Balta1701

Yes. If a position player was gonna convert I wanna see him get AAA hitters out for half a season. They dropped Sergio Santos down to Kannapolis A-Ball and Winston-Salem high-A for half a season and gave him a full season in the minors after he converted to a pitcher.

I don't know why your post is so long. Anywho, if a position player wants to turn into a pitcher, you're going to have to show me that he can be consistent against them in AAA for several months rather than just as a blowout gimmick. Since Davidson has no options, I guess we could put him in the bullpen on day 1 but I'm genuinely uncomfortable doing that. I'd do it if we had a 13 man bullpen, but we don't have the roster spots to play this game without removing a couple guys. We coulda tried it this year if we thought it was a decent idea, but the roster crunch becomes urgent when the monster arrives next April. If someone like Sanchez or Engel were moved this offseason, fine, then something like that works, but to make it worth a shot we need to clear the roster space to do it. Someone has to be moved and these guys don't have a lot of trade value. Sanchez should, but teams don't trade a lot for guys who aren't great players even when they have years of control remaining.

20/20 is kinda cool

Is Chris ready?

I'd be ok with that since I don't think we can win next year...but at some point we're gonna need roster spots. Sanchez, Leury, Castillo, Davidson, Cordell, Palka, Engel, Garcia, Delmonico - we can't actually fit all that on the big league roster, we would have a 4 man bench, starting DH, RF, and CF, and we'd still have to remove one...and on April 15 there's going to be a monster demanding a roster spot, so 2 of the names on that list have to go. I guess we could just turn that thing loose in the locker room and see if he eats one of them...but I think he's more likely to devour the opposing pitching.

Apparently Cleveland just became the first team ever with 4 200K pitchers in a season a moment ago.

He's arb-eligible this offseason.

Apparently 5 straight retired now. The kid's got talent and I definitely expect him to show a lot better next year, but I also think that anyone saying that a rotation anchored by Rodon, Lopez, and Giolito in 2019 can hang with Indians, Red Sox, and Astros rotations aren't anywhere close to reality.

I would agree with the person above who suggested trading one of them this offseason for whatever the best offer is. It won't be a big return, but there are teams who could use either of them. I would probably take the best offer, some A-ball pitcher or whatever, for Davidson in the offseason. As either a full time DH, or a DH/backup fielder, he'd win some games for some teams. He's not arb-eligible until 2020, so any team trading for him would get 2 years of a cheap player in any deal.

Davidson is out of options. Palka was first added to the 40 man roster after the 2016 season, so he would have burned one option in 2017 and another in 2018. I think he should have one left.

He is currently the second best starting pitcher on the free agent market behind Kershaw and the New York Yankees will have a S***ton of money to spend and he's already talked about pitching for the Yankees. So yeah, he'll be signing a massive deal. With the Yankees.

Just to be clear, that's not him in the photo and you can't 100% establish that he did any of those chants.

The glassed in area down the right field line just past the foul pole is the Stadium Club. It is an air conditioned relatively fancy restaurant setting. http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/cws/ticketing/stadium_club.jsp

The low batting average doesn't concern me as much as the quality. The White Sox are currently 12th in the AL in runs scored and above you are telling me that adding Eloy and having Palka and Narvaez for a full season will be "probably good enough"? Seriously, go compare that to the Red Sox with Betts and Martinez, or the Native Americans with Ramirez, Lindor, and Encarnacion, or the Astros with Bregman, Correa, Altuve, and Springer, that lineup is no where close to on their level next year, not with Eloy as a rookie, he'd have to hit like 2003 Bonds to put us in a sentence with them. You add in Bryce Harper and this still isn't a top 4 offense in the AL. And that's still not even talking about the pitching, and I'll ask anyone out there if they think Rodon and Giolito is a good matchup for Kluber and Bauer or Verlander and Cole and or Severino and whoever or Sale and Price. And then on top of all of that, this team is currently at the bottom of the league in defense which Eloy isn't going to fix, so no it's not "Good enough" for next year. In a few years, with Kopech back and more time to grow for guys, and hopefully at some point a breakout year from Moncada, and the boost from the guys currently down at A-ball, then we can start talking about this being "Good enough". The Free Agent market and Eloy aren't going to take a team that is bottom 6 in offense, defense, and pitching and put them in the playoff conversation. Not next year.

To make sure that either she looks bad, breaks down, or doesn't show up. Aside from the true misogynists, the Republicans out there aren't stupid. They know that this is a credible allegation, and they know that they can't delay this until after the midterm elections because if they do get creamed, they won't get it done afterwards with a different nominee. Given the choice, they'd rather maneuver to find ways to blame her for not showing up.

If they're still intending them to be at the same table, she can't. Even a 35 year old psychological trauma...you have no idea what that would do to you going in. You could have done years of preparation and then all of that might go out the window at the sight of the perpetrator.

If I'm doing the quick adding right...excluding pitchers, since 2010 the positions the White Sox have spent the most money on are: 1, 1b and 2., DH.

There have to be players on teams not named Golden State, folks.

I'd prefer the walks. Put him at DH, there's enough outfielders in this organization on the way up.

So has Covey been magnificent or what's the deal?

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Um, you realize that as of this year it's been a decade since our last playoff appearance right?

At least for this season and last season remember that Robert's bonus and penalties ($25 million a season or so) don't count as part of the MLB payroll.

As is normal for this state, Quinnipiac just released a poll where they switched from registered voters to likely voters and, in no small part because this state makes it really really tough for anyone but the "Right kinda people" to vote, Cruz's lead in that case skyrocketed.

Exactly. I think Billy Beane is a part owner of the As for the same reason. They become the public face of the franchise but they represent a group of behind the scenes investors.