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QUOTE (Dunt @ Jul 31, 2017 -> 09:01 AM) Putnam aint getting released with 2 years of control left One year of control is gone due to surgery now. So essentially they would have to pay him those last two years of arbitration salary to pitch on a bad to mediocre 2019 team which has all of this pitching in the pipeline. Seems pretty wasteful to me.

QUOTE (ewokpelts @ Jul 31, 2017 -> 09:18 AM) One team town and the American League champions. And a fan base that sold out games for 8 years straight. And outside of that 8 year stretch they are the historical absolute worst fan base of all of the old time franchises.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Jul 30, 2017 -> 09:17 AM) Don't change my message, please. I've never used the word "hate" when it comes to the owner. I have zero personal animosity to the man, as I've never met him. However, this is a White Sox message board, correct? And Jerry Reinsdorf is the owner of the White Sox, correct? And that means decisions he makes as owner have a direct bearing on the team's results and that which we as fans want to support? Well, do the math. Line up the years and years of those decisions with the results on the field, and see what you get. You get criticism of those decisions given the routine losing of the organization. The original poster of this thread brought up one of those decisions from 20 years ago that happened to be a doozy, and so I shared my point of view on that decision. I think I made valid points, but at no time did I inject emotion suggesting personal hatred for the man. I just want him to stop making bad decisions. Sadly, I've been waiting an awful long time for that to happen. You ever wonder how an entire message board all gets the same message from you, when you don't? I've been waiting a long time for that to happen too.

QUOTE (ewokpelts @ Jul 31, 2017 -> 09:10 AM) I repeat: the American league champions draw over 1000 per game more than the last place sox. And that is after play By MORE home dates. Sox are doing just fine. The Indians have very nearly the worst fan base in all of baseball. Outside of Oakland and Tampa, you don't really get much lower. That comparison honestly makes it worse, not better.

I really wonder if Illinois will risk losing the Sox over a stadium?

QUOTE (steveno89 @ Jul 30, 2017 -> 01:27 PM) He is 23 playing in A ball. Very slim chance he ever sniffs the majors. Only shot would be as a reliever. Or if they fix whatever is wrong with him ala Tommy Kahnle.

Saladino has great instincts at 3B.

QUOTE (steveno89 @ Jul 30, 2017 -> 01:06 PM) Davis is the definition of a fringe prospect. Puckett is the real asset here. And raw. Big fastball, was a two way player.

As a FWIW, if they aren't convinced in any of the upper level kids for LF, this also opens up the door to be able to bring him back easier, as they don't have to worry about the whole arbitration offer and process with Melky. It probably won't happen, but it does eliminate some of those potential issues as he is going to be getting a pretty serious paycut next year.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jul 30, 2017 -> 12:31 PM) Hopefully the players remaining know this is part of the process, and their job is to be professional and play hard, otherwise somebody else is going to take their position. The remaining players all have contracts and futures to fight for, outside of maybe Abreu. If they don't play hard, they won't have jobs on a major league roster next year.

This is the MLB.com report on Puckett

This is Andre Davis https://www.baseball-reference.com/register...id=davis-000byr http://blackcollegenines.com/?p=2535 http://blackcollegenines.com/?p=2958

According to MLB.com, RHP Puckett is the Royals #13 prospect, is 9-7, 3.90 ERA at A+ 98K, 46 BB in 108.1 IP this season. He was a 2nd rd pick in 2016

I am going to wild card guess Luis Robert

He is taking way too many strikes at this point. So far I am wondering about his pitch recognition, or if he is too hesitant to swing.

Hanging up on tweets now? Bleh.

QUOTE (mac9001 @ Jul 28, 2017 -> 06:23 PM) There's a reason someone just dropped 50 million to build a stadium for an unaffiliated minor league team and Rosemont offered free land to the Cubs to build a stadium. It's a perfect place to put a big entertainment spot. You have easy highway access, endless parking, airport, metra access, CTA link, tons of food/bar/entertainment/casion/shopping options and most importantly a population base with a ton of money. Rosemont is in the dead center of Cubs country. You notice Rosemont didn't make the same offer to the White Sox?

QUOTE (mac9001 @ Jul 28, 2017 -> 06:00 PM) Judging by attendance and TV ratings it's not much of a fan base and you'll place the team in fairly centralized geographic area with a fairly affluent high income population base with decent access to public transportation. At some point they're going to start thinking about a new stadium and and for the Sox sake I hope they seriously consider getting out of the south side. The NW burbs are the opposite of centralized. It is one thing to say move downtown to the actual center of the metro area. It is another to move south as that is where their fan base is. Rosemont makes no sense at all.

QUOTE (mac9001 @ Jul 28, 2017 -> 05:53 PM) You'll build a whole new fan base, one that might actually support the team. It would take a generation at least to do that, and in the meantime you would lose your existing fan base.

QUOTE (mac9001 @ Jul 28, 2017 -> 05:49 PM) Tinley Park is a pretty terrible place to build anything. 80% of Chicagoland would view Tinley Park as an inconvenient drive. The absolute best place to build a park was Rosemont. They're actually putting an unaffiliated minor league team there and I'm willing to bet they'll do fantastically well in terms of attendance. The south side baseball team to the NW suburbs? That would be awful.

New international rules in the CBA http://www.baseballamerica.com/internation...egAYTp7lxeVB.97

QUOTE (steveno89 @ Jul 28, 2017 -> 05:00 PM) Kopech has only thrown 233 minor league innings, I would prefer to wait on him until 2019. Why start his service clock any sooner than necessary as well? He should start 2018 in AAA though. He still needs to cut down the walks otherwise MLB hitters will lay off his great stuff. I said it in a minor league thread the other day, but he is just about to hit 100 IP in a season for the first time ever. He is also still walking 5 guys per 9 IP. Until you get him through an innings base (say 150 to 180) and more into the 3 BB/9 range, he can wait. One of the biggest things that people tore down the Sox player development for is rushing people. Now we have no need to and I think the White Sox are starting to buy into that philosophy. In years past I would put money on Moncada, Giolito and Lopez all having been on the opening day roster. It is July 28th and only one of those guys is in Chicago. A guy like Kopech has spent the entire season at AA. Despite Adolfo and Jimenez tearing the cover off of the ball for extended periods, they are still in A ball. I don't think the White Sox want to rush Koepech.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/major-...4b02a4ebb75150b MORE AT LINK

Chris Boden‏Verified account @CSNBoden 2h2 hours ago #Bears Fox clarifies McPhee scope was "cleanup". Doesnt see this as Fuller situation last yt, when missed whole season.

I know aggressive promotions have been a big argument around these parts... it is interesting to see both the Dodgers and Braves mentioned here, and not the White Sox. http://www.baseballamerica.com/chat/?1501251328