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QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Sep 20, 2014 -> 10:30 AM) If Hahn could go back in time and not make this trade I'm sure he would, but I'm also sure he'd have traded Reed for someone else & had he the benefit of hindsight he'd acquire somebody's Montas or something, some kid who gets it/turns it on out of nowhere and shoots up the rankings. That's not realistic though, obviously. The Davidson deal makes me think of Marcus Semien. You often have two types of prospects, the "baseball player" types and the "toolshed" types, and although some are more towards the middle it seems like most are more one than the other. Davidson was more the tools type than the baseball type given the swing & focus on raw power. Semien is more the baseball player type with solid skills all over the place but not really anything that wows you. Reed's value was probably good enough to bring back either type of player - and forget about the Top 100 s***, because even though Davidson made the list and Semien didn't it doesn't mean that a lot of scouts wouldn't have preferred Semien to Davidson. Now I know Hahn couldn't have traded Reed for Semien because he's already ours, but the point I'm making here is that there are often 2 roads to travel when trading a player like Reed (i.e. a non-star, above average closer with stuff more like a quality SU guy than an electric closer). You aren't getting some great prospect without any major flaws/question marks, and generally you're either going to get a player like a Davidson or a Semien. Both can turn into above-average MLB players if everything goes right, but in the end, neither generally make it. Hahn went with more of the ceiling type but had he picked up a Semien type, a "baseball player" type instead then Semien is a perfect example of another guy who so far hasn't made it and didn't light the world on fire in AAA. In the end Hahn got fair value at the time. He made a move he needed to make at the time, and because young players aren't free and he didn't have much to trade, he gave up Reed. Hahn correctly observed that, at the time, Gillaspie didn't look like a long-term solution, neither did injured Morel obviously, so he identified an area to improve and tried to improve it. Further, in giving up Reed he didn't set the forward progress of the organization back; Reed just isn't that kind of talent & there's no reason another strike-thrower closer like Petricka can't do just as good of a job as Reed would have. 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QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 19, 2014 -> 07:22 PM) Nope. Matt Davidson and Nate Jones are not MLB caliber players, those are the only two facts I have learned in this thread. Yep. Jose Abreu will also never improve. He's actually bound to regress into a complete loser.

Let's not all omit that Davidson is still very far from a bust. Kids still a youngin.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 18, 2014 -> 09:50 PM) The first 11 words of your post usurp the meat of your post and are kind of gross IMO. Poop.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 19, 2014 -> 04:23 AM) It's like Caulfield saw the future and knew Reed would give up yet another walk off homer last night Jesus H. Christ, that ball was just insane. Good luck trying to follow it into the stratosphere.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 17, 2014 -> 11:07 PM) 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 Without a doubt the last two weeks of this season will be fun to watch. The NL west is also shaping up to be potentially juicy but the AL has it in spades this year. Personally my hope is that Oakland turns it around somehow and KC buries the Tigers. It would be fantastic if Detriot just plan didn't make the playoffs. That my friends, is my pipe dream for a lost White Sox season.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 18, 2014 -> 10:32 AM) A really interesting read about Khalil Greene http://www.robrains.com/CARDINALSBASEBALL/...lil-greene.aspx That, quite possibly was the absolute best baseball article ever written.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 19, 2014 -> 12:58 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. Poop.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Sep 18, 2014 -> 01:52 PM) A LITTLE BIT OF LEURY IN MY LIFE A LITTLE BIT OF EURY BY MY SIDE A LITTLE BIT OF MOISES IS ALL I NEED A LITTLE BIT OF AVISAIL IS WHAT I SEE A LITTLE BIT OF ADRIAN IN THE SUN A LITTLE BIT OF ALEXEI ALL NIGHT LONG A LITTLE BIT OF DAYAN HERE I AM A LITTLE BIT OF THEM MAKES ME THEIR MAN And there it goes... Right over my head.

Poop.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Sep 17, 2014 -> 10:50 PM) With the Sox loss tonight, we gain a game on.... Rockies, Cubs, Twins, Rangers, Phillies Sox still have the 9th pick, are now 9.5 GB of the #1 pick, are 4 GB of the #5 pick, and are now 2.5 games ahead of the Padres for a protected pick. Sox are 3 GB of the #6 Red Sox, 2 GB of the #7 Astros, and 1 GB of the #8 Cubs. It certainly is odd to remember to root for the Red Sox, Astros, AND Cubs.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Sep 18, 2014 -> 12:47 AM) I'm f***ing serious man, I think it's a great idea. Look, I made a prototype. Absolutely awesome... The beta version shall have poop, thou.

It's just plain scary... On a few levels.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 12, 2014 -> 08:17 AM) Jeff Passan ‏@JeffPassan 1h Tooth lodged in cheek. Hole in lip so big doc's index finger fit in it. And get this: Giancarlo Stanton still wants to return this season. Craig Minervini ‏@CraigMinervini 7h #Giancarlo in good spirits, saying he was uplifted by his mates. Dental work on 3 teeth in Miami. Fractures will heal, no surgery expected Talk about character.

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Sep 11, 2014 -> 01:16 PM) Well that's what I was getting at. They could find a way to get him working with Coop, without starting his clock. He's at the game which is a contradiction to the report that he's not with the team. It's just odd. Only logic I can think of is he's here for just this series or something.

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Sep 11, 2014 -> 12:46 PM) "I'm disappointed that he didn't come up for the last month," Cooper told MLB.com... "Again I wish it could have started now, but for whatever reason, it didn't. We'll see him in Spring Training." This doesn't exactly thrill me. Why isn't Coop calling the shots here? Odd, considering I just saw Rodon sitting next to Semien at the game today.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Sep 10, 2014 -> 03:50 PM) Totally out of the blue, but... Would the Astros take Connor Gillaspie and Tyler Flowers for Jason Castro? If you think Connor is more a platoon type, and Flowers isn't going to get any better, then anyone think those 2 could get us Castro coming off a bad year? Of course you'd only do it thinking that Castro would turn it around here & could be extended. If this deal had been proposed several months ago it would have been laughable, but I think both Connor & Tyler have raised their status significantly since the offseason while Castro's stock has really fallen. They'd be silly not to take that deal... And I'm on the fence as to if the Sox should do so if the offer was on the table.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Sep 9, 2014 -> 04:29 PM) Dan Hayes ‏@CSNHayes 27m Since the All-Star break, the #WhiteSox are 8-2 in Hector Noesi's starts. He has a 3.93 ERA and averaged 6 2/3 innings. He's only going to get better to. The right handed Quintana, scrap heap wise.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 9, 2014 -> 04:59 PM) Interesting that Hawk said if you want to win you have to spend money the other day. I still think those claiming us to have 30M to add to the payroll for next year are going to see that to be a big underestimate.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 9, 2014 -> 05:01 AM) Priceless.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 09:19 PM) This is a winner thread not a whiner thread. Whining sounds a hell of a lot different than, "damn it." However, if you want to play the name game... I can go down that road. There's a lot of anger boiling in me at the moment, so... Let me remain calm, request you shut your almighty mouth, and just leave it at that.

Damn it.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Sep 7, 2014 -> 04:29 PM) Is there a way to see everyone's ignore tallies and run out a leader board chart? I bet that would create some fun discussion if everyone was a good sport about being ignored. Just go ahead and change my name to "RagingAssholef***WadDickHead" -- I win. Not.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 6, 2014 -> 01:09 AM) It said he's out at least a week. Why play again? You've dedicated your life to a career that will end in three weeks. You're injured and will never again be able to step onto the field... You take a week off and try to get back out there a few times. It's called having dignity.