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If performance between the two was totally equal, you take the lefty. Mark also wins on performance, even though JG has narrowed the gap in the last couple years.

QUOTE(SoxFan562004 @ Jun 27, 2007 -> 08:42 AM) uh-oh, can't hear it at work, how are they packpedaling? Are they just saying "sources" or the sides are only talking? The score may be backpedaling, but like I pointed out, the Sun-Times has gotten into the game and is calling it "Near" as well.

Joe Cowley has a piece on the front page of the Sun Times sports section now saying the same thing as the Score is reporting, I believe. They put it up so fast that the article wasn't even proofed.

Yippee, waking up to some good news for once!

Charlotte over Syracuse 4-1. Gavin Floyd goes 7+ IP, 1 ER on a home run, 2 BB, 4 hits, 4 k's, ERA down to 3.07, 6-3 Record. Anderson 0/3 with 2 k's and an RBI Sweeney 0/3, 2 BB's Owens 2/4 with a walk Richar, 1/5 with a triple Birmingham up 5-1 in the 7th. 6 innings, one run for Gio. Someone else can fill in the rest.

QUOTE(103 mph screwball @ Jun 26, 2007 -> 12:32 PM) The Brewers sure could use a pitcher with successful post season experience. Jeff Suppan not cutting it?

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Jun 26, 2007 -> 12:23 PM) But that it's also possible he heals up and consistently stays healthy while turning into a hell of a hitter? It's a risk/reward scenario. It would all be a question of what the D-Rays would take. At the most, they might talk me out of Haeger for him right now, but that's as high as I'm going, and only because a couple guys seem to have jumped in front of Charlie on the list of future Sox starters. If I'm taking him, I'm viewing it as taking Baldelli's salary off of their hands and freeing up a roster spot in exchange for some minor piece (which is why I mentionned Phillips). They're not getting anything good from me for him now, not while he's still hurt. Let him languish in their OF until they decide to trade him if that's the way it is.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Jun 26, 2007 -> 08:42 AM) Why does everyone want Baldelli? He plays as often as Pods. No thanks. It's a simple matter of buying low.

QUOTE(NCsoxfan @ Jun 25, 2007 -> 08:05 PM) Players change, people change, MLB changes, and thus fans opinions change. Part of life. Deal with it. You are a flip-flopper!

QUOTE(South Side Fireworks Man @ Jun 25, 2007 -> 09:08 PM) Baldelli has been hurt once too much. I lost interest in him. The last thing the Sox need is another injury prone outfielder. Hey, if we could get him for a real cheap price, then why not (i.e. like Heath Phillips or something)? What's the worst that could happen, he keeps getting hurt and costs us some C-level prospect? Clearly you don't give up anything A-level for him or anything you think might make your roster within a couple years, but hey, give them something, throw him out there, and maybe by some miracle he has a healthy year or two and suddenly his trade value reappears or he nets you a coupel draft picks when his contract is up.

QUOTE(daa84 @ Jun 25, 2007 -> 05:59 PM) haha no its not even a rumor...boers and bernstein were just asking stone and it was stones opinion that cleveland would do it apparrently, which to me would be mindboggling if you are the indians Well, if you think you're 1 player away from a world series, and that one player is a closer...and you have a couple beers in you...

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Jun 25, 2007 -> 06:56 PM) Just speculation here, no legs to any of this, but would we consider going after Baldelli this off-season? His value is going to be at an all-time low coming off of an injury, and the DRays already have a surplus of outfield talent. If the D-Rays finally give up on him and put him in the Aubrey Huff "Dump him" category, then sure. But they'll probably still be asking too bloody much, like they always do.

QUOTE(winninguglyin83 @ Jun 25, 2007 -> 04:37 PM) Also Tampa telecast had a feed saying Toby Hall has not thrown out a runner all season. Well, first he's only been playing for what, a month? Second, he's a backup. Third, his shoulder is trashed.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jun 25, 2007 -> 02:10 PM) Interesting. I guess they are just blaming him for being in the situation. I know I've been out many a times around 3 AM (usually heading back home or having grub at a Denny's type of place). That said if I have drank I always have a sober driver (and sometimes it is me that is the sober driver). I consider myself a responsible person even though I have a lot of late weekeend nights but I don't have the past that Tank has. Still I find it funny people lament someone for being out at 3 when I'm sure at that age they did it too (not taking his prior factors into consideration). I feel it's probably almost certain that the Bears would have sat down with Tank and told him exactly what they wanted to see out of him in order to hang onto him. That's what I would have done. And a self-imposed curfew would be one of those things. I can't imagine the Bears didn't tell him that if he was out late and risking any trouble at all, he'd be gone.

If we could pull off successful deals, there would be no shame in having the top 2 in our rotation next year be Garland and Buehrle, while the other 3 slots go to a selection of Danks, Floyd, and whoever else we decide is ready (lotta candidates: Broadway, Haeger, Gio, Russell, anyone we get for dealing other players, etc.) That would be a $30-$35 million rotation which should have a lot of depth to it and a fair amount of balance. We spent more than that on our rotation in 05, so that would free up money to be spent on position players. But that all would depend on us being able to move Vaz and Jose.

QUOTE(Sonik22 @ Jun 25, 2007 -> 12:41 PM) Gavin needs to be up, i love this guy and he's still got the stuff! I've been trying to follow Gavin since we grabbed him, and I think he'll be up before the end of the season, but I'm not sure I want him in the rotation for the big league team yet. I wouldn't mind giving him another full month in AAA just to get himself more adapted to the groove he's in. A big part of the problem with him and the Phillies seems to have been that they rushed him up to the big leagues, straight from AA, and he was overmatched. There's nothing wrong with babying him a little bit, as long as we have time before the trade deadline. But yeah, he's the one guy I want to see up before the end of the year.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Jun 25, 2007 -> 02:34 PM) I don't think that does it. Phillip Hughes is not available. This isn't an "untouchable" like Brandon McCarthy was for us. This is Phillip Hughes. But there's also a wild card: the boss.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 25, 2007 -> 02:34 PM) Oh trust me, I hate the idea. However, Ozzie has been making comments recently about Danks that makes me wonder how much longer they'll let him go out there and throw 100 pitches in 5 innings before making a change. I'd vastly rather him be sent down if they're desperate to make a change. But really, if he's already in the big leagues, and we've already written off the season, what's the harm in letting him work out his control problem next to Cooper? The worst part of that idea IMO might be that it could be rushing Floyd back to the big leagues when he's just finding himself a rhythm at AAA while at the same time screwing with Danks' confidence. And hell, I still hate the idea of putting a starter like Danks in the pen in general.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Jun 25, 2007 -> 02:37 PM) Jordan Danks doesn't belong where we'll be drafting next year. If we signed him in the spot we'll be in KW would deserve to be fired immediately. Depends on who leaves as a FA, who signs them, and what their record is. And whether or not Danks falls towards the sandwich round. And so forth.

QUOTE(thedoctor @ Jun 25, 2007 -> 02:00 PM) really, the driving theory behind this column is that teams are not giving up prospects the way they used to for rental players. this was discussed at length this morning on mike and mike's radio show. phillips was on and he said that teams that used to be willing to deal young players have been influenced by seeing young players come up and succeed. all that said, i think the market is competitive enough that we will get some good pieces for buehrle. after that, though, i'm not sure i expect us to get much for gooch, dye, etc. This is completely true...teams are no longer nearly as willing to part with top-level prospects. However, there are 2 points in reply. First, most of the time, it is not top-level talent (i.e. Mark Buehrle) moving in these deals. Think about the proposed Soriano deal last year; we were still talking about BMac being involved in it, and that is still top-level. Second...and perhaps more importantly...it's not always the top-desire guy in a trade who winds up being the most important one either. Grady Sizemore wasn't the big name in the Bartolo Colon deal; that was Brandon Phillips. Liriano was a throw-in for the Pierzynski deal, and I'm not even sure Joe Nathan was considered the top piece in that. And third, just because you're not getting back a top guy doesn't mean you can't get back a solid MLB player. Guys like Ryan Shealy, Shin-Soo Choo, Andy Marte, and a bunch of others still moved along last season, and while they've had their struggles this year, I still think there's some real talent there. But...these last 2 parts depend on the skill of your scouts to find quality where others aren't looking, and that is the important part here if we deal guys like Iguchi, Pods, etc.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 25, 2007 -> 01:44 PM) If he struggles today, I could see him moving to the bullpen and Floyd getting called up. That would be an awful idea. Absolutely awful. Throw some strikes today and shut Fathom's mouth John. Please.

Buehrle Contreras Garland Vazquez Dye Jenks Iguchi Thome if he wants to be Podsednik? Pierzynski if someone else fetches a sodium-chloride rich catcher. Thornton if he ever finds that Loogy grove he was in last year.

QUOTE(Steve9347 @ Jun 25, 2007 -> 01:00 PM) Wow, he might be back, seeing that velocity hitting 94 is huge... eh? I'd love to get him up to the bigs and see if some of the big time potential can be realized. This year, Gavin has seemed like the one guy in our organization who we can legitimately say "He has not lost velocity over last year". There was at least one game in ST where he was hitting 96 consistently, although I think he gave up a few too many walks that game. But since he missed a couple starts with a blister, everything seems to be clicking for Gavin in AAA this year. If we traded a starter today, Gavin could make his next start in the majors. We don't know how he'd do (he did win his first MLB start a few years ago), and it won't hurt us to not rush him given that rushing him may well have been what got him off track a few years back, but he's showing some promise. Right now though, he's still a 24 year old repeating AAA again, so he should be expected to be better than that league, so until he gets up to the big leagues and succeeds, you have to keep some skepticism (even if he's your AAP).

I think you can't help but applaud this move. They gave him what they called was their last chance, and they stuck to it.

Full Name: Danny Adam Richar Born: 06/09/1983 Birthplace: La Romana, Dominican Republic Height: 6' 0" Weight: 170 Bats: L Throws: R Danny Richar was originally signed by the Arizona Diamondbacks as an undrafted Free Agent in July of 2001. He was acquired by the Chicago White Sox on June 16, 2007, for outfielder Aaron Cunningham. Danny has spent most of his time gradually working his way up the Arizona Minor League organization. His numbers haven't been bad, but he seems to take a fair amount of time to adapt at each level, which may be unsurprising given that he was quite raw when originally signed. His best season was in 2005, where he put up an .884 OPS with 20 home runs while repeating high A ball. Year Team Lg Age Org. Level Pos G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS 2002 Yakima Nwest 19 Ari A- ss-2b 25 88 7 20 5 1 0 9 0 3 6 21 0.227 0.274 0.307 581 Lancaster Calif 19 Ari A+ ss 85 251 27 58 7 1 1 17 4 5 12 49 0.231 0.274 0.279 553 2003 Lancaster Calif 20 Ari A+ 2b-ss 123 405 51 123 19 9 1 42 6 3 14 70 0.304 0.331 0.402 733 2004 Lancaster Calif 21 Ari A+ ss 96 383 51 108 13 4 6 44 22 8 16 78 0.282 0.312 0.384 696 El Paso Tex 21 Ari AA 2b 26 82 6 17 3 0 0 5 2 0 7 17 0.207 0.286 0.244 530 2005 Lancaster Calif 22 Ari A+ ss-2b 121 454 78 136 32 8 20 79 9 3 32 64 0.3 0.347 0.537 884 2006 Tennessee Sou 23 Ari AA 2b 130 480 79 140 25 5 8 42 15 5 52 77 0.292 0.36 0.415 775 Here is a scout.com piece on Richar from early in 2006.