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I noticed that my little cousin can field better at 3B than Mark Teahen.

Oh wow, talk about going overboard.....

LOL at all you "Manny sucks". Seriously, get a grip.

No one because this team and Ozzie are a bunch of p*****s..... Minus Lillibridge. I heard he punched a baby in the face once for looking at him funny.

J4L, I have you have never followed college football, college basketball, high school sports, or any sort of little league before. Because the talent there just isn't as good as it is in the pros....

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Sep 13, 2010 -> 11:04 PM) Like I said, to each their own. I've never in my baseball fan life given two s***s about whether one of our minor league affiliates actually one or lost a game. All I care about when it comes to the minor leagues are LEGITIMATE prospects, not nice guys (Jeff Bajenaru comes to mind) that have no chance in hell of making it to The Show. I look at this Dash team, and I don't see one guy with a snowball's chance in hell of sniffing Chicago before, I don't know, 2013? If then? And another thing that makes minor league titles worthless is that the elite talent is obviously going to make it to the big leagues at some point during any given year. The elite talent that's leftover usually jumps at least one level during any particular year. So by playoff time you don't even have anything close to the team you started with most of the time. Just a bunch of roster filler and AAAA guys on their last harrahs before it's time to go out and get a real job. I will say you have a point for those that don't live in Chicago. But you have to see where I'm coming from as well. I see you must live in DOWNERS Grove.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 12, 2010 -> 12:09 AM) And became the best SS in the league. Defensive, sure.

QUOTE (Ozzie Ball @ Sep 11, 2010 -> 07:18 PM) It would have been as worthwhile as comparing a 21 year old in rookie ball to the best hitter of his generation in the Majors. I'm not comparing the hitters, I am comparing the numbers. Wilkins HR swing looks like Ken Griffey Jr's. That doesn't mean I am comparing him to Griffey as a player, it means I am comparing their HR swings. I am comparing Wilkin's BB and K rates to those of Pujols so people get an idea of what is a good number to have. If I just said 13%, it doesn't give you an idea of how good or bad that number is, but if I show you a player with a number similar to that, if lets you know how the number compares.

What the hell was that Alex? Ball almost hit him in the chest...

QUOTE (chiguy79 @ Sep 11, 2010 -> 07:24 PM) when will our team realize that Joe West umpire crew just screws us... Fixed your post.

Our fans just boo'ed Kotsay. That is just disgusting and absolutely classless of this crowd. They are embarrassing this fanbase! -- Greg.

Awww f***, Kotsay is up. Runners on 1st and 3rd, 0 out, and we don't score. FUUUUCCCKK. Off to the top of the 5th......

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Sep 10, 2010 -> 06:34 AM) Ok...in the MLB. I'm excited about Wilkins, but lets not get ahead of ourselves. Would the point have gotten across if I named some no-name rookie ball player who had similar rates?

Boo Mark Kotsay and Boo no Morel.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 11, 2010 -> 05:59 AM) I'm still waiting for Anorexei Ramirez to bulk up. It shocked me when the say he lost 5 lbs. during last offseason. I like this. I like this a lot.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Sep 10, 2010 -> 08:36 AM) Hey Joe, Die-lawn, hot fire. His name is Dylan, which I assume is pronounced the typical way of (Dill/in). That wouldn't work.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Sep 10, 2010 -> 05:43 AM) Dude, you didn't even bother to add up the numbers to see if they were close to accurate? Nah, I just made sure they equaled 140 games.

QUOTE (thxfrthmmrs @ Sep 10, 2010 -> 12:40 AM) we should really push signing vmart, if we let konerko, jenks, and aj walk, and trade away CQ, i think we should have the cap space to do it. I think a package of CQ and Danks2 should be good enough to get Choo, if not a guy like Markakis. If we do sign Vmart, talk about the flexibility we have LF Pierre 2B Beckham C Vmart DH Manny CF Rios RF Choo 1B Viceido SS Alexei 3B Morel bench: Viquel De Aza Jones (I heard he's willing to return for the same money) Castro Both Morel and Viceido are fairly young and inexperience, we can throw them out there 4-5 days a week and still have a pretty good secondnary lineup with Vizquel at 3rd, Vmart at 1st and Castro catching. I am no expert at contracts, but I think Vmart can be had for 5 year $65 Mil or so? really gives us someone who can play the catcher and first base, and switching hitter in the middle of the lineup. I'm sorry, I have to respectfully disagree.

Not sure if anyone does, if someone does, it's probably Greg, but check this out..... Sox record when Mark Teahen plays: 32-31. Sox record when he's benched or out: 46-31. I copied this from someone else, I didn't get these numbers myself, but if this is true..... Just......wow.

Wilkins was selected to the 2010 Pioneer League All-Star team! Season line: .313/.402/.472/.872, 214 AB, 67 H, 14 2B, 1 3B, 6 HR, 40 RBI, 33 BB, 31 K, 7 SB, 2 CS. His 14.8% K-rate is extremely good for a power-hitting 1B/3B, and his 13.4% BB-rate is just as impressive. For comparison sake, the Great Albert Pujols has a 12.7% K-Rate and a 13.6% BB-rate this season. 7 steals in 9 attempts ain't too shabby either for a the big lefty corner-infielder.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 09:54 PM) I'd give 3/30. Here's the scary thing I'm thinking. I'm looking for teams that might have money to spend and could use a RH hitting, veteran 1b for next year and who might in a couple years be willing to move that guy to DH to finish his season. You know who pops onto that list? If Justin Morneau's condition is as bad as I think it is...the Minnesota Twins are very much on that list. Especially if his contract is insured. Wouldn't that be something? Thome and Konerko both go North and end up beating our brains in. Ugh.

QUOTE (Elgin Slim @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 08:18 PM) Sale may have an electric arm, but we saw how good that did for Strasburg. He started 1 season every 5th day and his elbow exploded. Sale has similar mechanics. I think that if they start Sale, he will suffer the same fate as Strasburg in his first season starting. If they can preserve Sale's arm by making him a closer, you do it. Liriano was throwing 98 mph before he had Tommy John surgery, now he throws 92-94. Sale throws 95-97 out of the bullpen, I'd guess that makes him a 92-94 mph guy as a starter. If Sale loses anything on his fastball if he gets injured, it could make him a fringe major league pitcher. We all know how hard reliable closers are to find, Sale seems to have the makeup, and I'd rather have that electric arm out of the bullpen for at least 6 seasons, than an injury prone starter who the team can never rely on, including losing probably 2 seasons of cheap service time for when his elbow explodes. JMO. I understand your concern, but approaching a pitcher with great talent by saying "Let's limit his value by putting him in the bullpen instead of utilizing him to full potential because we fear that he may get injured in the future" is a pretty bad way of going about handling him. The way it's taught is that a bullpen pitcher is a failed starter. You never grow a pitcher to be a reliever. Now you DO if that's what he has been his whole life because he has never had the stamina to throw 80+ pitches, but if a guy has shown the ability to start, you should never stunt his growth to be cautious. Sale needs to be a starter until he proves he can't, either by results or by injury. If he ends up becoming injured, then he can resort to the bullpen. Plenty of bullpen pitchers are there because they got injured as a starter and couldn't recover. That doesn't mean their career is over, it just means they can't start anymore, but they can certainly have a great career in the bullpen. PS: Mariano Rivera started his career as a starting pitcher, after struggling and having major arm surgery, he converted to a reliever, and the rest is history.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 08:19 PM) Us trading D1 could work out like the Tigers trading Jackson last year...but the return has to be right. I would rather it work out like the Tigers trading FOR Jackson last year.

QUOTE (flavum @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 08:14 PM) They won again. http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/st...kinafa_wswafa_1 Damn, Axelrod has just been dominating this year. I wish he was 4 years younger. 7 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 9 K. That'll work.

The most glaring problem I see in your mock roster is Sale as our closer. I will pull my hair out if they don't try this kid as a starter, like he is supposed to be. No sense wasting an electric arm for 3-4 innings a week when he can be a great starter for us in 2012.