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QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ May 19, 2010 -> 12:17 PM) They just have to make the decision before AJ's 10/5 rights kick in. Why? It's not like we're not going to land a huge bounty by trading a guy in his walk year struggling to get north of Mendoza territory. Much more likely IMO that he'll play out the remainder of his final contract year in Chicago.

Viciedo finished the night 4-6 with 3 doubles? Nice.

Guys... good baseball discussions... but lay off taking shots at each other.

Birmingham won 2-1. Dale Mollenhauer, who has been on a tear in the last week, drove home the winning run with a single in the bottom of the 10th. Buck Coats went 3-3.

Viciedo finished 3-4 tonight... raising his average to .288

Love the widget. Hate the idea of Thornton possibly being hurt. Love the SoxNet game summary.

The key to resolving that issue is to see how CJ's hitting develops. If he turns out to be no better than Nix, then... well yeah, go with the plus defender. But I don't think it will take too much offensively to knock Nix out of contention.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 15, 2010 -> 08:26 PM) Balta, is that in green? If CJ hits 240 with his lack of power (and lack of a position where he excels defensively like Nix), he's going to end up sporting a 650 OPS, like Mark Teahen. Plus he can't run very well, just so-so. CJ has pretty good pop in his bat. Of course, it would be nice if we saw it THIS year. But, in 2 of his 3 minor league seasons so far, he's lead the league in doubles... Set the all-time Pioneer League record in 2006... Had 46 in 478 at-bats in the Southern League last year. So, he may not be very big, put he can put a charge into the ball.... sort of like a poor man's Dustin Pedroia.

A few more stats... HBP's -1st SH (sacrifice hits) - 22nd SF (sac flies) - 27th I expected us to be higher in SH. We've only got 7 all year? Almost half the teams in baseball have 2X as many as we do. So much for small ball. And only 6 sac flies all year? Two more indications of our challenges with situational hitting this year.

QUOTE (jphat007 @ May 14, 2010 -> 10:52 AM) What is our LD% as a team. I bet that tells a lot of the story Don't know. But we're right in the middle of the pack in terms of GB% and FB%.

Pretty brutal numbers, but just to clarify the strikeouts ranking... The Sox #1 ranking is for fewest strikeouts as a team. I didn't note that in my original post.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ May 13, 2010 -> 05:31 PM) Strikeouts 1st, with the most strikeouts as a team or with the least? Fewest Link

Short 1-1 raising his average to .408

Not sure if this has been posted already... if so, sorry. I'm too lazy to look into it before posting. Here's where the WhiteSox rank in MLB in a variety of offensive categories as of today (5/13)... Hits - 27th Doubles - 25th Triples - 24th Homeruns - 4th RBI's - 24th Walks - 14th Strikeouts - 1st Stolen Bases - 2nd Batting Average - 29th OBP - 24th SLG - 19th OPS - 20th

Lehigh Valley @ Charlotte Hudson Birmingham @ Jacksonville Rasner Winston-Salem @ Potomac Griffith Delmarva @ Kannapolis Doyle

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 13, 2010 -> 07:13 AM) Greene and Short... I'm still pretty psyched for both of them, neither of which I gave a lot of thought to coming into the season. That's the beauty of it... one of the things I love most about minor league baseball... the guys who step up and surprise everybody. The odds of players making the majors are still pretty low, but it's great to see guys (especially late round draft picks) put themselves on the radar screen via great performance.

Jason Bour with a homerun for Winston-Salem.

Homerun #7 for Viciedo... and #4 for Retherford tonight too.

Austin Jackson is making Dave Dombrowski look pretty good right now.

Lehigh Valley @ Charlotte Zaleski Birmingham @ Jacksonville Nunez Winston-Salem @ Potomac Leesman Delmarva @ Kannapolis Serafin

QUOTE (fathom @ May 10, 2010 -> 10:20 PM) Spiegel was saying that someone told him from the Sox that Thornton doesn't want to close. Then, Bill Melton said later in the day that he knows for a fact Thornton wants to close. No doubt Thornton wants to close. But he and Bobby are friends... and I'm sure he doesn't want to look like he's campaigning for Bobby's job.

Just talked to a friend in Minneapolis who has tickets to the games... he isn't optimistic that they'll get played. Could be a break for us, given the way we're playing. Let's make them up later in the season... hopefully when we're playing better.

QUOTE (balfanman @ May 11, 2010 -> 08:55 AM) I am not a minor league expert and really only follow the minors through this board and Future Sox (maybe that does make me smarter than most though ). Actually that makes you brilliant and very well informed. Actually, it's hard to target other teams 'top prospects'. The economics of the business have shifted and most teams are reluctant to give them up. But I'm sure people will add some opinions today of who they'd like us to acquire.

Dewayne Wise starting in RF against Charlotte. 1-2 with a double so far.

Can't even think about sending Alexei down to AAA. Just look at his career splits. He sucks in April and plays much better after. It's night and day. Sending him down would accomplish nothing.