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QUOTE (ewokpelts @ Oct 25, 2017 -> 03:25 PM) Here's a simple solution: 2 Leagues 4 divisions per league 4 teams per division (this assumes expansion of 2 additional teams) 16 playoff teams. The 8 division winners and four best non division winners per league. 3 game "wild card" round where the division winner plays a wild card. Top division winner plays worst wild card. game one in WC park and games 2-3 at division winner. 5 game "division series" - same home/road splits as current LDS format. Can either play in a hard bracket or re-seed division winners and wild cards. 7 game championship series - same as current format. 7 game world series. currently, a team that plays in all rounds including the wild card will play 23 games max. this format has a max of 22 games, so the postseason wouldn't get extended at all, thereby not needing to reduce regular season games. Going to an nhl or nba system of east and west conferences is a bad idea. but going to 16 team brackets for the playoffs is better than a 10 or 12 team format. 12 team format works fine for the NFL, and would be a preferred method to me as opposed to the current 10 team format. Give the two best teams in each league the equivalent of a bye (which will make all those September games matter more) with a best of 3 wild card round for teams 3-6. Then proceed as current format.

Seby Zavala should be moving up the org depth chart right now. The White Sox should give him a shot to make the roster out of camp and if for some reason he doesn't make the team, he should get full time catcher reps in Charlotte. This is the type of thing that really accelerates a rebuild, finding a guy like Seby Zavala who comes out of nowhere to be a 4+ WAR player at a premium position for you, which he will be if he continues to hit the way he has for the past year and just manages to be not terrible as a catcher defensively. If he can hit like that and play good defense, he could be a future MVP candidate.

QUOTE (cjgalloway @ Oct 23, 2017 -> 02:04 PM) I actually love this idea.. You get a really good defensive CF and one that has 25+ HR power. If he could bat .250 and hit 25 HR with his usual defense that is one really good player batting around 7. I'd figure he would be fairly inexpensive as well. That sounds like a contributor to a championship team, but the Dodgers aren't likely to just give him away if he's that good. They'll likely want prospects that the White Sox shouldn't be giving up for him.

Go Dodgers. Glad to see Seager is back for them, hopefully he makes the difference in the series.

QUOTE (fathom @ Oct 17, 2017 -> 07:38 PM) If only Astros had traded for a charismatic reliever with a great changeup and closer experience Oh well, their loss, hopefully in the ALCS.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 16, 2017 -> 10:25 AM) But probably doesn't fit the type of player we are going to go after this winter. Seeing Franco mentioned earlier, I think they both fall into the same bucket. I don't see the Sox giving up any assets with future value to bring guys here this winter. Unless we get those guys in deals involved Avi or Abreu, I can't see it happening. The Sox aren't to the point where deals involving assets with potential future value at this stage of the rebuild. MAYBE next year, but not this year. I wouldn't trade prospects for him, I'm just pointing out that he's exactly the type of arm that rebuilds his career with the White Sox.

QUOTE (striker @ Oct 15, 2017 -> 09:21 PM) Pirates probably aren't selling him, but I'd love Glasnow Glasnow is the perfect White Sox fixer candidate. He has ridiculous stuff, but his problem is control. Those are exactly the type of arms Coop makes his living on.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Oct 13, 2017 -> 12:25 PM) I mean if you want to get REALLY technical then due to electrons the baserunner is never actually in contact with the base, ditto for the glove/ball and the runner. No one can ever be safe on a base!

QUOTE (iWin4Ron @ Oct 13, 2017 -> 09:59 AM) Lots of irrational Cubbie hate here! Go Chicago! These guys aren't assholes, the real asshole is the National's Daniel Murphy anti-gay bible thumping loon. Glad to see he doesn't advance. Go cubs! Their fans are intolerable when they lose. It's a thousand times worse when they win.

Go Dodgers.

QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Oct 13, 2017 -> 01:54 AM) Dave Cameron was getting lit up on Twitter tonight about feeling that a replay like tonight's replay on Lobaton being picked off of 1st ruins baseball, and it shouldn't be that way. So his solution is a rule where once you make contact with the bag, you are granted a "vertical safe zone", so as long as you are still directly over the base, you are safe. This would not protect against players who slide PAST a base and their hand fails to grip the bag, just instances where a player makes contact with the bag and they slightly bounce over the top of the bag for a 1/100th of a second before coming back down on it. https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/dear-mlb-pl...e-slide-replay/ I would actually be in favor of this. It mimics the NFL rules regarding the goal line, which technically by rule is an infinite plane that goes around the world and infinitely high. Once said plane is crossed, the play is over, regardless of what else happens.

Hopefully the Dodgers just sweep them like they did to the D-Backs.

Whoever pays Harper is going to be sorely disappointed.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Oct 12, 2017 -> 11:38 PM) Turner should have been walked. Dumbass swing at the first pitch Werth should've walked but he swung at ball 3 and 4. And now Harper swings at ball 1.

Wade Davis was a terrible starter.

I'm rooting for the Yankees in this because they helped the White Sox, while the Astros screwed the White Sox over. Go Yankees.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 12, 2017 -> 09:18 AM) This was pleasant to read although not sure what it says about Anderson. It says he's fast.

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Oct 11, 2017 -> 08:00 PM) 200 mil = 20 tens Or 2 hundreds.

Is there a database where I can download year by year fWAR or bWAR for all qualifying players?

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Oct 11, 2017 -> 05:46 PM) If he doesn't wait till he's 25 we're talking tens of millions in lost money. Hundreds, not tens.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 9, 2017 -> 10:54 AM) I guarantee you will be wrong, Jake won't throw a gem. It's Jose vs Max Hoping for a pitcher's duel with the Cubs bullpen blowing the game at the end.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Oct 9, 2017 -> 08:30 AM) I don't even know who the f*** Clarkin is... which makes it even more awesome. I love a deep farm system. The second piece in the Rutherford deal.

QUOTE (hi8is @ Oct 8, 2017 -> 11:38 PM) Let's all hope that Rodon is "that guy" and that Kopech and Hansen both just come up throwing video game insane mode numbers from the start. If it all works out perfectly ( I know, I know ) this s***'s bonkers Rodon Kopech Hansen Giolito Lopez Let a brother dream. The great thing about that is there are about 5-7 other legitimate starter options in the White Sox minor leagues that you don't even have listed. Dunning, Cease, Clarkin, Adams, Fulmer, Guerrero, Stephens all have starter potential as well, and I think I may even be missing some on that list.

QUOTE (gosoxtim8 @ Oct 7, 2017 -> 07:24 PM) they let the nats back in the series Good hopefully the Nats can take that opening and finish them off.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 6, 2017 -> 11:37 PM) Thanks. Then we have no chance at all. He's giving up nearly $200 million to get here 2 years earlier. Comparatively, the difference between $300K and $8 million is nothing.