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Inning going on forever, Cease even has had to start warming up down the line to keep from sitting too long...

Two run single for Adolfo. 7-0. Booker, Basabe, Adolfo, Sheets and YY leading the way. Gavin Sheets RBI double, 8-0. Bring on the Marlins to face W-S.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Apr 13, 2018 -> 05:54 PM) I'll ask you a better question. Why did they turn out in such huge numbers for Doug Jones? Hard to isolate those numbers with the sexual assault and constitutional rights violations issues with Moore. The numbers in the Lamb race would be of more interest, although that was a pretty sizable majority white district in Western PA.

Winston-Salem dominating... Free the outfielders! Basabe and Booker continuing their good play. Cease hasnt given up a run through five. This is where he struggled on Sunday. Vizquel is on his way to being a big league manager, and sooner rather than later.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/13/politics/kfi...ason/index.html Only the very best people...sure! Next week, she’ll have her own segment on the Alex Jones Show. Btw, Ricketts will probably get a “workaround” or exception for the Cubs.

Cohen should get credit to bargaining down to $130-$150,000 for a supposed billionaire. $1.6 million? Yikes...between this and the MO governor and Ryan, not the best of weeks for the GOP. Oh, and the Comey book.

QUOTE (reiks12 @ Apr 13, 2018 -> 03:16 PM) He destroyed AAA , what more can he develop there? How to beat up on AAA pitchers? See Jimenez in 2017 for that. Moncada started out white hot and then fell back to earth. He also didn’t do a great job as RHer against lefties and his K rate was way too high.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Apr 13, 2018 -> 12:32 PM) I think this thread needs a little: No political posts in SoxTalk, lol. Just kidding.

According to the Cook Political Report, 14 more seats in the House shifted in a more positive way towards Dems since the Ryan retirement announcement...

Message to Flynn, Manafort, Gates, Papadapolous....and JARED. Get out of jail free card. Unless charges are also brought by States’ AG’s?

Tony? LaRussa? Bernazard?

Except he barely has a half season of at bats, if you count 2016-17-18 together. Around 300.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 13, 2018 -> 08:17 AM) Kyle Schwarber had to reset down in Iowa last year, should Theo be fired? Baseball is a hard game and sometimes you need to put players in a position to succeed to help overcome mental, physical, or mechanical hurdles. I’m not suggesting that will be necessary for Yoan, but it’s a real option to consider if he’s still striking out over 40% or the time a month from now. Did Bryant struggle and get sent down? Rizzo? Most of their young players like Russell, Baez, Happ, Almora and Schwarber have contributed something along the way. They also signed Gleyber Torres and Eloy Jimenez. Not a bad track record, other than Soler/Heyward. More importantly, Willson Contreras might be the biggest overall contributor of all after Bryant, but their rebuild was never marketed around him being a core contributor in the early stages.

http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.jsp?s...mp;ymd=20180413

Reprinted because they are playing .500 ball so far this season. Blanco is hitting .368. They also signed our old friend Derek Holland, who has pitched better than he did for us. Tony Watson has pitched well so far.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/2313259...-next-big-thing Meanwhile, Chicago nearly has a clean slate in terms of future payroll. According to Cots Contracts, the White Sox have just $10.9 million in committed money on the books for 2019, and it drops even lower after that. To me, the combination of Chicago's gaggle of high-ceiling, near-ready prospects and maximum financial flexibility makes the White Sox baseball's sleeping giant. And with an overachieving season -- not playoff contention, or even a run at .500, necessarily -- Chicago could create a perception of forward momentum that might look enticing to premium free agents. There are other reasons for the White Sox's young players to push for wins, but that perception has to be high on the list. That's what was on my mind when I spoke to White Sox general manager Rick Hahn during spring training: How is the vibe around the team different this year than last year? You've got a lot of the heavy lifting done in terms of your change in direction, and a number of the pieces you'll be counting on in the future are right here in big league camp already. Rick Hahn: It's funny, we spent a lot of time talking over the last four or five months of the offseason about how we're going to need some patience here. There is going to be some excitement, whether it's what Eloy [Jimenez] does in camp, or whether it's Dylan Cease. We're going to be patient with these guys and give them the time they need and not force the issue with any of them. We've also said that where we sit as an organization right now, we do conceivably have answers at every position. From inside the organization, [we have] long-term answers for a championship club. But we know that baseball doesn't work that way. The baseball gods can be cruel. Unexpected things are going to happen. So certainly there is a level of optimism, but losing [injured prospect] Jake Berger (Burger) for the season is a reminder that we have to continue to be diligent in accumulating talent and allowing it the time it needs to develop. Over the offseason, there was so much written about the slow free-agent market that one of the drivers of that might have been the number of teams that are pulling back right now. Do you feel like you got out in front of that a little bit with the timing on your own decision to pivot? RH: We timed it not necessarily based on macro-market issues, but more of a combination of knowing that we had one premium talent on hand that was controllable but not enough depth to really contend, or compete, and that we knew that we had to change the way we were approaching things. The problem on our rosters wasn't Nos. 1 through 7, let's say, but 8 through 40. Every year, we were caught kind of plugging and playing to fill in the gaps and stick our finger in the dike. That wasn't working and there was frustration from myself, Kenny [Williams], Jerry [Reinsdorf] and the fan base. Based on where the future free-agent market seemed to be headed, and based on when we were moving our talent, there wasn't quite as much traffic around us in terms of other teams doing the same thing. So the timing did make sense from a larger-scale, market-based standpoint. But really, we were motivated by the fact that our whole way of doing things wasn't working. Obviously, you guys are in a big-picture situation and not looking to skip steps. But how important is it to create a perception or even a reality of forward momentum? RH: It's funny. We are one year into this. Two offseasons, but one actual season into this process. These things, on average, tend to take roughly five years or so if you look around the game. Having started off with more valuable assets than a typical rebuilding team, initially through the trades we made, we're hoping we can shorten that timeline a little bit. But we are still very aware that we are in the early process of this. There have been podcasts this offseason suggesting "maybe the White Sox can contend for a wild card this year." It's great that there is that enthusiasm and there is that level of potential expectation of competitiveness one year into a rebuild. I think that speaks to how Ricky [Renteria] has them playing and how people view the prospects that we have acquired. But around here, we are taking that longer-term view. We know we are one year in. We know there are going to be growing pains. Yes, it's important to show progress with certain guys. But wins and losses aren't necessarily going to be the byproduct of that. If they are, fantastic. The more wins, the better. We're all competitive and we want to win. But when you're entering the second year of a rebuild, it's more about individuals than the whole.

If we get a prospect back for Volstad who appears even once in an MLB game, it will be a shocker.

Jack, OFF THE LEDGE or you will have a heart attack...

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 12, 2018 -> 10:53 PM) Caulfield has just took name dropping to the next level. Literally a post of like 40 names without a single other word. Well done my man. You actually have to read the article to understand...should I copy and paste the entire thing? The list is comprised from the remaining veteran free agents at MLB Trade Rumors. I would have thought that was obvious? Now, in this present case, the examples from the Giants "reloading" are big contract guys like Longoria, former MVP's still in their early 30's (McCutcheon) on expiring contracts...then you have Austin Jackson (washed up with us), Gregor Blanco and Tony Watson. It's not at all unlike what the WHITE SOX did entering the 2005 season (granted, F.Garcia was close/r to his prime, and Dye/Pods were hardly OLD by any stretch of the imagination.) Or the Red Sox before their most recent World Series winner. Of course, it's too late to turn back now. Eaton still gets hurt. Quintana is a solid pitcher for a playoff team, but not an ace in the traditional sense. Sale is Sale. We still don't know 100% if he can win the big game. But the cows are already out of the barn. It would (HOWEVER) be interesting to know if Hahn had the ability to go back into the heart of the 2016 season (pre Shields trade in the early season) and KNOWING that the free agent market in 2018 would come back to the White Sox, would he still choose the same path? Of course, the returns on those 3 trades would arguably have been lesser, if not impossible to put together. And the attendance wouldn't have been significantly different unless we actually put together a playoff team and broke the decade long streak.

One thing is there's NOT much margin for error unless we start spending into the $150 million range.... Moncada, Jimenez, Robert and Kopech...three of those four, at the very least TWO, have to be studs. Then one out of Hansen and Cease. Rodon HAS to return to form, too. Sure, there's the possibility that Davidson, Yolmer or Delmonico can surprise a bit and become regular contributors to a playoff team (platoon two of them at DH?), but we're still looking to fill a roster with 3+ fWAR guys, not 1.5-2.5 ones. And I think a lot of people are a bit bummed out about Rutherford, Collins, Burger and Fulmer...and rightfully so. Then add this little run Moncada's on and it can be quite difficult to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/2254467...ayers-their-30s Aoki Alcantara M.Aviles Jose Bautista Coghlan Stephen Drew Yunel Escobar Ethier Conor Gillaspie F.Gutierrez JJ Hardy Aaron Hill Matt Holliday Brandon Moss Jhonny Peralta Brandon Phillips Carlos Ruiz Ruggiano Geo Soto Richie Weeks Blanton, Collmenter, RA Dickey, Feldman, Garza, Grilli, U.Jimenez, Lackey, Locke, Peavy, Zach Putnam, Qualls, Trevor Rosenthal, Drew Storen, Huston Street

We can double his career in the big leagues and come up with this... .224 BA, 24 doubles, 4 triples, 18 HR, 52 RBI's, 76 BB's, 214 K's .717 OPS

Really in a bad stretch now...0/2 with 2 more k's. (Hopes the jinx of posting bad results actually causes him to reach 3-4 times the rest of the game, but that's a tough ask with Berrios on the mound, and this weather.)

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Apr 12, 2018 -> 06:09 PM) Why would David Price opt out? Unhappy in Boston. Has a dominant season this year and wants a change of scenery, fresh start...

Giolito absolutely getting killed by bad defense and 50/50 calls behind him...that's at least 4-5 ER's that he shouldn't have on his record.