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QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 19, 2014 -> 08:28 PM) Tigers put up a 10 spot on Vargas, Mariners up 8-2, Oakland spots Lester an early 3 run lead, not looking good for KC today Kc needs to win the next two since the Indians' loss is almost inevitable with how their offense has been sputtering...the tigers just have the horses to turn it on every year when they really need to get to the post-season...after that, not quite able to get over the top.

In other news...Marcus semien somehow has 13 errors already. Cue balta rant about moving him all over the field instead of sticking with one position.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 19, 2014 -> 05:20 PM) Seriously WTF just happened? I literally can't read this. It's a string of names. Trying to type on a Chinese iPad mini is impossible.

Baez 0 for 5 with 3 k's and seven lob. At least soler looks legit...they need for Russell to be too so they can leverage him or Castro for pitching help.

Pearce peralta and Juan lagares top 15 in all of mlb war guys? C'mon. Peralta wasn't anywhere close to a good defensive ss five years ago! All we need to do is trade for Alex Gordon and Donaldson/beltre and we'd practically be guaranteed to win the World Series. And Matt kemp is only 0.4?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 19, 2014 -> 04:18 PM) 3.) See I don't understand this reasoning. I understand the "logic" behind the trade. But if you are going to trade the ONLY closer on the team, make sure u have a fricking closer before doing so. Sox fans giving Hahn a pass on this deal confuse me. YES YES YES I understand the reasoning behind the trade. Relievers/closers are a dime a dozen and Reed wasn't that good anyway and he's just going to get worst. In return, Sox get an everyday third baseman for 10 years! Yes I understand the reasoning. I do not applaud the reasoning. Davidson is a huge flop right now and the Sox had a bullpen so bad it is beyond belief. Don't trade all your closer candidates. You must keep at least one who CAN CLOSE. I wish I had bosses like you guys. You guys give Hahn the benefit of the doubt cause on paper it was a good trade. Like Dick said SO WAS LOU BROCK FOR ERNIE BROGLIO. Hahn on this issue in my mind gets a big, fat grade of D. You know if we had a killer bullpen this season, the Sox might be right there with the Royals. Not without another good starting pitcher, a better defense and more offense from the corners 2b catcher and Dunn.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Sep 19, 2014 -> 03:57 PM) I agree with wite. Continuing to build our pitching is the best way to make us a contender. A better starting staff makes the bullpen better and requires the offense to do less and also it makes our defense more valuable. I came up with a Danks to Pirates hypothetical a while ago here, only problem was I had the Pirates giving us players they don't have. But we want Pedro Alvarez or something? Well, they can take Danks, we will give them lots of cash on that deal, they can give us Alvarez & Tabata's bad deal, and then we'll give them prospects or soemthing to make up the difference. They might be able to use him with Liriano leaving & Danks could probably use the NL right about now. Great match IMO. Okay so back to the world of make believe, imagine what it would be like for a lineup to have to deal with Sale's motion one day and then Cueto the next, and just to add a little extra there, let's say the Sox call up Danish late in the year and use him as a righty specialist/setup guy to acclimate him to the big leagues. That's like funky motion heaven. s***, pick up a reliever out of Japan while you're at it and play George Clinton around the park. Brooks Boyer wouldn't think of that though, we'd sign some guy named Takisumi and all Brooksy would come up with is OEO Takisooooomio or something like that. Anyway I like to pretend. They might not even tender Alvarez...it's like trading Dayan for him. Tabata is just another form of Moises Sierra or Michael Taylor at this point.

I'd rather gamble on cooper being able to refix Edwin Jackson again...with some money coming back in exchange for danks.

Have to agree with dick Allen on this one. It's like arguing trading santos was smart because Molina could have been a starter....whereas we'd be in far better shape despite his ups and downs with josh reddick plus. We can at least say the jake peavy/Red Sox trade is looking better and better by the month...if montas becomes a closer/starter, Garcia a 2-3 war player and rondon makes it eventually.

Beane and dombrowski look/ed dumber in the last month....but would anyone rather have jack z. Or Dayton Moore as their gm? Lester samardzija and price trades also looked reasonable at the time and still might end up working out in the end.

And yet the "tiger mom" effect of very harsh scolding intimidation psychological bruising...while it results in childhood control leads to teenage/adult rebellion and lots of kids here in china alienated from parents. The response back...everyone gets a medal lets have a politically correct play date it's okay if my kid is grossly overweight and addicted to computer games or porn instead of having bleeding hands from playing the violin or cello...there has to be a middle ground of reasonableness that avoids over permissiveness but also disqualifies rich kids being psychologically tortured by parents who always act like they know more than anyone else. For example many Asian students have to do well in math or they will be beaten bruised battered by their parents...but I doubt balta can correlate flat or falling math and science scores with "positive parenting" whatever that means these days.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 19, 2014 -> 11:44 AM) .831 does not equal .770. Results for phegley danks Wilkins vis a vis Davidson in Charlotte this year don't compute

QUOTE (Brian @ Sep 18, 2014 -> 08:32 PM) Can't wait for Birdman and Foxcatcher. A buddy saw em both in Colorado and loved em. The preview for bird man is def memorable Yay for Keaton's career comeback and not hamming it up in movies like need for speed

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 19, 2014 -> 09:45 AM) Way way less than that. Go look at his arb status and production this year. 2nd year arb eligible, probably pushing $6 million to keep next year, only 2 more years of team control, rotten and injury plagued season, seemingly can't play 3b any more. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if he was non-tendered after 2015. He'd be a decent guy to flip for Viciedo actually, if the Pirates thought Viciedo could fit at 1b for them. Pedro Alvarez is the kind of guy I could see the Sox going after...because I expect them to keep scraping the bottom of the barrel. Pedro Alvarez is scraping the bottom of the barrel right now. That would be ibanez and Carlos Pena Lind markakis Rasmus Dominic brown Alvarez....Delmon young just for hawks sake...Nolan reimold etc.

How much will the white sox have to spend on players currently outside the org to fix the pen? How much will it cost to pay Nate jones to rehab all season? How much was wasted on belisario, lindstrom, downs and Paulino with zero net return on investment?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 19, 2014 -> 01:58 AM) Well if somebody can continue to say Davidson would have been great this season had he made the team out of spring training and his mental makeup caused his lousy minor league season, then I can say Addy Reed would have been even better in a White Sox uniform as closer this season after a pretty good year the year before. He'd have been even better than in Arizona cause of the comfort level as continuing Sox closer. Anything is possible.

It hasn't hurt the DBacks any because Davidson hasn't done a thing and they had three "better" players in (their minds) in place, so it's hard to consider it much of a loss for them...it really hasn't helped either team at this point. I'd call it neutral at best for AZ this season (leaning negative) and bad for the Sox simply because of what eventually happened with the bullpen and the fact that nobody emerged to consistently take the ball in the 9th with a lead...Petricka had his moments, but he's far from a sure things, and shouldn't even be the presumed closer going into 2015. It's more of a typical KW early 2000's move...trading prospects for somewhat "proven" major league players.

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/09/18/osca...atcher-birdman/ Early Oscar/Academy race article... Boyhood is the only one I've seen so far out of all those movies.

http://www.azsnakepit.com/2014/9/18/643917...was-he-worth-it Just thought it was worth revisiting. 52% of DBacks fans approve, 48% against, with this season almost completed. Would probably have about the same split from the Sox side...with most saying it was the RIGHT move at the time, Gillaspie didn't look like a surefire power source/run producer and had many defensive issues his rookie season and the White Sox were going to be rebuilding and not in need of a pitcher who was on the verge of becoming increasingly expensive in arbitration. Just as many doubts there about keeping him for 2015 as the White Sox have with Dayan Viciedo and Nate Jones.

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 18, 2014 -> 01:20 PM) Great read. Sounds a lot like Konerko (early in his career), Quentin and Beckham, too...

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/95297102/cub...-impress-scouts Tomas to have his first big workout/showcase this coming Sunday.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Sep 17, 2014 -> 09:30 AM) I don't think it's so much that the saber community is unconfident in their numbers but it's more along the lines of if they are over/undervaluing it and if they should include other information. Alex Gordon's UZR this year is off the charts. The controversy there lies in the idea that it's because he's been head and shoulders above his peers to this point, not that his defense has improved substantially from this year to last. Either way, as has been said, if a person says substituting a 6 WAR player for a 2 WAR player adds 4 wins, it's an estimate and they should add 4 wins, but won't necessarily do so. The bottomline is it is an estimate and an average. No one has ever said it's perfectly accurate in that aspect, but that it should be fairly close. The Twins' announcers, who've watched Plouffe all season at 3B, said it was basically ridiculous that he was rated in the Top 3-4 in terms of range. They also said that they believe Dozier is MUCH better than the "average" 2B that he's being recorded as so far this season in UZR.

A's blew a lead in the worst way possible.....1-0 going into the 9th, ended up imploding, with six runs surrendered, including 5 by Doolittle A's and Royals tied, 1/2 game behind Tigers M's 2 games back of both OAK and KC battle of survival

Matt Kemp has quietly climbed all the way to 23rd overall in MLB OPS. So much for acquiring him super cheaply. Now Ethier and Crawford are different stories. (In fact, the White Sox have produced 3 of the top 32 in the majors, in Abreu/C.Carter/Morse). Puig/Kemp mini-feud? http://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/dodg...0916-story.html

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 20, 2014 -> 01:32 PM) * “No baseball player will have a normal MRI,” Dines said. “If someone has a congenitally small ulnar collateral ligament, even if they tear it and you reconstruct it, you can always make it bigger. And it’s almost a foregone conclusion these days that a young pitcher who throws in the upper 90s will at some point have a reconstruction anyway. “When I read the reports about Aiken, I thought that there might be some concern about the bony anatomy where the ligament attaches, perhaps the medial epicondyle. If that is damaged or abnormal, you’re left with less bone there to reconstruct the ligament, and that can mean that a reconstruction won’t always work. They must have thought, for some reason, that a future reconstruction would not take.” PTAC? from si.com story on Aiken ptac's response The statement is accurate for the reconstruction. You need to drill a substantial size hole in the medial condyle (not really the epicondyle but that's semantics, it's the same area). the tendon that is used to replace the ligament is much larger than the original so there needs to be room with which to work. However, I have never been involved in a case where the condyle was too small. It's conceivable, I guess, but I've never seen nor heard of it. Maybe in a case where he had "little leaguer's elbow"as a kid where there is damage to the growth plate on the medial side of the elbow..