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QUOTE (knightni @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 02:52 PM) Would you make him a qualifying offer in the hopes that he declines it and the team gets a supplimental pick? No. Would you want Adam Dunn on a 1 year, $14 million deal next year? Not at his current production, I would not.

QUOTE (Ozzie Ball @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 09:32 AM) 200 PA's is not enough to forget his previous 1000. Now let's apply this same sentence to Davidson everyone, k?

QUOTE (oldsox @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 09:27 AM) I don't understand the infatuation for Davidson. If he had Saladino's numbers, you guys would be messing yourselves. Yet, Saladino doesn't show up anywhere. Saladino is 23 and possibly figured it out this year. Davidson hasn't. Balta needs two more years, I just discovered. How about two more months? Interesting that you'd bring up Saladino and Davidson in the same sentence, because Saladino is a guy who has talent, got up to AA/AAA at age 22, struggled there, and now may be putting together a solid, "promotion worthy" campaign at AAA after a couple years there. If 2 months of struggling when you're still young for a level sours you on a guy...

QUOTE (oldsox @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 09:19 AM) And he can't make anyone.s prospect list. Seriously, tho, was he hurt last year, or what? I'm trying to figure out why he hit only .230ish last year in AA. Saw him in person and honestly can't say why. He seemed like he was doing fine, moved plenty well, seemed athletic/in good shape, but wasn't putting it together after early successes at lower levels. He could be a guy things just clicked for. Some video of him from me @ the Futuresox youtube page:

QUOTE (oldsox @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 08:56 AM) Yes. If he were 2 years older, maybe I'd agree.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 03:08 PM) How about Scherzer, Sanchez, Porcello, Smyly, Verlander? As of right now you'd probably take Verlander over Smyly but only because of the big guy's history.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 02:12 PM) Agreed. He has looked MUCH sharper. Come July it may make a lot of sense do to splits for Danks before & after ~Memorial day if he can keep this groove up.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 10:54 AM) I haven't read they were fine with it. I've read they were informed that the admn was talking about an exchange, but weren't informed that it was actually going to be done. Congress would absolutely have the right to take the President to court over this if they chose to do so. Of course, the reality is that if Congress did that, first there is a solid chance that the entire law saying that the President can't move prisoners out of the Gulag would be declared unconstitutional. Second, then there would be the optics of the Congress taking the President to court over getting a military prisoner back during an election year, which might not play well in some districts no matter what Fox is saying. So, the end result is that Congress will complain for a few days on TV but take no action, a few complete idiots like John McCain will be caught completely contradicting themselves, and this particular potential issue will be forgotten. Instead, the President will continue to understand that he may well have the ability to ignore that law, but as long as he (or in the future she) does not massively overstep that law by, for example, transferring all of the Gitmo detainees to a U.S. Prison, the conflicting legal possibilities will never be settled.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 01:38 PM) Spend the money, get the BPA. Is this still not understood? They will spend the money even if they don't get the BPA. That would be the point.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 01:50 PM) And as everyone always tells you, you just can't do that. You can take a start or two away from everyone and their numbers look much better. Take Danks' two best starts away and let me know what his numbers look like. It does seem like he's finding a groove since that "multiple bullpen session" week, gotta grant that.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 09:43 AM) We can get a successful contributor with the 2nd round pick. There are no guarantees on any of them, so go big here. But what happens if the Cubs's or Twins's 2nd round pick becomes a star? How terrible would that be!

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 09:41 AM) Taking Nola just because he's a college pitcher is something Hawk would do. Think about that for a second. If the Sox go the safety route with this thing at #3 they should be shown no mercy. This would be a whole lot worse than Broadway/McCulloch/1-pitch Poreda ever was given our draft position. And then how fun would it be to see the Cubs and/or Twins take the better player right behind us, lol. If Kolek/Rodon become aces for the Cubs or Twins while Nola is a medicore mid-rotation starter the Sox will never live it down. But if Sox go Rodon/Kolek at #3 and he gets hurt, leaving Nola to Cubs or Twins, nobody really cares because the guy isn't special anyway. Take Gordon or Jackson over that guy. At 3 overall Nola is a turd in the punch bowl. Buddy Bell's turd, with Hawk standing right by it going "Yesss!" Why does no one consider it going the other way, that in 2 years the White Sox have a successful contributor in the middle/upper half of their order and the high schooler drafted by the Cubs/Twins is having TJS?

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 09:16 AM) I wouldn't mind Nola, but I would not be happy paying him slot. If the Sox can save the equivalent of a third rounder by going with Nola, I would be OK with it. I am just worried that Nola's 94-95 MPH suddenly becomes 91-92 ala Erik Johnson. A 3rd rounder, so only $500k below slot? That almost seems easy.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 07:58 AM) The biggest problem bringing up Bryant is starting the arbitration clock/Super 2. It's the same situation as Polanco and the Pirates. Well that and apparently his strikeout rate is the same as Courtney Hawkins's.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 4, 2014 -> 09:27 PM) Someone said it best the other day. The idea of trading Reed for a near-ready offensive player was great. However, the scouting of that player might be where the trouble lies. KW and Hahn have traded a lot of big league talent over the last 5 years with very little to how for it. It's hard to imagine getting less production that what they have received from trading Quentin, Swisher, Santos, Rios, Vazquez and Reed. If you want a decent return, part of the matter is not including guys who are pretty much useless.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jun 4, 2014 -> 09:18 PM) I think it's completely fair to say that the return we got for Rios was underwhelming and that had we been willing to pay the rest of his 2013 salary we would have gotten a much better return. Clearly the Sox were looking for financial flexibility in the Rios deal and that's what they got. Not sure I agree with that decision, but it definitely impacted the overall return. Do people really think the Texas Rangers, if given the choice between using money and using prospects, would have chosen to use a better prospect in that deal?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 4, 2014 -> 01:58 PM) Again I think Andy McPhail is the perfect name here. He did amazing things in MN with zero payroll. Cub fans thought he was a slam dunk here because of having all of the extra money to spend. That didn't work out too well. Huh? It seems like it worked pretty much perfectly to me.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jun 4, 2014 -> 01:33 PM) It's not even as good as Konerko, Ordonez, Durham, Thomas, Lee. Especially considering that Ray Durham was such an incredible pitcher.

I like how in one forum we're saying Leury Garcia, who is in the big leagues at age 23, is a poor return for Rios, and in another forum we're impressed at how well Eduardo Escobar is doing for the Twins.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 4, 2014 -> 09:56 AM) He has his moments. The range is good, and the arm is strong. What do the metrics say, because I'm just going off what I've watched? Pretty much every metric and my eye test agree. He was slightly above average when he first moved to 2b in 2011, but he's gotten worse each successive year and last year was a below-average 2b. His range used to be good but by 2013 it was down to tolerable and he makes a ton of errors to go with. So far the metrics say he's improved slightly this year, enough to be back to slightly above average potentially if he doesn't hit a string of errors again, but I haven't seen enough of him to agree or disagree on that.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 4, 2014 -> 09:36 AM) But there wasn't because it's ridiculous, like that analogy. Changing from the Bullets to the Wizards to get away from a violent ideology would've been more suitable. If every school or team changes their Indian mascot names, fine, but why is Washington being singled out? The only reason its ridiculous is that there are more people in the country who are subject to that slur so it's harder to ignore. It really ought to be that simple.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 4, 2014 -> 09:51 AM) But he is above average defensively No. He. Isn't.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 4, 2014 -> 09:50 AM) That is pretty empty and meaningless speculation. It took 1 business day for my speculation to be accurate, at least on the part of the NRA.

QUOTE (oneofthemikes @ Jun 4, 2014 -> 09:45 AM) I don't know for sure, but I feel like that may be a bit overstated. Sale was on about the fastest fast track I can remember and it took him a partial bullpen stint and then a full year in the pen before he hit the rotation. Not saying it can't happen, but I would be surprised if they moved that quickly with anybody. That full year in the bullpen was an utter mistake.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 3, 2014 -> 10:47 AM) Those crazy NRA assholes issued a statement on this: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/06/02/n...-chipotle-beef/ QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 3, 2014 -> 02:05 PM) Open Carry Texas has become to gun owners what the Westboro Baptist Church is to Christians. The NRA has backed off on their statement criticizing these people, blaming a staff member's personal opinion, apologizing for "any confusion", and resuming their support of "open carry" without restrictions. Took one business da y. You were saying?