Balta1701

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Just spent time fighting back tears watching Russell Watson sing Faith of the Heart to wake up New Horizons. N isn't up for a few letters so you can't call me a nerd for like 5 posts.

QUOTE (LDF @ Dec 6, 2014 -> 07:52 PM) BPA in theory is a good idea if the team is stacked, but the sox system is lacking and have plenty of holes that needs to be fixed. i can see the sox taking a college player in the first rd and the rest of the draft will addressed their agreed breakdown of the teams needs. outside the top 5 players of the draft, in my opinion, the talent of players is not as strong as past draft. however there are a lot of HS'ers who can really help the systems. This is totally backwards. "We have lots of holes. We shouldn't take BPA because we don't have a hole". What? You always, always, always, always take what you think is the best player available in round 1. You can take positions you think you're weak at in other rounds to try to add depth, but in round 1 you take the best player available. Examples? The LA Angels took this random CF named Mike Trout when they had like 6 CFs on their roster being paid like $200 million. The White Sox had no room for a starting pitcher when they drafted Chris Sale, to the point they stupidly put him in the bullpen for a season. I think both those teams are content that they took what they felt was BPA.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Dec 6, 2014 -> 08:36 PM) There's always Asdrubal Cabrera. I have no urge to pay him a comparable salary to what Alexei is currently getting, which is what he should get on the FA market, unless we've moved Alexei and still somehow have a "Compete right now" roster.

Holy ****ing **** that was Taj in the intro high 5 lineup and he's back!

Horchata!

QUOTE (Butter Parque @ Dec 6, 2014 -> 05:59 PM) Im not sure thats entirely the case regarding the Yankees. If it was, why not just use Brendan Ryan everyday at SS and keep Shane Greene? Gregorius has the ability/potential to hit righties. Would they have confidence in Ryan staying healthy as an everyday player?

Achtung.

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QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Dec 5, 2014 -> 05:28 PM) The bulls would be foolish not to keep Butler. They'll match whatever he gets and everyone knows it. They just weren't prepared to offer that until they saw him stay healthy and perform for this season. If he doesn't get hurt he'll get a 5/$80 offer or whatever the Max is, the Bulls will match, and that will be that.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 5, 2014 -> 04:47 PM) How did that not make the national news? These recent cases are nothing compared to that nonsense. Answer your own question. Come on, be skeptical for just 1/4 of a second.

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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Dec 5, 2014 -> 08:30 PM) Seriously? That runs completely counter to their new operating model. At some point they will have to spend some money to fill holes and they should have plenty of money to spend.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 5, 2014 -> 05:08 PM) Especially against the White Sox. Here's the trick. We acquire ALL the lefties. We also acquire Ethier. We win.

QUOTE (TheFutureIsNear @ Dec 5, 2014 -> 07:02 PM) Paints a much broader picture in my eyes and Hamels was better. Not by a lot, but he was better. When a guy in the NL is "better but not by a lot" and gets to face pitchers...the guy in the AL wins.

QUOTE (Lillian @ Dec 5, 2014 -> 04:19 PM) This may make it less costly to acquire Ethier. If the Sox could get him without having to give up any significant talent, or the draft pick that a free agent acquisition involves, maybe it would be worth paying almost all of that contract. He is probably still a terrific hitter vs. RH pitching, given a chance to play regularly, and where he would be more wanted, than his current position with the Dodgers. what you just said does not equal playing everyday.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 5, 2014 -> 12:44 PM) There are points in between the insulting offer the Cubs gave, and market value, which the two parties could agree on. What tells me a lot about Samardzija giving a hometown discount is that what you just said is potentially true and he was still traded. IMO that's your signal that he's not giving anyone a discount. You want him signed, you meet the price.

QUOTE (WhiteSoxLifer @ Dec 5, 2014 -> 11:47 AM) Probably cause this is his last contract and staying for a team like the cubs isn't getting him anywhere. He's only getting money out of it with probably not competing anytime soon. The Cubs seem to have just as good of a shot at competing in the next 6 seasons as the White Sox, if not better. Why would he give a discount to the White Sox that he did not give to the Cubs?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 5, 2014 -> 11:58 AM) Most reasonable people are going to understand that an officer is going to make self-serving statements. That's an obvious bias there. But when you add what he said with what other witnesses say, with the type of person Brown was 30 minutes before the shooting, etc., the picture is painted. What kind of person is the officer?

One thing worth remembering in terms of "How much talent the Bears have" is that they're sitting on $10 million in dead cap space this season due to the Julius Peppers Contract. That really is a big difference in terms of things like "Depth on defense". That's 2 really solid, starting level players. You can perhaps blame Emery for not cutting the cord a season sooner, but at some point the Bears were going to have to bite a bullet on the Peppers contract when it was signed and everyone knew it.

One thing worth pointing out...the initial officer's story in the Cleveland case completely does not match up with the video. They said afterwards that he was in the gazebo with several other people and was thus a threat to them - untrue. They said that they told him to get down and put his hands up 3 times - also untrue. I point this out to reemphasize that people keep trusting the statement of the shooter because the other witness is dead. Note that i didn't call these "lies", which IMO could imply that they're deliberate. I don't know that. But I wish people would remember this case where the officers statements are factually inaccurate when they take Officer Wilson's word months after the fact for what happened in that case.

QUOTE (WhiteSoxLifer @ Dec 5, 2014 -> 11:38 AM) Cause again being back in home area and playing for a contender might help him decide to sign extension. He's already said if he were to become a free agent in 2015 he would definitely like to talk about coming back to Chicago. Being that the cubs are still in rebuild mode that's leaves a possible spot to the sox. Who cares what he wants to do if it's not worth any money to him? If coming back home is worth $25 million off his contract to him, ok then we can talk. It wasn't worth that much to him when the Cubs made him a ~$75 million offer well before he hit FA, why do we have any reason to think it's worth that much to him now?

One thing that the advanced stats have allowed us to do is make a much better evaluation of the actual impact of a player and how to compare the impact of a pitcher making 35 starts a year to a hitter making 150. You describe it as cost-inefficient, but we've seen good correlations between actual wins on the scoreboard and the numbers projected by those stats. Maybe you quibble over the exact numbers a bit, but a 5 WAR pitcher making 35 starts a year is just about as valuable to a team as a 5 WAR shortstop making 150 starts a year.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 4, 2014 -> 06:52 PM) .500 Where do they have to be in the draft again?