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QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 26, 2014 -> 09:16 PM) I got a feeling all three of the Rosenthal guys will be dealt. You got to wonder what you can get for Beckham, though. I mean two average prospects max? No offense to Gordo, but this is a minor transaction about now considering his career stats. The old saying: Second basemen are a dime a dozen. It could be a yawner of a trade. Lexi might bring something decent if he keeps hitting well. Maybe even if he drops off. He'd help a contender. Dunn? Heaven help the GM that acquires him if Dunn goes into a Dunn-like 1-for-20 with 14 strikeouts right after the team acquires him. I guess somebody could pick him up, but I don't see why a contender would want him. Should be very interesting to see what we get for these guys. Did anyone get on KW when Youkilis was terrible for the remainder of the season after his original hot streak of 2-3 weeks? Or when Myers wasn't an effective reliever? Or Liriano was booted out of the rotation? EVERYONE in baseball knows what they are getting out of Dunn...so that kind of cold streak comes with the territory, especially if he changes leagues and has to relearn some of the pitchers. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if Dunn put up MVP numbers in the NL for two months either (of course, odds of him going to the NL without the DH where he'd have to play 1st or LF, not super high). Depends on injuries and non-performance of 1B/DH/LFers across the majors in June/July/August.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 26, 2014 -> 06:38 PM) 3-3 for Johnson...wonder if they'll promote him to AAA sooner rather than later. After Johnson's appearance in the Southern League All-Star team in the middle of June and the collegiate draft additions and an assortment of players start getting pushed up or released. It's going to be in Chattanooga on June 17th, so he should be in Charlotte around the last two weeks of the month.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 26, 2014 -> 08:34 PM) I don't see it as a huge deal. The pitching staff is all kinds of messed up right now. They need bodies, and Johnson just hasn't been good. This might just be two starts in Charlotte, and he'll be back. Couple weeks from now Sale-Hanson-Quintana-Johnson-Danks. Or Noesi can start spot starting and going as the long man in order to build up his pitch counts. Like Paulino, Noesi was up at 95-97 when he was facing us with the Rangers, maybe they're getting him to throttle back on the velocity and go more for movement or two-seamers/sinkers, as he was 91-93 MPH today. Otherwise, Petricka's the only other option, but I think the Sox are more or less convinced his future lies in the bullpen, rather than a return to starting. And then there's Rienzo, too, who's also more of a long man based on the lack of dominating stuff and an out pitch.

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.