Princess Dye

Is there any way the Sox keep Peavy for one more year on his huge option salary? They could rationalize to themselves $22M for Peavy and Quintana instead of $10M for Floyd and Quintana(plus in the mind of Jerry, you avoid the large Peavy buyout). And (hopefully) assume you keep getting this great value from young guys up and down the roster

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 6, 2012 -> 09:30 AM) This is the one time in life I honestly say Joe Cowley could be relevant here... Do not like Cowley's stances on things, but I think it's pretty clear that Twitter (and life) is less interesting with him not around anymore. As far as entertainment goes, I don't see how that can be disputed. As far as the bounds of (his) decency, that one is unsure. But he should be around, doing what he does. No Ozzie/No Cowley sadly leaves us only baseball. It's difficult.

In my opinion, to put Konerko on such a list really does him a disservice. It underrates him. As does this post.

What are the chances Ravelo is very good to outstanding one day? I know little about him (perhaps that question makes this obvious)

Speaking of CJ Retherford, I kind of wish this year we had a utility guy who could catch in a pinch. That way you have added flexibility with pinch-hitting, because you can use Flowers' power bat in any situation and not fear an AJ injury. And it would allow for more Flowers-at-1B. But I guess next year it's all moot as he's likely handed C.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Jun 4, 2012 -> 10:00 AM) What does last year have to do with this year and this thread which was discussing this year? The first post specifically mentions De Aza's 2011 stats as part of its argument about him.

southsider2k - batting average is just one slice of the pie. focusing way too much on that. in the important categories, he is somewhere between 'very good' and absolutely carrying us

I heard somewhere that after his career he could rejoin the Sox in a latin american scouting capacity

"it's a free country" misused for the billionth time. It's a free country, so Hawk is welcome to yell about the umpires on 35th street outside the park. As a well-paid employee, he's subject to what the team and league wants to project. It's also a free country in that Jerry can fire him. Jerry is perfectly free to do that.

Are they born armless in Nagodoches, TX? Why is it so impossible?

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 1, 2012 -> 09:46 PM) One of the rare times we agree Whenever anyone gets ready to agree with Greg quoted, the post always includes a politician-like qualifying statement

That might be in the Top 20 of funniest odd Hawk sounds

Wow, pathetic. Hate to say DV batting where he is in the lineup is still just about right.

Hawk should yell for one to get thrown away during a intentional BB It's the next step in his evolution

"it's maybe a magical year" blah blah blah

Whoa, I looked down and started fast forwarding

Hudson is superstitious

pitcher wins and losses are just so uninteresting now. I care almost 0% about that.

QUOTE (jeffro2525 @ Jun 1, 2012 -> 08:53 PM) Living in the heart of Cardinal country, I'm getting my text on right now. What's been your experience w/ the Cardinal fan take on the White Sox? Do you get the feeling there's a shaky alliance there or is it just basically all-out anti-Chicago bias The southern IL anti-Chicago bias is of course based in a lot of things

Hope that old man reads the news about going for baseballs

Quite simply just not a situation a second baseman encounters. Growing pains for Hudson at the position. Instinct is born out of past experiences.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 31, 2012 -> 04:56 PM) I've been consistent in saying that if this team does not contend this year that it was time for Kenny to go. How's that being Jay Mariotti? Here I will disagree with you. Dunn's bad year is not on KW. It's a freak thing going on with Adam (out of shape?) but whatever it is...that was not a hideous contract for what was expected and no one was to see his career falling off a table like that. Rios - I'm not going to kill KW over paying what he's paying for a .760 OPS guy who was supposed to handle CF. At RF, it's not great value....but again, not fireable. Rios was great in 2010 and perhaps now. He basically seems like a guy who is a solid piece in the years his bat is not a noodle. Peavy is on KW, as the PETCO numbers were heading downward, so they should've seen something. Peavy is on KW and also Reinsdorf for his insistence on getting aces only on short deals. Which may not be an awful stance to have but just saying it influenced the Peavy acquisition. The Dan Hudson trade appears to be Rizzo's fault. Both Swisher trades are bad, but even that's not fireable because the second one was purely Kenny asking Ozzie the main thing he wanted done, and Ozzie said he wanted Swish off the team. The young guys KW let go are probably the worst thing about him, but since we know he trades prospects, that can't be a shock. We're just not going to be the kind of team that holds onto all of them, so some will flourish on other teams by law of averages. KW is worth it because he is great at the scrap heap and under-the-radar acquisitions.... Danks, Alexei, De Aza, AJP, Iguchi, Quintana, Podsednik. Failed big moves hurt, but assigning tons of blame on the GM for just that is bad logic.

Marty, I will support you, sir. Viciedo showed us so little, in that the HR-power wasn't there enough to make up for the fact that so much of avg-inflated OBP seemed to be on bloops/luck over the last two years. At least at the major league level. On the flipside, many of his bloops are not luck, in that they are created by his pure strength. He's obviously not going to keep the first-ballot-HoF pace throughout this year.....but I have to say he seems willing (much like at the beginning of his 2011 callup) to try the whole plate patience thing. The big key is this - when pitchers leaguewide start being worried about him, how will he react to that. For awhile I thought we had a Jorge Cantu ceiling here offensively, but I'm glad to realize that was a low expectation.

Interesting kind of off-the-map guy

I'm not a Morel defender by any stretch, but I will mention that it sure doesn't help get you going when the rest of the lineup is as bad as it was at the beginning of the year as well. That plus the injury of course should lead anyone here to want to still see what happens with this guy. The glove is obviously good enough to still see what we have. But not at the cost of current wins, as has been said. There's no way you can send down Escobar since he's such a good backup ss.