Chicago White Sox

Assuming you mean Carter Kieboom, he’s with the Nationals.

In a post where you pledge on being less negative, you make two different passive aggressive rips against the Sox. This just comes off as an arrogant, half-assed attempt to appease your critics.

Stephens was a 40 man roster casualty, Donna Roach has no baring on that. As for Guerrero, my guess is there may have been attitude issues, but that’s just me speculating.

Oh shit, I had no idea they were the same poster. Know I understand why him and @southsider2k5 (RIP) had so much beef.

I think it’s wrong to say Walker is struggling at High A. He’s most definitely not dominating or playing up to the level of a second round pick out of college, but a 114 wRC+ despite a suppressed BABIP isn’t terrible.

No, his prospect status had already started to fall by then.

Under 30 hours to go, shit has to pick up at some point!

Yeah, it really is pretty wild.

You mean when we almost got Arrieta for him?

It’s probably not true, but they also have one of the deepest fame systems and bats appear to be hard to come by this deadline.

He really would be...just not sure if the Mets would actually want to sell low on him.

I love Jose but my god that’s a trade that should be made.

The Red Sox have a terrible system, which means the price can’t be that outrageous. I’d be trying really hard to grab Diaz & Nimmo for some of our secondary prospects. You really never know who the Mets might be infatuated with.

The problem is most GMs don’t want to deal with the uncertainty that comes with a TJS, even if that player comes at a discount. But they certainly don’t lose all their value because of a surgery with a 90% success rate.

Yeah, good call there.

I’m not sure I follow your first paragraph. Also, I never said anything about you specifically. And I don’t want anyone to leave the site (except OneDog...RIP), I just want people to tone it down with the non-stop whining & overreacting.

Seems like overkill playing 81 games at the Cell. Rather find a traditional RF (preferably left-handed) with plus power.

No value?

According to Fangraphs, Nellie Fox was worth 45 wins and Pete Rose was worth 80 wins. See, analytics aren’t the enemy.

That’s definitely the untouchable list. And honestly, without cracking into that well, we aren’t trading for a controllable star. That being said, I’d still see what I could get for packages built around some combo of Dunning, Rutherford, Walker, & Stiever.

For what though?

I honestly think they do a mix of buying & selling. I fully expect Colome to be moved and us adding at least one controllable piece (SP or RF).

Yeah, you totally missed the point. b****ing & whining about the same thing over & over again <> talking about their favorite team. Threads can no longer stay on topic without a select group of posters coming in and totally derailing them with the same bullshit. Either you don’t come here much or are completely oblivious, because the quality of the board taken a hit and we’ve lost many good posters who are simply sick of it.

I wasn’t referring to you. You don’t post the same shit 20x a day like the posters I’m referring to.

Why is it a stupid argument? Sports are all about hope and if you have none, then why the fuck would you submit yourself to this torture? No offense, but that’s just fucking dumb IMO. I consider myself as big of a Sox fan as anyone here, but there are times I just have to tell myself “fuck this” and take a breather. When Kopech went down with TJS I simply did not have the ability to follow the White Sox and get any joy out of it. I stopped watching games, I stopped checking box scores, and I stopped coming here. After a couple months, my White Sox itch become too prevalent to ignore and I finally came back with a more positive, level-headed perspective. Long-story short, if the Sox provide you with absolutely no hope and nothing but resentment, then find something else to occupy your time. And this really isn’t intended to be directed at you Baron, but SoxTalk is meant to be a forum for two way conversation, not an outlet to whine & b**** over the same shit day after day. I get the need to lash out at times, but once all your contributions become the same hate-filled rhetoric then people get the fuck out of here for everyone else’s sake.