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Colleen Kane ‏@ChiTribKane 7m White Sox outfielder Michael Taylor has a right knee injury. MRI shows no tear but team was looking at draining fluids from it. Dan Hayes ‏@CSNHayes 1m Adam Eaton could rejoin the team in time for tonight's game. Definitely expected in the lineup tomorrow. #WhiteSox

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Sep 22, 2014 -> 04:35 PM) Pulling out all the stops, I see. Even Sean Lowe. Dude. Brian f***ing Anderson.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 22, 2014 -> 04:30 PM) Guess based on previous team techniques? They bring in one veteran left hander and Surkamp and Snodgress compete for the 2nd lefty slot in ST. That is how I feel. I think right now Surkamp has a clear edge as he is showing that he can get guys out, and Ventura is using him in higher and higher leverage situations.

MLB Trade Rumors ‏@mlbtraderumors 3h Yankees Claim Eury Perez http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/?p=41908

Daryl Van Schouwen ‏@CST_soxvan 33m Adam Eaton not in lineup because of death in family. Return at some point tonight is possible. Michael Taylor (knee) probably unavailable.

Scott Merkin ‏@scottmerkin 46s In talking to Avi today about his Tigers days and former teammates, he mentioned that Victor Martinez likes Chicago. But Avi also said.. that he totally understands it's a business so likes might not matter.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Sep 22, 2014 -> 03:17 PM) Front court depth is bueno, backcourt...not so much. E'Twan Moore will be the next Nate Robinson.

Just as a FWIW, this is what the Sox pen numbers look like from September this year... http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/stats/pitching...icago-white-sox Guys like Guerra and Surkamp are making nice cases for the pen next year. Cleto has been better, but he also still hasn't stopped walking guys, meaning he is usually one big hit away from a disaster. Lindstrom has been getting guys out better, but he isn't striking out or walking anyone. Same with Bellisario. Webb and Snodgress have been pretty bad. Pertrika and Putnam have been pretty meh. The reason I look at this is I wonder if guys like Guerra and Surkamp are winning roster spots for next year? I see no way they bring back Bellisario, and probably not Lindstrom either. Webb might be pitching himself back to Charlotte next year. Cleto probably doesn't have a job for next year either. I see Pertricka, Putnam, Guerra, and Surkamp back in 2015. I see Lindstrom and Bellisario out of the organization. I see Cleto and Snodgress getting ST invites, but being on the outside looking in to win jobs. Webb I see in competition for the last spot with other invitees. With that in mind, I would guess we see a righty and a lefty signed in the off-season to real contracts, along with a couple of other random invites to fight for a position in the pen.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 22, 2014 -> 02:24 PM) http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/09/22/stephen-...ssination-hulu/ One of my favorite books of the last 5 years is being adapted as a Hulu series. That was a great book. Hopefully the don't "The Stand" it.

jon greenberg ‏@jon_greenberg 19m Bulls re-sign Nazr Mohammed, role model, Chicago native and occasional LeBron enforcer.

Mark Simon ‏@msimonespn 1h For $28.9 million, the Braves have gotten -2.3 WAR out of B.J. Upton ... still has 3 years and $46 million left to get.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Sep 22, 2014 -> 08:28 AM) After yesterday, Garcia now has 168 PAs, the same amount of PAs he had last year with the Sox. 2013: .304/.327/.446/.775 - 5 HR 21 RBI - OPS+ 109 - 38/5 K/BB 2014: .267/.333/.460/.793 - 7 HR 27 RBI - OPS+ 122 - 40/14 K/BB And the peak for a typical ballplayer comes in the 27/28/29 year old range statistically. We have a lot of time and room for Avi to grow.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 21, 2014 -> 05:49 PM) Yet everyone tolerated Viciedo for 3 years. Besides who are you gonna replace him with? The farm? Not Soxfest. He pretty much hates everyone.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Sep 21, 2014 -> 05:21 PM) Because he's not on the whitesox. Surely you've noticed the "grass is always greener" around here. And the more vague that the return is, the better.

We had to put one of our cats to sleep yesterday that we got in 2000, the week after we got married. It was hard for us, but it was really bad for the kids, who are 6 and 8.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 21, 2014 -> 11:39 AM) Would you play for a small shot at a wild card or a shot at a really high pick? One problem with your scenerio is it is one thing when bad teams tank but the average and slightly above average teams would be given more motivation mot to take a shot at a wild card spot. I don't see how this stops tanking and I don't think it is rampant anyway. Let the bad teams draft the better players. Most still need to be developed anyway. It won't. Look at the NBA and NHL to see the gap between the good and bad teams.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 21, 2014 -> 11:28 AM) Bud can be ripped for many things but I think this wild card play in game is genius. In this lottery scenerio being mentioned I wonder how many teams instead of trying to get one of those slots might not play for a shot at a really high draft pick. It puts the incentive into winning, not losing. That is why it works.

QUOTE (flavum @ Sep 21, 2014 -> 10:35 AM) It's not stupid. How is the NBA anywhere close to the same as MLB? You have to have one of the best individual players to win in the NBA. Again, my opinion is that it's just bad to get to the end of the season where lesser teams may be playing other teams with the postseason on the line, and maybe the bad teams aren't putting out their best product to win because it may mean the #1 pick the following year. And also maybe losing the last couple games to get a protected pick and all of that. So it's not stupid to eliminate some of those things, and build in rules to a Draft Lottery that teams can't have top 3 picks in consecutive years, or the #1 pick more than once in a decade. There's a fair of doing a Lottery that makes the outcome of a Mets-Astros game on the last day of the season irrelevant to the draft order. It is a stupid idea because it ruins the overall product to have a significant portion of the league attempting to fail at one time.

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Sep 21, 2014 -> 04:52 AM) It's just strange to me that someone can say this when he's rated as just about the single worst defensive player in all of baseball in terms of defensive runs saved per inning. I know there's issues with sample size and reliability, but they're not missing him by so much so that he's anything close to decent, the eye test will tell you that too. I've had a look back and there's not really an example of anyone who has graded as poorly as Avi early in their career and gone on to be considered a decent defensive player. Yoenis Cespedes to an extent, and he still wasn't rated nearly as badly. Jose Abreu...

It is a stupid idea for MLB. The NBA has already turned into a garbage product because of the lottery. I don't want to see this happen in baseball.

QUOTE (LDF @ Sep 20, 2014 -> 08:57 AM) but on the flip side, this kind of posting is what helps keep good discussion going. plus I am learning more about stats. It is even better seeing the date on the original post.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Sep 20, 2014 -> 12:01 AM) So Ventura is now Joe Madden Lord this whole show is turning into the Cubs. Everyone is turning the Cubs into WS champs, so this is great!

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 19, 2014 -> 10:31 PM) Its probably not worth your energy to argue this point. There are complaints on this board every day about not acquiring top 100 prospects and when we do they are declared busts after one season. You cant win unless they become all stars. I mean our starting 3B who has shown he can field and hit in the majors was acquired for Jeff Soptic who is still scuffling in A ball and nobody recognizes that. But that doesn't make for a good meme that you can post over, and over, and over, and over...

QUOTE (oldsox @ Sep 19, 2014 -> 08:57 PM) Same here. If Hahn wanted to shop Reed, he could have gotten a lot more, IMO. I would love to know how the trade evolved. Until I see some sort of proof, I don't believe it.