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QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Mar 31, 2015 -> 04:35 PM) Yes. Bleacher Report, lol. But wasn't there a recent article on Flowers' "new changes" that brought his power game back? Kind of like the inevitable "Gordon's got his swing repeatable and figured out with no hitches or dips" article. Gordon's just seeing the ball and hitting the ball and taking the game as it comes, naturally, not over-thinking blah blah blah.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Mar 31, 2015 -> 03:31 PM) hard to look a guy in the eye and tell him "go win a job" when a veteran like Gordon has an awful spring and is handed a job. I really think it would send a message is he was cut and Sanchez and Micah both get MLB jobs. Oh, the humanity, all the money we wasted on Viciedo, Gordon, Paulino and Keppy. Stupid Hahn.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Mar 31, 2015 -> 03:14 PM) Push has a hose. Pushkin?

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Mar 31, 2015 -> 02:28 PM) Omg season please just start. You miss the vitriolic/hyperbolic/Snakes on a Sox Plane game threads that much? Actually, I just wanted to post this for Balta's reference when the team inevitably disappoints us later, lol.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Mar 31, 2015 -> 02:30 PM) Wait, what? Bleacher Report? Best preview you've seen? I think so. They point out of the obvious flaws in the team (4-5 guys)....possibilities for regression from Abreu and reasons for that, and also how much of the line-up's hopes are pinned on Avisail Garcia being a 20-80-20 SB guy....another example, Eaton also had very high BABIP, and low walk rates, not unlike Abreu (around 8%)...so both need to pick up their walk rates to the 12-15% range to compensate for expected falls in BABIP/returns to normative numbers. Concerns about Gillaspie's late season fade and platoon splits, the catcher's spot and Micah Johnson's ability to make an immediate impact. A bit about the bullpen....not much analysis yet of the impact of Petricka being on the DL, and who will step up to take his place, whether it's Putnam, Guerra, Albers, Leon, etc. Crain I guess had that shoulder setback but should contribute as early as May or June.

Buehrle, too.

http://m.whitesox.mlb.com/news/article/115...s-for-white-sox

QUOTE (raBBit @ Mar 31, 2015 -> 09:35 AM) Kyle mad. But I agree, very little to gain here. I prefer we cut the cord with the long time failures. See Noesi lol. Dayan Viciedo was taken aback by the White Sox‘ decision to release him, but he’s landed on his feet after signing a minor-league deal with the Blue Jays, the Associated Press reports. “I was slightly surprised because I thought I had an agreement in place to stay there, but I understand it’s a business,” Viciedo says. “You have good days, you have bad days. I took it in stride. I’m not upset. It kind of surprised me at first but everything had worked out and is OK.” www.mlbtraderumors.com Looks like the Phillies are one possible destination, with uncertainty about Dominic Brown and Grady Sizemore (poor Lillian!)

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Mar 31, 2015 -> 10:41 AM) He had his chances no to return. See Beckham with his ongoing five years of failure and swing/mechanical changes. Viciedo only had two after his rookie season.

QUOTE (flavum @ Mar 31, 2015 -> 08:03 AM) Dayan Viciedo is a free agent again. Have fun in Japan. I called it if hes back in a White Sox uniform lol.

QUOTE (fathom @ Mar 31, 2015 -> 10:01 AM) I think he's a very good player, but not someone I'd take with the first pick. He was very bad defensively in the game, as he seemed slow off his feet. I do have some hope for his offensive game to expand, as he's a phenomenal free throw shooter for his size/age (as is Myles Turner). D. Russell has the best chance to be a game changer out of this draft class. Mudiay if healthy...

See $5 million for Manny Ramirez. Huge deal at the time for Viciedo to sign. Borchard. Giving that big contract extension to Danks. Adding Rios, Dunn and Peavy. Trading for Youk, ODog, Myers, Liriano etc., in 2012. Adding Jim Thome and Javy in 2006. Trading Gio twice... The White Sox took lots of risks, but a lot of them were "make or break" moves. Last offseason adding Most of the free agent hurlers on SoxTalk wish lists would have precluded the laundry list of transactions this offseason.

Any rumors on Rasheed Sulaimon's destination as a transfer? ISU haha?

QUOTE (LDF @ Mar 31, 2015 -> 10:24 AM) i remember a sox pitcher, when, i can't remember, but he only had 1 catcher who caught for hm. and this catcher made the team b/c of that. so the question, imo is a valid one. When they had Charlie Hough?

QUOTE (Sockin @ Mar 31, 2015 -> 09:44 AM) Wait did I miss something? They have Soto as the starting catcher. Huge assumption on their part.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2408778...-season-preview Very comprehensive preview...best ive seen.

http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2015/03/29/115488...adbpr=241544156 PUIG=NASA's new space satellite launch program "go to guy"

http://m.mlb.com/cws/video/topic/67608260/...ining/?c_id=cws

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Mar 30, 2015 -> 02:03 PM) What you say absolutely does not make it right to blow someone in the media off. I hope someone straightened the kid out if he did do this. It just isn't a professional way to handle things. Yeah, yeah, I know, "professional obligations," another subsegment of the responsibility of being a ballplayer for the White Sox, part of the family, etc. I'm sure he will end up coming around. But it's nice to see Rongey put in his place sometimes. Now if he did that to Merkin, I would be more aggravated, as sometimes Rongey just comes off as too entitled or judgmental when dealing with the fanbase. Exasperated. For whatever reason, I don't see him as "one of us" like I do Harrelson, for example. Hawkins came out of his immaturity period, seemingly. Rodon will, too. Or they'll end up banished like Jon Rauch.

You missed the key point. Baez was also sent down. Nobody was actually expecting that...thinking he shouldn't be up or would flounder, yes, believing they'd send him down, not really.

I saw a couple of innings in that game. IMO, he might be a first rounder, but his stuff wasn't THAT impressive (yet), mostly a high 80's/lower 90's fastball. More impressed with his offspeed stuff, fwiw.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Mar 27, 2015 -> 01:45 PM) Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they picked him, but the drillrod description above, just from interviews which is cherry picking, does seem appropriate. If he blew off Rongey, that ain't right. Who woudn't blow off Rongey? Maybe Carlo and his ex listened to enough post-game shows last year to get their fill of his act. Cooper treats him with barely disguised disdain and nobody makes much of anything about it.

80-82 Although the fade comes way too late to deal any pieces at the ASB like Samardzija.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-da...-004731916.html Wisconsin trash talking those who doubted the B10.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Mar 29, 2015 -> 02:49 PM) Yeah, incredible job. This is a remarkably unimpressive team and yet he has them in the Final 4. Might be his best coaching job. He was trying to be careful with his wording, but he basically said this was his favorite team/season because of all the struggles, doubts, being written off and underestimated...