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QUOTE (chisoxfan310 @ Feb 11, 2014 -> 06:46 PM) I think Abreu will struggle a bit the first two months but take off when summer hits I'm hoping he comes into this season thinking he has something to prove since Cespedes and Puig have already made names for themselves. He's supposed to be better...he comes in ready to prove that...

Well here I go flying into this mess.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Feb 11, 2014 -> 02:15 PM) Ya, I'm not sure how they can even get by without the 9.8M cutting him opens up. I still hope there will be some way they can restructure it to keep him, because if they do lose him that's yet another gaping hole on the defense and 9.8 mil isn't all that much with the sheer number of holes they have.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 11, 2014 -> 10:01 AM) Just wait until the owners business fraud case comes home to roost They're based in Knoxville and I have gotten the impression this will wind up like most other business fraud cases. The underlings go to jail but the company pays a fine and the top guys insulate themselves through the money.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Feb 11, 2014 -> 01:41 PM) Jose Abreu will be the breakout player when he wins MVP batting .400/.600/1.422 I just want the 73.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 11, 2014 -> 01:02 PM) The Bulls do it because they with this trade they can increase the chances of getting him to be a Bull next year. The 3 firsts aren't that big of a deal as they most likely won't be lottery picks. Also, the crazy thing that makes me think this has to be false is the inclusion of Boozer. The Bulls would love this, because even if he was amenstied, they still have to pay him the difference between his salary next year and his salary with the team that takes him. The Knicks are stuck with him next year if they trade for him. It really doesn't make sense for the Knicks unless they know Melo is out of there. For the Bulls, that trade is a no brainer. The Bulls need another star or two. Thibs can get guys picked up off the scrap heap to contribute and be decent role players. One of the lessons I've taken from guys like Tony Snell, Jimmy Butler, and Taj Gibson is...if a team has a star or two already, the value of a recently-drafted first round player can be enormous. It's having those kind of guys filling up your roster that allows you to offer that 2nd max contract in addition to the guy you already have.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 11, 2014 -> 06:36 AM) There's no reason for the Knicks to do this trade that was made up by a poster at RealGM. 3 firsts going from the Bulls to the Knicks and your reaction is that the Knicks wouldn't do it?

And that thread sums up this forum pretty well.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Feb 10, 2014 -> 05:03 PM) I think you are in the minority though. Last year, his first game back was against the Sox. They drew 27,948. The very next night, Rodriguez's 2nd game back, that attendance fell to 23,826, and the 3rd was 25,707. Mind you, all of this was coming off a 10 game losing streak with the Sox record at 40-69. Some has to do with the Yankees, but I think stating it's all because of the Yankees is naive too. That first game was on a Monday. 1/2 price tickets for that day?

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Feb 10, 2014 -> 04:57 PM) But Alex Rodriguez is a guy who MLB and several others at one time tried to trumpet as the best player of all time and the superhero to defeat the villainous Barry Bonds for the all time home run record. And then PEDs came to the forefront, and suddenly Rodriguez is vilified. Simply put, I think that alone is going to sell a significant amount of tickets. You can bet people will want to boo him. Now that Tex mentions it, this would be a good reason for me not to go see a Yankees game if he came back.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 10, 2014 -> 01:48 PM) You do realize you become high spending when you pick in the top 5 every year don't you? There was one team worse than the White Sox. One. If I follow that logic, does it mean you become low spending when you never pick in the top 5 and as a consequence one would naturally expect their draft performance to be poor?

QUOTE (Boogua @ Feb 10, 2014 -> 09:09 AM) He was a fantastic college player, but he is 6'2 255-260. He played with his hand in the ground in college and scouts aren't sure if he translates that great to the NFL. He was projected to go anywhere from the 3rd to the 5th round. So if he's there in the 6th it would be silly for some team not to grab him unless he performs poorly at the combine.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Feb 9, 2014 -> 09:40 PM) Sounds like he wasnt going to be a highly sought after draft pick to start with but it'll be a shame if he goes completely undrsfted for his sake. But I also don't blame a team for not wanting to deal with that headache from the media. I'd like to see a GM survey asking if they'd rather deal with the Tebow media or media spotlight from an openly gay player. The impression I got last night was that he was a moderately highly touted player who made some all-SEC teams at DE, was I wrong in that? The thing is...if this kid actually has some talent and a history of performance, and he drops even a little bit in the draft because of this, he becomes a solid "value" pick that could outperform his draft slot.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 10, 2014 -> 12:41 AM) Boston gave Dustin Pedroia a $575k bonus as a 2nd rd. pick in 2004. The Sox selected Fields, Whisler, Lumdsen,Gio, and Lucy ahead of him giving everyone but Lucy more money. Lucy got $525k. Pedroia's career WAR is only 29 less than the collective WAR of every White Sox draft pick since 2001.add Ellbury who was given $170k less than Lance Broadway a couple of spots lower in their draft,and the 2 of them add up to only 6 less WAR than the collective WAR of every player the White Sox have drafted since 2001. Thank God Sale dropped down to the Sox or it would have been worse. KW said he could have had a good minor league system had he wanted. If you are implying it is just as simple as throwing more money at it, just look at the major league team. Throwing more money at it did not make them better. You have to select the correct players. I have given many examples of players who signed for slot who were much better players than the players selected by the Sox. Just so someone says it again...everyone does realize that doing exercises like this with the MLB Draft...going through and thinking "oh man if only we'd had person x"...is absolutely insane and will completely destroy your mental state, correct? The number of examples of guys who step up in a totally unexpected way after the draft is staggering. The number of highly-touted, highly drafted guys who develop some flaw and then never reach their potential is even higher. If you re-did a draft even 6 months later it would look totally different. MVP's drop to the 2nd/3rd/15th/62nd round when there was such a thing. It happens all the time. At some level...you can in fact come up with blame if you miss on guys consistently over a long period of time...but if you do the statistics there's a good chance you'd get the same results even if you did everything right. Less than 1% of the guys in the draft are all-stars and only a couple percent ever make the big leagues. If you propagate those stats through, just by random chance there will be some teams who have unusual amounts of success and some teams that go years and years with nothing but failure. For a while there were ways to rig the system, with spending overseas and overslot, but even that was no guarantee, it was just slightly weighting the dice. Now the only way to weight the dice better is in scouting and development, for the most part.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Feb 9, 2014 -> 05:33 PM) I think some of this is true. He elected to put most of his budget to the MLB team so he took chances on guys he could sign for a low price. So in essence I think he did draft if not bad at least lower talented guys on purpose. He knew he couldn't afford the top tier. This is part of the reason I think the drafts will change as everyone will be limited in budget with slotting so the Sox will not be hurt as much. On top of that, I think they also specifically targeted guys based on "people that we'll be able to trade in the next year" like Broadway and McCullough even if they weren't the highest-rated guys on their board. I think they admitted that one too. Then throw in a couple of talented busts...Fields and Anderson and Poreda, and you've got quite a mess.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Feb 9, 2014 -> 03:01 PM) I would be willing to bet a good amount that whoever signs Santana at a bargain is going to be happier how that ends up going than the Yanks will be in Year 5 of the Tanaka contract. You know what? Based on the teams that were in on Tanaka...I'm going to say the opposite. I think the Yankees will be perfectly content with their investment.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Feb 8, 2014 -> 02:46 PM) I'd like to see any evidence whatsoever that players skill sets increase more at the college level than at the NBA level. That argument is a bunch of non-sense. I think it's much more that I don't want to watch guys who should be in a minor league physically up against NBA-level players.

Oh. My.

Olympus Mons. Kilauea, east rift zone. Mt. St. Helens, north slope.

QUOTE (PolishPrince34 @ Feb 8, 2014 -> 08:26 AM) I'm extremely worried the Yankees will go all out this signing period. Reports are coming out they will spend up to $18 million or more and to try to go after every major player to rebuild their farm system. This is bad news for the rest of the league. Bad year to have only $5 milllion to spend. Also, worried some more teams might join in because talk of a 2016 International Draft and all the penalties would be thrown out the door with the spending overtures. If more teams join in and try that, then it makes the money the Yankees spend less valuable. Furthermore...if the Yankees do something like that, it will pretty much make an international draft inevitable. They'd be throwing away a system that has a slight advantage they can use by doing so.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 8, 2014 -> 10:28 AM) Much better guitar player. Maybe in his prime, but his most recent stuff felt boring and derivative.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Feb 7, 2014 -> 03:13 PM) Micah Johnson Ah. Considering there's no record of him playing a single professional inning anywhere but 2b, I'm going to consider that a flaw.

All right i give up...who is that in CF?

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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 7, 2014 -> 12:51 PM) A lesson in Bulls-Cap-O-Nomics http://www.shamsports.com/2014/02/how-do-y...taj-gibson.html The page you are looking for cannot be found.