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QUOTE (fathom @ May 17, 2017 -> 10:39 PM) What Rodon struggles on the field? He was on track to be a stud coming into the year. Fulmer always had a lot of question marks, as did Tate and Jay. Inconsistency and now this mysterious injury...I was at least hoping for more than a 4-ish ERA and more hits surrendered than innings pitched.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ May 17, 2017 -> 10:33 PM) I think you are letting this series cloud your judgement a bit. The problem is if you went back to August or early September of 2012, you would have thought Robin Ventura had the potential to be a pretty darned good manager. That team played so much better defensively, compared to Ozzie's last team...then the wheels came off of nearly aspect of the team, almost simultaneously. Back then, everyone was arguing a new manager was a "breath of fresh air" and worth at least 3-5 wins, if not more.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 17, 2017 -> 10:31 PM) There will be many, many days like this during the rebuild. By all accounts, Moncada will be fine. Fulmer is never going to be a TOR starter. Watching the struggles of Rodon and now Fulmer, it's pretty obvious that taking the top college arm doesn't always equate to an automatic slam dunk (and sure, Kolek/Aiken haven't done much, either). It's not Dillon Tate bad, but it just goes to show how uncertain scouting can be. Look no further than Gordon Beckham and Viciedo on the hitting side. Or Courtney Hawkins (he's now replaced Mitchell as our case study in bad drafting.) The White Sox simply HAVE to be better at evaluating talent...especially when they can no longer afford to have a Top 10-12 payroll.

Harper and Freddie Freeman came into this game ahead of Trout in OPS. There were 14 MLB hitters over 1.000. It just seems like there's no offense, well, because the AL Central. Included are such surprises as Judge, Thames, Sano (well, not a big shock), Cozart and Conforto (who we were supposedly interested in). Yander Alonso and Mark Reynolds are two more huge breakouts (so far). Of course, hitting in Colorado helps, except for Carlos Gonzalez this season. It's also unfortunate we didn't make a play for Jean Segura, then we really could have moved Moncada to CF.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ May 17, 2017 -> 10:22 PM) I applaud you for that tremendous jinx. Well, I'm officially all about having the worst possible record now. With the Indians struggling and the Twins in first, some part of me as a Sox baseball fan was trying to convince myself they could make a race of it at least into June/July, but this series and then the next two in Seattle and Arizona will probably wipe out any remaining illusions of grandeur.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 17, 2017 -> 10:20 PM) Sox will acquire Maybin when he's 33 and he'll have a Melky like career with the Sox luck. Meanwhile, players like Aaron Hicks go to the Yankees and become All-Stars. This day/night has been a total disaster. Moncada on the DL. Fulmer blasted. Swarzak's luck runs out (ERA still a miniscule 1.37). Of course, it's hard to get TOO upset when it's Mike Trout doing the damage. He's pretty good.

Great, another jinx. Meanwhile, Maybin went from hitting .180 after the first game of the series (23/114) all the way up to .233 (8 for his last 10).

With any luck, we'll get Benintendi'ed again this year...

Swarzak still hasn't given up an earned run of his own yet this year. (That will definitely stop Maybin from getting yet another hit.) Maldonado's come up with some big hits this series, btw.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ May 17, 2017 -> 09:39 PM) Well.. people want these vets to not rush the prospects in the system and eat up innings.. perfect for a rebuilding team who needs a top 3 pick next season. Unless Moncada doesn't play the second half for the Sox, I have a feeling the White Sox will end up drafting 6th-10th. Trading Robertson, Cabrera and Frazier definitely won't kill their record.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 17, 2017 -> 08:18 PM) Caulfield you are trying too hard $3 billion for a shoe deal? Who's he crappin'? Hopefully the Celtics take him anyway, but they'll probably go Fultz instead.

How many hits does Cameron Maybin have this series? Screws us over in the as the key piece (along with Andrew Miller) for Miguel Cabrera trade, now this series!!!

On the plus side, you might be able to buy Manafort's new house in Florida for a song. He's going to need the capital to finance all those legal bills. Ask the likes of George Stephanopolous and Dee Dee Myers. I keep imagining which America would suck even more than the current one...under Pence or Paul Ryan? I'm feeling that I would actually prefer Pence, for some reason. But it's scary to have to choose between the two.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 17, 2017 -> 09:26 PM) Holland's peripherals are not good. Velocity already down a bit from April When I looked last night, he was in the back end of the Top 30 for WHIP and BAA (MLB)...I'm pretty sure both those categories. Maybe not super advanced stats, but there's at least something to back up the claim he's been pretty good besides ERA. Obviously he has a ton of UER's on his record, so there's that.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 17, 2017 -> 09:11 PM) Davis for Soler was a ridiculous steal for the Cubs Yep, and it crippled the back end of the Royals' pen. With Holland and Davis both gone, the rest of their relievers have been bumped up in their roles or overexposed. Plus Soria has been a terrible signing from the very beginning. On paper, it made sense for KC, but the reality is Soler's health and defensive shortcomings mitigate most of his positive value. Epstein's probably kicking himself he didn't try to pull off that trade last year (when he got Chapman instead), as he'd still have Gleyber Torres.

Anderson finally cracks the 600 OPS mark, now at 607. Holland has some pretty decent peripherals (outside of ERA), playoff experience and LHed, definitely the most desirable of those three veteran starters. We'll just have to hope Cabrera and Frazier will get hot at some point. The back of their baseball cards say they will, but Melky was pretty terrible for almost all of 2015, so who knows. You'd think he would want another run at playoff baseball. Nate Jones has a decent amount of value, but now the health questions are starting to get bigger and bigger...kind of like what happened with Jesse Crain, where we failed to extract maximum value and waited too long.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ May 17, 2017 -> 08:00 PM) Do you think the old guard gets the call first out of respect? We've had Danish a while now. I think they really want to wait as long as possible to bring up those higher-ranked guys, so they don't have to bounce them back and forth. In the meantime, they get to audition a long line of 5th starter types (Danish/Cooper/Guerrero) for the back end of the bullpen. Hopefully at least one of them sticks, to go along with Burdi. Hopefully they'll follow the path of the Braves in the late 80's, with Avery, Glavine and Smoltz, but getting 2 HoF pitchers is probably asking a bit too much.

Trump, who fired Comey last week, was in the middle of interviewing candidates to replace him as FBI director when he was informed, according to a person close to the White House. White House officials were blindsided by the move, an administration official said. A large group of staffers went to the Oval Office to inform Trump, according to a person in the room, who said Trump took the news better than expected and signed off on the statement his aides crafted. politico.com It's official, if this news is true (Trump accepting the news w/o destroying the West Wing), then Lonzo Ball's dad just passed Trump for most outlandish person in America. Asking for Trump's net worth for a shoe contract (oops, branding deal) that's going to struggle to sell 1,000 pairs. Fox News' plan to ignore the Comey stuff and exist in an alternate reality blew up in their faces in the ratings https://www.yahoo.com/news/fox-news-downpla...-214327088.html

Alcides Escobar (450) and Alex Gordon (485) have the two worst OPS numbers in MLB. Yikes.

We passed the Indians for 27th in the last couple of days...

That's because the White Sox would have the best bullpen in the history of baseball with Chris The Dragon Devenski and Zach Burdi added to Swarzak, Kahnle, Jones and Robertson.

Would Trump dare fire Rosenstein...? That's the first thought that came to mind. It's also going to be interesting to see what Trump does from abroad via Twitter and press conferences, especially if Comey testifies to Congress next week. The Donald probably won't sleep at all, absorbing the FOX NEWS coverage from abroad (hope he only has access to BBC or CNN, lol) due to the time zone difference and not wanting to miss any of the latest developments in DC.

Well, Lopez goes to the top of the heap for now...unless they call up Danish first.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 17, 2017 -> 07:16 PM) Someone kiss that thumb to make it better. Someone hire Jesus and have him wave his hands over it. Whatever. Someone have Moises Alou provide some of his special healing elixir and simultaneously enroll Moncada in Kyle Schwarber's newly-announced "Neighborhood Heroes" program. The magical Cubs' pixie dust will lead to at least 3 MVP's.

Fire Hahn. (Well, he probably deserves a C, C+ at best, for his GM tenure.) Just noticed Fulmer got absolutely blasted. They really need to sign Martin, as long as the combined price is $50 million or less.