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That also marks the first time Viciedo all year has been over a 900 OPS, .905 to be precise. He's more exciting than any hitter on our team except for Quentin and Alexei when he's not foolhardily trying to bunt. Surprised the Jays didn't bring back Frank Catalonotto to have another six hit game against us!

QUOTE (OilCan @ May 26, 2011 -> 06:31 PM) You mean Rice? I might be wrong. Yeah, Rice. I must have been thinking of Lance Broadway or one of those guys. McCulloch? I think he and Danks went to Texas. Maybe one of those pitchers will actually turn out okay, Niemann's been a sort of decent fifth starter except for when he faces the White Sox.

How did Baylor lose any games when they had Aardsma, SS Paul Janish, Humber, Jeff Niemann and the other pitcher who went 8th in the 1st round? Wow...

On a side note, Greg Walker has been telling the opposing broadcasting teams that Dunn has had some of his best BP sessions of the season in Texas. Yay! Glad to see it's really translating against 95 MPH fastballs. One of those swings was half there or a rusty gate at the Haunted Mansion. How do you not just look FB against Morrow? Locked and loaded, not exactly.

Dammit Carlos, you're going to end up with another broken hand bone or radius/ulna at some point doing that. We need you too much.

Cue caught stealing. Maybe teams are deliberately trying to walk Pierre so they can throw him out and demoralize the Sox right away? Cue atrocious bunt, oops. Nice to have a leadoff hitter who can't steal so that we have our 3rd best hitter give up an at-bat against a fastball pitcher who should be a good match-up for Alexei.

5-19 in our last 24 Skydome games. Yay! Although I was reading something like the Twins were 17-45 since some point in September last year.

Did anyone notice Chris Stewart's now on the SF Giants roster...I'm guessing as one of Posey's many replacements to come? Too bad we can't trade them back AJ! That ship has already sailed.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ May 26, 2011 -> 01:38 PM) And he'll continue to as long as he's not on the DL. Hate to be a broken record, but imagine paying to see it. Well, at least you're not paying Chicago prices! Do you have to pay much for parking now at AA games or you can still park mostly for free? I can just imagine the Barons' front office being inundated with irate fans requesting more David Cook or Maurice Gartrell at-bats and that KWJR should be benched or moved out of leadoff spot. Sounds a lot like the problem with the major league team, favoritism/nepotism for both Pierre and KW's son that seems unexplainable. Isn't he at least a step up from Josh Shaffer or Ozzie's son, though? I mean, he did play for one of the storied collegiate baseball programs in NCAA history.

And Don Cooper. If not the best, Coop has a reputation of definitely being in the top 5 for his position. Although Baines might be the worst 1B coach, Cora the shortest bench coach (he does get extra credit points for his overrated "Camp Coras" that have had such a tangible long-term effect on our fielders) and Jeff Cox the looniest/most hyperkinetic 3B coach.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ May 26, 2011 -> 09:02 AM) You're missing the point. It doesn't matter what Allen becomes, he was one of our better prospects at the time and we traded him for a reliever with a bad track record. That's the issue most of us have. We could have used him in a package for a better player. We got bad value in return for him. Also, having a left-handed power bat around wouldn't have been a bad thing, given the future uncertainty at 1B and DH at the time. It was a dumb trade then and remains a dumb trade today. Except a LH power bat doesn't mean anything unless he can put up those numbers in the majors without striking out 125 times and hitting .220. We could stick Tyler Flowers and Joe Borchard in the line-up with Dunn, and we might not do anything but change the path of El Nino/La Nina....whatever that weather phenomenon is called these days. I'm not sure Pena was a "bad value," I think it was more like he never reached his potential (blame it on COOP). It's not the move KW currently is losing sleep on, like the Swisher deals, Peavy, Dunn, Teahen, AJ, Linebrink, Pierre, Dunn, Rios, etc.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 26, 2011 -> 03:49 AM) He's probably still getting his feet under him. I'm more concerned with his bat at this point, and I think and hope the Sox are too. Yes, otherwise we'd just sign Willie Mays Hays, Bullet Bob Hayes, Renaldo Nehemiah, Michael Johnson, Usain Bolt and Joey Gathright. Still, when he was drafted, I had the feeling that he was looked at as the heir apparent in LF for Pierre and a future leadoff hitter/igniter in the Crawford mode. You know how Ozzie loves the 30+ SB type guys.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 25, 2011 -> 07:05 PM) Nice game for Mitchell, 3-4, double, homer, bb, 3 rbis Noticed that he only has 4 SB and 4 CS. Is he not 100% confident yet with his ankle or he simply hasn't learned basestealing techniques (ala Willie Harris)? Pretty unusual for someone that athletic in A ball not to have at least 8-10 steals at this point in the season.

“Just because you have a low payroll and you’re young doesn’t mean you’re rebuilding. It just means you don’t have the resources and that you’re young.” He’s got an addendum today. “It doesn’t make your success any less real.” Manny Acta http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AkNe...est_team_052511 Jeff Passan feature article

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One of the poll options should have been: Alternate Old-mar and Mark Teahen as apprentices-in-training for the position. Maybe if Teahen actually had to mow the grass with a push mower in the summer months, he'd get in better physical condition and not end up on the DL. Of course, if he WAS on the active roster, Ozzie would play him and that would be equally bad. Hence, groundscrew/mowing detail, where at least we get something back in terms of ROI.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ May 25, 2011 -> 04:31 PM) I agree that our farm system has been raped. We have some at that level and notably Viciedo that might help, but not many. Flowers maybe, but he and Dyan might still be that year away. After that it's thin or works in progress. I guess we have what we have and that's it so go for it all But, saying that we don;t see a lot of the traded away players making it. I would have liked to have seen Gio Gonzalez and Clayton Richard and maybe C Young in Az. stay with the Sox, but aftr that even though traded players are in the bigs they haven't done all that great. And Sweeney's still not showing enough power (hard as that is, he's just not suited for that big stadium) in Oakland to unseat either Willingham, Crisp or DeJesus. Which was the concern all along in Chicago if he wasn't a CFer, which ideally, he's not. He has to put up 15-18 homers, 30+ doubles, 775+ OPS to hold down RF or LF.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ May 25, 2011 -> 04:31 PM) I agree that our farm system has been raped. We have some at that level and notably Viciedo that might help, but not many. Flowers maybe, but he and Dyan might still be that year away. After that it's thin or works in progress. I guess we have what we have and that's it so go for it all On paper, there are zero problems with the pitching staff, in fact, we have an overabundance with Humber and Santos with the minor blip against the Dodgers looks like he will hold onto the job. I guess you just have to divide the offense into 3 for now. Core producers: Quentin, Ramirez, Konerko Suck but stuck with: Pierre, AJ, Dunn, Rios Young and will stick it out with: Morel, Beckham, Viciedo, Lillibridge (why not?) possibly Flowers and/or Jordan Danks, along with Infante/Omogrosso/Remenowsky to shore up the back end of the pen where Pena SHOULD be contributing something, etc. The obvious problem is you don't trade anyone from the first group, the second group has ZERO value and the 3rd group has a lot more value to the White Sox than any other organization. Which puts us back in the business of dangling starting pitchers for the best possible return.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ May 25, 2011 -> 04:22 PM) Once again we talk of trading players who are producing for us. I understand the argument is to trade those who might bring in young talent, but then we have young talent-maybe not major league ready-and mesh them with the non-producers and we suck worse then we do now. Trade the non-producers, whoever they may be. I am not buying into the "free up money" stuff either. We might have a player or two (Viciedo for one) ready at the minor league level and you can trade a position player or two and bring him up plus maybe find a relief pitcher to help out. I don't know what the pieces are at this point as the guilty paerties seem to change from game to game, but I don't think Paul Konerko, Carlos Quentin or Buerhle are the problem I'm not going to disagree. Timing the decline of any contributing player is close to impossible. If we all had magic 8 balls, we would have foreseen injuries or non productivity from Jenks and Crede and gotten something good in return a long time before each of them became totally worthless to our organization. Or not traded for Peavy in the first place because of the inherent risk in acquiring someone with that contract who was already injured at the time of the trade. I think it's simply watching the price and then return/s for players like Swisher and Javy that have quite a few of us nervous what will come next. I really wonder if there were any other teams in MLB interested in Juan Pierre, AJ, Alex Rios, Mark Teahen and Adam Dunn at the prices we paid for them. If so, I'd be curious exactly who they are/were.

QUOTE (TheBigHurt @ May 25, 2011 -> 04:08 PM) Because... it's not remotely true? lol. Would you bet your house the White Sox were going to come back and win the AL Central? I think not, even if you were more or a gambler than KW. You win, you have Anna Kournikova's or a Russian heiress' Florida mansion. Lose, and you're homeless. Take that bet? 20-25% odds of making it, well, maybe not "remote" but not close to good either.

QUOTE (TheBigHurt @ May 25, 2011 -> 04:17 PM) I have to think if Dunn continues this slump, you may figure an NL team will still want him. I don't think it's necessarily a coincidence his first year in the AL he isn't at all on pace for a usual Dunn year. Should we take the appendectomy into account? lol. Adrian Gonzalez definitely needed time for adjustment. Well, 2-3 weeks.

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ May 25, 2011 -> 04:14 PM) Realistically who thought we'd be able to take 2 of 3 in Texas anyways? Usually we get swept. Toronto doesn't usually bode well for us either- if we can get through this road trip somehow around 4-5 I don't think it's time to throw in the towel just yet. We can always wait till the trade deadline when teams get more desperate to trade away the pieces at that point as well. But as stated there is a lot of baggage with a lot of our guys whether it be contracts or 10 and 5 guys that won't be easy to get rid of at a premium price. It's almost like we're all in...literally. 1-2 out of the way, but I'm pretty sure we have FOUR in Toronto and then 3 in BOSTON. Then the telling series of the year, DET, a team we haven't beaten at all, let alone at home....and the Mariners, who we probably need to sweep if we can avoid getting Pineda or Felix lined up against us. 2-5 puts on the brink of full firesale talk again.

QUOTE (DirtySox @ May 25, 2011 -> 04:11 PM) Since when has Kenny worried about the future? Win now! Because he had Humber and Peavy...joking! There's no way anybody in baseball could have confidently predicted how either one of these two guys would have fared coming into 2011.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 25, 2011 -> 04:08 PM) If we were trading John Danks for more talent, then it made no sense to retain Konerko and others. If we do get rid of Buehrle, either through mid-season trade or not re-signing him, the presence of Konerko does very little for me. They might as well just stick Viciedo out there and let him learn. (Rios, Dunn and Peavy all need to be ditched eventually as well, in that scenario). Because by the time the team is able to contend again, there's just no way Paulie could STILL be putting up the same numbers he's had for 8 months on a very consistent basis. They're going to take a huge PR hit anyway...fans are already hesistant to support this team, so they should just get it over all at one time instead of in "phases."

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 25, 2011 -> 04:05 PM) It's not and likely won't be again this year. Why, there's been no deterioration in his stuff. He's simply been a hard luck pitcher almost his entire career with the White Sox. I remember not so long ago quite a significant number of posters feeling we should sign Danks for anywhere from $75-100 million for 5 years, etc. Top 3-5 young lefties in the game after Sabathia and Lester, etc. You're telling me MLB GM's won't give up much now simply because he's pitching for one of the worst offenses in the majors in terms of run support when he pitches? I'm not buying that at all.