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QUOTE (Bigsoxhurt35 @ Sep 10, 2014 -> 11:26 PM) 65th win! I'm all for tanking but this win feels good wins are always good we're not gona get a top 5 pick. that was a good win and once again the "right" guys are coming through...team still needs a boatload more talent though. Seems to be heading in the right direction though. This team is all together much improved (and cheaper and younger) than last year's finishing bunch.

lol people are writing off Garcia? Come on if healthy he's a 4 tool player. Check the projections on him as well, it's not just scouts that love him he's projected for around 10 WAR through age 27. It's terribly over used but his hit tool is legit, he's hitting 278 with all his experience coming before age 24. His OPS+ is 103. He's already a solid hitter, when he gets some experience under his belt he could be an excellent hitter. Not to mention he's fast and can field a bit if he continues to improve. I think personally he's been good since returning from injury in RF.

QUOTE (Bigsoxhurt35 @ Sep 10, 2014 -> 09:31 PM) 5Ks...nice only 1BB If it's one thing this org can f***ing do, it's produce solid starters. I'd like to see them have a SURPLUS of guys again instead of a freaking shortage. The position player talent is awful, any lingering doubts as to how poorly KW left this franchise should be long gone.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 10, 2014 -> 07:56 PM) Well, on the plus side, that makes the likes of Flowers, Garcia and Viciedo look much better in comparison. There is a pretty big reason that 26-27 year old 1B in AAA aren't usually considered prospects, even when they are putting up numbers like Wilkins. He looks awful. This team has packed it in the for the year. They should start sitting Jose more as well.

QUOTE (Andy the Clown @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 11:32 PM) His ERA with the Sox is 4.28 Like I said, squinting. Ideally he's the 5th with Rodon maybe 4, plus a free agent, danks gone.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 11:07 PM) More wins than last year!!! Nice, and quite a bit more anchors to build on in the future too. I like what Noesi is doing I can squint and see a solid 4th starter next year for him.

Caught the final couple innings. What a way to win it! Love spoiling Oakland's season and forget the draft pick stuff for a night -- exciting win! From the box looks like Noesi did alright and so did the pen. Not much offense but Flowers making a strong case to enter 2015 as a plausible starting catcher. I don't know if he'll ever be much more than a good backup at best adequate starter but that's not bad. He is very durable and that's a point in his favor.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 04:03 PM) I actually prefer second half Abreu. He's been hitting like Miguel Cabrera. Sure I'd like to see a few more homers, but you can't complain about a .438 OBP and .534 SLG. I think he's tired and is trying to pace himself. Next year he'll have a full offseason to train knowing how long the grind is. He came into camp probably about 10-15 lbs overweight (not even saying he was out of shape just a little overweight for a 162 game grind) so next spring I think he'll show up a little lighter on his feet and that will help. Seems like he's also "just missed" a couple HR that earlier in the year he was getting a bit lucky on. And yea, there is nothing wrong with a .438/534 split -- as you said, that's Frank Thomas -- one of the 20 best hitters of all time. And Jose is doing this in a relative dead ball era.

Anyone that thinks a kid that his .199 in AAA would have magically been a 250 hitter in MLB is f***ing delusional. Furthermore, if the kid is that upset about the demotion how in the hell is he going to have the mental toughness to perservere through his first 2 for 50 streak? Some of you guys are nuts, seriously.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Sep 4, 2014 -> 09:09 AM) The last thing I am going to worry about is how many home runs go into making up a player's .983 OPS. Abeu leads the AL in SLG, OPS, OPS+, and I wouldn't trade any of those to have him lead the league in HR. No kidding. So he's turned from Mark McGwire into Frank Thomas -- no problems here!

The problem is that he SUCKS against LHP. It's an obvious platoon situation and Robin doesn't see it. An idea that could easily work is to use Semian as a true super sub next year (he was playing SS in AAA) as a platoon 3B against LHP for Conor and a day off sub for Alexei, Sanchez and whoever if in LF. That would get him 300 or so PA and it protects Conor's value because he loses a lot of it against LHP.

good job Tank, up that trade value!

Well at least Avi looks good.

anybody need any laundry dried? Like, maybe you own a small country? Because that's how much rope has been laid out against Danks so far. good god the Twins announcers DO THEY DO ANY RESEARCH? John Danks had a f***ing major surgery you idiots he hasn't been the same since. He's not "that type of pitcher" anymore. He sucks!

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 3, 2014 -> 07:39 PM) Wow, I guess they don't throw offspeed pitches in AAA Yea welcome to the bigs. Wilkins hardly walks at all, he's going to have to hit like 270-280 to have any value. Not gonna happen IMO.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Sep 3, 2014 -> 07:27 PM) That is fine by me because nobody in the Sox dugout has any faith in him anymore other than Jordan. I think only one Soxtalk regular still thinks he's a plausible starter next year and that's Dick Allen.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Sep 3, 2014 -> 07:24 PM) Danks is so F'N bad...............no way he can be counted on to be a starter next year, If Sox are serious in trying to win. Make him the BP pitcher, that should give the SOx a lot of confidence heading into the games.

John Danks f***ing sucks.

Conor slumping, blah. Got a cookie and popped it up. He's been dropping the head of the bat and pulling that pitch hard all year. Maybe he's tired.

Wilkins, Phegley, Simien. Yikes. Good luck boys.

The FA market sucks, is what it is. Might actually benefit the Sox if someone is desperate in January and Danks is still around.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 3, 2014 -> 10:12 AM) That is actually a really good thought. I said a few days ago they might find someone in the Rule 5 they like. Again, they will be rather high up in the picking order not sure how many of the half dozen teams in front of them will have an extra 25 and/or 40 man spot but the Sox could take a flyer on a SP candidate.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 3, 2014 -> 12:39 AM) http://www.csnchicago.com/white-sox/white-...&ocid=yahoo Article explaining rationale for not promoting Rodon this September. Money quote at the very end (pun intended): "it’s (MLB promotion) going to be put off until some time in 2015.” They are going to (smartly imo) have him enter spring with "a chance to make the team" and he'll be brought up in May or later to try and avoid super 2 while continuing to work on his command in AAA. There's no rush on this kid, Sox play it right they will have a 1-2 starter for the next 7+ years to pair with Q and Sale. I like that they aren't going to rush him. He's only been going 3-5 innings in AAA and he's thrown some high stress innings this year already so a bullpen role in MLB doesn't make much sense for a team long out of contention.

keep it up the Chi Sox online presence is greatly improved by your work! Love Soxtalk I rejoined this site as my primary posting site this season and it's better than I remember from a few years ago.

QUOTE (Señor Ding-Dong @ Sep 3, 2014 -> 12:11 AM) Flowers is the greatest catcher of all-time. Too bad he'll be left out of the hall once word of his PEG use gets out. Performance enhancing glasses. Viciedo is such a tease. How about Sanchez? A lot of you guys are ready to hand the job to Semien or Johnson and write off Sanchez as trade bait, but I like what I see out of the kid. Let those three battle it out for the job in ST then decide who to trade. Sanchez is the real deal why people wrote him off as on the outside looking in is beyond me. He's still extremely young and has a defensive position at 2B locked down if he can hit 40 points above his weight. What I'm saying is of all the Sox' middle infield prospects it's Sanchez that has the glove to start in MLB right now. If he hits 280/310/390 and runs the bases a bit he's a 2 WAR player, easily better than Beckham. He played well in AAA this year and is holding his own in his brief MLB audition this year.