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QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jul 7, 2014 -> 07:20 AM) 99.9999%. The Sox won't lose him over a little bit of money, but at this point, they also want to save some money too, so come the 11th hour, both sides will flinch and it will get done. I'm guessing $6.5 million. If I was Boras, I would just say two words. "Manny Ramirez (Scott Downs/Jeff Keppinger/Felipe Paulino). You're going to quibble over $250-500,000 over your future frontline starter, c'mon Rick Hahn. You went to Kellogg School and Harvard Law. You're not dumb. The White Sox need Carlos Rodon as much as he needs them. Besides, nobody's coming to games as it is, and you already have two of the top ten players in baseball. Plus, I know you're not going to spend $100+ million in free agency, Carlos is your best chance to have a winner again on the SouthSide."

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 7, 2014 -> 08:26 AM) The game is at Target Field this year. Yes, I know. I was joking/being facetious, like tmar.

Why is SoxTalk promoting a sale at Target? Are we getting sponsorship kickbacks?

Damn Rock/Bucket AND anyone who uses "complicated" statistical analyses to make their points...if they can explain bwar and fwar and nuclear war and +WRC, they should be banned and start their own "value over replacement" sites for geeks and pocket-protector wearing nerds. USA! USA! USA! Would MLB even allow the White Sox or Astros to steal thunder from the ASG Selections by announcing Aiken and Rodon signings? I'm sure they would prefer Monday press conferences.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jul 6, 2014 -> 02:20 PM) It's really this. The Cubs fans on Facebook are going to be pissed. The Cubs fans who watched the news the other day and saw the Cubs swept the BoSox at Fenway are going to be pissed but the Cubs SoxTalk equivalent, I think it's bleedcubbieblue, is probably ecstatic and they should be. I think Billy Beane has to be worried about Addison Russell's long term health to even make this deal. I don't understand the inclusion of Hammel either. If I am Oakland I don't see the need to replace Strailey/Milone with Hammel. Looking at recent playoff team history, Beane's taking no chances. He said the probability that Gray, Kazmir, Chavez and the two Cubs starters make every single start the 2nd half is nearly zero. Keep in mind, these are all going to be new workload territories in terms of IP for Gray and especially Chavez....and Kazmir hasn't exactly pitched 200 innings for five consecutive seasons, either. Milone is insurance, just with a lot higher upside (2.62 ERA and 6-0 over his last 11 starts) than Straily. Same thing with Hammel's presence on the A's. They're both more experienced than Straily, as well.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jul 6, 2014 -> 07:17 PM) Caulfield this is not the time for tangents or failed Steve Phillips' trades. Scott Kazmir has not been better than Sale by any metric. Nevertheless, if the A's win the World Series this year, Moneyball II the movie will prominently feature the acquisitions/subplots of Kazmir and Jesse Chavez.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Jul 6, 2014 -> 10:52 PM) I think Roma is loaning him back to Seattle as the deal has been reported. Sounds like he will play with the Sounders until summer 2015. Roma has two World Cup right backs, Brazilian Maicon and Greece's Torosidis. Maicon's contract is up after this upcoming season so Yedlin can likely share time with Torosidis then. Roma is in the Champions League this season and if they get back when Yedlin arrives he should be able to play some by then. I don't see him being the starter right away unless he really impresses, but he should get enough matches. If Roma was in the Champions League when Bradley was there he might have stayed. He wasn't good enough to beat out their midfielders. For some perspective, the guy who took Bradley's spot at Roma (Radja Nainggolan) didn't even make Belgium's World Cup roster. I'm listening to a BBC podcast now talking about how they think the US is the fittest team at the tournament. Training the team that hard may have resulted in all those hamstring injuries, but it earned the team some respect. England is searching for any way to get the team to play better. It might start with getting better talent. England's roster is solid, but unspectacular. The only one who really impressed me with Sturridge. Sterling was okay. Rooney had his moments, especially against Uruguay...but couldn't push them over the top or convert on numerous opportunities. That generation of players with Terry, Lampard, Michael Owen, Beckham....Gerrard was, like David Villa and Torres, a show of his former self.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jul 6, 2014 -> 07:12 PM) Really happy Rob Neyer, Jeff Passan and Keith Law all came to Chris's defense. I cannot believe the players believe Scott Kazmir was more deserving. There is no way any left-handed hitter should not have voted for Sale. Kazmir's a great story. One-time top prospect traded by the Mets to the Rays for Victor Zambrano...fell all the way down to independent ball a couple of seasons ago, now a key rotation piece in arguably the World Series favorite for the AL.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jul 6, 2014 -> 07:11 PM) how often do we get standings updates? If I remember correctly, twice...

Saw something in the news where even the English team was looking to the US efforts as an example of how to prepare for the World Cup...and set up their national team for the future simultaneously.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Jul 6, 2014 -> 06:07 PM) Scariest movie of 2014??? Under the Skin might be the weirdest, combined with scariest. But the fact that it's Scarlett Johansson makes it a bit surreal. The most popular one, and it's going back to last year, is definitely THE CONJURING. That movie played for weeks and weeks and weeks in Indonesia.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jul 6, 2014 -> 05:54 PM) Jeff Passan ‏@JeffPassan For those wondering how Josh Harrison is an All-Star and Anthony Rendon or Anthony Rizzo or a whole lot of others aren't ... I got nothing. Respect for a fellow NL Central division opponent?

QUOTE (scs787 @ Jul 6, 2014 -> 05:57 PM) Not if he keeps hitting like he has the last month. I also saw that he's the 8th rated LFer in the league defensively this year. This has to be some kind of joke. It's why I take all the defensive metrics with a grain of salt until they figure out a way to improve them.

QUOTE (LDF @ Jul 6, 2014 -> 05:55 PM) I am sorry, you are right, I was typing too fast and forgot I sentence. I have no problem to let him walk after his contract is up. again, I would like to revisit the trade options during the offseason, if we can not get a good rtn. sea needs this trade the sox can live without making the trade. We control his rights for three more years, should we so choose to. We can certainly non-tender him, but Hahn had that option with DeAza and Beckham this past offseason and didn't go that route.

Or you can make the argument we should sign Chase Utley for $10 million and leave Viciedo in the mix...not trade Ramirez, add a veteran starter and figure out SOME WAY to replace Flowers. If Rodon's on the timetable everyone is suggesting, he's going to factor in next year...despite the lack of an announcement about his signing yet today (doubt we'll hear anything that takes away from ASG selections, maybe tmrw?)

QUOTE (Señor Ding-Dong @ Jul 6, 2014 -> 05:49 PM) Congrats to Alexei and Jose, but no Sale is major BS. Kershaw threw a no hitter, the Dodgers are leading the NL West by 1/2 game, he's in the 2nd biggest media market in the U.S. and he has 5X the name recognition of Sale. His not being included is even more of a surprise.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jul 6, 2014 -> 05:47 PM) How is Josh Harrison an all-star? That doesn't make much sense, since McCutcheon's also in there for the Pirates. Versatility in the late innings?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 6, 2014 -> 05:43 PM) Beckham = exact same boat after last season. If he's not traded this year he's a non-tender candidate as well. He's doing even worse on defense this year and he's still barely putting up a .700 OPS. There's no reason to keep him as a 3rd year arb candidate next year. That and the fact that Carlos Sanchez, Micah Johnson, Marcus Semien, Tyler Saladino and Leury Garcia can all play his position. And DeAza's a waste of salary this year as well since there's no way he's in the long-term plans. Whereas we have Danks, a 29 year old Michael Taylor (keep reminding everyone Viciedo's still only 25), Sierra and Tuiasasopo to replace Dayan. Not to mention that we have to replace Dunn as well...with who???

We're not already wasting $4-5 million on Beckham and DeAza??? C'mon. If you throw in Keppinger, Downs (another similar contract) and Paulino, that's a lot of payroll misallocation. As someone said, if you subtract Dunn and Viciedo (and maybe Ramirez), who in God's name is going to provide power next year? Matt Davidson, who has already struck out 100 times in Charlotte? A GM that's going to spend that kind of money on Downs and Lindstrom and then dump Viciedo for nothing isn't going to last very long. Hahn's smarter than that, especially with the dearth of power hitting threats around baseball today.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 6, 2014 -> 05:33 PM) Kazmir and Buerhle were less deserving than Sale, but Kluber was snubbed also and is definitely more deserving. It's that respect issue with managers always giving the nod to players from perennial playoff-contending teams over the Klubers and Richards of the world, who are enjoying their first unqualified seasons of success. Unless it's someone like Felix Hernandez. But there's no way that ASG manager is going to snub Scherzer...doesn't happen.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 6, 2014 -> 05:30 PM) That's awesome Neshek made it after what he's gone through. I always confuse him with Cishek, haha. He's the one who used to bedevil us with the Twins and has a funky delivery and has gone through a horrendous series of injuries and persevered, right?

What else is new? No respect. With that said, in this type of throwawy/development/rebuilding season, it's not the worst thing in the world for Chris to rest and relax for three days.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jul 6, 2014 -> 10:25 AM) Don't forget drinking crappy beer. But Pitch Perfect is awesome, how dare you. That scene where do they "riff-off" with the four singing groups together in the old swimming pool is a classic. Plus, that kid from Workaholics makes me laugh in that movie whenever he does practically anything his character is so over the top.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 6, 2014 -> 12:38 PM) I still have not seen the Yankees show any willingness to give back the 2009 world series trophy that they won with Captain Cheeseburger. Well, then by this definition, the Greinke deal isn't a great one for LA unless they win a World Series, for example. I'd say, until now, it has been a good/fair contract for both sides, but I'm not going to argue it's any kind of bargain exactly when it's $147 million dollars.