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QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jan 29, 2016 -> 02:08 PM) White Sox don't really have a guy comparable to McGee unless they moved Nate Jones. McGee is a lefty too, right?

Anyone ever do any property purchases through tax auctions? Any tips or warnings?

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jan 29, 2016 -> 11:46 AM) Is any team loaded enough to survive a top 3 starting pitcher missing all/most of the season? Exactly.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Jan 29, 2016 -> 12:03 PM) I don't know. The Sox had a .611 OPS from the 3B position in '15 while Frazier had an .806 OPS. 2B for the Sox had a .564 OPS while Lawrie had a .706 OPS. Just my opinion but I'd call that a significant upgrade. QUOTE (Dunt @ Jan 29, 2016 -> 12:16 PM) For reference: Sox 3B fWAR last season: -1.3 Todd Frazier fWAR last season: 4.4 Sox 2B fWAR last season: -1.2 Brett Lawrie fWAR last season: 0.6 Those 2 changes alone add roughly 7.5 wins to last years team, so a pretty significant difference IMO. You should know better than to introduce facts to irrationality.

Heavy.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Jan 29, 2016 -> 08:51 AM) My issue with this off-season is they got Lawire who would play third, then they got Frazier who moves Lawrie to second. If the plan was to upgrade third and second without addressing RF, the offseason is a failure. The defense was atrocious last year. Frazier is up grade, Lawrie is a downgrade and the worst defender is still in RF. Lawire move kind of gets me as those players traded could have been used to upgrade RF. Sanchez and a new RF is an upgrade over Lawrie and Garcia. Sanchez didn't play 2B all year though. Johnson played for a while too.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jan 29, 2016 -> 08:07 AM) Perhaps a one year contract to retire with the team That would be awesome.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jan 29, 2016 -> 12:29 AM) I feel like people never follow through with these types of proclamations. Well done, bravo.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 08:19 PM) I would drive to California and sabotage any BTTF tv show or movie remake. Or you could just wait, get your time machine and go back in time to do it.

QUOTE (Baron @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 07:42 PM) They arent stuck with him yet He sure isn't going to say that we are still actively trying to replace him, just in case the worst case scenario actually happens.

QUOTE (Baron @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 07:09 PM) He also said he had to talk to Avi after the rumors and they are "excited" to have him starting in RF. What else could he say? We spent all winter trying to replace the guy because he sucks, and now we are stuck with him?

QUOTE (LDF @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 07:00 PM) bs..... money talks, even the sox, if they wanted to, could have beaten the mets offer. this is all lip service, damage control. why now, 1 day before soxfest. Even if they had "beaten the mets offer" he probably still wouldn't have come here. He turned down more money from the nationals.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 08:48 AM) Ted Karras, 81 http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post...0127-story.html The son Jeff mentioned at the of the article was a coach at my HS for a while.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 04:00 PM) Hinrich and Avi don't belong in the same sentence. Hinrich is one of the better players in franchise history. He is also one of the most hated guys on the roster.

Oh boy. He had better hope so or he will be the next Kirk Hinrich in this town.

Well, if nothing else this is one less place for an OF to go. Hopefully this helps with Fowler or Jackson, if that is what they are shooting for.

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 02:07 PM) I'm not going to lie. I had no idea that he was still in the Sox organization last year and actually put up some really nice numbers. 51 IP, 3.00 ERA, 3.88 FIP, 1.078 WHIP, 5.5 H/9, 1.1 HR/9, 4.2 BB/9, 10.8 K/9, 2.54 K/BB Obviously the walk rate is still high but you can live with it from a reliever if he has a K/9 rate of 10.8. Except we have learned he can't do that at the major league level. They chase way less garbage.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 02:09 PM) Toews has played alot of hockey as well and hasn't had the best year. This is probably a blessing in disguise. It makes for almost 10 straight days off.

He must enjoy Charlotte.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 12:53 PM) Should change the thread title to Fister in the Astro I barely knew him!

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 12:10 PM) Bloomberg is a fraud. Under scrutiny, after he moves from "the idea of a third party candidate" to "actual candidate" his base falls out. People just like to say they are independents. Sadly the fact that he isn't Trump, Hillary, Sanders, Cruz or any of the rest of the clown car candidates we currently have would automatically put him at the top of my list.

Back to the topic at hand, I like that they separated the batter logo from the block SOX. I hate the block SOX logo from the 80's. The batter logo actually looks pretty smooth on its own.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 12:06 PM) They are already moaning about these on WSI. Who cares what WSI thinks? They do their thing, we do ours. Plenty of room for both.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 11:41 AM) Possibly baseball will go bankrupt!? Or he other alternative is the teams have one grossly overpaid contract and 24 A ball player contracts. These figures are outrageous Not even close.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 12:10 PM) https://twitter.com/whitesox/status/692768708930998272 Welcome, Toddfather. That is a great pic. Exellent use of gray's with the black and white.