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Pirates with another chance to break the tie here in the top of the 8th. Duensing has been really good recently. FWIW, tmrw's Twins/Pirates game is an early start, Liriano vs. Erwin "Don't Call me Johan" Santana. So the White Sox front office and team will have all the information they need before the evening game.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Jul 28, 2015 -> 08:46 PM) That's what good pitching will do for you. Has a team with a -50 rs/ra allowed differential ever made the playoffs? Wonder what the biggest negative number for a wild card or playoff team is....

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 28, 2015 -> 08:38 PM) Only deal I give up Anderson in is one for Puig, which wouldn't make sense from the Dodgers perspective since they have Seager. Unless they'd prefer to play Seager at 3B....and obviously Rollins isn't the long-term answer, and they clearly aren't going to play Guerrero at SS or Arruebarrena. Guerrero's mostly been playing LF for the Dodgers. However, the main reason they probably leave Seager at SS is because they already have Hector Olivera for 3B. Olivera's on the 7 Day DL at OKC.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Jul 28, 2015 -> 08:35 PM) Upton has an OPS of .608 and .480 the last two months. Yuck. Knowing KW, that would make him even more tempting...because he won't have to offer as much and the Padres wouldn't have much to gain with the compensation pick. Not unlike bringing in Manny Ramirez in 2010. In the end, CarGo is much more likely, but only if KW's controlling things and has convinced JR to move on from Avi Garcia, since we'd be stuck with his contract for two more seasons.

QUOTE (staxx @ Jul 28, 2015 -> 08:33 PM) I remember that. I also remember the consensus being that it would require Rodon, Anderson, etc.. Any chance that has changed at this point with the season he's having? Nope. Same with Todd Frazier in Cincy, or Arenado in COL.

Upton would be a mighty tempting target for KW, that's for sure. Not sure what it would take to get it done. But Upton or Puig would be the biggest headliners. The Tigers are unlikely to deal us Cespedes. Think they'd take Avi back, haha?

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jul 28, 2015 -> 08:09 PM) I never said they'd win the AL Central. win in the Central and win the Central....better to have said, they're capable of beating the teams in the AL Central head to head（other than the Royals right now）

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jul 28, 2015 -> 08:09 PM) No way am I giving them Trey. That's not going to get in the way of KW making a move right now...

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 28, 2015 -> 08:07 PM) Anyone know how many times the Twins play KC the rest of the way? 6. 3 home, 3 away.

Pirates leading the Twins 3-2 in the 6th. Other than Baltimore winning, everything has gone perfectly tonight for the Sox.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 28, 2015 -> 08:04 PM) Not a fan of bringing in the worst reliever to face a lefty when they hit over .300 vs him If we have to use Petricka, Duke or Putnam....there's going to be no end to the second-guessing when Putnam was available and Jennings should never pitch for the White Sox again after tonight.

Jesus, can we ever have an easy win? This is ridiculous, to think we're going to have to go to our core bullpen pieces now to save a 7 run lead.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 28, 2015 -> 07:35 PM) The Sox have a chance to add Puig to a stable of reliable, ready to play younger players. This is a deal that could make them. To be able to build around Abreu/Puig on offense and Sale/Samarj/Rodon/Fulmer on the mound That's star power Time to deal Quintana, Puig, and any two prospect(s) not named Rodon, Anderson, or Fulmer for Puig and Guerrero. Agreed. At this point, you'd almost rather it happened in the offseason (due to the team chemistry consideration), but the Dodgers are desperate for a legit 3rd starter right now and that same situation won't exist in the off-season when their big pockets can work to their advantage in the FA market.

QUOTE (staxx @ Jul 28, 2015 -> 06:02 PM) Abreu/Eaton is a pretty good start. Avi still has great potential 5-7 years from now and we'll likely add another bat just like the Royals will add a pitcher. Medlen isn't doing anything crazy for the Royals and Volquez isn't anything special. Zimmer has proven nothing and Ventura seems like he is a head case. They'll have a solid core with Perez and Hosmer for a while. I just believe that we have a better outlook. If you compare cores, though....Moustakas, Cain, Escobar, Perez and Hosmer, all in their primes, there's not much of a comparison. We have Eaton, Abreu and Cabrera (31 next year). Yes, Medlen and Hochevar are struggling, but that's to be expected your first half season back when recovering from TJ surgery. They were both brought on board with 2016 in mind, although the jury's out on whether the Royals will want to pay Medlen $10 million (mutual option). Zimmer is a work in progress and has battled injury problems, that's true as well. The other key factor to consider is that the Royals have long-term solutions for C, 3B, SS and CF, the four most important positions on the field right now to find impact players in this offensively-challenged environment. All four of those guys, along with Hosmer are equally good offensively and defensively. Avi Garcia at his best isn't the equal of Cain or Eaton for this very reason. We have Adam Eaton.

Let's hope that lost run doesn't end up impacting the final score. Darn, 7-2 would have given the Sox some breathing room, oh well... TB leading the Tigers 4-1, we would go into sole possession of 3rd place but might also push the Tigers to deal Price/Cespedes/Soria, etc.

The Red Sox announcers wondering what's up with the stir the pot thing Melky's doing...he's kind of taken that thing over from Eaton and Beckham and made it his own. Apparently, the Blue Jays have a similar tradition of sorts.

Twins up 1-0 and threatening for more in the bottom of the 1st against the Pirates. They have to go 1-2 before Friday for the numbers to make sense.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Jul 28, 2015 -> 06:28 PM) This is a win-win. If we hold on here, and the Phillies win, then we're only 0.5 GB of Toronto. At that point if we're giving them Shark they better pay out the ass for him. There's no way we trade Samardzija to the Blue Jays now. Update: Bonifacio has a rib/oblique problem. Probably from last of use...

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Jul 28, 2015 -> 06:26 PM) Would really be nice to have a base stealer on this team. We have one in the dugout, does that count? Doesn't seem Vincent Van Gogh has had the positive impact KW envisioned...although he has made Avisail an aggressive albeit ineffective basestealer. It would be nice if Eaton had Avi's attitude in that regard.

Phillies have tied the Blue Jays 2-2, still batting in the top of the 5th. And the Phillies take the lead now, 3-2. Will there be a Tulo appearance later in the game? Did he make it to Toronto yet? Whoever's starting for the Cubs, he just gave up 4 in the first inning.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 28, 2015 -> 06:15 PM) It is why you, I and others said you had to stay patient with him. Their was a history of success their and the eye test didn't see any noticeable fall-out in terms of his skills. He is regressing back to the mean (in this case, a very good thing). I presume we'd see the same with LaRoche (with slight decline due to normal aging), however, that might be impacted by his health as I think he's hurting. http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/batting/_/pos.../OPS/order/true Other than Hanley Ramirez (due to defense), Byrd and Cuddyer, he's still near the bottom...but obviously he's been a lot better recently. To be effective for the White Sox, he needs to put up a 750-775ish OPS. He's also one of the four guys still slugging under 400. Let's just say we're elated he's not a complete disaster and we can be fairly confident in him being better in 2016 and certainly don't need to worry about replacing that position as well...providing us at least three certainties in the line-up next year (along with Abreu and Eaton).

Bonifacio injured. Knee or groin injury...he's definitely coming out.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jul 28, 2015 -> 06:13 PM) Está quemando! I'm just going with the literal, lazy ESPN SportsCenter translation.

You know things are going well when Avi Garcia walks.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Jul 28, 2015 -> 06:09 PM) Meh, so Pablo tagged one. No biggie. Samardzija is still capable of shutting them down for the next 4 or 5 innings. Nine consecutive starts with 7+ IP.