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I'll take it!

nice change up

Can this please be Trayce's approach for the love of christ, it would be so refreshing to see a competent approach come from our system.

Melky with a nice peg at second to nail cruz

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Aug 27, 2015 -> 07:33 PM) He struck out, but still an impressive AB. yeah glad he laid off the eye high heat, and the change that came low and in

more of that Carlos

even with carlos missing his spots this zone is tight.

QUOTE (Dunt @ Aug 26, 2015 -> 09:45 PM) WE HAVE A PROTECTED PICK! Great, now lets use that and the fact that Danks and LaRoche will be gone after '16 to go hard after Heyward. Come on down RHP Robert Tyler.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Aug 25, 2015 -> 10:43 PM) I don't think you'll find a single person here that would disagree. Too bad the Sox will never do it. RV and the ORG will ride LaRoche to the end. If only the kid Thompson had half the leash against RHP that La Roche had against LHP through July. Good to see most of the contributions coming from guys that are young and will be here next year. Ramirez is dead to me. I appreciate his time but this season has been a train wreck, even with his improved 2nd half defense his bat and overall production has been brutal. Yeah I would think even avid Avi supporters recognize that his home isn't RF, he still is young enough and has enough tools to turn it around but he is better suited in LF with a moderate leash next year. LaRoche is dead money i doubt the sox would just eat his remaining 13M and are surely hoping for a dunn like '12 rebound. As for Alexei his first half was abysmal but his second half on both sides of the plate has been what I would think most of us have come to expect out of him yearly .275/.313/.478. I still wouldn't pick up his option if i were the sox but a I'm not opposed to brining him back for less than his 10mil option. He is 34 going into this winter.

Saladino has constantly been hurt since becoming a pro. Truthfully its hard to gauge what his real power potential is considering that power is usually the last tool to develop and he has often been hampered by overcoming injuries. I don't think becoming a player similar to Trevor Plouffe is out of the question with a tick less power. If you extrapolated his 2015 stats out over the course of a season's worth of ABs (600) he would be a 2 win player just off his defense and base running. if he is capable of putting up a like like .250/.330/.420 all the while improving his BB & K%'s we could be looking at a 3Win player on the cheap. I personally want to see what all of Sanchez, Saladino & Thompson are about and what they're capable of at the major league level. I see Saladino and Thompson as very positive bench contributors but the current state of the white sox should afford them plenty of looks and chances to prove people like myself wrong. Going into this offseason I think 3B should be our biggest point to address. If we let Alexei go we can see what we have in Saladino at SS and if its a horrible failure Anderson should be ready after the super 2 cut off and he can be moved back into a utility role. As for catcher situation try to package Avi and Micah and a low level arm for one of my previously mentioned targets. If that fails re-sign Soto and bring back our old friend Pierzynski as a platoon. Soto vs. LHP - .324/.410/.618 AJP vs. RHP - .309/.343/.462 It doesn't have to be a strict platoon per se but it might be cheaper than acquiring a young catcher and I'm pretty sure AJ could be had for a 2 year deal the second year being an option and a buy out. I don't think its smart money to go after Wieters this offseason.

I don't think the sox move on Arenado for a number of reasons; 1 he is a super 2 so he will get 4 trips through arbitration, 2 his agent is scott boras and three he has a bit more value than Quintana but significantly less than Sale, and it would be a bad idea to move what we do have in our farm system to supplement the value we would need to give up in order to get him. This is what i would like to see this offseason. Leave Sanchez at 2B he looks like he could be a 2.5/3 win player, and a complete one at that minus some base running gaffs, that could possibly be cleared up. No one thought Duffy or Panik of the Giants were anything more than 40-45 future value players and that has obviously gone by the way side. The sox were right for sticking by him and are being paid off in the second half to a line of .317/.354/.488 now his BABIP isn't going to stay at .375 but if it normalizes to say .340/.350ish you're looking at a well above average player prolly in the wRC+ range of 110-115. The sox glaring needs this offseason to me are as follows: 3B, C, RF I don't think its out of the realm of possibility to move Quintana to the rays for Evan Longoria. He'll be 30 years old starting next season and he is getting progressively more expensive. I think the sox could possibly buy low on Matt Moore as well since he is signed to a potential long term deal as well. Something like Longoria and Moore for Quintana and a prospect like Michalczewski. The rays would clear the majority of their contracts in this deal, but would also have a great young top of the rotation arm to pair with Archer, and they've got Schaffer to take over 3B. If that happened, buy out alexei I'm sure Saladino could reproduce the putrid year he has been having and offer upside and financial relief, and If saladino shows over the course of 300 at bats next year that he is nothing more than a solid utility player well, Tim Anderson should be ready to take over. Sign one of Heyward/Span/Jackson to play RF Attempt to acquire a young catcher from one of the new york teams; either JR Murphy or Sanchez or Plawecki. Re-sign Soto Leave Melky to LF and LaRoche to DH and hope for a '12 like Dunn Resurgence. DH - L - LaRoche C - ? - ? 1B - R - Abreu 2B - S - Sanchez SS - R - Saladino 3B - R - Longoria LF - S - Cabrera CF - L - Eaton RF - L - Heyward/Span SP - L - Sale SP - L - Rodon SP - L - Danks SP - L - Moore SP - R - Johnson / Montas

saladino has a gun 2 really nice plays that inning

QUOTE (thxfrthmmrs @ Aug 14, 2015 -> 07:49 PM) Jordan Guerrero is kind of a legit dude. Would love to see a scouting report of what his repertoire is. If Stoltz still scouting down in the Carolina League these days? this is a year old but solid http://www.minorleagueball.com/2014/8/8/59...uerrero#4102156

wasn't the biggest fan of the trade looks worse with how bassit is developing plus the depth in semien and phegley and lets not forget Ravelo. Lets get the QO and move on. we need a C 3b and move beyond laroche. looking forward to what we might have in our youth.

nice takes on 2-2 and 3-2 to work the walk.

nice inning ending double play!

Hell of an outing for Carlos, great to see him hit his wall earlier this year and advance beyond it. career high in IP

balk!

Thompson with a lazer, congrats on your first ML HR

nice piece of leather down on the angels 3B

#kansascityspecial shut up hawk

Eaton day to day with a jammed left shoulder

cain with a solid catch

this chemistry is amazing.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 6, 2015 -> 07:40 PM) Giants have 4 of the top 19 position players in fWAR, all play the infield. ( counting Posey of course) grantland did a nice piece a while ago about their core here they've got 57M coming off the books going into next year so it'll be intresting to see where all that money gets alocated.