Dick Allen

QUOTE (HuskyCaucasian @ Aug 6, 2015 -> 12:29 PM) I think the problem is proof of rape. Proof of sex is easy, proof that it was not consensual is hard, especially if it was a one-on-one situation with no one around. On a side note, Kane has his demons, and has done some not so great things, but he's NEVER struck me as a rapist. I dont think he needs to force himself on a woman to have sex. Obviously we have no idea with this current case, but as Rock pointed out, it usually is a case of next morning regret. They get questioned, they point out how this can ruin the guy's life so they have to be really sure what they are claiming happened, happened, and usually it just goes away. If he did rape her, I hope they throw the book at him, or anyone who commits the crime. I am just saying most of the time, what happened is deemed to not be criminal.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Aug 6, 2015 -> 12:51 PM) I guess he's good if being five games over .500 is someone's definition of good. Catching is one area the Sox badly need to upgrade. Mark 5 games over vs. 19 or 20 games under in fewer appearances. I think it's significant. I am as sick of seeing Flowers strike out as anyone, but there is something to the staff throwing to him.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 6, 2015 -> 12:45 PM) Is that stat flawed from the perspective of who he catches? He clearly gets all of Sale's starts, which helps his odds and I think he probably starts less of Danks games, which again would help those odds. Sox are 27-20 in Sale starts. 23-29 in Danks starts the last 2 years. Flowers does catch Danks, at least usually, and hasn't caught Shark. I just think pitchers like throwing to him.

A neighbor of mine is a cop and he once told me I wouldn't believe how many rape accusations are made in Lincoln Park every weekend. Very few are ever actually charged.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Aug 6, 2015 -> 10:32 AM) Rumors now that is a rape allegation for Patrick Kane. Teresa Weakly tweeted about it, then deleted it. But now, another buffalo news reporter Tim Graham has tweeted it. Tim Graham ‏@ByTimGraham 9m9 minutes ago The Patrick Kane investigation is a rape investigation. That could solve the cap space problem.

They can talk mechanics all they want with Avi. It comes down to swinging at pitches he can actually hit hard, unless he's in protection mode. If he figures that out, he will be really good. If he doesn't, he'll be what he is.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 6, 2015 -> 10:15 AM) Ah yes, I am sure you would have been all aboard with Semien at DH this season. I could see it now, all of your posts talking about how it was such a brilliant move to take a 23 year old infielder and turn him into a DH. I also like how you cherry picked the error totals and ignored the other significant offensive numbers that have simply fallen off the table since his hot start. But what do I know, I am no Billy Beane If you were Josh Donaldson for Brett Lawrie would seem like a good idea

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 6, 2015 -> 09:54 AM) Because by advanced metrics, Marcus is still pretty bad at defense at short. And in small sample sizes, he was bad at 3B and bad at 2B when he was a White Sox. The White Sox don't miss the guys they gave up for Samardjiza. We complain about Avi Garcia who is a year younger than Semien, but he only walks 1 less time per 100 plate appearances. Marcus' selectivity has taken a dive.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 6, 2015 -> 09:31 AM) Oh yea, September call up numbers are to be taken at their face value. And Semien sure has proven that wrong this season with is 100 error pace and rapidly falling batting average, slugging percentage, and OPS SOMEONE CALL DAN JOHNSON Also love the park excuse. I wonder why his road numbers are worse than his home numbers. Semien has been one of the worst players in baseball, if not the worst since Memorial day.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 6, 2015 -> 09:01 AM) How was the plug pulled too quickly on these two? And the funny thing is, in June and July, Semien was a worse player than Carlos Sanchez. Anyone can look it up.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 04:28 PM) He is not an easy guy to double up. Force at home is the play unless it is a tailor made DP ball

Obvious move. Avi needs to do something here. Actually thinking RF is a good idea. No DP please.

I bet Eaton goes if Alexei wasn't out by 2 miles the ither night

They need to load the bases if your TB

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 02:47 PM) I agree. Worrying about a mythical wildcard berth rather than developing a young pitcher. Albers was up in the 2nd inning. I think there is more to it than playing like they can't afford another loss.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 12:57 PM) Dick / Caufield - Can you guys please put each other on ignore. Both of you are clearly big Sox fans, but see things differently. That or before you respond to each other's posts...you need to bust out some "woooo saaaaaa's". happily.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 12:11 PM) He was with the Expos and Marlins, but that was probably before your time... And he was smart enough to take an anomalous/outlying year from Edwin Jackson and turn him into Max Scherzer. So if JR ordered KW to trade Sale, Q, and Abreu for prospects, and those prospects turned out to be pretty good 5 or 6 years from that moment, and the White Sox won the wild card after signing a premier free agent like Ivan Rodriquez that offseason, you would give KW full credit for building that team, correct? And what exactly was his claim to fame with the Expos? He did draft Charles Johnson, Cliff Floyd and Rondell White, but that isn't incredible, especially considering in the draft he got White he had 10 of the first 53 picks in the entire draft. Joe Nathan. Remember that name.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 10:25 AM) Other than Chris Sale, the White Sox have done what exactly....it's definitely not very good. KW proved he could run out of pieces to land a Cabrera well enough, or a Max Scherzer. We turned Edwin Jackson into....some dudes from Toronto. The Tigers traded Jackson for who would become one of the five best pitchers in baseball, Max Scherzer. That's really good. Victor Martinez over Adam Dunn, also pretty good. If only JR was rich enough, the White Sox could have done the same thing.....and averaged well over 30,000 fans per game for over a decade. Brilliant. Tell KW to spend another $50-100 million, all our problems will be solved. Get off the KW ran out of pieces to land Cabrera bandwagon that you hopped on after an erroneous post as to why the White Sox didn't get him. Besides that was 2 years after KW foolishly gave up prospects for guys like Freddy Garcia and wound up winning a WS, something DD failed to do in Detroit.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 10:08 AM) By playoff appearances alone... He traded Maybin and Miller for Cabrera...a move that KW pulled off but couldn't. Dumb trade. Idiotic. Perfect comparison with typical KW move, though. Do you really expect to win an argument that DD is the same as KW with four consecutive AL Central titles, 3 ALCS, two World Series....that's not even counting 1997. Who do you think was beating the Cubs in 2003? Remember Josh Beckett and all of the young arms they accumulated? Who do you think did that? Who do you think had the Expos with the best record in baseball in 1994, again, largely will the players he developed in that system before leaving in 1991 for the Marlins. While Dombrowski didn't deliver a title, he did deliver a team that had it within reach during its recent four-year run, losing in the American League Championship Series in 2011 and 2013, and the World Series in 2012; that's on top of an AL pennant won in 2006. He acquired some of the best talent of a generation to make it possible, trading for Miguel Cabrera and Max Scherzer. He presided over some outstanding drafts, the best of which was Justin Verlander, but also producing useful talents such as Curtis Granderson, Rick Porcello, Andrew Miller, Alex Avila, Matt Joyce and Cameron Maybin. On Dombrowski's watch, the Tigers became more than just a going concern, they became a model franchise. He also picked up JD Martinez on waivers and got the best of the Iglesias/Avi Garcia swap. Robin Ventura is simply Jim Leyland with less talent to work with.... Again, you told us in this thread you can't judge managers and GMs by playoff appearances and records. In 14 years if other than Verlander the best the farm produces is: Curtis Granderson, Rick Porcello, Andrew Miller, Alex Avila, Matt Joyce and Cameron Maybin it's really not very good. Certainly not franchise changing like trading 2 months of Samardjiza would have been. LMAO.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 09:50 AM) Friedman is making $7 million. Passan and I are crazy people. The Dodgers lured Andrew Friedman away from the Rays by making him the highest-paid front office executive in baseball, with a $35 million contract over five years to be the Dodgers president of baseball operations, according to Buster Olney of ESPN. Epstein is at $18 million for five years, or $3.6 million per season. Brian Cashman, $3 million. So Dombrowski is going to make $10 million a year? Here's a wager you won't take. If he gets $10 million a year, I will take a year off this site. If he doesn't you take a year off this site. Deal?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 09:18 AM) I doubt Dombrowski agrees with the assessment of "some success." Three AL Championship Series and one World Series in the last four years isn't "some" success. That's pretty hard to do. Maybe he didn't feel appreciated. Maybe he wanted a mega-deal (at 59, it may be his last big payday). Ilitch said he released Dombrowski in part to let him pursue other opportunities. I'll tell you this: He'll have no shortage of suitors. Plenty of major league teams would love four straight years of playoffs, even if they don't come home with a ring. http://www.freep.com/story/sports/columnis...litch/31146965/ Mitch Albom column You don't judge GM's by records and titles. You already told us that. LMAO. How many times will you contradict your statement in this thread? Also, what is the state of the Detroit farm system, and how many homegrown players do they have contributing to wins? Seems he is KW like with his prospects. 6 top ten picks in his tenure, Verlander stuck, the other 5 he traded away. He basically is KW with a bigger budget.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 09:14 AM) Who told him to give out those deals to keep his beloved Tigers in the fold? Mike Ilitch. Who told him it would cost Max Scherzer, not being able to resign David Price, Porcello, Fister, etc. Dave Dombrowski If there's one area to get on DD, it's the bullpen circus since 2006 with the likes of Valverde, Rodney and Nathan. Dombrowski's departure will appease those demanding a pound of flesh for the starting pitching and bullpen deficiencies. But the biggest decisions made over the last three years – Prince Fielder's outrageous free agent contract and locking up Justin Verlander and Miguel Cabrera to high-priced extensions a year before they hit free agency – weren't made on a general manager's whim. Yet you want to give him credit for what went on with the Marlins. Allowing him to spend the money was a big reason for his success. Wasn't signing free agents and then dumping them on the owner as well?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 02:41 AM) http://www.freep.com/story/sports/2015/08/...litch/31138765/ Free Press sportswriter takes the Ilitches to task... http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/i...s-end-of-an-era Chrstina Kahrl opinion Jeff Passan Last year a Brown student named Lewis Pollis wrote his senior thesis on just how undervalued front-office personnel truly are. The paper starts off with a stunning claim: one standard deviation of a GM's ability to find players is worth nearly eight wins above replacement – or more than $50 million a year. Essentially, Pollis wrote, a great GM can have almost as big of an impact annually as Mike Trout. Pollis estimated the value between the best and worst free-agent buyers (San Francisco's Brian Sabean on top and ex-Baltimore GM Jim Beattie at the bottom) at nearly $43 million a year, and that's to say nothing of their abilities to pull off trades or draft and develop. Granted, Pollis' numbers pegged Dombrowski below average, dragged down by the 119-loss season as well as other rebuilding projects he took over. In reality, those only strengthened his reputation. He can come into a strong situation and make it stronger. He can come into a dumpster fire and hose it into tranquility. Dombrowski's standing among executives is unparalleled. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/why-dave-domb...-230836111.html http://sabr.org/sites/default/files/Pollis..._It-2014-04.pdf Page 68-69 has the ratings. Hahn was average, KW in the bottom quartile and Neal Huntington, Dayton Moore, Randy Smith, John Hart, Dean Taylor and Jim Beattie as the six worst. Ed Lynch and Dan Evans both fared surprisingly well, as did Omar Minaya. QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 11:06 PM) * Amen. There's more to assessing managers and GM's than overall records or playoff appearances. When assessing DD, with the $356 million still guaranteed to Verlander and Miggy come into play down the line when Detroit sucks for many, many years?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 11:06 PM) Amen. There's more to assessing managers and GM's than overall records or playoff appearances. Anyone who can consistently build the best farm system working for the Expos...and then turn around and succeed despite Huizenga and John Henry deserves a Medal of Honor. He was smart enough to get out of Miami before Loria arrived, but did miss the second World Series title come to fruition as a result. You will now be held to this. LMAO. Let's see in how many posts you contradict this statement, just today. You already did in your very next post in the same thread.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 08:02 PM) 35 years of putz-tastic ownership from the guy! Why is that a putz move? Seems to me you should be applauding having nothing to do with a guy who was groome dby a guy who was the GM through 15 playoff less seasons leaving his minor league system in shambles. You so blind with the JR hate, even if he does what you want you moan about it.