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QUOTE (Baron @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 04:03 PM) So start the guy who gave up 2 runs because of terrible plays in the OF last night? Besides McEwing's stupidity Garcia cost us the game. But by all means keep him playing. It's working wonders so far. To be fair, Garcia gave up 1 run directly last night but he also got on base and scored one. TT probably wouldn't do either of those.

QUOTE (LDF @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 03:30 PM) i don't know, maybe if i was really interested, 3 / 69. the danks situation may have me gun shy. Then you don't get to say anything about the White Sox not bringing in any big-time free agents this offseason because you're not anywhere close, ok? There's nothing wrong with that, avoiding major free agents can be a smart move if done correctly. Just don't complain this offseason about the lack of impact moves.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 03:50 PM) If this loosing streak continues, I am jumping back on the tank bandwagon. A little late for that.

QUOTE (Knackattack @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 03:06 PM) 7/150 I think you're in the game with that offer but I honestly really don't know what he'll get. He's the kind of player we haven't seen on the FA market before - a guy who is extremely young, in the era of the exploding TV deals, gets a huge amount of his value by being a strong defender, and could still have offensive upside beyond what we've seen so far. He could get an offer approaching $200 and I wouldn't be that surprised, would you?

QUOTE (Jake @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 02:54 PM) I have a hard time saying I'm comfortable with giving any player a 7 year contract, but I'd be thrilled if we signed Heyward for $20M/year. You're ok with that number...now 2nd part...what's the highest you'd go if you were Rick Hahn? Years and total dollars.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 02:46 PM) That can't be corrected in the big leagues. Send him down for the rest of this year and all of next season I don't know that he'll be able to correct it in the minors. He was able to hammer pitching in AAA his last year there because he is able to make contact on a lot of swings; the pitchers weren't good enough with either control or stuff to beat him. Now that he's in the big leagues the pitchers are able to spot stuff better and they're no longer giving him pitches that he can easily handle with his approach. The end result is that he's swinging and missing or making weak contact all the time.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 01:09 PM) The damage is done though. They got their outrage, their riot, and the TV numbers. And a huge, wholesale reform of the police department following an intensive DOJ investigation which will benefit thousands of people in that city.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 01:14 PM) That said, outside of Dunn and going back through basically all of the 2000's, I presume that was the only time, correct? So long term, you really can't talk about our draft being bad because we lost first round picks due to signing free agents. Going back farther we had no 2nd rounders in 2008 or 2005. Just noting that it does play a role.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 01:01 PM) Losing picks for signing people is pretty much a moot point with the Sox. Other then this past off-season, had we lost picks for anyone in recent years? While picking higher helps, I would argue in the draft, it is a crapshoot anyway so you don't get near as significant of an advantage picking top 10 as you do in say the NFL / NBA. They sacrificed their 2011 first round pick for Adam Dunn as well.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 10:02 AM) Lifetime .265/.351/.430, which is quite good in today's game, especially considering his career started at age 20. Defense is somewhere between very good and great. And to cap it off, he'll be 26 when he hits free agency. Not a lot to dislike. How far are you willing to take that "not a lot to dislike" comment? Would you go 7/$140+? What's your limit?

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 11:48 AM) One thing to point out. Over the past few years the Sox philosphy on drafting did take a fundamental shift. I don't know if that was driven by Hostetler or Hahn or whom, but the reality is, when you look at our early round picks, we have had quite a few successes or at least perceived successes (still way too early technically on Rodon / Fullmer) after an extended run of stinkers in the early rounds. We also have seen the farm system get stronger. What we still haven't been able to figure out is how to develop (or find) the right position players and I don't know that we have necessarily changed that trend (although you have to give Sox credit for Semien (A's) / Saladino / Sanchez / Micah who all look like they should play at least a few years in the majors, if not more) and obviously Anderson is the one top end position prospect trending in the right direction. I might be overstating on Saladino cause he's probably the one I have the least faith in of the bunch but I like his presence enough to stay patient with him, however, he will never play as a starter at 3B (and I highly doubt he'll be able to stick at SS either, I think Saladino's best bet is as a super sub where Sanchez and Micah could potentially both start with the main issue being they both play the same position (although Sanchez might be able to play a good enough SS). While I believe there has been improvement with regard to selecting pitchers, if I wanted to play Devil's Advocate...I could just say that the White Sox followed up a period where the team averaged winning 53% of their games with a period where the team has won 46.7% of their games over a 5 season period and as a consequence of nothing other than that their draft performance should have improved. While that may not be all of it....that has to be noted. They're regularly losing right now. That keeps them drafting higher and it keeps them from losing their 1st round pick when they sign FA.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 11:59 AM) Garcia simply hasn't been the same player since he hurt that knee in Oakland. He was off to a very good start. You wonder if something is still wrong with it. Mark I still say this is exactly the same Garcia we've seen since he arrived in Chicago, there's just a book out on him now.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 10:24 AM) Would be interesting if Robin throws Thompson out there in his debut against Archer. Would be a hell of a "Welcome to the big leagues kid" moment. Rays did that with that 1b they called up last night and Quintana. Wasn't pretty. HBP, followed by K swinging (blown away) and frozen K.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 09:28 AM) Ya, this is it. I'll still watch some games but this seasons done. We're not getting to .500 nor the playoffs. I missed the whole Baserunning screw up. What happened? If it works I'm trying to embed the video, if not I'll switch to the link in a sec. Your browser does not support iframes. Edit: Here's the link in case the embed code doens't work, it's failing half the time for me. The Rays announcers asking "What are they doing" is pretty impressive.

#1 and #3 in the AL in strikeouts. Will be #1 and #2 after tonight (Kluber just started & so has more outings than Archer).

QUOTE (oldsox @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 09:26 PM) Ravelo. Hitting around .350 in AA. I like RR and think he's got a good shot to be a really good big leaguer and I'd still hesitate on saying this based on his performance this year. Dude missed 1/2 the season with an injury and he's repeating AA.

Jesus that went a long way.

QUOTE (Knackattack @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 10:16 PM) Not specifically to injuries -- just in general. We've gotten lucky with pitchers but nothing else it seems. Any FA we sign to come here just comes here to die (Melky's resurgence not included), guys getting key hits against us and us seeming to fail late, bullpen's blowing leads. Just look at Jose Quintana and his no decisions as a story of this team for the past 6-7 years I'll grant you that - but remember, we have been exceptionally lucky this year with regards to health. Like ridiculously, unfairly lucky. Like "you 100% must assume you'll be more banged up next year" lucky.

At least there's no chance of Q taking a loss tonight.

QUOTE (Knackattack @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 10:08 PM) We haven't been the luckiest organization the past few years. I don't think he is injury prone but it figures our hardest swinging guy fouls a ball off his leg Are you kidding? This year the guys we've had on the DL are Bonifacio, Shuck, and Albers. Our record of health this year is ridiculously good. We've basically lost 0 of our key contributors for more than a couple games at a time. Compare that to the Cardinals where they've lost their #1 starter and their top offensive contributor has been on the DL twice - where would we be with that? If we have a normal number of injuries next eyar people will be calling us "snakebit" because we'll seem so much more banged up than this season.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 09:45 PM) back to a s***ty offense They could have done better like that pitch Flowers just popped up, but Karns has been really, really good.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 09:36 PM) Here's the rookie again. So far he's been hit by a pitch and completely aced by Q. Aced by Q twice. One swinging one frozen. Welcome to the bigs.

Here's the rookie again. So far he's been hit by a pitch and completely aced by Q.

QUOTE (Knackattack @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 09:34 PM) He hit .253 in july with a .581 OPS and 6/27 BB/K ratio. Not to mention the terrible defense in a position we could probably get good defense and similar production from for cheap I never said it wasn't a "completely punchless" .253. All I said was that if you could get Avi up with the runner on 2nd, flipping the ball to RF would actually work.

QUOTE (Knackattack @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 09:24 PM) All I can remember from Avi lately is infield hits. I think a lot of his stats are effected by his spree early in the year before he became Avisuck. He actually hit .253 during July. Hit over .300 the first 2 months, .181 during June but that was BABIP correcting. He still puts the ball in play. As long as he can keep doing that his average won't be terrible, and occasionally he'll hit a ball that the RF will drop. Like he just did.