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QUOTE (SoxSteve @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 01:29 PM) Question for some on this board. What is up with this WAR fascination when determining if the guy is a good fit or not? I see alot of post where this guy is a 2 WAR and this guy is a 3 WAR. I'm not against any metrics at all and teams should try to use everything at their disposal to win games but WAR is the last thing i look at when determining if i want the player on my team. I don't need the WAR number of CESPEDAS, GORDON or UPTON to know that i wanted them on the Sox. I have no idea what is was not should i care. All i know that i wanted any of them with Gordon and Upton being most desirable because of the OBP. Some teams probably wanted Cespedas because they need the power. To each there own. Do most here look at war for a determination on what fits the Sox best? To me it's a non factor but maybe I'm in the minority. Thanx At this stage of rounding out a team preparing for the year - I find using historical WAR and projected WAR useful when evaluating the probability of upgrading from player X to player Y for position Z.

QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 01:10 PM) Judging by his twitter account, Desmond is not in Chicago taking a physical....he's out fishing today Jesus Christ, send Ian to Twitter Anonymous for some 12 step recovery.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 12:27 PM) If they are committed to giving up the draft pick, I'd rather have Desmond than Fowler. Desmond is more likely to be a 3 WAR SS than Fowler is to be a 2-3 WAR OF in my opinion. Sox could still add a different OF via trade as well. They would have a pretty powerful infield with Frazier/Desmond/Lawrie/Abreu Salidino is a projected 2 WAR player. Avi is projected at 0. Even if Desmond has a 3 WAR 2016, that's a net gain of 1. If Fowler has even a 2 WAR year, that's twice the improvement than Desmond offers in this projection. Just food for thought, gang. Edit: Give me Desmond and Austin Jackson... Then you're talking.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 08:10 AM) He looks good in a Sox uni Yea - Bobby Jenks looks pretty badass after losing all that weight. Looks younger in this picture too. Hum.

This is dope... Whoever does the new photoshop work at mlbtr is really talented.

I'd also have to argue raBBit, that Rodon will be light years better than Samarjaza and his MLB worst perfs...

The question now is... What will his number be. Rodon is 55 and well... 35... Yea.

Anyone know his ground ball perfs? Off to look that type of info up... Edit: 43% last year, which is right in line with his career number.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 9, 2016 -> 11:24 AM) There is no such thing as low risk / high reward. Please stop it. You can say it is a low-risk signing, because it is. It's only 1/$3M. But the concept is high risk / high reward or low risk / low reward, because risk isn't about what happened in the end. It's about the chances of something happening in the future. If there is a high chance of a high reward, that person isn't signing for $3M. It is also about the LIKELY reward, since obviously ANY investment could go big or go bad. Same in baseball as any other investment. So this is low risk / low reward. And that's fine. Now go get a bloody right fielder. Bah - you know what the OP meant. There is a potential in signings for a low amount with a high value produced. IE: Nelson Cruz with Baltimore for 1 yr / 8 M = 36 home runs and 91 RBI ( 3.7 WAR )

Good. Like others stated, I'm shocked he signed for this low. Finally some fruit to the waiting game. Hopeful still that other fruit will be borne in the shape of an outfielder.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 8, 2016 -> 08:17 AM) So my dad, die hard Dodger fan, says there has been a lot of talk in LA about Sox being aggressively interested in Puig. No inside sources, just what people on the radio are speculating. Evidently Dodgers are trying to push Ethier. But long story short, it is getting coverage in LA media as well (with there reports being the Sox aren't offering the front line pitching the Dodgers want...which I presume means Hahn is trying to get a deal sold around prospects). That probably means you need to get a 3rd team in and have the Sox give those spects to the third team with the Dodgers getting a front line pitcher. Just shows that Hanh isn't leaving any stones unturned. What - if anything - materializes will be the story.

Baseball life... Could it please be April already? Real life... Could it please be 1990 again so I could purchase google.com, sex.com, toys.com, and money.com - among other domains?

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Feb 3, 2016 -> 03:38 PM) They can't keep Sanchez, C, Garcia, Sands, and Shuck. They keep 4 bench players and go with 12 pitchers. Can we keep poop on the bench?

How's his defense these days?

Funny, I was just going to make a thread about this dude today. You're all way ahead of the punch.

6,000 posts. I just had to.

QUOTE (Lillian @ Jan 23, 2016 -> 04:47 PM) Just a reminder of Desmond's Career Inter League Stats, in 428 Plate Appearances: AVG OBP SLG OPS .220 .268 .379 .647 Not very impressive. Nice find. Ewwwww.

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Jan 23, 2016 -> 03:02 PM) Alex Rios I just threw up into my pants.

Did Twitter blow up? Didn't check.

We all should have known he was going somewhere else when he himself came here to the board and said, "Outrow"

Thank you God.

QUOTE (Special K @ Jan 22, 2016 -> 04:15 PM) Dick is a staunch defender of sox brass. Any criticisms you have about the organization? They haven't made the playoffs in almost a decade. Somewhere in that organization something is going wrong, whether it be manager, front office or players. But even if you lay all blame on players, that's still a reflection on how selected them. To be fair - we're also talking about a franchise that is over 100 years old and only has 10 playoff appearances. They're due.

Desmond and Jackson train is in the station... All aboard!!

QUOTE (venom4789 @ Jan 22, 2016 -> 02:47 PM) sorry there is a lot of fluff between and i had over 50 pages to get caught back up. On a random note i have never met a merry go round that i liked, guess i found the horses creepy looking. So, all merry go rounds are from hell. Noted. That's like the most useful information out of this thread for the last week. Kinda. One last thing: end saga- end!!! February until pitchers and catchers report is going to drag ass. +1 maturity point... Not.

QUOTE (venom4789 @ Jan 22, 2016 -> 02:29 PM) So have we missed the train, it seems all i see is the choice is down to mets and nats. Or maybe we have become the mystery team. Am I on a merry go round from hell or something?