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QUOTE (Tex @ Apr 26, 2014 -> 06:17 PM) There will be 25 games or so left at the deadline. I'd rather get something than nothing for Dunn. So 137 games or so with Dunn around (not certain how many he will play) then 25 without him. I'm comfortable with that. I think you mean 60 (July 31st), unless you're talking about the August 31st deadline for adding for going through waivers and being added to another team's playoff roster. If they really wanted to trade him and there's legitimate interest in June/July, they don't have to wait. But, as mentioned, the idea of protection/balance for Abreu. That said, there's certainly no guarantee he will have it next year...or that having him forced to become even more selective without a big LH bat behind him wouldn't actually help his development more than being pitched around or super selectively by contending playoff teams wary of his one big at-bat beating them.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/31851/josmil-pinto Quietly in 4th places among AL contenders. Is Chris Colabello eligible?

Josh Norris (jnorris427) on Twitter https://twitter.com/jnorris427‎ 翻译此页 He struck out 15, threw 131 pitches and hit 95 on No. 128. ... Here's how dominant Rodon is: Georgia Tech's charting pitchers jokingly yelled "check his neck!

DeAza can probably be dealt too...unless he and Gordon keep on stinking it up. The problem is that there's still not anyone ready behind him...unless they really push up Thompson or stick Micah Johnson in LF mid-season to get him some ML at-bats in the 2nd half of the season. And both of those would be really aggressive promotions. At one point, it seemed they could hold onto ADA and just rotate DH next year amongst all the position players, but we probably need to move on and start fresh and realize Alejandro peaked 2-3 years ago.

Davidson 2/2, 3 run homer....hopefully he gets on a hot streak now.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 26, 2014 -> 01:45 AM) Sox truly have no viable closer candidates. Only hope is to trot Lindstrom out there. He is dreadful, but the only possibility. Everybody else is even worse, including Webb. Maybe you could send Webb to the minors for a month and try to close then make him the closer. Don't know if Webb's the solution, but sending him down isn't the answer, either. Sox always have the philosophy of teaching (at least Cooper) at the big league level. It would be a LOT better if Jones can come back healthy and be the closer...if he fails, then you try Webb. Belisario's getting more and more comfortable in the 8th inning, leave him be for now. In a perfect world, Webb or Cleto can take over that Joel Zumaya role of going into an high leverage situation from the 6th on and going multiple innings...or at least 1+ at a time.

QUOTE (Hawkfan @ Apr 25, 2014 -> 09:25 PM) What's been the nickname consensus for Jose? Pito or Jose Daniel

Gordon Beckham STILL sucks. Gee, what a surprise there.

QUOTE (Ozzie Ball @ Apr 25, 2014 -> 06:30 PM) Raw totals for the past 10 years: http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=...=&players=0 Seems to typically fluctuate between 72% and 74% success rate. 2005 appears to be the low point during this time frame at 70.5% success rate. This year has been around 74%. It's just because of AJ and guys like Floyd who couldn't hold on anyone to save their lives. And our catchers are actually pretty decent throwing out runners. Nieto has a great quick release, not a cannon, but effective.

Rodon with 11 of the first 13 outs by way of the K. He's now got to be THE pick and a game of chicken begins with the Marlins, Astros and White Sox, with Hoffman on the shelf. 11 k's through 5, one CS (after walk), the other three outs were all on the infield.

2nd steal. Lots of pitches taken by Semien, but that K rate is crazy. 31 k's already. That's Dunn-like. Abreu comes through with an RBI single. Good job.

Yordano Ventura has an electric arm, 94-98 MPH in the first inning, absolutely blew away Chris Davis. For those with MLB.com subscriptions, Orioles/Royals free game of the day. Control is going to be the ONE issue...Nolan Ryan said he's the real deal, and he's got a curve on a 60/80 scale already.

Rodon keeps on mowing down Yellow Jackets. Two more K's...10 through first 11 batters faced. Finally gave up a single up the middle. Groundout to pitcher. Through 4 now.

QUOTE (Bruce_Blixton @ Apr 25, 2014 -> 05:44 PM) Semien was a 6th rounder in 2011, you can add Chris Carter, Chris Young and Chris Getz to that list as well. Obviously we should focus on just drafting players with the first name Chris. Yeah, that was out of high school for Semien.

Two walks in this inning already by Hanson, including the inimitable Ray Olmedo. First trouble of the game so far. Double steal now, runners on 2nd and 3rd with only one out. 4 K's, 3 walks. Managed to pitch out of it with the ever-dangerous clean-up guy Wilson Betemit on-deck, haha. Strikeout #6 of the first 7 GA Tech batters. Wow. He's coming out to really prove something tonight it would appear. And #7. Still in the 3rd inning. #8. This is getting comical. 42 pitches, 27 strikes...nobody has put a ball into the field of play in 3 innings. Two more K's from Hanson, including Betemit. Clean through 4 now, 3 walks and 6 K's. Durham's line-up sucks, though.

Hanson through 2, untouched, another K. Buehrle getting shredded/tattoed after leading the majors in ERA at 0.64 coming into tonight...Peavy will get his first win unless he blows a 5-0 lead. Rodon strikes out all three Georgia Tech hitters in the first. 13 pitches, 9 strikes. Strike out #4 to go along with a CS after he walked the clean-up hitter for Tech. And #5. Through 2 innings. 28 pitches, 17 strikes. Least favorite Sox player Ray Olmedo walks against Hanson, to 2nd on a wild pitch.

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Apr 25, 2014 -> 05:23 PM) Alexei lead the league in errors last year with 22. He had a worse fielding percentage than Beckham and Dan Uggla! Should this be characterized as "getting progressively worse" or a "bad defensive season"? I think with Ramirez, you can just stick this together with Beckham, Viciedo, DeAza, the catchers, Conor and nearly everyone playing terrible defense all season long. Not the sign of a decline, more of an anomaly...as Ramirez has mostly been great this season.

Anyone in Charlotte have the velocity readings on him? Our old friend Wilson Betemit just retired Davidson on a soft ground out.

Winston Salem-Potomac game wiped out. Guess that's why the NC State (Rodon)-GA TECH game isn't starting on time, either.

Grady Sizemore sure has come back to earth. .628 OPS right now, out of the starting line-up against Buehrle tonight. 2/22 the last week.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 25, 2014 -> 03:52 PM) For a team with as much of a lack of depth as teh White Sox have, that would be a complete disaster. Other than Santiago and Buehrle, how many picks since the late 90's outside of the first five rounds have made a marked impact? Marcus Semien was a 34th rounder, just looked that up. Sure, you need rounds 6+ for organizational depth/filler, but a ton of those AA/AAA "glue" veteran guys can be picked up from other organizations, the Rey Olmedos and Corky Millers of the world. Clayton Richard was an 8th rounder. Hudson was a 5th rounder...I think Crede was somewhere around the 5th as well. Even Lucas Harrell was the 4th round.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Apr 25, 2014 -> 04:27 PM) I am with you on this line of thinking but it does get old figuring that Cooper can fix em all. First you need something that can be fixed When we start picking up reclamation veteran hitting prospects (think Michael Morse/Jason Bay/Corey Hart) and you're consistently reading in threads "Steverson will fix 'em" and it's not said jokingly or in jest, that's when you will know the coach is making a real impact. In 2007, we tried to throw about 100 pieces of crap against the wall (Aardsma, Sisco, MacDougal...auditioned about 12-15 lefty relievers, and the only one who was decent, Javier Lopez, we ended up trading before he ever pitched for the White Sox). I remember those threads asking why couldn't Cooper get anything out of Nick Masset, for example. Haven't seen many claiming he should have worked wonders with Zach Stewart, Nestor Molina or Jeff Marquez, for example.

I know when I was last home in the Quad Cities, my mom has the new digital/antenna (free basic tv) thing and she gets the WCIU games...I think it's on the FOX station (one of them), maybe KLJB. Weird.

If you can have Chris Sale and Rodon, and you wouldn't be able to sign more than your first 3-5 picks after Rodon, would you still do it? If you could KNOW Rodon would have a similar career to Chris, sure, of course. On the other hand, if you can project Hoffman to have a similar career to Verlander and Rodon to go down with TJ surgery and have a similarly frustrating career path as Francisco Liriano because of all the sliders, you wouldn't even be dealing with Boras....next. Or if Rodon's going to keep losing 0.5 MPH off his FB velocity every season, and you draft him knowing there's no way you're going to be able to put together an extension like Sale and Quintana into the seasons past Year 6...that basically you're probably going to use/abuse him and risk destroying his career to maximize your playoff chances in 2016-2019, do you do it? Can Rodon develop the other pitches to complement his slider/fastball combination....especially a good change-up or curveball, with the change being the obvious preference.

Garfield was great in The Social Network, and I can even agree that Emma Stone matches or betters Kirsten Dunst, but there was something about the chemistry between Maguire/Dunst that is lacking. Maybe it's because I keep thinking of him as Eduardo Saverin and Maguire as Spider-Man, not unlike the idea Bourne/Damon can't be replaced by a Jeremy Renner. Maybe it's just that the screenwriter was trying TOO hard to inject a humorous sense into Spider-Man, that it became a bit forced. There are a number of supposedly emotional scenes that I just had NO feeling or reaction to whatsoever, and I'm the type of moviegoer who could get emotional about Marley & Me or the scene in Field of Dreams with Costner playing catch with the younger version of his father if I'd watched it 10 times already. I definitely like the 2012 version a lot better. Not to mention we're seeing a repeat of the Green Goblin story all over again, and I couldn't keep myself from comparing Dafoe, as much as he overacted that part, at least he had a presence. Chris Cooper, great character actor, appeared for maybe 3 minutes in the same role and there just wasn't enough time for him to establish an identity. Same with Campbell Scott as Peter's father, and Sally Field was REALLY overacting in this one. At the heart of the Maguire movies was the relationship with Peter and Uncle Ben...and the earlier version of that relationship just nailed it, IMO. And I have nothing against Martin Sheen or Denis Leary, they're both fine actors, but this movie is just too derivative/been there done that to truly enjoy. Plus, we've all been exposed to so much 3D/CGI that scenes of Spider-Man swinging through the streets pale in comparison to a much more organic flying experience in movies like Avatar or How to Train Your Dragon. And then there's simply the typical villainous motivations that seemingly materialize out of nowhere...just feels too contrived and overdone, somehow.