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Daryl Van Schouwen‏Verified account @CST_soxvan 1h1 hour ago #WhiteSox starters: Covey Fri, Hector Santiago Sat, Jordan Guerrero Sun, Michael Kopech Monday.

Daryl Van Schouwen‏Verified account @CST_soxvan 1h1 hour ago Kopech will face the A's at Camelback Ranch Monday.

MLB Trade Rumors‏ @mlbtraderumors 3h3 hours ago Rays To Sign Carlos Gomez https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2018/02/rays-to-sign-carlos-gomez.html …://https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2018...os-gomez.html …

MLB Trade Rumors‏ @mlbtraderumors 3h3 hours ago Orioles To Sign Colby Rasmus https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2018/02/orioles-to-sign-colby-rasmus.html …://https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2018...y-rasmus.html …

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 21, 2018 -> 01:43 PM) At this point, it's okay to take on salary for next year, but you don't want any contracts beyond that. Noah's isn't worth it. That was a contract that was pretty universally horrible the day it was signed.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Feb 21, 2018 -> 01:39 PM) You keep saying that, but I don't know why. He put up 2.2 fWAR last year and both Steamer and ZiPS project him at 2.5. A league average player is "roughly 2 WAR." Ok, maybe he's slightly above? He's within rounding error of a league average player. He does rank 16th in last years rankings of 3B by fWAR.

QUOTE (JUSTgottaBELIEVE @ Feb 21, 2018 -> 01:09 PM) I like Donaldson but he turns 33 later this year. That's a guy without question that will be in serious decline within the 2020 (age 35 season) thru 2024 (age 39 season) contention window. Donaldson shouldn't be a thought.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Feb 21, 2018 -> 12:59 PM) Settling for league average players a year or two early is even worse. There are alternatives in the likely even we miss out on Machado. I'm still struggling to understand why so many people want to go with plan B (or C/D for that matter) before we even attempt plan A. Because Plan A has a minuscule chance of working.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Feb 21, 2018 -> 12:45 PM) I got to disagree with the majority of this post. Give me the star in Machado over a couple 2 WAR players. If we can't develop, sign, or trade for those guys when needed, the rebuild has been an abject failure. Money will not be an issue even with Machado in the fold, at least not for a few years. And as I just mentioned in the post above, if we're worried about being able to extend guys like Moncada & Jimenez six or seven years from now then we're going to make a ton of decisions that do not maximize our opportunity to win in the present. Trusting this to being able to outbid the rest of baseball on Machado is a terrible idea.

QUOTE (Quin @ Feb 21, 2018 -> 12:45 PM) Noah saga growing in NY. Felicio + for a Top 8 protected pick this year and Noah. That or their 2019 pick Is that a rumor, or an idea?

Doing the little things is going to become so much more important for last year and this years classes. Hopefully they are working hard to get players who might have been missed (aka late bloomers) and places like Venezuela where teams aren't willing to go as much anymore.

QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Feb 21, 2018 -> 02:38 AM) This is the part that confused me, because if you want to get a high fastball by somehow, you presumably want it to appear to rise, not drop. So the idea of 13 being amazing and 8 being bad didn't make sense to me. I wonder if maybe that number is measured from the exact 3D center of the strikezone? So 8 inches from the heart of the zone versus 13 inches? But then it's more of location of the pitch, not movement of it. I need some sort of graphical representation to learn this apparently. Talking in terms of physics, making a pitch rise is impossible. Really what is happening is that the pitch isn't falling, or isn't falling as much as the batters eyes tell it that it should be falling. There is a parabola that a batter expects. My guess is that a pitcher who has a hang time of 8 is what is "normal". A pitcher who has a hang time of 13 isn't seeing the same drop rate so batters are under their ball.

Micker is among the top offensive ceilings in the entire system. He just is young, and has lost a lot of time due to injury. He has a long way to get to that ceiling, but he also has made very big progress in 2017. If he keeps up the pace in 2018, he could well enter top 100 lists. He has huge power potential and Aaron Rowand compared his arm to Vlad Guerrero in RF.

QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Feb 21, 2018 -> 02:44 AM) I'll be real, real upset if we sign Moose and forfeit our 2nd RD pick to do so. That would be the 45th overall pick. We took Alec Hansen with the 49th overall pick in 2016. Would you be willing to give up Hansen in order to sign Moose? I sure as hell wouldn't. To be fair we also drafted Keenyn Walker 47th.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Feb 20, 2018 -> 01:23 PM) With limited interest, it makes sense as opposed to handing out $300 mill+ next off-season with more teams involved. Or losing out on both of them.

If you want to win brownie points for life, Hamilton really is about the best musical experience you will ever have. If the wife wants to see a broadway show, this is by far your best option. The music envokes the best of 80's/90's hip hop stylings while telling a story in such depth, intelligence and cleverness that is absolutely untouched by anything else I have ever seen done live before. I don't know if there are any other fans out there, but I am just blown away by the power of the show.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 20, 2018 -> 10:03 AM) Yeah that's a typo, meant to say "isn't going to be too much fun"

QUOTE (GenericUserName @ Feb 18, 2018 -> 11:32 PM) If anyone was wondering what we did with our remaining international money, we have signed 5 guys since the beginning of February that I think are all international amateurs. Jose Rodriguez SS 16 years old Johnabiell Laureano CF 17 years old Francisco Benitez RHP 17 years old Luis Rodriguez RHP 17 years old Jesus Rondon RHP 18 years old The pitching is interesting. Typically the pitching is the hardest to project at the younger ages, and is the most prone to later breakouts. I do like the Sox scouring the kids looking for some overlooked bargains as only one of them is 16. Also interesting is that the latter two are Venezuelan, which is getting harder and harder to get a good read on with the meltdown of the country.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Feb 20, 2018 -> 09:36 AM) I don't think info anything was withheld from the White Sox about James Shields. I think he just got hurt after. Just bad luck. Otherwise, why weren't we involved in the whole Red Sox and Marlins report and being offered to reverse the trade? Edit: either way, it's in the past now. Let's not dwell on it and talk about the guys still here. I don't think there is any doubt he was hurt. You could see him stretching his back often after pitches and he also started to remake his arm angles to drop down a lot more. The #1 reason pitchers do that is injury. I think how quickly he went down in 17 was a result of finally having to admit to what was wrong all along.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Feb 20, 2018 -> 10:09 AM) The rotation is really going to make or break the team this year from a record standpoint. By mid-season we could have a rotation full of young studs or a ton of question marks. While by no means do I think this happens, but if enough of the kids (Rodon, Giolito, Lopez, & Kopech) take positive steps forward this team could see a Twins like improvement in 2018. Obviously we're more likely to see a mix of good & bad outcomes, but it's going to be exciting as hell to follow this young staff next year. If we have seen anything is that this will not be linear. They are all question marks, and they probably will still be after this season. Even a guy like Rodon who has been doing this for years still has his question marks.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 19, 2018 -> 10:34 AM) Even stuff like if they came from a showcase. Sox are linked to one guy for 2018 from a recent VZ showcase, 16 year old SS. J2 is going to be too much fun so will be interesting if there are any stories, like maybe a guy that tried out as a position player but sox signed them as a pitcher. The Sox are still under the caps for July 2, 2018, so the fun will be limited.

QUOTE (wrathofhahn @ Feb 17, 2018 -> 05:44 PM) Possibly but it's hard to feel a whole lot of sympathy for Williams when he has done the exact same thing. The padres were busted by the league but only the marlins and sox cases were cited and in both cases Manfred offered to rescind the trade. Of course it's possible if not likely the Padres did the same repeatedly before but it's also possible for players to get injured just by happenstance as well. So we will never know. Also remember James Shields was already 34 at the time of the trade and had a ton of mileage on his arm and was making way more then he was worth moving forward. Whether the Padres were honest or not with their medicals isn't even the point. The trade should have never been made even if he was completely healthy. Again, this is complete libel. Kenny Williams hasn't done the same thing. He did not create two sets of paperwork in order to be able to give an incomplete medical history to another team while hiding the teams true findings in order to fool other teams in an effort to hide injuries. This is exactly what was found by MLB.

QUOTE (FloydBannister1983 @ Feb 19, 2018 -> 03:03 PM) If the thread is dumb why comment on it? Why make multiple comments on such a dumb thread? Why make it all the way to the second and third page if it's so dumb? Couldn't you just read the first comment, consider it dumb and move along? You could be asked the same thing... but I am sure it is different right?

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 20, 2018 -> 08:59 AM) Yeah and Harry Pavlidis from BP in his Soxmachine podcast interview said the same. As a fan, it's easy to pant a rosier picture, but I also get there could be some disasters either in stop gap vets like Shields and MiGo, or poor performance from Giolito Lopes and most likely Fulmer. But, I do think becoming a big league pitcher is hard, and I won't be fatalistic if Giolito has a poor year if I see signs of him figuring it out. He could find his curveball and be Rich Hill. He could find a slider and have a workable 3 pitch repertoire. He has options to find to make a good pitcher if phase one doesn't work. Something like this is a happy medium. I don't like the lack of variety, but the average might not be too far from average. My guess is that a couple have breakout years, while a couple just bomb, and the average starters ERA is in the high 4 to 5 area.

QUOTE (Dam8610 @ Feb 16, 2018 -> 02:48 PM) He likes to create strawmen and then "destroy" them. See it in his YouTube videos, saw it in his debate with Cenk Uygur, see it in clips that I occasionally run across on Facebook. He typically will take an argument that someone makes, extend it well beyond the bounds of logic, using only his viewpoint as a basis for that extension, and then, based on his extension of the argument, he chides the original viewpoint as ridiculous. The biggest problem with trying to debate him is that once you've made an argument and he's gone off on his tangent, he refuses to accept anyone disagreeing with any of the myriad of additional premises he places in his counterargument. Sounds familiar to me.