caulfield12

Typical late innings self-inflicted wound.

What else is new or unexpected with this organization?

It's such hit and miss there in that mid-range, though. One year, Anderson, the previous, Hawkins. Look at Corey Ray's statline, Kyle Lewis' terrible knee injury (see Jared Mitchell)....Kyle Tucker and Daz Cameron with the Astros, etc. Nothing is close to certain. Imo, we probably need to trade our way to contention with younger position prospects, pilfering the best already developed advanced bats with the proper blend of athleticism and plate discipline.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...0721-story.html

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/22/opinions/tru...gala/index.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/ap-fact-check-tr...--election.html Fact checking Trump's speech http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07...region&_r=0 Ivanka's version of Trump nowhere to be found

Ivanka's was ten times more positive. http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/21/politics/iva...eech/index.html Trump's was thirty minutes too long....filled with zero specifics or details or ways to implement...and sounded more similar to George Wallace in 1968 than Ronald Reagan in 1980. He's flip flopped on so many positions its impossible to know where he stands on anything. In the end, cutting taxes/supply side economics has been a consistent failure to do anything over the last thirty years except blow up the deficit even further. Nobody noticed the obvious contradictions between positions last night and everything MikePence stands for? Welcome to Germany 1933...

Over? Couldnt quite catch the ESPN story...

QUOTE (Tony @ Jul 21, 2016 -> 04:25 PM) That's not true, even a little bit. They just said they have 100% ruled out the addition of a rental player at the deadline. Hahn called them a mediocre team. When have the White Sox EVER come out and said that? Okay...still doesn't rule out additions like CarGo or Bruce....but at least it's a bit more definitive than in the past. Link? Podcast? Hahn can't even guarantee a path, how could Barstool? At least he's seemingly enjoying his time in the sun/15 minutes of fame...inundated with so many PMs it's distracting him from accomplishing anything at work. I can't imagine any tean allowing names to come out before a deal has almost been completed or that leak will be closed up fast.

QUOTE (Tony @ Jul 21, 2016 -> 04:11 PM) The small item of good news is Hahn just addressed the media and said all the right things. Heard the full interview. Still not sure they know how to pull it off..... He always says the right things. That's never his problem.

Send Rodon down for a month to throw only changeups and fastballs for 100+ pitches over 4-6 starts...try to find a way for him to start a playoff game for a minor league affiliate, if possible.

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.