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Two different ways to view Cabrera http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/two-differe...-melky-cabrera/

Chris Cotillo ‏@ChrisCotillo 7m7 minutes ago Mark Teahen has retired from baseball. Played seven major league seasons with #Royals, #WhiteSox, #BlueJays.

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Daryl Van Schouwen ‏@CST_soxvan 16s17 seconds ago White Sox hosting Samardzija and Robertson press conference Tuesday afternoon.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 15, 2014 -> 11:51 AM) That I'm not so sure of. But really, such an event is probably decades in the future, so it is difficult to even begin to predict what neighborhoods, property prices, etc. will look like at that time. People often forget this, but neighborhoods change, sometimes dramatically, in periods that long. It is 99.9999% sure that the next stadium the White Sox play in will be undertaken by an different ownership group. It is impossible to imagine who that will be, and what their goals will be.

QUOTE (thxfrthmmrs @ Dec 15, 2014 -> 11:46 AM) One thing these computer based projections don't account for simply adding stabilizers like Robertson and Duke at the end of bullpen will take away pressure from guys like Petricka, Putnam, Guerra and Webb. If we are only asking them to pitch the 6/7/8 instead of high leverage 8th and 9th, it would put them in a better position to succeed as well. 3 of those guys have a big fastball, they just didn't command it well last year. Taking pressure off them would certainly help. But yea, 2 WAR for this bullpen grossly under-projecting. So true.

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 15, 2014 -> 11:43 AM) I feel like we are an 83 win team if we have an average season, we need the danks/garcia/bullpen great years to get us to 88 wins. This feels right to me. The number I had in my head was 85 wins, with potential into the low 90's with some big years.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Dec 15, 2014 -> 11:42 AM) Cubs have 12/1 odds with 4 proven players on their team lol That is the most ridiculous one of all.

A again?

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Dec 15, 2014 -> 10:38 AM) So after the long wait I finally got a firm offer and was able to accept it. I just officially put in my 2-week notice at my current job. Starting on January 5th my commute will drop from 2+ hours to about 10 minutes. I’ll be dropping a little in salary but the massive savings in gas, tolls and free time at home definitely makes up for it. Great to hear it. Good luck!

Daryl Van Schouwen ‏@CST_soxvan 11m11 minutes ago Bovada odds on #WhiteSox to win World Series 28-1. 8 AL teams w/ better odds, including Bos 9-1, Det 12-1, KC 20-1. (Sox 40-1 on 10/30/14).

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Dec 14, 2014 -> 08:58 PM) Hopefully one of those moves is to fire Hawk and replace him with a competent announcer. That would really make the 2015 team watchable. Daryl Van Schouwen ‏@CST_soxvan 15s16 seconds ago #WhiteSox broadcaster Ken Harrelson not interested in cutting back 2015 schedule. "That's out the window," Hawk says. http://bit.ly/12VEulx

Ken Rosenthal ‏@Ken_Rosenthal 2h2 hours ago Source confirms Harper deal with #Nationals is for two years, $7.5M. First reported: @BNightengale. Salaries: $2.5M, $5M, per @JonHeymanCBS. MLB ‏@MLB 2h2 hours ago .@Nationals, @Bharper3407 agree to 2-year deal and avoid grievance hearing, sources tell @washingnats. Club has not confirmed.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Dec 14, 2014 -> 04:45 PM) Sale's next extension will probably be north of $25 mill a year. I think if Jerry was going to open his wallet for an arm, it'd be him Try $30 million annually, as a starter.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 15, 2014 -> 10:05 AM) In 2014 baseball, his offense isn't as offensive as it was a few years back. If I am reading this table right, the MLB average OPS by 2B in 2014 was .686. If the guy hits his minor league OPS, and plays the good defense we saw, he is at very least, a league average player. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/sortable...php?cid=1681191

QUOTE (Reddy @ Dec 15, 2014 -> 09:43 AM) There's not a world in which Carlos Sanchez should ever be considered " solid" In 2014 baseball, his offense isn't as offensive as it was a few years back.

QUOTE (Jake @ Dec 14, 2014 -> 10:35 AM) Provided that this post was not obviously incendiary ("break open those crates!"), which we don't know for sure, and that this is a public school, it's a sad thing that this guy lost his job. The local farmers aren't donors, they are taxpayers. They don't have the right to like the personal beliefs of all local public school faculty He didn't. I do know for sure. In a broader sense, this is an interesting case. I know more and more people are getting hit for what they do in their personal lives. I have read about female teachers being fired for posing topless, for example.

Very odd post by Balta.

QUOTE (Whitey @ Dec 15, 2014 -> 06:45 AM) Looking at Houston's depth chart, Dayan would be an upgrade over what they have in LF... How about a package of Dayan, Trayce, and Surkamp? Dayan's pull swing would actually play pretty well in the Juice Box with the Crawford Boxes being a short drive away.

Jon Heyman ‏@JonHeymanCBS 37m37 minutes ago korean ss jung-ho kang being posted today. led korea with 1.198 ops in 2014. mets, giants, others interested.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 15, 2014 -> 08:46 AM) So you want a guy who is relatively frugal as MLB owners go, to spend $100M+ on a property, to try to pull off an architectural miracle (fitting a stadium a hundred feet above true ground, hovering over an expressway, and abutting a river) and a multi-BILLION dollar stadium, when the one he has was just renovated and is only 25 years old? And in an environment where Illinois and Chicago government weren't even willing to chip in on the Wrigley project? Come on now. Let's re-join reality. Now, I could see the Sox owners as a consortium trying to find a south loop or west loop property big enough and simply buy the land speculatively, to sit on for now. Rates are low, property prices have recovered but are still not at their previous peak. Might be worth the offset of property tax costs for undeveloped land. Maybe. But even then, they won't be planning to build for a very long time. Decades really. So even that is unlikely. QFT

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Dec 14, 2014 -> 08:43 PM) I enjoy communism

Quiet you!

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 14, 2014 -> 04:39 PM) Belle was most hated player in MLB when Sox signed him. No doubt a lot would have not liked it. I still loved his 98 season though. I could not stand Albert Belle.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 14, 2014 -> 04:39 PM) The level of seething, angry disrespect in this thread for anyone who has a negative reaction to signing this guy is really quite remarkable. We often don't even get this level for political discussions. Acutally that is why so few people use the political forum anymore, but that is a different story.