Gregory Pratt

QUOTE(caulfield12 @ Jun 5, 2007 -> 07:22 PM) Okay, but we also had Grilli, Cotts, Garland, Guerrier, Majewski, Rauch, Scott Eyre, Joe Valentine, Rocky Biddle, Frank Francisco, Josh Rupe, Kip Wells, Josh Fogg...it's not as if we HAVEN'T produced or nurtured any pitchers that had major league impacts, although most have been disappointing with the Sox. Aside from Garland and Cotts, which of those guys has had an "impact"?

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 5, 2007 -> 07:27 PM) Dye's bat speed looks terrible. He's late on mediocre fastballs right down the plate. Out of all the guys we say this about, he's the one who looks like he's lost a step. Don't worry...he'll heat up... I don't know what KW was thinking bringing him back. Did he expect more 2006?

From the Phillies main page. Ha!

I concur. The higher draft position might be nice, too. I'd prefer it if we didn't go that way, but that's how I see it.

The White Sox since 2005, silly! I'm being somewhat sarcastic, but the next few years don't look too good to me.

Crede out of the lineup for his back, possible DL trip could be coming Via the Score/WSI

Looks like a team I know.

QUOTE(RME JICO @ Jun 5, 2007 -> 01:04 PM) The dude that runs MLBTraderumors is a Cubs fan, FWIW. I don't like projections this early, because there is a huge margin of error. I would wait until the ASB before looking at where teams are at. By that point the Sox should be in 1st.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jun 4, 2007 -> 11:08 PM) Why is everyone so down on a player's k's when his OBP is almost .400? Thome strikes out a TON, but he is the best hitter we have. Fields is improving guys, and he is cheap, young and this is the direction that the team needs to go. I'm not too high on Fields MiLB numbers. The talent in the International League is bad as hell and he plays in a bandbox. I just look at his swing, his football history, all of that and I see nothing less than another White Sox bust. Here's what I don't get. You've flipped on trading McCarthy mid-season before (last year, when you jumped on him for Soriano), and this is your second flip, so far as I can tell, because last year you were talking about how overrated Fields was and how we should've traded him then while his value was high. Fields has a pretty high ceiling. I doubt he ever touches it. QUOTE(RibbieRubarb @ Jun 4, 2007 -> 11:44 PM) No wait, let me think...nope Thank God you are not our GM. I'm sure Kenny has said that a player sucks before. And I know Kenny has fallen in love with players that he thought would be "studs" or "all-stars" before. See: Adkins, Gavin Floyd. Oh, and I'm not exactly in favor of bringing in Lowell at all. I was just raising the idea.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Jun 4, 2007 -> 11:01 PM) Tough to argue with with analysis like that. How else would you describe Fields? He'll be a K monster next year. He is a K monster down in AAA. Crede's not very good, either. Caught lightning in a bottle last year and that was that. QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jun 4, 2007 -> 11:01 PM) At least one of them will only make $400k. Yeah, well, that'll only comfort me depending on what we get in free agency, but I suspect we'll be picking up someone like Byrnes more than Ichiro.

I agree, but I don't think either Fields or Crede is the answer. They both suck.

It'll be bad, then.

He'll be a free agent. Any biters? Just throwing it out there.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jun 4, 2007 -> 09:18 PM) Thank God Ozzie went to Jenks. Brilliant move. I concur. Man, though, you see these guys in the Sox bullpen and you've got to feel sorry for Ozzie. He has zero options aside from Jenks and maybe Thornton. Or you've got to go bats*** on him. One or the other.

Shut up!

QUOTE(WhiteSoxfan1986 @ Jun 4, 2007 -> 07:05 PM) Very few, but Uribe may be the worst bunter in baseball. That's Iguchi. Uribe's a very good bunter. I don't know what his problem is today but I'd chalk it up to the rain.

Why does anyone have faith at this point in this team? It's a bad team. It's a bad team!

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 4, 2007 -> 06:36 PM) Could Owens or another outfielder have caught Abreu's double? I don't think so.

I hope there's a small controversy with AJ hitting Rodriguez.

LV, what the hell's the difference between Erstad and Rowand that you think that we can bring back Rowand and he'll have an effect that Erstad didn't?

Your link proves absolutely nothing. Far Southeast side (but then there's the fact that there's a North, South and West side, alone, but no East Side alone: second, as is clearly stated in that same article, East Side is just a neighborhood, which is coincidentally the title of the page you linked to: Chicago Neighborhoods But Slavko Can't Read) 9.1 Chatham (44) 9.2 Avalon Park (45) 9.3 South Chicago (46) 9.4 Burnside (47) 9.5 Calumet Heights (48) 9.6 Roseland (49) 9.7 Pullman (50) 9.8 South Deering (51) 9.9 East Side (52) 9.10 West Pullman (53) 9.11 Riverdale (54) 9.12 Hegewisch (55) Sorry.

Slav, you're arguing over what shade of blue the sky is. Shut up. PS: the Cage Match will be in the cold. If you can handle that.

QUOTE(Melissa1334 @ Jun 4, 2007 -> 06:05 PM) where we live, like 5 minutes from the indiana border, everyone calls it the east side I know everyone calls it the East Side of Chicago but there is no East Side of Chicago there is only an "East Side" neighborhood but it is not recognized as a side of town merely as the nickname of a community much the same way "Little Village" is just a nickname.

Slav, you're a pansy. Let's have a Cage Match.

I exist on the East Side of Chicago. I paint my face and travel at night