NorthSideSox72

Recap

I'm writing the recap now, sorry for the lateness.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ May 2, 2014 -> 01:20 PM) So if Rondon becomes Rey Ordonez, how would people feel about that? If he reaches the majors in any capacity, it's a win. He was the back-end throw-in from the Peavy trade, and couldn't (and still may not) hit at all. That Peavy deal looks pretty darn good, even with the Garcia injury. Montas is an intriguing arm who should return from DL soon, Rondon is truly special defensively, Wendelken is doing the try-as-starter thing but has a decent chance to be an OK reliever. Then you have Avisail. All for 1.5 years of Peavy, with a team who wasn't going to contend.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 2, 2014 -> 09:07 AM) Anyone ever take a Wilderness First Aid class like this one offered through REI? http://www.rei.com/class/46423/market/340 I used to hold an EMT license, and took a W-EMT adjunct course once, but it was before all the certifications existed. Was more like just continuing ed in a specialized field. If you plan to spend a lot of time in the backcountry, especially if with groups, it is worth having someone who knows that stuff. More is better.

IF no one is pushing him out, he probably finishes the season, then likely is gone. Just my guess though.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ May 2, 2014 -> 09:58 AM) I think you dudes are thinking of different dudes. Yeah. And both are correct. Rodon or anyone else they draft, very likely, becomes #1. Rondon, if he keeps hitting, should at least be in the teens during the season prospect-wise, and could potentially be top 10 (still early though).

QUOTE (raBBit @ May 1, 2014 -> 11:05 AM) He was added to the 7 day DL so he should be eligible to return on Tuesday. Right, though in MiLB virtually everyone goes on the 7 day as the DL option and it is a rolling DL thing. But there is that 7 day minimum.

Tim Anderson to DL for left shoulder injury. Justin Jirschele added in his place. Sounds minor, he played the rest of that game, and the Dash's release made it seem pretty insignificant. This is retro to Tuesday. If it was a long term injury they wouldn't have bothered making it retro.

I just want to throw in here too, there are a few pitching prospects that still have most of their seasons to potentially bloom. That may also effect the calculus this coming offseason. Beck has had a slow start, but that may not last. Bassitt will be back from injury shortly. Reclamation projects like Hanson haven't had a good look yet.

For those unaware, FutureSox is a blog that came from the original SoxTalk/SoxNet community. We write about White Sox minor leaguers and prospects. We provide tons of content - The FutureSox part of the SoxTalk board is the discussion area, which is thriving, but is actually only a part of what we offer. If you want to know about the guys who could be the White Sox of the future, we've got you covered. This pinned post provides links to all sorts of handy information, at your fingertips... First, social media channels. Many of you probably already follow/subscribe to some or all of these. Use them - they are all free! You can keep up to date with everything this way, beyond just via SoxTalk (especially if you are on your smart phone and SoxTalk doesn’t work as well)... The Blog – FutureSox.com --This is the mothership for FutureSox, where all of our articles go up. But you can also put your email address in the Subscribe box on the right side, and you'll get an email every time a new piece goes up - whether it is a recap, interview, analysis or anything else. No spam or ads for this either, it is only notifications of our articles going live. We have new content every day now. Twitter: @FutureSox --We have over 4,500 followers, and it is a very active account, sending out all kinds of info, so follow us if you are on Twitter! Facebook: FutureSox (page) --"Like" us on Facebook, where we post article links and other information. Especially handy for those who are on smart phones but don't use Twitter. We only have about 260 "Likes" right now, would love to have more! YouTube: FutureSox Videos (channel) --We have exclusive videos of over 70 current White Sox prospects on our channel. These are videos we took ourselves and can't be found elsewhere. In fact, we have video of a number of prospects who you just can't find video for anywhere else from anyone. You can Subscribe to the channel and you will be emailed when new videos go up. We saw every affiliate live this year, so there is a lot of current tape to look at! Podcasts - on Pod-o-matic or iTunes --You can subscribe on Pod-o-matic to get our podcasts (we've done a bunch so far), or just search "FutureSox" on iTunes. Downloads are free, and we get into lots of detail on these that you won't see written up anywhere. So download us to your audio device, and give us a listen on your commute. Then the pure informational links... Current Top 30 Prospects, and previous rankings Prospect Profiles - Detailed reports for around 40 of the best prospects in the system at any given time Most recent Draft Tracker Interviews - mostly prospects, but also coaches, managers, and front office personnel Finally, a list of all the Future Sox writers, their SoxTalk handles (if they have one, and Twitter handles... Dan Santaromita, Editor (danman31), @TheDanSanto Matt Cassidy, Editor (NorthSideSox72), @Matt_Cassidy Jeff Buchanan (Ozzie Ball), ? Rob Young (southside hitman), @RobertHYoung Brian Bilek (raBBit), @ChiSoxraBBit Will Siskel (wsiskel), @willsiskel Daniel Shapiro (Quinarvy), @DanielShapiro19 Matt Lynch (MDL27), @MattLynch27 We’ve ramped up our content a lot in the past year. We have daily recaps of the every day’s games, interviews with prospects (did about 50 this year), analysis and feature pieces, news coverage, draft analysis (before and after), player-written articles (two so far, hoping for more), we visit the affiliate teams during the season, and of course the two big ones people always lean on – twice-annual prospect rankings, and the draft tracker in June. We (the writers of FutureSox) are proud of what we’ve built, and we hope everyone takes advantage of all this content. If anyone has suggestions, let us know!

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 30, 2014 -> 12:53 PM) How's that Pilot working with the 2 kids? My wife and I seem to be following your trajectory. Got an Escape, had a kid. Starting to plan for #2, need to upgrade to something with a third row. That (2nd kid) was the prime motivator for replacing the Escape, just like you (though we loved our Escape Hybrid). The Pilot had either the best or close to the best 2nd row leg room, which was great for dealing with kids in car seats. It's been perfect, I literally have no complaints, 2.5 years in. We don't use the 3rd row much, but it folds down flat and gives lots of room in the back. We drove to DC and back with a 5 and 1.5 year old, lots of stuff in the back. Ours is the Touring 4WD model of the Pilot, so it has the movie screen in the ceiling, and that was awfully handy for a long road trip. Worked great. Just bear in mind with ANY of these models I mentioned, the mileage won't be nearly as good as with the FEH, or even a regular Escape. We got about 30 MPG on average with our FEH. With mostly local and some highway use, we get about 19-20 on average with the Pilot. 23-24 is the max, for all highway. Only exception to this is the Toyota Highlander Hybrid, which gets like 28 MPG. But whereas the FEH was like 4k more than the regular Escape and had tax incentives, the Highlander Hybrid is like 9k more (lists at like 48k), and there are no more tax incentives on it. We figured out it would take like 8 years of heavy use to offset the cost. Not worth it, IMO, at this point. Seriously can't recommend the Pilot enough.

Also want to say again... TrueCar. Best friend. Harder to use for used cars, but still works there too.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Apr 27, 2014 -> 03:32 PM) Looking for an SUV with less than 30000 miles and no older than a 2011 for under 25000 and a 7 seater at least. Only one I seem to find is the Durango which looks really nice and has some decent reviews. Just want to do due diligence. Can anyone recommend any others? We were in this market a few years ago, though we bought new - which means these are the cars you'd be buying now. I did a ton of research, looked at every 7/8 passenger SUV available that was under (at the time) 40k new (or close to that anyway). Test drove a bunch. The three that stood out as best (these were 2012 model year) were: Honda Pilot Ford Explorer Toyota Highlander In that order. We bought the Honda, it stood well above the rest and we love it. Highly recommended. The Explorer was nice too, but got worse MPG, had the somewhat-goofy Link system for the the audio and stuff, and was so long it had trouble with our garage space. Highlander was good but just felt lower in quality, and less spacious. Also looked at, but found to be lesser than any of the above: Jeep Grand Cherokee (terrible sight lines, less features, iffy reliability history), Mazda CX-9 (less features, lower quality feel), Subaru Tribeca (too pricey for same features, smaller), Ford Edge (too pricey for same stuff, smaller), Chevy something-or-other (much less features for the money), Dodge Durango (worst of the bunch - worst mileage, slowest, less features, horrible sight-lines and visibility), and others I can't even remember anymore.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Apr 29, 2014 -> 08:10 PM) He is the guy that Hawk is always raving about as having amazing control. Uses his "he could hit a gnat on the behind" line with him. That line was from Buddy Bell some years ago, and it was about Dan Remenowsky. Is Hawk using that line now? About someone else?

Charlotte and Winston-Salem both postponed, no games there. Kanny stands alone. Looking at the weather forecast, they may not get in the 2nd game. If they do, with Barnette pitching, fun fact: Kanny will play 4 Tylers today (Danish, Barnette, Shryock, Williams). Must be a record.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 29, 2014 -> 04:12 PM) Um, because they judged he wasn't an adequate defender at 3rd? That's much more likely than the idea they'd move a prospect in A ball (and a young-for-level one at that) from third to first because the current MLB team needed 1B help. You just don't do that (the latter), just like you don't draft for organizational need, because the players are so far away from MLB anyway, among other reasons. We'd all love if he was a competent defensive 3B. The Sox don't believe he is.

QUOTE (southside hitman @ Apr 29, 2014 -> 02:03 PM) He scouted him at Kannapolis when he was at 3B and was surprised they moved him. His point is the same as this threads, there is a 26 year old organizational guy playing 3B for the Barons, why not move him back to his original position. The question is the answer. There's a 26 year old org guy there. If they thought Ravelo could do it competently, he'd be there. Heck if they needed filler they could just switch Curley and Ravelo on the field and cover 1B. The fact that they don't tells me what I need to know.

At the very least, with the improved defense and pitcher handling (which was already decent on the latter), and improved hitting approach... even if he regresses significantly, he's proven he's probably a solid backup C. Just a question of his future salaries in arbitration for the vale equation.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Apr 29, 2014 -> 11:50 AM) "The Star Wars team is thrilled to announce the cast of #StarWarsVII" http://starwars.com/news/star-wars-episode...-announced.html And the entire internet just broke. QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 29, 2014 -> 11:59 AM) https://twitter.com/farfarawayradio/status/...6768768/photo/1 Wow, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill and Peter Mayhew are all back? I haven't even seen any of those other than Ford in a movie in ages. Interesting. Also love that Serkis is part of this, I'd imagine he'll have some technical input as well. It would be almost impossible to do worse than the last three they made, being the garbage films they were.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 29, 2014 -> 11:26 AM) Birmingham Barons ‏@BhamBarons 2m ROSTER MOVE: RH Ryan Kussmaul promoted from @WSDashBaseball. In a corresponding move, RH David Cales was placed on the DL (retro to 4/26). Kussmaul really only transited through WS's roster for the scramble to work. He didn't appear in a game for them. He was at Charlotte, wasn't good, now he's back in AA.

Yes he's been very, very lucky. But also yes, he's improved his approach noticeably. He'll regress of course, but that doesn't mean he's suddenly going to go right back to last year's numbers either.

FYI, the AAP forum has been updated and cleaned up. See the list, in the pinned thread, of available prospects. Now is a good time to update your AAP's!!! Or pick up a new one. Here is a sampling of some guys available: Matt Davidson Jacob May Micker Adolfo Francellis Montas Adam Engel Eric Surkamp Chris Bassitt Adam Lopez Mike Recchia Tony Bucciferro Braulio Ortiz James Dykstra All 2013 Draft Picks OTHER THAN Tim Anderson, Tyler Danish and Trey Michalczewski

Released. Sending to archives.

Released. Closing, sending to archives.

I combined the two threads since Sanchez was already taken.