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The guy can't be sent down to stretch his arm out without passing him through waivers. The only way to stretch his arm out to starting innings is to work him a few times as a starter to build up his arm. It's the right move.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 2, 2014 -> 02:33 PM) When? Prior to the 2013 season you were all about signing Josh Hamilton, for example, and that was prior to the removal of contracts like Peavy and Rios as well as removal of guys like Reed who were closer to arbitration.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 1, 2014 -> 10:34 PM) The Dodgers lost $80 million last year. Last year was the year "before" their TV deal comes up right? So if they lose money last year they expect to make it up in the next couple years thanks to the playoff birth and extra ratings?

QUOTE (flavum @ May 1, 2014 -> 09:29 PM) Fedde who? 5 weeks to go. This draft class seems to be garbage. Well, maybe not garbage, but not the year to have the 3rd pick. They probably have just as good a chance to get an impact player at #44 or #77. This seems like the opposite of what almost everyone else had said this year.

QUOTE (VAfan @ May 1, 2014 -> 07:06 PM) The other factor here is that Dunn would likely give the Sox a discount, given how badly he played for them over a significant part of his current contract. Which might make his next contract a bargain, believe it or not. The problem with that is, even if Dunn has a better year than te last couple, he's not getting much money anyway.

QUOTE (LDF @ May 1, 2014 -> 06:48 PM) and he is the one who is a FA,.... crap. I was looking at the fa list. The Tigers just signed Miguel Cabrera to an enormous 10 year, $300 million extension.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 1, 2014 -> 06:40 PM) If you want to be like the Cardinals trade Chris Sale. QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 1, 2014 -> 06:42 PM) When have the Cardinals traded their franchise players, ever? He's got a point. The Cardinals developed a number 1 starter who made his debut in the bullpen and then within a couple years he was a cy young candidate. But he was recognized as an injury risk and so that's why Adam Wainright was traded away by the Cardinals and then someone else had to endure paying him during Tommy John surgery. I mean, it's almost a perfect case study of Marty being right. The only thing that would make it not a great example is if the Cardinals had actually held onto Wainright instead and I just made that part of the post up to illustrate how perfect of an example it is in the opposite direction.

Melky Cabrera, who is currently playing for the Toronto Blue Jays, was suspended for PEDs 2 years ago when he played with the San Francisco Giants.

QUOTE (LDF @ May 1, 2014 -> 05:35 PM) there was a great talk even longer than a little while back. but I don't remember a study ever being done. baseball experts were the one who thought of it. I remember a long time ago I believe in the 90's where we were all righty except 1 hitter. the other team just threw lefty at us. do you remember when we had, what something like 3 or 4 lefties pitching. That was the lineup that Ozzie would always throw against Johan Santana.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 1, 2014 -> 05:14 PM) Well, it saves JR money. It means he doesn't pay Boozer 15M or whatever he would if he amnestied him (techically a little less than that since other teams would bid and he'd at least get a few m) but it would save JR real money which could be applied to luxury tax or others, in theory. However, from a cap perspective, it doesn't make us any better. If the Lakers had trade exemptions or something, that could be beneficial as it could help create ways to leverage / bring over Melo without having to clear as much cap space or at least I think you could potentially do that. Honestly...I don't think saving $15 million on Boozer's deal would impact how the Bulls spend money one bit. They'd still hesitate to pay the luxury tax unless they had a title-contending team.

QUOTE (LDF @ May 1, 2014 -> 05:09 PM) yeah.... he wasn't that good of an outfielder period. I think it was always understood he was going to be the next dh. They've done him no favors with the number of position switches he's been put through. With his arm he could still well be an average OF but switching positions every year or so is a recipe for a guy to never get good at a position.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 1, 2014 -> 04:29 PM) Then they can take Carlos Boozer too. They actually would have the cap room to absorb him, but from the perspective of the roster, Trading Boozer for nothing is no different than amnestying him. Either way it clears the exact same amount of cap space, one just saves JR some extra money that can't be plowed back into the team because of the cap/tax limits.

QUOTE (The Mighty Mite @ May 1, 2014 -> 04:44 PM) Tank has to be the DH after this year, he's been a disaster in RF. We need to sign a left handed power hitting out fielder in the off season. Let some one else take a chance on Dunn. Of course he has been. He hasn't played in RF in >2 years.

Lakers have already traded their 2015 and 2017 picks so can they even trade their 2014 draft pick?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 1, 2014 -> 01:49 PM) We may still have something in Josh Phegley or Adrian Nieto. It is way to early to know if we do or don't for both of them. I was just focusing on the lower levels of the system, where I'll admit we don't seem to have a whole lot right now. But the problem with saying it's a need is that who knows what the big league team will look like in 2018, when guys like that would arrive. We could have traded for or signed a big name catcher to a long-term extension before then and it wouldn't matter.

QUOTE (LDF @ May 1, 2014 -> 01:39 PM) what you are saying is very true.... however we still some young catchers in the org There are some. NSS will tell you the guy at BHam right now has some promise, Sammy Ayala is in extended spring training and he's barely 18. They could of course use more, but most teams could.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 1, 2014 -> 01:29 PM) There was a full page ad in an LA newspaper on Sunday thanking Sterling for his $3 million donation for kidney research to UCLA and stated a research center was going to be named in his honor. UCLA has returned the approximately $500k already given to them by Sterling. They also said at no time was a building going to be named in his honor, and finally said they had nothing to do with the thank you ad. Sterling actually paid for the ad to thank himself. Like I said, he runs those kinds of ads all the time.

QUOTE (LDF @ May 1, 2014 -> 12:58 PM) my pick would be arms, arms and then a positional player if he is ranked. we really need a catcher. It's extremely unlikely that anyone picked in this draft will satisfy the White Sox's immediate need for a catcher. You draft guys expecting them to take 3-4 years or more to get to the big leagues except for occasionally the first or 2nd round picks. You don't know whether the White Sox will be in need of a catcher in 2018 nor do I. They could very well draft a couple catchers because every organization could use players, but you should never draft based on the needs of the MLB ballclub. By the time the guys you draft are ready to fill those needs, you will have different needs.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 1, 2014 -> 10:20 AM) Imagine if they weren't able to trade Fielder, they would be in even worse shape. They're still paying for him.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 1, 2014 -> 10:00 AM) I'm sure they do both, but the government doesn't pass a bill that says "lower taxes for anyone making 3 million or more a year." It's always tied to a specific request. ? Pretty much every Republican candidate I can remember for president has proposed large tax cuts on the uppermost income bracket and those were passed in 2001 and 2003. The scale of those tax cuts were such that 1% of what was cut would readily pay for >10 presidential elections.

QUOTE (LDF @ May 1, 2014 -> 09:56 AM) exactly, we have always lucky in that area. with a high draft pick this yr, scouring the waiver wire, and the young talent have in the minors, who maybe 3-4 yr away, we are decent fix with pitching. however, in a fix for right now, we may need to think of other way to find a fix. IMO, the right move is simply to play the waiting game. It would be completely unsurprising if an option presented itself. Noesi and Paulino still have skill even though we haven't gotten major results yet. Rienzo continues to show promise as a back of the rotation starter. EJ has been a huge disappointment so far but that could very well change as the season goes on. The guys at AA have been disappointing but again, it wouldn't be surprising at all to see them pick it up as the season goes on. On top of that, the Sox continue to have some options that are going to need to be traded if they don't make a run at the division, which could help fill in a hole/provide minor league depth, and who knows what else may become available. Thanks to having some degree of flexibility, if a team had a highly-paid guy comparable to John Danks that they were interested in dumping later this year, the Sox could potentially fill in a rotation spot without having to give up much in the way of talent even for a veteran that way as well. If it gets to next offseason and no option has presented itself and the lineup continues to produce and we're ready to sign Viciedo to a long term extension and we know who our 2015 catcher is and we know who our 2015 3b is and we know who our 2015 2b is and we can cover the gaps in the bullpen, then a big SP signing could still make sense, but there's no good reason to obsess over it right now.

QUOTE (Brian @ Apr 30, 2014 -> 06:49 PM) Any cameos going to be on Shield season finale?

QUOTE (LDF @ May 1, 2014 -> 09:46 AM) With all due respect to this post and your writing it, it is very plain that you are very educated, but to most who are not in, as you say the economic elict. knew of this. the only time any politician give us the time and day is when election time comes around. I will say this hold true to most in the political parties in America. If you follow this non-peer-reviewed "study", the politicians are no longer even giving you the time of day when election time runs around unless you're writing a check.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 1, 2014 -> 09:43 AM) Could you imagine a scenario where a Mayor of a major city in the US smoked crack on video, was caught, continued to serve his post, and again was caught smoking crack on video, and merely entered rehab? The sheer ridiculousness of the entire situation is so amusing to me. Nobody has any power to remove him, they just let him do his thing They did strip him of essentially all governing authority, made him about as powerful over the city as the queen of england is over that country.

Just so it's said, my initial response is "why am I hearing about this before peer review"?