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QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 12:52 PM) Otani. Sorry. I searched him and this thread came up and I clicked into it without reading. Ah. Nothing official has been said.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 12:48 PM) So has there been anything confirming he is going to come over next off-season? Who?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 12:30 PM) Claude Julien fired (same day as the Pats parade of course). Coach Q is now the longest tenured coach in the NHL Crazy. I wonder how much longer he sticks around.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 11:13 AM) They are f***ing high. This team isn't winning 77 games. Minus Chris Sale and Adam Eaton, they are predicting the same results as last year? Yeah.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 12:27 AM) I've always been a huge fan of Q ( as I am with most young Sox players (Avi coughcough). I remember many here using the term smoke and mirrors with Q's surprising performance in his 1st 2 years with the Sox. Even now with his name all over trade rumors and many more learning how good he has been its hard to believe he is still under rated but he is. A recent example is when MLBN lists it's top 10 players at all positions. Usually they have their unbiased "Shredder" then a group of panelists so they end up with multiple opinions of a top 10 list. Even though the list is called Top 10 Right Now the panelists use varying ways for who to put on their lists. Some use the players total body of work some use only the last year, some the last few years, yet I can never recall ever seeing Q on any ones list in the years they have been doing Top 10. This year John Smoltz not only listed his Top 10 but even listed his Top 20 since their are so many starting pitchers as compared to starting players at other positions. Q wasn't even in his top 20. Yet when you read what was in the article you listed ,"Since the start of 2013, Quintana is one of only seven pitchers in baseball to make 120 starts, toss 800 innings and post an ERA+ of 115 or better. The other six: Max Scherzer, Corey Kluber, Jon Lester, Madison Bumgarner, David Price and Cole Hamels. We're talking about one of the best and most consistent starters in baseball for the last four years" it should blow you away he is listed among those pitchers. But we still even have our fans saying he might not be in the Top 20 pitchers also. We have national writers saying he's a number 3 starter. Hahn hasn't even been able to snag a couple decent prospects for him yet. I don't know what these other teams are looking for but it should be a pitcher exactly like Q. Still youngish, consistently good, injury free, amazing contract (just look at the contracts most of those other 6 guys are like !) and most likely not to flop. He is a pitchers pitcher and I hope if he is moved that he kicks ass because he is a pros pro and will do any franchise proud. I swear it is just because he can't dial back and hit 95. Guys like him usually take to get recognized.

QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 12:59 AM) I don't know if this has been posted or not but this guy HAS actually scooped 2 stories this offseason, so he might know something... Sean Sears ‏@sean_sears6 9h9 hours ago More #Nationals are playing it close to the chest with closer trade talks, a source of mine was told they were "exploring all options" Obviously that doesn't change anything, but he might be someone to watch on twitter if his source has info about Nats. Exploring all options is usually code for doesn't like the market prices, so they are thinking about something unconventional. That could mean a lottery ticket, or a trade for someone that no one is talking about.

I can't see Washington giving up any more pitching above all else.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 6, 2017 -> 03:55 PM) While I am clearly upset by how awful Trump is, I have to say (this seemed like the best place) that I've seen a lot of overreaction to some things coming out of the executive. I think people are so angry that they just see red. Some examples: --The financial advisor rule removal. This was a matter of pure practicality. It was well-intentioned legislation when it came out, but it was also wholly unworkable, and did not thing material to help people. Getting rid of it is not OMG THEY ARE GIVING THE BANKS ALL THE POWER AGAIN. --The rule about guns that people are looking at as if the GOP wants to give guns to the mentally unstable, is really not accurate, as was pointed out earlier in this thread. --The rule change to allow payments of more than 5k to the FSB was super-narrow and just allowed a specified set of companies to very specific business, to allow border controls to continue to function in both countries. This was not some sort of handover of control to the Russians, as people seem to think. --While there are some confimation-level nominees that are clearly and entirely not proper for their jobs (DeVos is not in the same state as qualified, Tillerson has massive conflicts of interest, the new EPA guy wants to end it), most of them are not outright jokes. And this is a CONFIRMATION process, not a popularity contest. Trump won, and he gets wide latitude to fill his cabinet, unless they are just ridiculously unqualified. Most of the nominees pass muster, so let's not scream and yell about Dems not planting a flag. Again, I think Trump has shown he's (so far at least) a disaster of a President. But that does not mean every single thing he and the White House have done are pure evil. Another of the interesting things I would mention would be lost in the EO on the pipelines, he is requiring that it be done with American Steel, something that at least the Senators for Indiana had been pushing for a long time now.

Ken Davidoff ‏@KenDavidoff 5h5 hours ago Free agent LHP Jon Niese is holding a workout Wednesday in Florida for interested clubs. #MLB

QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 5, 2017 -> 10:10 PM) Felt for a while now he was the replacement for Q if a move is made. It's fine though, don't mind Q staying based on some of these mediocre trade proposals. I don't really think the Sox care about a replacement. No matter who it is, I think the goal is to have a couple of these starters up here for the 2nd half of the season, which means if someone sucks and gets dumped, no big deal.

QUOTE (steveno89 @ Feb 6, 2017 -> 09:54 AM) Whitley is 19 years old and has only pitched 18 innings of rookie ball so far in his career. Not knocking him, but his MLB eta is definitely not going to be 2019. 2020 would be the earliest you would see him, likely late season at that. Reed / Tucker is not a good enough headliner to a Quintana deal Sox won't lower their asking price from Musgrove + Tucker + Martes that much Reed Tucker could be a starting point if they are willing to give up a majority of their top 10. It would have to be a quantity deal. But like I have said before, then another team would easily be able to offer quality to beat a deal like that.

QUOTE (WhiteSoxLifer @ Feb 6, 2017 -> 07:05 AM) http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/washing...osenthal-020617 That might change soon; the Nats continue to discuss a trade with the White Sox for closer David Robertson, according to major-league sources. Robertson is owed $12 million this season and $13 million next season, creating an all-too-typical Nats obstacle. The team does not want to absorb Robertson's entire obligation, and does not want to move additional prospects after parting with three young pitchers for Eaton, sources say. Sounds like the sting of the public perception of the Eaton deal is slowing this deal down.

QUOTE (oneofthemikes @ Feb 6, 2017 -> 08:51 AM) Juan Soto is a young guy that that I'd love for the Sox to grab. He's a long way from the Majors, but he would be an exciting player to keep an eye on. I'd be great with that.

QUOTE (KagakuOtoko @ Feb 5, 2017 -> 11:30 PM) You guys don't even let him recover from the all burns he's receiving. He could always quit sticking his hands into the fire.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Feb 5, 2017 -> 10:57 AM) From what I remember and understand, KW wanted Avi and Hahn wanted Middlebrooks. Wouldn't have worked out in either case. That is definitely the story that emerged after the trade.

QUOTE (Brian @ Feb 4, 2017 -> 04:34 PM) Lame dunk contest this year. LaVine out with torn ACL I am excited to see Glenn Robinson as a local kid, but that is about it.

QUOTE (Boogua @ Feb 4, 2017 -> 09:41 AM) That play where he just laid on top of MCW and got MCW called for his 6th foul was actually pretty funny. QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 4, 2017 -> 10:42 AM) zipser also had a comical foul with Harden when Harden elbowed him in the forehead and was rewarded the foul, only to get a technical issued after ref review. I understand Harden is a superstar, but there seriously Has to be some sort of similar foul to hockey's embellishment fouls that can somewhat discourage the fouls that he causes Those were two of the worst calls I have ever seen. How the NBA can't fix that stuff during a review is beyond me.

And as an extra step of research, it does appear the Astros are at or above their 2016-17 international spending pool. They only had $2.1 million to start, and I see signings of $1.2 million, plus 450k and 480k along with a decent amount of unlisted signings.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 3, 2017 -> 04:18 PM) I could have sworn seattle just traded bonus pool amounts. Seattle traded a current bonus pool slot (2016-2017, and not 2017-18) to Texas back in July.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 3, 2017 -> 03:12 PM) With things like comp picks or international bonuses possible, it could be a more creative and strange negotiation. To be clear, comp picks can only be traded in season. So this pick from the Cards CANNOT be traded until after the first pitch of the season. Also International money can only be traded during that period of time. The only thing we can acquire now is for the period of time BEFORE July 2, 2017, and that class is pretty much gone. The only use that MIGHT have is if there is someone from a place like Cuba that we like (say like Ralph) and that money made the difference. If we are talking about a trade before opening day neither a comp pick, nor 2017-18 international signing money can be in a deal.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Feb 3, 2017 -> 02:32 PM) Nightengale said that Houston and White Sox are re-engaged on talks. Levine has been saying for weeks that Q goes before the season starts. I don't think it is a matter of "close" or not, but more about who blinks first. Both teams probably know the others demands well by now. It is all a matter of who is going to step down from that price to meet the other.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 3, 2017 -> 12:45 PM) The idea that someone can call themselves a "financial adviser" and sell you high-cost, high-fee investments that are better for their pocketbook than yours seems like a bad idea, though. You can't just "call yourself" a financial advisor and be one. There is licensing and rules that goes with it. As was eluded to before, a decent amount of this is covered in existing rules. What isn't in there could have easily been included in the tightening of existing rules, or clearer clarification of them. This was taking a machete to pop a pimple.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 3, 2017 -> 12:27 PM) I am vividly familiar with the matter (as like you, there are direct impacts to my industry / company). The big issue was the department didn't really listen on those two pain points and how to streamline / enhance the process. That said, there are a lot of really good things that are included within the legislation as well. Another thing that is really odd to me is why should 401K money fall under one-set of rules while other funds don't. SEC is really who should be weighing in on this, imo. FINRA flat out said in the conference that they (as in the regulators) did not ask for this rule, and they did not want this rule. This was all on Congress.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Feb 3, 2017 -> 12:34 PM) It wouldn't be able to. The author of that article of that post also said that they could do a "minor league filler type player" for comp. bal. pick on Opening Day and it would work. That is pretty dangerous. If you have an agreement in place to circumvent the rules, you can get smacked down pretty hard by MLB. Not worth it IMO.