275 right handed SS over a .200-.220 switch hitting SS.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 5, 2015 -> 05:01 PM) Did we figure out the Montas disappearance? He went 3.1 innings in a start on 5/3.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 11:19 AM) Justin Houston is a much better play than Ray though. I think Ray was always going in the 2nd round and probably still will. He's just not that good. Stiff, straight line pass rusher that is bad in space. Meh. Have you watched game tape of Ray? Or do you just not know how leverage works? It doesn't matter if he can't play in space, he has a far more valuable skill in his ability to defeat the opposing team's best pass blocker and get to the QB.

Again I ask: Where is Montas?

Where is Montas?

Uh oh, looks like EJ is remembering how to pitch.

QUOTE (3GamesToLove @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 09:57 AM) The Sox used the "tandem starter" idea in the minors last year. They're using it this year in AAA to see if they can pull Erik Johnson back to pre-2014 form.

So piggyback them into 6 innings of good pitching and have 2 long men in the pen? Not the worst idea I've ever heard.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 09:10 AM) Career 2-2 3.26 ERA 38.2 IP 45K 1.241 WHIP His worst away parks are Baltimore, Texas, Cleveland, and LAD Cleveland seems to have his number, which is a problem.

Looks like they're playing strategy so far. If Rodon starts April 26, I may buy a lottery ticket.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 14, 2015 -> 08:12 AM) http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/news/proba...ex.jsp?c_id=cws Noesi is starting tomorrow. I'd have Danks start on Friday afternoon, and start the regular rotation on Saturday. Sale, Samardzija, Quintana, Noesi, Danks It gives Sale an extra day and the rotation is in the order they wanted in the first place. That makes sense, and puts them in great position for the KC series, though it means Danks starting in Detroit. I'd like the best pitching possible going against Detroit and KC. I wish there was a way the Sox could throw their top 3 at both.

If EJ remembered how to pitch, the rest of the division/league should become very concerned.

So Quintana starts today against Cleveland and Danks starts tomorrow, then there's an off day before Detroit. That means for Game 1 in Detroit, the Sox could preserve their rotation order and go with Noesi, or they could opt for Samardzija on full rest. The upside of giving Noesi the nod is getting everyone an extra day of rest and going into the KC series with Samardzija-Sale-Quintana-Danks. The downside is Noesi starts the first game against Detroit. The upside of skipping Noesi is you get Samardzija-Sale-Quintana in Detroit. The potential downside is that would put both Danks and Noesi in line to start against KC, but that's where things could get interesting. If the White Sox wanted to get really bold and aggressive, they could throw out Shark in game 1 in Detroit, then instead of Noesi starting the fourth game against KC, they could call up Rodon and throw Sale-Quintana-Danks-Rodon at them. I know it's an unlikely scenario, but it would be a really interesting way to work the matchups against the two best opponents in the division and break Rodon into the majors early on if the FO feels he's ready. I think the White Sox will probably start Noesi in Detroit. What would you do?