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FYI, the March Madness sub-forum is now open! Go visit for your NCAA MBB and WBB chatter!
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First Round Games:
Columbus:
1 UNC vs 16 Iona
8 Utah St vs 9 Wash
Salt Lake City:
5 Auburn vs 12 Mew Mex St
4 Kansas vs 13 Northeastern
Tulsa:
6 Iowa St vs 11 Ohio St
3 Houston vs 14 Georgia St
Jacksonville:
7 Wofford vs 10 Seton Hall
2 Kentucky vs 15 Abiline Christian
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First round games:
3/19: Prairie View (16) vs Farleigh Dickinson (16) play-in
3/20: Az St (11) vs St John's (11) play-in
...TRUE FIRST ROUND (3/21-22):
Salt Lake City:
1 Gonzaga vs (play-in)
8 Cuse vs 9 Baylor
Hartford:
5 Marquette vs 12 Murray State
4 FSU vs 13 Vermont
Tulsa:
6 Buffalo vs 11 (play-in)
3 Texas Tech vs 14 No Kent
Des Moines:
7 Nevada vs 10 Florida
2 Michigan vs 15 Montana
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First round games:
Columbia:
1 UVA vs 16 Gardner-Webb
8 Ole Miss vs 9 Oklahoma
San Jose:
5 Wisky vs 12 Oregon
4 Kan St vs 13 UC Irvine
Hartford:
6 Nova vs 11 St Mary's
3 Purdue vs 14 Old Dominion
Columbus:
7 Cinn vs 10 Iowa
2 Tenn vs 15 Colgate
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First round games:
3/19: Belmont (11) vs Temple (11) play-in
3/20: NCC (16) vs NDSU (16) play-in)
...TRUE FIRST ROUND (3/21-22):
Columbia:
1 Duke vs 16 (play-in)
8 VCU vs 9 UCF
San Jose:
5 Miss St vs 12 Liberty
4 Va Tech vs 13 St Louis
Jacksonville:
6 Maryland vs 11 (play-in)
3 LSU vs 14 Yale
Des Moines:
7 Louisville vs 10 Minnesota
2 Mich St vs 15 Bradley
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And hey, if the Clones can get past Ohio State and (probably) Houston, they move on to a regional in Kansas City where they travel well.
Does anyone have any real idea of Houston is that good? They just didn't really play anyone.
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15 hours ago, ChiSoxJon said:
When was this? Shame, believe he was Paddy's first sign
I can't find it now, so probably I was just plain wrong. Somehow that release existed in my head, yet I can't find it anywhere else, haha.
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12 hours ago, ChiSoxJon said:
That's right,,, Did Shilling as well?
Shilling had a torn lat (a la Peavy). Should be back now, I'd think, or pretty soon.
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OK I could be wrong about Martinez being released. I thought he was, but I see now he is active. Weird.
That said he probably moves to the pen this year.
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Charlotte:
- Dylan Cease
- Jordan Stephens
- Jordan Guerrero*
- Spencer Adams
- Ervin Santana or Manny Banuelos*
Birmingham:
- Kodi Medeiros*
- Jimmy Lambert
- Bernardo Flores*
- Matt Tomshaw*
- Tanner Banks*
Winston-Salem:
- Alec Hansen
- Lincoln Henzman
- Blake Battenfield
- John Parke*
- Kade McClure
Kannapolis:
- Konnor Pilkington*
- Jonathan Stiever
- Codi Heuer
- Taylor Varnell*
- Jason Bilous
(FYI Luis Martinez was released)
I agreed on almost all of yours, except Charlotte #5 and BHAM #4.
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That is frightening. We are making the Postal Service make such deep cuts that they can barely function, while the biggest elective spending area (military) is just hemorrhaging cash. Not to mention the control factor here and the potential for all manner of fraud and rogue spending when there is no control.
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On 3/15/2019 at 1:00 PM, ptatc said:
I think he went to W-S because that was where the pitching was that really helped him. Is that coach still there?
It was Matt Zaleski, and yes he's returning to Winston-Salem for 2019.
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12 hours ago, Heads22 said:
I hear NS will be giving out hugs too
11 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:Now I am in.
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I am picturing this conversation as if it is happening in a bar, and it is fantastic.
SS2K5 and Balta are off in a corner shouting big numbers at each other, not even noticing caufield yelling into a literal megaphone and wearing a sandwich board that says "I knew TIm Hullett before you were in diapers". A crowd of drunk soccer fans has gathered near caufield and they are all egging him on and buying him drinks to juice out as much entertainment as possible. Chisox378 is sitting at the end of the bar nursing a warm beer and telling the bartender the world has gone to shit and why can't we go back to Mayberry. The bouncer (Mods) are standing there mouths agape like they are watching a car crash, no idea where to even start. Others walk by the bar, see what's going on and juuuuuust keep walking.
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32 minutes ago, Chisox378 said:
I'm not looking to scare anybody but Eloy Jiminez 2019 Spring Training Stats:
26PA
.154 BA
9 K's
0 BB
Sox not developing players right.
Sarcasm? Troll job? No way you are serious here.
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This really has no benefit for the Sox, if the deal is $100M for through 2026 as reported (which it may not be).
Basically, this buys them one extra year of control, and probably around $30-40M for that one year. In other words, that probably is at-the-money if Eloy is in fact still at an All Star level at that point. What is the value there? The whole point of signing an early extension is financial security for the player, and reduced cost inflation for the club. Eloy gets his security in this deal, but the Sox don't get any discount value.
I am willing to be the deal is not these numbers, because no way the Sox would do this deal, no should they.
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This was a lot of fun last year. Definitely recommend it! You can pick the brains of FutureSox writers, enjoy the buffet and drinks, all that good stuff - plus $5 per ticket goes to charity.
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3 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:
What could be interesting is even if a major league franchise takes an interest in him, I wonder if affiliates would allow him to be on their teams? There are some pretty small towns in the bible belt in the lower levels of the minors.
The affiliates would not get that option. The PDCs specify that the parent club controls the roster of uniformed personnel. But it sure as heck would cause them problems, which I am sure they would express to the parent club (and they could make things difficult in other ways).
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1 hour ago, hogan873 said:
I used to fish a lot more than I do now. I grew up living within walking distance of the ocean in NC and spent two years in Juneau, AK, so I would spend nearly all of my free time fishing. I've made it a goal each year to get out fishing more, but my busy spring and summer schedules (kids' activities, coaching baseball, etc.) limits how much I can get out. Plus, I haven't found many great fishing spots. I've been looking for spots SW of Chicago, and I've found a few that are okay but nothing real exciting.
I'm making it a goal again this year to get out as much as I can. Hopefully I can actually do it this year.
Depends on what you are going for, but Shabbona has a rep for showing well on muskies and stripers (stocked) and other bass species. I haven't been there myself in a couple decades though. It's straight west of Chicago.
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2 minutes ago, Look at Ray Ray Run said:
Ok, the way that was worded made it sound like he was never on it prior to this year which would just be baffling. It's one of the only advantages the organization has over others.
Yeah I'd say the author wasn't all that knowledgeable on these things, and the wording didn't capture the reality. That's my guess anyway. I can say 100% that at least some of them are on the standard shoulder program, and I have a hard time believing they would leave Hansen out of it.
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4 minutes ago, Look at Ray Ray Run said:
Something I've never understood is why they dont put their minor league prospects and players on the same shoulder program that they put their big leaguers on. That training program was literally revolutionary in the game - its something you hear about at the college level and pro level. Whatever Schneider came up with is a program that sale took with him to Boston - as did other former white Sox arms. Hansen should have been on that program last year already
That's really good news though.
Pretty sure they do. In fact I know they do, I've had pitching prospects tell me that. I think what the article meant is that they adjusted Alec's program specifically.
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22 hours ago, Two-Gun Pete said:
I disagree.
The geniuses in the front office recently picked up a top prospect from another org with a ~31% k rate in AA. (In other words, this prospect K'ed 31% to Carson Fulmer-caliber opposition.)
Instead of remediating this prospect at AA, those dumbasses promoted him to Charlotte, where he piled up the Ks, despite hitting in a band box. He also couldn't hit right-handed very well, despite reputedly being a "switch-hitter." His numbers overall @ Charlotte were middling for a talent with his tools.
Still, the geniuses promoted Yoan Moncada to the Bigs, where he needed a miraculous Sept/Oct WRT BaBIP, & sat out some games to avoid breaking the record for Ks. He still hits right-handed like a stroke survivor, & had to be moved off 2nd base, as he piled on the errors.
On balance, I would say that this FO rushed Moncada up, which has harmed his development, & placed this rebuild at risk.
I see evidence of these dumbasses prepping rush jobs @ catcher, & @ 2nd base as well. We'll have to see.
1. You are creatively ignoring that Moncada was already in the Majors before he even reached the Sox, and that no team in baseball would have sent him back down 2 levels.
2. K-rates and size of ballpark have zero correlation.
3. An .823 OPS at AAA while playing 4.5 years younger than league average is far above "middling".
4. A player does not constitute a sample, and you also creatively ignore the fact that they have been conservative on most of the farm.
5. Is the stroke survivor line really necessary? It makes you sound like a meathead, which doesn't really help your case.
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Dane Dunning had Tommy John today
in Pale Hose Talk
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Please stop saying this crap. It is unfounded in anything factual.
TJS is a procedure to replace ligament tissue, either from elsewhere in the body or cadaverous material. It is done to replace a TORN UCL. If there is nothing torn, there is nothing to replace. If Dunning has a strained/sprained UCL that did not include a tear, then the only viable option was to try the heal/strengthen route and then ramp him up again. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't.
You can think the Sox training/medical staff has made mistakes, and maybe they have. But do you really think they would KNOW there was a significant tear, and try to avoid the surgery anyway? That helps literally no one, the Sox or the player or anyone else. There is zero motivation for that. Therefore, clearly there was no significant tear yet, so they took the only medically responsible path available to them.
This sucks, but the conspiracy theories are ridiculous.