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QUOTE (LVSoxFan @ Apr 16, 2013 -> 11:29 AM) Never liked this move. Nothing against him personally but I never saw the value in having somebody who is HR-or-bust, most often bust. Typical KW overcorrection. Went from Thome, which wasn't working according to Ozzie and/or KW....to Kotsay/Andruw Jones, which contributed to costing us the 2010 division (75% the fact that Jim went to the Twins and played so well in the place of Morneau)....which left a HUGE power gap from the LH side which couldn't be addressed internally because of our weak minor league system. If they actually found the right combination of hitters, they could have filled that position with the same production at a fraction of the cost....but Mark Kotsay wasn't the right hitter for 300-350 DH AB's at that point in his career.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Apr 16, 2013 -> 11:13 AM) Ditto. Wouldn't give up starting pitching prospects for him. Replacement for Konerko has to be a youngish player with credentials to be middle-of-the-order hitter. Yep, easier said than done, but that's what it has to be. Like it or not, that hitter is likely to be Viciedo. You're better off reviving your "Trade Alexei Ramirez" threads because we actually have a replacement in the pipeline in Carlos Sanchez. What we don't have is anyone close to major league ready capable of hitting 25-35 homers, and, despite your protestations to the contrary, it's just NOT THAT EASY to find a young hitter who's cost-controlled and who can put up those numbers. If it was that simple to hit based on minor league numbers, Cris Carter wouldn't be bouncing around so much at this point in his career. Why would a team with that kind of young impact bat trade him to the White Sox when there's a premium now on exactly those types of hitters?

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Apr 16, 2013 -> 10:54 AM) Why spend money to try to stay in the middle though? Better to save resources as you rebuild. That option isn't perfect either of course. Where would the White Sox be now with Josh Hamilton and Zach Greinke? Still in last place. Except they'd be in a position where they would absolutely be forced to quickly cut payroll as soon as the attendance numbers from the next homestand started rolling in.

Viciedo's trying to change to the leg kick timing device...but he's falling into the habit of not using it consistently, so he's getting in between, which is slowing down his bat and making him vulnerable to fastballs inside and anything over 90 MPH. However, I am glad that we can label a 23 or 24 year old a bust...because we can also label all of our young outfield prospects future busts too, since hitters never ever make adjustments over time. We have one young hitter under 25 and cost-controlled for the near future and we want to dump him...the only one capable of hitting 30+ homers at a ballpark that plays smaller than most. So our solution is Gillaspie, Carlos Sanchez, Jeff Keppinger, Alejandro DeAza and Kennyn Walker? Gimenez and Phegley? Most are already giving up on Tyler Flowers, and he was expected to provide 20+ homers, even if he was going to strike out 150-200 times. Beckham...he's on his 5th major league season, and some were still not ready to label him a complete bust. WHO IS GOING TO HIT HOMERS FOR THE WHITE SOX in 2014 and 2015? Dan Wilkins? We've pretty much already acknowledged we won't get AJ's 2012 numbers again....Dunn's 2012 numbers....Konerko will more than likely be gone after this season because what's the point of rebuilding around him and you can't give him a contract that cuts his salary significantly without insulting a Sox legend...so they're in an incredibly tough position.

Reporter Daniel Libit of ChicagoSideSports.com spoke with Pierce, 29, on Friday to get his take on Alford’s public apology. “I don’t have an issue with anything he had to say,” Pierce said. “He has always been in my corner since he recruited me, so I have nothing—you will never find me saying anything about coach.” According to Libit’s story, Alford and Pierce still speak occasionally. Pierce called to congratulate Alford after he accepted the UCLA job. “I heard the news when I was in France still and the first thing I did was give him a call and congratulate him,” Pierce said. “We still speak form time to time.” Last week, Iowa City Press-Citizen sports columnist Pat Harty wrote a column alleging that Pierce once attempted to assault Harty’s niece, when she was a freshman at Iowa. Libit read Pierce a portion of Harty’s column where he laid out the details of the accusation. My niece was an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Iowa, who had met Pierce on campus completely by chance. He showed up in her dorm room one afternoon that same fall — unannounced and uninvited — closed the door and refused to leave. I hate to think what might have happened to this bright, beautiful girl had her screams not scared him away. “I wish Pat Harty nothing but the best, but I can’t respond to everyone’s allegations or false allegations,” Pierce said. “I have moved on from my past. I am not calling it anything. If he wants to say anything about me, he can say it, and do with it what he wants to. At this point, I have moved on from Iowa, the writers, I have moved on from them all—far from them.” Pierce went on to say that Harty’s allegations “couldn’t be more false.” http://www.hawkcentral.com

Reporter Daniel Libit of ChicagoSideSports.com spoke with Pierce, 29, on Friday to get his take on Alford’s public apology. “I don’t have an issue with anything he had to say,” Pierce said. “He has always been in my corner since he recruited me, so I have nothing—you will never find me saying anything about coach.” According to Libit’s story, Alford and Pierce still speak occasionally. Pierce called to congratulate Alford after he accepted the UCLA job. “I heard the news when I was in France still and the first thing I did was give him a call and congratulate him,” Pierce said. “We still speak form time to time.” Last week, Iowa City Press-Citizen sports columnist Pat Harty wrote a column alleging that Pierce once attempted to assault Harty’s niece, when she was a freshman at Iowa. Libit read Pierce a portion of Harty’s column where he laid out the details of the accusation. My niece was an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Iowa, who had met Pierce on campus completely by chance. He showed up in her dorm room one afternoon that same fall — unannounced and uninvited — closed the door and refused to leave. I hate to think what might have happened to this bright, beautiful girl had her screams not scared him away. “I wish Pat Harty nothing but the best, but I can’t respond to everyone’s allegations or false allegations,” Pierce said. “I have moved on from my past. I am not calling it anything. If he wants to say anything about me, he can say it, and do with it what he wants to. At this point, I have moved on from Iowa, the writers, I have moved on from them all—far from them.” Pierce went on to say that Harty’s allegations “couldn’t be more false.” http://www.hawkcentral.com

http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/white-sox/...vs-former-mates At least we can't blame this loss on poor advanced scouting, lol.

Puig hitting .389 with 2 homers and 7 RBI's already. Seems like he might end up the best Cuban hitter of that young group of Cubans in Cespedes (a bit injury prone so far, but a very solid rookie campaign...and he would have more value as pure CFer than a corner guy), Viciedo and Soler. At least Walker was 2/4 with an XB hit and 3 RBI's. And Thompson's over .260.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 15, 2013 -> 09:25 PM) What does any of this have to do with Paddy? Other than possibly Nestor Molina, most of the guys he has brought into the organization aren't even in the United States yet. There are rumors he was advising KW/Hahn on the Zach Stewart/Edwin Jackson deal, that he was being felt out at the time for a possible promotion in title and salary with the White Sox...and his "insider" knowledge of the Jays' system was one of his selling points.

It would set a bad precedent to deal Jake quickly, but a lot can change between now and midseason. I think a LOT of it would depend on how comfortable he is here, what the atmosphere's like around the team and organization and attendance...if it gets to be all doom and gloom and they're struggling to draw 10-15,000 for weeknight games in the summer, then sure, you can imagine a scenario where Peavy would be the #1 trade target for other organizations. Rios...if he keeps playing as well as he has for another half season, and with only 1 1/2 more years to go on his original Blue Jays deal (with a club option for 2015) would become suddenly quite attractive. Right now, we're stuck with Dunn and Danks...but we can easily move pieces like Ramirez, Crain, Thornton, Floyd, Lindstrom, etc. Konerko, it's going to be a similar situation to the Peavy one, with the club and JR being more careful to avoid taking ANOTHER PR hit after already letting Buehrle and AJ go (at least the Buehrle decision was logical, but not having a capable replacement for AJ seems to be one of the glaring weaknesses from the offseason). If we have to pair a bigger salary with the likes of a Nathan Jones or Addison Reed, then we'd be dumb to not at least consider any and all offers....but hopefully all this conjecture is at LEAST one full month from ending up in Phil Rogers TRIB articles.

And yet somehow the Giants can take guys like Melky Cabrera, Angel Pagan, Gregor Blanco and Andres Torres and get positive results out of all those guys...

At least Trayce Thompson isn't leading the Southern League. That's progress. If all four of those outfielders fail...then, just wow. Buddy Bell, so long, goodbye. Paddy's not exactly causing one to jump up and down with excitement, either, although he deserves more patience than Bell. Of course, the defense of Bell is that you can't easily turn raw athletes into baseball players...that the fault lies in organizational/drafting philosophy and not player development. It has to be a little bit of both...and too soon for Hahn to fall on any sword.

Floyd EASILY could have given up 5-8 runs... He had runners at 2nd/3rd and one out, and got out of it...and then Santiago bailed him out of a bases loaded, one out situation.

QUOTE (JoshPR @ Apr 15, 2013 -> 08:08 PM) What In God's earth could that tool possibly be defending? Who is he blaming now? Probably Mark Buehrle for not taking a 2X hometown discount and remaining with the Sox, lol. Minnesota threatening to put us in last place...they have the Angels down 5-2 at home in the late innings.

I honestly would rather have Old Irascible/Horrible PR Cooper as manager...at least that way we'd only have to fix ONE area of our ballclub, the offense. Then again, you can easily imagine him getting too consumed with managing every aspect of the team and the pitching staff becoming an issue without him to guide it on an everyday basis. There HAS to be SOME connection between the 4-2 start at home and the 1-6 road trip without him. Maybe he's holding out for a raise and trying to prove his worth, lol...

QUOTE (Baron @ Apr 15, 2013 -> 07:23 PM) lol why are they booing Wise? Because he wasn't a very productive player when he was with the Jays earlier in his career.

Auditioning Matt Lindstrom for a mid-season trade... Our new version of JJ Putz, haha.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 15, 2013 -> 06:59 PM) Santiago...something has to change there. At least give him a start against the Twins or Indians. Expected walk-up crowds against the Twins and CLE? Is there a negative walk-up, where people boycott the ballpark and try to encourage fans NOT to buy tickets to support this putrid product?

QUOTE (Capn12 @ Apr 15, 2013 -> 06:52 PM) Flowers gets the 3-0 green light? LOL Especially when you consider that Greene's 2/2. Must be hoping and praying for a 3 run bomb on the part of the "coaching staff."

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 15, 2013 -> 06:50 PM) Dunn now 1 for last 25, but he of course will continue to play Flowers has to be on a pretty similar string to that...

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 15, 2013 -> 06:49 PM) Serious question: When Dunn is hitting under .100 in a few weeks, do we release him? Never in a million years.

6/37 now for Viciedo (.162) Lefty with stuff in the 70's and 80's, that was pretty predictable.

Love the Gameday/MLB.com analysis. Buehrle has plenty left in the tank after 80 pitches with his fastball sitting at 84 mph over the last 10.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 15, 2013 -> 06:42 PM) The Sox organization is right, there's clearly no room for Santiago in this rotation. Also, why even bother playing Dunn against LHP anymore? Because he was decent against them last year and is making $15 or $16 million, lol? Gavin better buy Hector a steak after he saved Floyd's ERA there...

An 8 year old was killed in that bombing? And they're pulling ball bearings out of people? Jesus...at least that puts the White Sox game in proper perspective.