Princess Dye

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Mar 14, 2009 -> 06:21 PM) Given Williams interest in the past regarding Edmonds, it has to be fairly safe to assume he has checked back in with Jim this off-season. If something was going to happen, it probably would have been taken care of a few weeks ago. I really honestly believe that KW and Ozzie both wanted to give Owens every opportunity to take this thing, and his piss poor performance is really making them JUST NOW realize they cant go to war with this guy. So it's possible they were holding off on Edmonds til that was clear. But at the same time they seem pretty happy with Wise given what they're paying. They are apparently saving up to make a wallop in free agency next year. I hope. If they were willing to bring in Erstad, coming off the crap year he was having way back with LAA, then they should be willing to make an offer to Edmonds, who while older had more success more recently than Erstad had at that point.

watching the first half of this on tape now. Someone needs to tell "Alissay" this is bad timing. The Willis Tower wounds are still fresh. EDIT: but oh jesus i just saw the 360 spin put out, all is forgiven

You gotta just play Wise against righties, get BA in late for defensive replacement. Normally I'd hate to go to the 4th OF so regularly, but you have that nice option of Alexei as an emergency OF in case of injury/extra innings freak scenarios.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Mar 14, 2009 -> 05:42 PM) And somewhere in Glendale, a lone tear slowly rolls down Jerry Owens' cheek. The Sox havent sounded all that interested in leading off Getz or Lillibridge. So BA has always been kind of cemented in 4th OF to me. And of course late innings replacement, they liked the way he handled that role last year.

bwahahaha BA reacting like it's everyday occurrence, sort of like Pablo with his no doubter HR that time.

QUOTE (fathom @ Mar 14, 2009 -> 04:32 PM) Betemit's easily going to be the most dangerous PH we've had in a long time. Wise had a very nice year pinchhitting last yr, albeit not being here the whole yr

Lets assume he repeats something along the lines of his rookie year...and does something like that throughout his prime. After all he was 26 last yr. So - for the bulk of his career - where do you see him being the best fit in the order?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Mar 13, 2009 -> 03:33 AM) We have Jordan Danks, Lillibridge, Beckham and Shelby III in the pipeline...not understanding why we're more concerned with 3-5 seasons from now at this point in spring training. Of the ones you list, the only one that can be considered a gem is probably not going to be a leadoff hitter when he hits his MLB stride. You keep piling prospects, even if there are current holes you cant assume the future's really set anywhere. Instead of trading for leadoff guy now, I want us to do what we're doing and target next year for a "now" move, when money comes off the books. Right now we're doing a decent job piling prospects but they have to find some more gems who can bat high up in the order. I'd like them to try to draft a leadoff hitter who has the makeup to be a potential No.2 hitter if need be. EDIT: although yes i agree with the posts saying you cant draft solely on need. Our situation is a little logjam like though. If you're drafting college guys, I would stay away from power hitters unless there was one guy blowing me away. Reason being I think with CQ, Beckham, AR, Viciedo, Fields, Allen...plus the possibility of one of our aging guys being viable for 2-3 more yrs... based on that, i think you're going to (one way or another) have 3-4-5 locked up for the next few years. 1-2 however is very far from locked up and worth investing picks in. The biggest question marks I list above are Viciedo and Allen. Everyone who's viable for the 1-2 slots, organization-wide, is a bigger question mark than all those listed power guys besides Allen. Plus lets say two of those leadoff hitters pan out. It's no crime, then ya got a 1-2 or maybe 9 and 1. I think Lillibridge is a 9 if he makes it in MLB, in that he's older.

So what's the deal with Egbert? Is he not really in the mix as a reliever? Article makes it seem like, for the time being, it's 5th starter outside chance, or nothing (regarding opening day)

Wow, just wow

If this team isnt willing to go get a FA, Beckham needs to be up here.

What is a Darwin Barney

Wilson Bete-NO-mitt

b/c we wouldnt do this

The reason i bring this up is most people here doubt Owens can be more than a slap singles hitter. From what I can see the organization has done well with leadoff hitters that dont hit doubles. If JO can do even a little worse than that storied end of 0607 stretch.... i think he could be at least passable and enough for a winning team.

I'm about 3 yrs too young to remember Rudy Law...in the winning year i see he was maybe average as a leadoff guy (i should say besides stealing bases). If you remember him, briefly describe what he was like, perhaps chart him with regards to other past Sox leadoff guys. Pods statistically was not off the charts in '05, this i know. obviously he got things going at opportune times and will always be remembered as such. Leads up to the question: can our leadoff hitter --even if just average to slightly below--be at least as good as the ones we had in winning years?

So who for sure can backup ss??

This one Cardinals fan told me St Louis has bigger sports fans than Chicago b/c the Ozzie Smith restaurant thrives whereas Jordan's restaurant comparatively didnt last long. Ha. Supply & demand much?

cr/ap still makes me laugh also, this thread title makes it sound like jc/bc both are done for the year already

So after this year which major contracts come off the books?

Konerko seems like a really stand-up guy Still doesnt make me rue the day that we locked him up for all those years. But a great guy nonetheless.

well he's very old for a baseball player, especially one that stayed off the wild juice

He played the most games in his career since 2003 Wants to go two more years but also said he doesnt know how much longer he'll wanna play

Re-sign PJ Brown for a 1M 1 year, then package him with Orlando Cabrera for K.G.

Jose looks motivated. Last year's run mustve really got him fired up.