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QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jun 2, 2014 -> 08:58 AM) I think its going to be a little less busy other than the extensions. There are clear holes on this team that need to be addressed but as usual the core is there and you need to add to a team that is already very good. If you can find a 2C, and get Toews/Kane locked up for the next 5/6 years, you can be done for the winter essentially. (obviously little stuff needs to be done)

I am glad to see this done. Marcus needs 25 PA a week.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Jun 2, 2014 -> 09:50 AM) Good article on unwritten rules of baseball. Lot of funny Brandon McCarthy stuff too: http://www.espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/1096...unwritten-rules Lots of good stuff in there as well. Adam Dunn had some pretty good lines as well.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jun 2, 2014 -> 08:30 AM) No, I meant back to back, as in consecutive plate appearances. Go face sale throwing his high 90s fastball and nasty slider in the 1st inning and then come up in the 3rd and have to deal with the high 70s changeup. Zack Putnam is bringing cheese compared to Buehrle.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jun 2, 2014 -> 07:13 AM) Can you imagine what that would do to NL hitters having to face Sale and Buehrle back to back? Too bad we would have had to sit through the last two years, plus that horrible contract, to see it.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 1, 2014 -> 11:31 PM) It's a beautiful thing that it shouldn't be too difficult to put a really great team out there again for next year I didn't realize exactly how much of the team is signed up for next year already. The biggest UFA they have is either Brookbank or Regin (unless you want to count Hanzus). The RFAs are Morin, Raanta, and Ben Smith.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 1, 2014 -> 10:21 PM) Some guy named Abreu. Never heard of him.

What a great series. Gotta give a ton of credit to LA, they played a great series, and never gave up.

Luis Castillo and Victor Done also not in the DSL right now.

http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/news/artic...rticle_77509212

QUOTE (BamaDoc @ May 30, 2014 -> 11:19 PM) I also recall an article in which Jack discussed warm up pitches both before a game and between innings. He always used less there and commented that no one counts those. He has a valid point. If you are exerting max or near max effort it doesn't matter if a batter is there. He talked of using 2-3 less per inning warming up than allowed, he was pitching in the day of complete games so 18-27 less "pitches" warming up meant 1-2 more innings. I have heard Cooper talk about exactly that kind of stuff when talking about extending pitchers. The Sox track all of that stuff.

Jesus Patrick Kane, have a night.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 30, 2014 -> 01:36 PM) At least use a city from a hockey country... It's 8:36 in Bratislava Don't make Vlad Putin drop six goals and a trip to Siberia on your ass.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 30, 2014 -> 04:30 PM) I'm going back and forth on the speech issue. No, it's not a violation of his 1st amendment rights probably, but it's still a stifling of his speech. The speech wasn't related to his job in any way, but he was (or became) a public face for the university. I'd certainly be fired for tweeting something like that from a work account, but would I or should I be fired for tweeting it from a personal account completely disconnected from my job, given that I'm not in any way a public face for the company? If it brought bad attention to your institution that you worked for, you are damned right you would be fired. Many financial sector companies won't even let you list the company on your personal twitter/facebook account because of their fear of being associated with something stupid their employees might say.

Status Update By Jack McDowell I'm noticing that the one and only BS artist and blowhard Dr. James Andrews is jumping all over this "Tommy John" debate with advice and a new (money making) app regarding the same. Let's get a few things straight... Andrews has studied the biomechanics of throwing since the 80's and anyone who has actually read the "findings" will discover that nothing was really found, and the consequential pitch count beginnings and "perfect" mechanics are both lies and unscientific. Now, it's all about youth baseball because he failed at developing significant information to "prevent injury" for older athletes. It's all a scam. This guy is a scam and has offered NOTHING significantly constructive to the betterment of baseball pitching. Stop buying into this egomaniacs posing. He came up with ZERO after 30 years of analyzing.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 30, 2014 -> 03:42 PM) Article here. Roster may change, it is hard to track that affiliate. Some interesting names on there. Could be a big year down there. Looking at those numbers, there might be somewhere around $10 million worth of signings down there.

I think they know these deals are about to get really f***ing expensive, and they have no interest in bidding ridiculous amounts of money to be involved.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ May 30, 2014 -> 01:21 PM) If someone were to make a list of the most valuable pitchers in baseball at the moment where would Q rank? 15? 20? When you consider his contract, vs someone like Clayton Kershaw who just signed a near $300 million deal? He is a HUGE value right now. Top 20 at least.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ May 30, 2014 -> 12:21 PM) This is why when you don't have the benefit of statistically significant performance samples, you have to rely on peripheral information. So like: Did Noesi gain velocity? He he appeared to gain stamina? Has he learned or mastered a new pitch? Or have balls just not been dropping? The White Sox spotted and fixed a flaw in his delivery,.

There is no doubt in my mind that the Stanley Cup is being decided in the West.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 29, 2014 -> 10:32 PM) They're mad because the policy is vague. It all stems from the professor at KU tweeting that he wished violence on children of NRA members following the death of 13 people in DC at the Navy Yard. He was put on leave and eventually forced out. Donald Sterling feels sympathy

QUOTE (Heads22 @ May 29, 2014 -> 11:16 PM) I wonder if we end up drafting Rodon if we go with the aggressive route as an enticement to sign... I see no reason not to. If that gets him to sign at a good number, do it.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 30, 2014 -> 08:04 AM) With the White Sox, but you cannot dismiss the rest of his work. Most of his runs were given up in early innings. It had nothing to do with not being stretched out. Jimenez gave up some runs late during his first few starts. Should those not count? We will see where everything settles at the end of the season. QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 30, 2014 -> 09:11 AM) Throw away the first 2 games after he came back from his rehab and his OPS is over .700. Still trollin it hard today I see.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 30, 2014 -> 09:40 AM) Finally. Now to the important question: Would you have rather signed Felipe Paulino or Ervin Santana? [murderousrage]

Unless this team goes into a full collapse and rebuild, there is no reason to trade Quintana, unless the return was insane.