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QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 26, 2009 -> 03:14 PM) I'm in. btw, who's playing? who cares?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 23, 2009 -> 07:43 PM) "No way" That's Podsednik. I still can't believe that happened.

QUOTE (1977 sox fan @ Oct 22, 2009 -> 05:57 AM) In 4 to 5 years the Yankee payroll will be 300 million and from what I'm reading hear we will be around 100 mil . Its bad enough every time you read about a rumor on say yahoo or espn fox sports its always the Yankees Red Sox mets mentioned in the rumor . Like the one i read yesterday about Puljos maybe being traded and yep its the Yankees Red Sox being the 2 teams that could get him amazing . I mean where would the Yankees play him ? FOCKING DH ? THERE GOING TO SPEND 25 MIL A YEAR ON A DH ? The Yankees payroll has pretty much reached a peak. I don't know the exact luxury tax numbers, but they are paying a ton and have capped their payroll at right around $200-$225 mill or so. And the Cardinals will not trade Pujols unless he tells them that there is no chance that he will resign with them and he wants to hit the market and get one of the biggest contracts in baseball history (he's probably going to get one of the biggest anyways, and considering he is the entire Cardinals franchise, they'd happily ablige). You can't believe everything you read. QUOTE (East Side Z @ Oct 22, 2009 -> 01:06 PM) I see Kenny doing business with Theo this offseason..........Involving Alexi and Jenks for Pappalebon and maybe Buckholtz.....Not saying thats the exact trade but those would be the principels. Why would the Red Sox do that when they have Jed Lowrie coming back next season and have all of the resources in the world to sign or trade for good stopgaps at SS anyways? And why would they trade for Jenks when there are 2-3 relievers that are better than Jenks already? Yeah, that's not happening, and I would hate to see Papelbon do his dumbass jig that he does every time the Red Sox win a series or make the playoffs. He's good, that doesn't replace the fact that he's a douche.

Well of course the saying goes that you can never have too much pitching. At some point though, you can spend too much money.

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Oct 22, 2009 -> 04:31 PM) see a trend???? Whip this horse for the first half of the season, and then designate him to mop up duties for the second half and you'll be fine. Pre All Star Break 2009 1.93ERA 1.29WHIP and a .242BAA Post All Star Break 2009 8.49ERA 2.19WHIP and a .377BAA Pre All Star Break 2008 2.37ERA 0.92WHIP and a .207BAA Post All Star Break 2008 (INJURED) 9.72ERA 1.80WHIP and a .343BAA Pre All Star Break 2007 2.52ERA 1.09WHIP and a .219BAA Post All Star Break 2007 5.23ERA 1.61WHIP and a .293BAA Pre All Star Break 2006 2.74ERA 0.94WHIP and a .190BAA Post All Star Break 2006 4.64ERA 1.58WHIP and a .304BAA yay it caught on

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 21, 2009 -> 02:09 PM) And of course the hilarity that ensues. that is no problem either

QUOTE (balfanman @ Oct 21, 2009 -> 12:50 PM) I agree. I would think that a trade with San Diego would almost have to be a 3 team deal because Konerko would almost have to be a part of it and San Diego would have no use for an expensive 1st basemen. Although they could follow the Billy Beane model and trade Konerko mid season for more prospects I suppose. Gonzalez could be used as the DH too, moving to 1B following 2010 when Konerko is a free agent.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 21, 2009 -> 09:21 AM) more of a smoking weed problem that's no problem at all. What is a problem is the crack that he smokes with the weed.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 21, 2009 -> 08:07 AM) Well, that is what Justin is shooting for, but that doesn't mean its what the Sox plan to do. I am not sure Cassel has major league stuff. I thought he did at one time, but I am doubtful now. to be fair, I don't think DJ Carrasco really has MLB stuff either, but he has gotten by on smoke and mirrors for two straight years now.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Oct 21, 2009 -> 09:38 AM) She must have waived him on to fifth base, that would be the only explanation. At least he better have, otherwise, why bother? yeah see, its right there, behind the knee

QUOTE (EMONEY @ Oct 21, 2009 -> 01:25 AM) I think that they need to vote and determine the awards before the postseason. I can understand the writers not wanting to take the spotlight away from the teams remaining in the postseason but it seems unfair to the rookies on teams that weren't as good this year. Rookies on the Yankees, Phillies, Dodgers, and Angels have more opportunities to impress, while Beckham can't do anymore to impress people this year. If it's an individual award, not a team award, it should stop after 162, IMHO It does stop after game 162. All the votes are in. They are just announced in November.

just so everyone remembers, Jerry Owens hit like .330 in AA. Hitting breaking balls and hitting in a smaller park is sometimes harder, even if it is easier to hit for big power numbers.

QUOTE (striker62704 @ Oct 20, 2009 -> 12:32 PM) They also had Price and Davis waiting in the wings but neither one contributed in 2009. This would just reiterate why NOT to get rid of Danks, since he is more accurate to predict than Garcia or Hudson in 2010. Again, no harm in the blogger proposing the deal. That's just part of the fun of the offseason. David Price put up 128.1 IP of slightly above average pitching this year. He contributed quite a bit to the success of the Rays. The areas that held the Rays back this year were a regression in the starting rotation - Kazmir, Shields, Sonnanstine and Garza all put up worse ERAs, and Kazmir's and Sonnanstine's were very significant, enough that they were traded or replaced. If anything, the Rays had the right idea and addressed it the wrong way, because they did have an excess of starting pitching - Shields, Kazmir, Jackson, Sonnanstine, Garza, Niemann, Price, Davis, and perhaps one or two others that could be in consideration - but didn't trade Sonnanstine when had a very fluky season and instead traded Jackson (who also had a fluky season in 2008 as well, but had the talent and prior success at some point in his career to become a dominant starter).

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Oct 17, 2009 -> 10:33 PM) I find it ridiculous that the best Fox and TBs can come up with is Buck and McCarver, and Chip Carey and Buck Martinez. How the hell does that happen? It's better than Chris Berman and Steve Phillips at the very least. They need to hire Vin Scully to do this stuff, or someone else that doesn't suck.

Every year I tune in to listen to Buck and McCarver, and every year they get more boring and much dumber, respectively.

greatest running back in Bills history, and I'm not forgetting OJ

QUOTE (docsox24 @ Oct 12, 2009 -> 11:02 AM) completely agree. Hudson is not the #3 pitching prospect. this list is garbage. it still has carlos carassco as #7 i believe (didnt go back and check) and hes nothing. Carrasco was the 52nd rated prospect according to BA going into the season, and though he ended the season with a 4.64 ERA in AAA and was brutal in the majors, his peripherals in the minors were just fine, outside of his homers - 1.24 WHIP, 8.5 K/9, 2.6 BB/9, 1 HR/9. Compare that to Hudson, who put up 2.32 ERA, 0.94 WHIP, 0.3 HR/9, 2.1 BB/9, and 10.1 K/9 over 4 levels of the minors, and more than held his own in AAA in the 4 starts he made (3.00 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 0.4 HR/9, 3.4 BB/9, and 9 K/9). The most encouraging statistic out of all of that is the 0.4 HR/9, considering Charlotte is a complete bandbox. He needs to work on his control a bit, as described by those numbers and what he displayed in the majors, but there is an absolute ton of potential there. I imagine you'd be pretty hardpressed to find any pitcher in the minors who did anything close to what Hudson did this year, and if they did it in the fashion Hudson did (with great peripherals and actual numbers to back it up) they'd be right where Hudson is today. If some GM views Hudson in the same light as Floyd and Danks, then surely you move him first. I'm still against moving Hudson for financial purposes, but it's also because he simply doesn't have the same track record as those two, but I think he can very shortly get to that point. Even considering that Padres were in a desperate situation where they needed to deal Peavy, it still says something about how the organization feels about Hudson when they said he was untouchable. I also doubt very much that the Rays would want either Danks or Floyd in a deal for Upton simply due to the financials of the situation, but that doesn't mean that some type of 3-way deal couldn't be worked out where Williams dealt one of those two for a couple of very good prospects only to flip them to the Rays for Upton.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Oct 14, 2009 -> 02:04 AM) Meh,the Vikings so far have had a cream puff schedule,only good team they've beaten is the 49ers and it took a last second miracle,the Pack are a .500 team IMO and the other 3 teams sucked... They are a good team,just don't know really how good and I believe we can compete against them. and the only "good" team the Bears have beaten is the Steelers, and that was without Polamalu. The Steelers offensive line is disastrous and the defense takes one hell of a hit without Polamalu out there. They lost to that .500 Packers team, and beat bad teams in Seattle and Detroit.

QUOTE (scenario @ Oct 13, 2009 -> 05:11 PM) Gave up 2 hits but got out of the inning. Got outs on a groundout, a liner to left, and a strikeout. Threw mostly 4-seam fastballs averaging 95-96 mph. Threw one at 97 mph. Threw around 4 changeups in the inning... one for a strike. Changeups averaged 85-86 mph. Threw 2 curveballs... one for a ball, the second struck out the final batter he faced in the 8th inning. The first was 84 mph, the second was 86. I would love to see if we could get him to drop his speed on the changeup to get a little more spread between that and his fastball. that changeup looks like it's the perfect change of speed to me. A 10 MPH difference is usually good enough, especially if Santos is just going to remain a reliever.

I have loved TO in a Bills uniform even if he hasn't produced, but they have to cut bait and get anything they can for him. I would be more than happy with a 4th round pick. The problem is that the Bills have atleast said that they aren't going to be making TO available before the trade deadline, though that doesn't mean they aren't shopping him.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 02:49 PM) Prince Fielder. Adrian Gonzalez. Dan Haren. Etc. There's always a star or two getting close enough to FA that they're starting to get too expensive for a team that isn't performing around them. Maybe Adrian Gonzalez, and like I said, maybe BJ Upton. I don't touch Haren or Fielder simply because the rotation is fine as it is and investing too much into the rotation could hurt, and Fielder is like a year away from free agency and he's not resigning.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 01:54 AM) "Josh Fields -- Ifhe could hit, Beckham could move to short, and Ramirez could be traded for a leadoff hitter. . . ." Big if. yeah that "if" has sailed its course and is long gone

QUOTE (Big Daddy Kool @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 02:28 PM) Yea that was spot-on. Only those Pale Hose organization knows their budget. Everything else is a fantasyland guess. alternatively, if the Sox go above and beyond their budget, and the team comes out poor or injuries strike, the 2010 White Sox become the 2009 Mets

I've said before and will say again, I'd move Floyd before I'd move Hudson. And I might move Danks too, depending on the return. Cost VS production is a huge thing, and from having seen Hudson throw about 2-3 innings, you can see that he has everything it takes to become a good MLB starting pitcher. I'd imagine when he throws a 4-seamer, he can get it up to 94-96, and his 2-seamer sits comfortably at 90-93 and has crazy movement. It's all a matter of control with Hudson, and if his minor league numbers indicate anything, he'll develop it. Hudson looks like a keeper, and if the Sox are going to deal him, it will be as the centerpiece for one hell of a player. What player can the Sox really acquire that you would be comfortable dealing Hudson for that might be available? About the only one I can think of is BJ Upton.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Oct 8, 2009 -> 11:44 PM) I wonder if any White Sox were responsible? Matt Guerrier, Jon Rauch, Orlando Cabrera..?