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QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 21, 2016 -> 03:59 PM) Caulfield has to be in hog heaven with the possibilities of listing every position and prospect in league, let alone the precedent deals with all those names. It's Christmas in July boys! See post 185. Simple, actually. Whether Hahn is up to the challenge of winning any of these trades, only God knows.

Trade Frazier, Robertson and/or Jones, Cabrera, Lawrie, Shields and Gonzalez if you feel they're the best packages you will receive in the next 12 months. Listen on Q and Sale. Same with Eaton. Hold onto Abreu and Rodon. Simple. Start targeting CFers in trades, as well as 2B or 3B, catchers, DH/LH power hitter. Maybe you can survive with Lawrie and Saladino in the infield with Anderson.

Trade Frazier, Robertson and/or Jones, Cabrera, Lawrie, Shields and Gonzalez if you feel they're the best packages you will receive in the next 12 months. Listen on Q and Sale. Same with Eaton. Hold onto Abreu and Rodon. Simple. Start targeting CFers in trades, as well as 2B or 3B, catchers, DH/LH power hitter. Play Saladino more at 2b/of.

QUOTE (NCsoxfan @ Jul 21, 2016 -> 03:11 PM) It's not enough, but that's not an awful offer. You add Betts or JBJ and I'd probably take it. The Red Sox would be insane to offer that package. The Dodgers might, with Kershaw out indefinitely...and the Rangers can afford to wait on Darvish.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/colum...719-column.html Haugh column on need for rebuild....

Finally attempted to put to bed the controversy over Melania's speech after 36 hours of the convention were wasted. Funny moment was Trump's plane buzzing Cruz's speech and interrupting it, whether intentional or not. Lots of commentary about what the heck Kasich is doing sitting the convention out in his home state and whether or not Cruz will give a tepid endorsement of Trump or not tonight. Gingrich claimed there was going to be a huge surprise endorsement from out of nowhere. Eric Trump will try to outdo his brother....don't think he has the charisma to pull it off, especially since his speech is more geared towards convincing voters between the choice of his father and Hillary. LOL at Jeff Flake saying Christie was going too far with the "lock her up/guilty/prosecturial" gag last night.

Went to the local sporting goods store today here in the Quad Cities. Almost ZERO White Sox stuff. Heck, they're even cross-merchandising with the University of Iowa on these "This is the Year" shirts with the two logos together. Only Sox jersey I saw was a bunch of unsold Abreu's (replicas). Not even a Sale, Frazier, Quintana or Eaton to be found. Cubs had Arrieta, Bryant, Rizzo, as expected....but the crazy thing is a couple of stores even had Soler, Heyward and Joe Maddon #70 jerseys. A manager's jersey over Chris Sale?

If Robertson is overused: 1) His cutter degrades in velocity and movement, 2) He doesn't miss as many bats 3) If he doesn't get ahead, he's getting killed on that pitch pretty frequently, and 4) His control just hasn't been as sharp as the first part of the season. If you divided his season into two halves (so far), and took out that KC game debacle, you'd probably find that the number of 1-2-3 ninth innings was 2X-3X greater over those first 50% of games than his second 50%. Robertson needs to get ahead and throw more knuckle curves for K's. I still don't see the argument for a non-contending, 11th place out of 15 in the AL team to spend that much money closing games when they can use Nate Jones, get something useful back for Robertson, save $20+ million that could be utilized for improving the offense (should be the #1 priority) AND plug in some younger minor leaguers as well as Putnam/Petricka + one more veteran next year in their final "all-in" year before they have to make a crucial decision on Todd Frazier and Cabrera/Lawrie to lesser extents.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jul 19, 2016 -> 07:37 PM) Not every GM will think he's overpaid though. Which GMs would feel $11 million is a fair/equitable salary for Robertson...especially tacking on two more years of advance aging and accumulated usage?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 19, 2016 -> 05:28 PM) I guess now you aren't into the advanced metrics. But that OPS Parra is putting up in Colorado has to be worth the $8 million you wanted to pay him. Unfortunately I don't think anyone in baseball is ever going to read any of your realtime ideas and offer you the GM job. I doubt anyone would let you generally manage a lemonade stand. You've done an impressive job rallying more fans to this HoF manager and irreplaceable front office. At this rate, the White Sox won't even have any lemonade stands open the final two months. Ironically, you argued a lot more than most around here for Alex Gordon this offseason. Great call on that one.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 19, 2016 -> 06:21 PM) Robertson never threw 96-98. In fact he is throwing as hard now as he ever has. Do you have 2012 and 2013 pitch fx data? His fb was higher velocity in early 2014.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 19, 2016 -> 08:44 AM) I feel bad kind of not realizing this situation before it affected me, but I am floored by how insufficient the US parental leave and maternity policies are. My wife last week found out that their company removed short-term disability from their benefits (they had laid off 20 or so employees in January that put them below the requirement in Chicago). So with 2 months to go, we find out we don't have 6 weeks pay we planned on. Which would be fine if we hadn't decided not to switch jobs earlier because it would have meant receiving only 6 weeks guaranteed job safety (and no income). I've been writing to congressman/senators but the Clinton plan on this really is something I'm hoping gets traction. But considering nobody bothers to cover any policy proposal of hers I'm guessing it gets nothing. Have you watched the latest Michael Moore documentary?

Yes, because we never lied about our reasons for going to war in Iraq....and forced Colin Powell to lie to the UN.

White Sox almost never send money to get better prospects....they traditionally do the opposite. As long as Hahn's GM, they also won't turn around and just dump Shields, especially when the state of starting pitching is so thin in the upper levels of the system. We already have plenty of RH relief candidates for the future and Mariners need Diaz to compete for wild card this season...would trade us prospects instead or no deal with them.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 17, 2016 -> 08:09 AM) Might want to check on Parra's offense again. You are making things up. Wrc+ of 63. Avi has a 69. 698 ops for Parra, 638 ops for Avisail Garcia.

Put him in the bullpen. Half joking.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 19, 2016 -> 08:22 AM) To be fair, at this point if we ran the Baseball-Reference linker on your posts we'd multiply Soxtalk's traffic 10-fold So how can we talk about trading Robertson without speculating on who/m should replace him? He sucks! Trade him! Pitchforks and torches to the barricades.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 19, 2016 -> 08:16 AM) Holy s*** all they did was promote a guy. Someone suggested Engel in CF and May moving to a corner outfield spot at the major league level....

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Jul 19, 2016 -> 08:22 AM) Morneau and Gonzalez have played in the playoffs multiple seasons as well. Not to mention the Rays' other playoff appearances for Shields. Rollins, definitely. You'd have to think Navarro made it a few times....surely with TB. Albers, maybe. Frazier once or twice with the Reds.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Jul 19, 2016 -> 08:20 AM) "Do you guys know how many fans back in Chicago went to sleep last night thinking that the latest slump in this s*** show we call the 2016 season was over? Well, not a lot, but that's besides the point. We let those fans down again, guys. Again. Do you guys want to play baseball? Do you care about winning? I may look like I'm halfway to a coma most of the time, but I care. I occasionally wake up long enough to see this s***. And what I see makes me sick." *sits down with a huff* *points at Abreu and Robertson* "Did you know that soxtalk.com is going to remove you shlubs from the banner? Did you? Yeah, how does that make you feel? I wish I could get paid millions of dollars to do a s***ty job-" *snaps his head up when he hears snickers from the group* "Yeah, keep laughing, asshats. You're going to cost me my job." *points at Avi* "And what the f*** do you do here? What purpose do you serve?" *stands up and starts pacing* "You know, I might just call it quits. You guys depress the hell out of me. I'm going to go ask Hahn to trade me to the Cubs. I'll just go be their locker room custodian." *smiles dreamily* "Yeah, that sounds nice. Later losers.* *walks out of the locker room* Is this supposed to be Ventura or Chris Sale?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 19, 2016 -> 07:18 AM) PABLO OZUNA JACK MCDOWELL ROBERTO HERNANDEZ PACO MARTIN Mature analysis...might make you eligible to apply for a job in the Sox front office.

Avila and Jackson made the playoffs four consective seasons. Shields in 2008 and 2014...in the World Series. Robertson with the Yankees when he could throw 96-98. Cabrera with the Giants.

Larry Himes. Personality clash. Not because he couldnt draft extremely well. Being a good/loyal team member is paramount. See Thibs, 2015.

11th place team in the AL. Behind tenth place Yanks by one game, a team currently contemplating their first concerted selloff in decades... No point to update anymore when they're sub .500 and buried in an even worse position strategically than 2015.

QUOTE (Deadpool @ Jul 18, 2016 -> 10:45 PM) Fire Hahn, Kenny, Robin. Leave Renteria for now but let the new front office deal with him as necessary. He should get a tryout the last two months. They have to convince Ventura to resign.