ChiliIrishHammock24

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 15, 2018 -> 07:45 PM) I never have read ANYWHERE they had a plan to play him in the outfield this season...that they were going to go as far as they could getting him as many at-bats as possible at DH, then likely go with the surgery and shut him down. Or HOPE the injury healed on its own and wait until 2019 for him to return to RF. On the White Sox Talk podcast, they said the plan was to get him 100 ABs, and then go to surgery. I'm wondering if it will coincide with Robert's return to W-S.

I'll be going to Cali in October for the first time. Were going for my girlfriend's company, so I have no idea what time we will have to do things.

QUOTE (GenericUserName @ Apr 13, 2018 -> 10:09 PM) Swaggerty had a pretty good day. Went 3-7 with 1BB 1K 1HBP 2HRs in two games of a doubleheader today. So should this thread just turn into the daily Bohm & Swaggerty roundup? Probably. I appreciate the daily updates, especially the quotes from different draft conversations Fangraphs and other outlets have.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 13, 2018 -> 10:05 PM) Booker is probably going to get bumped as soon as Robert comes back. Babase will get promoted by June if he can keep this production up. Adolfo probably doesn’t get promoted this season for multiple reasons. Sheets could force a promotion post All Star break if all goes right. Nothing in Birmingham will be blocking the WS guys. They said on the Sox Talk podcast that the plan is for Adolfo to get surgery after 100 ABs. I hadn't heard that, but if true, he's looking at about 3 weeks left before he's shut down. Maybe they let him get ABs until Robert is ready, then shut him down, and no room HAS to be made (although Booker/Robert/Basabe/Rutherford is already too many).

So....I suppose it's possible before the month is over we see this.... Stephens/Guerrero ---- AA ---> AAA Dunning ---- A+ ---> AA Parke ---- A ---> A+

Kind of curious that with how great a lot of our minor league hitters are playing, very few HR so far. All teams played today and only 3 HR combined, and Kanny was the only loser today. In fact, team leaders......... Charlotte - Palka/Rondon - 2 (Team total of 4) Birmingham - Zavala/Fisher - 2 (Team total of 4) W-S - Booker/Roman/Yrizarri - 1 (Team total of 3) Kanny - Blackman - 3 (Team total of 5) So after 8 or 9 games for all these teams, no team has more than 5 HR! That's kind of nuts, especially when you consider our major league team had 6 just on Opening Day!

The new MLB Farm site is even better than before. Now it highlights the top 30 prospects in the boxscores for people who want to quickly scan for the important players. https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/prospects/stats/affiliates

Wow, nice capture! Interesting he went feet-first. Wonder if that was to avoid injury or if that's his style.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 12, 2018 -> 01:38 PM) As a great man once said...did you not get the memo! Oh s***, I didn't. Just woke up about 30 mins ago and went off the new MLB Farm site. That's kind of funny that they lose their Opening Day starter the day of the game. Lol

Interesting quote from Dunning... @WSDashBaseball “[@whitesox starter James Shields] showed me a different grip to use for the curve...That's been a big plus for me.” -@Ddunning33 on one of the keys to his hot start

https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/prospects/stats/affiliates AAA - Volstad AA - Stephens A+ - TBD A - TBD

Fulmer has the great stuff, that's apparent when he pitches, but if he can't throw strikes as a starter, I don't know why we assume he will throw more strikes as a reliever when he is likely to pump up the velocity. Is the assumption that he won't need all his pitches if he is only pitching to hitters 1 time each game, so he can just use the 2 pitches he's able to get over that day?

QUOTE (InTheDriversSeat @ Apr 11, 2018 -> 01:03 PM) Who cares if the ballpark is facing the skyline or not? Just because other teams do that, does not mean the White Sox have to. Wanna see the skyline? Walk outside of the ballpark, face north, and look at it. This is a terrible take. Have you ever seen BB&T Ballpark in Charlotte? It's incredible, mainly because of the backdrop.

Welp, guess it's time to do some Youtube scouting on Swaggerty now.

QUOTE (Tex @ Apr 11, 2018 -> 01:16 PM) I bought a suit from them. Gave it to my son. My best friend used them for his wedding. He told them the wedding was a month earlier than it actually was, and that was very important because half of us got our stuff either very close to the date he gave them, or even after. I needed new sizes/changes to most of my stuff and when they finally the shirt to me a week before the wedding, it was a different type of shirt than everyone else. They were a rollercoaster to deal with.

Avoid Combatant Gentleman.

QUOTE (SoxFan2003 @ Apr 10, 2018 -> 12:54 PM) Left field and right field look like they might be 200 feet down the lines. I doubt MLB would allow a ballpark to have the old Polo Grounds dimensions anymore. Other than that, I agree with your post. QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 10, 2018 -> 12:56 PM) Yeah and it looks about 5000 feet out to CF. They would have added another fence like they did in Detroit. The other thing is, it was facing due north, with nothing to even partially slow a north wind. It would have been so cold there in April and May. QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 10, 2018 -> 12:58 PM) It is really frustrating he included the image with the actual distances that you can't actually make out. Hard to imagine it could be much more than 250 Huh? Dayn says the dimensions in the article... "That would be perhaps the most compelling set of outfield distances and angles in all of MLB today (400 feet to center, 421 to the alleys, 388 to the first turn in the outfield, and 283 down the lines)"

Super interesting. I hate the foul pole dimensions of Armour Park, but I would have totally taken that park over our current one. And it's nothing to do with GRF on the inside, because I actually like our actual stadium, it's the outside of the stadium and the fact that it doesn't take advantage of the city backdrop that is frustrating. While I agree with Dayn that maybe putting it in the middle of a neighborhood would make it TOO similar to Wrigley and seem like a copycat premise, but that's the ONLY thing I like about Wrigley. The compromise would be the parking structure he mentions, because that's easily the worst part about Wrigley being in a neighborhood is the parking, or lack thereof.

QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Apr 10, 2018 -> 01:23 PM) I forgot to pick up Snell in daily fantasy for today. I have him in my regular fantasy league, and I expect him to dominate today. 10 Ks? Sure. Sup.

I forgot to pick up Snell in daily fantasy for today. I have him in my regular fantasy league, and I expect him to dominate today. 10 Ks? Sure.

I think that HBP was 100% influenced by his spike catching. I think he was thinking about his foot position as he went to throw.

Gomez pimped a warning track shot. Nice job, chump.

I'm going to say no chance in hell. Hall of Very Good, sure. But just going off fWAR. Let's say Abreu has a 3.3 WAR season, which is about his average so far. That puts him at an 18 career WAR for 5 seasons. If he sustains that for 5 more years (age 36 season), that's a WAR of 36 for 1B. Other historic 1B who had a WAR around that 36 number (+/- 2).... Derek Lee - 34.6 WAR Wally Joyner - 36.2 WAR Adrian Gonzalez - 36.8 WAR Are any of them HoF caliber guys either? And that's based on the premise of him staying steady and healthy in his traditionally declining years. So, still, no chance.

I don't come here to bash all the other Cubs that are sucking (sup Ian Happ's 57% strikeout rate), but I do LOVE me some Kyle Schwarber bashing. After today, his AVG is down to .172 with a 32% strikeout rate. After having only 3 Ks in his first 4 games (Skinny Schwarber!), he now has 8 K's in his last 4 starts.

The 8th pick gives them a 6% chance at the #1 pick. The 7th pick gives them a 6.5% chance. So really nothing to be too mad about. However, dropping to the 10th pick would bring that down to 3.5%, which would kind of suck.