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QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 28, 2015 -> 02:36 PM) I'm listening to the postgame show. I must be nuts. And what was Rongey's argument this time? It happened too fast to react, you have to trust your "aces" to get themselves out of difficult situations, you can't use your best reliever in a tie game on the road in the bottom of the 9th, etc.? Cabrera and Eaton are coming around and looking like the players they were supposed to be for us in April...

Well, then isn't it on the GM to find the RIGHT players who are internally-motivated, knowing their manager isn't exactly noted in this regard? It seems the rest of the season, we'll be going round and round in circles between the players, manager, coaching staff, Hahn, KW and Reinsdorf (organizational culture/loyalty) assessing blame. Should get old fast, since we've already spent the first half of the season on that same discussion and argument.

QUOTE (SCCWS @ Jun 28, 2015 -> 04:49 PM) A little dated( 2011) but it shows both hitters and pitchers https://www.fanduel.com/insider/2011/08/02/...s-for-pitchers/ With how baseball has changed so much the last past 1 1/2 seasons, I'm not sure how helpful those numbers would be...but at least you'd have some sort of benchmark, and it would be a lot more reliable than interleague play results.

Well, Marcus Semien just had his 23rd error (at a position we weren't even planning to play him). He also came 2 feet from hitting the first homer since 2013 against Wade Davis, so there's that. And Seattle, the Red Sox, Marlins, Orioles, etc., are disappointing too, blah blah blah. If anyone was holding onto the idea of the White Sox competing this season, that ending pretty much put the kibosh to those thoughts...especially with the Cardinals next.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 28, 2015 -> 12:15 PM) OF course, that also means that they're below .500 and getting large available bonus pools every single year. Assuming the Red Sox with Moncada are the other, would be interested in seeing the rest of the top ten and determining if they're just big market spenders or teams with mostly losing records during that time frame. LA Angels and Texas? What's interesting is you don't often see the Cards, Braves, Rays blowing away anyone with their spending (in this area) but somehow they must be doing something right. Or SF. Even the A's, for example, threw out big money for Cespedes and Michael Ynoa, although Yoenis was over 23. You pretty much have to be a player in this intl game or the game will eat you alive.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Jun 28, 2015 -> 11:40 AM) How often has this worked in the past 10 year? This organization is bad at developing players or the scouting makes mistakes. Most likely they would get a pitcher out of it. Teams with losing records trade out of weakness unless it involves a Chris Sale type player. How many deals happen like the Cubs got? Just Peavy. Unless you want to put Myles Jaye and Daniel Webb in that same category...

And now Melky Cabrera hits one of the longest homers of the last 3-5 years at Comerica. Hmmm.....

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/291854571.html?ipad=y Article on Delmonico....this is nearing Bobby Jenks level resurrection if they can pull this off.

The idea of counting on Trayce Thompson as a full-time player isn't going to find many advocates. And, if you're breaking in Anderson in 2017, you're probably wasting two more years of Robertson waiting for 2018, which means you can do without an elite guy (and he might not even be that) until 2017 or more likely ASB 2017. It's also quite possible Montas or Danish could emerge to take over that spot...so you can shift $25 million being allocated to Robertson and spend it more efficiently in the short-term.

There are no quick fixes that will occur without trading Quintana and adding $150+ million in new spending on free agents...

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nascar-chairm...23--nascar.html Nascar wants to do away with Confederate flag now.... http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/opinion/...;pgtype=article

Well, there weren't exactly a plethora of Silver Sluggers at SS also in the top 33% of mlb defenders this past offseason and under affordable contract control for two seasons, which is a pretty ideal commitment for a lot of teams.

Chris Young, Chris Carter, Michael Morse (peds case)....Daniel Hudson while it lasted. Miguel Olivo lasted for quite awhile but never quite lived up to his potential. Sweeney was good enough as a part-timer to get a decent offer from the Cubs but never lived up to Hawk's spring training hype. Of course, Nick Swisher couldn't have been more of a disaster with us and did fine with the Yankees and that short porch, well enough to get another sizable contract.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Jun 27, 2015 -> 08:43 PM) What they get in return due to poor scouting will fail also, the exception might be a Coop'll fix em. Then that may last a year. Yeah, with the exception of Quintana, none of the fixes have lasted more than a year, unless you want to go all the way back to Contreras, Floyd, Danks, Jenks, Santos and Thornton. Putnam is now getting closer to being more than a one year wonder....and less Humber/Noesi, or Politte/Hermanson in the reliever category, or basically everyone from 2012 (Santiago, Nate Jones and Reed the other exceptions). But nobody's going to give you elite talent back for him, like Crain in 2012. He doesn't have brand-name recognition and he hardly ever breaks 88-89, so skeptics will always prefer to wait out expected regression. That said, he has more value than Duke (due to contract status) and probably more than Petricka, although that's arguable.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-leag...-002424071.html Bryant hangover rumors debunked....the price of early fame, jealousy and playing for the Cubbies.

Any team with elite infield defense would get a ton of mileage out of Putnam...as long as they could keep him healthy.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 27, 2015 -> 09:04 AM) I think his philosophy is trying to find someone who will do well in the 2 hole. Except for Abreu and LaRoche he has tried just about everyone except the catchers and Sanchez. I think he is hoping it could spark something like it did Fisk in 1983 where I am sure if all these numbers were around back then there would have been many calls for his release before moving there. So basically the managers back then were better off? Wasn't LaRussa one of the first to start analyzing advanced statistics on his own...all those index cards that he kept? Fisk attributed his renaissance to the warm weather and the higher place in the batting order. ''Just knowing where you are going to be in the lineup every day helps,'' he said, ''and batting second keeps you aware. You are faced with a lot of situations.'' Previously, he was in the lower third of the batting order. Source nytimes.com

http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/splits/_/id/6219/zach-duke If they can't find a single reliever who can limit lefties to under an 800 ops for under $5 million they're doomed anyway.

John Danks , #50 LHP 3-8, 5.38 ERA, 55 SO John Danks took full credit for a shellacking on Monday against the Twins. He gave up nine runs -- five earned -- and was unable to pitch over a costly Alexei Ramirez error. Kyle Ryan , #56 LHP 1-1, 4.56 ERA, 11 SO Ryan pitched in relief Wednesday on his day to throw a side session, but manager Brad Ausmus said it wouldn't affect his status. He threw his best outing of the season against the White Sox on June 5 with seven innings of two-run ball.

http://www.southsidesox.com/2015/6/24/8837...could-be-bolder Article looking at Alexei Ramirez and Cabrera, bat speed, the #2 spot and Ventura's "philosophy."

http://www.southsidesox.com/2015/6/26/8852...uld-double-down Trade entire minor league system and Garcia for Todd Frazier. Danks for Brandon Phillips. Sign Cespedes for $110 million. Sign Samardzija for $90 million. Decline Alexei, put Sanchez at SS. Surely, that will all work out well. Still no catcher, despite all the new revenues being spent that materialized out of thin air.

KW should also remember who the Front Office Executive of the Year in 2005 was....not himself, but Mark Shapiro of the Indians. Two teams (2012 Sox, 2005 indians) that both came up just short.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jun 27, 2015 -> 07:08 AM) Geoff Blum? Juan Uribe? Jim Thome was decent. So were Dustin Hermanson and Cliff Politte. Blum hardly played for us at all... Hermanson didn't last more than one season...same with Politte, basically. Another couple of examples would be Juan Pierre and Mark Kotsay...although Mark had spent more time with the A's, I think he came over from the Padres and had been in the NL awhile. Rob Mackowiak as well....(I know, don't get Balta started). Andruw Jones was about as expected.

If you read this article about Sandberg and are willing to accept they're pretty similar in their styles...look at the problems with the Phillies and the White Sox, you will see a lot of parallels with the current Ventura/White Sox debacle. http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/philli...t_Phillies.html The only difference is the Cubs passed over Sandberg twice, the Hoosiers passed over Alford, etc. They didnt want to be put in the position to fire a hugely popular former player.

Its very simple....all you have to do is go through the top 30 international prospects lists from the 16-19 year olds in Latin America and look at how many actually made an impact. The total money spent in each signing period, the amount that went to the top 30, how many players had a statistically significant impact, etc.