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Schwarber is as obvious as Christian Laettner for most hated college bb player of all time.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 27, 2018 -> 09:31 AM) If the white sox can get him at a price they never thought, I'd want them to consider why that is, especially after all of their value FA adds the last few years. He can still be replaced, but it will come at the cost of playing time for one of our fringe prospects. It is obviously unlikely that Sanchez ends up with a career as good as Moustakas, but allowing him and leury and the DH spot to be open could allow something more valuable than Moustakas years 2019-20-21 By that philosophy, we never would have added Dye, Pods, Pierzynski, Contreras, Thome, Quentin, Eaton...too many ?’s. Very simple. Buy low. Sell high. Rinse, repeat. We kept buying high and selling low until last year. It’s also how we ended up with Abreu...big market teams all on sideline then.

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Feb 27, 2018 -> 09:21 AM) Teddy Cahill @tedcahill Updating Travis Swaggerty's line through eight games: .321/.537/.714, three homers, 11 walks, five strikeouts. That's a 1.251 OPS Carlos Collazo @CarlosACollazo Swaggerty's draft stock: ??? Benintendi comp? Happ? Jeremy Reed, haha? Jim Edmonds? What’s his defensive scouting report?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 27, 2018 -> 09:11 AM) The Snake poem is ostensibly about immigrants/Muslims but it's really about Trump himself https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/23/politics/tru...song/index.html For those unaware... Maybe Dems can make countervideo with Chloe Kim as head of this threatening snake....and the 43.9% of start ups in Silicon Valley with at least one immigrant founder

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 27, 2018 -> 09:15 AM) Every team in baseball has the opportunity to sign him right now for merely his market rate. What do we think he could get in return for his market rate and rights? It would be nothing. He's not a good flip candidate, which we know because nobody wants to sign him. Just like Arrieta...c’mon, Boras is the biggest factor here.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 27, 2018 -> 08:38 AM) More grifting Lawsuit: HUD Official ‘Demoted’ for Restricting Ben Carson’s Expensive Office Makeover http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-33...rait-Jesus.html https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=carson+je...ss&ei=UTF-8 They blocked another Carson/Black Jesus painting?

https://www.mlb.com/news/projected-2018-lin...ams/c-266895088 Projected lineups/rotations for all 30 teams as of today Leury, LF Moncada, 2B Abreu, 1B Avi Garcia, RF Delmonico, DH Castillo, C Anderson, SS Engel, CF Sanchez, 3B That would leave Davidson, Saladino, Narvaez as bench... Noticed Clayton Richard as #1 for Pads, haha. No starting spot for Zobrist or Happ...but one has to start against RHP. Dodgers still with outfield logjam.

QUOTE (JUSTgottaBELIEVE @ Feb 27, 2018 -> 05:57 AM) I don’t see Machado or Arenado as realistic options with the money they will demand. That leaves Donaldson and Rendon and both guys scare me when you consider what they will get paid. Donaldson is great but his age relative to the Sox contention window is absolutely concerning. With Rendon, I don’t know but just a gut feeling that he’s the kind of guy that would see a drop in performance after moving to the AL. Maybe I have an irrational fear after seeing what happened to the likes of Frazier, LaRoche, Dunn, etc. Both Donaldson and Rendon feel like cases where you are paying a hefty sum for past performance versus expected future performance. Plus recent injury histories, especially for such a young player in Rendon.

QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Feb 26, 2018 -> 04:50 PM) Gillaspie has some big power. Just flicked a ball just short of the warning track opposite field in left. Resulted in an out, but that's 2 AB and 2 deep drives. Don't be fooled by Feb/March Arizona-induced power...especially OPPO. The Anderson homer the other day would have been a routine flyout in every park other than Fenway.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Feb 26, 2018 -> 08:38 PM) Wait, what? Can you elaborate because I'm not following you here. Someone was talking about fans would get really upset if they "wasted" the money on a one year deal...but I said that nobody cared much at all about Holland's $6 million year deal last year, with no return on investment.

QUOTE (CWSpalehoseCWS @ Feb 26, 2018 -> 08:08 PM) Could it be something as stupid as a young, eager baseball player over-doing it and overexerting himself to make a good impression on the organization? That triple yesterday looked brutal, could he have hurt himself rounding the bases and then his effort today pushed him over the edge? We've seen injuries happen before when players hit the bag the wrong way, can the same be said for the Achille's? I've had a soft tissue/heel issue at least two times in my life (once from overdoing it jumping and landing from playing badminton in China...once from hitting the 1B bag awkwardly in mid 20's softball game, hitting with all the weight on the back) and never once had an Achilles' problem. When you hurt your heel, there's absolutely nothing you can do but rest and keep weight off it, no way to put a cast on, it's almost worse than a strained oblique. That said, Achilles' tears tend to happen to bigger athletes, although obviously Kobe probably had one due to cumulative wear and tear over a lifetime.

They originally (Langer/McKnight) thought he caught a spike...were talking about a huge divot in the ground along the baseline. I guess it doesn't matter what caused it.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Feb 26, 2018 -> 07:11 PM) Right and it would be a risky move. I realise the lost pick isn't a guarantee but at this point the Sox have a better idea of what will be available for that pick than what teams will be willing to give up for Moustakas in July. If Moustakas struggles the move fails horribly. Can you imagine the posts on this board if such a move failed? Mercy!!! I'm not really sold on the idea of Moustakas myself, but am open to it under the right conditions. Give me the right money and contract length with no opt-outs and I could get on board. I can certainly see the benefits to signing Moustakas now and not trying to chase the Machado dragon next winter. Nobody really cared about Holland. That said, we're talking $12 million vs. $6, and it's decidedly not to protect the young pitching prospects from overexposure.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 26, 2018 -> 05:53 PM) Trumps lawyers want to type the answers and have Trump read off a TelePrompTer if he meets with Mueller. Sounds like the notes from his school shootings "talk," where he had to be reminded by Hope Hicks to say "i hear you" and "show your care/concern" so you don't come across like a complete jackass with absolutely no empathy

The most significant injuries have been Jenks, Crede, Danks, Floyd/Crain...now Rodon. We've been pretty fortunate. Herm Schneider. I can't remember his name, Allen Thomas or something like that, strength and condition people have always had strong reps in the industry. We've seemingly lost lots of guys like Tilson and Leury and Davidson and Kevan Smith and numerous relievers (not counting Covey, mercy DL) over the last 2-3 years. But not really a franchise-altering situation, like the Jared Mitchell one (had he actually been the player the Sox projected). Adolfo has always been injury prone. With Burger, you just kind of expected it at that size...just not this quickly (see Kyle Schwarber).

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 26, 2018 -> 02:53 PM) Yeah, Trump would have gone in there without a weapon. For sure. has admitted to finding the sight of blood “disgusting.” In a 2008 interview with Howard Stern, Trump told the shock jock that he turned away from an injured elderly man who had fallen off the stage at a Mar-a-Lago benefit because he couldn’t stomach the sight of blood. Dont forget Megyn Kelly and the reaction to Mika’s plastic surgery...

The good thing here is it’s the left...as a RH power hitter, the right leg is much more critical.

At least Clinton and GW Bush were smart enough not to ever say that about Vietnam or 9/11-Iraq-Afghanistan with their respective service records demonstrating the exact opposite of courage...

If Rutgers was good, and had a significant bb fanbase...it would make a lot more sense. Or even PSU, plus Maryland is down this year as well.

Jefferson's 'tree of liberty' and the blood of schoolchildren https://www.yahoo.com/news/jeffersons-tree-...-171918999.html

QUOTE (Blackout Friday @ Feb 26, 2018 -> 08:01 AM) Or Andrelton Simmons ranked 17th at SS, sandwiched between Paul De Jong and Tim Beckham. Obviously not overweighting defense. But the White Sox have historically pursued how many elite defenders with limited offensive upsides to play half their games at USCF?

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Feb 26, 2018 -> 07:43 AM) For f***’s sake Caulfield, those rankings have JD Martinez over Stanton in RF. That tells me everything I need to know about the validity of using these for real world purposes. Lots of players have struggled in NY, especially NL to AL... Another example, David Price in Boston.

I’ll go back to the Dyson example, a consistently 2.5-3.5 war player the last 3-4 years. 2 years, $7.5 million, age 33 Todd Frazier, 24th at 3b, $17 million for 2 years, age 32 Avi Garcia, last year was the 4th-7th best RFer depending on which stat/service you chose, expected to regress to 17th, seems about right...doesn't it?

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Feb 26, 2018 -> 06:47 AM) These are fantasy baseball rankings. Are you really using them to justify a Moose signing? You disagree with the Top 10? Who/why?

https://rotochamp.com/baseball/PlayerRankin...tType=RotoChamp Daniel Pecota 3B rankings, Yolmer 40th, Davidson 52nd out of 124 ranked. Moustakas 12th Arenado 1, Bryant 2, Donaldson 3, Machado 6, Rendon 8th Justin Turner, if the Dodgers let him go eventually or pursue one of the Big 4, is 9th. Then Devers and Beltre 10th and 11th. Moustakas followed by Travis Shaw, Seager (who some want to pursue), Castellanos, Longoria, Marwin Gonzalez, Eugenio Suarez, Zack Cozart. Frazier 24th. Moncada 22nd, Tim Anderson 20th, Abreu 6th, Leury 61 and Delmonico 64 for LF, Leury 55th for CF, W Garcia 81, Cordell 84, Engel and May 93/94 out of 96 for CF, Avi Garcia 17th for RF, W.Castillo 10th at catcher/TFlow 17th So Moustakas would be the third highest ranked at his position on the Sox, after Abreu/Castillo...Avi 4th.