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QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jul 20, 2015 -> 05:38 PM) I think it's a team option for 2016 at 8M . If thats right Brewers probably keep him for that money. At his age, and with the likelihood of rebuilding with youth coming...it wouldn't be totally surprising if they passed. Do they have any top prospects who are DH/1b types?

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 20, 2015 -> 03:17 PM) You don't say? https://www.yahoo.com/tv/donald-trump-john-...4576220850.html This article points out exactly why everyone would hate that version of "toothless" Guillen...you can't love those types for being outspoken and then neuter them. Ozzie might have been better off doubling down on his Castro comments instead. Od course, it's easier to be outspoken as a billionaire without a boss.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Jul 20, 2015 -> 04:23 PM) Pinning is dumb. Blaming is futile. It's like the President. You might not have voted for him and you might not like him, but you sure as hell are gonna have his back unless you're a coward. He's the President. Dissention is for the weak, for the media. Is this coming from you or Donald Trump? We might as well blame fate for schedule makers conspiring to have Sale meet the Royals st this place and time...they're like kryptonite to him. The irony is that with Hosmer, Gordon, Moustakas, it's not like they're set up extremely well to beat him. But they make contact.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jul 20, 2015 -> 05:12 PM) Well when you realize the Sox could've had Kendry Morales or Adam Lind for considerably less it sucks looking at his stats and his salary. Dayton Moore smarter than Hahn/Williams ? Luckier ? If the Sox can dump LaRoche maybe trade for Lind. That's if we are willing to believe Morales and Lind would have played exactly the same with us. In the case of KC, it was kind of the perfect fit for him...they needed a veteran, stabilizing presence to take Butler's spot.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 20, 2015 -> 12:09 PM) Basically our options for next year are Saladino, one of those guys, or trading legit talent away for a legit shortstop. And that's just one of multiple positions where we have major issues. Ponder that for a minute and you'll start understanding why I'm down on this team's chances for the near future. Outside of a Japanese or Korean (the Pirates were doing okay with Kang for awhile)...no answers. Maybe the Dodgers will deal the other Cuban with the super long name beginning and ending with an A that they acquired two years ago, but he would probably hit as well as Rey Ordonez or Rondon.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 20, 2015 -> 10:32 AM) Ian Desmond would be an interesting buy low candidate. Have no idea what has caused his drop in production but he was coming off of 3 straight years with an OPS > .740 and has twice posted OPS > .840. Over past 3 seasons had averaged just over 3.5 WAR and just turned 30. Solid defensive player as well. Other then Desmond, I'd say Alexei is the next best candidate. Rollins is a pretty heady ball player but has struggled in LA (part of that may be effect of new stadium) but he's been trending downward for a few years. I also presume he wants to play for a contender (if he even plays a year from now). I am not counting Alcides Escobar as I'm going to assume their is no way the Royal's don't pick up that option. Beware the jinx of the Nationals.... Dunn, LaRoche, now we want Desmond? Suppose it would be better than Stephen Drew, Asdrubal, etc., so there's that. Might as well trade Quintana for Strasburg and pray real hard.

They would be better off saying 4-5 year window. Because this thing's not getting turned around before 2016...and the Royals, Twins and Indians aren't going anywhere.

QUOTE (LDF @ Jul 20, 2015 -> 09:07 AM) don't get me wrong, you do make a point in what you are saying, but i am of the opinion that Hahn would have been able to make some trades. trades that might have address those needs. i don't know, all this is an assumption and i am very guilty of that. who would really know what was and is going on in the sox fo, esp now with how things are being manage. The problem there is they still would have ended up trading for veterans (since the youngsters were still 1-2 seasons away) and/or been forced to deal Quintana and Montas. Unless they signed Morales, Volquez/Brett Anderson/Chris Young and Nelson Cruz, they'd still be far underwater this year. Or traded for Josh Donaldson.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jul 20, 2015 -> 08:49 AM) That may be, but the Kenny load up with veterans approach doesn't work. They need to change and it looked like they were until December when they completely veered and went into "go for it" mode, brought back the vets and to heck with developing young players. The problem is what young players in Charlotte/Birmingham merited playing time at the big league level...? You would have had Trayce Thompson in LF or Shuck, maybe Erik Johnson or Beck in the rotation, Saladino/Leury instead of Beckham and Bonifacio...Kevan Smith instead of Soto, etc.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jul 20, 2015 -> 08:48 AM) Alvarez is about to be traded by the Pirates. He has two more years until he a fa. If he can still handle third I'd love to buy low there. Except all evidence points to he can't anymore, NL to AL...we've never "coached up" a player to improve defensively in years...on the other hand, a lot of people thought Jhonny Peralta was done five years ago and he's still playing SS on the best team in baseball.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jul 20, 2015 -> 08:23 AM) Houston has a bunch of sorry batting averages at the infield corner positions, but they've gotten a ton of homers out of those batting averages. they need a pitcher. Valbuena and Carter, mostly.

DJ and singing is always an amusing combination.

Trump=Ozzie Robin Ventura/Rick Hahn=Obama

QUOTE (Hatchetman @ Jul 20, 2015 -> 07:20 AM) Maybe that's what people prefer. Slick professionalism. I'd rather hear Farmio talk about his neighborhood exploits in E.G. and DJ's backhanded complements of everyone on the team. You need both...a balance. And they have those complements to Rooney in Mike Shannon and Al Hrabosky to add local flavor and anecdotes.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 20, 2015 -> 07:27 AM) What trade was this? Edwin Jackson...

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 20, 2015 -> 06:28 AM) 2001: 32-26 (.552) 2002: 30-24 (.556) 2003: 29-25 (.537) 2004: 31-30 (.508) 2005: 31-28 (.525) I think you mean since 2006? The early 2000 teams played over .500 ball in August/Sepetmber/October. In comparison to their records in June/July/early August (2003) and April-early August (2005), those records are quite disappointing.... 2001 is one of the few exceptions, when we started 14-29...but that team also peaked in July/August after fighting so hard to get back to the .500 mark.

Of course, the White Sox will keep Danks until next August...just the other day, there was yet ather article about swapping the two, Jackson for Danks. Guess that's off the table.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jul 19, 2015 -> 06:13 PM) Kenny is soxtalk's boogeyman If Rick Hahn was from Mexico, someone would be protesting him, too...

Who can explain why almost every single White Sox team since 2000 has played poorly in August and September...? If we're not calling it momentum....either out of spring training or at the end of the year, what phrase should we use? Lack of focus, discipline, preparation, etc.? Or consistently in the first inning this year? Bad luck....umpires still hate the Sox because of Ozzie? The talent sucks but Hahn's doing a simply splendid job in a competing, theoretical universe that we just can't see with our own eyes?

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jul 19, 2015 -> 08:26 PM) Momentum in baseball? GTFOH. Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher Then I hope you pop up and disagree every time we hear...."Well, the White Sox could have made a legitimate run at the second wild card....were winners of 9/12, etc., but the All-Star Break came at the most inopportune moment." At any rate, those who witnessed the Jose Paniagua disaster in 2003 might disagree about the Twins seizing momentum from that game on...that was the last victory of the season series, I think. Maybe one more win the final weekend or so when the playoff picture was already decided.

Has Hahn ever actually been the "lead" guy in identifying a talent and bringing him in? Like KW, when he watched Iguchi's videos from Japan and signed him, sight unseen.

Carlos Quentin also struggled with the same foot ailment....and it really sucks, the foot version of an oblique.

The irony is that we're tied for the 9th pick in the first round. We can't even lose in a beneficial way. Purgatory. But seeing Davidson, Anderson, Trayce, Montas, EJ, Beck, Kevan Smith, maybe Hawkins and Danish....what's to lose? We get a better idea where they are for 2016 and improve draft position. The attendance will be brutal from here on out anyway.

Any relation to Jose or Nardi Contreras?

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jul 19, 2015 -> 03:03 PM) Davidson may have been a case of poor scouting. how many scouts do the Sox have in the PCL? It didn't hurt them with Quentin, Eaton or Edwin Jackson. Just a bad decision.