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If we're more worried about Jake Peavy's feelings than the welfare of the ballclub, someone's got to man up. I really don't think this is the case at all...and Jake has to realize it would be insane for us to pick up that option. He's getting paid like an ace, and he's been close to an ace this year, but gambling on it happening two years in a row, with how he's been a lot more hittable in the 2nd half, it's just not a logical move. I would rather have Youkilis, Floyd, AJ and Simon Castro rather than one Jake Peavy (maybe you can erase one of those names of Floyd/Youk/AJ), but the point still remains, if the only other option is Morel, Flowers and Peavy or Castro, Youk and AJ, no way do I think about retaining Jakemeister.

Gives new meaning to "Chicago Tough"

Do we know who is on the hook for Myers' $3 million buyout? I would imagine we're only getting $1 million from the Astros is the reason we didn't surrender any top talent.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 04:54 PM) Elite command of 5 pitches >>>> spotty command of mid-upper 90's heat + inconsistent if eye-popping breaking ball and Actual results on a major league field >>>>> perfect future world performance scenarios dreamed up by talent evaluators The other GMs can keep their prospects because Quintana is here to stay, and rightfully so. Thanks a lot, Cashman. Really appreciate it. Don't even need 5. But he has 3, and working on 4-5.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 03:58 PM) You sure they get better? Castellanos is unproven and if he's anything like other highly-touted DET prospects (Andrew Miller, Jacob Turner), he could be overvalued (not to mention he's learning the outfield now and leaving 3b); Smyly has been hit hard at times and Alburquerque just had surgery on his elbow. Martinez is a stud, no doubt, but will be 34 and coming off major knee surgery after missing an entire season. On another note, if Miami is imploding, I'd love to see KW make a call for Buehrle. What the hell. "In his past five starts, Buehrle is 4-1 with a 1.87 ERA and a strikeout-to-walk rate of 5.0 in that solid stretch of games." Realistically, there's very few areas you can improve that Tigers team. 1) Moving Peralta off SS, trade or DH him (but Victor Martinez would take those abs) 2) More consistency from Porcello and Scherzer 3) Better results out of Boesch and Young...this is where Berry has been a godsend, but his pedigree says he's a one-year wonder 4) Permanent solution at 2B 5) For Avila to be anything resembling the offensive force he was in 2011 6) Bullpen, although Below, Villarreal (he becomes the closer in the next year or two), Dotel, Benoit and Valverde are coming around and definitely above average 7) Figuring out if Raburn will ever be serviceable again or dumping him, ala Inge We can wonder about Castellanos and some of their other prospects, but they managed to produce: 1) Boesch 2) Raburn (good before this year) 3) Danny Worth 4) Dirks 5) Avila In other words, they've arguably been more productive with position prospects than the White Sox. We can cite Dayan, DeAza and Beckham, but then it's unfair not to include Austin Jackson too, even though he was close to a finished product....they've worked to improve him, and Gordon has regressed mightily.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 04:02 PM) He may not have great stuff, but how many guys with great stuff have we seen not put it together in this organization? His pitching acumen and stones are off the charts, IMO. Those two qualities, combined with his average stuff will make him a very solid #2 or #3 pitcher, IMHO. In the last 5-6 years, not many. People always cite examples like Aardsma, MacDougal or Masset, but these were all pitchers who struggled to throw secondary pitches and they're relievers. We can find a ton of examples in that 1998-2001 group...but not as many since. I'm assuming you're not counting the likes of Poreda, Broadway and McCulloch, as none of them were highly touted, except for maybe Broadway, but he was clearly overdrafted based on his college results and signability and didn't do anything with the Mets and other teams. You've got Hudson, Gio, Richard, maybe Harrell has probably done better than anyone expected with the Astros...but the only "failure" we have is Hudson and who's to know now how much of a failure that will turn out being. McCarthy brought Danks, etc. Examples?? And I mean pitchers who were drafted in the first three-five rounds and expected to make it.

Lillibridge is on the Indians now. Red Sox traded him. Not unlike the tenure of Brian Anderson in Boston.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 12:38 PM) I'm kind of surprised by this trade, I thought for sure DD would get Greinke and close the door on the division. I know he has a history with the Marlins but I think he made a mistake not shooting higher with this trade. Sanchez is not the kind of difference maker Greinke would have been. Detroit's rotation certainly got better, but will it be enough to take them deep into the postseason? I read that they also had their sights on Justin Upton but couldn't make that work. To me, it seems like this is their year to do it if they're going to do it. Why? They will only get better in the next year or two. They'll be adding Castellanos, Smyly, Albuquerque and MOST IMPORTANTLY, Victor Martinez as their DH.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 12:24 PM) I just read this. I would do it but I would hope Greinke could be resigned. He's already turned down something between $100-112.5 million for 5 years. With the Danks contract for 4 more years and Peavy off the books finally, it would be the ultimate shocker. Especially with how they've gotten by with Humber and Quintana the last 2 years.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 12:03 PM) 5 times in 2010. Twins won all 5 of those starts. Okay...I knew it was one of the last two years. Considering he's been around since 2006....07, 08, 09, we didn't face him much, partly because of the rehab from TJ. It was either 1 or 0 starts that whole time, before 2010, something like that.

Soler hit his first homer in a Cubs' jersey. Yay for him!

Luckily, Greg wasn't close to field or he might have attacked Mr. Cub after the Konerko beaning and we would have had another Ligue Jr. incident.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 12:23 PM) Not so much fooling scouts... it is more a matter of catching a team's attention. He gets promoted, other GM's and orgs see that and say, hey, how stale is our info on this guy? Maybe we should have someone go check him out again. They would save money just reading this site or WSI, lol. Granted, there are lots of things we're not picking up mechanically with his swing. We don't have the video....at least I don't think too many here are subscribing to MILB.tv and watching Barons games on a consistent basis and trying to analyze what's been going on with Jared the last 6 weeks or so.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 11:24 AM) I seem to remember the Sox trying to get Halladay from Toronto, and he didn't want to come here. Does that ring a bell to anyone else? Halladay is scaring coming off an injury. Flashback to Peavy, although that was a pitcher who was literally injured when we acquired him. And labrum injuries are always scary. Those are much harder than TJ to come back from.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 11:20 AM) Bolded is where you derail. For THESE TWO MONTHS, Dempster not only looks like a better pitcher to have, he's also the opposite of a head case. Dempster's value right now in trade is higher than Greinke's, without a doubt. I might actually agree with you, but KW has a different way of thinking. He probably has coveted Greinke for 10 years...since he was scouted in high school. And KW has this overwhelming confidence in Cooper to get almost any pitcher that comes in to perform up to his ability. Plus, there's the fact that Greinke is much more familiar and comfortable with the AL Central than Dempster, who some are saying would be afraid to pitch in the AL for fear of diminishing his FA contract value.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 09:25 AM) Why would Greinke cost that much more than Dempster? It's only one year of Floyd at $9.5 million. That's not exactly a huge bargain. As we all know, relievers, even closers....can be overrated in terms of their value. (See Santos, Sergio). Delgado would be under team control for 5 years Look at it this way, would you have rather Viciedo/Reed or Delgado? Because clearly, Greinke's a better pitcher than Dempster, results over the last two months notwithstanding. According to Marty, Viciedo's easily replaceable, whereas young starting pitching under team control is not. For example, would Viciedo/Reed get us Infante/Sanchez? Maybe, maybe not. Would the Tigers rather keep Turner than have Viciedo/Reed? Obviously, they wouldn't make that move because of the presence of Berry, Boesch, Young, Raburn, Dirks, Worth, etc. And they already have Valverde, Dotel, Benoit and Villarreal.

However, every scout in baseball knows Mitchell has struggled with consistency this season. I can't imagine they're going to be fooled by him being promoted to AAA the week before a trade. They probably just want to see how he does the last month of the AAA season in that smaller park...perhaps, it could have something to do with wanting him to be with a different hitting coach. Sometimes if things aren't really clicking with one particular coach, you try another and see how that works out. And he could definitely be a pinch-runner or PHer in September. I'd rather have him up there than Escobar, Flowers or Hudson.

I have no clue why the Orioles are paying Markakis $15 million. That's just insane. But he can't fit on the A's payroll without a new stadium. Angelos, sure, if he wants to go that direction of adding payroll.

If DKR is the best film, then Greg is right about Ozzie. Opinions...

Interesting that Buehrle's name didn't come up. How will he be more marketable in the future? Eventually, they're going to have to send some salary relief to move him.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 09:09 AM) Heyman is reporting the Padres are planning on keeping Volquez. That comes as a bit of a surprise... Fits the pattern with Maybin and Quentin, although I'm not sure they're just one year from contention.

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 08:16 AM) Really makes you think about Fenway or Citizen's Bank Park and how ill their respective consecutive sellout streaks are. Red Sox: roughly 750 games White Sox: roughly 750 minutes May 15th, 2003 I'm sure Cleveland Indians fans feel even more upset....after their long attendance streak at Jacobs, now they're still fighting for the worst in baseball. That's what happens when you do two total rebuilds in one decade. Same thing happened in Miami.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 09:06 AM) Why? We are talking attempted murder here. Our society is too soft IMO. This bastard shot at me and my famly and I can't beat the s*** out of him with my fists and/or smash him in the kneecaps with a baseball bat? The coward can't fight a fair fight? He's still a danger in the parking lot. How would he be a danger if he clearly was giving himself up and didn't appear to be armed? There has to be some imminent or reasonable expectation of harm or self-defense in order to shoot him. We don't even know if he still had all of his gear on (Kevlar vest, mask, etc.) or he was just leaning against his car with his crazy dyed hair and his hands up in the air. Clearly, if he was going for a gun, then they would have been justified, but based on his reactions in court, he was probably calmly waiting to be arrested and very non-chalant in his actions.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 07:45 AM) Dan Hayes ‏@DanHayesCSN #WhiteSox get their first win over Francisco Liriano since May 20, 2009. They actually haven't faced him so many times before last season. Not as many as you would think.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 05:33 AM) 2nd - Opening Day Yeah, it was 38,676. For some reason, I thought a few people said it hadn't sold out. Must have been confusing it with all the Cubs' games. I know none of those came close. I wouldn't be surprised if we had more Tigers' fans for our last home match-up than we had Cubs' fans this year. They've been travelling very well all across the country this year.