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QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 06:31 PM) Toronto is only 0.5 game ahead, not 1.5 games. even better.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 06:23 PM) Morales barely misses a homer, then doubles and drives in two runs with yet another two out hit. Now leading the AL in RBI's with 69/70. One of the best signings of the off-season and likely the AL Comeback Player of the Year. 2-0 KC going to the bottom of the 1st. If anybody other than his mom said they saw this from Morales they gotta be lying.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 06:19 PM) Somebody with the White Sox deserves a lot of credit for sticking with him. He had a long time where he was sub-Phegley level at the plate and they let him work through it. Most teams wouldn't. He doesn't have to stay this hot from here on out, but he does have to keep hitting well to show that we didn't just experience two flukes (one bad, one good) One thing about Carlos, he doesn't ever take his bat into the field. He let's some balls play him from time to time but for the most part he not only makes the routine plays -- he routinely makes the spectacular plays. Not many guys are fun to watch defensively on the Sox but with the sudden emergence of Ramirez and Sanchez up the middle the Sox' defense has produced several wow moments lately. I'm rooting like hell for the kid his twitter page is awesome, just all family and business.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 06:15 PM) Hopefully. Listening to the Blue Jays game, it's crazy to think with Tulo, Donaldson and Price, they have probably now have 3 of the top 10-15 players in the majors (Tulo not quite as good as early 2014) and that's not even including Joey Bats and Edwin Encarnacion. And, it being baseball, nothing is ever guaranteed. In fact, the baseball fates might conspire against AA and Jordan4Life just like they did with Beane last season. Hopefully the Yankees and Jays both beat up on each other or the Yankees just obliterate the east. Whatever happens at least we are in a position to scoreboard watch for a bit. If you think about it the Jays, with all that talent, are 1.5 games ahead of the Sox in a weaker division. If they are going all in, shouldn't the Sox at least consider adding a solid piece? The Jays have position player mashers, but the Sox have (suddenly) defense and elite (whole season really) pitching. As much as we b**** about Danks, most teams would be absolutely over the moon to have a rotation of a half seasoned Rodon as the 4 with Sale, Shark, Q out front and Danks as the 5th wheel. Yea they have some weaknesses in the pen in the 6th and 7th but if the offense keep up that will be minimized, which is what Hawk never seems to realize. Hahn and KW both know a bat is going to be worth more than another middle reliever and an elite reliever isn't worth the assets it would take.

Another milestone! (lol) Carlos Sanchez has been worth roughly .8 fWAR over the last 4 weeks and is back up to replacement level on the year! Seriously though, Sanchez and the Melkman have been critical in this run, hopefully they can keep it up as both are assets not just this year but hopefully the next couple.

Boston fans are thinking 9pm eastern start

QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 05:35 PM) The same tweet from the Knights says Micah is on the DL doh

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 05:35 PM) Nope, he's on the DL. Yea I just saw that, guess they felt they needed another AAAA guy with Boni out.

The official twitter of the Charlotte Knights just posted that Sellers is headed there. Trade is official. Just some cash I guess. The seems to be a precursor to another move, perhaps an infielder (Micah?) getting shipped off...

QUOTE (Frank_Thomas35 @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 06:26 PM) Boom Sellers a member of the sox organization Nightingale re tweeting that kid. The #WhiteSox pick up IF Justin Sellers from the #Pirates, per @Dev seriously? the back of his basball card is worse than beckhams.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 06:18 PM) Chuck Garfien ‏@ChuckGarfien 2m2 minutes ago Can't see the White Sox giving up too much to get Cespedes. Tigers are divisional rival who could end up signing him back next season. way to bury the lede Chucky: he's a rental regardless.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 06:15 PM) Put this in the Soria thread, but I have a feeling that we are in a 3-team trade with the Pirates and Tigers involving Soria, Sellers, and Cespedes. ooh, I always like 3 team trades.

Cespedes for Montas would be an overpay IMO. Give them Danish and that kid the sox picked up in the shark trade.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 11:12 AM) Pitch framing wasn't even a thing until a few years ago. It means almost nothing. It's all about who is pitching to you and the pitchers rep with umps for throwing strikes. When pitchers reps and the inconsistency of umps calling balls and strikes is taken into consideration pitch framing just doesn't stack up as viable. Just because its a sabr-stat doesn't mean it should automatically be trusted as a "thing". Flowers is huge for a catcher and I hardly ever see him handle a ball in the dirt flawlessly. He can block some but is high on the list of passed balls allowed which to me is more reliable than pitch framing. I'm with you on pitch framing it's so hard to parse out exactly who is getting the benefit of the doubt (the catcher or the pitcher) and I get that Flowers grades out 5th this year but he's never been higher than top 1/3 in previous years and FFS how many extra strikes to you have to pull to make up for a wRC+ of 56 and awful throwing? Flowers is literally the definition of replacement level. If he wasn't friends with Sale and an ORG favorite (grindy white catcher) he'd probably already be gone.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 11:07 AM) Incredible how quiet things are around 35th and Shields. Usually that means a blockbuster is about to go down right?

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jul 29, 2015 -> 10:05 PM) http://www.baseballprospectus.com/sortable...php?cid=1821757 I'd call #3 "one of the best". Eh that's 2015.

6 outs away from a Chris Sale start and a shot at .500 Not bad.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jul 29, 2015 -> 10:00 PM) Yes, but he is one of the best framers in all of baseball. To me, that counts as defense. Also, while his hitting does usually suck, he does have phases where he'll hit .400 for 7-10 days. even if you believe the framing stats as gospel he's not "one of the best". He's above average. http://www.statcorner.com/CatcherReport.php

QUOTE (Baron @ Jul 29, 2015 -> 09:59 PM) His defense is in the negative and he ranks 39th out of all catchers via WAR. lol he sucks don't know why people try and defend him.

Why are we not taking these blowouts as an opportunity to blood some of the relievers and get our starters some rest? Come on RV wake up buddy.

nobody was even warming? WTF seems like the Sox like to assume a lot of quick innings when their starter is at ~90 pitches and going through the lineup the 3rd time.

Ha, f*** off Napoli.

Melky's weird mannerisms are a helluva lot more endearing when he's tearing the cover off the ball.

So if RV lets Q go over 105 or so tonight he should be questioned in the post game. Last night whatever but come on the pen needs some work and this team looks like they are gonna need their horses in late Sept -- let Q rest up.

last thing they need is another RH reliever. They need a damn DH with an OPS above 660.