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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 14, 2015 -> 05:40 PM) Scott Merkin ‏@scottmerkin 5m5 minutes ago From BA: "I’m more excited to sign right now than I was when I got drafted in the first round." good god. revealing. BA was very into the outer trimmings of being a pro athlete. giving tickets away to the right female fans etc

I really miss all those threads about how He Was Really Good - We Just Mishandled Him

We have already restocked the Chicago Sports Nikola quota

Glad we're finally getting back to putting that 05 roster back together.

Frighteningly, his career OBP wouldve been amongst our team leaders last year

Semien replaced, and now less can be expected of Sanchez and even less of Micah J. Love it.

Insta-depressing. Makes one want to think trade ASAP. while mystery remains. what the hell happened to the CF notion? all the tools

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Dec 23, 2014 -> 08:13 PM) C: Kottaras or Brantly IF: L. Garcia or Saladino (if him, then he platoons at third) OF: Danks Until: Bonifacio signing (platoon 3B, jack of all trades) platoon at 3b? It's Conor's full time

i actually might have preferred Sierra to Danks next year. Were we already in the playoffs. But for the season long grind, 4th OF has to be glove first and Sierra is not well-rounded in that dept.

avi's gonna hit for power. defense is frightening.

their last christmas party was so wild i barely survived it

i do want MD getting atbats tho, at least most the year. incidentally...who's backup first base? laroche and abreu isnt enough depending on situation.

Not saying i have an answer for Davidson's year last year, but aberrations do happen. It is not worthless to mention the following: the major league at-bats he HAS had..actually went well. Davidson would be in the mix if Conor went down. And as someone else said maybe Saladino

The moves we've made this offseason were done on the backs of our cost controlled guys being in place and ready-now. Conor is one of those guys, so he's basically a definite as our 3b. And then Davidson is not forgotten either. 3b is set because it has to be.

CG is one of my favorite guys on the team. That said, he is a prime candidate for being someone who gets blamed and targeted hard by fans if his season or our season go south early

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Dec 18, 2014 -> 10:17 AM) Viciedo will never play 3B again. feels like a movie scene by a hospital bed 'dayan has been in a tragic accident and...'

Seeing what Rios and other 1 WAR players make in free agency, i just honestly cant believe some team isnt willing to take a chance on the remaining DV upside. He's not old.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Dec 17, 2014 -> 03:31 PM) Didn't Viciedo jack 25 HRs his first full season? 0.4 WAR is a sad best season

Montas is going nowhere. They dont have the strong desire to upgrade Flowers. If they were going to do it, it was going to be Martin. Other options not worth it right now since Flowers is worth his (small) salary.

I had trouble supporting last year's team.

On paper we're hoping/praying to be as strong as the Oakland team last year. Just hoping to be at that point. Dont rule out returns to the mean from Conor/Eaton/LaRoche. Frighteningly C too. The defense from RF/3B do not inspire confidence. we dont even know 2B yet. So hopefully that cools the highest optimism jets considerably. But the point isnt to be the most talented team in MLB, it's just to get in. Once you're in, the chaos of baseball can/will take over.

Hawk Harrelson is so utterly reviled nationally. Internationally. Interplanetary.

QUOTE (MAX @ Dec 14, 2014 -> 02:52 PM) Those are different situations entirely. Please see the other thread about this topic. MAX, have you rooted for teams with pitchers who doctor the ball? Cheating is a long time part of our game's honored past.

The first wave of steroid users destroyed the record books mystique of baseball. That was the massive damage. The later era guys are just drugging themselves to stay ahead of the competition like NFL guys do. NFL is not broken. NFL players are just seen as machines, and now MLB is to be enjoyed in the same way. Players are still cheating, have always cheated, will continue to cheat forever. Now we all just know what it is and it's on the table.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 14, 2014 -> 01:39 PM) The part of the steroid red flag you haven't acknowledged is the guys who have their production fall off a lot once they're off the steroids. It's a red flag with its own specific particulars, yeah. Conversely, we can pay Rios to just be Rios. Clean and meh. I think any way you factor it in, 3 yrs is great. If he's caught then we're out of the consequences in pretty quick fashion. Over the next three years we are most likely not a WS winner, so this is our stab at it. If we're not the champs then this contract was just another 3 yr way of losing, like anything else was. The roid aspect doesnt give it any extra/less weight more than anything else.