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Finally back to .200. 10 HR's, 24 RBI's. Considering he missed a full month, his pace would be incredible considering only 27 games played this year through tonight's action. 27 GP/140=basically 1/5th of a season, so had he not missed a month, he would be on a pace of 50 homers, 120 RBI's.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 4, 2013 -> 07:28 PM) I'll be honest, as long as Konerko and Sale aren't on the list, it wouldn't bug me that much if someone on Sox got in trouble. Or Viciedo/Rios/DeAza...because we might be trading Alex or Alejandro.

We need him to replace Soptic, lol. Then it would be Jeff Soptic for a #3 hitter (Gillaspie) and Rodriguez, lol.

Or explains DLS "exploding" on the scene with his fastball out of nowhere.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 4, 2013 -> 06:39 PM) Screw the Tigers, I'm not trading them s***. Not saying it WILL happen...but this is Hahn (theoretically), not KW. If KW was still calling the shots, no way in hell he would concede anything to the Tigers like the Twins did by trading Delmon Young to them.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 4, 2013 -> 06:36 PM) If any team wants to send him to the minors he will have to clear waivers. The choice, if you claim him or trade for him, is to have him on the roster and see if he can get some semblance of command or try to get him through waivers yourself. It seems to be a new trend. Guys getting dfa'd 3,4 times a year. It would be STUPID for the Sox to pass on him, if he got to them on a waiver claim. Jones or Omogrosso could be sent down, and Santiago should really be starting for Charlotte anyway. Cooper would at least have a chance to work with him one-on-one and see what he could accomplish.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 4, 2013 -> 06:31 PM) Well that explains how Peralta had that turnaround year last year. And hitting .338 as of this moment. Made a huge difference in the Tigers winning the division last year, as Avila's bat went south.

This sets up some VERY interesting possibilities. Reed or Ramirez to the Tigers.... Rios to the Rangers... Not saying either one would happen. I don't know Detroit's system so well after the top guys, one would assume Ramon Santiago would be playing there in the short-term until they found a better solution.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jun 4, 2013 -> 06:15 PM) Ok, wait a second, let's pump the brakes, it hasn't even been a 3-game series yet. ANY reason for encouragement with Hawkins is important, lol. After Sale, he's the most important member of the organization right now. Well, maybe 3rd to what we can get back for Jake Peavy. To see him holding his own coming off the injury instead of going further south batting average-wise...you'll take it.

Jake Peavy would ideally like to spend the rest of his career with the White Sox, but the veteran right-hander tells CSN Chicago's Chuck Garfien that if the club fell out of contention and felt it necessary to move Peavy in a trade, he would accept such a move. “If we’re not in it, I have no problems being moved to a team who is in contention and trying to win a World Series, so I’ll go play anywhere,” Peavy said. “If it comes down to having and feeling like it’s best for them to move me, I’ll go play anywhere that feels like they have a chance. If a team’s going to trade for you, they feel like they have a chance and they’re trying to make the necessary moves. But at the end of the day, we hope and we pray that doesn’t happen.” Peavy made his comments during a taping of CSN's "Inside Look: Jake Peavy" program (airing tonight) and made it clear that he would have no hard feelings about being traded if it meant having a shot at the postseason. “It’s just the business of the game. You pay players and you have players in place to try to win a division, get in the playoffs, to win a world championship and when that doesn’t go as planned, things have to happen and the organization has to sit down and look at what’s best for the organization," Peavy said. "Is it best to keep players who make a nice salary on a team that’s not destined to do anything, or is it best to move them and get some prospects in return and shed some money? If it does and we don't play well and don't have a realistic chance to win the division, I'm sure that bridge will be crossed and I'll do anything the White Sox ask me to do at that point in time."

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 4, 2013 -> 06:18 PM) Didn't Rodriquez have elbow surgery? His k rate is down. Guys making near the minimum who are 26 years old who throw 100 and have a ton of potential generally don't get DFA'd. But if is that coveted some team will give up something for him. He can be traded. "You give up on these guys too quick and they turn out to be Joel Hanrahan on you," D.C. GM Mike Rizzo told 106.7 the FAN in D.C.'s Holden Kushner last summer, "and it makes you look pretty bad." When Henry Rodriguez struggled this Spring, Washington Nationals' manager Davey Johnson explained to reporters why he hadn't yet given up on the hard-throwing, control-challenged 26-year-old right-hander who had to either make the Nats' Opening Day roster this year or pass through waivers if the defending NL East Champs wanted to send him down to one of their affiliates. "If he's healthy, he's got three off-the-chart big league pitches," Johnson said. The Nationals' manager also joked about how Rodriguez's velocity was coming back even if the command wasn't quite there as he recovered from the elbow surgery which ended his 2012 campaign prematurely. "He's throwing 98 [mph], it just ain't going over," Johnson said. That has always been the problem with Rodriguez off course. A plus fastball, plus slider and command that comes and goes. Bat shattering and knee buckling at times, with a devastating change as well. 5.99 BB/9 in his career and 8.00 BB/9 in 18.0 IP in 2013 after tonight's game in Atlanta. federalbaseball.com I wouldn't be shocked if the team that picks him up tries to make him a starter in the minors...just to see if that helps him get his control and feel for pitching back.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 4, 2013 -> 06:19 PM) The Sox have actually had some surprising success against Felix in the past. In 15 starts, he is 3-5 with a 3.69 ERA. Sox are 8-5 in games he starts. Not that it means much with this current offensive funk, but they beat him the first weekend of the season. But not nearly as much success recently for the Sox. It's like Verlander in his first 2-3 years in the big leagues against the Sox, vs. now. Though the star right-hander (King Felix) allowed four runs in 6 1-3 innings to drop to 0-2 with a 6.50 ERA in his last three starts - all on the road - versus Chicago (24-31), he's 2-0 with a 2.17 ERA in five against the White Sox at Safeco Field. Hernandez has not faced them there since 2011, but he's yielded two runs and 13 hits and struck out 24 while going 1-0 in the last three home outings.

I don't think ANYONE would/could have predicted Gillaspie hitting 3rd for the Sox at any time this season. Not even the most optimistic Giants' scout on the day he was drafted by them. That, in and of itself, is telling. DET smacking Matt Moore around, about to put the game out of reach for good. 5-0 Tigers already, bases loaded, still no outs. Sox would be 7 games out were they to lose again...putting them even closer the "point of no return" zone (8-10 GB) for tearing up the roster. The really sad thing, though, is had they just been playing .500 baseball against the easiest part of the schedule, they would be right in the thick of things...maybe just 1 or 2 GB. There was never going to be a greater opportunity this season to pick up ground, that's for sure.

Omogrosso had devastating stuff before his injuries. Every GM in baseball is going to take Rodriguez's "potential" over Brian's lowered ceiling.

YANKEES have to be VERY CLOSELY looking at ways out of that contract...surely, it will be settled in a courtroom. At the very least, not paying him for those days under suspension.

Talk about a crooked number. Eight runs for the Dash in one inning. Hawkins seems to be a LOT more focused this time around. Up to a .196 batting average and hitting much better, fewer K's (well, that was almost impossible not to see cut down).

The Costner one...more recently, not Bull Durham/Field of Dreams...where he played for Detroit. Can't remember the name, but that one was worse than The Trouble With the Curve IMO.

It's simple. Thornton is an overpaid asset leaking value over the last 2-3 seasons...especially since the closer's experiment failed and his fastball started losing velocity by 2-3 MPH. I don't even come close to hating him. I don't think Santiago should take his spot, because Santiago is better off as a starter. It's simply that we cannot afford to invest that kind of money in the bullpen until we're ready to make another playoff run...history has shown that bullpens are the easiest areas to fix in the short-term (look at how many rookies we used in 2012, none highly regarded except for Addison Reed). Going back to the example of the Rays organization. They only really made one single mistake in that 2007-2008 time frame, and it was paying Percival $8 million as a free agent to close out games. Eventually, Balfour took his place. And, of course, 2005, when nobody expected MUCH out of Takatsu (one trick pony with the frisbee/gong), Hermanson or Jenks coming into the year.

But a HS shortstop is scary. Still, it fits the time-frame better IF IF IF we're planning on keeping Alexei Ramirez around long-term. But he better have at least SOME pop and not be a Caruso/Guillen type.

Time to go over Richie Weeks...we can stick him in CF or LF for the rest of the season and mix him in at 2B and DH.

There's 5000 examples of waived/released/DFA'ed bullpen arms that have turned up and done well elsewhere. Essentially, Thornton was waived, because he wasn't worth anything to the M's anymore. Jenks, Aardsma, Sergio Santos...heck, look at Neal Cotts this year with the Rangers. Bartolo Colon has been available numerous times to other teams. And, most especially, Jason Grilli. Those are just ex-Sox guys. Now nobody's saying that we should have kept Grilli stowed on our roster from 2004 through 2012 waiting for him to break out in 2013...but making a comparison to Matt Thornton, who is paid like a quasi-closer (same with Crain) is nebulous at best. We need TALENT, pure and simple, wherever it comes from.

Morales, Carlos Pena, Adam Lind....someone like that, from another organization.

http://www.npr.org/2013/05/09/180279940/fa...out-of-the-park Got this review from a good friend of mine who lives in Michigan now, but we grew up together in the Quad-Cities and have attended quite a few games in Clinton, Iowa, before...in fact, I was actually born there. The writer is from my alma mater's (University of Iowa) writing program. By the way, has anyone ever read Callis' book about the Cape Cod League?

Well, on the other hand, the last losing streaks consecutively and on the road of this length were in 2008 and 2010, respectively. So there's that.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jun 4, 2013 -> 06:51 AM) There is absolutely no reason to trade Addison Reed right now unless some team way overpays for him (and no one will). That's silly. It's not highly likely. But to say no one will, that's hard to believe, either.