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Inside the NCAA‏Verified account @InsidetheNCAA Based on additional information, NCAA staff reconsidered and granted NC State’s transfer waiver request for Braxton Beverly, allowing him to compete immediately.

MLB Trade Rumors‏ @mlbtraderumors 49m49 minutes ago #Nationals expect to discuss an extension with Bryce Harper this winter. That & more from NL East: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2017/11/nl-east-notes-harper-marlins-payroll-anthopoulos.html …://https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2017...hopoulos.html …

Chris Kuc‏Verified account @ChrisKuc 56m56 minutes ago Luis Robert will start season "somewhere in A-Ball," according to White Sox GM Rick Hahn but is expected to spend bulk of his time at Winston-Salem.

Bruce Levine‏ @MLBBruceLevine 11m11 minutes ago Sox GM Rick Hahn said both Eloy Jimenez and Luis Robert will be in big league camp this February.

Bob Nightengale‏Verified account @BNightengale 4h4 hours ago There are eight teams who have inquired about #Marlins Giancarlo Stanton, but the #SFGiants and #STLCards remain atop leaderboard Dan Szymborski‏Verified account @DSzymborski 1h1 hour ago It was widely believed inside baseball that the White Sox ask for Quintana during last winter was too high. But I didn't hear the mockery that I'm getting about the Marlins and Stanton.

More Eloy love http://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/cubs/ex-c...table-white-sox

Chris Kuc‏Verified account @ChrisKuc 43m43 minutes ago White Sox expected to add Eloy Jimenez to 40-man roster so he will attend spring training. Non-roster invitees to camp likely to include Luis Robert, Micker Adolfo and Jake Burger.

Don't do it, it's a trap.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Nov 15, 2017 -> 10:48 AM) In the NL he can bat on days when he pitches, get pinch hit opportunities on his days off and maybe start in the field one game a week or so, because there's no way teams are going to want him making max effort throws from the outfield on the days right after he pitches and the day before he pitches. However he hasn't played in the outfield since 2014 so I doubt any team is going to have him do it anyway. In the AL he can DH 3-4 games per week without having to tax his arm in the field. That will add up to more opportunities to bat than he can get in the NL unless an NL team is willing to use him irresponsibly which I don't see happening. I see the opposite. Teams will sell him on anything to get him here.

QUOTE (GenericUserName @ Nov 15, 2017 -> 10:46 AM) When can guys who were drafted last year be traded. Was it 6 months after the draft, so like mid-December? Because they have several guys who they just drafted who I would be interested in. After the World Series now.

MLB Trade Rumors‏ @mlbtraderumors 2h2 hours ago Jake Peavy Seeking Return To Majors https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2017/11/jake-peavy-seeking-return-to-majors.html …://https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2017...o-majors.html …

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Nov 15, 2017 -> 10:34 AM) Besides at-bats most likely if he wants to try the 2-way player thing. Plenty of teams can offer his bat ABs. This is false. In fact being in the AL would cost him ABs because of the DH. If he started and the Sox didn't use the DH, you don't get the DH back once a reliever comes in. The Sox would either have relievers hitting or need potentially multiple pitch-hitters in a game if they went without the DH. If he went 6 innings, that is still 2ABs that need to be covered. If the latter were the case, they would need to carry a bigger bench than they have to cover the extra possibilities.

QUOTE (GenericUserName @ Nov 15, 2017 -> 10:25 AM) If I'm the White Sox and we sit down and he asks why we didn't come see him play if we were interested I say that we already saw everything we needed to from tape to know he is going to be a star. We could have sent someone out to watch, but why waste our scouts time when they can be scouting guys were unsure about so they can help us win a championship. I know people think this, but this isn't reality. Teams scouted the s*** out of a guy like Justin Verlander who has pitched for over a decade in MLB, but when he came out on the trade block, teams still flocked to see him.

I know people want this guy, but there hasn't been a single sign that the White Sox are in play here. Not a single one. Even in hypothetical land, anything the White Sox can offer, someone else can offer more of. They don't have cap space, they don't have tradition, they aren't a contender, they don't have a large Japanese community, they don't have much of a tradition of having Japanese players when compared to other teams, etc. At this point he is a unicorn as far as the White Sox are concerned.

Z is the first sound of Xenon, but not the first letter.

QUOTE (Dam8610 @ Nov 15, 2017 -> 10:14 AM) He had one total pitching appearance this year due to injury. Also, no one is "trying" at this point, "trying" would be posting the $20 million fee to negotiate with him. Everyone is "trying". Teams are trying to make an impression on the guy anyway possible. They are trying to figure out what the guy really wants in an MLB City and trying to sell that to his camp in anyway possible. He hasn't even been posted yet, so the fee hasn't even started to come into play.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Nov 15, 2017 -> 07:32 AM) Is it also possible that JR wouldn't want to pay the $20 million posting fee if he did sign with us? Aren't the Sox paying Robert this year? Yes, but without the tax hit as that would have already been paid.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Nov 15, 2017 -> 09:42 AM) Is this a guy we all wanted at some point? Name sounds familiar. He was the big Cuban sensation in between Robert and Abreu.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Nov 15, 2017 -> 07:20 AM) While I agree with this point, I'm not sure it really matters when you're talking about a player of his reputation and a $300k signing bonus. They've certainly seen enough tape of him to confirm that he's worth $300k. More likely than not though the front office simply doesn't think he'll accept such a small bonus when other teams can offer several million more and don't think it's worth wasting the time/resources. I think that would be pretty foolish as it's not like we're going to have an overly active winter. Defintiely worth the Hail Mary shot IMO. The point is to make an impression on HIM, not to have him make an impression on us.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Nov 15, 2017 -> 07:15 AM) Do you really need to go scout a player to see how good he is these days if you already know he is really good? If you want to make an impression that you want him more than every other team in baseball, the first thing to do would be that.

QUOTE (Dam8610 @ Nov 15, 2017 -> 05:58 AM) Why is the attitude here so dismissive of this possibility? Can you imagine if the White Sox did land him and he lived up to the hype? Adding Otani to Rodon, Anderson, Moncada, Jimenez, Kopech, Giolito, Lopez, Robert, Hansen, Collins, Rutherford, Fulmer, Cease, et al would be a coup and I think accelerate the process of the rebuild and extend the timeframe in which we could expect to see results. #1 is that we don't even appear to be trying. We haven't been scouting him at all at his starts.

Please don't blame Ditka.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Nov 14, 2017 -> 05:31 PM) Don't know if this has been shared yet: https://www.thescore.com/news/1415026 They call it a "bold prediction" I call it a waste of a click.

NBC Sports Chicago‏Verified account @NBCSChicago 2m2 minutes ago Alex DeBrincat has played well all year, but now the goals are coming and that's good for the Blackhawks http://bit.ly/2zEogRP

Kicking hasn't been a good thing for the Bears either.