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QUOTE (oldsox @ May 26, 2014 -> 07:21 AM) Same thing was posted a year or two ago. Fact is, they are approx 44 games under .500 collectively, and it's tough to get excited. From here, it does not look like a farm system on the rise. Just trying to be objective. The draft will help, but it will help others also. The same thing was posted. Yet, how many players did that system graduate to the majors?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 26, 2014 -> 08:58 AM) Well, they avoided paying Santos $8.25 million for the last 3 years. I honestly don't believe the plan was to make Lindstrom the closer. FWIW, Nate Jones was the choice, with Lindstrom in set-up. Now, we can argue in retrospect they were overpaying Matt, but Hahn believed they needed at least 2-3 veterans in the bullpen (Belisario and Downs) to go along with their young and rising arms (Jones, Webb, Petricka). It wasn't a terrible plan for a team not expected to win over 75 games. Of course, right now it's easy to say we'd like to have Mark Buehrle back, Reed instead of Davidson, Alex Rios instead of Garcia (keeping DeAza off the field/roster) and Jake Peavy back in the rotation. But then you're talking a payroll $45-50 million higher. And it's not like Peavy has been that great with the Red Sox this season (4.65 ERA, 1.5 WHIP, 7.11 ERA in 3 post-season starts for Boston last year). So, if you were clairvoyant, perhaps you could argue that Buehrle, Rios and Reed would have this team in contention. $31 million pricetag. Nice dream. It misses a lot of reality, such as how bad Buehrle was until this year, and we'd be losing $50 million-ish dollars this year, which is never going to happen.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ May 25, 2014 -> 07:43 PM) Well I'm glad they finally got rid of that bum. I hated him here and I hated when he resigned. He was never anything more than minor league filler who was in the right place when the right guys got hurt and traded.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ May 25, 2014 -> 12:19 PM) I know it's a dumb question but I assume we just got cash for Gimenez? Yes.

White Sox pleased with Danish progress http://www.baseballamerica.com/minors/whit...wOL9UTI.twitter

QUOTE (SCCWS @ May 25, 2014 -> 12:04 PM) Joe Nathan got 9 Mil. Again you are saying reliever, I am saying closer. Hahn should move Beckham back to a 3rd baseman and then we can trade him for a closer in return based on your logic. Should we talk about what powerhitting 3B's make?

Scott Merkin ‏@scottmerkin 9m Left hamstring for Micah Johnson that put him on the disabled list with Triple-A Charlotte.

The Chairman and the Captain. https://twitter.com/ESPNChiSox/status/47060...6724352/photo/1

QUOTE (SCCWS @ May 25, 2014 -> 11:34 AM) Quality 3B. I don't disagree. But Reed was closing games in the majors and Davidson was hitting 20 HRs in the minors. Huge difference. Davidson is also a very questionable 3B defensively. I was very much against the Peavy for Middlebrooks talk last season. Another 3B prospect, even a little more advanced than Davidson but also questionable defensively as well. He is still struggling big time so I am glad we went w Garcia. It all comes down to how easy it is to find a quality closer when we are ready to compete. We don't need one this year because we are rebuilding. The big name closers like Papilbon and Nathan got big bucks in FA and I am not sure hahn will invest that. In fact Boston went out and signed 2 closers for over 11Mil to replace Papilbon. Too many fans think anyone can be a closer. I think we gave up a good one that was young and could get better. Addison Reed isn't a quality closer either. He is a middle of the road closer right now.

Mark Gonzales ‏@MDGonzales 4m OMG. Manny Ramirez to be player-coach at Triple-A Iowa.

Scot Gregor ‏@scotgregor 3m If White Sox have save opportunity today Ventura says Belisario gets the call again

Chuck Garfien ‏@ChuckGarfien 12m Derek Jeter has the most appearances at any single fielding position in MLB history (2,584) w/o having played another position.

JIM BOWDEN ‏@JimBowdenESPNxm 4m Alex Anthopoulos told us that he's looking for starting pitcher, long term solution at 2B or 3B and LH reliever Sirius 209 XM 89 #BlueJays

QUOTE (SCCWS @ May 25, 2014 -> 10:58 AM) I think quality closers are a premiun and you don't trade one for a good prospect. Let's see how fast Davidson becomes an impact player and how fast we get a quality closer. If "quality" closers are at a premuim, what does that make 30 homer potential 3B's?

Apparently today is SRO according to twitter.

Starting line ups https://twitter.com/JJStankevitz/status/470...4293632/photo/1

MLB Stat of the Day ‏@MLBStatoftheDay 1h John Danks is first @whitesox since 1914 to have winless outing featuring at least 8 scoreless IP, 0 walks and no more than 3 hits allowed.

Seth Lakso ‏@SethLakso 17m Winston-Salem (A+) infielder Michael Johnson and Birmingham (AA) catcher Miguel Gonzalez have been promoted to Charlotte As well as officially announced that catcher Hector Gimenez has been traded to the Toronto organization.

Seth Lakso ‏@SethLakso 6m @ESPNChiSox Looked like he came up limping after a double two days ago. I asked him about it yesterday and he said it was nothing.

QUOTE (SCCWS @ May 25, 2014 -> 09:02 AM) No and I still don't. But Relief pitchers are damned hard to find. Worse, sometimes you find one and they don't last long ( Bobby Jenks). An established reliever( Reed was top 10) is worth more, in my opinion, than a good prospect( Davidson). Even if you are rebuilding, Reed was young enough to last through it. I had no problem with Santiago for Eaton, whether it works or not, because CF is a primary position and look how long we have been trying to find one. I posted at the time of Reed trade that I hoped they had a long term plan to replace him. Maybe Webb( or Jones) will makeup for the loss of Reed by late summer. I just hope we don't start 2015 with the same problem. So are starting 3B who can hit 30 homers.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ May 25, 2014 -> 09:12 AM) That's one guy I've probably watched play more than anybody on this board and my answer to you is I don't know. I'd lean towards no though because I don't think he has the type of release that'll allow him to be a catch and shoot, shooter if need be. He is extremely smart though so he might be able to succeed just based on that but I personally wouldn't draft him even though I'm a huge fan of his and really hope he does well. The right organization and coach will be key. He has to be someone who doesn't ask him to go past his limitations, but keep him doing what he does best.

Nice start so far. Toews is just willing this team right now.

Rodon appears to be Sox focus at #3 http://www.csnchicago.com/white-sox/carlos...raft-approaches

http://www.csnchicago.com/white-sox/extra-...danks-white-sox