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QUOTE (FT35 @ May 17, 2017 -> 08:13 AM) The Henry Cotto-Ken Griffey Jr Predicament Henry has shown to be an above average fielder and his bat has been awesome this year. How does this impact what we do with Ken Griffey Jr? If Henry keeps it up, how can they move him? Maybe this will help shed some light on this situation?! : ) Henry Cotto. My memory of him is that a long time ago he was sitting on the bench, found a Q-Tip, was cleaning his ear, went too deep and punctured his ear drum, ending up on the DL.

QUOTE (oldsox @ May 16, 2017 -> 08:16 PM) Rodgers makes sense. After missing first 2-3 weeks of season, he now has slash line of 405/422/655/1077 in High A. Well, I jinxed young Mr. Rodgers. As soon as I said something nice about him, he goes 0 for 5 with 4 K's.

Just read a report that Kahnle got into it with Latroy Hawkins when they were teammates with Rockies back in 2015. Name calling on the part of Hawkins.

I missed the botched squeeze play in 9th. Can someone please recap it for me? Thanks.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 17, 2017 -> 01:06 AM) Worst player in baseball this year. Good thing he's batting 3rd lol. He regressed.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 16, 2017 -> 07:48 PM) Rockies for Rodgers + is my hope Rodgers makes sense. After missing first 2-3 weeks of season, he now has slash line of 405/422/655/1077 in High A.

Roman had day off for Kanny. Moncada not starting for Knights.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 16, 2017 -> 05:25 AM) BS. If you can find the Brandon Allen trade thread, there definitely was a post guaranteeing him a future all star. Here is what happened on the Brandon Allen deal, IIRC. We traded him to Ariz, they brought him up, and he immediately hit 3-4 homers. Then water found its own level, and Allen went away. Then Goldschmidt appeared.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ May 15, 2017 -> 06:46 PM) The Sox took on slightly less than 1/2 of that contract. $10 million a year. Yes, the Sox gave a solid prospect when Shields was pitching horribly, so if he turns around and pitches decently, the may recoup some of it. Thanks for the correction; you beat me to it.

ESPN's Tony Kornhiser went on a rant this evening on PTI about the Washington bullpen blowing more games this weekend. I don't know if the local media is getting on Rizzo yet, or not.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ May 15, 2017 -> 01:33 AM) Hindsight is 20/20 C'mon, Josh. This was such an obvious waste of financial resources when the trade came down. We were doing the Padres a Huge favor by taking whatshisname off their hands. Granted, Tatis, Jr. had not yet played in the states, but Sox scouted him, paid him a bunch of money, and before we knew it, he is a legitimate prospect. And granted, the name Luis Robert was not yet on our lips, but there was a lot of talk about signing international talent. There were members here who criticized the trade immediately, not necessarily because of the Tatis inclusion, but because of the other half of the trade.

Last night, several ESPN folks were babbling about Astros having such a great team and were certain buyers at the July trading deadline.

$25 Mil for Shields over 2.5 seasons. That money could have gone somewhere else -- maybe signing Luis Robert?

Inning of the year.

I don't want to throw any cold water on our Giolito songfest, but he was facing a weak Louisville team loaded with low BA's. Just sayin'....... Let's hope he has another good start this coming week.

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ May 13, 2017 -> 07:06 PM) Zack Burdi has been completely dominant at AAA and I've seen his name mentioned about 7 times all year on Soxtalk. Good sign for the system I guess. Burdi is the last piece of the Shark/Ynoa trade with Oakland.

I just hope it is not a Scott Boras client.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ May 11, 2017 -> 07:09 PM) Same guy who said we're a bottom 10 farm system a few weeks back. So there's that. I think you are wrong, Rowand. I might have said something like that before the two off season trades, certainly not since then.

2 months ago, nobody liked him.

Who, then, should be the starting 1B if Abreu goes to DH? Frazier? From what I have seen, he is worse than Abreu. Asche? Please, no. Davidson? Please, no. Guys, I saw the play, too. It was horsepoop. But Abreu is still best option on this team. Unless they bring up Hayes??

QUOTE (swissarmyknife @ May 11, 2017 -> 12:59 PM) First time poster from Switzerland. How does the Sox farm system stack up now? Is it top 2 or 3? Sox four farm teams are a collective 20 games under .500. Not hardly Top 2 or 3. Moncada covers a multitude of sins, however.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 10, 2017 -> 06:24 PM) The thing about Adolfo is back before everyone and their mother was an at-home scout, nobody would know these guys until they were 20 and in full season ball. He's right where he's supposed to be for his age, and now it's time for him to climb the ladder the next few years. You're right. If we sign Robert and stick him at Kanny next year, and if he puts up these same Adolfo numbers by May 11th, this board would be jumping. Of course, on May 1st, just 10 days ago, Micker's numbers were very pedestrian.

QUOTE (winninguglyin83 @ May 9, 2017 -> 05:58 PM) Day off for Moncada, or did I miss something? LaBron Moncada

Who did we get from Angels for Santiago? And, do they still call him Code Red?

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ May 9, 2017 -> 01:28 PM) jeezus +1. I didn't know Frank was hanging around Charlotte all summer.