Chicago White Sox

QUOTE (Jake @ May 7, 2013 -> 08:53 PM) Losing to the early favorite to win the Cy Young with no DH and your starting LF on the DL isn't really the thing that should motivate you to start moving around the lineup. How about a player batting 2nd with a .400 OPS?

Here's my question. Say we hold on to Sale, Peavy, Danks, Quintana, & Santiago peg them for our rotation next year. What moves can be made to fix this offense between now and opening day 2014 if you're actually trying to compete?

QUOTE (fathom @ May 7, 2013 -> 08:48 PM) For starters, get the worst player in baseball out of the 2nd spot. Flip flop De Aza and Gillaspie in the order as well. Robin is too stubborn though. We saw this same thing happen with Morel last year.

I'm a huge Viciedo fan, but you know it's bad when you desperately miss him and Beckham.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 7, 2013 -> 08:41 PM) Did you do it? No, but I should have. You just knew the leadoff walk was coming.

And it begins...

If he walks the leadoff hitter I'm f***ing break my TV.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ May 7, 2013 -> 08:38 PM) Yes, because you need to give the offense as many innings as possible to try and score before you have to bring Thornton in. I'd normally agree, but I don't like Jones pitching two in general.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 7, 2013 -> 08:36 PM) Great story, hawk You don't like hearing about Hawk's Yorkies? It's better than anything he could say about this sorry lot of hitters.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 7, 2013 -> 08:33 PM) Goodness Keppinger sucks He looks like Mike Caruso could out-slug him right now.

Nice! Some weak contact, just what we needed Kep!

Very nice inning for Nate. Hopefully he can get back on track. Now we just need to Keppinger to get things going. A single or even a walk (god forbid) would be fine.

Jesus Christ do not let this get to Thornton.

You know we've reached a new low when the play of the game is our only hit by default.

God these commercials suck worse than our offense.

Alright De Aza, get on base for Keppinger and he'll hit first HR as a White Sox. I promise.

Come on Wheezy, hit a f***ing HR bud!

QUOTE (fathom @ May 7, 2013 -> 07:59 PM) Once they return to the Cell, they have to do something with the lineup. Not sure what can be done. If you want to get real crazy, you could call up Phegley, but I don't think he'd be much better than Flowers (at least no right away).

Yeah, none of these minor leaguers are going to be Konerko's replacement. And while I still have faith in Viciedo, I think you keep him in LF until someone forces him out of the spot or until he shows he can't handle the position defensively. That means free agency or the trade market. One name that would be somewhat intriguing on the cheap would be Kendrys Morales. He'll be 30 to start the 2014 season, he can hit RHP, and playing at Safeco this year could suppress his power numbers. If you can get him at a reasonable price, he might be a nice replacement for Konerko.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 7, 2013 -> 02:12 PM) Blades of Steel >>>>>>> Ice Hockey on NES Not even close. Ice Hockey is still amazing to this day and requires an incredible amount of skill to be good at. Give me three fatties and a skinny (preferably Canadian) and I can dominate for hours.

Ice Hockey for the NES is without question the best sports video game of all-time.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 6, 2013 -> 11:13 AM) I think Gillaspie is getting too much credit on this board. Show me some RBIs and runs scored. Both of those stats are heavily factored by the players surrounding him in the lineup. Don't blame him because the rest of our lineup sucks.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 6, 2013 -> 08:17 AM) Last 10 games for Trayce: .270/.378/.486, 6 BB and 7 K in 43+ PA Unfortunately, this is how we're going to evaluate most of our better position playing prospects. A lot of them are raw/toolsy players who were given aggressive assignments, so you have to look for improvements over the course of the season and not their numbers in aggregate.

Thank god Conor regrouped and stayed with it.

And it begins...